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Melanie made this flyer. What can't she do! Well, rent a car but I think that's it.
I think if you live in the Eastern time zone and they let you out at night you should come to this backyard show because backyard shows are the shit.
It's cool to get on a real stage and have a real sound person and do a real sound check — one drum and cymbal at a time, one instrument at a time. It's cool to have a backstage, to have
even the rattiest green room, a sign with your name on it taped to the door, just above the jagged hole the bartender made with the claw end of a hammer that one night when the guy nodded with the door locked.
But I like the backyard shows. I like the warehouse shows, the alley shows, the parking lots. I've played shows in an empty swimming pool and on a makeshift platform
next to some lake, at a protest on the steps of a federal building and in the confused aftermath of a Tupperware party.
What I'm saying is I'm excited to play the backyard of ArtPost, an arts supply store that's as much a community arts collective as it is a store. Here's an article about the community that a guy called Badcat is building around it, in the North Carolina music blog Blank Tapes, which is also great by the way go read it and buy a T-shirt.
