Folsom Field (Boulder, Colorado)

Note to self: catch a CU football game or two from the Stadium Club this fall. Wow, what a room with a view. The event we played tonight was a bit odd… it was some sort of festival with a Pink Floyd theme, but the organization of it left a bit to be desired. We showed up at Folsom Field and loaded in on the 5th floor, where the Stadium Club is located. It’s a huge space (probably holds close to 1,000), with all glass windows running the length of it on both sides, so you’re surrounded by views of the Rockies and football stadium on one side, and the city of Boulder on the other. It happened to be a gorgeous day, too, so we all enjoyed staring out there while we were playing. Here’s the setlist:

Story Of…
View From Way Up Here
Turn My Egg
Nightlite Jesus
Hazel
Heat
Don
Obey –>
Life During Wartime

The Colorado Daily (CU newspaper) was there covering the show, and we invited them to come out to the June 28th show with Boulder Acoustic Society, so hopefully we’ll have some coverage there as well.

It’s a funny thing, this music thing… there are no guarantees and really no roadmap. One of the other bands on the lineup tonight (young, new band) was asking us how we manage to book so many solid shows, how we made our  album, how we came up with the Backstage idea, etc… thinking us to be quite established. Of course, we’re not, and who knows what “established” means these days anyway. There are 1,000 bands that have done completely different things to create success – some with zero radio play (Dispatch), some with 250+ shows per year (Phish, DMB, Grateful Dead), some with gimmicks (GWAR), some with a combo of clever ideas and luck (see “Ok Go’s” treadmill video – 35 million views so far on YouTube), some with moderate radio play (Guster), some with tons of radio play (Maroon 5). We’ll just keep doing what we’re doing, and try and write better and better songs, and get the live show tighter and tighter, and get in front of as many ears and eyes as we can through the rest of this year. We had two separate groups of people at Avogadro’s the other night told us that we have the “x factor”… the “intangible, ‘it’ thing”… that they were seeing a band that would be “huge” some day. That they’ll be telling people in a few years, “I saw them on a patio at a bar”… etc., etc. We’ve heard that from a lot of people, pretty much since we first started playing together 18 months ago. It definitely makes it easier to keep pushing ahead with those bits of encouragement, especially when we’re all wondering how long it will be before we’re paying the mortgage with this thing.

We’re playing with Ryan Montbleau Band this coming Friday (June 20) in Denver. Should be a great opportunity to get some new ears on our stuff, as Ryan’s music is very compatible with ours, though very different. Overall it should be a great night of music, as we’ll be trading sets with them from 8pm to 2am. If you’re in Denver, we’d encourage you to come out and enjoy a full night of tunes. Tickets are $10 at the door… and our show at the b.side (formerly Trilogy) in Boulder on June 28th is also $10 at the door. The Backstage “VIP guest list” benefit is becoming more valuable by the month.   🙂

If you’d like to be on the guest list for either or both of these shows, please send us an email at soundrabbit@soundrabbit.com and we’ll add you (space on the guest list will be limited at both of these shows, so let us know early!).

More on Friday late night after the show…