SOFA CITY SWEETHEART

Alright, I know I said I was going to update the site and do a tour recap in a timely manner, but things have been completely insane at the Sofa City Sweetheart factory lately!  This is no good for blog updates, but very good for other things as I’ve been simultaneously recording a full-length album, booking a Midwest tour, and coordinating a music video shoot.  If you’ve ever done any of those things, you know it takes a bit of time.  So apologies dear friends, but rest assured that you’ll hear more and more about these projects as the summer shines on.

But it’s been long enough. Let’s recap this tour already.

What can I say about the SXSW tour?  Well, it was great.  I saw so much in such a small amount of time and visited several states, climates, restaurants, and people… not enough can be said about how awesome the USA is.  I really dig being an American after being able to enjoy so much of it.

The tour started off with my flight landing me in Dallas, TX and Normandie picking me up (she had DRIVEN to Texas from San Diego) for our first show a few hours later in Grapevine.  It was a little too convenient for us because the venue we were playing was about 10 minutes away from the airport (tours usually include horrendous drives and I’m still not sure how the planets aligned on this one.)  Grapevine was actually a really cool little town that had an old timey downtown area, you should stop by if you ever visit Dallas.  This show was a nice warm up gig, we played with bands from Seattle, Santa Cruz, and Virginia.  Before the last band even played we had to race over to Austin for our two days at South By Southwest.  If you’ve never been to SXSW, here is a taste:

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