If you missed it the other day here is our live performance appearance on Fox 6 News at Noon!  (the audio quality is basic broadcasting) >>

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The Album Project » Full Review: The Enemy Lovers – Self Titled EP

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It was really exciting to be on the set of my first music video. It was like living 5 very active days in one 24 hr period. Next time I’m going to write a slow ballad so that the video doesn’t feel like a P-90 work out routine. My body was sore not to mention my vocal cords. Your supposed to mouth the words for the camera while the song plays on a speaker but I couldn’t find my groove so I yelled my own song into a mic that wasn’t plugged in in sync with myself on a cd playing very loudly on a PA until I had no voice. And then I had smoke bombs unleashed in my face until I literally almost died. No seriously, the thought I had while coughing so hard I couldn’t catch my breath was, “I should have checked the side effects of directly inhaling sulfur smoke to see if dying was one of them”.

By the end of shooting I had I played my guitar through burning fireworks, outside in the rain on top of a hill, running in the steet, and on a set in front of a crowd. At one point I was laying on the ground on my back on the pavement with guitar in hand. The part of the video that was shot in an old factory was shot with the help of our extras, our most loyal fans. We asked them to come and act like we were playing the show of a lifetime and they came and were very convincing! Their showing up was pure energy that can’t be created any other way and for that we are extremely proud and thankful.

Then the next day Steven and I find ourselves in the middle of a dead corn field with mud up to our ankles turning my black converse into a crackled brown. We walked then ran through the mud and broken corn stalks. At one point my legs almost gave out while at the same time I was tripping over the cornstalks and how I kept myself from falling face first I’ll never know, but it does look awesome on the video! Running Running Running. I guess that’s what we get when writing a song that’s 160 beats per minute like “Coming Down”.

We had a great time as painful and intense as it was. We saw a lot of the clips and they look amazing. It should be a real treat to watch us in pain! If you have any comments about this momentous occasion please leave them below and I will respond. The video will be released soon!

What a way to start out the new year.  For our first show in 2010 we played for over 350 of our most incredible following at The Grey Eagle in Asheville NC.  It was over the top and put me into the rafters, literally!

I didn’t think it all the way through but before I knew it I was already hanging from the rafters.  I can’t believe I didn’t hit something on the way down.  The energy there was uncontainable.  Everybody was there in the moment at the same time.  That’s the beauty of music, it brings us all into the same time together and when it’s right it unites us into a single moment where we all can let go and be crazy.  It was right!  Believe me, we didn’t play flawless but it was right!  Check out some great shots of the night from David Childers (our photographer) CLICK HERE

Justin Miles opened up for us with 3 brand new songs.  He quite successfully warmed up the crowd.  I was truly impressed and would have him open for me anywhere anytime.  He looked so natural although I know he was freaking out!

We also had the help of several guest drummers that joined us in the end of The Edge of the World.  These boys did an amazing job!  They lifted the mood (and volume!) higher than I could have ever done alone.  Their names are Jon Scroggs (my little brother), Johnny Becker, Kevin Uncapher, and Michael Lyda.  I hold them personally responsible for making me jump up into the rafters!

Thanks to everybody that came out.  You brought the energy, we just utilized it in our music!

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-Upcoming Events-

>> January 26 – We’ll be in performing live at Studio AVL at 98.1 The
River.  It will air on the drive home.

>> January 27 – The Emerald Lounge Emerging Artist Showcase hosted by 98.1
The River.  We go on at 8pm opening for Charlie Mars.

>> February 1-5 | ‘5 DAYS. 5 SONGS.’ The Enemy Lovers in the studio.
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So today I downloaded the high res version of our new music video for ‘Coming Down’.  It took almost 2 hrs!  When you see it you’ll understand why.  It’s beautiful and clear.  It looks ridiculous!  Steven and I plugged the laptop into my stereo, cranked the volume, and watched it 3-4 times in a row.  We’re all very happy with how it came out and are exceedingly impressed with the two guys and their team who organized the whole thing.  The video shoot was led by Robert Hill and Taylor Hide, two extremely talented dudes from Birmingham AL.  We’ll be posting more detailed credits as we make the finishing touches on the release.  The majority of the video was shot right here in Asheville NC.  Pictures of the day were taken by C.W. Newel and you can look through all of them here.  I posted my favorites below.

I would tell you more in depth details about the video (because I’ve probably watched it 10 times today!) but I don’t want to ruin the surprise for everyone that was not at the video shoot.  And for those of you crazy fans that came to the video shoot and jumped around with us in the live performance scenes, we want to Thank you.  As you will soon see you brought the energy to the camera and to The Enemy Lovers!

