FEATURED New song CAMERAS officially released TODAY

i came across this cover of our song “it’s a fact”
this could be the best thing ever

does bill and ted’s bogus journey compare to bill and ted’s excellent adventure?
answer- possibly
matt

We made it through SXSW and had an awesome time. I found some videos that recapped some crazy shows. Thought i would put them up.
For anyone who came out to our show or just happened to walk past while we were playing and decided to watch. I just wanted to say thanks so much.

I love our boys flosstradamus!

We have now been home from australia for a few weeks and just finally adjusted to the jet lag. Thanks Melatonin!!
If anyone is traveling and messed up on jet lag look into this stuff.

The trip was really mind blowing. There were so many things we’d never seen before! I mean i am sure everyone in australia is over people coming over and freaking out about kangaroos but come on, kangaroos are freakin weird and we got to touch them.

We also got to check out koalas

matt seemed to connect with the koalas…
i think he is just jealous of how much they sleep

We also saw some freaky shit.
The size of their house spiders terrified me…
daddy long legs don’t seem so bad anymore!


After seeing all this crazy shit we also had awesome shows in brisbane. We played at a night called wolfgang at the alhambra lounge and then we did an all ages pool party at the Ithica pool.

Right before the doors were open for the pool party it turned into a terenchal downpour. rather then gettin all down about it, we moved the show into the women’s bathroom!
Everyone says it doesn’t rain in australia.
I call bull shit on that.


Even with the rain it all turned out to be an fun show

here is an important bit of knowledge someone in brisbane taught us. It is how you play “yea yeah” on your phone

Thanks to the wolf gang crew for showing us how to get it done in australia.

After Brisbane we headed to sydney where we met up with chris wu. He is the man who brought us over to australia. Rad dude.

We wanted to do touristy things so he took us to the sydney opera house so matt and i could race up the steps…..

If it was a distance race i would of kicked his ass!

we were passing by a mac store in sydney and matt wanted to see what this new super tiny laptop looks like so he was trying to peek in the window to try if he could see one and i don’t know how it happened but he slammed his face into the glass. You can kind of see the smudge mark from his nose in this photo. I laughed for the next half hour. Actually it still cracks me up!

The Sydney shows were great. I wish we had more photos from the nights. We played both days at oxford art factory. We had a sweet dance party after the first show which made it really hard to wake up for the early show the next day, but hey, no biggie.

After Sydney we made our way to Perth. We didn’t take any pics when we were over there. We did get to go to the beach and chill in the sun. I have never seen water so clean…. i mean i could see my feet, probably sliiiiiightly cleaner then the east river.

Our final stop was Melbourne where i really wish we had more time. We basically flew in and headed straight to the show which was at this awesome Lawn Bowl Place! For those of you who don’t know what lawn bowl is… think bocce ball but super pro. I mean you can’t go wrong with a game you can participate in while holding a beer in the other hand. We had a rad all ages show there. Matt took a crash from the top of the crowd but hey it isn’t a good show with out a bit of rug burn!

We did some exploring in melbourne before the show

we think this is a no farting sign

Our last show was at a night called click click. There was a fog machine so it was obviously a rad way to end the tour. We had such a good trip and want to thank everyone in each town who showed us around, came to the shows and were straight up awesome!

We will be back!

Big hugs
kim

Both the CD and LP of the mauled by tigers comp are now available at mauledbytigers.com in the online store. Don’t tell anyone. (tell everyone!)

The CD is 5 dollars post paid and the LP is 9 dollars post paid.

Comp features:
-matt and kim
-japanther
-canadian rifle
-punkin pie
-rager
-king tuff
-the bananas
-lone wolf and cub
-parts and labor
-pterodactyl
-underground railroad to candyland
-dynamite arrows
-maps and atlases
-ultra dolphins
-shopping
-the deathset
-kit
-latterman
-tulsa
-the ka-nives
-bossy
-the hunchback

we left NY on a friday. our van actually started, last 3 times we tried to go to the airport our van, President VANburen, as i call it, has said “no way” i think it’s jealous when we don’t take it to our shows.

lollapalooza on the next day. we opened the fest at 11:45 AM!

it was the earliest we’ve ever played a show, we pictured there would only be some people setting up some tents and a couple of hung over dudes stumbling in with cups of coffee, but there was actually people there

and then around 5 hours later we heard the bum out news that CSS got stuck at JFK airport (been there) and we were asked if we wanted to play again closing the citi stage, uhhh obviously even though kim feared it’d be a ton of people looking to see CSS straight hatin on us, but it ended it super positive and fun there was even a circle pitalooza. we saw daft punk play, stage production as crazy as everyone’s sayin, we kept seeing perry ferrell in the backstage area and kim said he changed his outfit 3 times that day! and we also saw eddie vedder was guest appearing with another band and kids started RUNNING toward the stage, lollapalooza still loves pearl jam.

