SHOW 49

A RECAP OF THINGS THAT HAPPENED: Part 1

VULGAR FASHION / DIAMOND AGE / WOUNDED INFIDEL / DEF RAIN
June 8 2012 This was a great show that too many missed.
(photo credit : Ed Steele)

SHOW 48

SATURDAY MAY 19th

PSST....Please don't tell anyone, but a secret show is happening THIS SATURDAY... so much of a secret, that all these facebookers who were invited to the event page decided to not click on "attending" as to not draw too much attention, thus making it one of those over-capacity and sold-out messes… by the way, it's at the DOUBLEWIDE- 

This is the first Dallas appearance of Ashley Cromeens' new solo act -DEF RAIN, (you may remember her from another band if you know what I'm talking about- shhhh). A truly talented and distinct voice... A real live North TX musical treasure. criminally underrated. All this having only played 2 shows so far.

Also on this night is a rare Dallas appearance of a secret Denton band. Think all the things you like about live music and bands and entertainment and then filter it through an original sounding band making machine and voila!... ok I'll go ahead spill the beans- PEOPLEODIAN…

And some other joker is going to play 2nd…(who?) -

And on the patio there will be all the other people that go to the Doublewide and hang out on the patio! And there will definitely be a line to go pee. things are really looking up!

It's TOMORROW night Dallas, choose wisely…but don't tell anybody.

some people buy tickets in advance for live shows here.

http://prekindle.com/promo/id/22349996750021852

SHOW 47

FRIDAY MAY 11th

SHOW 46

PINKISH BLACK

NERVOUS CURTAINS

DIAMOND AGE

FOREVER HOME

HUGE THANKS to Gutterth for having me on this bill.   Those guys always go above and beyond...  I've yet to attend a Dead Week Print Show, but I assume some printing is involved.  The Panector guys will most likely be printing shirts on site and they make good stuff.  Not sure who P.A.N.T.S. is (un-googleable) but I really like my pants- I wear them every day. 

If you haven't seen Pinkish Black, it should be a priority to check it out now before the pitchforks of the world tell you they're really great.  It's really a novel idea: hear it for yourself! (now here's me telling you my dumb opinions!) They are hands down the most interesting and crushing band in North Texas... (featuring ex-members of Pointy Shoe Factory, Yeti, and The Great Tyrant) Their first LP is being released via Handmade Birds in May.  Nervous Curtains just returned from a lengthy U.S. tour and should be in top-notch form.  Forever Home is a new project by James Washington of Peopleodian (remember when he was in Nizzardz! or BOY DIVISION???) Gavin G will DJ between sets. I'm hyped to be playing this show and I will be performing some new material for the first time that should appear on the Pour Le Corps cassette release I'm finishing...  

This is what it looked like...

MARCH HAPPENED...THE RECAP (SHOW 44 + 45)

The smoke has cleared from a busy March... busy for me at least.

35 DENTON, Paperstain's "Gorilla by 35" Day Show, and two shows during SXSW: Complicated Dance Steps/Pour Le Corps showcase and the Hometapes Friend Island dayshow... If anyone has any images or videos from any of these events, please contact me...

LIVE @ 35DENTON

*PHOTO BY BERENICE QUIRINO

SHOW 41

SHOW 42 (43)

Excited to be playing 35 Denton again this year! 

Thursday March 8th
J&J's PIZZA BASEMENT

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DIAMOND AGE (11:00 - 11:45)

 ZORCH (10:15-10:45)

MEXICAN LIONS (9:30-10:00)
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SIMPLE DIRECTIONS TO J&J's BASEMENT

1. Enter Casa De Lupe

2. the underground corridor

3.  giant escalator

4. the portal

5. exit approximated @ Denton Square 
(follow Emil Rapstine)

At some point of the weekend, I'm also playing the paperstain day show... more details on that soon. Thanks to Nick for asking me to play this year. I promise to not talk about early dancehall reggae at all on that weekend unless provoked.

