Category: Shows
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Winter 2013 Tour Dates
We are pleased to announce a 5-date tour this winter that will take us across the western U.S. back to Los Angeles! Find all details on the SHOWS page or FACEBOOK. Come in from the cold and come hang with us this winter! JAN 6 – Denver, CO – Lion’s LairJAN 7 – Salt Lake…
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Fall 2012 North American Tour
We are hitting the road again next month! Our fall tour begins on October 19th in Madison, Wisconsin, where we are thrilled to be opening for Army Navy at UW Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace! Find all details on the SHOWS page and follow our FACEBOOK page for all new show announcements. See you on the…
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HEATWAVE Homecoming
Now six months into 2012, Joel and I have been out on the road a full three, and so have been spending most of that time sleeping in the back of of our minivan, eating out of a cooler, showering at YMCAs and truck stops, and, of course, driving for hours on end. And the…
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Embrace the chaos.
The Violet Lights play their first show in over four months tonight, and I can’t deny I’ve been hoping that it will go amazingly…and perfectly. But, as usual, what’s real is much harder to control than I’d like. Just a few days ago, my keyboard basically stopped working, and when it will be ready to…
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Hard to understand
It’s rare that I really understand why things happen the way they do, or why the people around me do the things they do. But sometimes the desire to understand becomes such a hopeless cause it becomes overwhelming. For awhile, this past week seemed to be going great: on Thursday we played an excitingly well-attended…
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Busy…but not busy enough
This past week, The Violet Lights played three shows, and although we had to do all that on top of our day jobs, I can say that it was fun and it was definitely exciting to be so busy. We must be closer to being able to work on music full time…right?? Thanks so much…
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Live at The Viper Room
I got my greedy little hands on some awesome photos from our first ever show! Thanks so much to Ray Lundrigan from PhotoLinguist. The Violet Lights perform at The Viper Room…Billy McIntyre of The Violet Lights performing at The Viper Room…
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WE ARE THE VIOLET LIGHTS
The sound guy at The Viper Room as we finish our set and the curtains just close, “I hope you guys know that you fucking rocked.” The Violet Lights played their first show on Tuesday, and although only some fifty people were there to witness it, the show was nothing short of a huge milestone.…