Tractor Show
Posted Sept 10, 2007
As all those kids running around in green John Deere T-shirts would tell you, everyone loves a tractor. They are big and loud and look much tougher than a Ford Focus, though they're admittedly a little more sluggish on the uptake for freeway merging and high-speed chases.
We love a tractor as much as the next hipster, and are duly excited to be playing at The Tractor Tavern in Ballard Thursday September 20.
We are the first of four bands, and 3 out of 4 of the bands on the bill are guaranteed to Rock Your Socks Off. We will not tell you who the 4th band is that rocks less hard than the other bands, but we will give you a hint: Canadians say this word funny.
See you there. Bring extra socks.
Our new champion
Posted July 29, 2007
First, a huge thanks to all who came out to the Crocodile for our Nearly-4th-of-July show. We had such a great time thanks to you. Thank you, thank you. And thanks again to Matt Ashworth of Nadamucho.com for booking us, and to Matt Southworth of the Capillaries for saying nice things about our music from the stage and after the show -- made our night, maybe even our week. We definitely need to meet more people named Matt *Worth!!
Second, we are giddy to report that Gary at Seattle Power Pop Blog recently wrote just about the nicest review we could imagine about our CD It Pays to Pay Attention. Gary described it as "truly a pleasant pop experience" and called Sorry "melodic and harmony driven and really darn good". How cool is that?? It's especially cool because Gary is legit -- we did not pay him to say any of these nice things. He is not our brother-in-law or our employee or even our co-worker. He is however just about the nicest-to-Sorry person we've met this summer.
You can
read the whole review here. We have. More than once.
Mmmmm, crocodile.
Posted June 25, 2007
There is a restaurant in Kenya called The Carnivore that serves exotic cuts of meat ranging from Gazelle to Snake. Fun Sorry fact: all 3 of Sorry have visited Kenya. At least 1 of us has sampled crocodile at The Carnivore. At least one of is now a pescatarian and only will order the Fish Burger at Jack in the Box.
As exciting as that all may be, even more exciting is that we are playing the biggest show of our sorry lives Tuesday, July 3 at the Crocodile with The Capillaries and Junkmail. We may or may not have accidentally uttered something unrepeatable when we heard about the show. We were that excited.
The show is exciting because:
- It is the Crocodile, which is where the Big Kid bands play
- It is a Nadamucho.com show, and Nadamucho.com books the Big Kid bands
- We open for The Capillaries, who write beautiful songs and are beloved by People that Matter, like Jon Auer and KEXP. Being with beloved people makes us feel beloved. Even if we're just the kid brother tagging along with the Big Kids.
As if that weren't enough, it's virtually a weekend, being the eve before a holiday, and we play early at 9 p.m. And the bands will be oh so good. Please please say you will come?
Wild Dancing Women
Posted June 25, 2007
A ginormous (made up word) thank you to all who came out to the Mars Bar to see us last weekend. A special thank you to the wild dancing women who, well, danced wildly in front of the stage, making us feel for one brief moment ever so much hipper and more popular than we really are. This was truly a first for Sorry -- thank you, thank you. We think there might even have been a wild dancing man at one point, but it's all a bit of a blur from the stage. Especially when you're on that second bottle of Evian.
8 is the New 11
Posted June 7, 2007
There probably aren't many bands out there that when offered a show ask, "Er, can we play earlier at night?"
Your friends at Sorry are most definitely one such band, and our good friend Matt Ashworth, High Potentate of the Nadamucho.com empire, rewarded our whining with a nice early show:
Saturday June 16
Mars Bar
at the still-wide-awake hour of 8 p.m.
What more could we ask for? We do love us some sleep. Come join us! Well, for the music part. The sleep part, there probably isn't enough room for the lot of you.
Liar, Liar
Posted June 7, 2007
We admit that when we promised there would be nothing but sunshine at our Mural Amphitheater show, we completely lied. Lesson learned: do not snicker at the man at the coffee shop whose comb over gets blown over. He is the weather man, and he is the vengeful type.
So a huge huge thanks to those who came out in spite of the rain to the Great Strides walk, especially to those who stood in the rain all the way to the end of the show. Great Strides raised over 360K for the event -- totally amazing!! It was quite easily the rainiest Sorry ever, narrowly beating out the Husky Stadium hail storm of '05. This show also narrowly won the record of "show with the most balloon swords" present. We should have balloon swords at every show.
Marathon Sorry
Posted May 7, 2007
Quiet April is past, and now Sorry is working their collective man-squirrel tails off to put together a 75-minute set for our now annual benefit show. This year's benefit show is again in support of Great Strides, and last year's event raised a cool 300K. Most of that due to Sorry's participation, no doubt.
Plan to come join us this year, again at the Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater, for an afternoon of sunshine, sorry music, and support for a great cause.
Lazy and Not Lazy
Posted April 14, 2007
It's a quiet April, with nary a Sorry show in sight for the month. With most bands, this is a sign that they are working on new material, or getting ready to record, or any number of other Important Band-ish Things. With Sorry, it means that we are being lazy and waiting for gigs to fall from the sky like manna, with beer to wash it down.