**UPCOMING EVENT>> We are planning a ticketed Music Video Premier where you can join us to preview the video before we release it.  We’re throwing a party in honor of everyone that was involved on the project.  We’ll have drinks, behind the scenes footage, stories of the day etc.  And you can be a part of this…MORE DETAILS COMING SOON!

Tim

Asheville Twestival 2010!

The Channel

So for the past few months… actually it has been longer than that I would think, my wife and I bought Regina Spektor’s new album “Far”.  I listened to her older album “Begin to Hope” but it was really my wife who listened to it the most.  There are a few songs I would listen to on my own but mostly the songs I heard off that album were because of Jen playing it or Tim and Meagan playing it.  It wasn’t that I did not like it, it was that I just would not ever think of playing it.  Of course on the way home from Asheville after buying the new album Jen played it without stopping and then loaded it on to her ipod immediately after getting home.  Since she had it on her ipod I decided to take the cd for my truck.  For weeks it stayed in my cd player and I listened to it for a long time.  Actually Tim made a joke to me about it still playing in my cd player.  I LOVE IT!  I have listened to it over and over and I still love it.  The songs themselves are really good and simple, even the production is really simple and not overbearing.  It is not trying to be the most complicated or the most artistic and for me it makes it more interesting and gives it more re-listen value.  Her voice is also insanely creative and beautiful.  It kind of reminds me of music that would of been released years ago instead of last year.  Seems that today music is more about how many instruments you can record together to create a song that can never be reproduced live or that has no dynamic because the song is not good enough by itself to begin with.  Yes, in case you are wondering, I am not a huge fan of some of the music that is released today but this cd is extremely worth buying and listening to.  The songs are great, her voice is great, her piano playing is great, the production is great, really it is all great.  There are great upbeat songs and very emotional songs.  I guess something for everyone.

steven.

Greenville’s Downtown Alive

Show 5:45pm

The Channel

Doors 7pm | Show 8pm  –   Cost $10

I Anthem/ The Armory/ The Decour/ The Enemy Lovers

Workplay Theatre

The Enemy Lovers w/ Will Hoge and Matthew Mayfield

8pm  Cost TBA

In it’s second year, Paint the Town Red is an innovative fundraiser for the Birmingham Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Cost: $10

The Evening Muse

Stella Blue

I really had no idea who was playing in the super bowl this year!  My question was actually intended to find out what football teams were playing and when she answered with “The Who” I busted out laughing and told her that was the best answer I’ve ever heard.  And I already knew The Who was playing the super bowl!  That stuff I know, but I still don’t know what teams played or who won…

Anyways, Super Bowl Sunday is always a good excuse to drink beer and eat buffalo wings with good friends…and that’s enough for me.

The commercials probably weren’t great, again.

Did you ever see Field of Dreams?  I just watched it again recently and how amazing is that movie?!  I feel like it is a perfect example of our lives.  First off, we may not all hear voices although to a degree they usually try and hospitalize you for that but we all have something we want to do.  Something either we are doing, want to do, or forgot that we want to do it.  Either way it is there but it is very frightening to go after it.  Sometimes we get so used to continuing on day after day in a job that was never supposed to be a career just something to pay the bills until whatever it was you really wanted to do could pay the bills that now it is so routine our “Field of Dreams” gets long forgotten.  On the other hand sometimes we went after our “Field of Dreams” for so long but it never panned out and the misery of never truly doing what we really wanted to do forces us into a routine of just paying bills.  There is so many reasons to give up on your dreams or what you really want to do and take on the “make money to spend money” perspective.  I am also not just talking about sports or music or acting, I am talking about anything.  Dreams don’t have to be artsy or involve being famous.  I am talking about doing whatever makes you lay down at night and think, I love my life!

No doubt if you have tried or are trying or want to try and live your dreams, you will start with an amazing feeling of excitement mixed with “nothing will go wrong” and it will last for a while, but at some point the reality sets in.  I am not against the reality but it can be a huge buzz kill at some times.  In the movie after he follows the voice or his metaphoric dream he lives for a while in the excitement of the new and then nothing happens.  To me this was such a true part of the movie for me.  I have tried time and again to live out my dream and after the excitement wears off and it feels like it is going nowhere, give up.  It seems a lot of the time I have given up.  Not necessarily because it was too hard, maybe more of the reason was because I thought it was not panning out.  I thought it was the door shutting in my face.  Maybe some of the time it was but everything is a chain reaction.  Most of the time living out your dream is birthed out of what seems mundane and boring and sometimes just normal.  It is all a road to get you to the point where your dreams are becoming a reality.

I don’t want to give away the movie if you haven’t seen it but go watch it, especially if you desire to live out your dreams and are in need of inspiration. There are always storms, there are always times of misunderstanding but don’t quit.  Don’t give up.  Most likely you are right on the verge of what you have wanted for a long time.

At least that is how it has been for me…

steven.