OKAY! Man, it’s been a while! No, we did not give up on the blog to all you fans that keep up with us here. Like most of y’all we’ve been hard at work this fall, diggin that hole!

I believe where we left off was right before we went to play the New England Culture Fest in Lowell, Mass. on Sept. 1st ! This was a great opportunity for us! We thoroughly enjoyed being a part of a program with so much talent. Our set was a lot shorter than most of our shows (and all of you out there who have seen us do our thang know that we just get warmed up after 30 mins.) but it was still sweet! We played the standard tunes from ‘UPROOT THE ISLAND’ which went over pretty well with the very attentive crowd. Good responses all around! We will also have some photos and some quality video from the performance soon so keep an eye out at the website and myspace for the material!

(On a side note: This is message for other groups out there. If you are ever booked along side the Boston Horns, play before them! These guys were so klutch. The years these guys have been playing live is very apparent when they are on stage! Be sure to check them out at www.bostonhorns.com! Organ in Orbit was another great trio of performers that played that day!)

In the few days after the NECultureFest we slipped back down to eastern Kentucky for a double header at Morehead State Univ. and Eastern Kentucky Univ. Two shows in 3 days, 5 states away! It was kinda crazy only because we drove for 12 hours the first day, slept. Woke up, played two shows, slept. Woke up, drove 12 hours home, slept. (Some drinks were omitted from that schedule.) But it was a valiant effort! It was our first time at Morehead State! (At least it felt like the first time.) The show for their out door event on a beautiful day was well received and all had a good time! We had some free time before the gig so we left Morehead to take a drive down to Red River Gorge further south. Not only is Kentucky great for a drive in the middle of the day but it’s also enhanced by Little Feat. Check em both out!

After the Morehead gig we made it on time to play our show at EKU, which was the 3rd pleasant experience we’ve had in Richmond, KY. Thanks to Lonnie and his crew and all the staff at EKU for making it fun! As well, to a small group of our fans down there in Richmond led by Sam the bassist; we will be back to conquer at Guitar Hero! Prepare to be impaled on a plastic guitar!

On Sept. 14th we drove back up 87 for two nights of shows at the Dancing Bear and more romping through Lake Placid. Every time we go back to LP there are more and more fans. GOOD TO HAVE YOU! Another delight was being interviewed over the radio that night by a local radio station! Thanks for the plugs! All day long at the venue they were promoting the show for that night! We did leave them a few cd’s to be archived at the station but damn it all if we don’t have any of the info for which station it actually was that aired us! DuhhhhHhHH,…..uhhhhhh.

On the 15th of Sept. we had a second night of wonderful performances from both us and the MOST TALENTED MAN IN THE WORLD; yes, Phil Olejack. With his own small set of tunes he entertained the audience between our final sets for the weekend but when we all got back on stage he pulverized the crowd with nothing less than pristine vocals and challenged the viewers to believe that the voice coming from the speakers was actually coming from his mouth!

The following weekend we were back in Queens for a spot down at Cronin’s on
the 21st, which was more than a blast with a little help from the magic of Dave Cremin between sets! IT NEVER FAILS to have a Dave Cremin perform. And the night after we hit up a local spot out in KINGS PARK, LONG ISLAND called D.S. Shanahan’s. The room was great for our sound but our draw came at an inopportune time for the locals celebrating holidays and vacationing.

On the 27th of Sept. we played another college in Worcester, Mass. named Assumption College. This gig was another great experience of handing out the rock for many students who piled in at the beginning of the show. But once again our attempts to spread our music to new ears was thwarted. Around 2/3s of the way through the show we lost a good portion of our audience to the most tumultuous enemy of music, yes; TV. With weeknight clinchers on like Grey’s Anatomy and other shows with pleasing plot lines college shows sometimes suffer from this unexpected audience thieves. FOILED!

On the first of Oct. we played our second show at New England College in Henniker, NH. We changed venues from the coffeehouse to pub on campus for another well attended show. Thanks to the students who came out that night to help us sing! There’s nothing quite like having a group of people sing your songs for you at your show! Beautiful!

