Hey,
The Bitter Tears are playing a groovy tour. Real psychedelic and shit.
Califone will play with us if we're in the mood to let them.
If you go, let me know, and maybe I can get you in for free.

Jun 1 2007 8:00P Stuart's Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio.
Jun 2 2007 8:00P Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio
Jun 3 2007 8:00P Mohawk Place Buffalo, New York
Jun 5 2007 7:00P Iron Horse Music hall Northampton, Mass
Jun 6 2007 9:00P Middle East Upstairs Cambridge, Mass
Jun 7 2007 8:00P The Gramercy Theater New York
Jun 8 2007 8:00P Johnny Brenda's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 9 2008 no '07 8:00P The Rock and Roll Hotel, Wash. DC
Jun 20 2007 9:00P Schubas, Chicago, Illinois

See Ya Chicago!?

www.thebittertears.com

greg wrote:Hey,
The Bitter Tears are playing a groovy tour. Real psychedelic and shit.

Jun 7 2007 8:00P The Gramercy Theater New York

I have not yet been to a show here, and this might be the one to see!

Promise me you'll get naked, Greg. Or something.

The Bitter Tears are so spectacular every time I see them that it astounds me. You won't need nakedness to feel their special weird discomfort that they exude while playing wonderful music, though the weirdness they provide leaves you feeling as if you've been flashed. By a magical hobo. (None of this should be taken as discouragement from nudity, Greg)

I first saw the Bitter Tears at the Double Door about a week and a half after I gave up a pretty okay life and landed, completely alone but optimistic, in Chicago. Their performance confirmed my choice. I felt charmed, delighted and enthralled, rewarded for being out way past my bedtime.

I met my first Electrical Audio member at this show, the mighty Michael Dahlquist, who made fun of me for reading a book between bands and then asked me out to dinner. He reacted with such delight that I concluded he hasn't been out with a girl in years.

Greg played his slide whistle 6" from our faces in a cotton romper and Alan's monologue during "Murdered At The Bar" left me doubled over, and depositing some of my pint of beer on the floor.

I remember laughing out loud while riding my bike home from the show, just purely, blissfully, simply happy for the first time in a long time.

I have seen them many times since and now know that this joy is not just the result of having a swell gentleman ask me to dinner, or being alone in a brand new city, with weirdos like myself who go stupid over pure expressions of creativity. It is, in large part, because the Bitter Tears are a majestic band, who have never, not once, left me not laughing out loud on my bike ride home from the show.

burun wrote:Jun 7 2007 8:00P The Gramercy Theater New York

I'll be at this one too.

Excellent, Itchy! Fifty points for Gryffindor!

I'm telling my eastern friends to see these shows.

itchy mcgoo wrote:The Bitter Tears are so spectacular every time I see them that it astounds me. You won't need nakedness to feel their special weird discomfort that they exude while playing wonderful music, though the weirdness they provide leaves you feeling as if you've been flashed. By a magical hobo. (None of this should be taken as discouragement from nudity, Greg)

I first saw the Bitter Tears at the Double Door about a week and a half after I gave up a pretty okay life and landed, completely alone but optimistic, in Chicago. Their performance confirmed my choice. I felt charmed, delighted and enthralled, rewarded for being out way past my bedtime.

I met my first Electrical Audio member at this show, the mighty Michael Dahlquist, who made fun of me for reading a book between bands and then asked me out to dinner. He reacted with such delight that I concluded he hasn't been out with a girl in years.

Greg played his slide whistle 6" from our faces in a cotton romper and Alan's monologue during "Murdered At The Bar" left me doubled over, and depositing some of my pint of beer on the floor.

I remember laughing out loud while riding my bike home from the show, just purely, blissfully, simply happy for the first time in a long time.

I have seen them many times since and now know that this joy is not just the result of having a swell gentleman ask me to dinner, or being alone in a brand new city, with weirdos like myself who go stupid over pure expressions of creativity. It is, in large part, because the Bitter Tears are a majestic band, who have never, not once, left me not laughing out loud on my bike ride home from the show.

Oh, how I love this confounding, joyous and frightening band.

I caught myself singing the following line to myself today as I walked away from work:

Before the great storms arrive
It's exciting
Exciting

Salut, The Bitter Tears.

Nelsonville? That's an...odd tour destination.

[quote="itchy mcgoo"][/quote]
Wow!
Thanks.

Do you happen to know if the 8PM means doors at 8 or you guys play at 8 (in NYC, that is)

I don't want to miss you guys, but I work until 9 (oddly enough, only about 5 blocks or so from the venue) and it would suck if I just got one song or so.

This is a fine fine band doing fine fine things.

itchy mcgoo wrote:...the weirdness they provide leaves you feeling as if you've been flashed. By a magical hobo.

Well played, Ma'am.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Oh, how I love this confounding, joyous and frightening band.

I caught myself singing the following line to myself today as I walked away from work:

Before the great storms arrive
It's exciting
Exciting

Salut, The Bitter Tears.

BRW! Often I find the lilting phrase "....did you know? That is impossible to do?" bubbling out of my head.


Friends! You will be bequethed any number of glorious selections from their fine recorded output, as well as glorious others! A Unique Experience!

Greg, have you all recorded the HAAAAAAAAATE song yet?


Jim