Gorgeous Armada on SoundOnTheSound.com
Posted on 19. Sep, 2008 by spencer in Chico, Music
Last Friday Gorgeous Armada appeared at the Blue Moon Tavern in Seattle, WA to open up for Ice Age Cobra. We kept the entire city safe from werewolves for one night. It was Ice Age Cobra’s farewell show, and they played with more gusto than an army of whirling dervishes. Sound on the Sound, a Seattle music blog, was on hand to document the shenanigans. Here are a few of their photos:
Jordan is a magical animal.
Jordan’s sweat band provided the communion.
Gorgeous Armada frontman Handsome Gorgeous is intense. Check out more [...]
The Meat Industry is Destroying The World
Posted on 23. Jan, 2008 by spencer in Lifestyle, Science
During the last Gorgeous Armada Presents production I hit it off with one of our dancers; that is to say, she and I got into some good arguments during illicit drug use and over-imbibing. The crux of our heated conversations revolved around eating meat; I being predominantly vegetarian, her being a cattle rancher’s daughter and full-time cowgirl. I tried to convince her that producing mass quantities of meat was a strain on our natural resources, both fuel and crop; and that the way we harvest meat is inhumane; and that [...]
Xmas Music: Them Steps
Posted on 21. Dec, 2007 by spencer in Chico, Internet, Music
[Continuing Chico's Christmas Music coverage, today we bring you a band that I'm not actually in (although I've sat in with them at a party.)
This episode we bring you Them Steps, a local Chico hip-hop duo who are in the process of relocating to Portland, OR. Gotta give it up to Ripply Snell for not only being a smooth MC, but a pretty damn decent keyboard player as well. Not too many MCs play their instruments live, so due respects. If you're in Chico, catch Ripply in action tonight at [...]
Xmas Music: Old Yeller, “12 Days of Christmas”
Posted on 20. Dec, 2007 by spencer in Idiocy, Lifestyle, Music
[disclosure: I am not actually in this band, but P Brown works for Synthesis.]
Quaint as it may be, I sincerely hope that Chico’s notoriety as a party school that canceled Halloween will one day be supplanted by its true nature. No, not as the 10th best Small Art Town in America, but as Christmas Rock Town USA. In anticipation of the 3rd installment of Gorgeous Armada’s Christmas Musical, Sleigh: Sleigh II Again (Midnight, Friday and Saturday at the Chico Cabaret) Gorgeous Armada presents: Old Yeller and the 12 Days of [...]
Xmas Music: The Yule Logs
Posted on 19. Dec, 2007 by spencer in Music
[disclosure: I am in this band. I am totally self-promoting. Deal.]
In anticipation of the premiere of soon-to-be Christmas Classic, Sleigh: Sleigh II Again, The Gorgeous Armada invited a few Chico Christmas bands into their Handsome Devils Yacht Club Recording Studio to put down a few tracks. Enjoy this live video of The Yule Logs doing their rendition of “Hey Jake, It’s Christmas.”
Sleigh: Sleight II Again, live at the Chico Cabaret, Friday and Saturday, December 21st and 22nd at Midnight! Advance tickets on sale at Diamond W and Underground.
