[The Motion Sick] The Motion Sick wishes you a happy new year, performs some ...
First, we want to let you know about an awesome show we've got coming up.
The show theme is "Influenza," but we promise that there is no
illness involved. Instead, we'll be performing an hour-long set comprised
of half original songs and half covers by artists that have influenced
our songwriting. As most of you know, we play relatively few covers (with
the exception of our
Halloween Poison set in 2007). This is therefore a rare opportunity
to see us do a set like this. In addition, these performances will
include each member of the band taking lead vocal duties.
01/29/09 Influenza: Artists playing the songs they deem most influential
alongside their own material
This night is presented by Aloud, Northeastern Performer and Powderfinger
Promotions.
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Ave
Allston, MA
w/ Thick as Thieves and Aloud
18+ / $10
We also want to throw out a big thank you for your tremendous support in
2008:
-We began the year with the release of our second album
The truth
will catch you, just wait... released on Naked Ear Records, produced
primarily by Barry Marshall and
Jordan Tishler.
-The album received outstanding
reviews and occupied the
CMJ College Radio charts for 8 weeks!
-Our music video for "30
Lives" (directed by Neil
Forman) aired on major television networks around the world
including MTV Latin America, Fuse, and MuchMusic
-We undertook our biggest tour yet,
traveling down to Austin, TX and back, video and text blogging the whole
way around!
-Soon after we returned from tour, we learned that we had won Konami's
contest seeking new music to include in their
Dance Dance Revolution Video Game Series. "30 Lives
(Up-Up-Down-Dance Mix)"
(Produced by Anthony Resta
with Rich Curtis and
Matthew Girard) is now out on the Playstation 2 (DDR X), XBox 360 (DDR
Universe 3), Arcades in Japan (DDR X), and will be released later this
year in Arcades in Europe and North America (DDR X)
-A few short weeks later, we turned 100! Many of you attended our
sold
out 100th show with Shawn Fogel of Golden Bloom, Static of the Gods,
and Pela
-We almost got to
open for Coldplay
-We played the (possibly insane) Ash Wednesdays residency at Church,
which saw us (and a lot of you) dressing up as Beachgoers (Splash
Wednesday), Tennis Stars (Arthur Ashe Wednesday), Superheroes (The Flash
Wednesday), and Mustachioed gents ('Stache Wednesday). We also recorded 4
novelty theme songs for this purpose.
See and hear it all
here.
-We were finalists in the
SPIN Magazine Hot Pursuit Contest to find the best unsigned band in
the U.S. to award a contract with Epic. Sadly, we forfeited because we
didn't feel comfortable with the Epic contract. Still, we got reviewed by
their awesome judges: BUTCH WALKER, PETER MOREN, AMANDA PALMER, and DOUG
BROD.
-We released our latest single, "Winged Bicycle" as part of a
compilation celebrating Consequence of Sound's first
anniversary.
-We had a couple of songs on the PBS TV show
"Roadtrip Nation"
-We were finalists in the Pick the Band contest and almost got to
open for Black Kids and Vampire Weekend
-We performed outside at
Patriot Place at Gillette Stadium
-We
told you to vote and to not vote
-We showed up on a bunch of
Best of 2008 lists
-We also got to perform this year opening for some of our favorite bands:
Dead Confederate, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Ha Ha Tonka,
Dear Leader, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's (Dec. 2007), and Le Loup
(Dec. 2007)
We thank you all once again for making 2008 an excellent year for The
Motion Sick. We enter 2009 with great excitement about another tour and
new songs. We look forward to seeing you all and hope your year is off to
a great start.
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