In case you haven't heard, I'm not the original singer for The Speaks.
According to this post on YouTube, "this was the real vocalist of speaks -- the current one is just a proxy since this one had surgery so he was kicked out of the band."
AMESOME :)
raf
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
ACC Hoops!!
This past Sunday night, our new music video for "Regret" (which we haven't even officially released yet), the first single off of our new EP "This is the time...", was picked up by Fox Sports for the North Carolina / Wake Forest game that aired at 6:30pm EST (2/24). It all happened so quickly we were barely able to get bulletins posted to MySpace and a blast sent to our email distribution list... but for those of you who missed it, you can check it out below:
As for the actual music video release, we're in the planning stages at the moment for when we'll do that, but it looks like we'll have a special performance where we'll debut the video... so keep your eyes and ears open for that announcement soon!
-dl.
As for the actual music video release, we're in the planning stages at the moment for when we'll do that, but it looks like we'll have a special performance where we'll debut the video... so keep your eyes and ears open for that announcement soon!
-dl.
Last Weekend, Cafe Martini & Fuzion Lounge Recap
Time to recap last weekend's events! Another busy weekend for us with shows in Centreville (Cafe Martini, Friday Feb 22) and Southern MD (Fuzion Rock Room, Sat Feb 23) kept us on the move.
So we've played at Cafe Martini once before and it's a more of a bar than a music venue. While it doesn't have a stage, lights, or house sound, its got a great vibe and is much easier for us to get intimate with the crowd (and the crew that works there is super supportive of us). The only real complaint could've come from a couple of our fans who unfortunately were the recipients of someone getting sick near the bar... luckily, we had plenty of Speaks t-shirts handy at the merch table to get them something dry to change into, haha!
No Second Troy stepped it up on short notice to open the show for us and did an excellent job getting the crowd warmed up. Then we tore everything up the way we usually do, playing a longer first set and then a shorter second set. What was the most amazing thing to me, though, was the fact that just before we started to play there was a line outside of about 30-40 people trying to get in. Wait a second, in Centreville?? Even with the weather being as poor as it was, so many people came out to support. Not only that, but we had birthdays in the house as well: Zen (aka Screech) and manager Sonny's too (and one more that I think I'm missing). All in all it was a great time... especially with our fans that drove all the way from freaking Frederick, Maryland that closed out the place with us... and then had to WORK at some insane hour (5:30am?) the next morning (read: I don't think they slept). Towards the end of the night after we'd finished playing I heard something about "Slash" over the PA but I'm not quite sure what was going on with that... here are some pics (courtesy of our boy Myk Menez) to show you how crazy it was...
As for the Fuzion Lounge, it was our second time getting down to the Southern MD area (still can't believe it's in a city called California, heh), and we were actually early this time (imagine that) so a few of us decided to get dinner next-door at the Asian (predomenantly Viet and Thai influenced) restaurant. Looking over the menu, dinner had the potential of being really good, but when it took over 30 minutes for us to just get our appetizers and then another 30+ minutes to get our dinner... the food was good, but it wasn't quite worth the wait. But the people who worked there were cool and it just looked like they were really short staffed, so it's all good.
Onto the show! Minus One opened things up and it was great to see them as it's been some time since we've heard from those guys. They've been busy writing a lot lately it seems. We performed second and we were all really impressed with how many people came out to support us - had some friends from other bands based out of that area (like Echoes Of Us), some of our old-time SoMD fans, and also met a bunch of new fans too. We had a great set - big stage, good lights, and good sound (not to mention I broke a stick literally in half about 30 seconds into the first song of the night, "Carpe Diem"... that was awesome!). Endway from Massachusetts (yeah! My home state!!) closed out the night in style. Really cool guys & hopefully we can swap some shows together... I'd love to get back up to beantown to play for some of my old friends up there.
As always, a big shout out to our crew who's invaluable to ensuring our shows run as smoothly as they do: Rob, Flip, Noli, Marc and "Mama Missy" - you guys are the best!
-dl.
So we've played at Cafe Martini once before and it's a more of a bar than a music venue. While it doesn't have a stage, lights, or house sound, its got a great vibe and is much easier for us to get intimate with the crowd (and the crew that works there is super supportive of us). The only real complaint could've come from a couple of our fans who unfortunately were the recipients of someone getting sick near the bar... luckily, we had plenty of Speaks t-shirts handy at the merch table to get them something dry to change into, haha!
