Damn Broads! at Valentine's

our first show in new york was fucking awesome! we had a great time and we loved all the bands who played, all the kids who came out to the show and really pretty much everybody over at valentine's. we had a great time.

the broads have played shows in connecticut and massachusetts, but that's been it so far - until this past friday when we finally got ourselves over to new york to play valentine's in albany. it was our best first-new york-show ever!

if we could play shows like the one at valentine's the other night, every night, we probably would. the club, the kids, everything about it was just awesome.

now don't get us wrong... we love playing connecticut. it's our home. we love the el 'n gee (even if we do have to watch our backs around the new london police department every time we play a show there), we love the whitney house (but really, who doesn't love the whitney house), we miss wrench in the works... we love all the basements, warehouses and various other buildings we've played in our state. but playing a new state is pretty cool too.

everyone at the show friday night was so good to us. people danced, people sang, people were awesome. we loved people on friday night.

we'd like to thank pauly for getting us on the show (and doing everything else he did for the broads), ash for taking the video, all the bands (Hijinx, Never Odd or Even and Society High... you guys are all amazing and we're so glad we got to share the stage with you), all the kids that danced and sang along with us, and all the other kids who just went out to the show. and everybody else.

we can't wait to play valentine's again, which we will be doing in about a month - april 23rd for those of you keeping track. it's a good thing we're going back then too because we somehow forgot to bring michelle's bass home (which is actually riley's bass that michelle uses... michelle's gonna have to use her own bass until then). thankfully they're keeping the bass safe up there for us until we return to play with the spins, zero climax, the dead tricks and dead aces. that's gonna be a great show too. we can't wait to go back!

sick shows

and no, we don't mean sick shows as in "oh, that show was so sick..."

we ended up not playing the snapper's show [2/26/2011] because riley was sick... we were really bummed about it because we love snapper magee's - it's our home. but when your vocalist can't even talk, well, there's no way around it. you can't get through a set without your lead vox. unless you do an all-instrumental set. but somehow we didn't think people would go for that, so we dropped off the show. hopefully we can play snapper's again, someday soon.

and, as luck would have it, exactly one week later we found ourselves without our bassist, michelle, because she was too sick to play. we were really pissed about that too, but we played the show anyway. it was at the cry havoc! headquarters, a basement show, and it was awesome. we got through our set without michelle but it was strange and horrible and we don't ever want to play a show without our bassist ever again. that shit sucked. us broads must have shitty immune systems or something... we're always ill. and not good ill.

but now we're all healthy again and we're good to go. we played two boots of bridgeport last night and we're playing valentine's in albany, new york next friday. we're so stoked for valentine's - it'll be our first new york show!

here's a video from the show we played last night, taken by jeff.

the show went... well. we probably shouldn't have been playing a pizza joint, but hey, we did. what of it? we were supposed to go on first, but "due to lyrical content" we were moved to the last slot of the showcase that night (who would've thought that our profane lyrics would move us from an opening slot to a closing slot on a show?) and we pretty much cleared the place out. not really, there were like ten people that stayed for us. that's about ten more than we expected to be playing to. THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT STAYED!

pizza joints probably aren't the best venue for a punk band, in case you're wondering. it was a fun show to play, and we appreciate being put on it and all that, but seriously... it was a little too family-friendly if you know what we mean. there were children there! we're all for corrupting people, but children? they probably should be kept far, far, far away from us broads. by the time we went on all the children had cleared out but still, it's the principle of the matter. they could've been there. we could've corrupted their malleable little minds. we might've even felt bad about that. probably not though. oh well.

we'd just like to thank everyone that put on the show (specifically maria from mindz-i entertainment and bob from two boots) and to everyone who came out to support the broads. and a special thanks (and by "special" we mean "bold, underlined and in italics"... after all, it doesn't get much more special than that) to javier and jeff for coming out and for taping our set. we love you all.