The legend continues... The Crawlspace / Waypoint Studios / Test Audiences / La Grande continue to host some of the coolest events that we've been blessed enough to be a part of... and Friday Sept. 26th -- CRAWLSPACE 3 -- was certainly no different. the Test Audiences and Waypoint Studio crew raised the bar once again
with a brand new warehouse space right next door to the Waypoint Studio space that hosted the first two Crawlspace Invitationals... this one, scrubbed from it's years as a metal-working shop and cleared out... stage built on one end... merch table... bar... ping-pong table. tons of dancing space. 400 capacity easy. mind blowing what they've done to the place. and we and some friends helped them christen it on Friday... it was beautiful.Avery Hook & Jeff Grammar kicked the evening off around 9pm with all of Test Audiences backing them up and Greg Rawlins also getting in on the action. a big family affair. very appropriate way to kick things off with everyone on stage part of the core of this rad scene around the Crawlspace and the budding art / music scene in La Grande...
after a short break, Test Audiences, the official hosts of the evening and our good good friends ripped into a big set of TA awesomeness... Avery, Jeff and Greg all stuck around on stage and kept the family spirit alive. here's some video of some goodness...
check the sick theremin work by Bill. :] rad tune. www.myspace.com/testaudiences
our buddies from Boise LE FLEUR made the trek over for the show and were Crawlspace virgins... stoked to have them there... and they sounded soooo good in the new space... Ivy's gorgeous vocals booming off the warehouse walls. you have to check them out: www.myspace.com/lefleur photo below by Shaun Daniel
things were running behind and kegs were going down like bowling pins, but at midnight:30 JARED MEES & THE GROWN CHILDREN took the stage for the first of several Album Release Parties they'll be doing around the country for their new album "Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money". which is stellar. and even features one of us finn rigginses on keyboards and some backup vocals on some tracks...
anyhow, they unleashed one of the most chaotic and crazy JM & TGC sets i've ever witnessed. complete mayhem!! in a most awesome way. i think there were as many interlude jams by the band in between songs with jared dealing with technical
difficulties as there were songs played... all the songs were off the hook. in the middle of "Working & Drinking" another technical difficulty and the need for water led Jared to offer a deal for the first person to get him some water could finish singing the song... Lisa came through and her and Megan sang the end of the song with Jared in the crowd playing guitar... it was pretty epic. this photo by Shaun Daniel is proof... what a crazy set. it bode very very well for the family tour that we'll be embarking on with JARED MEES & THE GROWN CHILDREN in just over a week... very very excited for it.we took the stage sometime around 1:45am to 4 empty kegs and a surprisingly strong showing of peeps still there... luckily the Test Audiences crew had gathered donations in the middle of the Jared Mees set and managed to buy several more cases
of beer... that probably played a big role in keeping as many people there as there was... it was a pretty wild set for us as well... super high energy despite the hour... we wrapped up a little bit after 3am after a few different encores. probably could've coaxed us into playing longer if we didn't have to hit the road due to a job i had to be at at 10am six hours away in Ketchum, ID... we packed up and hit the road for home just after 4am PST... we rolled in to Hailey just after 10am MST... i was a little late... but considering i was running on barely an hour sleep and made the effort... my boss was more than understanding... i finally went to sleep at about 2am later that night... pretty crazy 48 hours for sure...
anyhow, it was yet another epic adventure at The CRAWLSPACE in La Grande... and we can't thank our friends in Test Audiences enough for being so awesome and such radical hosts... thanks Bill + Wayne + Annie + Josh. you rule.
our buddy Shaun Daniel took all of these black and white photos above... and a bunch more sweet photos from the evening, check them out on his flickr site here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaunmdaniel/sets/72157607552011068/
definitely keep your ears and eyes peeled for more Crawlspace adventures as the legend continues...
our FALL US TOUR kicks off this Friday with a huge fun event in the mountains out Trail Creek... and then we're off... full tour itinerary at www.myspace.com/finnriggins
below are some more photos of our own from last Friday's show at the Crawlspace...
///reporting for all of us finn rigginses
///love, gilbert
look to the left... team Finn Riggins managed to notch 3 collective wins on the ping-pong table and make the ping-pong scoring wall...
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