Thu, July 24th 9:00 pm
Irish Rover
Where/
When are you playing for the UMS?
Thursday,
July 24th, 9pm @ Irish Rover
In twenty-five
words or less, describe what somebody who has never heard of you/your band
might expect from your performance at UMS this year.
Imagine illegal fireworks exploding with poor safety
precautions taken mixed with very large taxidermied animals--think stuffed
Giraffes--and heat and heat and sport and catharsis. That should loudly do it.
One of us may hyperventilate.
What
was the first music you remember using your own money to buy?
Georgina bought the S/T LP from the Pretenders,
and Bryce was tricked into buying Purple Rain by his sister when he
really wanted use his allowance on candy. Kuker’s was either Enya’s Greatest
Hits or Vanilla Ice’s first record--he can’t remember, he just knows he was
in the VIP Posse before everyone else.
What
has been your favorite album of 2014 so far?
A tie:
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No One and St. Vincent - S/T
Do
you have any advice for new bands?
Skip band practice and go for whiskey and ice cream
together sometime. It’ll help with how serious all of this seems.
Have you planned
out who you want to see at UMS this year? Who are some of your highlights?
Blonde Redhead! Unknown Mortal Orchestra! Real
Estate. Good job, UMS bookers. Also, on the local front, definitely Hollow
Talk, Joshua Novak, Poet’s Row, Glass Hits final show, and so many more.
If
you've been to UMS before, what three words would you use to describe it?
Hot, Local, Houseparty (yes, we cheated a little.)
What
has been your most memorable experience at UMS to date?
Seeing Black Heart Procession at the Mayan Theater in
2011. Also, Everything Absent or Distorted’s last UMS performance in 2009. It
was very emotional and overwhelming for us. Rabbit Is a Sphere also played
their very last show that same year at the showcase, so we were all a bunch of
sad sacks. Little did we know that we’d be joining forces 5 year later. Fuck Yeah! We will seriously
fight you.
Any tips
you'd like to give the novices for making the UMS experience even better?
Plan to miss work on Monday...maybe take Tuesday off,
too, for good measure.
Is
there any place you're looking forward to eating during UMS?
Illegal Pete’s. Gozo sounds good, so maybe we’ll
try it. A Sputnik corndog is very likely.
What
are your favorite shops on South Broadway?
Ironwood
and Sweet Action
Who
is your all time favorite Colorado band?
The
Czars
Uphollow
Wovenhand
Denver
Gentlemen
Joe
Sampson
You're working the
counter at Twist & Shout, and a customer is interested in expanding his
music collection. What three albums would you recommend?
Sketches
of Spain (Miles
Davis), Soundtrack to Garden State, and anything by Ray Stevens...we
kid, we kid. That Garden State soundtrack is terrible.
Is there anything
we forgot to ask you about the UMS that you think people need to know?
“When’s your new video for Landing Gear coming out?”
Soon, love children, soon.
Sat, July 26th 7:00 pm
Eslinger Gallery
Where/When are you playing for the UMS?
Joy
Subtraction plays at 7 p.m. on Saturday night at Eslinger (118 S. Broadway).
In
twenty-five words or less, describe what somebody who has never heard of you /
your band might expect from your performance at UMS this year.
Well,
I guess I would have to say, when thinking about describing the music of Joy
Subtraction and its live show, that it is really . . . [Ugh! That’s 25—I’m out
of words. You’d think Twitter would have made me better at this.]
What
was the first music you remember using your own money to buy?
The Xanadu
motion picture soundtrack, featuring Olivia Newton John and Electric Light
Orchestra (referred to as “ELO” by those of us in the know).
What
has been your favorite album of 2014 so far?
I
don’t think any albums have come out yet in 2014.
Do
you have any advice for new bands?
Get
out while you can. Seriously. Run.
Have
you planned out who you want to see at UMS this year? Who are some of your
highlights?
We
don’t really care: we’re hitting the venues with bags of rotten tomatoes, and it
doesn’t really matter who’s playing or how well they’re jamming, we’re going to
express ourselves.
If
you've been to UMS before, what three words would you use to describe it?
We’d
say “excruciating,” “unbearable,” and “horrific,” but we really want to be
invited back next year, so we’ll go with “incredible,” “edifying,” and
“crucial.”
What
has been your most memorable experience at UMS to date?
Is
this a trick question?
Any
tips you'd like to give the novices for making the UMS experience even better?
Practice
your pick-pocketing chops—there’s ample opportunity to break even on expenses
(and sometimes even turn a profit!).
Is
there any place you're looking forward to eating during UMS?
The
dumpster behind Sputnik usually yields a pretty fine bounty.
What
is your favorite shop on South Broadway?
Nooch
Vegan Market. The staff often mocks you, but the goods can’t be beat.
Who
is your all-time favorite Colorado band?
It’s
gotta be String Cheese Incident. Just the name alone is enough to make you want
to jump off a cliff—excuse me, I mean get off your ass and jam.
You're
working the counter at Twist & Shout, and a customer is interested in
expanding his music collection. What three albums would you recommend?
This
is easy:
Welcome
to Hell by
Venom, because if you haven’t laid down your soul to the gods of rock ‘n’ roll
yet, then you’re a fool.
Tutu by Miles Davis. It’s probably
Davis’s worst album, but even Miles Davis’s worst album is better than most
bands’ best album.
Bucketfulls
of Sickness and Horror in an Otherwise Meaningless Life by Alice Donut, because
sometimes you need a little pick-me-up.
Is
there anything we forgot to ask you about the UMS that you think people need to
know?
Yes—people
should probably know about the Red Hour, which occurs every night of the UMS
between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., during which time all crimes are legal and about
twenty percent of UMS attendees are murdered. Also, the Hornet has killer
burgers.
Sat, July 26th 7:00 pm
Skylark Lounge
Where/ When are you playing for the UMS?
Skylark at 7:00 on Saturday.
In twenty-five words or less, describe what somebody who
has never heard of you/your band might expect from your performance at UMS this
year.
Roots-country based music, 70's rock and spacey folk mixed
together. Songs about the struggles of life, hard work, and drinking to numb
the pain.
What was the first music you remember using your own
money to buy?
Led Zeppelin IV
What has been your favorite album of 2014 so far?
Doom Abuse by The Faint
Do you have any advice for new bands?
Sex, drugs and rock and roll seems to be the recipe that
works the best.
Have you planned out who you want to see at UMS this
year? Who are some of your highlights?
I'm gonna try to soak up as much as I can.
If you've been to UMS before, what three words would you
use to describe it?
Many great bands.
What has been your most memorable experience at UMS to
date?
I Sank Molly Brown's set at Moe's BBQ a couple years back.
It's hard to describe. Impressed, I was.
Any tips you'd like to give the novices for making the
UMS experience even better?
Make sure you have all of your gear and it all works upon
arrival.
Is there any place you're looking forward to eating
during UMS?
The potsticker cart.
What is your favorite shop on South Broadway?
The Goodwill
Who is your all time favorite Colorado band?
Porlolo
You're working the counter at Twist & Shout, and a
customer is interested in expanding his music collection. What three
albums would you recommend?
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
The Magnetic Fields - The Charm of the Highway Strip
Baroness - Blue
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