spring NW tour!!

updates updates updates.

rad shows the last couple of weeks. a big Benefit for the Boise Bicycle Project at the Visual Arts Collective on April 17th with the freight train of fun Jared Mees & The Grown Children and our fellow Boise rippers Le Fleur and Juntura. raise a bunch of money for the BBP and had a whale of a time. the next day, The Grown Children and us headed to La Grande for another amazing chapter in the epic annuals of The Crawlspace... offically Crawlspace VI. with Test Audiences and City of Animals who were better than ever. a surprise set from pretty radical travelling troubadors Come Gather Round Us sealed the deal for what was possibly one of the best Crawlspace shows ever...

thanks to our buddy Shaun Daniel, here's a glimpse into the crawlspace vortex... and of one of our new songs... :
"Wake" by Finn Riggins (Live at Crawlspace VI)


then last friday we helped host a sweaty sweaty dance party at Fresshies in Hailey... a classic indeed. Fresshies never fails. they know how to bring it and our love affair is a magnificent one. on Saturday we played a private birthday party in Fairfield at the ancient Breezie's Outlaws Saloon. it was off the hook. amazing people. amazing stuff on the walls. amazing party.

in between all this we've been finishing up writing for the new record and preparing for our little NW tour... starts tomorrow. as soon as we get back, we head in to the studio for 4 days. followed by the shows with Built To Spill. busy times. but the big ball is rolling and we're excited for it all.

below are the next month of shows, as always, help getting the word to people in these areas is appreciated to the power of forever.


4/29 MISSOULA, MT @ The Badlander w/ The Chalfonts + The Magic Square
*4/30 LEWISTON, ID @ Lewis & Clark State College SUB Ampitheatre 11am-1pm
4/30 MOSCOW, ID @ John's Alley w/ The Holiday Friends
5/1 SANDPOINT, ID @ Three Glasses
5/2 CLARKSTON, WA @ Hogan's Pub w/ Bart Budwig
*5/3 MOSCOW, ID @ Moscow Renaissance Fair in East City Park
*5/5 SPOKANE, WA @ The Empyrean w/ local guests
5/6 SEATTLE, WA @ The Comet Tavern w/ The Globes + The Glasses + The Magic Mirrors
*5/7 PORTLAND, OR @ Tender Loving Empire for 1st Thursday w/ Church
5/8 BELLINGHAM, WA @ The Rogue Hero w/ The Russians + The Mumbles
5/15 GARDEN CITY (boise), ID @ VaC opening for BUILT TO SPILL. w/ Juntura
*5/16 EAGLE, ID @ Eagle Island Experience Festival w/ Built to Spill + others
5/20 BOISE, ID @ Neurolux opening for MIKE WATT
*5/22 HAILEY, ID @ Sun Valley Brewery w/ Tartufi + Low Red Land
*5/23 the sticks, ID @ Ranch Fest w/ Tartufi + Low Red Land + Test Audiences + Le Fleur + Hillfolk Noir + Milo Duke + Piers Lamb + stars + bbq + camping + beer + fun

*denotes ALL AGES show
full details at www.myspace.com/finnriggins


check out Lisa playing drums:



and hot Cam:


to see more photos of hot Cam and his hairdos and more by Rachael Dara Fisher go here

also, here are a couple of photos from the Cherry City Music Festival we played in Salem, OR a few weeks ago... courtesy of Sam Guerrero:






for more photos from CCMF and from the Tender Loving Empire vaults go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/tenderlovingempire/

that's it for now. more soon.
love
gilbert

2009! Boise! West Coast Tour! NYE! La Grande! Wow!

///wow. been just over 2 weeks since we posted here... and so much has happened... christmas, 60 inches of snow, lots and lots of shoveling, lots and lots of cookies eaten, wild and super fun show at Fresshies in Hailey, incredible New Year's Eve show at The Crawlspace in La Grande, OR with a rad rad group of people and the amazing Test Audiences crew and our beloved and longtime friend Milo Duke... a fantastic kickoff to 2009... still reeling from it's awesomeness....

and as of a few days ago, Finn Riggins has officially relocated to Boise, which we're very very excited about. all kinds of great things happening around here and it's exhilarating being in the midst of it all. so much so that we intend to stay relatively close to home for the next several months with no extended touring planned until at least May as we work on a new record... except for this little two week West Coast Tour that we leave for tomorrow...


1/7 RENO,​ NV @ Red Rock Studi​os
*1/8 MONTE​REY,​ CA @ Monte​rey Live
*1/9 SANTA​ CRUZ,​ CA @ The Crepe​ Place​
*​1/​10 SAN FRANC​ISCO,​ CA @ El Rio
*​1/​12 SACRA​MENTO​,​ CA @ The Press​ Club for CLUB POW!
1/13 MOUNT​ SHAST​A,​ CA @ The Stage​ Door
1/14 EUGEN​E,​ OR @ Sam Bond'​s Garag​e
# 1/15 PORTL​AND,​ OR @ Doug Fir
# 1/16 SALEM​,​ OR @ the IKE Box
1/18 ASTOR​IA,​ OR @ Fort Georg​e Brewe​ry
1/20 BOISE​,​ ID @ TBA -- Obama​ inaug​urati​on party​!​!​
1/27 GARDE​N CITY,​ ID @ Visua​l Arts Colle​ctive​
1/29 SPOKA​NE,​ WA @ Baby Bar
1/30 MOSCO​W,​ ID @ 1912 Cente​r -- Frien​ds of the Clear​water​ Benef​it
1/31 KELLO​GG,​ ID @ Dirty​ Ernie​'​s -- USCSA​ Colle​giate​ Ski Races​ after​ party​!​!​

* w/ Low Red Land (san franc​isco)​
# w/ Jared​ Mees and The Grown​ Child​ren (​portl​and)​


for full detai​ls on each show visit​ our myspace site www.myspa​ce.​com/​finnr​iggin​s


here's a good picture of Milo Duke celebrating late night on New Year's Eve...


wow.
see you soon.

///gilbert

CRAWLSPACE 3: 9-26-08 La Grande, OR

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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