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musician/roadie

When Joel’s not writing songs, rehearsing, playing shows, working, or remodeling our lockout, he’s disassembling music equipment all over our apartment floor, firing up his soldering iron and getting his amps, guitars and pedals to work or work better. Oftentimes this goes down in the middle of a Saturday afternoon, but sometimes its minutes before…
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…
a little less glamorous

Most projects undertaken by Joel and I (and any unfortunate souls we can convince to get involved!), for some reason, always take much longer and turn out to be more work than we originally envisioned. But perfectionists as we are, rarely a project we start will be finished with a half-hearted effort. In this case,…
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…
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.…
Silverlake Squalor

Okay…squalor might be too strong of a word, but having moved in a rush less than two weeks ago, holding three late-night band rehearsals a week, going out and drinking more than we probably should, being broke, and just plain not being able to grasp whether things are going really well or horribly wrong, can…
THE LOCKOUT

This week we got our very own 24/7 lockout!! So now we can finally spend a lot less time hauling equipment around and setting up and a lot more time getting awesome. Right now the lockout is just a plain white room with some dirty carpet and an old abandoned couch, but we’ve been working…
Finished at Long Last!!!

We’ve finally finished the recording, and having started back in June of ’09 it’s about damn time! The master came back from London late last Wednesday and by Thursday night was declared most satisfactory. Stream the pre-release single “Your Love/Not Enough” now from the Violet Lights’ homepage, myspace, or facebook pages OR sign up on…
Late Night PST

Thursday — 06-01-2011 — 1000 hrs. — GMT Amber and I successfully transfered 5 Top Secret Files to a secure server at: Metropolis Mastering — Chiswick High Road — London — UK …and with that our production work on the Sex & Sound EP is drawn to a close. Thanks to Graham, Geoff, Jeb, Thom,…