12/9

Events I know about:

12/09 @ (not us) Dolphin Gallery - a good art opening w/ david ford, anthony baab, aaron wrinkle + more
12/09 @ Halcyon - Scammers goes on around 8pm
12/09 @ Newsroom - Lazy/Scammers Cassingle release. Starts at 11pm
12/14 @ (not us) La Esquina - WE video screening. Pretty awesome performance from earlier this year
12/15 @ Front/Space - Scammers Airliner official release w/Witch & Hare + DJ Dungeonmaster
12/17 @ (not us) Front/Space - Bergeron, L5, Luscious Skin, The Weston Townsley
12/20 @ Emerald Space - Mother Russia Fundraiser w/8 bands. Starts early!
12/23 @ FOKL - Festivus Celebration w/I Love You, Mouthbreathers, Muscle Worship, Scammers
12/25 @ your hearts - christmas - shit
12/28 @ my house probably - my motherfuckin birthday party
12/31 @ WHERE?
1/5 <Scammers tour> tba
1/6 <Scammers tour> tba
1/7 <Scammers tour> tba
1/8 <Scammers tour> New Orleans
1/9 <Scammers tour>  New Orleans  
1/10 <Scammers tour> Austin, TX 
1/11 <Scammers tour> Austin, TX 
1/12 <Scammers tour> Austin, TX 
1/14 @ La Esquina - Winter Music w/ Aaron Martin, Matt Hill, Shawn E. Hanson

Current inventory - available at tonight's shows:
29 copies of Airliner SS04
25 copies of Crucial Sesh EP SS01
10 copies of Cassingle (Lazy/Scammers split tape) \

Because it looks like we're gonna run out of inventory before tour, there will be a one-off greatest hits cd with the total discography of Scammers on it (including 2010's No Nigerian Scammers album). Overkill? Yes. Worth every dime? Maybe. We really don't want to do CDs ever, so this will be tour only and in small numbers.

Scammers - Airliner

Scammers release their second album!

Airliner is now available on 32C cassette!

Side A:
1.) Psych
2.) Dance Killer
3.) Comforting
Side B:
1.) Airliner
2.) Storkdale
3.) Give up
4.) Love Lasts

The tapes will be available at the following shows, or email me - phildiamond2003@yahoo.com
You can also find them at Halcyon Diversified Trading Co. 

December 10th @ Newsroom - w/ Lazy, Casey Guest - Also Scammers/Lazy split tape release
December 20th @ Emerald Space - w/ Blondie Brunetti & More -Mother Russia Fundraiser
December 23rd @ FOKL w/ Mouthbreathers, Muscle Worship - Festivus Celebration

They're 5 bucks in person. Shipped will probably be about $8 in the US. Email me for paypal info. 

Also, look for Scammers in January @ shows in New Orleans, Austin, and more!

SS04 & SS05

Been really busy with the new Scammers album. Here's some sneak peeks:

And:

and:

and more if you go looking for it. 

Anyhow:

That stuff and more is gonna be Strictest Sense's 4th release. It'll be out by Christmas for sure on tape and CD. There's some talk of someone floating money for vinyl, but I'll believe that when I see it & I'm pretty sure I won't. 

SS04: SCAMMERS - AIRLINER

SS05: LAZY/SCAMMERS split. Limited to 25 copies. For sale at the show at Newsroom 12/10/11. 

Bored Blog

It's the day before Halloween and all the parties already happened. I'm bored. I'm watching Roseanne. I'm splitting the only beer that was in the fridge with Sarabeth. I'm rearranging the house. Blargh.

The last week saw two shows at Cold House and they were both bitchin good times. Saturday was PLANETS from Austin, playing for almost nobody but still cool with it. Wednesday was SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY & they ruled. If you missed it, you are among the 99%.

Currently there's nothing on the calendar and it looks like the space we'd normally use for shows is going to be taken over for creative purposes, so Cold House shows are probably going to be few and far between.

The next few shows I'm excited about are on the 12th. So, your choice is go to the Replay and see Cave, or go to the Foundation and see us. Obviously Cave is way better, but are they a 45 minute drunk drive better? We will see.

