The Honey Brothers

Hey all!

Andrew here.  I’ve been remiss in not writing sooner – but busy with good things. Nothing like being in a van with WiFi for some catch-up time!

We’ve returned from magical trips through Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama.  We were lucky to pass through New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and we spent a couple extra days winding up and down over as much gumbo and beignets as I’ve ever seen in my life. A friend of mine opened a great venue called Sound Café – it was the first time I got to play there. From there we crossed into the chitin’ circuit, stopping off for homemade chitlins (our tour manager, Ace, is a chitlin’ connoisseur, if ever there was one) en route from Shreveport… more »

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Dory Honey here.  The Honey Brothers got off to a great start in Seattle - playing a show under the space needle!  The sun broke though the clouds for our set, prompting our band to go “Sleaveless in Seattle”.

We woke up to a lovely review in Seattle Times (Click to read) left in front of our hotel room doors which we passed around the van.

Portland, Eugene, Sacramento, and then a highlight - playing the Power to the Peaceful Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park!  We had an amazing set of drummers from a brazilian band join us on stage. 

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Dory Honey here.  This summer has us playing all over the USA like some warped Where’s Waldo wandering minstrels. The Honey Brothers kicked off our first shows since coming out of the studio with spate of rad festival gigs beginning with the inaugural Wanderlust Festival. We loaded in by tram to the top of Squaw Valley for the new Music/Yoga festival that excelled in good vibes and physical beauty (both the landscape and the people-scape). We shared the stage with favorites such as Andrew Bird, Broken Social Scene, Kaki King, Sonya Kitchell, and Amanda Palmer (who joined us on stage for a rousing yet curious “We Are The Champions”). (New Music Exchange). You can rock harder at 9,000 feet because the air is thinner.… more »

Andrew here.  We spent a week this past weekend in Copenhagen.  At least that’s what it felt like: one big, glorious week.  Perhaps it is due to us sleeping in installments, when we could, thanks to jet lag, sound check, obligations, bar-hopping.    It helped that we refused to get off of “New York Time” for the brief weekend we were there - so when once again we found ourselves ordering another round of drinks at 6 in the morning (for the second time in as many days) it was easy to convince ourselves that it really was only 11 at night in NYC.   Besides, as city was even more electric in these pre-dawn hours, so we were extremely grateful to have jet lag on our side, and took… more »

In the van we’re debating the best way to describe the gleeful, beer-curdling, eardrum-bursting response of our Brooklyn audience when, in a lull between songs, we simply exclaimed the fun, rolling syllables “O-BA-MA!“ DuContra isn’t sure how to accurately describe the highness of the pitch. And Carl isn’t sure how to describe the sheer overwhelming power that i witnessed rock him backwards clasping his ears, with a look of fear in his eyes. It was probably most like standing in front of a double jet engine. At 30,000 feet. Yes, we were exceedingly grateful the NYC audience was very much on our side…. but nothing in our set could compete with the ovation for President Obama. Still, we couldn’t complain, as we concurred wholeheartedly, and besides, all the positive energy… more »