Good morning lovelies, and happy holidays!
Looks like there’s much to catch up on. First, we’ll start with a little video taken by The Portland Phoenix from the Portland, Maine CMJ Showcase which we were a part of in October. Thanks to Nick Brennan for catching the action!
We followed our trip to CMJ with a homecoming of sorts, to celebrate my birthday at Empire Dine and Dance in Portland with our buds The Sea Captains, The Departed Krew, and a few other distinguished guests. The gig was dubbed HBDC Presents: St. Miek’s Day, and for those that weren’t there, we wish you had been. What a time! Here’s a link to a pre-show interview we did with Mike Olcott from the Portland Press Herald!
Now we look towards our plans for the winter. First off, we’re honored to have been asked to take part in Home Fo’ The Holidaze as part of WCYY’s Holiday Bizarre! This night is always huge and a lot of fun with tons of your favorite Portland bands getting festive and performing renditions of holiday classics. We’ll be performing alongside Headstart!, Twisted Roots, and Grand Hotel just to name a few. I’d tell you what we have planned, but how much fun would that be?? Just be at The Asylum on December 17th, ok? Okay!
Speaking of our friends at WCYY, our bud DJ Mark Curdo is at it once again with Mark-A-Thon, a 100 hour music marathon where Mark will play ANYTHING, literally, ANYTHING your heart desires in return for donation for The Center for Grieving Children. This is one thing that we highly encourage you to be a part of. Check out WCYY.com for more info on how you can request, watch an undoubtedly exhausted, yet enthused Mr.Curdo, live during his marathon broadcast, and most importantly DONATE to this amazing cause.
And finally, we’ll be wrapping up this amazing year we’ve had where it all began, The Empire, on New Years Eve with our friends Marion Grace and The Mallett Brothers Band, for a special New Years Eve performance. While it breaks our heart to tell you this, we give three cheers to our mate and bass player Nathan Cyr, who will be performing at the awesomeness that is Portland’s State Theatre as part of Clash of The Titans: 60′s VS. 70′s VS. 80′s. We’re all very jealous of Nate, but have no question he will rock the house, and we will bring good tidings for a new year with his fill in, Mr. Johnny Venom of East Wave Radio fame! If you can make it out to both shows, its going to be an unforgettable New Years Eve for sure!
Looking forward into the New Year, we have some exciting things on the horizon, not that i’m going to tell you about any of them in detail. We do plan to take a short break in the first couple months to write our next two records, which we couldn’t be more thrilled about. If there’s anything else, we’ll let you know.
Everyone be safe and happy this holiday season, and we’ll see you all in 2011! Good evening!
All our love,
HBDC
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