May will be the opposite of lazy. We will be playing at the Seattle Center Mural Amphitheater in support of Great Strides, a benefit to Cure Cystic Fibrosis (CF). The weather will by then be balmy (or rainy, whatever the globally-warmed sky happens to feel like doing), so register for the walk or just come out to support the cause and listen to some good Sorry.
In addition to participating in the walk, you can also support the cause by buying our new record
It Pays To Pay Attention during the month of April and May. All proceeds from CD sales will be donated to Great Strides.
Man Squirrel
March 20, 2007
This Saturday we are back at the Mars Bar with The Drop and Little Champions. It will undoubtedly be an excellent show, just witness the drooling man squirrel in the show bill. Drooling Man Squirrel knows a good time when he sees it. Be there!!
Mars Bar Take Two, and the Drop Too!
March 12, 2007
Thanks to the kindness of Matt Ashworth (kingpin of the nadamucho.com empire) and the good people of Mars Bar, we are playing a fabulous weekend show Saturday March 24. Fabulous!
Also joining us are the loud and beautiful the Drop and the jangly and intense Little Champions. Now, Sorry is never one to name drop, but when you are Sorry you don't have a whole lot of names to drop. So, ready? Here goes:
The Drop released 2 records on Loveless Records, which is John in the Morning's label, who is a KEXP DJ / god of indie music. And Little Champions released 2 records on Barsuk, which is the same label as Death Cab for Cutie is on. And Alan once dumped a handtruck loaded with speakers into Chris Walla's car, for which he still owes Chris money. This is a true story.
That oughta to have scored some cheap search results on Google. More importantly though, it ought to highlight that these very very good bands that we are playing with. You should come see them. And us. We will play in between the other two great bands so that you kinda have to see us.
Senior Prom Photos
March 7, 2007
Thank you so so much to all who came out to see us at High Dive. It was awesome to get to play with The Drop and High Page Delay. 3 power trios in one night, though we may be more on the "trio" and less on the "power". Whatever.
Mark Svendsen turned up to shoot photos, and they are pretty darned impressive. The quality of the photos, not the subject. Not exactly from our senior year prom, but let's face it -- we are getting to be senior.
Poster This
February 17, 2007
Two weeks until the High Dive show, and we've gone and made our first ever show bill. We hear that's how the rock stars do it. Actually, our friend Barry made a cooler one awhile back. Oh, and Rosyvelt made an even cooler one even further back. But this one is all-sorry, home-grown and corn-fed.
Like it? Print one up and post it somewhere that friends will see!! They will think you are hip because you listen to such hip music from 30-something rockers. Uh, we're not in our 30's, just there's like 30-something people in all the bands that we've played with this year. 30-something rockers.
My spleen kinda hurts.
High Dive Show in Feb!
January 23, 2007
Sorry is freaked-out excited to be playing at the High Dive in February with the amazing Seattle band The Drop. This is exciting because the Drop is a very, very cool band and High Dive is a cool room. And we're playing at 7 p.m., which is a time of night when we are still coherent and not falling asleep and drooling on ourselves. Impressive!
Band trivia: 2/3's of Sorry used to work for The Drop bass player Allen Murray.
See gigs page for additional details or to hear about additonal upcoming shows, sign up for our email list!
Indiepages.com Likes Sorry!
January 1, 2007
indiepages.com just posted a review of our new album It Pays to Pay Attention this week. They write:
I was crazy about their last EP, "Non-Winner", and have also seen a number of these songs performed live, so I already knew I would love this record ... With such strong songs, it would be nice to see this band get some recognition.
--indiepages.com
They also called our songs "beautifully written", which pretty much made our week. You can hear 3 songs off our record by clicking play on the pretty little flash player at the upper right corner of this page -- No, no, other right.
Back to the Croc
December 14, 2006
Sorry returns to the
Crocodile Cafe for our first show of the new year, Tuesday January 2, 2007. Yep. That's a 7. Next year is really 2007. Where's my flying car??
We'll be joined by our pals
Ghost Lobby and
Tilted Blue. Not as cool as a flying car, but pretty close to it...
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
sorry @
The Crocodile Cafe
with
Tilted Blue and
Ghost Lobby
sorry plays second at 10pm
$6 cover
CD Release Party Recap
December 4, 2006
Thanks to all of you who turned out to our CD release party Nov. 24th. We had a blast!
Sorry started the evening at the
Mars Bar
by playing 10 of the 11 tracks from our CD, subbing out track No. 7 for
a cover of Synchronicity 2. My favorite quote of the evening from one
of our friends: "I saw the Police in 1978 in a bar not much bigger than
this." That either means we're destined for stardom, or we'll continue
helping people relive their own glory days by turning into a cover
band.
Please Step Out Of The Vehicle followed with a dollop of eccentric power pop, and our new favorite bill mates
Ghost Lobby
wrapped up the show, delivering a full hour of great music with healthy
doses of groove. Of course, it was you all that made the show so much
fun. Thanks for coming!
Didn't
make the show? You can still experience all the goodness of Sorry by
picking up our latest CD "It Pays To Pay Attention". You can order it
from
Amazon.com or
CD Baby.
