The Back Pockets Tour Day 04

This is post Adam wrote about our recent shows!


Almost the entire Back Pockets tour crew circa Chicago


Outside the Chicago Theater, where Martin Lawrence was performing. We saw Vince Vaughn walking around!

There is another deluge of photos from the Back Pockets 2010 tour on Adam's flickr site. We played at the Ottoman Empire in Chicago and it was a wonderful show at an awesome place hosted by the awesome Christine and Aaron (and everyone else who lives there who im sorry i can't remember your names!!). We found cardboard and made giant creatures to populate the performance space. The next day we took it easy and enjoyed the city and later GRL PRTY played a great set with some phat beats and smooth harmonies at Roxaboxen gallery, where we also slept on the floor. We woke up at 5am to drive six hours to the next place!


GRL PRTY in Roxaboxen

In Detroit we went to the Detroit Folk Festival, which was held in this gorgeous giant Victorian mansion called TRUMBULL PLEX with the most wonderful 60s wallpapers I have ever seen, and tons of Detroit-area hippies, hipsters, garden freaks, folk artists, and all around BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE showed up, sold art, did face painting, played music, cooked out, worked on screen printing, etc. etc. etc. . There were little kids drawing pictures of banjos and selling them to us. They had a piano so we performed a special version of "My Demise" with Adam on piano instead of bass. We may do that again in the future...


Trumbull Plex folk festival in Detroit

In Ann Arbor, we stayed at a nice apartment just walking distance from a park, a garden, and a river! This day the Back Pockets tour felt like it had just the right energy balance between "TOURING DIY ROCK BAND CRAZINESS" and "CHILL AMERICAN EARLY SUMMER VACATION".



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COMING TOURDATES
May 17 2010 CASA CANTINA w. samantha cain/rattletrap/the fed athens, oh
May 19 2010 CASTLE GAY PHILLY, Pennsylvan, US
May 20 2010 PARTY EXPO w sunglasses/carnivores brooklyn, New York
May 21 2010 Cafe 9 New Haven, Connecticu, US
May 23 2010 ALL ASIA BAR w. Bunny’s A Swine CAMBRIDGE, Massachuse, US
May 24 2010 Radio Bean Burlington, VT
May 25 2010 RACONTEUR BOOKS METUCHEN, NJ
May 26 2010 NIGHT LIGHT w. Tunnels Under the Citadel CHAPEL HILL, NC