the new years eve potluck house party
Posted on December 25, 2007
get ready for something real this new years eve. Come to celebrate the end of this crazy year and make plans for the next. What could be better than to celebrate among friends by preparing food, making music, dancing, reading poetry. 8:00 pm: preparation of the feast: come and help cook. 9:00 pm: the feast. 10:00 pm: live music and dancing (Some of Beltaine’s fire), then stories, poetry, more feasting, bring your art…
The Potluck House
1229 Carrison St. Berkeley
December 31
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A couple changes
Posted on December 23, 2007
Allright, the album has been out for just under 2 weeks now and the results are officially in on our experiment releasing the album on a pay-what-you-want basis: after 12 days and a ton of downloads, not one person has paid. Which is disappointingly, but not terribly surprising. Unfortunately, we can’t keep giving it away - not if we want to be able to finance a physical print run any time soon. So we’ve taken down the free mp3’s and changed it so the album now costs $10 to download.
If you absolutely can’t afford $10 or don’t have any access to a credit card you can look for the album on Jamendo or the various file-sharing networks. AmieStreet also has it on a track-by-track basis. We’re probably going to put it up on iTunes too, though we’d prefer to sell the bulk of the mp3 downloads directly since iTunes and most other sites take 30%-40% of the sale price right off the top, whereas when you buy the album directly from us all the money goes to the band.
anyway, hope ya’ll had/have a good solstice / christmas / hanukkah / athiest-gift-exchange-day,
lynx,
for Beltaine’s Fire
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Record Release Party + LA tour dates
Posted on December 16, 2007
A big THANK YOU to everyone who came out to our album release party at the Bistro in Hayward tonight! we had a great turn out, filled the venue to capacity, played 2 full sets, and had a lot of fun. good times! hit up the photo gallery to check the pics.
also - you might have noticed that our ‘upcoming shows’ calender is kind of empty. We’re taking January and the first half of february off from shows because people will be travelling, but we’re working on a tour down to LA and back for the end of february. our current dates are:
thurs, Feb. 21st - santa cruz
fri 22nd - Oxnard or Santa Barbara
sat 23th - LA show 1
sun 24th - LA show 2
mon 25th promo / day off
tues 26th - San Diego
weds 27th - LA suburbs. either Orange County or Antelope Valley.
thurs. 28th - Fresno
If you’re in any of those cities and want to help us with promo and/or finding venues we’d love any help we can get. we’ve had good luck lately doing free shows where instead getting paid off the door we get a percentage of the bar, so venues that’d be down for that kind of arrangement would be ideal; especially since this will be our first time down to LA.
and, for all you lucky folks in the east bay, Kater’s throwing an open-invitation house party at his place for new years eve / hogmanay! we’ll be playing a 45 minute-or-so set. send an email ef you want to come on out and we’ll send you the address!