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September 29, 2005
German Diary
Dear diary,
back home for a couple of days and it feels nice...even though i miss ms kate, the shore and the band...i got very excited when i heard SHOCK will be doing australia. what a great home for our little record for this amazing continent. i reall admire their work and it feels great to have them on board!
so put another shrimp on the barbie and all that...and josh is right: no vegamite!
so i'll be travelling up to frankfurt (a city i always thought rules...) to get my visa renewed and my sister is coming with me, so we can catch up...i'll play her some rough mixes of new songs and i can't wait what she says. other than that i spend my days relaxing, listening to the new ryan adams and the new alkaline trio over and over and over again...it took me a while to get into the new A3 but the song sadie made me fall in love with this great band all over again.
other jams on my beloved i-pod are gwen stefani, flyswatter demos, dandy warhols...and a friend played me everytime i die yesterday and i liked it a lot.
so that's all from me in rainy munich. i'm recovering from my oktoberfest visit and send my love to you out there.
be safe.
robert
Posted by robertbsf at 07:49 AM | Comments (9)
September 28, 2005
Shock Records to put out record in Australia
as many things lately, we are pleased and excited to announce that our friends at Shock Records will be releasing the misery index; notes from the plague years. Shock has a long and illustrious history of doing great records and we couldn't be happier to be with them. love, the BSF
Posted by joshbsf at 11:20 PM | Comments (5)
September 27, 2005
really really almost done
so we had a very nice time this weekend. Nathan Chad and I went to Chincoteague for a wedding and I did get to see some wild ponies which I was stoked on. ever since i was young and read the novel Misty of Chincoteague i wanted to see the famous wild ponies of Chincoteague.
they were cool, i guess, like regular ponies just without a fence around them.
the wedding was fun, Chad and I got to see our favorite football team's win (sorry nathan, sorry matt!) we danced, it was very nice!
so on the record front we are very close to being done on tracking, literally a few days away which is awesome and makes me very excited. We still need to pick a mixer but there are some interesting choices out there and we will let you know when we know.
still on EVR and still on Burning Heart,
the BSF
Posted by joshbsf at 01:36 PM | Comments (9)
September 23, 2005
we are taking a few days off...
please do not be alarmed. we are taking a few well deserved days off for a variety of reasons. Robert is going to Germany to see his family and do some visa stuff (apparently it is very important he have a credit card, I don't know why!) Matt is in LA collecting on some old debts ( if you know what I mean!) and the rest of us are going to Chincoteague for a wedding.
No none of us are getting married although you would think we were married to each other. so anyway long story short, we may not post for a little bit but we are not breaking up, up in arms, armed to the teeth....what? or anything, just not posting for three days or so...cya next tuesday! the bsf
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September 21, 2005
doesn't nathan look strange here?
i am practicing my web stuff
i am uploading pictures.
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cease fire concert
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September 20, 2005
Studio Journal - Tuesday, 20th September
One of the last days actually recording stuff...Nathan and Josh are doing the vocals for the song "the final communique" , which we have been playing live a bunch, so it goes really smoothly and it's fun...
I will be leaving for Germany on friday and spend some time with my family and also get some visa things figured out. Matt is flying to California and the driving back from there...
It's nice to spend some last quality hours in our beloved Ronald Regean Memorial Studio together...watching Chad's head making frantic movements back and forth while he's recording and teasing Josh about Dallas' yesterday's performance.
Good times here in Maryland really...and once i'm back we're gearing up for the FATA tour and some more headlinging dates...pls keep checking back in THE STREET for new dates.
Later,
Robert
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September 19, 2005
reissues being released
So we are excited to announce that Equal Vision Records will be re-releasing some of our older records. The first The Day The Sun Went Out, replete with everyone’s favorite Motley Crue cover, will be released October 18th. The second, a rarities and b-sides flavored platter entitled Before the Eulogy, will be released later in November.
The first is being re-released because as you may know our friend Andy Rich over at Initial went out of business and kindly let us take back our records and keep them in print. It has been our “thing” to never let any records go out of print as long as people want them. We would hate our records become collector items, dusty on our friend Gene’s shelf. The latter record, Before The Eulogy, is both our first and second demo, European exports, and other pretty cool stuff. Our friends over at Elany Arts helped with the artwork on this and we are pretty excited that it is coming out.
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September 16, 2005
Studio Journal 09/16/05
dear diary,
it's the 16th which is an exciting day due to mr chad istvan's 24th birthday (that's such a lie, but the young man is too handsome and younglooking to pay any attention to his actual age...)
me, chad and nathan hang out in the "r.r. memorial studio" in josh's basement and the record gets closer and closer to being done...only some more overdubs and noises and vocals and that's it...
i even got to scream, whine and mumble a couple of additional parts today, which was fun. it really is the best part about making a record, the little things you ad towards the very end...in my opinion anyways.
the record deals with EVR and BH are signed and everything is going great...
the draft (new hot water music) are staying at my house tonight so i better rush home and grill some corn for the whole floridian crew...robert
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September 15, 2005
of mice men and backup vocals
we are so close to getting this thing done. our fourth record and this one only took us what four years?
september 16
so chad has been doing great, really sounding awesome at his vocals. apparently nathan is just crushing him, screaming and just being mean to the poor guy. i believe he is almost done and then....i go.
moan..i hate recording. it is just so difficult. especially when you are alone in the little hot booth behind the glass with everyone laughing and having fun on the other side and you dont even know if they are listening to you or laughing a you or what. i guess i start my screams tonight. i guess i better find some stuff that makes me angry which isn’t that hard right now, with the way the world is going. do you guys know that castro offered to send 1300 doctors to help in new orleans and we denied them? i guess our pride is more important than people drowning in our back yard. this record is almost done. we are very excited.
