Summer // Fall 2010

Haven't done the corner in a while. Bums me out. Been busy as busy raising a 3 year old, working, touring, playing in 3 bands, going to the pool every night, hanging in Omaha and Lincoln, moving, practicing, writing, working out, living. Not complaining one bit. Life has been good. There's only 6 more months of this year and Hercules, Koizumi and Bent Life all have pretty big plans. I hope we can accomplish it all!

HERCULES:
Hercules has 3 shows booked for the summer. We went out for the first week of June to play Midwest Fest in Milwaukee, WI which was a great time. Saturday, July 10th we're playing @ The Bourboun Theatre in Lincoln, NE w. Bastard Noise // Wasteoid & Violator X. This is technically the first performance of our future band Electrical Group //aka EG4//. Then I'll be gone from July 19th - 29th driving to Sound and Fury and back. The morning after I get back Hercules will hop in the Winnie and drive down to Wichita, Kansas to play ICT FEST 2010 July 30th and 31st. Our last show of the summer will be August 31st @ The Hole in Omaha, NE w. Coliseum // Burning Love & Feral Hands.

On top of these shows we'll be working on songs for a split 7" we'll be doing with LOW ORIOLE from Wichita, Kansas. It will be released by 5nakefork and Pretzel City Records. Most likely with help from our good buddies at Nihilism Records. We're hoping to have that for our fall tour down to Florida for The Fest. We put in our application to play earlier this week. Even if we don't get on the actual bill we'll be playing after shows with our great buddies BATTLE! and hanging out at The Fest. The early route for this is as follows . . .

10.21 Omaha, NE
10.22 Wichita, KS
10.23 Oklahoma City, OK
10.24 Fort Worth, TX
10.25 Houston, TX
10.26 New Orleans, LA
10.27 Pensacola, FL
10.28 Tallahassee, FL
10.29 Gainesville, FL *THE FEST*
10.30 Gainesville, FL *THE FEST*
10.31 Gainesville, FL *THE FEST*
11.01 Jacksonville, FL
11.02 Birmingham, AL
11.03 Johnson City, TN
11.04 Louisville, KY
11.05 Chicago, IL
11.06 Cedar Falls, IA

Booking for this tour will start middle of this summer. After this tour Aaron is doing some awesome stuff with one of his other projects BACK WHEN and doing great things personally as well! Because of these things Hercules will be taking a 6 month break and will resume our never ending quest of writing, recording and touring Summer 2011.

KOIZUMI:
I've been working hard this summer trying to write and finish up song ideas to cut up and put together with the boys for a Koizumi full length we're trying to record before the years end. This will be our first "official" release as a band...and we formed in 2006. I wish this wasn't the case but what can you do? We've recorded 4 demos and finally compiled all of those together this year and self released "DEMOS" which we gave out at the few shows we played this year. If you want a copy feel free to pick one up at a show or go to www.mediafire.com/koizumi

BENT LIFE:
Bent Life is a band I've been jamming in with some Lincolnites you may have heard of such as Andy Vorhees, The Miller twins and Justin Rodriguez. Think New York Hardcore played by Midwestern kids. Right now we're working on songs for a demo and after we have that we're going to play our first show this fall then hit the road for a week in support of that demo. More info on this soon.

I know no one really cares about any of this. I'm more just capturing a moment in my life so I can look back and remember it when I'm old and dumb. Really looking forward to the rest of this year. I think a lot of awesome things are going to happen and I'm confident in all of these plans coming together this year. I'm also throwing around the idea of getting a hold of my good buddy Jeff Sedreal (performs as Geophph Seadrill) and trying to hit the midwest with a car and our sad acoustics to finally do the tour we had planned on doing in May 2009 until it fell through. Big plans and no time. That's the way Big Cool lives.

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