La Snacks

Tour, Secret Playlist, and Emos Tonight

// April 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // Tour, music, press

Hey Guys,

Folks in Austin, we are playing a show tonight before we go on tour on the outfloor at emo’s with Pretty Nice, Oh No Oh My and The Low Lows. Doors open at 9pm and we play right at 10pm so please come out an see us before we go on tour.

Everybody, La Snacks is being feature on the website secret playlist with the likes of the Walkmen, The B52’s, and more. Check it out here: http://www.mysecretplaylist.com/2009/04/robert-segovia-la-snacks/.

Finally we are going out on tour and here are the dates if you have friends in these cities let them know what is up. If you notice our DC show on May 5 has been moved to the University of Maryland. Long story …

April 30, 2009 10PM - Emos w/ Pretty and Nice, Oh No Oh My and The Low Lows (Austin, Texas)
May 1, 2009 10PM - Lazer Puzzy w/ Daniel Francis Doyle and Ginsu Wives (Little Rock, Arkansas)
May 3, 2009 6PM - Third Rail Radio WMUC (College Park, Maryland)
May 4, 2009 10PM - Mojo 13 (Wilmington, Delaware)
May 5, 2009 10PM - Unversity of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
May 6, 2009 10PM - Death By Audio w/ Binary Market Show, Yves Klein Blue and Josh Bloom (Brooklyn, New York)
May 7, 2009 10PM - Lit Lounge w/ Manawi Thorn, Severe Severe and Islam is the Light (Manhattan, New York)
May 9, 2009 10PM - Jack Spratt’s w/ Joe Norkus (solo) & Spaghetti Western and Sexy Prime (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

Anyways Emo’s tonight hope you can all make it out,
Robert/La Snacks

SXSW in review via Trae

// April 5th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // festival, music, news

What a Doozy? After South By… I felt a little Woozy.

To say the least.

We had three shows in two days, so Thursday was a double header of sorts.

We played the first show, it went ok. It could have been better but we were pretty exhausted with works and plannings as la snacks (Robert) curated a two day show.

I couldn’t seem to get anyone to cover any of my shifts from work as well. So I either begged and borrowed to get out an hour early or same day switched so I could make it to my shows, which involved me riding my bike through the insane SXSW traffic to get to the shows.

(Did you know clubs upped the parking fee to $20? Suckers!)

After the first show, I went out to eat at Polvo’s with friends and had some food and margaritas. From there Marisa and I went to Auditorium shores and hung out on a hill and digested.

The second show approaching lead me to our official showcase at the hide out. What a cool venue. Small/intimate/theatre seating/awesome. The roadies had a little trouble with running a line out and like most situations, it was two guys (me and sound guy) working,rigging my amp, and three others standing around. Consequently, an unlikely roadie got blasted in the eye by my bass head and I felt bad. This show went well, and sounded really good.

I got about five hours sleep and went to work. Later that night I went to Space Cave and saw Transmography. It’s a shame they didn’t get a SXSW Show. They are a lot more creative and have more heart/want than a lot of the bands I saw that had showcases.

Saturday, I reckon I had four hours sleep and I had to work at 8 am. Exhaustion was setting in. I emergen-c’d my heart out. worked my shift and bathed in the sink at work. It was Tuesday I had last bathed and I felt fresh afterwards. [Note: The hand soap in bathrooms makes your hair really soft.] After the quick sink bath, I rode my bike to the show, stomached some high lifes, and played a show. It was a good show. Probably our best show. Definitely, our funnest.

From there I proceeded to eat pizza, and got to see The Proclaimers, who were amazing and the best band I saw all SXSW. They really go for it. I saw a bit of Kings of Leon, didn’t really care for them and left. I caught Echo and the Bunnymen and got right up to the front of the stage. They were all outfits and sunglasses much like KOL. There was no oomf! in their set like The Proclaimers, who were just two brothers, a guit and a tamborine (did I mention they were awesomely captivating?). I stayed for about five and a half songs for Echo and the Bunnymen and felt myself starting to black out. So I bounced. I made it home, fell asleep in the bath and awoke refreshed and fell asleep correctly. Got some sleep and am now recovering.

What a hectic and awesome week?

Later,
Trae

Song of the Blog: La Snacks-That Old Dirty Word.

PS La Snacks Played two new songs… They are good.

PPS Had the opportunity to see DEVO, pretty glad I missed it. I spent my time wisely.

(Trae is dumb for this I like Devo - Robert)

SXSW is coming fast

// March 8th, 2009 // No Comments » // festival, music, news

We are working on some new songs, waiting for our drummer to come back, booking an east coast tour and sleeping now because we won’t be able to later. SXSW is going to be crazy and if you need to know where we will be at the festival check out myspace.com/lasnacks.

Also up on the player right now we got Holy Roman Empire and Are We Danger so check it out. So we’re pretty busy if you’re in Austin hope you can come see us for some of our SXSW shows.

Until Next Time,
La Snacks