Gigography - Hotel Cafe, Hollywood, April 17th, 2009

This show was pretty kicking. Many long time followers of the band said it was the best show yet, and for once you don't have to take our words for it:

http://thehollywoodattic.blogspot.com/2009/04/epic-night-hotel-cafe.html

the setlist:

Live Life Now
Change Your Heart
She Will Have Her Way
The Company You Keep (original, first time played)
One More Chance
On the Sideline
Everything and Nothing
Stranglehold (original, first time played)
I Do
Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing/Treat Her Right (Chris Isaak/Roy Head, first time played)

Gigography - Zoey's Cafe, Ventura, April 2nd, 2009

Every once and awhile you end up playing a venue that is actually an honor to play, rather than just an obligation. In our case, it's only really happened a handful of times with The Hotel Cafe, the Troubadour, and now Zoey's Cafe in Ventura. Not that there's anything wrong with most of the other places we play, these places just seem to go out of their way to make you feel welcome, and Zoey's truly goes the extra mile, which made for a very relaxed show. Far From Kansas was the first band up, and like us, performed acoustic, and minus a number of members. But JD Levin and Claire Winters couldn't have brought a nicer crowd, or been any cooler, so it was a blast to play with them.

Our set is below, suffice to say, it went well enough we even played an encore-- though I believe it was only JD who was calling for one, but we obliged with honor.

She Will Have Her Way
It Would Be Funny
Everything and Nothing
Torquemada
Summers Gone
One More Chance
I Do
When I Fall (Barenaked Ladies)
The Rapture
On the Sideline
Don't Dream It's Over (Crowded House)

encore:
Sir Duke (Stevie Wonder)

Gigography - Gypsy Lounge, March 31st, 2009

Matt pointed out the last time we had played Gypsy Lounge was on this exact same date a few years ago, still in the Plan-R days. Touching.

Some things had changed... they had current-events related graffiti on the bathroom walls:


This was the 2nd acoustic performance for Matt and I. It happened. The 3-5 people playing pool through the set can confirm that.

setlist:
I Do
You Can Have it All
It Would Be Funny (If It Wasn't So Sad)
On the Sideline
Summers Gone
Don't Dream It's Over (Crowded House cover)

The Gigography Returns!!!

Awwwww yes. Thanks to Bloggery, and a case of show induced insomnia, the much loved (by at least Vince and actual band members) Gigography can live again!

Tonight The Quiet stripped down to an acoustic duo with me on piano/mandolin, and Matt holding up the guitar duties. Our new friends The Steelwells invited us to join them in Costa Mesa for a gig at La Cave. While we're not ready for prime time just yet, for a first show in this format, it wasn't bad at all. Well, parts of the show closing Sir Duke cover were pretty bad, but the audience was clapping along and didn't seem to mind. Plus La Cave is also a steak/seafood restaurant, so they didn't mind us serving up clams.

Things we learned tonight: La Cave is dark. And The Steelwells put on a great night of music that was just fun to be a part of.

the set:
Summers Gone
On the Sideline
One More Chance
Live Life Now (now AKA: Requiem for Space Bat)
Torquemada
Sir Duke

Video from the show proves La Cave is dark (video is minus the opening dedication to Space Bat, R.I.P.):

The Quiet (poster) makes an appearance on "Last Call with Carson Daly"

So I finally found a reason to post.  I was tooling around Myspace and I stumbled upon this nice little video about our beloved Hotel Cafe that aired on Last Call with Carson Daly:

You'll notice the video counts down the 3:41 runtime... when it reads 3:16/3:15 counting down, pause it and you'll see in the upper left corner The Quiet poster from our October 18th, 2008 show, designed by Ashley Tiedgen (below).  I thought it was pretty cool... Hey, I'll take it where I can get it folks...

Bedroom Shenanigans

The Quiet adds themselves to the list of millions of people uploading mellow covers of songs onto YouTube. We figured, we spend hours doing crap like this anyway, why not record it and upload it?

Welcome!

Welcome all 2-5 of you to the new blog of The Quiet. Blogs have certainly come a long way since early 2007-- the last time we updated our old website... we hope to spend hours here writing about complete nonsense, posting photos, videos, whatever else we can come up with to fill these pages. And hopefully, we'll do it a little more often than before.

Love it.

The Quiet.