The Imaginary Zine is a 60-page old school printed zine recounting our first 10 years with some of our favorite blog posts and stories from our imaginary friends. It is extemely limited with only 333 handcrafted zines made.
It also includes a cd chock full of rare, live, or exclusive songs by some of our favorite local artists, including The Long Winters, BOAT, Tullycraft, Exohxo, Tennis Pro, Math & Physics Club and many more!
The Long Winters played a secret show at the Sunset last night, and it was actually like, a secret!
Generally speaking, "secret" shows in Seattle go a bit like this -- that is, they're an extremely loudly whispered secret, at best. Barsuk Records are better secret keepers than most. (Remember that secret Death Cab show at the Croc back in 2003? Of course you don't -- because only like 50 people knew about it and actually showed up. But boy oh boy, was that ever a treat for those of us who did make it.)
Last night at the Sunset, the few people who got wind of it had a similar treat -- the Long Winters and Telekinesis played an understated secret show, to celebrate Grant from Barsuk's 30th birthday (happy birthday, Grant!).
The Long Winters haven't played out in ages, and the band's set was gloriously sloppy though far too short, and featured Michael Lerner of Telekinesis filling in (magnificently, I might add) on drums. Connsumate frontman John Roderick called out for requests from the audience to fill in the band's five-song set, consulting with Michael and birthday boy Grant on the final song picks. While they didn't pick any of mine requests ("Unsalted Butter" and "Stupid"), my imaginary posse and I were thrilled to bits with the songs they did play:
Car Parts
Medicine Cabinet Pirate
Pushover
Cinnamon
Nora
My favorite highlight: when bass player Eric Corson stopped "Medicine Cabinet Pirate" about a minute in and insisted John move his capo and start over. Lerner was enthralling to watch; his enthusiasm and obviously excitement for the set was just obvious. Does anyone else think he bears a resemblance to a young Ben Gibbard, or is it just me? He's got that cute little mushroom cap head going on...
Anyhoo. We rushed over to the show so quickly, we didn't have proper cameras or anything, though the lovely imaginary victoria did capture this short and lo-fi video of the tail end of "Car Parts" as proof of the whole event:
Despite the setlist shown above, "Freebird" wasn't free and made no appearance in the far-too-short setlist, nor did we get to hear a sneak peak at any of the alleged "new songs" John has been twittering about. He did suggest that those of us attending the Doe Bay Music Festival next month might get to hear a sampling.
Oh that's sweet that you guys got to see this and everything....but kind of disappointing because I spent my whole evening in old town Ballard without having any idea that the Long Winters were playing a show right under my nose the whole time! Looks like it was fun for those who knew about it though.
1 victoria said on July 10, 2009
I heart happy accidents!
2 John in Ballard said on July 10, 2009
Oh that's sweet that you guys got to see this and everything....but kind of disappointing because I spent my whole evening in old town Ballard without having any idea that the Long Winters were playing a show right under my nose the whole time! Looks like it was fun for those who knew about it though.
3 josh said on July 10, 2009
didn't (at least part of) the long winters play at that secret dcfc show at the croc in 2003, too?
4 imaginary dana said on July 11, 2009
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