Now We Are Older

I was supposed to be working today, Saturday, but as I was trying to put the finishing touches on my concluding Greece post, it became germane for me to include a link to a band that I used to be in. Since the band no longer has a website, I hoped to find some other link. To my dismay, the only thing a google search turned up was links to other bands that we played shows with. Seeing that our band’s robust legacy was on the verge of fading from the annals of music history, I had to act fast. To wit, I uploaded a bunch of old show posters and included some commentary about the corresponding shows.

The band was called Now We Are Louder. It started when my friend Pam and I found our band Mannequin drummerless, but with a good gig opportunity at New York’s Knitting Factory in 2002. We asked our friend Sherry to play and she learned all the songs in like a week. We later asked our friend Nathan to join in on bass (and who I would later play with in New Beirut Holiday). The band name was first uttered by Sherry over pints of beer in the back garden of the Brooklyn bar Union Pool. We played a bunch of shows, one of the more memorable ones being at Wesleyan University. The show itself was not well-attended but I remember playing well and I think Sherry inspired like 10 girls to start bands. The last show was at the Ottobar in Baltimore in 2003. Our recorded output consists of a three song demo we made at NJ’s West West Side Studios (where I think Danzig and some other famous New Jersians have recorded) and an unreleased 7-song thing tentatively titled Ponies Are Pretty. The second effort was recorded at Oneida’s studio with Barry London. You can check out the last couple Oneida records or the reality TV show Wife Swap for more examples of his work. I can’t tell you how glad I am to not be kidding about the latter.

So, since I haven’t yet finished with Greece, I thought I’d put a link to the posters here.

I really miss playing in a band and I hope to get into something again when we get to Austin, TX. I had briefly harbored hopes of starting something here, but…blah blah blah no venues blah blah lack of contemporary culture blah work blah.