In a The King Teen New Sledder last month I talked about how I couldn’t seem to get a gig in Raleigh but I was happy to report I finally had one. And now I have another! When it rains it pours, which is the saying I was trying to make a play on in the headline up there and it didn’t work but who am I to argue with the headline writer?
The last time I played Slim’s Dive Bar in Raleigh I opened for a one-man band, Joe’s Cousin. On Monday night I’ll be back at Slim’s opening for a one-man band, but it’s a different one-man band. There’s more than one one-man band out there you guys!
These two, the two ones, know each other. This one is Bobcat, who livestreams his shows on Instagram all the time and who’s a lot of fun.
There’s a bunch of other people playing Monday night, because get this: There’s two other acts, and they both have more than one person in them! Some kind of sorcery. There’s The Salt Creeps, who made the flyer on the left up there and also made a couple other flyers but I’m only putting one flyer in this newsletter because get your own newsletter, The Salt Creeps. Maybe they have one. Anyway they play surf music and wear matching outfits kind of like the villain’s henchmen in a Batman episode and they’re a lot of fun, as you’ll see if you click on their name a few sentences back, which is a YouTube link
The villain, of course, would have been named The Salt Creep if the Batman people had been thinking ahead.
Also playing! Mary Anna, which sounds like a one-woman band but I have it on good authority that it’s a band with multiple people in it.
I don’t know what order we’re doing all this in but Bobcat’s the headliner and the music starts, maybe with me, at 8 pm.
This is not all that’s happening this week because look:
I’m playing the Stuck in Rotation show on Next Door Radio in Oxford North Carolina on Thursday at 8 pm EDT. I put the timezone in there because the radio is actually your internet-connected device and you can listen to it anywhere. So if you’re in Madagascar it’ll be on at 3 am Friday.
If you’re in Oxford you can come to the show at the Ox4d Music neighborhood record store at 125 Main St. If not you can listen to it live at this link. I’ll be doing that thing where I play some songs and talk to the host and let’s see if I can get away with not answering a single question truthfully.
So let’s review:
True Stories of Time Travel: Still out!
Don’t forget to grab a digital or CD copy of my latest EP, True Stories of Time Travel, at Bandcamp or by coming to a show. And now you can get it and my other records at a new artist-owned co-op, Subvert.fm, which just launched this month. Bandcamp is still OK but it has owners, and they could sell it to an evil overlord any old time, so it’s nice to have an alternative where that can’t happen. Check it out!
Thanks for reading and listening and coming on out.
Your friend,
The King Teen