Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Bottle Tree in the Sky


The past few weeks have been pretty hectic here in LPR land. Jeremy had a French guy (who he really didn't know) crash at his house from Ash Wednesday until March 3rd. I (Adam) had a good college friend of mine and his girlfriend come in to town a few days after Mardi Gras and stay until the 3rd as well. Not that these things are necessarily bad...its just that after the Mardi Gras, there is some sort of depression/anxiety/general mailase that people seem to get that causes individuals to shutter themselves from the outside world, not to see the light of day for at least two weeks (maybe 40 days?), or until the St. Patrick's Day Parade. Anyway...the bright shining moments during these days have been some shows, and Jon's radio interview on WTUL.

Feb. 23rd: LPR in Auburn, Alabama at Roosters. I love this place; the owner is very hospitable, he has ties to New Orleans so he likes us even more (he plays bass for CrowBar), everyone likes to drink alot, and the crowd is always great. That night we played with Chris Porter and The Stolen Roses (www.myspace.com/thestolenroses), who kicked it hard and left me with no other choice but to get a little too "loose" on stage and start making up lyrics to our songs ("Bottle tree in the sky, blye biddy blye...") on the spot. I think I may have been creating something beautiful--everyone else is pretty sure I sounded like a moron. Either way, that only lasted for a bit and the show went off great. Hopefully we'll be playing some shows up in the Birmingham area with Porter soon.

More on our other recent shows (with pictures! maybe even of an alligator!!!) and Jon's WTUL interview soon...

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Mardi Gras....finally!



The Thursday before Mardi Gras is finally here! In order to officially kick off the Carnival season, LPR will be playing at Kerry's Irish Pub in the French Quarter (331 Decatur St.), after the Muses parade. We're looking forward to a good time, with I hope as many drunken revelers as possible. If thats you, come on down. I'll have a post about the show later (with pictures!).

Muses is the perfect parade to start the weekend off with (because we all know the weekend starts on Thursday...). All female parade, great throws (those are the individual items thrown by krewe members...get it?), hilarious floats, and bands, bands, bands. I always cringe during the year when I hear that shuffle beat of Mardi Gras songs being played, but when its Carnival season, there is nothing better to dance to. Except LPR of course. Maybe.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Les Poissons Rouges to perform free show at Circle Bar!


We will be performing a FREE show at the Circle Bar on Friday, March 2nd. Be sure to stop by our favorite NOLA hangout and get a couple of extra High Life's with the money you'll save. No reason to wait for LPR to hit the Circle Bar, however. Check out their myspace page for other upcoming shows. Hands-down the coziest place to catch cool music in NOLA. http://myspace.com/thecirclebar