We just wrapped shooting on a video for “Big Picture”. We’re working with the cool folks over at Metrospace media. This was our first video shoot and it was a ton of fun shooting it. We hit some cool locations around Chicago, including Reggies Rock Club down on the south side. We’ll keep you guys posted on when it’s all done!
Hey there!
We just booked a last minute gig at The Frequency in Madison WI.
The Frequency
121 W. Main St
Madison, WI 53703
We go on at 9:pm!
We’re playing with some really cool bands:
Thula :
Thula is a gang of sincere musicians who give to their audiences everything they can. Check out the band at www.thularock.com
Los Brujos:Los Brujos are a Madison funk rock project comprised of five members originally hailing from Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan.
Don’t know if you guys have wandered down to Reggies Rock Club yet, but it’s a really cool new music club in Chicago. One of the great things about Reggies is that it’s actually a “rock club”, meaning the purpose of the bar(s) is to deliver the rock, as opposed to a bar that just “has” music. They have 3 venues built into this one joint and actually a pretty awesome menu.
Reggies is also home to “Record Breakers”. BREAKERS has a huge selection of hard to find new and used Vinyl, CD’s, DVD’s, and 45’s (Maybe Kirk can finally find all of those John Oats solo albums he keeps fantasizing about). Tons of T-Shirts, Posters, Hats, Stickers, and assorted memorabilia round out what is considered one of the BEST INDIE ROCK stores in Chicago.
Tonight there is a really cool show going on,chicago punk legend Ben Weasel of Screatching Weasel will be playing a sold out show. The only place you can see Ben Weasel is in the Music Joint bar. Right after our set they will be simulcasting the show on all the screens. Ben is playing at Reggies Rock Club and we’re on the second stage at the Rock Joint.
We’re playing Reggiies on Sat night
I hope you’ll check it out, it’s worth the trip.
8/23/08
Reggies Music Joint
2105 SOUTH State
Chicago, Il
We go on at 7pm
Christy and I headed down to Lollapalooza this weekend. We had a great time just hanging out listening to music for three straight days! Ahhhhhh perfection. Anyway- there are tons of photos up on the Big Picture Project (showmethebigpicture.com).
For those of you who would rather not read all of my blatherings, I’ve put together the abbreviated, emoticon version. It’s just like being there and it’s even better than IMAX:
Devotchka: WAS GREAT. Really enjoyed their set. They look fabulous in black and white and a woman dancing with a tuba is always a good time.
Raconteurs: WERE AMAZING. I have no idea why, but I thought they’d be kind of mellow live, but no, the kicked ass. They were great. I think this was the best show of the weekend. I’m a new fan of Jack White. Wow!
The Whigs: WERE TERRIFIC. Biggest surprise of the weekend. I had heard the name, heard the name, never saw them, and just heard a quick clip online. They had amazing, punk energy, a seriously killer 3 piece sound. Loved em, loved em.
G Love and Special Sauce: SPLOOGED SPECIAL SAUCE ALL OVER THE CROWD. You just can’t go wrong with G. Love. He’s just so damn good at what he does. Even the preppie kids camped out for Kanye all around us had a great time. Smoking their camel cigarrettes badly ( I don’t smoke and I could tell these guys were posers, at least inhale the damn thing if you are going to bludgen the rest of use with it).. wait, back to G Love. Awesome show, great band. Enjoyed it!
Love and Rockets: WERE …..out of tune. Daniel Ash broke 2 strings on his 12 string on one song, then played the whole next song (solo) on that hideously out of tune guitar. It was,ummm, challenging to listen to. “No new tale to tell” fell flat. But the end of their set picked up and was better, and more than that- was really good. They pulled it out. I feel you guys on the rough start…that sucks! Why didnt a guitar tech come out there with an in tune guitar for him? Weird.
Rage Against the Machine. WERE RAGING. The sound kind of sucked where we were. All vocals and not enough guitars. They played well and the crowd got drunk and started fights so I suppose all necessary criteria were met. But I was bummed about the sound.
Nine Inch Nails. KILLED IT. They killed it. They were off the hook. The sound was great, they kicked ass. They havent missed a beat. It was my first time seeing them and it was great.
Electric Touch. Good pop band. The guitar player did a little much of that “here’s my penis sword” guitar pose, but aside from the spinal tap-ian moves from time to time, they put on a pretty good show.
More notable goodnesses- The Black Keys- good show dug em, Flogging Molly- great performers- not my cup of tea, but they put on a great great show.
