timonium is playing club violaine again on saturday, june 19th. this time there will be only original songs, no covers. we were tired of the meeting places always teasing us when we saw them out on the town. they would say things like “so are you guys a covers band, now? play freebird.” so to avenge this practice of hazing, we are playing timonium songs only. we will be dusting off a few songs that may be a decade old in order to gather up some of our more gazin’ type numbers.

we are playing with silver screen, who are on my friend dan’s clairelabel, and tigers can bite you. we are playing in the middle, i’m guessing a little before 11…

i love this club. $5. upstairs at roberto’s in chinatown, near philippe’s — where we may eat beforehand.

marc from unrecognizable now has just released an album on luxus arctica. it’s called arctic/antarctic (no relation to the label name i don’t think), and you must download it now for free from the luxxblog.

if you are wondering—yes, it sounds totally awesome, we are listening to it right now.

unrecognizable now just performed at tada!, the annual gala for the portland institute of contemporary arts, playing a new composition in tandem with a piece from choreographer noelle stiles.

summer festival time is starting, and timonium is playing the silverlake jubilee, an excellent replacement for sunset junction that is closer in spirit to the eagle rock music festival. tm will play a little after 1pm on the santa monica stage, sharing it with  radar brothers, division day (both of whom we went camping with), foreign born, and the youngsters of moses campbell.

you may recognize the drummer who will be playing with us.

another funny thing is that james (gtrs) is in seattle right now, and tim (keys) is in san jose. but everybody is coming back for this special event: our first time playing all together outdoors.

back to the future: here’s a demo mix, pre-vocals, from 1995. we started mixing for a day in january 2008, and then we haven’t done anything since. if we finish those two albums we’re working on, hopefully we can get back to this…

saint perpetua

if you are not going to coachella…

echo curio
april 17th
radar brothers
timonium
nopal
young hunting

come on down to downtown this saturday, march 20th, to the second level sports bar robertos for club violaine. timonium is playing there for the second time in 5 years. last time we played an all slowdive set, and now we are playing an all pale saints set. no new drummer yet-though there are some possibilities in the works-so we might be playing with electronic beats instead. we are picking a weird set, this is not all their hits. there will be a few of their hits so that you won’t feel ripped off, and then some ultra obscure songs (available on flexidisc only, hint hint), and some feel-bad songs, too. john from current 93 will be playing cello with us for the song “shell,” i am super jazzed about that.

we are playing second, sometime between 10 and 11. see you there.

all i seem to post about lately is pehrspace shows, but let’s not let that stop me from talking about this one.

timonium is playing this friday at pehrspace. we are playing last at about 11:30pm. the reason we did it is that we wanted to set up a show for silian rail since they are on tour from northern california, where i lived for five years. l.a. underground are presenting the show, and they are really good people.

the timonium set will be short and folky: my new friend scott said our genre is called “new sincere”, if that gives you an inkling. it won’t be all rough, it will be mellow. this will be a minimal lineup: tim is in ireland; wade will be spectating not bassing; and adam g, after 16 years, will not be drumming. he is now drumming for best coast, and we are looking for a new drummer. so for friday, power trio: ela, adam, james.

our friend and wade’s bandmate from maya shore, kelly, will be in attendance so that is exciting. utah represent. we will be even playing a song about utah for him.

there’s a show coming up this friday at pehrspace that just might be the best electronic/pop show of 2010, even though it’s only january. it’s figurine, who haven’t played in 9 years! plus psychic powers, which is a fellow from new zealand and ale from languis! i’m doing sound for the show on the new board so i’ll try not to ruin it. people have been waiting 9 years, including me.

we will not be playing tonight due to guitarist james’s horrible flu. trust me if there was a member of our band who would play a show if he could, it would be james. he is the strongest trooper of all of us. so when he is too sick to play, it means the man is sick. he has a fever, and spreading illness to our several handfuls of friends would be a bummer.

i would like to take a sample from him to see if the flu is h1n1 but until i get lab tests back i don’t know what kind of flu it is.

several timonium members are still going to go see the artshow tonight at pehrspace, we just won’t be playing. sadness. at least the art will still be rad.

we were supposed to be practicing right now, practicing “the perfect kiss.” what am i going to do with all this free time? wring my hands?