Last week we played another ‘2nd show’ for the students and staff up at Paul Smith’s College in Paul Smith, NY. Only this time it wasn’t buried under 5 feet of snow. Once again, every time we head back to a venue for a repeat show the audience just grows and grows! It was great to have everyone out and dancing that night! Thanx to all the students and Jill Susice! After the show we enjoyed stepping into the DJ Booth for the school’s radio station and giving them an impromptu live performance of ‘Hoppin’ a Train to Richmond’. To all you students up there: keep an ear out for songs from ‘UPROOT THE ISLAND’ on your school radio! We gave some cds to the station’s archive to be played in the future!

The first weekend of Oct., Jason, Fitz, & I started attending the regional conferences for the National Asso. Of Campus Activities (NACA) 2007 to book the next year’s tour of colleges. We have taken a little time away from New York but we will be back in the city for a show on HALLOWEEN! Join us at the pig!

As I write this we are leaving St. Charles, Ill. from NACA Mid America where we had a great week getting interest together for another great season of shows out here in the Midwest! We had a lot of great responses from the schools and expect to be out here quite a bit in the Spring of 2008! Another venue that we have now broken in to and expect to visit again was where we played a show at 6 days ago in De Kalb, Ill. We played the underground venue at Otto’s for the first time. That night, we were lucky to have our sound taken care of by Eric, an engineer who frequently tours with the phenomenal band; the Legendary Shack Shakers. Thanx dude for makin it sound great! We were also DOOBLY pleased to have old friend Andrew Livingston attend the show with his crew who also sang our songs even though this was their first PBF show ever! THANX!!! We had a blast out here and we’ll most definitely be back around the Chicago area FOR YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep it cool y’all!!!!!
Patrick



NEXT UP: On our way back to the city we'll be stopping by Evansville, Indiana to play the Univ. of Evansville which most likely, we'll be playing again in the spring! ......Evansville.

Also we'll be hangin at the pig this HOLLA-WEEN with a bunch of NEW SONGS and a couple of old tunes that will light up the night!!!!!
BE THERE!!!!!

This is a photo from the Jackson-Gore Music Series at Okemo Mountain in Vermont. That show was a lot of fun although all of our stuff was soaked by the time we were done playing the show. When we arrived it looked like rain but didn't. But by the end of the three hour set the humidity had settled and there was a nice layer of water on top of everything. The amps, guitars, drums, and all of the bugs that found meals on our legs. GREAT, RIGHT?!

We also went to play the Whaling City Music Fest in New Bedford, Mass. where we were almost late. SURPRISE!!!!!!! There was hardly any audience there for us but we did get to see some amateur league wrestling before our set. Sorry we don't have any pics of me getting body slammed but after our show the wrestlers had all been gone for some time. And I really wanted a photo of some 400 pound dude kickin' my ass!

July 28th at the pig was fun as always! We're looking forward to the 31st of August! I think we'll be having some friends there that haven't seen us in a while! At the last PnW show we had Tyler Brown jump up again and do so horn work during So Real and our quick version of Tequila which is always fun! I swear to God we've got to get that guy to a rehearsal one day because it already sounds so freakin awesome without any. Man what we could really do with rehearsal! As well, this fall look for a PBF show with TJ MOSS! While we have no venue or date yet, we've been tryin to find a place and time to play together for months now. We will TJ!

July and August have been kinda slow for us. We've just been sittin on the beach of life and trying not to get sunburnt! However we will be kickin this fall off with a bang at the Pig on the 31st! Sept. 1st we head to Mass. for the New England Culture Fest, (Hmmmmmm. Perfect.) and another stint in Kentucky, Lake Placid, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, the Pig on Sept. 8th and a new gig for a Dance Therapy Convention in Brooklyn which should be a LOAD OF FUN! (Sorry, private party!)

But either way, you know how to get a hold of us if you need a good pieboy now and then. (Or just a mediocre one.)

