Good heavens, everyone!

It is with utmost gratitude for your continued fannage that we announce something! It’s not really a contest or competition, neither is it really a sweepstakes or lottery. Well, let’s just get on with it.

For the remainder of Lime Colony’s performances at Retox Lounge in SF (8/17, 9/7, 9/21):

Anyone who posts a picture of the band to our facebook or myspace pages will get a FREE copy of our latest and greatest album, Lime Colony.  Furthermore, anyone who posts both a picture AND a video will get one of the aforementioned LP’s plus our debut EP, The Advantage Of Getting There First.  FREE.

Wow!  A few clarifications: 1) The person posting the photo or video must have personally taken it.  2) We will contact photo-posters with album-delivery details, but 3) you are free to message us directly pointing out your handiwork.

Show notes:

For the 8/17 show at Retox (see our earlier post for full details) Tim and Earl will be playing an entirely acoustic set (SPECIAL!), on a bill with Koozito and Terese Taylor.  If you want to see the full band, well of course you can also do that at Retox on 9/7 and 9/21.

Thanks, and keep on truckin’.

Love,

Lime Colony

Friends!

We apologize for our seeming absence.  Really we’ve been here, been here for you, but lurking in the shadows, watching your every move.  Even when you did that one thing.  Yep.

Anyway, we’re pleased to announce a series of shows at The Retox Lounge in San Francisco.  We’ll be playing on the following dates:

• August 3rd
• (possibly August 17th – that one’s still being finalized)
• September 7th
• September 21st

It promises to be 3 (4?) nights of magic.  We will be making your problems disappear, Houdini-style.  As details firm up, we’ll keep you posted.

Thank you for your continued love.  We love you, too.  Completely.  Unconditionally.  A little inappropriately.

Love,

Lime Colony

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A subject has been coming up a bit lately, and I think it warrants a weblog post. It is the issue of balancing a visually engaging, energetic presentation with playing the songs well. Both are important.

(Note: the following is fairly genre-dependent, subjective and ill-informed.)

When you go see a band live, you expect to be entertained. There are two major parts to this. The first is the quality of the musical performance. The second is the quality of the, for lack of a better term (as I’m too lazy to think of one), act. Let’s examine these.

A band exists to make music (unless it’s a band of, say, transient clowns). It seems to follow that the musical performance is the most important and critical part of the show, with the act coming in a moderately distant second. But is this true?

Suppose you go to see a band you’ve never heard. We’ll call them Slime Folly. They come up on stage and make music seemingly flawlessly. While they are making such music, they are standing, looking devastated, staring at some piece of masking tape on the floor left over from some show three nights ago.

They are followed with another band called Flying Monotony. They proceed to rock the crap out of the stage as they play. Their energy washes over the crowd and everyone is, at a minimum, bouncing to the beat and grinning stupidly. While they are giving this performance, they screw some stuff up. Their harmonies are occasionally cringe-worthy, the guitar player poops a few chords, the drummer spills his beer and so forth.

Which is more enjoyable? Which would you rather see live?

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(I realize that this is a false dichotomy, but be quiet).

That’s right. Bottom of the Hill. 1233 17th St. CD Release. Pancake breakfast (at least for me).

Friends and Loved Ones,

We’re writing to remind you that Lime Colony’s brand new release, Lime Colony, will be let loose this Wednesday night (5/12) at Bottom of the Hill in your very own San Francisco.  The doors will be opened at 8.  You’ll then be aurally enraptured by the likes of Blood & Sunshine and Passenger & Pilot.  Following that, Lime Colony will cap the night off with something special.  Something very special.  You know.  That one thing.  Yep.

So come along, bring your friends and don’t forget to hold on to your butts.

Love,

-LC

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Beloved, Loyal and Tenacious Fan,

We here at Lime Colony HQ are pleased downright giddy to announce the release of our shiny new album, Lime Colony.  The full-length work makes us tear up when we listen to it for so many reasons (you cannot count them – the number is in Spanish an exotic foreign language).

Anyway, said CD will be released at BOTTOM OF THE HILL ON MAY 12TH!  Passenger & Pilot (our friends and excellent musicians) and Blood & Sunshine (music-makers extraordinaire) will be getting the night going for us and we urge you to come early to hear experience them.

Doors open at 8.  21+.  $8 (CD’s will be on sale for $10).

Strikethrough.

Gallant and Beloved Fans,

Your favorite music-makers are featured in an entry in The Deli SF Open Blog.  It’s a nice little featurette* featuring the cover of Lime Colony (the album) and a selected track from said album.  Go check it out (we’re a few entries down, so don’t lose hope so quickly, jeez.

http://sf.thedelimagazine.com/kitchen

-Earl

*authored by us

I awoke to find this note prominently displayed.

balls out, rocks on the floor, hammers in the bucket, snakes on the sled, soup in the suitcase, pants in the refrigerator, space cadets on Mt. Everest, cheese on fire, chicken in hand, flies in the popsicle, chin smoking, rat smelling, bottle squeezing, fiery, snotty, bewetted, bespectacled, rotten, trottin’, blottin’ wailing, taking a peek, stinkin’ a week, feeling up beaks, cartooning, crooning, careening, bug smashing, chain stealing, rivet tossing, desk painting, troll in the sauce, dream in your pants, flies under snakes, plane stealing, waffle staining, grass feigning, brain grazing, flippy, flappy, zippy, zappy, crushed pie, sandwich fried, guy wire throwing, trampoline stinging, steel crapping, foot shoveling, eyes in a boat, pickled corn float, giblet filled moat, siren slaughtering, hooker biting, john stomping, pawn chopping, crop flopping, stones next to a duck, whizzing on a truck, slicing through your pants, baboon in a trance, moon with a lance, jumping on the weasel, spilling all the diesel, packing up the easel, drippy, strippy, frippery, crapshoot.