All three current members of Chef Menteur  will be playing with Archipelago this Saturday, opening for Sir Richard Bishop and His Freak of Araby Ensemble.

Archipelago is Backporch Revolution’s improvisational folk/drone large ensemble that features many experimental New Orleans musicians.

Sir Richard Bishop is known best for his work with Sun City Girls, but has also had a remarkable solo career as a guitar stylist/virtuoso and world traveler. This will be the first tour he’s played with a full band.

Also playing will be Oakland noise outfit Oaxacan.

The show starts at 10pm, at the All Ways Lounge in New Orleans. See Backporch Revolution for address and more details.

Date: Saturday 14 March
Venue: Balcony Music Club (504 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans)
Lineup/times: Tomatoes 10pm, Big Blue Marble 11pm, Chef Menteur 12am
Cover: $10 goes to support WTUL

This is a fund-raiser for WTUL 91.5 FM and your ticket price also gets you into Cafe Negril, the other nearby venue where Glorybee, Arajay, Broken Smokes, and Player/Kommander featuring James Hall will be playing.

Click here for more info.

Our friend Miranda Lake has just launched her website. Miranda’s art adorns the front, back and interior of our 2007 album, The Answer’s In Forgetting (the title of the album is itself named after the encaustic painting shown on the back). If you ever get a chance to see her art in its full glory, go see it. In the meantime go check her portfolio at www.mirandalake.com.

This may give you a hint at which song we picked for our first cover song ever (not counting Halloween appearances as Black Sabbath etc.) to be played at this Saturday’s show.

Speaking of the show, we’ll be playing after Big Blue Marble at the Balcony Music Club somewhere around midnight. This on the corner of Esplanade Ave and Decatur Street, formerly called El Matador.

We’re happy to announce that we will be doing a show on March 14th on Frenchmen Street as part of the 50th anniversary of WTUL. More to come… 

Believe it or not, this is New Orleans a short while ago this morning. (See the palm tree?) And it’s still coming down. 

Shortest letter ever? I bet it’s a short enough sentence for W to write all by himself.  It’s never too late!  ”Dear Condi, …” 

 This picture was taken on the morning of Election Day at the Whitney Bank in Carrollton (New Orleans), right after I visited my local polling place to cast my vote.  Seen on twitter’s election channel later that day: “We just blew up the Death Star!” 

check out dan’s new photo blog and download his weekly pinkysqueak mp3s: http://blog.ganx4.com  

After a hurricane evacuation, having to reset up the studio and wait for a dead Mac to be repaired (thank god it was still under extended warranty–barely), we’re back to mixing the new album. Two sure-fire Top 10 radio hits already done. We’ve also got some pretty decent recordings of the rehearsals before the last few gigs which we might make a free mp3 mini-album out of as well.