No Second Troy stepped it up on short notice to open the show for us and did an excellent job getting the crowd warmed up. Then we tore everything up the way we usually do, playing a longer first set and then a shorter second set. What was the most amazing thing to me, though, was the fact that just before we started to play there was a line outside of about 30-40 people trying to get in. Wait a second, in Centreville?? Even with the weather being as poor as it was, so many people came out to support. Not only that, but we had birthdays in the house as well: Zen (aka Screech) and manager Sonny's too (and one more that I think I'm missing). All in all it was a great time... especially with our fans that drove all the way from freaking Frederick, Maryland that closed out the place with us... and then had to WORK at some insane hour (5:30am?) the next morning (read: I don't think they slept). Towards the end of the night after we'd finished playing I heard something about "Slash" over the PA but I'm not quite sure what was going on with that... here are some pics (courtesy of our boy Myk Menez) to show you how crazy it was...
As for the Fuzion Lounge, it was our second time getting down to the Southern MD area (still can't believe it's in a city called California, heh), and we were actually early this time (imagine that) so a few of us decided to get dinner next-door at the Asian (predomenantly Viet and Thai influenced) restaurant. Looking over the menu, dinner had the potential of being really good, but when it took over 30 minutes for us to just get our appetizers and then another 30+ minutes to get our dinner... the food was good, but it wasn't quite worth the wait. But the people who worked there were cool and it just looked like they were really short staffed, so it's all good.
Onto the show! Minus One opened things up and it was great to see them as it's been some time since we've heard from those guys. They've been busy writing a lot lately it seems. We performed second and we were all really impressed with how many people came out to support us - had some friends from other bands based out of that area (like Echoes Of Us), some of our old-time SoMD fans, and also met a bunch of new fans too. We had a great set - big stage, good lights, and good sound (not to mention I broke a stick literally in half about 30 seconds into the first song of the night, "Carpe Diem"... that was awesome!). Endway from Massachusetts (yeah! My home state!!) closed out the night in style. Really cool guys & hopefully we can swap some shows together... I'd love to get back up to beantown to play for some of my old friends up there.
As always, a big shout out to our crew who's invaluable to ensuring our shows run as smoothly as they do: Rob, Flip, Noli, Marc and "Mama Missy" - you guys are the best!
-dl.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
SPX rock the WAMMIES
Okay, so we didn't end up taking home the WAMMIE for "favorite hard rock group/duo" (we lost to Wicked Jezebel, an all-female cover band) -- however, we had a BLAST rocking the fuck out of the State Theatre that night!
We weren't sure what to expect going in there, given the fact that the typical demographic of the WAMA organization is a little "older" to say the least. But these folks TOTALLY embraced us from the first note and were totally diggin' it! Special thanks to the WAMA organization for inviting us to play this year and being more proactive about involving the new generation of musicians into the show.
Lesson for the day: NEVER judge a book by it's cover ;)
Check out video of our performance below...
We weren't sure what to expect going in there, given the fact that the typical demographic of the WAMA organization is a little "older" to say the least. But these folks TOTALLY embraced us from the first note and were totally diggin' it! Special thanks to the WAMA organization for inviting us to play this year and being more proactive about involving the new generation of musicians into the show.
Lesson for the day: NEVER judge a book by it's cover ;)
Check out video of our performance below...
Rams Head, utter debauchery at Angels Rock Bar & Snitch...
I know this is waaay late, but just wanted to give everyone a brief recap of our trips to Baltimore and NYC last weekend.
Baltimore:
Night started off pretty crappy -- due to major traffic, we were late in arriving at Rams Head and the sound guys were NOT amused. Ended up having a great show though...THANKS to everyone who came out to support, and Vince and Zach for introducing their posses to the SPX family.
Afterwards, we held the afterparty of all afterparties at Angels Rock Bar where a bunch of insanity and drunken debauchery ensued. Anytime you go through 2 bottles of Grey Goose, 1 bottle of Jamison, and 1 bottle of Crown Royal (straight from the bottle), you KNOW it's bound to get pretty stoopid. Special shout out to Patrick for hosting us. Check out the pics below courtesy of our boy Neran D...