Freak show side notes (see pictures on showmethebigpicture.com): Drunk man gets penis out and starts fight. Drunk women climbs speaker tower for Rage Against the Machine, Drunk woman in one piece bathing suit dances badly to Rage…
Check out the snap (taken in Austin after our SXSW gig) that landed in Curve Magazine’s Jul/Aug issue. It’s none other than Me (Yvonne) Christy, (hey where is kirk??) and Madalyn from Gogirlsmusic.com.
Thanks to Madalyn for posting it.
Hey there-
Check out The Locals on the Ouroboros Podcast. Ourobouros Podcast #61.5 featuring ‘Tidal Wave’ is now online. You can find it at ourobouros. co. uk or listen through the flash player on the ( http://www.myspace.com/ourobouros54) myspace profile.
Thanks to Colin for playing our stuff on his podcast! Check it out, friend him on myspace… send him general goodness!
Hello! We just want to thank everyone who came out to the release party at The Elbo Room on June 14th. We had a great time and hope you guys did as well (despite the A.C. being out at the club- holy crap it was like standing on the sun in there!). But you guys braved it out and, wow, we really gotta thank you for that!
I hope you’ll drop us a comment here to let us know what you think of the new disc! Also, swing on by Avantchicago and give them some love.. they put up a new review of the disc!
http://flowfeel.blogs.com/flowfeel/2008/06/the-locals-big.html
Tune into Q101’s “Local 101″ show on Sunday 6/8, as they will be playing a song from the new Locals CD, Big Picture. You can listen at Q101 101.1 FM or check out the Q101 Podcast
You can go to q101’s site right now and listen to Tidal Wave by following the link below. They are running a contest to select a local band for their Rock The Block show. Please check out the song and rate us highly to help our chances of landing this gig.
http://www. q101. com/localonline/View. aspx?ID=11420&R=10
Hope to see you at the CD release party at The Elbo Room (2871 N Lincoln) on 6/14.
By casting your vote, you can help us get a dream gig at Lollapalooza. There are many fine reasons to vote for us…and I hope you’ll click this link and do so (http://www.sonicbids.com/lollapalooza08/BandProfile.aspx?candidate_id=4937 ) , but if you are entirely sick of all the voting….(this is our Puerto Rico people and you are the super delegates)… if you need some convincing…
Let me tell you about 1991.
I’ve wanted to be a singer all my life. But the in the late 80’s and early 90’s was when I knew I wanted to be ROCK singer. What happened in 1991?…the death of Freddy Mercury, the birth of grunge, the birth of Lollapalooza, with it’s amazing almost freakish cross section of bands from Indigo Girls to the greasy, inked up “scary” bands like Janes Addition, ( and for me) the end of the galactic hair faze.
I swore as I threw away my last can of Aquanet hairspray that I would one day be on stage at Lollapalooza.
Fast forward to 2008. The Locals are getting ready to release our new disc “Big Picture”, we’re so busy with all of the work that goes into that the we missed the start of the “Last Band Standing” contest. A contest where YOU can vote for who gets to play Lollapalooza. So we’re a little behind, but that is where you come in. Vote today, help make the dreams of recovering 80’s permaholic, ex-fold and roller, now indie- rocker (with better hair.. I hope) come true.
I hope you’ll vote for The Locals to play Lollapalooza. Don’t make me get the Aquanet people, the earth has suffered enough.
Yvonne
http://www.sonicbids.com/lollapalooza08/BandProfile.aspx?candidate_id=4937 
When I was looking for a killer poster design for the “Big Picture” cd release party I headed over to Gigposters.com. If you dig poster art check it out. There are some amazing designers posting their stuff there. You can find just about anything.
I was cruising through all the work and found “Field Of Gravity” (AKA Ryan Flemming) I instantly thought.. this is the guy! So I emailed him, and within a about week we had a new poster design, all done via the magic of the interweb. Ryan does his thing in Orlando, FL, but based on his description of himself- “a cross between a bear and Rob Zombie”, Danger Boy is already looking into flights to meet this guy in person.
Here is what Ryan has to say about himself:
“Based in Orlando, FL, Field Of Gravity (aka: Ryan S. Fleming) does a lot of screen printed concert posters for various venues across central Florida. He also does a lot of other stuff, too. He’s a music nerd, a design nerd, a, well, nerd in general. He looks like a cross between a bear and, some might say, Rick Rubin, while others say Rob Zombie… He can be found lurking around town, drinking beer, at various bars/venues, supporting music in all forms. He believes in Unicorns and never had the opportunity to slide down a rainbow. One day he just might be that lucky!
And check out his work:
http://www.myspace.com/fieldofg
http://www.fieldofgravity.com
http://www.gigposters.com
