Sunday, August 17, 2008, 11:03 pm
Hey there! So, news... I have actually managed to eke out a couple of great hikes, a camping trip with some good friends and a serious nature run (many endless miles with many endless hills and some unknown but large forest creature giving me a heart attack, tearing back through the bush as I ran past in a sweaty, sundrenched endorphine haze) during my 2 week stretch without a gig. A rare and lovely break indeed, but I'm slowly winding up for the welcome onslaught of September. I'll be writing like crazy for Nocturnal Puddle Reflections, doing a big Family Stump Show, and preparing for the Ricochet and Joseph Blood tours. I'll be gone late Sept - late Oct, returning just in time for Stumpoween, and have a bit of time to get ready for the big Stitching and Unstitching show and Jeff Younger's Sandbox cd release, both at the Western Front in November. Then I guess Santa's gonna show up and give me something nice for being a warmer and more chilled out human being this year with more space for the quirks of the world. Funny what happens when your life ain't at war with itself and you have time chase your passions and get sweaty in nature... round men with beards give you stuff if you make them cookies. I'll stop now... Enjoy the tail end of the summer, folks, and we'll see you at a gig soon! Cheers and thanks. JEff
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 8:21 pm
Hey everyone! So, good November news: the Jeff Younger's Sandbox cd release is Saturday, Nov 29 at Western Front, the first in the Stitching and Unstitching concert series will be on Saturday, Nov 15 also at the Western Front, and I'm doing the Eastside Culture Crawl this year, so there will be 3 days of music happening in my pad Nov 21-23. Look for a seriously celebratory Family Stump re-release party near the end of September, Stumpoween in October (right after I get back from a month on the road with Ricochet and Joseph Blood), and Stumpmas will rock the Christmas season into submission in December. Oh, and I might actually get to go camping next week!!! Now, off to write some insane bigband music for Nocturnal Puddle Reflections... Enjoy the rest of your summer, folks. Gonna be a great finish to the year!! JEff
Monday, July 21, 2008, 1:26 pm
Hey Folks! Had a few gig cancellations so the next few weeks are actually pretty low key for me. NICE - I get to start writing the big work for Nocturnal Puddle Reflections (insane bigband) and get the Sandbox and Devil Loops releases set in stone and keep working on new tunes for The Stump. Good times. Had some nice gigs with Carly Rae Jepesen and a nice recording session with Joseph Blood yesterday. Heading back into the studio for some final tasty licks in about an hour, so look for JBlood's album to come out by the end of this year. Also got a copy of the Flora Ware cd I played on and it sounds groovy. Flora's got a great voice and it was nice to work with Rick Kilburn. Gotta run, but hope the summer's being very cool to you all! JEff
Thursday, July 10, 2008, 11:10 am
Hey hey! July... holy hell, flying by with great excitement, this year is. Still parenting a dead computer so updates are slow, but I've weened myself off of compulsive email checking and other interwebian habits, which is a good thing. Situation will be remedied soon and there's a mess of great stuff to get up on the site, so expect some juicy morsels in the next little while. Great time with the Deep End and The Unsupervised - thanks for comin out and being stoked on the music - and there's a great noise night at 1067 this Saturday, July 12 that will include a JEFF YOUNGER'S DEVIL LOOPS set, along with SORROW AND THE PITY and a couple other acts. Music at 10pm, $5 cover. Drop me an email if you don't know how to get into 1067. The rest of the summer looks great, and come Sept it's off to the races with a JEFF YOUNGER'S SANDBOX record coming out on the Now Orchestra label, a DEVIL LOOPS album sometime in Dec, and a FAMILY STUMP re-release of the cd and a run of 4 killer shows up to STUMPMAS at the Railway Club around Christmas time. Will be announcing a Stump Master Plan very soon, so keep your eyes and ears open. I'll also be on the road for all of October with RICOCHET and JOSEPH BLOOD and the BLUE TICK HOUNDOGS. Zoom........ Cheers and thanks! JEff
Monday, June 30, 2008, 12:23 pm
Yo! July gigs are up on the gig page - check em out and hope to see you oot and aboot! JEff