Vegas

7/30

We woke up at 5:30 yesterday morning after going to bed at 3:00am to fly to Vegas. We arrived in Vegas at 11:00 hoping that Gifts From Enola would be picking us up shortly. Due to a variety of bus problems they weren't able to pick us up until 7:30pm. We ended up meeting some English ladies, Charolette and Suzie, who were also stuck in the airport for many more hours than us. We talked about beans and toast, apple pie, and tried to explain our music (never easy). Gifts finally showed up and we piled onto the bus and headed straight for the venue. Yayo Taco was located in a strip mall and didn't scream venue, but it turned out to be a great show and tons of kids showed up. It was good to see Gifts again and Caravels was amazing! There were even kids dancing at the show (never happens in Seattle). We went over to Corey's house and got to swim in his swimming pool until 4 am. Solid dudes and good show, but sooooo hot.

7/31

Slept in a little and tried to find some veggie oil, but no luck because we were running short on time. We are going to challenge Bill to eat 12 tacos next time we go to Del Taco, as he only eats tacos by the half dozens. The drive from Vegas to LA, was hell. So hot and we over heated twice. We arrive in LA at the Pehr Space a little after we were supposed to and embraced our Sheath brethren. The guy at Pehr even bought us some slices because the microwave kept tripping the breaker when Gifts was making cup o noodles. There were a ton of people at the show and a lot of good friends and family. The show was awesome except Nate breaking the E string on his bass (what a beast!) Thanks to everyone who came out to the show!

Here are a few pics from the past two days...

Vegas

So, Gifts From Enola's bus broke down last night and this morning and we are stuck at the Vegas airport waiting for their arrival. We are so pumped to be on the road with those guys! We finally debuted a new song "Monolith" on our myspace page; if you have a spare eight minutes please go over there and check it out! We have a bunch of tour dates on the west coast over the next several days; please tell your friends to come out to the shows and support some good touring bands.

p.s. airport food and drink is way too expensive. How did Tom Hanks do it?

Keep checking back.

@ Yayo Taco tonight with Gifts From Enola and Caravels!!!

-B

NEW Record, West Coast Tour, Lots of fun!

I have been working super hard on finishing up art work for the tour this week. Tomorrow I will make the screens for the new EP, International Waters. The CD will have four songs on it and 30 minutes of music. Our friend Scott, at anyswayze studios has also been working hard to put the finishing touches on the new recordings. We think that these songs are different than anything we have done before, but you can still tell it us. After tour, we will come back to record a few more songs and then drop this thing as a full length.

We have really missed making records and touring the last few years and we are all very excited to hit the road again, especially with our boys, Gifts From Enola!

We will have new shirts, new CDs (limited to 100) and a whole new set. Please, if you are in the area of any of our upcoming shows come out and say hello. See you all in a week!!!

I will be updating this blog throughout our tour so please follow!!!

xoxo,

Brandon/YMDITD

Out of Our Shell

Hello Folks,
Its been alomst 3 years since we have used this blog, but I think it might make a come back (we shall see). After over a year in hiding we will be playing a show at the Comet Tavern on April 21st with Bronze Fawn, Judgement Day, and Scriptures. We are really excited to be playing live again and eager to share a few of the tunes we managed to squeeze out over the last few months.

We will be getting around to updtaing all of our social networking sites soon, but in the mean time head over to last.fm and stream Bears in the Yukon, or for the first time ever, our half of the split with Gifts From Enola (Harmoic Motion - Volume 1). http://www.last.fm/music/you.may.die.in.the.desert

We miss you all very much and will be seeing you soon...

xoxo
-Brandon

Home

We made it home today after going Back to the Future. We left Japan at 17:00 on June 29th and we arrived in Seattle on June 29th at 9:30. We get to live the 29th twice.

I will put up another post later with lots of pics and commentary, but I just wanted to let people know we made it home safe.

Thank You so much to Scraps of Tape, Shun, Zankyo, Kono, and all the lovely people and bands we met in Japan.

xoxo
Brandon

Niigata

If you haven't found it yet Scraps of Tape are doing a much better job of updating their blog. Go look at it here:
http://sottourdiary.blogspot.com/

The last couple days have been quite an adventure.
On Sunday, the 24th, it was Brian's birthday and we played at club rock'n roll in Nagoya. It turned out that we had a lot of technichal difficulties and we were quite embarressed, but people said we still sounded good. Anyways, Kono got brian the funniest gifts and Marcus was a big hit.

Yesterday we had a very long drive back to Toyko and we lost our dear friend Shun. He, unfortunately had to go back to school and be with is family. He was a great tour manager and friend.

We finally got some REAL pizza last night and for the first time i felt full.

We are starting to feel the effects of being on tour and being apart from the ones we love. This is the only part about tour that is no fun. This expereice has been so amazing and I am really going to cherish the last two days with all of my new friends, Japanese and Swedish.

Hopefully I will write at least once more.

Please check the Scraps of Tape blog for a more day to day synopsis of tour.

xoxo
Brandon

Long Overdue

Here I am in Kobe and it is 4:20 in the morning. We have had a serious lack of internet, hence, the no posts since our first show. This tour has been so amazing so far. Scraps of Tape are the best group of guys in the world, plus they are my new favorite band.

I am going to do a quick run down of some shows...

The Zankyo Festival in Toyko was crazy. We played to about 800 people on a huge stage. We had our own dressing room, an interpreter, free shirts, and we did an autograph session. It was great fun, but we were nervous so the show could have been better. Te', Scraps of Tape, and Naan were all really good!

Whoopees in Kyoto was a good show. S o T were awesome and we had fun, but that was a really long day. That night we got to stay in a traditional Japanese style home, which was a very unique experience.

Okayama was another good show for us. We got a live DVD of this show that may appear some day in some form. That night we got to stay at Kono's familys house in Okayama. Kono (the label president and manager) was kind enough to let YMDITD to stay at his familys home where we were recieved with pen arms and showered with gifts. We got a traditional home cooked meal and some Japanese PJ's!

Fukuoka was probably the best show on th tour so far. It was a smaller venue, but everyone there was really into the music. We sold a lot of merch and Brian went crowd surfing. We had a crazy after party with a bunch of the bands and then went to Kareoke...

Osaka was an odd show. The venue seemed great, but the sound eneded up being really bad. The crowd was not very responsive and it wans't our best show. There was also a girl at the show from MTV Japan to check out us and Scraps of Tape. I guess we ended up selling a bunch of stuff, which was weird considering not many people were into the show. This night was my first time really going into the crowd during the performance. There was a huge stage and a barrier, but some show I got over it all and rocked out in the crowd trying to get a response.

Tonight at Helluve Lounge in Kobe was probably our best performance. The stage is lit from below and it is a nice small venue with good sound. Scraps really did an amazing job tonight too. Maybe the best show of tour?

I really can't say enough about how great Scraps of Tape are. Such an amazing band and such awesome guys. I wish we could tour with them all them time, even more I wish we lived on the same continent so that we could hang out as friends.

I'll try my best to keep updating.

I miss my family and friends, but I love Japan.

xoxo
Brandon

pics soon.