KEEP IT COOL!!!!!
Patrick

Alright, so,....sorry for the delay, but, uh....., about a 1/2 a month ago we took off for Stowe, VT to play the Rusty Nail on June 15th. What a town! Pie Boys Flat fully endorses the state of Vermont! Naturerific.

This show was great! The picture above is from that night. The club was huge and had great sound. They got a full dose of the pieboys that night with a four hour show! After some shows the month before where we had vocal troubles from playing long shows, we were more than happy to have a performance without such woes! THANX STOWE!

The morning after the show, Fitz was off to the wedding of a friend while Jason and I began the long dark van ride to Richmond, Kentucky. During the blur of two days straight in the van, going up a mountain at 40 mph and down the other side at 85, we made it from Vermont to the Pennsylvania/Maryland border on ONE TANK of gas! We arrived in Lexington, Kentucky too late on a Sunday night to do anything, picked up Fitz the next day at the airport, and were off to Richmond for the next show. In the center of campus Eastern Kentucky Univ. has a huge outdoor ampitheater with stone seating where we played a great set for the first of two shows that we had booked there that week. After the show we visited a few spots in low profile Richmond. With a couple nights to kill while we were there we picked up another gig at a local spot called Woody's to be held the night before our second gig at EKU. BONUS! The next day we left for Maryland to play a private party for some friends of ours but we were soon back in KY for Woody's and the second EKU gig. Both gigs were a pleasure but ran by a little too quickly as it was in-and-outta the van for two weeks straight by now. We did get to meet some folks while we were out there that showed us a good time! THANX RICHMOND! We'll see you all the first week of September when we head back out for another Eastern Kentucky U. job and a separate gig at Morehead College in Morehead, KY. No I'm not making this up.

BACK IN THE VAN. We made it back to the city for a show on Fri. the 29th at the Pig 'n' Whistle which was 'tastic as always! Thanx pig. The next night was a gig at Grape Street in Philadelphia. As we are trying to build our army of fans in the U.S. before we move worldwide we were pretty excited to bust on to a new scene. Unfortunately, we have never played in Philly and have no following. While the club was awesome and the sound was good we only had a few fans in the crowd which did include none other than Jonas Bowen; co-writer and honorary member of Pie Boys Flat.

TONIGHT! FRI. 7.6.07 Right now Jason is out of town doing missions work for hungry children in New Hampshire but this evening Fitz and I will be performing at the Pig 'n' Whistle with James Regan and John Kahnt; two musicians who are sure to get your ears so hot your q-tips will burn in fiery blaze of waxy glory.

HELLO! This is Patrick from Pie Boys Flat! We're back in the city after a couple of weeks up the road in Lake Placid, NY and N. Conway, NH. Through a few ups and downs it seems like the summer is flying by!

On the 24th the pieboys tried our hand at a Thursday night gig at the Pig 'n' Whistle in Manhattan. While our turnout was a little low the gig was cool. We finally started on time seeing as how we were to start earlier that night. Our show there on June 1st was a return to our usual blast of a time at the Pig. We'll be back on the 29th!!

On June 25th we drove up 87 to Lake Placid, NY in the Adirondack Mountains for our second group of dates since our first trip in Jan. of 07. We noticed a significant increase in the audience this time. A lot of the listeners were ready to party and boy did they. They were out to spend a lot of money (as they had to in Lake Placid during tourist season). We invited one listener up for a tambourine solo, well,..... she commandeered the tambourine and my mic for an asscredible solo on Bad Company's 'Can't Get Enough'! I never really understood that song until that night. Most people wouldn't until they've seen a tambourine played on an ass cheek. I never knew Bad Company went so deep. So deep.

