Mayday
Let’s see. What’s been going on with Treadmill. March 1 – the new record came out. It’s been downloaded a bunch much to my glee and we got some nice reviews on it.
Tony and I have been getting into the video thing. We decided to do a couple of hack videos – which we did. You can check them out at: http://www.youtube.com/user/treadmovies . I’d love to do a video for Knives in the Kitchen – but we’ve all been slammed with other things since the record came out. I also had an idea for a video for the title track -but I don’t know if we’ll ever get to it.
I went on a little Southeast acoustic tour with Danielle Howle which was damn fun. It was great to hang out with her again. She’s a singular individual to say the least. We go so freaking far back. Love her. Was great to listen to her sing every night for a couple of weeks. Her voice and songwriting are better than they’ve ever been. I have this idea for a documentary about dreams. Like, how some people get it into their heads that they want to do a certain thing when they’re young- and it just never lets go no matter how difficult that thing is. I sort of threw my hands up over my dreams when the band got dropped and gave up. But Danielle just keeps on trucking no matter what happens. I’ve always been pretty impressed with her unwillingness to ever give up, to endure constant money problems, instability blah blah. So anyway – I did a bunch of interviews with her after the shows – talking until 5am. And the footage I got is really interesting. Hopefully I can do something with it sometime soon. Played a house concert in Columbia with her a few weeks ago – and that’s something I’d like to do more of for sure. Heidi sat in too. Good fun. My dream would be to go out on tour for four weeks or so every year – just me, my guitar, and my prius playing little coffee houses, house concerts or whatever. But if it’s left to me to set up – I guess I can pretty much forget it.
Treadmill got to play Carolina Homegrown which was damn fun as well. The sound was great and I feel like we rocked pretty hard. It’s nice to be on a big massive stage with an enormous sound system now and then. We do one more festival on May 28 for River Rocks. That should be fun too.
We’ve been talking about our release show for Leaving Ohio. Most bands do a record release show on the actual day their record gets released. Not us. Our release show for I Belong was five months after the fact. This one could be even longer. I think we’re all sort of bored with playing at clubs. And we have some ideas for this release show that are going to be sort of difficult to pull off. Some projection, maybe even live actors doing some stuff to go along with the story of the record. If we can’t do it up right, I’m not really interested in doing it at all. We plan on putting it on at a farm in Spartanburg. I have no clue who will come to that. But someone will. If it ever happens. My goal is to come out with the next album before we do the record release show for leaving ohio.