Shows and News

Quenchers w/ United Sons of Toil and Oro

Poster by Jay Ryan
Date of Show: June 24, 2010
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Venue: Quenchers Saloon
Other bands on the bill:
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Hey Everybody… Look… We’re in a rush tonight because LeRoy Neiman is painting our next band portrait and we need to go put on various sports jerseys and make ourselves blurry before we head over to his grotto. I know he seems like an odd choice but Robert is hoping to get some time alone […]

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Nonagon Mailing List

Posted on by Robert Gomez

Hey, if you were one of the handful of people who signed up for our mailing list at the PRF BBQ last week, we lost our sign-up sheet! If you really meant it and weren’t just blindly scrawling your e-mail address in a drunken rage, please send us a note via the “Contact/Booking” link above […]

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Electrical Audio BBQ

Date of Show: June 12, 2010
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Venue: T.H.Ink
Other bands on the bill:
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An underground music festival based around the members of the Electrical Audio music Internet forums. Here are some crappy cameraphone photos: Blood Sucking Fiends played first. The guitarist was noodling around with a little Jesus Christ Superstar before they played, so I was hopeful we might get a little Lloyd/Webber action in their set, but, alas, I was denied. […]

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The Frequency w/ The United Sons of Toil, Knife the Symphony and Squarewave

Poster by Unknown
Date of Show: May 13, 2010
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Venue: The Frequency
Other bands on the bill:
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The Frequency’s marquee. A fine place to play music and located next door to the one of Robert’s favorite Madison eating establishments, The Tornado Room. Squarewave played well-structured and thoughtful songs and had some of the most guitar effect pedals I have ever seen assembled in one place. Knife the Symphony managed to play a […]

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Crunchy Frog in Green Bay, Wisconsin

Date of Show: January 30, 2010
Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin
Venue: Crunchy Frog
Other bands on the bill:
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Well, this was an interesting evening. We apologize  to the good people of Green Bay who braved the cold expecting an enjoyable night of pleasant music only to find us stuck in the mix. We were put on this bill at the last minute with the kind help of Jim, whose floor we ended up […]

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Sauce in Minneapolis, Minnesota w/ Self-Evident, Buildings and Shageki

Poster by Roger Lootine
Date of Show: January 29, 2010
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Venue: Sauce
Other bands on the bill:
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A rare out-of-town show! The first stop on our tour of Minnesota and Wisconsin (a.k.a. Upstate Illinois) was a fun show featuring some great bands (Self-Evident, Buildings & Shageki) and lots of fun times. That evening we played at Sauce (3001 Lyndale Ave. S, Minneapolis, Minnesota). Photos Here are a bunch of photos from the […]

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Quenchers w/ Bear Claw and .22

Poster by Kill Hasumomo
Date of Show: January 8, 2010
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Venue: Quenchers Saloon
Other bands on the bill:
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Another fun Quenchers show with a huge crowd. They were lining up out front! Noteworthy moment: Tony losing a stick into the crowd and hitting a spectator square in the face.

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