SHOW 40

FINAL CLUB • HORSE PLUS DONKEY • DIAMOND AGE

Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios • Denton, TX
Friday March 2 2012 

(thanks to Nevada Hill for the poster design)

Hot off the heels of their tour supporting the full length LP "Blank Entertainment" Denton's Final Club co-headlines with Austin's Horse + Donkey... this may be the first time H+D has played Denton in quite a while and is not to be missed.  Diamond Age will play first and  a special guest will be DJing between bands...

Reasons to go: 

A.   $5 at the door is cheap

B.  Final Club will be playing all of your favorite hits and some of your favorite hits that you don't even know yet.

C.  Horse Plus Donkey are really great.  I promise.

D.  is for Diamond Age.

E.  The smell of your jacket will remind you that you went to Rubber Gloves the next day when you can't remember what you did the night before.

F.  Show posters for sale to commemorate such a momentous occasion as this one will be priced to sell...

G.  for AMERICA.

SHOW 39

BLACKSTONE RANGERS • DIAMOND AGE • MOON

DOUBLEWIDE • DALLAS, TX
February 24 2012

SHOW 38

New Fumes • Waterfalls • Diamond Age

Jan. 5th @ Crown and Harp... I didn't get a photo of Waterfalls...I was lulled into a state of trance and forgot I had a camera. I did see that someone was recording video of their set. Thanks to Emil Rapstine for Diamond Age surveillance shot.

SHOW 37

FINAL CLUB • PROCESSION • DIAMOND AGE

FRIDAY DEC. 30th @ THE LION'S DEN  

(Austin St. between Congress and Marshall St. in good ol' Denton, TX)

Big Thanks to the Final Club for having me "come out and play"

Show starts at 9PM.
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(Description via FINAL CLUB)

FINAL CLUB - Embarking on a tour of the southeast in support of their new record Blank Entertainment.

PROCESSION - On tour from Grand Rapids, MI. This is the first of 5 dates with FC.

DIAMOND AGE - Weird Dallas one man guitar pop.

HOT TIMES - Denton punk all-stars go pop. (cancelled day of the show)

bring donations! bands need gas $! respect the house. no glass please :)

SHOW 36

 PEOPLEODIAN • DIAMOND AGE • MELTING SEASON

Here at Diamond Age HQ, I had the epiphany: If I could get Peopleodian and Melting Season to agree play a new little venue called Simone in Denton, the world would be a better place and this Holiday Season would be officially underway...  Luckily, they had similar opinions about such an endeavor, and here we are- just days before this gala event...  I have a really good feeling about this show- so I encourage you, reader of this heavily trafficked blog, to join us on this night - "a very special episode"

SHOW 35

CAVE • DIAMOND AGE • FINAL CLUB

I'm very excited to be playing this show tonight...  I've been so busy lately with the day job that I haven't been able to express this excitement about this show via the internets much, but I think this is a great lineup at a great sounding venue that should be a great way to start this cold week...it will definitely be hot in this room tonight.  Chicago's CAVE are a fantastic band. If you don't believe me,  WATCH THIS. Fans of repetition, motorik rhythms, analog synths, "jamming" without noodling, drone without snooze... will not be disappointed.

Denton's FINAL CLUB opens and I haven't seen them, but what I've heard is very promising. Reminds me a bit of mid-90's Pavement/Polvo -esque guitar rock, which is a GOOD thing... Not to say they sound just like those bands, much in the same way that I don't think CAVE sounds like Krautrock that much...

just go to the show already, ya dummies!

SHOW 33 and 34

Keith Moon 

FISHBOY • DUST CONGRESS • SETH SHERMAN • WELCOME SIGNS • DIAMOND AGE

NOV 18th @ Hailey's Club Denton, TX

Wow, a 5 band bill. Big on Talent and VALUE! I am unsure how much this is and there is some steep competition in Denton tonight (no I will not mention who ELSE is playing that'd be very unprofessional and we here at Diamond Age like to keep things on the P-R-O tip), but I assure you this will be a fun show all around.  I am playing two new tunes. or at least so far I am thinking that will happen... Also I've been sick for two days so that makes for a dramatic sweating level of threventy.  I hear that Hailey's has liquor and beer that you can purchase for money and then drink in the dark. And hopefully JC is the sound guy tonight.

