The Good Life

Hello Inter-world!

We are playing more shows, this time in one of our most favorite frigid locales, the Midwest!

December 27 – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room Lounge (ticket link)
December 28 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon (ticket link)
December 30 – Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club (ticket link)
December 31 – Chicago, IL – The Abbey Pub (ticket link)

All shows with Big Harp. Come out and join us before we disappear into the studio!

We’re going on tour!

Wed-Aug-06 San Francisco, CA The Chapel
Thu-Aug-07 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
Fri-Aug-08 Santa Ana, CA Observatory
Sat-Aug-09 San Diego, CA The Casbah

with Big Harp and You Are Plural

Hi folks,

We’re having another slow news year, so just this one item from TGL HQ: we’re playing Sunday, May 1 at Slowdown.

It’s a benefit for Omaha Girls Rock! which is a rad rock camp for girls ages 8-18. It launches this July in Omaha and is spearheaded by TGL’s smooth jazzin’ Stefanie Drootin-Senseney.

All right then, see you there.

Peace!

TGL

The powers that be have recovered some of our records that were hidden in a warehouse in Europe. UK versions of Album of the Year LP and Lovers Need Lawyers 10″ are back in stock and up on the Saddle Creek store now. And there are just a few Heartbroke 7″s left.

Howdy,

We’re going to play six shows in June. Stef’s having another baby so that’ll probably be it for a while. Come out and say hey!

Friday, June 4 in Chicago at Subterranean with Brighton, MA and Quieting Syrup. Tickets here.

Saturday, June 5 in Chicago at the Do Division Street Festival with a bunch of bands.

Monday, June 7 in San Diego at The Casbah with The Parson Red Heads. Tickets here.

Tuesday, June 8 in Pomona at The Glass House with The Parson Red Heads. Tickets here.

Wednesday, June 9 in Los Angeles at The Troubadour with The Parson Red Heads. Tickets here.

Thursday, June 10 in San Francisco at The Bottom of the Hill with The Parson Red Heads and The Contrail. Tickets here.

No kidding, we’re going to play a few shows this month. Our only live dates in 2009 are:

12/27 in Omaha at Slowdown (tickets)

12/28 in Minneapolis at Triple Rock (tickets)

12/29 in Chicago at Subterranean (tickets)

12/30 in Sioux Falls at Nutty’s (tickets)

See you there?!

Hey friends,

There’s not a whole lot of Good Life news to report. But hello anyway!

The Saddle Creek dudes found some copies of the Album of the Year 2CD version which includes a CD of Tim’s solo demos for the album, recorded in Roger’s basement. It had been out of print (or perhaps “out of print”) for a few years but a couple boxes semi-mysteriously arrived at the SC warehouse a few weeks ago. (For sale here if you’re interested.)

We’re all keeping busy working on other bands (and Cursive is on tour now), so there hasn’t been much activity at TGL HQ. However, we are working on a couple new songs which will hopefully see the light of day before the end of the year. How’s that for slow-moving excitement?

As always, thanks very much for your interest in and support of The Good Life.

TGL HQ

Man, I am having a really tough time with this website thing. So I posted that the LAST post had the wrong pic attached, but then posted THAT post into the tour diary thingy – F it. I’m gonna ask someone to take the tour diary part off. Or at least change the name to the “The Good Life Daily”. Or, at our pace, perhaps “The Good Life Weekly”. Here are the pics – FOR CONTINUITY’S SAKE!! – of us at the same dinner, crashing Rog’s date with his imaginary girlfriend who dumped him cuz her shift was over.

We are throwing the last few entries of junky stories on here in one clump cuz we have hardly found wireless service ANYWHERE and we are considering breaking up with the internet. It will probably turn out to be nothing more than “A short break so we can reevaluate our relationship”, wherein we will come running back to her at the slightest suggestion of service. Like now, for instance. Slutty.