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Tim to sing U2′s Joshua Tree

Tim — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:20:21 +0000

When I first got home from Germany I was approached by a friend from Birmingham about potentially singing with “Black Jacket Symphony” (their facebook page here) on their upcoming performances of U2′s Joshua Tree. BJS is a band that liken themselves to a symphony performing a piece by Beethoven, but in their case they perform iconic rock albums note for note, beginning to end. (On the BJS youtube channel you can watch videos of their performances from The Beatles “Abbey Road” to Led Zeppelin IV to Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors”)

Sandy (our friend in B’ham) immediately thought of me to be the voice of Bono for the bands U2 shows. She was the one that produced our “Live Van Videos” (click here to see vids) and so she sent BJS to our website to check me out as a preliminary audition. They loved it, I auditioned (by recording my voice over some cheesy karaoke track!!), and got the gig!

The show is a 3 night performance Dec. 29, 30, and 31 at Workplay Theatre in Birmingham, AL. Click here for tickets. We will be performing U2′s Joshua Tree for the 1st set and some greatest hits for the 2nd set.

I’m very excited about this gig! And I know it’s far away but I still hope to see you there…

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UPDATE! The Last Ride / Saturday 4pm

Tim — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:45:59 +0000

Our 1 final live performance will be this Saturday at 4pm EST in our tour van while driving through Asheville, NC! THE LAST RIDE before we sell the van and move to Germany. We only have room for 10!! Each rider gets to pick one song for us and then we’ll play a couple of our personal favorites.

HOW DO I GET A SEAT?

- This is how you can get a seat on “THE LAST RIDE”. CLICK HERE and sign up for our email newsletter! (if you haven’t already), look for an email invite sent from us tomorrow evening June 22 at 8pm and respond with a single name. The first 10 names get a seat!

PS_Keep an eye on your spam folder too because a lot of email clients send any emails that look even close to spam, to spam. For the future add our email address to your contacts to assure that you get our emails. Thanks

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FAREWELL SHOW – 6/16/11

Tim — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:57:12 +0000

We are happy to announce our “Farewell Show”! An intimate (45 seat) acoustic show featuring The Enemy Lovers and Justin Miles. Justin Miles will be traveling with us to Germany to record an EP at the end of June. We begin recording our full length in July. To say goodbye before we leave we will be performing at Brevard Music Studio on June 16, 2011 (thursday night) at 8pm. Tickets are $15 which we’ll be personally pre-selling due to limited seating. Comment below if you’d like to buy one and we’ll figure out a way to make the exchange. All profits go to recording in Germany. We look forward to seeing you!

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The Last Ride – Acoustic Show in our Van (Limited Seating!!!)

Tim — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:28:52 +0000

As you probably know by now, we’re selling all our stuff to get to Germany and make our first full length album. One of the things we are selling is our tour van. It has been our tour van since we started. It holds so many memories from the past 2 years. We want to give it one last ride around Asheville. So we are doing a special acoustic show in our van while riding through Asheville. We have room for 10! And each person on the ride gets 1 request which will make up our 10 song set!!
Stay tuned for when and how to get a seat on “The Last Ride”!!

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The Tightrope

Steven — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:00:05 +0000

Well two big gigs on the near horizon…

We are playing at the beer festival in Beech Mountain this weekend and the Guest List show is right around the corner. After playing two to three months of Thursday’s at Stella’s it will be nice to play a more set show. With the Thursday nights we tried to take a different approach than “normal” shows. We were hoping people could experience more the creative process of a band instead of the final product. It was a great and not so great idea.

Listening back to some of the research recordings, there were times when it was so amazing. When you could feel the mood and the creativity flowing in a direction that somehow we all were following together, although it was never rehearsed. Something that usually only the band feels or is a part of in their practices. Of course like anything that has it’s up and amazing time we had our equally down and “I can’t believe we are letting people hear this” time. To be honest there were probably only a few people who could hear the things I am talking about but still it was a bit embarrassing. In what we were trying for that is something you have to risk. Everything has it’s amazing as well as it’s rock bottoms. They are both equal learning and changing experiences. I say it was a great and not so great idea only because it is a bit out of the norm. Usually in their hometown a band has to think about over saturation. Playing to many shows and burning out their fans. Honestly I don’t think we did this but it was something we thought about at first. Not to mention giving people reasons to not come out and experience it with us because of the mindset, “I will just go next week.” In the end we just threw our hands up and said “To hell with it, we’re doing it.” When all else fails do something crazy, right?! After taking a break from Thursday nights in preparation of our Guest List Show, we have had time to look back at all the Thursday nights and honestly I think it was exactly what we needed to do. Tim and I went through more emotions, feelings, and questions through the course of those months than in the two previous years. We learned, shouted, laughed, thought about quitting, felt like rock stars, argued, and many other things. But in the end we became more aware of who we are as artists, even more confident in the choices we had to make. Probably one of the best ways to say what Thursday nights were was in one of Seth Godin’s blogs, Why We Prefer Live. That is exactly what it is for us. Taking the big leap and seeing where it takes us. Walking the tightrope of performance and creativity to get something new or experience what we have never experienced before. It’s messy and wonderful all at the same time.

Our Guest List show is on the 28th of January at The Grey Eagle. It will be an all ages show for all of our under age fans and the cover is $10. See you there!

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Christmas with The Enemy Lovers

Tim — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:45:29 +0000

This Thursday is December 23, the night before Christmas Eve. We’re putting away the drums for a special intimate low key seated show. It’s our thursday “Christmas Special” at Stella’s. It starts at 9pm and it’s free. There will be christmas lights and egg nog drinks. Sleigh bells and singing! Spend a little Christmas time with us.

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The Enemy Lovers set to play Asheville every week!! (starting OCT.28)

Tim — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:47:45 +0000

The Enemy Lovers are taking up residency in Stella Blue’s basement venue “Stella’s” for a weekly free show. Every Thursday at 9pm, starting Oct. 28, they have joined with Stella Blue to bring Asheville’s 21+ crowd a nightlife option where you don’t have to pay a cover or listen to a cover band. All tip/donations will be given to Adullam Orphanages who care for 750 orphans in Africa.

Read the cool write up in Mtn. Xpress covering us here. And enjoy our homemade video advertisement below! Pass on the news … click below to ReTweet this video for us. Thank you!

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Columbia SC >> NEW BROOKLAND TAVERN

Steven — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:58:03 +0000

So we played Columbia again tonight. Really I guess it was the first time. We opened for Winston Audio about a month ago and it was awesome. Tonight was the new music night and we got on the bill and killed it. Kent and I may have been a bit tipsy. It is not confirmed yet but either way it was a blast. We made some new friends and hopefully got the opportunity to book more shows. The last time we played it was pouring and the venue had multiple leaks with one right over the stage. Not just the general stage but the exact place I was standing. If i moved the water would drop right on my pedal board or worse right on my Tele pickups. Not awesome was the feeling of the chance of electrocution but I played and survived. Tonight we pulled up to the venue and guess what, rain. It was raining again but not as bad. After talking to the sound guy I felt much better when he told me they had fixed a lot of the leaks and the stage no longer was a sieve but an actual roof. Anyway I guess good things come to those who wait, so columbia we’re coming back and we are going to rock it over and over again. Hope you are ready because we are. See you soon!

Steven

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Hanging from the rafters at The Grey Eagle!

Tim — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:20:57 +0000

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!

Leave a comment about your experience at the show.

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