Spring Updates

April 5th, 2008 by Pat | Posted in announcements, shows | No Comments »

Some quick announcements:
a) We are playing a free show at 7pm this Tuesday night, April 8, at the M-Shop in Ames, IA. This is part of the VEISHEA Battle of the Bands Wildcard competition. It has also traditionally been the site of the Strangers’ best show each year. Crowd participation is always a key factor for the judges, and this is always ton’s of fun, so don’t miss out. Schedule of Battle and Wildcard is here, and is also useful if you want to do a case-study in bending time for the purpose of successful event management. Or, it’s just plain funny (”Each band will still have a 30 minute set time including set up and tear down. The schedule is as follows: 5:00- Wild Card 1, 5:25- Wild Card 2, 5:50- Wild Card 3…”).
2) Cinco de Moustache IV: Quatro, Cinco, ‘Stache. This year, Cinco de Moustache is being observed on Saturday, May 3. The official celebration, as always, will take place at the Bali Satay House. Joining the Strangers will be Ames indie/blues sensations Radio Moscow (this is one of a few local stops for them between their European tour and their summer US tour - seriously), and, for their final show ever, Saint Radar. Between the rock and roll and the facial hair, this is going to be one great time, let me tell you.
D) The Lone Strangers - Live at Zeke’s is coming. Soon. I swear. Keep an eye out at the Strangers Blog for updates and details.

The New Site

February 18th, 2008 by Pat | Posted in announcements | No Comments »

Welcome to the newly redesigned lonestrangers.com - I hope you like it as much as we do! Ideally this will be a one-stop shop where you can see what’s happening with the Strangers, what’s NOT happening, check out upcoming shows, and, of course, listen to tunes, such as the en route Lone Strangers Live at Zeke’s.

Since that stuff is all still on the way, for now, I’ll recommend swinging by treverkeith.com. Trever is the former singer/songwriter of one of MY favorite bands, Face to Face. He’s got a new solo album out that I really enjoy, and he’s also doing an online-only release, as we plan to with Live at Zeke’s (our implementation and web design will, of course, be better). Give it a listen, and keep checking back here - more is on the way!