NEW FUMES / DIAMOND AGE

NOV 19th @ AMERICAN BEAUTY MILL LOFTS DALLAS, TX

2400 S Ervay Street, Dallas, TX 72115

Not exactly 100% sure about the space we're playing in, but I think it is a large cavernous silo area  between two building structures...  Some "song" sets followed by a drone set with NEW FUMES and DIAMOND AGE together.  STARTS AT 6:30PM - ENDS AROUND 8:30 PM.  This is a part of the Cedars Open Studios tour (www.cedarsopenstudios.com  )

THREE SHOWS THAT HAPPENED (SHOWs 30, 31, 32)

NOV 10
THE BLACK DOTZ •DIAMOND AGE • DJ GABRIEL MENDOZA @ BRYAN ST. TAVERN
What was originally supposed to happen (and was advertised and booked for weeks)  at LaGrange,  was cancelled the day of the show for some mysterious construction that had to happen, "beyond anyone's control".   I got word it had been moved around 530PM to The Bryan Street Tavern...  All things considered, this show turned out to be a lot of fun...  Big thanks to Wayne for running sound on his day off, Ross for moving the show to Bryan St. and of course all of the people who came out. Bryan St. Tavern is one of my favorite places to play.  I don't know what LaGrange is like yet...still waiting for a reschedule!

NOV 11
MISSILE • DIAMOND AGE • BLACKSTONE RANGERS @ EL SIBIL
The people who throw these parties go above and beyond, and unfortunately for my opinion of Dallas, this party made me feel like I wasn't in Dallas.  I know it's too easy to hate on Dallas, so I'll just think of it as what Dallas could potentially become... A very relaxed vibe, good people,  a really cool space.  No haters. They had the Three Men and a Taco truck, the vintage clothes bus, and a cop on duty which is smart if you're going to throw a "donation" party

Bobby Peru

NOV 12
DIAMOND AGE • PVC STREET GANG • AARON BARKER • MR. BONETANGLES
@ QUEEN CITY TATTOO GALLERY
A very new spot in East Dallas.  I think this may have been the first show there? A very DIY space...  PVC Street Gang are one of my favorite bands in DFW.  This show was very "loose" I played almost an entire set of "new" shit I haven't fully figured out how to play live.  I think if I didnt know the 6 people watching, they may have left!  But it was alot of fun! Thanks to Aaron Barker for contacting me about this show and for the red hot candy ice cream he made out back.  Mr. BoneTangles stole the show! his puppet skeleton karaoke act had everyone in the room grinning. 


factoid: I kept thinking the tattoo noise coming from the other room was a problem with my amp...

show 30 - 2011 DOMA SHOWCASE

Since May 20, 2010 I have been playing around the D/FW area and I've been slowly figuring out what it is I'm trying to accomplish.  It has struck me as a bit strange to be nominated for the "Best Experimental" award, but it is great to have been "noticed"...  Sometimes it is pretty hard to tell if anyone is listening/paying attention.  So if you plan on attending the DOMA showcases tomorrow night, I'm playing at 11PM at the Elm Street Bar.  That's a bar on Elm Street in Deep Ellum near all the other venues so it's pretty tough to fuck that one up.  There are actually a good number of bands that I like playing this year.   Vote here if you haven't, vote again if haven't voted today.  It's the last couple of days to vote, and although I don't know if I have a chance at all to win, I guess you just never know.

SHOW 27

WOODSMAN • EYES,WINGS AND MANY OTHER THINGS • DIAMOND AGE 

MON. SEPT 19th @ CITY TAVERN

(*for the record, SHOW #25 was at The Arcade Bar (Lost Generation 1 Year Anniversary) w/DJ EWI, SWIRVE, CIGNUS, & BLIXABOY and SHOW #26 was with DOVE HUNTER and QUAKER CITY NIGHT HAWKS @ Dan's Silverleaf)

show 24

Athens, TX 

1670AM / Colonel Burns Honky Tonk hour

The Paychecks (Ft. Worth)

SHOW 23

D.U.G.O.U.T.C.A.N.O.E.  •  MMCIII  •  DIAMOND AGE

LAST MINUTE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT...

