Philly Cheesesteaks

Yesterday afternoon we played an in-studio at Drexel University's WKDU in Philly.














It's a very cool radio station and the peeps who work there are super nice. We recorded 4 songs in the studio which will be archived and played on later radio shows. We also did a short, live interview. A huge shout-out to Caitlin and Sam for having us in.















We then met up with some good friends of ours, Nandi and Moni. They took us in, fed and housed us and showed us where to park the van. We also got to hang with Zoe and Max (pictured below). What more can you ask for? It was great to kick off the tour in a city where we had friends to help take care of us. Felt like home.

Next it was off to play a show at The Fire in the Northern Liberties section of Philly, which is sort of an artists/musicians haven. The Fire is -- har har -- next to a Fire Station. It's a decent joint with a surprisingly good sound system and -- even better -- a large private hangout area upstairs for the bands called the Green Room. It wasn't exactly a VIP lounge (no Hennessy was being sipped, let's put it that way), but it was nice to have a quiet place to hang and chat before the show. But some weird scheduling mishap resulted in us going on at midnight instead of 10p, which -- worse -- meant we had to suffer through a band that consisted of four middle-aged, suburban-dwelling white dudes who apparently still think it's 1975 (and not in a good way). The perils of rock and roll!

We were pretty tired after our first day of tour, but it's off to a good start.

We're on the road to Pittsburgh now!