May Days: In the Flow 2012 & Live in Studio A

May 11, 2012

Coming on the heels of the April recording session for our next release, Bristle’s playing at Sacramento’s In the Flow Festival this Sunday, May 13.   Murray and I played last night at ITF with festival co-founder Ross Hammond, as Pluck, Vim, Vigour, a short but inspired set.  It was a great turn-out, a real community event–the ITF folks did a great job of programming the locals w/the out-of-towners.  People come out for their faves, and get to hear other great music they hadn’t expected.  The camraderie and the kudos are very heartening–as Phillip Greenlief said last night, it’s a really noble thing to do, putting on a festival like this in this day and age…

Sunday is jam-packed with great bands:  we’re scheduled to play at 7:00 at Antiquite, just after Vinny Golia’s Sextet and before Scott Amendola Vs. Will Blades, so many others throughout the day.  As they say, show up early, stay late.  Bristle’s continuing to roll out the newest of our pieces in concert, still somewhat teetering on the edge of playability, but as Alvy Singer said, “A [band], I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies….”  Heading to KDVS later in the week for Live in Studio A (Thursday, May 17, at 11 PM PST).   Show up, tune in, these are our last shows for a couple of months before we disperse for the summer with other projects.