Midnight Mob would like to start a Midnight Mob Open Group for everyone interested to participate in.
The purpose of the group would be to bring our friends/fans together to meet & interact. Our buddies from IN might find a lot in common with a fan GA, Mexico and or the UK! We encourage everyone to share their experiences meeting us, hanging out, the show itself, pics, videos, talk about the other bands on our shows and maybe suggest their friend's bands to check out. Talk about anything really, it would be like attending our BBQ. Feel free to organize an event with members of the group as well, get in touch with us prior to coming to your city and we can do lunch or something prior to the show, recommend places to eat and hangout in certain cities. SO MANY POSSIBILITIES!
We would also like to hear opinions of what members of the group would like to see more or less of. Give us opinions with merchandise, music, tour requests. If you are an artist and would like to do up a design for us to possibly use or you want other members of the group to check it out, show it. Overall a FB party for fans of Midnight Mob.
We will also be uploading promotional material to the group so that members interested can download & use. This will be anything from html code, QR codes, show posters, music/video, links etc...
The issue at the moment is that we need a name for the group to ultimately create logo for and merchandise for.
HELP! Any suggestions for a name? POST ALL SUGGESTIONS ON OUR FB PAGE. MANY HAVE ALREADY BEEN POSTED. In addition, "Midnight" and "Mob" do not have to be involved. You can use a song title and/or lyric as well.
(PS: If we choose your name you will have your choice of free merchandise or free admittance to a show. We can figure something out.)
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Chicago or Bear!
Recently we made our first trip to IN and IL. It was also our first time hitching our trailer to our 15 passenger, Glenn Vanzig. Two days prior the hitch was installed, trailer fit perfectly and all of the electric worked. Did I say two days ahead of time?! This is unheard of in Midnight Mob time. Normally it's all last minute and something goes wrong delaying everything for hours. This time we're actually ahead of schedule. Wednesday rolls around and the band gets together to do a final rehearsal before we leave. The rehearsal was necessary because we just threw in two additional transitions to screw around with and we needed to test it out. SO at 11:30PM we're packed up and we head west. It's always exciting going to a new venue a new part of the country a new adventure. There's always a new something or other. This time for us it was ultra serious.
The drive was extremely scenic heading to Muncie, IN to play the venue Be Here Now. There's all sorts of roads going through mountains, rolling green hills and lightening so close I had static in my pants. Close to 9 hours in our buddy Anthony has to take a dump. We take the closest exit with a gas station sign and park. As we're parked to locals separate of each other pointed out that we are missing the bearing of one of the trailer tires. The funny thing is that every time we stopped I walked to the trailer and checked everything out to make sure there weren't any issues. I have never done that before and for whatever reason I felt compelled to look every time, which in the end didn't do anything because I never observed the missing bearing. The bearing doesn't look like a big deal, but it is. Basically what could have happened was the bottom of the trailer, wheels/axel, could have fallen off and we would have been in deep shit. Either stranded in the middle of nowhere and/or worse in another accident. Neither happened luckily and we can thank St. Anthony for his blessed poop. The other crazy thing was that I parked the trailer the opposite way at the gas station, the trailer technically should have been parked the other way with the missing bearing facing no mans land instead of the gas pumps where everyone was at. Everything happens for a reason I guess and hopefully there's a damn good reason. Lesson learned: maintain the trailer as well as your vehicle, don't take it for granted.
O no the story doesn't stop there that would be too easy, we just scratched the surface. The two locals said we were damn lucky we pulled over where we did because there happens to be a Napa Auto Parts store, a trailer lot and a mechanic seconds down the road.
Stop 1 "Napa". Napa was located between a drive in liquor and a taxidermy shop. We walk into Napa, point to our van and ask for a bearing. The salesman tells us that 99% chance he has the part, but he wouldn't know what to give us. He pointed us to the mechanic across the street.
Stop 2 "The Mechanics". We find the mechanics and tell them our story. Between spitting tobacco they agree to look at our trailer. After a while we get the diagnosis, which is our trailer is shot and a danger to all. A menace of the road! One of the mechanics said he would buy it off us for $100 to rebuild it so he can flip it. We said we would think about it and asked for other options. The mechanics said there's a uhaul if we wanted to rent a trailer. They said it was next to Napa. None of us remember seeing a uhaul, but we gave them a call anyway and to our luck they had the perfect sized trailer for us. We drive over and we couldn't locate the uhaul until we noticed some trailers behind the taxidermy shop.
