Maybe it's a little unofficial, but ubik.s playing at the Manifesto Hotshop on Friday night. This glass studio has been Michelle's home for a while now, and, though it's closing down, it's going out with a bang... the party should be pretty outrageous. It's not a show, and it's not a venue, but it's okay if we invite friends, and that includes all of you, right?

Similarly, we're coming up on the first Saturday of the month, and that means there's another Subcultural Awakening show at the Josephine. These shows are always all-ages, and they're benefit shows for the first Subcultural Awakening comp, a multi-band CD of largely unheralded Seattle music... because there's more to this town than just indie-pop.

A june show and a june show post: ubik.s returning to the Rendezvous on Friday (June 19)... which is a great venue for us: we sound really good there, they have a screen for projections, and it's a really comfortable room (a lot more comfortable than the December show we played there. Hooray for summer).

Friday, June 19
ubik. @ The Rendezvous
w/ Same-Sex Dictator
& Anon Remora
10:00 - $5 - 21+

Rendezvous shows usually start kind of late, so the show's at 10:00, and ubik. is the opening band... mostly because these shows feel their best when they get heavier as they go on. This bill is extremely interesting because all three bands have a lot of spaciousness and atmosphere built in, but there's also plenty of crushingly heavy density in there as well. This is a really cool line up, and a great show to be a part of.

Okay, so the upcoming show was sent out on our mailing list and on the ole' myspace... what else? Oh, yeah: there's a show tomorrow and there's no show post. Let's fix that.

May 24
ubik. @ The Bit Saloon
w/ Sod Hauler,
& Sindios
8:00 - $5 - 21+

Fixed.

We're pretty excited about this one: it's a Sunday, but everyone has Monday off (yay!), and we get to play with Sindios and Sod Hauler... who are awesome.

Labels: ballard, band, bit saloon, independent, local, music, seattle, sindios, sod hauler, ubik.

so, the Josephine's kind of an odd venue, eh? Last night's show turned out to be a lot of fun (and fairly foggy), but we're moving forward. ubik.s got a tour coming up in September, where we will bomb down I-5 as fast as the big blue van will carry us, crashing into venues as we go. We're also finishing up a recording of Cyclocosmia, which is going to be released on a 10" vinyl spit with The Ever Changing Sky... because that band and that medium both rule.

(though it will probably be streamed as an mp3 once we're done, too, so all the vinyl-haters will get to hear it. It'll be on the new album, too, when we get a new album out)

That, and Michelle's currently booking Subcultural Awakening benefit shows, which also happen at the Josephine, on the first Saturday of every month. These shows are highlighting the Seattle underground... the kinds of bands that don't get massive hype in the normal channels, mostly because they don't sound like everything else. The Subcultural Awakening shows are benefits-- the bands play for free-- and the proceeds are split between paying for the venue and putting out a Subcultural Awakening comp, which will be released in the fall. ubik.s going to be on there, too: we're playing the last show of the season, August 1st.

Before then, we've got a show coming up on Sunday, playing the Bit Saloon on May 24th with some excellent, excellent bands-- Sindios and Sod Hauler. But that's a few weeks off, and will get a proper show post in future.

But what can you expect playing last on a Wednesday night? We decided to just wing it and have a little fun. It was pretty loose. This was the first time we've ever played a show without a setlist. And we couldn't play certain songs because of a problem with Michelle's vocal processor. But we'll get that fixed. Plus, we filled the Funhouse with fog! I couldn't see my drums for the first song. By the time it cleared just about everyone that was there for the other bands had left leaving our friends right up front. Michelle got someone to dance his ass off on stage for a shot. And so we finished with "Gwen", broke down, and went home.

Next up, we're playing at the Josephine with two out of town bands and one local. Abiku from Baltimore, JonnyX and the Groadies from Portland, and Are You a Cat? from Seattle. It's all ages too, which we haven't done in a while. This is going to be a fun, strange show.

It looka lika dis:

The Josephine
Abiku,
JonnyX and the Groadies,
ubik.,
& Are You a Cat?

9:00 - All Ages!

-The guy that hits things with sticks

Though there are few things as riotous and just plain fun as a Monkey Pub show, we're topping off yesterday with an upcoming gig at the Funhouse. This one's a party being thrown by the Dead Baby Bike crew, so it will probably get pretty crazy.


Wednesday, April 29
ubik. @ The Funhouse
w/ Skwish,
& Fairies Wear Boots (Black Sabbath cover band)
9:30 - $3 - 21+

ubik's up this weekend at the Monkey Pub, one of our favorite neighborhood haunts-- The Monkey is an excellent little place in the U-District where the drinks are cheap, and if you smoke, you can have a great time giggling at the spectacle across the street in front of Dantes. We're playing with Blicky, who are excellent (you may have seen them play with us before), and the whole thing is as much fun as a bar show can get. The show post looks like this:

Saturday, April 25
ubik. @ The Monkey Pub
w/ Blicky
9:00 - $5 - 21+

ubik.s usually in motion (we don't tend to do much resting) so there's plenty on our horizon-- we are about to head into the studio to get some recording done, which is pretty exciting. ubik.s planning to do a vinyl release: a split 10" with The Ever Changing Sky(who rule... we wouldn't split vinyl with just anybody). We're taping this weekend, so it'll be a little bit before mixed, mastered, and reproduced records are going to be available, but we'll keep you posted.

We will be laying down Cyclocosmia, which is the song that our patches are referencing. Patches and shirts (you know we have new shirts, right?) are available at shows, and speaking of shows...

Also, there's been a lot of booking in our world. This stuff is always available at our shows page, and this sort of thing is widgetable for quick reference.






The next one is at the Monkey on April 25th, and that's just the first of the batch.

another show coming up, another show post for the world: we've got the opening slot at The Funhouse this Saturday (March 14) with Slave Traitor and Hellgrammite, and the crushingly dense Nine Worlds are in from Salt Lake City for this one (yay!)

We also have a new addition to our merch table-- ubik.s got shirts! (and you should definitely buy one)

March 14
ubik. @ The Funhouse
w/ Slave Traitor,
& Nine Worlds,
& Hellgrammite
9:00 - $6 - 21+

toldya there'd be more...

so we have locked down an opening slot for Nine Worlds' visit to seattle come March 14th, at The Funhouse, which is plenty exciting for plenty of reasons. First off, we dig Nine Worlds. Second, an opening slot means we're breaking with our Funhouse tradition of going on at around 12:30/12:45. Third, our friends in Slave Traitor are also on the bill (we've been trying to set up a show with those guys). Add Hellgrammite to the mix and this is looking like a really excellent show.

Labels: band, funhouse, Hellgrammite, Nine Worlds, seattle, show, Slave Traitor, ubik.