Soft Power and Gramercy Arms

We are excited to announce we have a couple of shows coming up next week with the fantastic Soft Power, featuring Mary Timony and members of Aloha.

Come on down!

Saturday August 1st
The Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street NYC
Soft Power featuring Mary Timony with members of Aloha 11 pm
Hot Lava 10 pm
Gramercy Arms 9:15

http://cake-shop.com/
$10, 8pm doors, 21 and over

Sunday August 2nd
TT the Bears
http://www.ttthebears.com/
Soft Power 11 pm
Gramercy Arms 10 pm
Shepherdess 9 pm

get stuck in

Goodbye Mladen George Sekulovich

We barely knew ye

Bustin Down the Door

Okay, file the curried beans under failed experiment.

I watched "Bustin Down the Door" the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it. For those of you expecting a happy-go-lucky surf movie with wet-dream guitar noodling, you might be surprised to find sadness, loss and bittersweet nostalgia. I found the bit about localism to be painfully sad for all involved.

I think the film tried to present a relatively even-handed approach but some people wound up looking worse than others.

What could be sadder than feeling you need to fight to defend something that was lost before you were even born?

I am eating Batchelor's Curried Baked Beans for lunch right now. Not sure what made me buy it. My grocery store just underwent a major overhaul and now has an "English Food" section. It was sort of pricey but I must say they are pretty good.

The Doug Gillard show was a lot of fun. I wish more people were there to see Doug. But the other bands were fantastic. It was a fun night of hanging out in Red Hook, not far from where I used to live in the indie-rockin mid 90s.

Actually here's what they look like but i like the Heinz can better.

DG show

I'll be playing guitar and percussion in the insanely talented Doug Gillard's band tomorrow night at the fabulous Bell House in Brooklyn. We'll be opening for Scott McCloud's Paramount Styles as well as Steve Wynn and his Miracle 3.

Doug Gillard Electric on first at 8 PM

Paramount Styles (Scott McCloud ex G.VS.B) at 9

Steve Wynn and The Miracle 3 performing the entire Dream Syndicate album "Medicine Show"

Doug Gillard Electric is:
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Russ Fink - Bass, b. voc
Jeff Ottenbacher - drums
David Derby - guitar, perc.
Doug Gillard - guitar, vox


The Bell House is located at

149 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 643-6510

all the little birds on jaybird street ...

I am back in NYC after heading to Hawaii for a highschool reunion and doing a couple of very fun Gramercy Arms shows
and ... I am finally on twitter.
@davederby

or you can find me this way: https://twitter.com/davederby