We're also booking the next Scammers tour for January. We should hit Springfield, Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham, New Orleans (twice!), Shreveport, Little Rock, & MORE!

New album sometime this winter. SOON!

Gonna go get a bottle o wine.

Strictest Sense is Awesome

It's October 11th. It's been 14 days since I posted anything here. So what has happened in the last two weeks?
LOTS

Scammers kicked off the first of 7 shows this month on Sunday with Melt-Banana and Gangi. I gotta say, I expected a lot more of an ego kick from it and got nothing. Seeing Melt-Banana was awesome. Playing at 9pm for a crowd of twenty seated as far away from the stage as they could get was less awesome. Owing money on the bar tab at the end of the night? Far from awesome. Oh, and Gangi was awesome.

What was truly AWESOME was the show last night at FOKL w/ Gangi, Close/Far, Expo '70, & South Bitch Diet. Here's how awesome it was:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?v=1606249074862

And here's Sarabeth looking awesome.

AwesomeAwesomeAwesome

FOKL is a really cool place. It is located at 556 Central Ave. in KCK (not as far as you might think) and is going to be very worth checking out for future art/music/everything shows.
http://www.foklcenter.com/




If you missed that, come out tomorrow to Sofa King Swing HQ @ 1541 Madison (westside) @ 8PM for Idaho Joe Winslow & Blondie Brunetti & me doing a solo Scammers set

Awesome.

COLD HOUSE / WARM HOUSE / ALRIGHT HOUSE / UPCOMING SHOWZZZZZZZZ:

10/22 (Saturday) is PLANETS from Austin, TX. They are going to be great!
10/26 (Wednesday) is SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY from Minneapolis, MN. They actually have a promoting agent. I've never heard of such a thing. She wanted to put it in the Pitch! I was like, nawwwww gurrrl, we ain't tryin to get people to come see shows. We're tryin to get awesome people to come be awesome and awesome

awesome and awesome

awesome and awesome

awesome and awesome and

awesome and awesome

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News & Updates & News

Things are changing quickly over at the Strictest Sense Headquarters. It's times like these that I feel spread over too many websites to keep shit straight, so here's what's going on: Strictest Sense (the website) governs 4 hydra-heads if you will. These are: Scammers, Cold House, Strictest Sense Records, & for what it's worth, a few local show-listings. There's news for all these things! Here it is!

Scammers: upcoming shows:
10/9 @ Record Bar w/ Melt Banana & Gangi (LA)
10/10 @ FOKL w/Expo '70 & Gangi (two nights in a row!!)
10/19 @ ___________ ? We're thinking Madison, Chicago, or Beloit?
10/20 @ ___________ ? Iowa City, Minneapolis, or Omaha?
10/21 @ Joe Younglove's House in Lincoln, NE w/ Nude Sunrise (CHI)
10/22 @ Cold House w/ Planets (TX)

+ we just added a super-sweet analog synth to our setup & I'm trying to figure out how to play it without ever touching it for more than 2 seconds. We'll see. It's also fair to say that Scammers is pretty much becoming a 3 piece band now, w/ Sarabeth & Jeremiah killin stages. Killer.

Cold House: The house is about to undergo some serious construction zone demolition; the end goal being Cold House becomes Warm House. Unfortunately, I have no idea how long it takes to do that, so we can't really book anything in the meantime. However, we're still on for 10/22 w/Planets, even if it means dancing around exposes pipes and drywall dust coating our lungs. It's gonna be coating our lungs anyway, so fuck it.

Strictest Sense Records: Ain't much happening here at the moment. Half a Scammers album coming soon. Someone else needs to sign on with us.

Local Shows: I oddly go to a lot of local shows and never know before the day of, so currently the one I'm really excited for is this Thursday @ Studded Bird w/ The Body, as mentioned in two previous posts. Also, any of the stuff happening at our house will be awesome :)

SS03: Dance Killer (Single)

http://scammers.bandcamp.com/album/dance-killer