J-Neli wrote:The best advice I can give is to just talk to people at various places. Get the word out that Matt's touring, and I'm sure someone would love to get him to play at their venue. I'd imagine he'd bring in a good amount of cash if it's open to all ages. Making it wet/dry would make even more money.
I'm gonna email some places that might be interested in having Matt play, and see what happens.
dont take him for too long, any less than the usual 7 shows he plays here a year isnt enough
Hmm, that's good thinking; if, by chance, he announces an American leg for the tour, I know just the place that might book him around here. I'll shoot 'em an e-mail if Matt comes 'Stateside.
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
I am jealous of all you guys who get to see Matt. He doesn't really play the States. I just missed him last year in Winnipeg(arrived the next day) and Ottawa(left the day of the show). I all ready told my friend we are going to see him when he comes back.( she lives in Ontario) I will say this I got to see him a few years back. He played the Bowery Ballroom in NYC. I got a *GIFT* from that show. He burned a teddy bear during one of the songs. I was waiting to meet him after the show(which I did-believe it or not he was very friendly). I was waiting for the other guys and the manager gave me the teddy bear they burned on stage. It is sitting on the couch in my living room. Granted it's eyes are missing. , but it was cool.It is funny cause the pictures I got have the bear in it. I hope he plays some shows on this side of the border( like upstate NY or there about.)
I feel love, I feel a power. It comes to me in the darkest hour. And I want to feel it again Teach the young people how to think, not what to think-Sidney Sugarman
Oh Matt is definitely a nice guy. It's just the media that portrays him as a dick.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
J-Neli wrote:Oh Matt is definitely a nice guy. It's just the media that portrays him as a dick.
He was very nice. I asked him how come they took some songs off BM. As you may or maynot know BM was released in the USA, but they took of 3 tracks and added some tracks from Underdog. Here is the USA listing. Tracklisting: 1. Giant - 2. Hello Time Bomb - 3. Strange Days - 4. Deep 6ix - 5. Load Me Up - 6. Failing The Rorschach Test - 7. Suburbia - 8. Apparitions - 9. Jenni's Song - 10. A Boy And His __________ - 11. The Future is X-Rated - 12. Everything Is Automatic - 13. Born To ____ - 14. Running For Home -
I hate that they took off * I Miss New Wave* I love that song. Now I want to hear BM( the CA version)
anyway he said he wish he didn't, but the record company wanted them too. What was really great was the crowd was chanting RICO and he did it. I loved that.
Every Year Central Park in NYC has a Canadian act paly for Canada day. I said GOd FORBID they could get Matt Good, David Usher ot Tea Party. They usually get some acts that aren't really huge here. I am hoping this year they can get Sam Roberts. Now that would rock. They actually got the HIP one year.
BTW, OLP are too popular to play, but that would be cool if they did it. There are alot of Canadians in NYC. I wonder if there are alot of NY'er in Toronto.?
I feel love, I feel a power. It comes to me in the darkest hour. And I want to feel it again Teach the young people how to think, not what to think-Sidney Sugarman
The funny thing is he hates Rico now. I remember him saying that it was the worst song he's ever written. ANd when I saw him over the summer, a friend of mine kept yelling play Rico, and he said "aren't you tired of that song yet? I'm not the Matt Good Band anymore" and he laughed.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
here are the lyrics to the first matt good single "alert status red" released may 4
In the wilderness uncountable voices
earplugs for the birds and the animals
and blinders for your beast of burden, the will for learning
these books were made for burning
in the wilderness
beneath the ancient sand lies crushed and tanned those sapphire girls
may we never forget you
Alert status red
but the sun comes up instead
In the wilderness the only place to find freedom is in the dictionary
under "F"
men in holes, men in caves, men in chains I ask but the store clerk needn't check
man I forget which came first
the bad idea or me befallen by it?
not giving a shit may we never forget you
Alert status red
but the sun comes up instead
In the wilderness
senile live the zealous
lost to the treasures that compel us
muted down like patriots amiss
you know I'm jealous of how you can just turn them off
those bad ideas that feel so soft
may they never forget you
J-Neli wrote:The best advice I can give is to just talk to people at various places. Get the word out that Matt's touring, and I'm sure someone would love to get him to play at their venue. I'd imagine he'd bring in a good amount of cash if it's open to all ages. Making it wet/dry would make even more money.
I'm gonna email some places that might be interested in having Matt play, and see what happens.
Tell me how that turns out. I'm trying to think of any other venues that would be interested.
I saw MGB in 2000, at the curling rink and it quite possibly had the worst sound of any venue I've ever heard. Now we have a very nice, fairly small theatre built across the parking lot from it, where matt played last year.
Bif naked is coming to the curling rink in may! why?!
In light of the email that Matt sent about playing in the UK I emailed him to see how he felt about the touring situation, as to whether he would play just the main cities or if he'd venture anywhere that would want him to play. I didn't receive an answer, and I doubt I will...
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
wow I totally missed that... I read that whole thing cause it looked interesting and then I must have stopped reading before the end...
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
J-Neli wrote:wow I totally missed that... I read that whole thing cause it looked interesting and then I must have stopped reading before the end...
I think it only got added recently - I'm sure it wasn't there before. There's been some new stuff added to the top of that page too.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
, but it was cool.It is funny cause the pictures I got have the bear in it. I hope he plays some shows on this side of the border( like upstate NY or there about.) 