New York City:
So after partying in Charm City, we SOMEHOW managed to wake up and get on the road for our show at SNITCH on Saturday night. After stopping by Chesapeake House to get some solid food in our system (Popeyes chicken), everyone seemed to be okay. Got up to SNITCH and found great parking with plenty of time to spare. So we chilled out for a bit and rocked out with the first band who was from Jersey. Second band didn't show up, so we actually got to play a longer set! Amazing crowd and rocked the fuck out. On top of it all, we were surprised to find out that our friends Zach, Bridget and Jon (who were at the Baltimore show just the night before) decided to drive all the way up to NYC to party with us once again -- even though Zach was puking the entire morning from the night before. Haha...true soldiers! Special shout out to Jesus (the soundguy, not the savior) for doing an amazing job and pimping a SPX shirt at a recent show. WE LOVE NYC! Expect us to be playing up there regularly ;)
raf
Baltimore:
Night started off pretty crappy -- due to major traffic, we were late in arriving at Rams Head and the sound guys were NOT amused. Ended up having a great show though...THANKS to everyone who came out to support, and Vince and Zach for introducing their posses to the SPX family.
Afterwards, we held the afterparty of all afterparties at Angels Rock Bar where a bunch of insanity and drunken debauchery ensued. Anytime you go through 2 bottles of Grey Goose, 1 bottle of Jamison, and 1 bottle of Crown Royal (straight from the bottle), you KNOW it's bound to get pretty stoopid. Special shout out to Patrick for hosting us. Check out the pics below courtesy of our boy Neran D...
New York City:
So after partying in Charm City, we SOMEHOW managed to wake up and get on the road for our show at SNITCH on Saturday night. After stopping by Chesapeake House to get some solid food in our system (Popeyes chicken), everyone seemed to be okay. Got up to SNITCH and found great parking with plenty of time to spare. So we chilled out for a bit and rocked out with the first band who was from Jersey. Second band didn't show up, so we actually got to play a longer set! Amazing crowd and rocked the fuck out. On top of it all, we were surprised to find out that our friends Zach, Bridget and Jon (who were at the Baltimore show just the night before) decided to drive all the way up to NYC to party with us once again -- even though Zach was puking the entire morning from the night before. Haha...true soldiers! Special shout out to Jesus (the soundguy, not the savior) for doing an amazing job and pimping a SPX shirt at a recent show. WE LOVE NYC! Expect us to be playing up there regularly ;)
raf
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
"this is the time..."
Well, what would a blog be without a little self-promotion to kick things off? If you haven't picked up a copy of the NEW EP entitled "this is the time..." then cop one ASAP!
5 tracks were co-produced by the amazing Scott Spelbring and 1 by our half-pinoy brother Kevin Gutierrez -- additionally all songs were mixed by Jeff Juliano (Jason Mraz, O.A.R., Dave Matthews, Lifehouse) and mastered by Jay Frigoletto (Alice In Chains, INXS, Saliva).
Track 1 - Carpe Diem (this is the time...)
Track 2 - Runaway
Track 3 - Regret
Track 4 - Nowhere Fast
Track 5 - Fallen Angel
Track 6 - Tomorrow
They are available via the merch page on our website (www.thespeaks.com), CD Baby, and of course downloadable on iTunes!
Thanks and PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD =)
raf
Monday, February 11, 2008
testes, testes, 1-2-3...
Soooo....
we've decided to jump on this whole "blogging bandwagon" thingy. We've been advised that it:
1) can drive traffic/attention toward our site
2) has the potential to create numerous marketing & sponsorship opportunities for the band, and
3) is a great tool for getting the word out about upcoming shows and exposure for our music.
But the MAIN reason why we decided to start one is simply to show the world what utter and complete idiots we are :)
Let the blogging games begin!
raf
we've decided to jump on this whole "blogging bandwagon" thingy. We've been advised that it:
1) can drive traffic/attention toward our site
2) has the potential to create numerous marketing & sponsorship opportunities for the band, and
3) is a great tool for getting the word out about upcoming shows and exposure for our music.
But the MAIN reason why we decided to start one is simply to show the world what utter and complete idiots we are :)
Let the blogging games begin!
raf
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