Crest

Why the heck am I awake? After a week of poor sleep and stretching myself thin with rehearsals and promoting our CD release show, I capped it all off by going to bed at about 4:30 am last night, thrilled at the prospect of sleeping until Super Bowl kick-off today... only to find myself awake at about 9:30 am and not able to go back to sleep. Typical.

The good news is this: last night's CD release show at Martyrs' was a resounding success. The club was happy, the crowd was happy... and it all pretty much went off without a hitch. Our set was... a little sloppy. I guess it's inevitable that a night meant to celebrate the 18 month process of recording Bottle Boy would wind up being a little anti-climactic emotionally. Which is how I feel this morning. But it was a great time.

The whole week, from getting played on WXRT three times, to doing an hour long interview on Fearless Radio, to getting written up in the Onion and the new monthly Wassup Live, felt empowering. Like things are really starting to happen for us at a little bit of different level. The key is (and this is probably the source of my morning sleeplessness): what now?

Well... now the real work begins. Now Bottle Boy goes off into the world and starts to (hopefully) work its way into people's hearts. Now we try to remain as pro-active as we were in booking and promoting the party last night. Now we lay out a plan and get Bottle Boy into the hands of people in the industry. And some of that is already underway.

Through our manager, we've gotten about a half dozen copies out to labels and "big time" talent scouts. So it'll be interesting to see what kind of feedback we get from that.

What does it mean, Corky? If only I knew.

jbg