Stop 3 "The Uhaul Taxidermist". Catastrophe and I walk into the taxidermy shop and we are greeted by a zebra, bear, birds and other assorted animals, full bodies, heads etc... We follow a voice of someone that works there and find ourselves in the uhaul office which is the taxidermist's workstation. While he smoked his cigarette and began the paperwork I petted a giant bear, what else could I really do. It was so damn soft. I mean I understand now the whole hibernation thing. A fur to a bear is your most comfortable blanket at home on the couch accomplishing nothing but reveling in your own slackery laziness of nap food and lay. At this time we're relieved because there's actually a trailer available in the middle of scratch my ass OH. Relief was short lived because we were mislead and the trailer was already to be picked up the following morning by someone. Back to square one, but there's always a way out! We can just buy a new trailer at the lot next the mechanic!
Stop 4 "The Trailer Lot:". The lot was open, but no salesman could be found. It didn't matter because the only one trailer our size available was in bad condition.
Stop 5 "The Mechanics". Finally the inevitable solution, sell the trailer, dump a bench, dump the dolly and pack the rest of the equipment in the back of the van along with all of our personal luggage. No more leg room or any personal space. We were now confined to knees to the back of the bench and sleeping straight up with our heads cocked to one side. We've done this plenty of times and it is what it is.
Shit goes wrong on the road. It's as much a part of the adventure as meeting lots of strangers, sleeping in weird places and making good friends. If a new band is reading this the one thing you should take from it is: This can happen to you very easily and you have to keep an even head and optimistic attitude. You'll get through it somehow someway. Look on the bright side it makes for a good story.
(PS: We made it to Muncie in time, played a great show and Catastrophe realized his catastrophe. He didn't pack any underwear. That saga continued the following day which included a walk through Ball State campus)
Peace!
-Squeeze
The drive was extremely scenic heading to Muncie, IN to play the venue Be Here Now. There's all sorts of roads going through mountains, rolling green hills and lightening so close I had static in my pants. Close to 9 hours in our buddy Anthony has to take a dump. We take the closest exit with a gas station sign and park. As we're parked to locals separate of each other pointed out that we are missing the bearing of one of the trailer tires. The funny thing is that every time we stopped I walked to the trailer and checked everything out to make sure there weren't any issues. I have never done that before and for whatever reason I felt compelled to look every time, which in the end didn't do anything because I never observed the missing bearing. The bearing doesn't look like a big deal, but it is. Basically what could have happened was the bottom of the trailer, wheels/axel, could have fallen off and we would have been in deep shit. Either stranded in the middle of nowhere and/or worse in another accident. Neither happened luckily and we can thank St. Anthony for his blessed poop. The other crazy thing was that I parked the trailer the opposite way at the gas station, the trailer technically should have been parked the other way with the missing bearing facing no mans land instead of the gas pumps where everyone was at. Everything happens for a reason I guess and hopefully there's a damn good reason. Lesson learned: maintain the trailer as well as your vehicle, don't take it for granted.
O no the story doesn't stop there that would be too easy, we just scratched the surface. The two locals said we were damn lucky we pulled over where we did because there happens to be a Napa Auto Parts store, a trailer lot and a mechanic seconds down the road.
Stop 1 "Napa". Napa was located between a drive in liquor and a taxidermy shop. We walk into Napa, point to our van and ask for a bearing. The salesman tells us that 99% chance he has the part, but he wouldn't know what to give us. He pointed us to the mechanic across the street.
Stop 2 "The Mechanics". We find the mechanics and tell them our story. Between spitting tobacco they agree to look at our trailer. After a while we get the diagnosis, which is our trailer is shot and a danger to all. A menace of the road! One of the mechanics said he would buy it off us for $100 to rebuild it so he can flip it. We said we would think about it and asked for other options. The mechanics said there's a uhaul if we wanted to rent a trailer. They said it was next to Napa. None of us remember seeing a uhaul, but we gave them a call anyway and to our luck they had the perfect sized trailer for us. We drive over and we couldn't locate the uhaul until we noticed some trailers behind the taxidermy shop.
