Band Update!

I haven't posted about my band 'Stache Potatoes in quite a while, so I feel it is necessary to give an update.  I am happy to report that we are doing quite well actually, and have now had 4 official concerts (and many other unofficial performances here and there)!  We have a growing fan base, and people (especially us guys in the band) always seem to have a really great time during our shows.  We have been covering songs by bands like The Beatles, Oasis, Against Me!, Old Crow Medicine Show, CCR, Nirvana, Sublime and a few others.  We have 4 originals completed and have 4 more in the works right now.  A few of our friends enjoy our originals so much that they keep telling us to get into the recording studio so that they can buy a demo from us!  Very exciting stuff.

Our first show was a great success.  We played at an outdoor party that was sponsored by the local government office in Old Downtown (Sangnamdong).  We had a really great crowd, and have been told by lots of people that we blew them away, especially since it was our first show ever!

Since then we have had 3 other shows at foreigner bars here in Ulsan, and we always have a good time.  We are looking to set something up in another city like Busan soon too.

This is from our 3rd show which was a big 'inter-galactic' themed party, hence the tin foil costumes.  The girl closest to me is actually one of the singers from another band, Karaoke Dokey. She sang one song with us.

Here is a nice picture of the band (Nick, me, Tom and Keenan) before our 2nd show at Manilla Town, a Filipino bar in Ulsan.  

Unfortunately Tom (guitar, keyboard, vocals, songwriter) is leaving the band in August.  He arrived at the same time I did, and he is moving to Spain after his 1 year contract is up.  We have his replacement already, this great guy Alex from England.  He is an amazing guitarist, great keyboard player, and a vocalist.  It is still really too bad since Tom is one of the founders of the Potatoes (him and Keenan started it), and he has written our 4 awesome originals.  Keenan and I are both working on 2 songs each right now, but Tom's songwriting abilities are irreplaceable.

Here is Alex that will be joining the band.  He played keyboard for one of the songs during our inter-galactic party performance.

Here are 3 members of Karaoke Dokey playing an acoustic set at Manilla Town.  They sounded awesome as always, then we played for about an hour and a half (our most recent show).  

We will be playing another outdoor festival at the end of July I believe, and then a big going away party for everyone leaving in August at Royal Anchor (same place as the inter-galactic party and where we have open mic).  Aside from those we will be looking to get into some new locations, as well as continuing to play at Manilla Town.  Hopefully things keep going well for the 'Taters!

Here is one of Tom's original songs being performed at Royal Anchor's Open Mic.