5/23/13 - Nomad World Pub - Minneapolis

Set:
| Beards | Destiny, She Drives a Rolls | Modern Age | Hell-Bent Woman | Mystic Princess | Fluffy Little Hands | All the Young Dudes [David Bowie] |

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Tonight we were supporting our friends What Tyrants in their Minne-series at the Nomad World Pub. We've played other groups' Minne-series in the past. The Nomad has a band take up residence every weekend in one month. Each week they invite different supporting acts.

The crowd was great. The weather was beautiful. The people were awesome. The beer was plentiful. The bocce was bocce.

We kept it short and sweet tonight. We were on stage for probably about 30 minutes or so. But we hit it hard, kept it simple and rocked some faces. I was into it and I had fun. Before I knew it, the set was over. People called for one more song but we left them wanting more.

Afterward, we hung out, visited, listened to some music and just had an overall good time.

Not much more to say beyond that. It was compact. It was fun.

5/18/13 - Music on Main - Aberdeen, S.D.

Set:

| Last Night | Beards | Destiny, She Drives a Rolls | M'Lady | Please Please Me [The Beatles] | Poet (Who Didn't Know It) | I'm a Bad Mamma Jamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Refrigerator | Modern Age | Hell-Bent Woman | Soul Shaker | Karma Police [Radiohead] | Mystic Princess | Moon Over the Water | Downtown Liquor Store | Fluffy Little Hands | Time [Pink Floyd] | Chosen Ones | All the Young Dudes [David Bowie] | Heaven's Just a Mystery |

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At this point it goes without saying that an Aberdeen show is by default going to be a great show. And by that I mean, even if something went wrong and we didn't play well, we'd still be surrounded by a whole lot of wonderful beautiful people that wouldn't care. We'd just be happy to see each other and hang out.

Well, luckily we played well tonight so that wasn't a problem. This was part of the Music on Main series in Aberdeen. It was exactly how it sounds. It was music. On Main Street. It was awesome. It was a two-night event, Friday and Saturday. We played Saturday. I was a little apprehensive because the weather reports kept saying there would be severe weather in just a couple hours. Then they'd push it back. Then they'd push it back again. So the entire day and evening there was this looming threat of rain and lighting. For last night's show, one of the organizers told us that the rain held off just until they had everything torn down. Then it poured. Today it was pretty hot and humid. So a storm would not have been a surprise, but the show went on.

We were the last band to play tonight. The "headliner," if you will. Jason Hepola gave us a rousing introduction. He thanked the previous bands for coming out and heartily praised the Aberdeen music scene and local artists. He then mentioned, "these guys are from Minneapolis now, but when they come here, they're local." It was a very nice sentiment and everyone echoed it from the crowd. We always get a warm welcome.

We played a pretty good variety of stuff. The crowd knew most of it, which was cool. There were many people out there singing along. That's always an ego-stroker. Those who didn't know the songs from Beards had their opportunity to pick it up tonight. This was the first time we've been back to Aberdeen since the album came out.

So many beautiful faces were there. Old friends, new friends, young strangers, family members. We played on into the night. The dark came and we carried on. In the distance I could see lightning flickering closer and closer, but we continued until our time was up. We tore down and hung out and the weather cooperated. It wasn't until the bar shut down that it started sprinkling.

Yesssss. Mother nature was on our side.

Thank you, Aberdeen. We'll be back again.