Those two nights up in the Plass went fine but we did have a few moments of weakness with our voices as is usual with 2 back-to-back 4 hour shows. So rest was a must over the few days we had back in NYC before we went to New Hampshire to play a few gigs at Delaney's Hole in the Wall and another double header at the Red Parka Pub. Delaney's was great as were the last two times we played there. Aside from a few technical kinks were worked out we managed to have a killer show. The next two nights at the Parka however were awesome! Both nights there we had a killer crowd ready for us! Word had spread through the town that we were playing the 3 shows that week and they showed us a hell of a time! One of the highlights of the shows was an impromptu version of 'Jane Says' with local bartender HELENE who wailed! Helene, you are in the wrong business. As well we would like to thank Sarah Nuri AGAIN for all the hard work she had done for us on getting people out to the shows that week! What a success she made for us!

Right now we've got a couple days to hang around the city until we head up to Stowe, VT. to play a club date and then off to Eastern Kentucky Univ. for a double header and a private party in Va. Afterwards we'll be back here in NYC for a gig at the pig on the 29th! Don't miss it and stay cool!

Hello everyone!!! This is Patrick from Pie Boys Flat! May has been good for us here at PBF. We've had a little down time to relax from being on the road and, more importantly, time to prepare some new songs for steady play now at future shows!

Starting from where we left off, we played a string of dates at the very end of April at schools in Md., Penn., D.C., Mass., and Maine! As always we had a great time playing for Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland on 4/26. It was our third time playing there it's always been a blast. Obviously, an audience can make all shows sink or swim and Wash. Coll. has always been good to us. At some points during our ranting with the crowd I think they stole the show from us. (Sorry that's a non paying position). We'll see them next time!

The next night we played Catholic Univ. in Washington, D.C. for the first time. PBF is proud to announce that we broke our curse of getting shut down at religious schools! That's a bad trait to have. But FHG by Tenacious D will work everytime!

This show was awesome. We were band #3 out of 3 that night at a huge, all day barbeque/concert/sporting event with well over a thousand students attending. With such a huge number of people there it was a little hard to manage. The venue was inside. That's good because there would have been nothing inside other than that all day due to the beautiful weather. By the time our slot came around it was dusk and the remaining students were happy to help us move our show to an outdoor patio overlooking the field where all the students were (pictured above). The night was great. The kids had a good time dancing. We got paid and rolled to the next gig...........at Shippensburg Univ. in Shippensburg, Penn.!

This day was wrought with problems and few exceptions. We showed up at the school to find an outdoor event on a day when the weather was questionable. The couple running sound were excellent! Incredibly professional and intelligent they also knew when enough rain was enough. There was just enough for all of us to move the show inside to a nice sounding room a mile away from the event. Unfortunately we didn't play to a lot of people that day but we did get to meet, view, and befriend a great reggae band from the Baltimore area! The Unity Reggae Band was playing after us and it was a pleasure to hear their music. Good Stuff!

We played a couple of shows the following day that unfortunately seemed to drift by. Even though we were welcomed so warmly at Greenfield Comm. Coll. in Mass. we only had a small amount of time to play. And at Univ. of Maine we played to our largest audience who didn't seem to really notice the band that played in the corner of that HUGE parking lot. The event looked like it was a blast but we found ourselves, once again, just a part of a huge event for the school. So we got the check got back in the van. Maybe next time......

On the 5th of May we were warmly welcomed back to the Pig in NYC! We'll be playing there on Thurs. the 24th this month and I'm excited to see our turn out on a new night!

On the 19th of May we played down at Ulysses for the 3rd time and it couldn't have gone better......again! Aside from having a wonderful, (and may I say goodlooking) audience that night we had the pleasure of having the Tim Blane Band (formerly Prom Night) open up for us, as well as unveiling two new tunes we have been working on! The first song we played was called 'Jamaica New Dance' and the second, 'If I've Done You Wrong'. Both of which pleasantly went over well! I'm happy to say you'll be seeing those songs very often in the future!

So now we're booking up the rest of the summer! I will be the first to tell you now that we will be taking a little time off before Sept. for a little rest and relaxation but it should build for an incredible fall line up of shows as we prepare to go to NACA again, play the final dates on our 07 college tour and many more dates in the city as well! So keep it cool!!!!!!!

PBF