Scripted Failures

Friday was a show I won’t forget. The Ataris played at the Multiplex in north Madison, which, despite it’s name, is a very small venue in a strip mall attached to a Texaco station. The show had been moved from Crossroads Music Hall in Huntsville about a week beforehand, so the turnout was a little smaller than expected. Honestly, I never thought I’d get to see the Ataris with a room of about 50 people. Opening for them were local acts or the Children’s Crusade, The Arrival (their last show), and Eyes Around.

Eyes Around were pretty good, but there were problems with the mix that were never fully reconciled by the end of their set. The Arrival brought out the teen girl crowd, most of whom didn’t stay past their set, unfortunately. They were solid as usual, and I got to pick up their last EP for super cheap. otCC featured former members of Married in a Fever and was a pleasant surprise. I had never seen them before, but their sound was unique and the songwriting was strong. They seemed genuinely starstruck to be opening for The Ataris (as I would be).

The Ataris put on a pretty amazing show. It was heavy on their older material (not a single track from Welcome the Night), so it was as if I was seeing them back in college right after So Long Astoria. Highlights were “Summer Wind Was Always Our Song,” “Unopened Letter to the World,” “I.O.U. One Galaxy,” and of course, “San Dimas High School Football Rules.” Despite playing to such a small crowd, they gave it their all and weren’t just going through the motions. Talking to Kris after the show, I apologized at the lack of people that showed up, but he didn’t seem to mind at all. I’m glad we were able to give them an extra stop on their way through the southeast. Hopefully he’ll be coming back by on his solo tour. Look for The Ataris’ new album, “The Graveyard of the Atlantic” later this year (he said around the August timeframe).

All in all, it was my favorite type of show: a couple of good local bands, awesome headliner, being a part of a small, dedicated group fans, getting to banter with the band, request songs, talking afterward at the merch table, etc. If every show was like this, I’d be a happy guy.

Thanks to Nathan Carter and 256 Booking for putting on the show.

Links:
The Ataris
or the Children’s Crusade
The Arrival
Eyes Around
256 Booking

So I got the Wordpress iPod app. Maybe I’ll update more now that it’s so convenient. We’ll see.

As you may have noticed, the blog looks a bit different now. And you may have also noticed that you couldn’t access the site for a short time. We migrated from Lifetype to Wordpress for our blogging software. This makes it a whole lot easier to upload audio/video/photos, and it also allows users like you to create accounts to comment without having to enter your information each time.

Note: If you read by RSS (in which case you may already have seen the message), the new RSS link is different. It is now http://blog.scriptedfailures.com/feed

Easy enough to remember.

I tried to maintain all the entry and comment text, so if you see anything wrong, let me know.

We’ll have a real update soon.

So I’ve been listening to a lot of Cursive’s Domestica lately.  It’s one of those records that just seems to go through frequent cycles of high-rotation.  This time around, however, I paid attention more to the themes of the record and noticed more than a couple of parallels, so I decided to figure out once and for all what the common threads were in these songs and share them with you. The following table illustrates my findings:

As you can see “The Radiator Hums” exemplifies the most of all of these common threads.  I should do this for all of their albums (that is neither a threat, nor a promise).

I wrote this entry before we changed servers, so I had to write it again.  I apologize to any RSS readers out there that might’ve gotten this twice.

We’ve been given a shout out on Overlawyered.com!   I made a favicon for them and they linked to us.  Check out the post here.

I Want to Be Reviewed!

Does
your band have a new album and want to be reviewed?  Send a copy of your album and/or press kit to:

Scripted Failures
Re: Submission
213 Andra Street
Huntsville, AL
35758

Send digital submissions (single songs only!) to submissions@scriptedfailures.com.  If you’d like us to review a full album digitally, send a URL from which it may be downloaded.

We will accept and make a solid effort to review any and all submissions we receive.  If you have submitted something to us, and haven’t seen a response from us in a reasonable length of time, feel free to email us again.

I Want to Advertise on Your Blog!

We are currently looking for advertisers.  If you’d like to advertise on the site, send an email to advertising@scriptedfailures.com.

If you have any other questions or comments, feel free to email info@scriptedfailures.com.

Well, here it is.  The Scripted Failures Indie Music Blog.  I’ve worked out the first template, and things are looking pretty good.  LifeType is very nice.  There are obviously still some kinks to work out, but this is it for the time being.  If you feel like it, leave some comments.  I do want to see if comment notification works.  Also, anyone with an RSS reader can add the RSS/Atom feed (located at the bottom right of the page) and get notified when we post new updates.  Expect the first review soon!

Later,
Jim