we haven't really updated this thing since early spring. not that anyone reads it, but in case they do, well, they haven't been updated. so here's a little update on all things broads-related.
OCTOBER: all of our shows in October were cancelled due to horrible, shitty New England weather. hurricanes, snow storms, power outages... it sucked. we had some awesome shows lined up but, eh, what can you do? we'll make them up sometime. hopefully the weather mellows out a bit for the winter months, we've got some rad shows scheduled and we do NOT want to miss them.
NOVEMEBER: this was a busy month for the broads. we were fortunate enough to be able to play with More Beer Please again, this time up in Lowell, Massachusetts at a place called the Worthen House. Met a lot of awesome people, played with a bunch of awesome bands (we love More Beer Please, if you couldn't tell) and had an all-around awesome time. the next week we played a show up in New Hampshire - without our bassist. all things considered it went pretty well, but we missed our Michelle. it was cool to finally get up to New Hampshire though, we'd never played up there before... then on the 26th we played in Boston at the Midway Cafe (an awesome venue which we loved) with yesterday's heroes and the red line rebels... we were glad to get back up to Boston, usually that city has fucked us over but this time we had a great time. all the bands were amazing, the place was packed, we had a great time. the next day we made our way over to NYC to record our first full-length album. we'd never recorded in a studio before - it was sick and we all had a blast. we can't wait to release our first CD - the tracks are almost done being mastered and we're working on our album art... pretty soon we'll be ready to debut something we're actually proud of!
DECEMBER: we started off the month with a two-day mini (and we mean mini) tour with Common Enemy. its not really a tour-tour, we know, but we did play with them two days in a row in two different states so we're just gonna go with it and call it a mini tour. because we can. anyway, it was really awesome. we played the Lansdale VFW in Pennsylvania with Common Enemy, Friends with Murder, the Mahlors, Switch Hitter and LMI on Friday night. The bands were all awesome, the place was packed and the crowd was intense. we were very impressed by Pennsylvania - we'd never been out there before but it was totally awesome. we met some really cool kids, we finally got to hang out with Kevin of Riot Radio, we got to check out a Wawa (we wish they'd bring some up here to CT) and we saw a ton of roadkill. one of the bands even had a flattened squirrel attached to one of their amps. you don't see that in Connecticut. the next day we played in Middletown, New York with Common Enemy, Soul 4 Sale, More Faster and Ditchdigger at an awesome venue called Sounds Asylum. this place was really cool - the people were so nice and the crowd was alright, too. Common Enemy put on an amazing show (as usual) and everyone had an awesome time. we had pretty much had the best weekend ever. yep.
UPCOMING: we will be playing with the Casualties again on December 18th at the Gee. we can't wait - we haven't played in the NLC since September and the show will surely be a good one (also playing will be No! and Absum, so, yep... it'll be awesome) and after that we've got a few other shows set up. January 3rd we'll be at the Gee again, with Cry Havoc! (we're SOOOOO excited for this... we haven't played with Cry Havoc! since June... we miss them terribly) and then we'll be back at the Gee again on January 28th with Cry Havoc!, Black Noise Scam, Olde York, Refuse/Resist and M-13 for the M-13 record release show. we're so excited about this! we've been playing a lot out of state recently but we can't wait to get back to the Gee and play with some of our favorite CT bands. it's been far too long...
so that's pretty much that. we've been busy playing shows and we've been having a blast doing it. we'd like to thank a ton of people so we're gonna do it right here, right now (not that many people will read this, but in the off chance that they do, here's the shout out): we'd like to thank the boys of More Beer Please for bringing us up to Lowell, we had an awesome time and we're huge MBP fans so that was just really cool; we'd like to thank the guys who gave us toll money to get home because that was really generous and we would've been shit outta luck without it; we'd like to thank Jay from the Red Line Rebels for bringing us up to Boston, that show was really cool and we had a great time; we'd like to thank Tom from the Cutting Room Studios because he's awesome, he put up with us (and our horrible music) for 10+ hours and he's gonna make us sound better than we actually are, which is really cool; we'd like to thank Kevin of Riot Radio for putting us on his radio show and for coming out to the show we played in PA (and for telling us about the make your own milkshakes... mmmm); we'd like to thank the boys in Common Enemy for inviting us to play with them this past weekend, we had an awesome time hanging out and playing the shows and we're so glad we got the opportunity to share the stage with them two nights in a row; we'd like to thank everyone at Sounds Asylum in Middletown, NY, you guys were awesome and we really appreciated everything you did for us (especially the food, and helping us carry our equipment, and basically everything); we'd like to thank all the bands we played with, all the kids who came out to the shows, all the people who put the shows on... yep, that's pretty much it. THANK YOU!
