Oregon Bound

Phew, busy weekend traveling up and down the Bay Area playing in Sacramento and Santa Cruz and stopping to catch a few acts at Hardly Strictly in San Francisco on Saturday in between. The show must go on however and go on it shall as we’ve posted a lot of new stuff in the coming weeks including shows in Portland, Oregon!

This weekend we will be heading to the North and East Bay stopping at Kentfield, Sonoma, and Oakland on Thursday, Friday and Saturday Respectively.

Crow’s Nest Thursday October 13! Our first time there, full band show, should be fun.

Did I mention we’re going to Portland! It will be our first time performing out of our beloved California and we are really excited. We will be at Magnolia’s Corner on Thursday November 3rd, and Jam on Hawthorne on November 4th.

Know anybody in Portland? Tell them we will be coming through, both shows are free admission.

We will be putting up a video from our show at Don Quixote’s a few weeks back, I know I said this previously, but that is still coming up. Thanks for staying posted.

We’ll leave with a video of a cool (and topical) song. John McCauley (far right, lead vocals) will be up in Portland the same time as us with his band Deer Tick. I guess we’ll have to go check them out.

Finish Line Lineup

We are pretty excited to be a part of this year’s Finish Line Festival in San Lorenzo Park in Santa Cruz presented by “Carry Yrself Home” and Keith Petrocelli. The festival we will be held as part of the Surf City AIDS Ride on Sunday October 2nd. We will be playing with our very rocking full band at 3:30 as part of a super cool lineup of 9 local acts that goes from 11am-5pm. Its hip, its free, and its for a good cause. I’m hard pressed to find a reason to miss it. We’re looking forward to it.

Here’s the complete lineup (with links!) see you there…

Courtney the Getaway Girl- 11am-11:25

The Diary Queen 11:35-12PM

The Best Friends 12:10-12:40

Old Arc-12:50-1:20

The Matador- 1:30-2

Done Beginner- 2:50-3:20

THE COFFIS BROTHERS &THE MOUNTAIN MEN (FULL BAND)- 3:30-4:10

Birdhouse – 4:20-5PM

In the meantime we have some shows coming up in and around the Bay Area for you non Santa Cruz folks. We will be at the Abbey Tavern on Sunday September 18th in San Francisco and then back in SF on September 23rd at Brainwash Cafe. We will also be heading up to Sacramento for the first time at Cafe La Boca on Friday September 30th.

Recently we were able to shoot some video of our show at Don Quixote’s a couple weekends ago and we also taped a show for Community TV in Santa Cruz that aired on September 2nd ( but will be relayed periodically on channel 27 for Santa Cruz Comcast subscribers) and we plan on releasing some footage from both very soon. So definitely stay tuned for that, because it’s going to be sweet. We’re excited to get that stuff up on the web.

On the Horizon

Hey there. Thanks again to those of you who made it out Don Quixote’s, Boulder Creek Junction Park, and The Davenport Roadhouse this past weekend/week. Just stopping by to fill you in on a few recent happenings. This weekend we will be playing at the Brainwash Cafe in San Francisco on Friday night and the East Village Cafe in Monterey on Saturday. It’s always fun to play shows in towns that we don’t get to that often, so we are looking forward to those. Also we are very excited to announce that we have been chosen to play in this year’s Finish Line Festival as part of the Santa Cruz Aids Ride on Sunday October 2nd. The concert will be held at San Lorenzo Park near Downtown Santa Cruz and several local acts will be on stage from 11-5 pm including Birdhouse and The Best Friends. We will be going on stage at 3:30. Full band, free show! Should be fun. More to come on this. We took some video from our show at Don Quixotes and are working to put that together and will get that posted soon. So lots of stuff going on and more announcements and cool stuff coming up in the next few weeks. We’ll keep you posted, see you around.