Gone fishin'

We're having a chill summer, hope you are too. No shows planned at the moment.

If you live in California, go see So Adult and Jason Clackley on their West Coast tour, you won't be disappointed.

The Envision record is currently up for sale here: RDG Records and Distro

Buy it from them so I don't have to schlep to the Post Office. Unless you want a brown copy, of which there are only a few left.

The record should also be available from Trip Machine any day now.

For Seattle folks, it's at the ol' Singles Going Steady.

Until next time, go watch the trailer for MI:4 GHOST PROTOCOL and mosh hard.

Love,

Sanford

"Lean onto me, lean into you. Comfort I once knew slowly disappears."

Last minute record release show in Bellingham this Saturday.

I absolutely adore Trees & Stars and if you like sad, wimpy music then you'll probably like it too.

And Tempest will bum you out with pure volume.

This is the last show at the New Street house, which is where we played our first show on a miserably cold and snowy December night. That was 2 and a half years ago. How 'bout that.

-Sanford

PS: Huge thanks to everyone who has placed orders for records so far. We love you.

Envision mail order

Our 7 song 12" EP is at long last available. It took us forever to put it out, but we're all pretty proud of how it turned out.



10 bucks + 2 bucks for shipping. Please send funds via Paypal to riversishot@hotmail.com. If you want to send a money order instead, let us know. Make sure to include your preferred shipping address and all that good stuff.

We pressed 50 on root beer-ish clear brown vinyl, 350 on black. I'll be sending out the brown copies first unless you specify otherwise.


45 rpm, crank it up.

We thank you all for your patience and support.

-Sanford

Rainfest 2011, we done did it

We opened up Rain Fest 2011 on Friday and it was terrifying. Huge stage, about 4 times more people than we've ever played in front of before and getting to play with Trial and Xibalba. But, we managed to not totally blow it and I thought we sounded pretty solid. The people who run sound at Neumos are really nice and are on top of their game.

Xibalba tore the roof off the place. Best set I've seen them play yet. Just pure mayhem. Black Breath also killed it and took advantage of Neumos smoke machine and seizure-inducing light show.

Then Trial took the stage for the first time since bass player Brian Redman died. His mom was there, Greg was amazingly well-spoken as usual and they played just a blistering set. Kids went apeshit, stage dives were had, people got knocked around, some dude nearly kicked my thumb off, etc. It was fantastic.

I realize now that I've seen Trial 4 times. That's pretty wild considering that when I first heard them, I was doing a crappy radio show in 2003 at Western and my friends Bo and Derek brought a copy of "Are These Our Lives?" in to blast on the radio. I was instantly hooked by the music and fascinated by tales of insane Trial shows in the late 90s. They quickly became one of my favorite bands, but of course I figured I'd never get to see them, let alone play a show with them. Over the years I got to know Timm and Greg as friends and helped Timm run Panic Records mail order a few summers ago.

Well, in 2005 I saw Trial for the first time and then Friday got to play a show with them. Dreams from 8 years ago came true and I couldn't be happier with that.

So, eternal thanks to Timm for asking us to play and to all of Trial for playing another show.

-Sanford

Rain Fest 2011 Info

From the Rain Fest folks:

The 5th annual RAIN FEST will take place May 27, 28, and 29 at NEUMOS in Seattle, Wa....

FRIDAY - DAY ONE

ALL TEETH
ANOTHER BREATH
BLACK BREATH
ENVISION
FOUNDATION
MAKE DO AND MEND
RUN WITH THE HUNTED
TRIAL
WAIT IN VAIN
XIBALBA


SATURDAY - DAY TWO

7 SECONDS
BULLY
COWARDICE
DEVOTION
ILL INTENT
MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD
NAILS
OBLIVION
OWEN HART
SABERTOOTH ZOMBIE
SHOOK ONES
SIXES
SUPERTOUCH
WEEKEND NACHOS
WISDOM IN CHAINS


