Tomorrow, the World/Inferno Friendship Society heads west for part two of our album release tour! We’ll be sharing bills with Portland, OR jazzy folk punk band Bridge City Sinners in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. Later in February, I’ll perform an invitation-only show in Philly with my partner Evie Morrel-Samuels, then debut my new duo Marbleous, with bassist Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka of Austria, at shows in Boston, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, and DC! Read on for more.
Photo by Clara Wildberger
| First, a quick recap since my last update: my partner Evie and I got our first car, then I headed off on tour with World/Inferno from Texas to Florida and up the East Coast. I had a very nice birthday show with the band in Miami, where I received a parade of kisses from the audience. This past Saturday, I headed up to Brooklyn for Super Bolus IV, a showcase for artists on the Gold Bolus Recordings label. I had a great time playing music with Paul Pinto, Pat O’Reilly, Dave Ruder, Anne Rhodes, and others. Tomorrow, World/Inferno heads to Vancouver to begin our tour with Bridge City Sinners, who you should really check out if you don’t know them already. We’ll tour together to Vancouver, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Sacramento, Oakland, LA, Long Beach, Mesa, Albuquerque, Denver, and Colorado Springs. On the first four shows, we’ll also be joined on the bill by Vic Ruggiero (of The Slackers) and lauren.napier. It should be a blast, and I hope you’ll come out for a fun, high-energy show if you live along the tour route! Shortly after that tour, my partner Evie Morrel-Samuels and I will perform together for the second time as a duo at a private event in Philadelphia on February 23. We’re continuing to develop the project we started in Boston featuring original stories about alternate worlds, music, movement, and objects. Stay tuned for future public performances! Then, from February 25 to March 1, contrabassist Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka will join me on a tour of the Northeastern US as Marbleous, a duo that grew out of our work together on A History of Characters during my residency in her home base of Graz, Austria. We’ll be performing free improvisation that involves placing small objects (yes, including marbles) on our amplified instruments. Please come out and support us on our first tour together! Further ahead, thingNY will perform Dave Ruder’s You Must Read a Lot of Jung twice in one day – in both the Bronx and Queens – in March. In April, thingNY has our ADDDDDDDDD run at Spectrum as part of the MATA Festival. And World/Inferno continues charging full steam ahead, with Northeastern shows in April, another US tour in May, and a big tour this summer in Europe! Scrotie, Jeff |