Black Friday at the Zebra Club Recap

Daaaaamn. That's what comes to mind about last night's show. First and foremost, we have some thanking to do.

Thanks to Patty Dodge at PDT Productions for booking the show. http://www.myspace.com/pattydt is where she operates and I must say on behalf of all of us at Blind Robbery, Patty is exactly what a promoter should be. She doesn't give us any nonsense about ticket sales and we never owe her money at the end of the night, unlike a lot of the other pay-to-play promoters on this Island. Even better, Patty actually promotes the shows! Imagine that! We got some publicity on this thing too. WBAB and GoodTimes Magazine are always fine by us.

Thanks to the Zebra Club in Copiague for housing us for the evening.

Most importantly, thanks to eveyone who showed up last night. Vinny, Bill, Chris Weeks, Deanna 'Queen Freakazoid', Tara, Kate, Steph, Lianne, Gavin, Lauren, Dave White Eagle and in case I forgot anyone we thank you too.

We busted out of the gate with Hollywood and ended with Docta Shocka covering 3 Little Pigs by Green Jelly. We played Darling Nikki, The Distance, Sexy MF, Your Monkey, Ciao Bella, To The Moon, Sinister Waltz, What Am I To Do among others.

Perhaps the most memorable portion of the evening was the addition of a go-go dancer to our set. Craig and I went to ask Patty if we could load in and she countered with “We have a go-go dancer who wants to dance during your set. Is that OK?” The answer was...Matt: “Does the Pope shit in the woods?” Craig: “Of course!”

PS, Long story short, Black Friday at the Zebra was some good times. We kicked out the Jams and had a great time.

Next show is about 95% set up. It looks like it is going to be around the same neck of the woods in Lindenhurst at Lefty's this coming Friday, December 5th.

Until then,

Dig our music:

www.blindrobbery.com

www.myspace.com/blindrobbery

Dig our merchandise:

www.zazzle.com/blindrobbery

Dig our Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blind-Robbery/42059228143?ref=ts#/pages/Blind-Robbery/42059228143

-Matt

Blind Robbery Online Merch Store, Contest & Crooked Numbers Update

November 20, 2009

Hey Kids,So, we here at Blind Robbery have come to a very important conclusion. When we say that we are “artists”, we mean it only in a very specific way. Sure, we have it in us to transform your local dive into rumpshakeapalooza but that doesn’t necessarily mean we can wield the brush if you can catch our drift.

We are coming closer and closer to the release of our second album “Crooked Numbers” but are hung up on something that shouldn’t be this much of a roadblock. If you haven’t figured this out by now, eat your Wheaties and think about it. We’ll wait. Time’s up. We have been beating our heads into the nearest dense surface for some time but can’t come up with any decent ideas for album artwork.

Here’s where you come in. We are announcing the first Blind Robbery we suck at art contest. Send us anything, an idea, a picture (photos work), a sketch, your priceless masterpiece whatever you have that you think would make a good album concept. Take what you know about us and the album into account. Send anything you got to Blindrobbery@gmail.com.

We are looking to turn this around pretty quick so the sooner the better. We set a Thanksgiving deadline on ourselves for the album but that’s looking like it has to get moved back again and all because we have no visual skills at all. It’s a damn shame. So this Thanksgiving season, if you have talent in this sort of thing, pass it down to us because we are clearly underprivileged. Who knows, we could end up using it as our album cover.

Not into album art? We will take anything band related because we have more opportunities for you. With this, we are proud to announce our ONLINE MERCH SHOP! http://www.zazzle.com/blindrobbery

Now from the looks of this, you can see that we need more ideas and art for this stuff too. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em and send it all to Blindrobbery@gmail.com.

Talented in other ways? We’ll use your services for video work too. Want to shoot live video of us or got a video concept that you think we can pull off? Pitch it at us at Blindrobbery@gmail.com.

YaDig?

Sincerely,
Your Neighborhood Blind Robbery Crew:
Matt, Craig, Blum & Holmes