Untitled Noise Night just wrapped up our third tour ever and our second tour with the band QueerBait. It was 5 days consecutively which is not a lot compared to real touring outfits but just about what we can handle before it starts to get not fun. When the music is so physically demanding and you are sleeping on floors long term sustainability is just not on the table. This tour we were joined by the lovely and talented Lex Walton who provided guitar accompaniment to UNN's normal electronics and drum duo.
Going on a tour for me is as much about sharing my music with people and expressing myself as it is about unfolding America and the people in it on a personal level. Please, let me breathe in your life and in favor I will breathe out a performance. If that deal was worth it or not will be indicated from your decision whether or not to buy a t-shirt later. How can you be sure of their history without going to check their hometowns for yourself?
I am saying that you should go to a Walmart three states over and ask everyone what their name is and how their day is going. Take a greyhound or flixbus or peterpan bus, whatever costs the least on Wanderu that day. Figure out that everything has more everythings between it. What the fuck is Conneticut and why do we have to go through it to get to Boston? On this tour I think I finally became comfortable enough with my abilities to label myself as a musician and not feel like an asshole dickhead.
Enough musicians that I respect seem to find my work also palatable in a way that I have always desired which is exciting. I have a lot to go before I am happy with myself but milestones of achievement keep this whole music thing fun. I also know that the only band seeming to have any actual fun in the current indie music panopticon is Queerbait.
Emerson Mullane and Raven always seem to activate any space they are performing in to be the most extravagant, excited, and creative version that space could possibly be. Going on tour with Queerbait is truly just an excuse to go see them perform around the north east for seven days in a row. They are one of the bands I think people should follow around like the Grateful Dead or Phish or whatever.
