been a wild and woolly one so far. lots of great shows. lots of great drives down HWY 1 along the California coast. lots of beach time and bro time. lots of amazing people everywhere we go. just chilling here at the Orange County Healing Center present to how lucky we are to do what we do. and although it’s incredibly challenging at times to be living in the wind like we do, the beauty we find through these challenges is worth every hard night’s sleep or gas station snack we power thru. i’m present to how many incredible people we’re blessed to meet on the road, some of which we continue to visit with each tour and become closer to. each and every one of you make this transient life style worth the sacrifices, and make these moments some of the greatest learning experiences of our lives. thank you.

we’re playing in L.A. tonight. it’s been awhile, but we’re stoked it’s at the Silverlake Lounge and with some great bands: Starving Daughters + Halloween Swim Team + the French Semester. we’ll be in San Diego tomorrow then the SW over the weekend for Halloween. early next week we’re off for some camping near the Grand Canyon and in Southern Utah, for which we couldn’t be more excited. and for all the old and new friends we’ll be encountering along the way.

i’m really missing Boise today and the community we’ve really fallen in love with there. look forward to some time there in November, even if it’s not much time… we’ll make the most of it.

thanks for your continued support. and please please please share our music with your friends and family!
love,
gilbert

Hey guys!
Today was pretty much awesome. One of the most radtastic days of tour so far, if not the most. We started off the day in San Fran, went to breakfast at a cool and very popular joint called St. Francis (maybe it used to be a Catholic school?) with our good friend Ben from Low Red Land and his super sweet girlfriend Christy. Then we headed over to a very small high school to watch Tartufi, another amazing SF band perform for the kids. It was a great show, a highlight for me was when the kids from the school directly across the street started going crazy for the music and jumping around screaming for Tartufi to play more. Super cute.

After one more stop at El Metate before heading out (you can just say it, we’re gross), we drove down Highway 1 down to Santa Cruz for the show at The Crepe Place! We stopped at a picturesque lighthouse and explored the beach and the tide pools for a while.

It was great weather out, and we found some anemones, crabs, and most importantly, SEA MOOSE!

Hope everyone has a fantastic evening and a great weekend. We’re off to Santa Barbara tomorrow! More pix to come.

Love, Rachael

Hey all!

We are currently in San Francisco, enjoying the clear fall weather- stayed at our buddy Brian’s amazing house last night after getting in pretty late, and woke up to a bluebird sky. Cam and I went to get burritos for lunch at the burrito Mecca of the universe (also known as El Metate). I’m sure most San Franciscans (Fransisco-ans?) are used to this fantastic cheap food at all times, but outsiders like us can’t seem to get enough of it. At least I can’t.

Anyway, we had the afternoon off to wander around, nap, shower, eat and do things that normal non-touring humans usually do, which is amazing by the way, and now we’re at a sweet venue called the Hemlock Tavern. This place is pretty hoppin’, it kind of reminds me of a louder, younger, more drunken version of Cheers. So, maybe not like Cheers at all then?

I will be posting pix from the last week of shows in the next day or so. Some will be crappy quality due to the fact that my Rebel Xti has a bad memory card and is not working, so I’m using my 10 dollar knock off pentax camera I got at one of those sketchy “electronics(crack)” stores in Manhattan. But at least it will be something! And it will be visual! Get stoked!

Love, Rachael

tour has been soooooo good thus far. sorry for the lack of updates. now that we have internet built into our spaceship we will be posting more often. someday. just not today. soon. very soon. thanks for your patience. and thanks for caring. in the meantime, make sure to come to our upcoming shows and/or let your friends know when we’re coming to town 2009 FALL TOUR DATES

xo
FR

man oh man. tour has been sooooo good thus far. which is a big reason why this tour blog is not getting enough love. there are photos and videos floating around the greater cyber universe from all of the amazing events over the weekend. thanks to everyone for coming out to all the shows!!

AND our new album VS WILDERNESS is officially out today on Tender Loving Empire!! get them at your local independent record store or through Tender Loving Empire or through your favorite digital download outlet. OR at one of our many many shows in the next 2 months!! full schedule to your right!

here are some recent links of note:
FILTER MAGAZINE posted the Wake video on their site today!!

we’re on the front page of AMPLIFIER MAGAZINE right now!! there’s a nice feature and review of the album, AND you can stream the album for free all this week!

and some nice words from the PORTLAND MERCURY… scroll down to the preview for our show at Berbati’s last weekend (10/10)

and here’s a link that was just called to our attention to some rad photos from our show on the 4th of July in San Francisco by JENN FARMER

a bunch of fun shows this week!! including a house show tonight in Olympia at the Kitty X House to celebrate our new album that has finally been released to run free in the wild!! tomorrow in Bremerton!! thursday in Bellingham!! friday in Seattle!! and so on and so on.

thanks for caring.
our full schedule with details are on our myspace site… let your friends know when we’re coming to their town!!

THANK YOU!
xo
FR

this show in Bremerton tomorrow should be sweet, and interesting… music, booze and politics (mayoral candidates)…. hmmmmm:

fun night, although a little quiet, in Pendleton last night. we were competing with Mud Wars. an annual event held in conjuction with Homecoming in which high school girls have a big tug-o-war in the muddy rodeo grounds. pretty tough to compete with high school girls in mud…. but we’re thankful to the enthusiastic crew that did come out to the show! loved the opener, DAY MOANSTAR with his neon green suit and dancy tunes. and the Pendleton Center for the Arts was a cool place ran by cool people. thanks to Peter Walters for the show and the tour of the old jazz club!

headed to McCall tonight, then the big Boise release party tomorrow night… on Saturday, we celebrate in Portland at Berbati’s Pan with three of our most favorite artists in the US much less in Portland. if you haven’t already, check out JARED MEES & THE GROWN CHILDREN and WORLDS GREATEST GHOSTS and TYPHOON. this will be a killer show!!

and the icing on the cake is that our friend and past collaborator JOSEPH VON STENGEL is flying out from New York to do his digital mash-up projections during our set! very excited to see what he has in store for us all.

Saturday night. October 10th. Berbati’s Pan. Portland, OR. don’t miss it!

man, all kinds of exciting things. thanks to everyone that came out to the shows last weekend!! really fantastic time in Moscow + Clarkston + Spokane + Missoula. love you all. here’s a link to some photos and a little review from the Spokane show thanks to CheckitoutMusic.com

amazing time at the Record Exchange last night… follow that link for photos!! all kinds of exciting shows this week… check our full schedule at myspace.com/finnriggins

really nice articles in the Boise Weekly today and they posted the new video that fellow Boisean Jason Sievers did for us… stop-animation!! what a labor of love!!

off to Pendleton for a show at the Pendleton Center for the Arts!! all ages!! show tomorrow night @ Foresters in MCCALL with Jared Mees & The Grown Children (portland) and then huge awesome party and duel with LE FLEUR on Friday at the VAC. it’s going to be unreal!! also performances by BOY EATS DRUM MACHINE (portland) and JARED MEES & THE GROWN CHILDREN and VAGERLY (boise) and A SEASONAL DISGUISE (boise)!! the evening will be emceed by Alley Repertory Theater star Nick Garcia and he will be performing some of his skits + break dancers + door prizes + and of course the “knife fight”!!

check out this epic poster by JULIA GREEN and ERIN CUNNINGHAM

we’ll stop there… we don’t have a night off until the 26th in the LA area. so lots more to talk about. including Saturday’s huge album release party in Portland. more on that tomorrow. we have to hit the road.

love,
gilbert