DUGOUT CANOE (Denver) MMCIII (DENVER) and DIAMOND AGE @ Bryan St. Tavern this Saturday Aug 13. I believe this show is FREE...

links:

MMCIII

D.U.G.O.U.T.C.A.N.O.E.

SHOW 20, 21, 22

SHOW#22

07.22.11

SHOW#21

07.16.11

BLACK DOTS

DIAMOND AGE

DJ ANTHONY

@ BRYAN ST. TAVERN

SHOW#20

07.09.11

RTB2

SMOKE AND FEATHERS

DIAMOND AGE

STAR COMMANDER

(Monastery CANCELLED)

"Upsetter: The Life of Music of Lee Perry" documentary @ TEXAS THEATRE 06/09/11

TONIGHT @ 7:30 PM "Upsetter: The Life of Music of Lee Perry" documentary narrated by Benicio Del Toro.

*** special double feature with "Rockers" (1978) starring Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace w/appearances+performances by Jacob Miller, Kiddus I, Gregory Isaacs, Big Youth, Robbie Shakespeare, Joe Gibbs, Tommy McCook! a must see! ***



I will be DJing Jamaican "chunes" (most likely via laptop for this one-such a busy day at the old job today I think I'll barely make it to the Theatre on time) Before both features, host Erich Scholz will be providing some rare footage from the short-lived BBC Deep Roots TV series from 1983... Some really great stuff!!!

SHOW 19

(*nice flyer too! I believe by Clumsy and Shy)

I hadn't heard of Xander Harris before this show was being booked but his stuff is great. He's coming all the way up to Dallas from Austin, TX and you can hear his tunes here. I was initially supposed to only DJ this show (the promoter requested "DUB") but then there was a couple of cancellations and now it's double duty time! I'm pretty sure I'm opening the show and then playing some DUB (and probably mix in some other tunes...) between bands. $3 is damn cheap! Fellow locals, and all around great dudes Eye's Wings & Many Other Things play 2nd! just go already you dummy!

*for the record show #18 was with ATX bands SOFT HEALER and HATCHET WOUND at the Bryan St. Tavern. Great people all around, probably the one show in a while I thought to myself that a bunch of people really dropped the ball by not attending. SOFT HEALER was amazing. I even thought I played a good set...And also, The Bryan St. Tavern has potential to be the best small room in town so go there and check it out. I feel like I'm telling you what to do a little too much, so goodnight.

OPENING CREDITS

(photo from "Crooks Like Us " by Peter Doyle)

This is just a little loop (from a Dick Hyman track) with a few synth parts played on the qwerty keyboard while sitting at my desk at work... Imaginary film music. this loop will probably be used for something more fully realized in the near future...

Opening Credits by DIAMOND_AGE

ENNIO MORRICONE COVER

DELETED LINK.

***for those of you who haven't heard I have done a few Morricone covers.  One of them is from this soundtrack.

SHOW 17 RECORD STORE DAY!!!

8am to Midnite

"Good Records Goes to Eleven."
Good Records 11th Anniversary/4th Annual Record Store Day
Saturday April 16, 2011

Bands: (inside)

11am Andrew Lyon/Matthew Celsur

Noon Sarah Jaffe

1pm Jason Lytle (acoustic)

2pm Jason Lytle w/ Midlake

3pm Dim Locator

4pm Bravo, Max!

5pm Sundress

6pm Diamond Age

7pm Missions

8pm Leg Sweeper

9pm True Widow

10pm Octopus Project

11pm Zomes (Asa Osborne of LUNGFISH)

Deejays: (outside)

11am Pete Freedman (Dallas Observer)

Noon DJ Sober

1pm Blixaboy (Wanz Dover)

2pm DJ Gabriel Mendoza

3pm Wild In The Streets (Lisa Bush)

4pm Daniel Huffman (New Fumes)

5pm Audrey Easley (Chameleon Chamber Group)

6pm Kenneth Kemp (Binary Sunrise)

7pm Hunter Hauk (The Quick)