The Estab - 2 Shows

this weekend, despite me being deathly ill, the establishment played two shows.

friday, i woke up and was so sore i couldn't move - so the whole day i pumped myself full of flu meds and eventually made it out to Pinky's birthday bash @ The Speakeasy which featured performances by Jon McKiel, The Superfantastics, and Pinky's new band, tentatively called Quikersteven, which features him, Mick from Broken Ohms, Turk from Contrived, and Virgil from Heavy Meadows. After that whole shindig, we ended up playing a short set of mainly new stuff - due to my intoxication level thanks to the flu meds, and pinky/deon's intoxication level thanks to beer, it was no doubt terrible.

Saturday night I was feeling a bit better, but still had the flu in my system when we played at this strange little bar beneath the Attic called the Chef's Room. It was part of a special show at the attic where 5 bands played upstairs, and 5 bands played downstairs. Given the obscurity of the location, the bands playing upstairs (On Vinyl, Motorleague, Shelter With Theives, The Nuclear & The Monoxides), our crowd downstairs was pretty decent. The room was pretty cool, it was a different atmosphere. It felt like playing in the lounge of a hotel or something.

There were some friends from afar at the show (at both shows actually). Nick, the drummer from The Inflation Kills hung out with us on Saturday night, and our new pals from PEI, Kerri & Jessi, even made the trip down for these two shows.

The Orphan Choir come soon...so excited. We finished mixing the tracks for our 7" this weekend too - so we're gonna put them to wax as soon as we get some sweet cash. wanna help?