Stop 3 "The Uhaul Taxidermist". Catastrophe and I walk into the taxidermy shop and we are greeted by a zebra, bear, birds and other assorted animals, full bodies, heads etc... We follow a voice of someone that works there and find ourselves in the uhaul office which is the taxidermist's workstation. While he smoked his cigarette and began the paperwork I petted a giant bear, what else could I really do. It was so damn soft. I mean I understand now the whole hibernation thing. A fur to a bear is your most comfortable blanket at home on the couch accomplishing nothing but reveling in your own slackery laziness of nap food and lay. At this time we're relieved because there's actually a trailer available in the middle of scratch my ass OH. Relief was short lived because we were mislead and the trailer was already to be picked up the following morning by someone. Back to square one, but there's always a way out! We can just buy a new trailer at the lot next the mechanic!
Stop 4 "The Trailer Lot:". The lot was open, but no salesman could be found. It didn't matter because the only one trailer our size available was in bad condition.
Stop 5 "The Mechanics". Finally the inevitable solution, sell the trailer, dump a bench, dump the dolly and pack the rest of the equipment in the back of the van along with all of our personal luggage. No more leg room or any personal space. We were now confined to knees to the back of the bench and sleeping straight up with our heads cocked to one side. We've done this plenty of times and it is what it is.
Shit goes wrong on the road. It's as much a part of the adventure as meeting lots of strangers, sleeping in weird places and making good friends. If a new band is reading this the one thing you should take from it is: This can happen to you very easily and you have to keep an even head and optimistic attitude. You'll get through it somehow someway. Look on the bright side it makes for a good story.
(PS: We made it to Muncie in time, played a great show and Catastrophe realized his catastrophe. He didn't pack any underwear. That saga continued the following day which included a walk through Ball State campus)
Peace!
-Squeeze
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Wello Corporation & Pepsi Corporation
This is a little story that any unsigned band should find interesting. It's a real example why you never should under estimate any show and that no matter what the situation always play like its the last.
Last year we were booked at the Bitter End in NYC. We were immediately greeted by very unfriendly staff and bands playing were avg age of 15 super pop fun for the whole family type stuff. So instantly our impression was o shit this sucks, but our attitude changed to fuck it lets open up with Overdrive and send people running. We didn't open up with Overdrive but we played much louder, Blackey screamed her throat and tables people were sitting at were rocked upon. After a song or two literally three quarters of the venue left, which was entertaining. One of the people that stayed and throughly enjoyed our set was Dondeena Bradley VP of Pepsi Co Nutrition.
We hung out with Ms. Bradley for the night and she asked if we were interested in working with her. We said sure, but more often than not we figured we would never hear from her again. Low and behold she was in touch with us that week and shortly afterwards commissioned to do music for Wello Women. The end product was Rise Up. When Wello heard Rise Up there were mixed reviews. People liked it, but it was too intense for the campaign and as a result Rise Up acoustic was recorded, which is total left field sounding stuff from us.
If you're on the mailing list then you have received a free download of the acoustic version. Let us know what you think!
Last year we were booked at the Bitter End in NYC. We were immediately greeted by very unfriendly staff and bands playing were avg age of 15 super pop fun for the whole family type stuff. So instantly our impression was o shit this sucks, but our attitude changed to fuck it lets open up with Overdrive and send people running. We didn't open up with Overdrive but we played much louder, Blackey screamed her throat and tables people were sitting at were rocked upon. After a song or two literally three quarters of the venue left, which was entertaining. One of the people that stayed and throughly enjoyed our set was Dondeena Bradley VP of Pepsi Co Nutrition.
We hung out with Ms. Bradley for the night and she asked if we were interested in working with her. We said sure, but more often than not we figured we would never hear from her again. Low and behold she was in touch with us that week and shortly afterwards commissioned to do music for Wello Women. The end product was Rise Up. When Wello heard Rise Up there were mixed reviews. People liked it, but it was too intense for the campaign and as a result Rise Up acoustic was recorded, which is total left field sounding stuff from us.
If you're on the mailing list then you have received a free download of the acoustic version. Let us know what you think!
