Pretty & Nice May 2012 Mini-Tour!

We’re coming to a town near you if one of these towns we’re coming to is near you!

5/11/2012
Toquet Hall Teen Center
Westport, CT

5/12/2012
IHOP Estate (House)
Philadelphia, PA

5/13/2012
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY

5/15/2012
Blind Bob’s
Dayton, OH

5/16/2012 (w/ Love of Everything)
Galaxy CDs
Hamilton, OH

5/17/2012 (w/ Love of Everything)
The Bloomington Zoo (House)
Bloomington, IN

5/18/2012 (w/ Love of Everything)
Garfield’s Garden (House)
Champaign, IL

5/19/2012 (w/ Love of Everything)
Nowheresville
Chicago, IL

Smooches!
P&N

P&N SXSW Schedule – UPDATED

We’re back in Texas this year!  Here are the shows.

You can also DOWNLOAD DATES TO iCAL

TUE 3/13
P&N on @ 3:45 PM

MOLOTOV LOUNGE
719 West 6th Street
Austin, TX 78701

SWEET TEA PUMPKIN PIE Showcase // Doors @ Noon
w/ KNTRLR, Pree, and more

RSVP // LINEUP

WED 3/14
P&N on @ 3:00 PM – UPDATED

THE SIDEBAR
602 East 7th St.
Austin, TX 78701

BANNERS (Cantora Records, Black Bell Records, Modern Art Records) // Starts @ Noon
w/ Emil & Friends, Young Man, Slam Donahue, and more

FULL LINEUP

SAT 3/17
P&N on @ 12:50 PM

512 BAR
408 East 6th Street
Austin, TX 78701

CONVERSE/DIGBOSTON Boston To Austin Showcase // Starts @ Noon
w/ Bad Rabbits, You Can Be A Wesley, Lake Street Dive, and more

From the Brain of Kevin Walsh

WELL folks, Pretty & Nice’s unlaundered bottoms have made it across the country. We met up with the Modern Art tour in Seattle on Thursday and got to meet our tourmates Chain Gang of 1974, Geographer, and our good buddies Miniature Tigers. Lots of friendly talented dudes — gonna be a killer, easy tour. Even though we’ve played a few shows of our own along the way, I got these first-night-of-tour-jitters right before we got on stage in Seattle. They went poof! soon as we started playing but it was weirdly cool in a way.

The past few days have had a couple really cool rock n roll things take place: like driving from Denver to Provo to stay with a kind gentlemen Holden and Roger met through Turntable.fm (ie. they met a stranger online); walking into said gentleman’s house where his roommates had just started Shindler’s List, so as we decompressed from the drive we got to see a couple brutal executions before going to eat delicious burgers; picking up t-shirts we had mailed to Bret Nelson from Built to Spill (who, amazingly, is a friend and fan of the band) in Boise, drinking several beers with Mr. Nelson while he locked down a last minute show for us in town; ending the night somehow in a hot tub, which belonged to the girlfriend of our friend Brian from the band Faux Bois (who are excellent); and driving through whiteout conditions over frightening mountain passes and listening to Holden express true fear (and why not one more parenthetical?).

Next we enjoyed the shortest van ride so far, Seattle to Portland, wandered Portland hunting for necessities like delay pedals and drippy, pants-ruining tacos, before playing a mammoth cavern doubling as a music venue/nightclub. It’s always weird hearing your snare boomerang off the brick walls and having it hit you in the forehead just after you actually hit the drum. Best part of the night for me was seeing my sister and her husband, whom I get to see basically once or twice a year (cue: aww). Next thing I know, Faux Brian apparated from Boise to Oregon and was putting us up in another house, where apparently the washers and dryers play little jingles even when you don’t use them.

Four hours of sleep and 11 hours driving later and we’re in SF about to max this stage to the EXTREME. I think we’re finally settling into travel mode and getting all cozy. Next thing I write will have fewer parentheticals and more Harry Potter references. Week 1′s done — POOF!

originally posted 3/3/12 on Kevin’s blog

Tour Diary, Day 3

Dear Diary,

We have made it to just about the middle of the contiguous United States en route to Seattle to meet up with the Modern Art Tour .  Tonight is our last night (possibly [hopefully]) ever touring as a 3 piece, as good sir Holden (who fell ill early Friday morning) will be joining us via passenger aircraft (dirigible, I would imagine) in Denver, CO.

On Friday night, we played in New London, CT and closed with a version of Weird Al’s “Smells Like Nirvana” with all of the lyrics changed around.  Jeremy got really mad at the way the drums were set up and knocked them over, making it almost impossible for Kevin to finish the song.

We drove through the night.  Well, Jeremy and Kevin drove while I snuggled with a pile of pillows and blankets, then we drove through the day and arrived in Dayton, OH, where we heard about tacos the size of our heads, breakfast pizzas (imagine a quiche on a pizza, or possible a pizza under a quiche), and saw some rock and roll bands release their new music on the tape cassette medium.

Playing as a 3 piece was fun, but the whole thing was very confusing, for me at least.  There were points during both of our sets where I forgot that Pretty & Nice was playing at all and wandered off the stage or stage area to take a break (I guess I take more cues from Holden than I’d thought.)  No one noticed.

Arriving at this fine one-star rated hotel, we were pleased to see that we would at least be safe, as there were already five police cars idling outside.  If Priceline had an option to rate a hotel on “Peace of Mind” this one would get 6 stars out of a possible 5.

Denver tomorrow!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Rog
P&N