SCHOOL'S OUT

Again I’m tired from working all day, then recording all night, so I’ll keep it brief. Though I may not keep it subdued, because this weekend is going to be SO AWESOME. The shows will be ‘the bees knees’ as the kids say these days.

The chronologically backwards agenda:
1) HUUUUUGE SHOW: Saturday July 18
2) Smaller, but no less awesome, show: Friday July 17
3) Win tickets to the Dew Tour at the TD Banknorth Garden 7/24-25

1) Saturday 7/18: 3RD LEFT, JAKE HILL, & THE EAGLE HILL BAND at the waterfront mainstage!!!!! This will be our biggest show of the entire summer, and one of the biggest of the whole year in Plymouth. Popular regional act/local boys 3rd Left, plus nationally-touring Plymouthian Jake Hill will team up to rock the waterfront on Saturday night. Opening up the show is a little 3-piece from South Plymouth, the Eagle Hill Band (yes, it’s my band). This is the same exact lineup as the VERY FIRST show ever in the School’s Out series, and last year (7/11/08), it drew upwards of 400 people. We’re expecting more.

Here are some credentials: 3rd Left has played up and down the east coast, they raised $10,000 at a benefit concert last week, they were rated the #1 jam band on MySpace, and they’ve headlined the Middle East Upstairs. Jake Hill has toured across the country, he’s part of the Birds On A Wire musical collaborative, and he’s awesome. The Eagle Hill Band has played at Skidmore College, the Worcester Palladium, Copperfield’s Boston, the Duxbury Rock Revival fest, and our first show was at the Plymouth South Junior Prom in 2004 (under our former moniker, Saucy Seth & the Clams of Death). Also, Joe Perry (Aerosmith) saw us play once and said we rock. To our faces. It was awesome, and no I won’t stop talking about it.

2) Friday (7/17) we have Seth McFadyen (of the Eagle Hill Band), and Second Nature commanding the grassy acoustic stage at the Hedge House. If you’ve been keeping up, you’ll notice that this is the 4th time we’ve had the [patient] young men from Second Nature on the bill. Hopefully this time we won’t have to cancel on them due to rain. We feel so bad, and all we want is them to play a show, so God help us it will happen! The theory we’ve come up with is that Mother Nature doesn’t like the idea that there’s a “Second” one of her, so she gets pissed and rains on everyone. Just a thought.

Here are the lineups:
7/17 (Hedge House):
8pm – Seth McFadyen
7pm – Second Nature acoustic

7/18 (main stage):
8:30pm – 3rd Left
7:15pm – Jake Hill
6:15pm – The Eagle Hill Band

SO, long story short: I wasn’t brief like I said I would be because I’m so excited for this weekend of shows. Come on down, make a donation and get a free pin (new Brewster merch…). It’s going to be ‘uge. Trust me. Goodnight.

- Jon

PS – extra extra special thanks this week to our awesome sponsors because since the state requires liability insurance for the mainstage shows, we wouldn’t have been able to do it without the generous donations.