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Facebook Page: "I'll show you mine if you show me yours"
What we want to do on our page is find out about more of your likes, dislikes and/or turn each other on to new music. The schedule we want to try out is the following:
Monday - Metal Mondays
Post your favorite metal videos. When we say metal it's any genre of metal: old/modern/nu/rap metal etc... It's whatever you define metal as. Lets leave it general so we get a variety of bands.
Tuesday -
Wednesday - Worst music videos? Where are they now? Who are they? Wednesday's
Post what you think are the worst music videos, some forgotten videos, your favorite local bands and/or obscure bands
Thursday - "The" Bands Thursdays
Post videos by bands whose band names start with "The". The Ramones, The Damned, The Rolling Stones etc...
Friday - Fan Question Fridays
Expect any questions to be answered and random Q&A to be shared
All videos posted will be shared by us on our page for all to be seen. We're so curious what you're all rockin in your headphones or just find entertaining. All comments welcome!
Monday - Metal Mondays
Post your favorite metal videos. When we say metal it's any genre of metal: old/modern/nu/rap metal etc... It's whatever you define metal as. Lets leave it general so we get a variety of bands.
Tuesday -
Wednesday - Worst music videos? Where are they now? Who are they? Wednesday's
Post what you think are the worst music videos, some forgotten videos, your favorite local bands and/or obscure bands
Thursday - "The" Bands Thursdays
Post videos by bands whose band names start with "The". The Ramones, The Damned, The Rolling Stones etc...
Friday - Fan Question Fridays
Expect any questions to be answered and random Q&A to be shared
All videos posted will be shared by us on our page for all to be seen. We're so curious what you're all rockin in your headphones or just find entertaining. All comments welcome!
Dewey Beach Music Fest
Last year we had the awesome experience of playing the Dewey Beach Music Fest located at Dewey Beach, DE. The best way to describe this 3 day festival is that it's a mini south by southwest on the beach. Vikki Walls is responsible for putting this event together and she does it to the 9's!
In a nutshell its a gathering of unsigned talent from all over the country to play roughly 3 venues which in total have about 8 to 10 stages between them. In addition, to all the bands playing many industry professionals are also in attendance to give seminars and answer questions. Such professionals include the masterminds of Reverbnation, various photographers, A&R representatives, cinematographers, radio etc... Bands have a weekend to network and get to know each of these individuals.
This event is also a great way to meet other bands to network with bands that are from different parts of the country. We became good friends with The Ragers (Cleveland,OH) last summer through this event and you may have seen The Ragers with us at Trash Bar earlier this year. Each band that plays this event also receives a free sign for their band sponsored by bud light, tons of free swag, vodka snow cones and a free 2-3 hour all you can eat and drink on the beach. It was absolutely amazing how well the festival took care of the bands. Then at the end of the night a majority of the bands stayed in the hotel across the street and it became animal house. Spydyr threw some furniture into the pool from the 3rd floor, Squeeze attacked people in a giant white swan in his underwear and then the owner of the hotel had enough. Unfortunately we were only there for one day, but this year we are staying the weekend crashing with all our friends. Anyone can attend for small cover. So come down this year and hang with all the bands for the weekend. Peace!
Here's a view from the event!
In a nutshell its a gathering of unsigned talent from all over the country to play roughly 3 venues which in total have about 8 to 10 stages between them. In addition, to all the bands playing many industry professionals are also in attendance to give seminars and answer questions. Such professionals include the masterminds of Reverbnation, various photographers, A&R representatives, cinematographers, radio etc... Bands have a weekend to network and get to know each of these individuals.
This event is also a great way to meet other bands to network with bands that are from different parts of the country. We became good friends with The Ragers (Cleveland,OH) last summer through this event and you may have seen The Ragers with us at Trash Bar earlier this year. Each band that plays this event also receives a free sign for their band sponsored by bud light, tons of free swag, vodka snow cones and a free 2-3 hour all you can eat and drink on the beach. It was absolutely amazing how well the festival took care of the bands. Then at the end of the night a majority of the bands stayed in the hotel across the street and it became animal house. Spydyr threw some furniture into the pool from the 3rd floor, Squeeze attacked people in a giant white swan in his underwear and then the owner of the hotel had enough. Unfortunately we were only there for one day, but this year we are staying the weekend crashing with all our friends. Anyone can attend for small cover. So come down this year and hang with all the bands for the weekend. Peace!
Here's a view from the event!
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