We kicked off 2014 with a rager of a show. Rubrics, I'm an Intestine and a surprise set by Crowd Bites Wolf all destroyed Waldo farm. Since then the bridge went back into hiding until last week. We finally had a practice and have begun to develop plans for another productive year.
If we can wrap up a couple more songs and get into the studio we will have an LP by late summer. This has been a goal of ours for some time now. We have no excuse. Also, we'll be announcing some big tour plans for august and beyond soon.
Until then...here is a video of us lobotomizing Miami...
After spending countless hours on computers during the months before tour, I have wanted to stay as far away from them as possible. I realized today that it has been about a month since our European tour came to an end. I guess it is never too late to say that this experience was hands down the most amazing time we have had as a band. I kept trying to keep some sort of tour journal that I could have posted, but there was never a spare minute.
I can't believe I'm actually going to attempt this but...
We would love to thank everybody who came out to our shows. The punks in Munster Braunschweig, Berlin, Wroclaw, Warsaw, Olomouc, Burglengenfeld, Innsbruck, Bremgarten, Biel, and Frankfurt are some of the greatest people on earth. Hendrik, Lars, Sabine, Jan, Else and all the Munster badasses. Felix and Nils from Nexus(the best sounding venue we've ever played). Max and Scherer 8. Blum and Hana. Sara and Massimo. Laura, Dorig, Matthew and KuZeb. Ruben and Schrottbar(Punk City)!!! Sif and Exzess. There are a few other names that I have forgotten. I'm sure we will meet again when we return. We'd also love to thank some of the amazing bands that we had the pleasure to meet and watch play like, Resurrectionists, Henry Fonda, Republic of Dreams(this time in your neck of the woods), La Casa Fantom(holy shit!!! Yes!!!), Face the Threat, Pyramido(Sweeeethearts), Derbe Lebowski and last but not least, the almighty Kyrest!!! Kyrest are some of the greatest people we have had the privilege of meeting and they shred too! We played six shows together in Germany, Poland and Czech Republic. Our hearts were broken the night we had to say goodbye. I think that tour is one giant heartbreak. There are so many beautiful people that we meet. Old and new friends make our lives so bright every night and every morning we have to live with the sadness of distance between us and the ones we fall in love with. One last thanks goes out to the dirtiest boyz in the world. Ed and Max. You made this the best tour yet. We were never short on laughs and high spirits and I hope that we can do this again with you. Best roadies/drivers/friends any band could ever have!!!
Here is a video of two new songs.(Exzess Frankfurt, D)
There is so much more to add to this but I hate being on these computers. I will try to wrap things up. We are playing 305 Fest in late December. We are playing with Rubrics(SC) in Waldo on the first of January. Besides that, things are going to be quiet for a while, but hopefully not too long. We are about halfway done with writing for an LP. We have some other plans in the works for 2014 but we will talk about that later.
Tour starts in five days! Our first show is in Miami. We're playing with terrorist, one of my favorite bands I've seen this year! The next day we will be flying to Germany to begin our European tour. Our first show is with resurrectionists, one of my most listened to bands in the last few years. We are counting down the hours now and trying to get some sort of rest at night.
We have a month and some days until we leave for tour. We are playing Miami on September 24 and flying to Germany on the 25th. We will be bringing small medium and large shirts. If anybody has any special requests for different sizes, let us know now. landbridgerocknroll@gmail.com
Also, if you haven't checked out Kyrest, do so now. Their new album kills it! We are stoked to spend a week with them!
Once again, keep up with our shows and tour schedule on the shows/tours page.
We've purchased our tickets to Europe!!! All shows are booked or being booked with the exception of one. That should be worked out soon though. We are all so excited and maybe even a bit overwhelmed. This has been a dream for us for quite some time now. It is great to see it all coming together! Thanks again to all the rad folks who are working hard to put it all together.
We will not have a new release by tour. The reason is mainly because we don't wanna rush just to produce a mediocre end product. We will have a batch of new songs as well as our 7" and a new shirt design and some other goodies!
We are really looking forward to making new friends and hugging old ones!!!
Hey y'all! All We Know Records is releasing a comp cd to benefit the Earth First journal. One of our songs from the 7" will appear on that along with some other amazing bands.
Fresh Fest is gonna be awesome! That is all we need to say about that.
Plans for Europe are working out. We are playing 6 shows with Kyrest from Germany. They play gnarly crust and I am really looking forward to seeing them. I will keep updating the shows page as the tour develops. Thanks to all the folks who are working hard to help make this happen!!! You mean so much to us.
The dates for our European tour in Sept/Oct are up on the shows/tours page. This is going to be quite a challenge financially as well as booking it in general. We have some folks helping out, but if you know anyone who could help set up a show in the areas listed, please get in touch at landbridgerocknroll@gmail.com.
We are very excited and I will make sure to post more details soon. We're planning on bringing our 7", shirts, patches, pins and hopefully some form of new recordings. (maybe an exclusive tour tape)
