Sapphire Rebellion

Spent the week of 8/13 to 8/20 practicing for the gig in Connecticut. It was a pretty nice gig, made a good contact. Five days later, on the 25th, Played a gig at Mojo 13 in Wilmington, my second time playing there. There hasn’t been much action lately. We’ve been working on booking gigs for both the trip back down and for the Gulf Coast. So far, the Gulf Coast hasn’t offered me any dates.

Been playing as many open mic nights as possible here up in PA. Have met some great people and great performers! Met with Steve Rodgers and his band The Prisoners. If you like old school punk, punkabilly etc. these guys have the sound for you!
Steve also runs a site: Jam Room Manifesto
where he instructs members how to start a band which will stay together. If you are thinking of starting a band you might want to join his site and skip all the “mythical” steps of magically finding the right people, because I can tell you from experience, they ARE a myth!

I’ve also met a really neat rap act called, “Untold Chaptaz.” They are three brothers DIY’ing it to get their music heard. What I like about them is that they are professional, polite, have a positive message and good hooks. If you like rap at all, these guys are cool

I’m still busily trying to book anything in the PA are while we are here.

I’m finding that getting work done on the road is very difficult because during the daytime is when I usually take care of all of the electronic/online media that needs to be taken care of. It could be e-mail, Facebook, trying to score a gig, or watching tutorials on something that I need to know how to do etc. However, the people that I stay with want to be engaged with me socially, so it makes it harder to get my work done. The evening time is usually when I have reserved my social time. I’m definitely a work first, then play type person.

This is the 3rd week of my tour northward. Wherever I don’t have actual scheduled gigs, I’ve been trying to fill in those days with open mike nights. This was easier in theory because I also need to spend time with my hosts and also every city doesn’t have an open mike night on every night so it hasn’t been as easy as I had hoped. Gas has been a killer on the budget, thankfully, everyone I’ve been staying with has fed me

I hope that I can fill lots of days playing while up in PA, so that this trip pays off.