ERawkStar wrote:Are you working with the Boneshaker guys on those Darkroom dates? I know Mat fairly well.
I keep on being a flake but one of these day's I'll see you guys play.
I'm not totally sure, that could be the case. I know Chris from that band Ariel is really good friends with the Darkroom people and he got us in touch with them.
I posted a couple more dates that we have coming up, if you go definitely say hi to me. I'll hook you up with some free stuff if you want it.
It was a pretty funny show... the other bands that played were pretty... low key, we didn't fit in very well, but that's perfectly fine with me. They reviewed it (although it was more of a puff piece on all the bands because KEXP were the ones that put it together so of course they aren't going to say anything bad):
"Yep, as is usually the case in Chicago, October's Equalizer fell on a pretty busy night. Between the Cubs playoff game and the season premier of Joe Rogan's Fear Factor — Oops! I mean the VP debates (sorry, I get confused with all the barfing) it looked like Equalizer had the makings of a perfect storm of a suckey night in indie-town. But nay, my friends, t'was not so! As doors opened at darkroom, its murky gloom was off-set by the flicker of a giant projection screen centered over the stage displaying the arguments of two inert talking balloon animals who may one day over-see special task forces for low priority government agencies which do things that no one knows or cares about. Yet, like a hipster magnet the large sparkling surface drew them threw the door one by one and two by two and ever closer the evening's destiny of rock!
But no sooner had the giant screen snapped back up inside its hanging receptacle and the stage lights flashed on then Elephant Gun leapt into action with all 100 of their members (or so it seemed) and shook the stillness loudly to pieces. With an instant cacophony of horns, strings, and gadgety percussion devices along side traditional rock instruments — guitars, drums bass, keys, Elephant Gun played a frenzied 35 minute set that smacked any of the residual bad taste from the debate right out of everyone's mouth and reminded us all what we came here to do.
A collection of musicians from Elgin, IL, and Chicago, Elephant Gun sound like what I might imagine to hear in a bar brawl between the Minute Men, the Polyphonic Spree and John Philip Sousa. I happen to be a fan of all three of those artists so that is a complement. Anyone familiar with their new album "KP" which they recently self released might be a little shocked to see how much they step up the intensity level in their live performance but in my experience that is almost always preferable to the other way around."
http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2008/10/09/eq ... phant-gun/
