CADDYSWAK / Smiley With a Whompus and other things

What up peoples? Pat here -

So SWAK just got back from another awesome weekend of shows. We played the past 3 weekends with our brothers Caddywhompus around Louisiana and Alabama and a stop in Houston (minus Caddy). Below are some pictures and videos I took of the bands we played with as well as some sweet times when the camera just happened to come out.

Friday January 22nd 2010 - Baton Rouge, LA @ The Spanish Moon

Smiley With A Knife


Baby Boy

Caddywhompus





Saturday January 23rd - New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks




The BLACKbELT Band





SWAK






Caddywhompus




Friday January 29th 2010 Lafayette, LA @ Artmosphere

Honey Pillow



SWAK

Caddywhompus





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This dude is Tyler he takes pics for a Lafayette music blog called Derailing The Bandwagon which has some more pictures of this show.





Saturday January 30th 2010 - Houston, TX @ Mango's

Female Demand




Big Rock Candy Mountain




Friday February 5th 2010 - Mobile, AL @ Alabama Music Box

Secret Cities


Caddywhompus

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Saturday February 6th - Birmingham, AL @ Magic City Wholesale

Caddywhompus





SWAK



Shapes Like Dinosaurs




So yeah, all in all it was an awesome time. The shows were great, the venues were awesome and the bands we played with were the shit.

On to other things....

So you may know we are working on a record right now. We hope to release it this spring. Below is some footage from the studio where we write, practice and record (The Music Shed).













More on that soon....

So we have a bunch of shows coming up including free ones all of February. We are really excited to be a part of Foburg music festival this march in New Orleans as well as our SXSW trip this year. In between those gigs we have a special one that means a lot to us. We are opening for Caspian & Arms and Sleepers when they stop in New Orleans Tuesday March 16th @ The Dragon's Den. This is the poster below (compliments of Credible).
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I am huge fans of these two bands. They put out 2 of my favorite records of last year.

With that in mind
Here is our spring show schedule.

February

Tues. 2/9/10 - @ Circle Bar w/ I Octopus (after SAINTS parade Free)
Mon. 2/15/10 - Lundi Gras @ The Maison w/ Groovesect, Bionica, White Colla Crimes & Autotomii (Free)
Sat. 2/20/10 - @ Encore (Austin, TX) w/ We The Granada & Paper Shapes
Fri. 2/26/10 - @ Sadies (Lafayette, LA) w/ We The Granada & Wildfires
Sat. 2/27/10 - @ Banks St. Bar w/ We The Granada, Wildfires & Autotomii (Free)

March

Sat. 3/13/10 - Foburg Fest
Tues. 3/16/10 - Dragons Den w/ CASPIAN & ARMS AND SLEEPERS ($5)
Thurs. 3/18/10 - SXSW @ Plush (Austin, TX)
Fri. 3/19/10 - SXSW @ The Abstract House (Austin, TX)
Sat. 3/20/10 - SXSW @ 21st Co Op (Austin, TX)
Fri. 3/26/10 - @ Cafe Prytania w/ Female Demand & The Acropolions

April

Sat. 4/10/10 - @ Dragons Den w/ A Living Soundtrack, Shapes Like Dinosaurs & Rabbit

All the 60 seconds videos from these shows are posted below.

If your looking for some free music i have a few bedroom records I made available for free @ Loomis.bandcamp.com and there are some great free records of old New Orleans bands available at The Memory Farm.

Thanks for checking everything out.
-p