April 21, 2011 Update

So last Sunday morning we were all getting together at Garrett's to do a quick photo shoot, but Cam went back to sleep with his phone on silent, so it never happened. We did them instead last night before practice and they turned out pretty good. We have one up on the facebook now. Thanks to Garrett's friend, Emily, for taking the picture for us, it was a blast. We went down Elmwood avenue, and even got a picture at Breckenridge and Elmwood, which is where the name Breckenwood comes from. We are all super excited to head down to Kent State on Saturday to play a headlining show with some great bands including Eastway Heroes, Sight Unseen, Eric Courtney and All Ends Up. I also came up with an idea for a music video, once we get the EP recorded for one of the songs, so if anyone (especially 5-6 girls) want to be in a music video sometime in June, let us know. Thats it for now, but here's the picture on facebook:

Mike Bird

So I was on Facebook yesterday, and I was invited to a benefit show. I didn't know what it was for so I checked it out. It was for an avid show goer named Mike Bird who had a serious spinal injury after a crowd surfer hit him. There is a benefit show at Xtreme Wheels on May 22 from 1:00 til 11:00 P.M. so come on out and help support Mike. According to the Facebook page Confirmed bands to play thus far:

RHINOCEROS
ENDEAVORS
BETTER TIMES
LAPSE
AGITATOR
REAL PEOPLE
WHAT LIES BENEATH
ANCHOR ME DOWN
ENOUGH
ALERT

There's also a blog set up with more information here

Rathskeller @ KSU

In just over a weeks time, Breckenwood will be heading to Kent, Ohio to perform at Kent State University, which happens to be the farthest west (fun fact) we have traveled for a show to date. I saw the pictures of the fliers today, and they look pretty cool, despite Brian and Micah still being in the band, haha. Oh well, we'll still post em. Arnt messed up things like pennies and stamps worth more money in the future?



Anyway, we're driving quite a few people down to Kent for the weekend, hoping to draw at least 20 people for us. I'm giving it another day or two to see if the flier gets fixed before I go to Capen and use my quota to just print off like 300 fliers to hand out on campus. Sadly we're still taking 3 cars for people, 3 basses, 1 bass amp, 4 guitars, 1 combo amp and 1 half stack plus a drum set. We're working on getting a trailer for when we go on tour (news to be announced) later this summer. Just wanted to mention that little ditty. Thank you and good night.

Here's the flier I edited:

Franklin Rocks!

Yesterday, we all woke up early and went to Garrett's for a 9:30 A.M. rehearsal, which apparently helped. After driving the 3 hours to Franklin, PA, we played a killer show to one of our largest crowds yet. The opening band, Last Chance, Louis was TERRIFIC. Watching Bernie and guitar was like...I don't even know. It was just natural for him to be playing. Destanie's voice was simply AMAZING as well. Just a great performance. We went on next and played one of our best shows musically, with me only messing up Life After You a little bit. We ended our set with Garrett's dedication of Common Fool to his mom before rocking out to Loser of the Year and then All the Small Things by Blink 182! Almost Lifelike rocked out after us with some great covers that were really well performed and even threw in 2 original songs by singer Zoe Walters. My Cardboard Spaceship Adventure then took stage with a GREAT high energy set that got the crowd jumping. It was a great set, thanks to Meagan, who put the whole thing together for Diabetes Research. Afterwards, we got to interact with a lot of other bands, and fans. We even signed a shirt for one fan, even though it wasn't our shirt! The people from Franklin were great. I can't express how much I would like to play another show here in teh near future! Thank You Franklin, PA! Thanks to Grace for the picture.