SUNDAY - DAY THREE

BREAKING GROUND
THE CARRIER
CRUEL HAND
FIGURE FOUR
GRAVEMAKER
KNIFE FIGHT
LOSING SKIN
MADBALL
POWER
PUNCH
NOT SORRY
ROTTING OUT
RUCKUS
SOJOURNER
WALLS
WRECK

About the Venue:
http://neumos.com/neumos.php

NEUMOS
925 E. Pike St.
Seattle, WA 98122

There will be all ages re-entry UNTIL 9PM, after that time there will only be re-entry for those 21+.
The 2005 Trial reunion took place at Neumo's. The room and live sound are incredible.
The Venue Staff and Security are all great people and are very excited for this weekend. We are asking a lot of them to put in 3 very long, very loud days so in turn we are asking that all of our patrons are respectful and use their head. There will be a zero tolerance policy for violence at this festival This includes the after party shows that rainfest is sponsoring.



Check out that lineup on Friday....one of those jerk ass bands doesn't belong! (hint: it's us!)

What an incredible lineup we get to play with. Lots of bands we've played with in the past, lots of bands we're good buds with, and one band in a category all their own: Trial. Personally, it's quite a trip to get to play with Trial. When I first heard them, things really clicked for me. It was like, "Yep, that's what I like about hardcore. This is what does it for me." Their lyrics inspired me, their music made me want to mosh the world and it showed me one way that misdirected anger can be channeled into something good.

Trial's 2005 reunion show in Seattle was the first time I saw the band and it remains as one of my very favorite memories in all my years of going to shows. Then I got to see them twice in 2009 in Seattle and at the Burning Fight festival in Chicago. Just incredible experiences. More than any other hardcore band, Trial provides that rare feeling of catharsis that many people seek; a positive release of negative emotion.

-Sanford

"I don't care where, just far away."

Holy mother of god, we're playing a show?!?

I think this is the first hardcore show at The Ground Zero in Bellevue in years. I think the last time I saw a show there it was Shook Ones and Sinking Ships or something. Anyways, this is a benefit show for Rain Fest. I can only assume most of these funds will be going towards buying protein shakes for Freddy Cricien and covering Black Breath's bar tab.

-Sanford

rainfest 2011

we're playing. i don't believe it either. hope you got your tickets.

may 27-29, neumos, seattle.

7 SECONDS

ALL TEETH

ANOTHER BREATH

BLACK BREATH

BREAKING GROUND

BULLY

COWARDICE

CRUEL HAND

DEVOTION

ENVISION

FIGURE FOUR

FOUNDATION

GRAVE MAKER

ILL INTENT

KNIFE FIGHT

LOSING SKIN

MADBALL

MAKE DO AND MEND

MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD

NAILS

NOT SORRY

OBLIVION

OWEN HART

POWER

PUNCH

ROTTING OUT

RUCKUS

RUN WITH THE HUNTED

SABERTOOTH ZOMBIE

SHOOK ONES

SIXES (last show)

SOJOURNER

SUPERTOUCH

THE CARRIER

TRIAL

WAIT IN VAIN

WEEKEND NACHOS

WISDOM IN CHAINS

WRECK

XIBALBA

show pics/other bullshit

so our show at the new street/fudge house was a fun one. it was cool seeing our boy aaron on the trap again in ellenoprah, and lockstep demonstrated their mastery of the melnick riff (and possibly smoke bomb throwing, but that's neither here nor true, most likely). we looked like dickheads playing full stacks in a basement that was actually too short to accommodate them, but whatever. here's a few snaps from the show, all courtesy of brady mitchell. big thanks to the fuck house and everyone who lives there for having us to play.




also, our records are in. art and layout are getting finalized, so keep your eyes peeled for that. next show is at the black lodge with our boys in not sorry, plus run with the hunted, olde ghost and breag naofa. should be a smanger.

yo, our boys in NOT SORRY just put up a new song from their forthcoming 7" on react!/eric's house records, and it's a certified slumper. scope the song, mosh to adam's four-string wankery, and pre-order that shit tomorrow.

http://www.myspace.com/notsorryxxx
http://www.myspace.com/notsorryxxx
http://www.myspace.com/notsorryxxx

so this is happening