On the recording front, things are moving along steadily, so hopefully we can post a new jam for you soon. In the meantime, we’re playing almost all of the new material live.

Speaking of playing live, check the upcoming shows section. This next week we’ll be in Sacramento, Concord, and Berkeley. And yes, they will be our best shows ever.

Another exciting snippet, we’ll be performing our first (of many) baby-shower(s). Our friend Britney is preggers and will be honoring her unborn (unless it suddenly gets born) baby. It will be a night of celebration, acoustic-style, at Panama Bay Coffee. If you’ve been waiting for an appropriate time to invite your parents, grandparents, godparents to an IRF show, the wait is over. Bring them and your fine self.

Finally, we are in desperate need of new tires for the band van. This is an SOS; can you help us? We’ve got cool shirts for sale, and we are available for all kinds of events (electric and acoustic). If the result is new tires, sign us up. Thanks!

UNEXCITING NEWS: Last week we disclosed plans to record our performance at Panama coffee. Acoustic shows are a good chance to rearrange songs, change the grooves, and learn some covers. After meticulously setting up to record the gig, we were thwarted by technical difficulties. Suffice it to say, my computer couldn’t take the pressure. I hope we get the chance to try again soon.

EXCITING NEWS: In 5 days we will track drums for 8 new songs! That means that every drum track (on this album) will be done and I’ll be looking for unique ways to celebrate. Suggestions? This session will be especially exciting, because we’ll be tracking live! Capturing this kind of energy is awesome.

THE BIGGEST NEWS: we will be playing tomorrow night (thursday) in SF at Bottom of the Hill. If you attend, you will hear 7 songs off the new record! They’re good, and we’ve even enlisted some help to make them unbelievable. Don’t miss this.

Thanks again! Love to you all.

John

Seems everything is counting again. We’re working on oh say a little 15 new arrangements to old stripped songs via the acoustic format. We’ll be recording our set on thursday night so do come on time. 
Additionally our friends in The federalists invited us to play on the 29th of may at the bottom of the hill, which is practically in your room, so do come. We have high hopes for the show, so.. we wish you were there. 
We’re also working on some free posters to hand out…

May 29th - Bottom of the Hill
W/ The Federalists ( www.myspace.com/thefederalistsrock ) 
$12 all ages
Bring your hungry, your poor, your sick, your women and your children to rock.

Furthermore, 

We’ll be playing live acoustic
May 22nd Panama Bay Coffee house
2151 Salvio St. Concord, Ca
6pm *free
This will be a live recorded event, some come cheer and be eternalized.

May 23rd Panama Bay Coffee house
2745 hillcrest ave.
6pm $5 and a free drink
This will a Jarrod/Stephen Duet.

I’ve always wanted to make something one can sink into, I hope
thats what we’ve done.
Its the best thus far, and we can’t wait
to finish and get it out there for everyone to hear.
some times i feel
like its a celebration, a night that turns into a morning in the countryside,
strange things happening every direction. I’m proud to be apart of it.

Lyrics for peasant song
_____________________

peasant
lay me down in all your straw
a saviors birth i will call it
just don’t keep me from the light
i won’t even try to believe
still i know you’ll come for me

peasant
did you ever feel a cursed man
a little threatened in your fathers hands
or is it all bleak and hazy now
i’ll nail you back to that tree
today you will be released

i’m not feeling well
and i’m not making sense
and you feel i’m a little guilty
with all this blood in my mouth

if i’m not shining then i will be released.

released.

____________________

love love to you all. hope you’re well.

jarrod

As always, thank you for listening. We’ve decided that creating enjoyable music is simply not enough. Not nearly enough. We’ve set our sights even higher; creating weekly blogs! Yes, EVERY week we will share our progress with you, as our new album comes closer to fruition.

This week, it is John’s turn to blog. I’ll never refer to myself in the third person again. Promise.

BIG NEWS: Every song that will go on the new record is written! There is no need to write more songs, because we’ve finally got the biggest pile of new music (it’s the biggest). Now we are working to refine said pile of music and record the rest of it.

Because the drums are the first thing we put to tape (or hard drive, as it were), we’re using our band practices to zoom-in on the drum parts. We solidify the arrangement, demo the song, then listen back, so that we can say things like:

“Play open hi-hat instead of riding a crash cymbal.”
“The melody needs more interaction from the bass drum.”
“Learn how to play.”
“That fill rules! Fucking remember that!”

or, my favorite, “Start over.” (this really is my favorite).

What a supremely rewarding process!

More to come next week.

From my throne in the cabin,
John

www.myspace.com/inreverentfear

01.24.08
San Francisco, CA
Bottom Of The Hill
1233 17th Street
8:30pm, $8, 18 and up
w/ Anaura (CD release show), Reduced To Ruin (formerly Fits And Starts)
For tickets click here.

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