Tour Dates Announced

The tour dates have finally been announced on the Antena Krzyku FB page (see below). They are the label rereleasing Instant Winner. We have twelve shows so far with a few left to confirm, so it looks like a pretty full schedule. Manuel has done a great job of putting this together. I've been practicing the set quite a bit, I know the Punishment Room stuff a bit better than the IW songs, probably because the tracks on there are a lot longer and the counts aren't exactly as predictable, some sections last a certain amount of bars in one verse but in another verse they may be a different number of them. I hate having to count so I'm really trying to get things to become natural where you can feel and tell that it's time for a change in what I'm playing. As much as I felt pretty confident with the Real Tube pedal a few weeks ago, now that I've used it more I'm not so sure it's going to make the cut. I tried different tubes in it and it was an improvement but it has a compression to it that I've noticed now that I've played it a bit that I don't care for.  It limits the low end from blooming in a way that I'm used to.  My friend Jon from the band Torche has a new amp and pedal company called Nuñez Amplification and he makes a great amp, it's the only amp that I've thought if I didn't have my Soldano, maybe I would get one of his. He also makes a bass distortion/preamp pedal and at the moment he's about to prototype the guitar version. So I am pestering him a bit about letting me do a little R&D. I have a feeling it's going to do the job. Tricia tried out the Bass Annex pedal he makes and she ordered hers a few weeks ago. I'll include links down below. If you play loud noisy music it's worth checking out his gear.
On the rerelease we're (total annihilation records) doing of the first 7" everything is good to go but I found a 1/2" two track reel amongst the 20 or so that Robert entrusted me with that is the stereo mix of the 3 songs, so I think what happened is that originally it was mixed onto to 1/2" but when they sent it to get mastered and pressed, for whatever reason, it was duplicated on to 1/4". So the 1/2" should have a bit more low end on it. I don't have a 1/2"  2-track machine, so that's getting transferred over for mastering. Also on that session was a song called "Whole of the Law" and "Scratch Out the Sky" from the Psychotechncis HURT comp. That's a great comp if you can find it. It has Slug, Babyland, a great band called Gecko that I really like but besides this comp track all I have from them is a 7", I don't know if they released anything besides that. Ethyl Meatplow (RIP John Napier) is on there, Death Ride 69 (David U was in that band for a minute), I only saw them once at Club With No Name years ago. Anyway, we might have some of those on tour with us since a friend got a hold of some copies. When I mentioned it to Ted, he said he didn't even have a copy so I'm sure it's rare in Europe. The original pressing of the 7" is a bit murky to be honest compared to the master so this pressing should sound really good. Dave at Lucky Lacquers is handling the mastering and lacquer cutting and United is pressing it up. A friend of mine has a print shop to ink up the covers so luckily everything fell into place.
Someone on Facebook asked if we'd have merch for sale after the tour and I'm sure whatever we have left over we'll make available somehow, maybe set up a bandcamp page or something like that where we can have a store on there too. We're still throwing around some ideas for other items. I'll post an update at some point once we've finalized things.

 Tour
16.06 Freakout Club, Bologna
17.06 Birrovia, Cuneo
18.06 tbc
19.06 Sala Begood, Barcelona
20.06 Bomberena., Tolosa
22.06 Mondo Bizarro, Rennes
23.06 Dibar, Plougonver
24.06 Magasin 4, Bruxelles
25.06 Mc Daid’s Le Havre
26.06 DS 17, Dordrecht
28.06 Poznan tbc
29.06 Urban Spree, Berlin
30.06 Grander Saloon, Hamburg
01.07 Fusion Festival

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