happy new year!

Posted on January 10, 2008

so, here we are in 2008, a brand new year and 365 new chances to either build for real change or keep on the same path towards social/cultural/environmental apocalypse. good times! as for us, we’re hoping for the former, preparing for the latter, and trying to make some good music in the meantime. after all, even armageddon needs a soundtrack…

on the real though, hope is alive and well in 2008. there are a lot of really beautiful things going on and a lot of beautiful people behind them. And really, 2007 was a good year for us. we got our lineup straightened out and were fortunate enough to add a couple of supremely talented folks, we finished and released our first album, we played a TON of shows, and made a lot of great connections with other musicians (big ups to everyone we played shows with!). So life is good.

Also – check out our photo gallery for pics of the new year’s party!

As far as what you can expect for 2008, here’s a quick rundown:

the good:
- we’ve got about half the songs written for our next album and hope to have this one completed much more quickly then the last one, possibly even before the end of the year… we’ll see.

- Laura’s first solo album is almost finished and should be ready within the next few months. no solid release date yet, but we’ll keep ya posted. it’s called “less the relevance” and is a collection of mostly her older stuff. it’s very very different from the bands stuff…. think electronica meets acoustic art rock with a bit of indie flavor just for kicks. she’s been working on it on and off for a looong time but the pieces have finally come together and it’s almost done.

- we’re looking at a mini-tour in the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania area in august. this is a big big maybe – don’t wanna get folks hopes up too high – but Cozy T and K8r are both going to be out there in august anyway so in theory at least it shouldn’t be too hard to get the rest of us out there and do some shows. we’ll post dates as soon as we’ve got ‘em.

- we’re looking for a booker! up till now we’ve done all our booking and promo ourselves, but things are rapidly getting to the point where we need to take it to the next step and get somebody working on it more regularly. So if you’ve got the skills and the contacts to help us make things really happen this year, we want to talk to you. Use the contact form and get at us!

- and, lastly, we’ve been accepted to our first large-ish festival and are set to perform at the Livermore Scottish games in May. it’s a big step for us, we’ll see how people react to the fusion….

other stuff:
- We’re taking january and most of february off from shows since bandmembers are kind of scattered to the four winds right now. no worries though, we’re still practicing as best we can with our hectic schedules and we’ve got a couple new songs in the works. Right now we’re booking for march-april-may and trying hard to get shows outside the SF/Oakland/Berkeley area. Hopefully we’ll find a good booker sooner rather then later and be able to put that all together…

- the february tour down to LA is off due to a bunch of different issues. sorry folks, we’ll get down south sooner or later, it’s just a matter of time.

That pretty much wraps it up, hope ya’ll have a great new year and we’ll see ya at the shows!

Beltaine’s Fire