monday kim, scott (our friend who’s on the trip with us, he also took these photos) fly to oslo norway, oya fest. it was the first time i ever egged a crowd on to throw shit at us as we played yea yeah, probably the last time as well! even though the show was super fun that stage was completely trashed after thousands of people were throwing tons of stuff at us, here you can see a roll of toilet paper in flight. kim shot daggers out of her eyes at me when i said that.

with Flosstradamus

and then in the spirt of playing twice at a fest. we were able to play again on this floating dock, room, stage thing that we tried to make like a little house party. but then halfway through the set i’m an idiot and jumped into the lake, got out, and water was running off me like i was pouring a beer in my keyboard, and it broke. daggers again.

the next day when driving to the airport to head to london, maybe it was because i was so stressed about breaking my keyboard the first day we were in europe, maybe it was car sickness, or maybe because they say that lake i jumped into is the most polluted water in norway, but the van had to pull over so i could throw up on the side of the highway.

kim stanks

then on friday in london we were suppose to play the underage festival, which was a festival or only kids under 18 that would have been a first but the stage we were suppose to play on was canceled. we ended up getting added on to a show that night with crystal castles and the teenagers.

the next day we took a 6 hour bus ride out to cornwall, england, on a bus with no bathroom, basically my worst nightmare, i have a bladder like a peanut. we stopped for a bathroom break at rest stop, when getting back into the bus the driver realizes he’s LOST HIS KEY TO THE BUS, ha! after the bus driver stressed out for a little while scott found the key and we continued onto newquay. it was a fest on the ocean with like crazy dirt biking and shit going on we played in what looked like a circus tent.

and there was these giant bongs

cliffside

newquay baggy jean punks

took the same bus back and realized only when pulling back into london the there WAS actually bathrooms on the buses but in the middle of the bus, so weird.

the next day we played at a place called the cuban bar in camden london. and man did that show go downhill quick… somehow we were able to break almost all our stuff within our 20 min set, and when your playing and things start going wrong it only leads to more things going wrong, you start forgetting how to play songs you played a million times and forget lyrics you know, well at least we all made it out alive.

from london then to amsterdam. this point our camera decided to stop working. awesome city, so many bikes! and no, drugs aren’t really our thing, and we ended up walking past the sex street, but only in the day.

amsterdam to rotterdam on a train, i got out at one of the stops along the way to find out where we transfer and the train started leaving with kim and scott and all of our stuff on it, i had to jump back on a random car, kim spent the rest of the trip thinking i got left behind.

rotterdam to our last show in belgium, at the pukklepop fest. which i guess that name has something to do with pimples. awesome fest. saw henry rollins speak. it’s bizarre though, all around the fest were troughs just out in the open that dudes could piss in, so many wieners.

next day we flew back to NYC, except i booked the flights so that we had to fly hours in the wrong direction to helsinki finland, and then transfer to fly back to new york. i’m no travel agent

then we’ve hung at home for a week or so and were getting ready for tomorrow, it’s back on the road for the US with against me! and david dondero and i’m super excited! that’s the story of our life right there. i definitely hope to see you out and about, we’ve got a couple new tricks up our sleeve were waiting to bust out!
-matt

we got back from a little trip to texas and back we had a super rad time, and our friend tod seelie was on the road with us taking some pictures. we have a photo “tour diary” incase you couldn’t make it down… here’s the link http://everydayilive.com/bands/mattandkimsxsw/

you gotta go check out our good friend JESSE JANE’s online photo show, it plays as a slide show with our song YEA YEAH and it’s amazing (click the picture below to see it)

it actually all started tuesday, i woke up feeling dead sick but thought “no big deal” i’m headed to chicago today and i love chicago, but chicago was getting some bad-ass snow and flight = canceled, then thought “no big deal” our show isn’t till tomorrow it might actually be good i can go home, sleep off this killer cold, play a tighter show, we got our flight rescheduled for wednesday 1:15pm. woke up got ready to go, checked with the airline, again flight = canceled, “no big deal” we got them to give us seats on the the 4:15, go to the van to drive to the airport, of course it doesn’t start, opened the hood and for some reason huge pile of snow just on the battery, “no big deal”, we called a car service. we made it to the flight just on time after a slow snowy drive and some running through the airport, (knocking over young children and the elderly of-course) and then we sit and wait. about 4 hours, as our gate sign changes from tampa to chicago to burbank (when the chicago crowd started yelling “boooooooo bank!”) (ya’ll a rowdy bunch.) then changes back to chicago. but it’s “no big deal” cause we board around 8. people are super psyched, and if we left at 8 we’d make it to chicago around 10:00, plenty of time. we’re sitting on the plain and of course they keep teasing us saying we’re leaving, we even backed up for a second then drove forward again. after about an hour and a half of sitting there our phone runs out of battery but i found a plug in the bathroom so i’m sitting in there while people are banging on the door for like 15 minutes talking to scott our booking dude who is in chicago about what in the world we should do, he says even if you can make it by 1:30 am do it! but another hour and a half passes and they tell us there is no way the flight can leave for even another 2 hours, so we know we’ve missed this show.

this story even continues… but it’s too long already, but all in all
we’re super sorry and we love chicago and we’ll be back soon.

-matt