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September 14, 2005
EVR STATEMENT
Our dear friends from EQUAL VISION RECORDS put the official news about us signing to EVR on their site today...check it out under
Here's what we have to say about this glorious day:"BOYSETSFIRE team up with BURNING HEART and EQUAL VISION RECORDS
In times when the so called alternative or punk rock music scene makes you turn and run the other way, wishing that roots music would rise beyond slogans, marketing plans and record label mind control again, it is important to make a choice as a band or an artist in general.
a choice to re-gain why you started playing music in the first place in an environment that is not only beneficial to what you're all about, but helps you push the envelope, pushes you in unknown directions and just overall supporting you in being yourself.i think we as a band have made this choice and freed ourselves from things we felt were in the way of what we wanted this band to be; emotional music instead of emo, dangerous instead of pretentious, political beyond slogans and personal beyond what's considered "cool".
In the end it's us: 5 guys standing together to make this record happen. a piece of music we love, not just a collection of singles. a journey throughout the musical landscapes we care about. sometimes heavy, sometimes fragile, basically us. the essence of the band, yet definitely new ground in a lot of ways.
We're proud to announce that we signed to BURNING HEART and EQUAL VISION RECORDS to put out our new album "THE MISERY INDEX: NOTES FROM THE PLAGUE YEARS". We feel this goes way beyond a token business partnership. We did not check in with other labels and compare advance payment plans. Not one. This was our dream. An ideal scenario of a strong alliance and we can't wait to put this record out sometime in january 2006 and tour for it with partners like both labels.
So in essence nothing has changed, yet everything has changed. We're still a difficult band to work with, we still believe in this band as a vehicle for personal and musical growth (outside of new market masturbation) and we still owe this band to never compromise. But that means we have to express ourselves exactly how we feel it's necessary. To write the same record again and again is the actual selling out. So this is different. We hope sincerely you like it as much as we do and we leave you with an embrace and a raised fist.
Here's to the Plague Years!
BSF
September 2005"
Posted by robertbsf at 09:41 AM | Comments (10)
September 13, 2005
have you guys seen this yet?
i kinda want to take sec and leave of with recording for a little bit. i guess everyone knows that we are in kind of a messed up place right now as americans. I dont even have the enrgy to really get into it. check out this letter from a kinda hero of ours michael moore
Friday, September 2nd, 2005 Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. BushDear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.comP.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.
Posted by joshbsf at 09:17 PM | Comments (11)
September 11, 2005
some thoughts
i am not going to write anything too emotional today the anniversary of 9/11 but i do have do have to say that my heart is breaking as i watch those who are still here read loved ones names off a piece of paper. Similar to the way i feel when i see the carnage in new orleans and the entire gulf coast. why must those most innocent pay most dearly? the guy working at krispy kreme at the world trade center had absolutely nothing to do with american middle-east oil policy just as the poor souls in our ravaged south had nothing to do with global warming or slashing the budget needed to keep the levees in good condition. what am i saying? any words of hope? nope, not today. maybe tomorrow.
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September 10, 2005
The Chicken
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September 08, 2005
show in southern delaware
we are playing again in delaware but this time we are visiting the dirrty south. our friends in rocker bookings are puttin on this show to kick off our fall tour.
October 29, 2005
@ The Backstage
300 North Pine Street Seaford, DE 19973 (St. Johns Church)
6:30pm
$7
Boy Sets Fire, Capsized And Drowning, and 2 more TBA.
Posted by joshbsf at 09:14 PM | Comments (67)
September 07, 2005
oh yeah we got a studio diary
September 7
So a lot has happened since we last talked. We finished up at Nick’s and moved all our stuff back to the basement over here in good old Elkton.
Nathan’s almost done; he only has one song left, a rocking lil jam called the final communique. We are still doing overdubs and Chad has his backups and then I have to do my doglike yelpings.
After that its off to the mix which is still a little up in the air- I know we are going up to Studio 4 in Caunshahawken (sp?) and Phil Niccollo is going to spend one day mixing one song and then we are going to see if we are on the same page then we are going to decide.
By the way what do you guys think of our awesome website? we are pretty stoked on it! we wanna thank the guys at elany arts for doing an excellent job on the site
Posted by joshbsf at 11:08 PM | Comments (13)
the new site
hi everyone,
this is my official first entry on our new weblog and i hope you like our first version of the new site...
we have 2 demo songs in the siren(download) section, that you can download for free...both songs will not be available anywhere else and only partly made it onto the new record. so download them and tell us what you think...
other than that we have tons of new pictures in eye (mostly shot by us), a new band bio by josh,etc
you see there's tons of stuff to check out...we will add new tourdates very soon, since we're going out supporting our dear friends from From Autumn To Ashes in november plus some upcoming headlining shows the same month. we will also play a katrina-victim benefit show in wilmington sometime in october, but we'll post all these dates soon on the street(tourdates)
check out all this crap and be good
robert
Posted by robertbsf at 09:01 PM | Comments (10)