famous in soquel

Hey, remember when DeatHat was just about to go on tour and I was all panicky because my bass exploded at a show and I didn't have the replacement part? Well, that show actually went really well, despite the irreparably broken string, and one of the people who liked it was Chris Magyar, and that's why last week we ended up on the phone with him for our first-ever band interview. And scrambling to put together a band photo to send him by the end of that afternoon. I really like it, so here it is:



And here's the article in Good Times, Santa Cruz's homegrown free weekly. I'm proud of my contribution:

Saturday originally conceived of the project as a solo endeavor. “I wanted to do a one-woman band thing, with me playing the marimbas and drums, and using my feet and various parts of my body,” she says.

Bassist Erik Ostrom chimes in: “Playing accordion with your head.”

“Yes,” Saturday adds. “Unfortunately, I don’t have a very dexterous nose, so they were very boring accordion parts.”

The article is great publicity for our show tomorrow night at the Ugly Mug in Soquel, opening for Jherek Bischoff's band Ribbons. I never knew Jherek was a name people had outside of Michael Moorcock novels. Actually I'm still not entirely convinced.

But maybe I will be after tonight's show at Barefoot, which I guess I'd better run off to.