If anyone lives in or near Cincinnati, we’re playing at MAYDAY on Friday, July 23rd with Mallory and Fists of Love.  All shows at Mayday are FREE, so if you want to boogie, check it out!  You want to boogie?  Ok, let’s boogie.  Marc Bolan knows what I’m talking about.

Finally … good news!  We’re nearly done tracking our new album.  On August 6th we’ll be back at Gallery of Carpet Recording to put the finishing touches and final overdubs down.  Ideally, mixing will begin sometime in September and the record will be done before the end of the year.  We’ve been playing all eight (8) of the songs that will appear on it live, so if you’ve seen the band within the past few months, then you’ve already heard this material.  I don’t want to reveal song titles or any of that jazz just yet.  More to come as completion nears.

Saturday, July 10th ~ Schubas, 3159 N. Southport, Chicago, IL ~ w/ THE FIELD AUXILIARY & THE GREAT SOCIETY MIND DESTROYERS ~ $8 ~ 10:00PM ~ 18+

Soft Speaker is super-dooper stoked to be performing with Warpaint in Indianapolis! That’s Saturday, June 5th at Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. Doors at 8:00 PM. The show is presented by My Old Kentucky Blog and we’ve been hoping for the oportunity to play with Warpaint for many moons. They’re an excellent group!

Finally, the band is delighted to announce that they will be performing at Do Division, Sunday June 6th at 5:20pm on the Leavitt Stage! Do Division is a highly exciting street festival in the great Chicago tradition. There are dozens of fantastic acts playing throughout the weekend including: Hood Internet, YACHT, The Night Marchers, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Pelican, Warpaint, Ponys, Days Off, The Gunshy, The Poison Arrows, Vacations, Bailiff, Sybris, The Good Life, John Drake & The Shakes, Cameron McGill & What Army (Cam Cam), Tim Larson & The Owner Operators, Rego, Scott Lucas And The Married Men, and Cory Chisel & the Wandering Sons.
It’s a groovy happening and it freaks us out!

(Question: How did Darth Vader know what Luke Skywalker gave him for Christmas? He felt his presents.)

BURDEN YOU

MERCURY PARK

BARBERSHOP QUINTET

DON’T READ THE RAGS

DANGER RED

BREAKING BONES

THE GREAT BRICK MOSQUE & I

JULIANNA CONVINCE ME

EFFECTS WILL SHOW SOON/TBA

Soft Speaker ~ Hideout 3.19.09

1. Mercury Park
2. Danger Red
3. Barbershop Quintet
4. Don’t Read The Rags
5. The Great Brick Mosque & I
6. Burden You
7. Concerning Your Memoirs
8. Marble Mask
9. Weathervane

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding

In all of the directions it can whiz

As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know,

Twelve million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed there is.

So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,

How amazingly unlikely is your birth,

And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,

‘Cause there’ bugger all down here on Earth. ~ Eric Idol 1983

Soft Speaker ~ Quenchers

9.24.2009

1. Memoirs
2. Mercury park
3. Fortune
4. Smiling bag
5. Tennyson Tea

6. Maybe Baby
7. Marble Mask
8. Effects/tba

9. Mosque

Soft Speaker ~ Empty Bottle 10/23/09

1. Three Beggars
2. The Man In The Smiling Bag
3. Barbershop Quintet
4. Tennyson Tea
5. Fortune
6. The Great Brick Mosque & I
7. Marble Mask
8. Weathervane

9. Burden You

Soft Speaker ~ Nov. 13^th, 2009 ~ Darkroom

“You’ve been up for 3 days. Sit down before you fall down.”

1. Breaking Bones
2. Mercury Park
3. Man in the Smiling Bag
4. Tennyson Tea
5. I Stand to Lose My Fortune
6. Marble Mask ~ Weather Vane
7. Julianna
8. Three Beggars

Soft Speaker ~ Double Door Feb. 4^th, 2010

“Oh, I get it. Y’all mad at me!”

1. Danger Red
2. Don’t Read the Rags
3. Barbershop Quintet
4. Mercury Park
5. Burden You
6. Breaking Bones
7. Geronimo’s Retarded Bulldog
8. 3 Beggars
9. For a Handsome Price

Soft Speaker ~ Hideout 3/19/10

“There’s a turd in the punch bowl.”

1. Hawk Mountain Line
2. Great Brick Mosque
3. Mercury Park
4. Find the Fountain
5. Geronimo’s twisted old wiener package
6. Marble Mask (of luck)
7. Tennyson Tea
8. Concerning Your Memoirs
9. Handsome Price
10. Maybe Baby
11. I Stand to Lose My Fortune (Easy)
12. Three Beggars

Last week we recorded basics tracks for a new song before Nick set sail for the gilded island mecca of Costa Rica.  Without a doubt he has by now gone native, adopted a Mantled Howler as a personal guardian and taken a job in Puntarenas harvesting coffee beans.  Boys will be boys, I suppose.  So, left to our own devices, Blair, Joe and I gathered our collectiveness last night and proceeded with titilating ferocity.  Progress has been made and we are pleased as a turkey.

In other news, we are set to begin work on what we hope to be our first full-length album on April 15th!

Our next show will be on Friday, March 19th at one of our favorite Chicago venues, Hideout.  Also on the bill will be Cains and Abels.and Village (feat. Stephen Ucherek, formerly of The Living Blue).  The show starts at 10pm.

While I have your attention, may I suggest that you make an evening of it?  First, treat yourself to a shot, a beer and a steak at your favorite restaurant.  Do not skip this step!  Next, take a cab or hoverboard to Hideout.  Warm up with a delicious Jackhammer combo deal (shot of Jack Daniels and a can of Hamms).  Introduce yourself to the members of Soft Speaker and explain to them in detail your plan to market a delicious new lemon-blueberry flavour of yogurt.  Enjoy the show from a well thought-out vantage point to ensure that you have a clear view of Joe Daley and his purple velvet track suit.  Following the performance, make a thoughtful, yet concise toast to the health and success of the band.  You deserve this and, let’s be honest, you’re only 22 for 365 days, so take advantage while you can.

Here’s a nifty photo taken by Travis Salisbury at Darkroom.