GAH's Eric Enger remixes Elsinore

hey there everybody.

apologies for the december cancellations. it takes a lot to cancel a show, and i beg your forgiveness.

january is here and change is in the air.

working hard on a new record. i repeat: hard. so far it feels like an really exciting step forward. more to come later.

checking in to let you know about a remix i did recently for our friends from champaign, IL, Elsinore. it's on the EP that is preceding their upcoming full length. i wanted to keep my distance from the chops on the original version, so i pretty much snagged the vocals and horns, set up camp at my studio and recorded a bunch of shit. they send the tracklist to get printed well before i was finished, so they are stuck with what i turned in (suckers). they seem happy with it, but never trust a musician. :) anyway, they want to get the word out, since they are offering this track up for free and spreading it around. apparently it's already getting some love on the radio.

check it out here:

Elsinore - Yes Yes Yes (Eric Enger Remix)

see ya soon.
-Eric/GAH

april showers bring...?

welp, we are a week into this trip and we have finally parted ways with the constant drizzle that has dogged us thus far. today in new york is gorgeous. we've been a bit behind on the blogging, but we've been busy goofing off/playing shows. we have a new word. ask stephen what ''agleing'' is and i'm sure he'd be happy to show you. he's at the top of his game when he's agleing steve. and let me state here that i certainly question the spelling of this word, but it is his word and the definition is wonderful. anyway, shows have been good. pictures to come. saw friends. played with friends. made friends. this has been our happiest tour in quite a while. plus we've met many new dogs who we have wrestled with. and oddly, the last two nights have included bands repeatedly apologizing on stage for their performances. last night even included some bizarre girlfriend/lead singer yelling match during the songs. oh, and they had backing tracks PLUS a tamborine player onstage. yet another reason drugs are bad. anyway, no ''return'' button, so in order to prevent textual clumping i will say good day. hope to see you soon. -ee

Stuff a stocking with "Christmas In Love"!

Little Elves and Big Elves -

On November 18th of this year, our beloved record label, Emergency Umbrella, will release our third record of 2008: Christmas In Love

Obviously we are crazy lucky to have a record label that will let us release an EP, our first full-length, and a Christmas record, all in one year (collect them all!), but more than anything, we're just happy that we got to check this project off of our Wish List.

Since Eric had recorded a few Christmas song demos over the last couple of years, and the holiday "concept" had popped up in an album song or two, a Christmas EP seemed like an inevitability.

Eric spent the better part of two weeks holed up in his basement studio with the AC cranked down to a wintry 35˚F, a fire burning in an old Crate cabinet, and a gallon of hot cocoa bubbling over the edges of his Grandma's old CrockPot. His only human contact was Steve hanging around to make sure he was keeping up with his personal hygiene, and to help rewrite all the not-quite-Christmasy-enough parts (read: sucky parts) [Ed. note: (read: drunkenly fumble with sleighbells)]. Kiley also stopped by to record all the piano parts that actually required being good at playing piano.

By the time the EP was done what rose from the cold was a cover, a re-recorded old song, a re-arranged old song, a re-written old song, an entirely new song, and an intro for good measure. Exhausted? You betcha!

So, the GAH & Emergency Umbrella present... Christmas In Love... available in stores on Nov. 18th.

1. A Banner Year
2. On The Rooftop
3. Home For The Holidays
4. Here Comes Santa Claus
5. Don't Want Another Christmas (Like Last Christmas)
6. Christmas In Love

You can preorder a copy for yourself (and all your friends - stocking stuffers!) right now at Insound.com or Amazon.com, OR you can come out to any of our shows between now and the 18th and buy a copy straight from us. Cut out the middleman! After the 18th it will be available at stores around town, at our shows, and at numerous online retailers. Bingo!

Speaking of shows, 'Here We Go A-Tourin''...

11/7 - Champaign-Urbana, IL @ Courtyard Cafe w/Headlights
11/8 - Richmond, IN @ Earlham College w/ Wax Fang, Birdnames
11/14 - Columbia, MO @ Mojo's for The Bluebird Music & Arts Fest w/ Bald Eagle, Elsinore, more
11/15 - St. Louis, MO @ The Billiken Club w/ Bound Stems, Yea Big + Kid Static
11/29 - St. Louis, MO @ 3rd Deg. Glass Factory for the Rock 'N Roll Craft Show
12/3 - Columbia, MO @ Mojo's w/TBA
12/4 - Springfield, MO @ TBA w/ Sweetwater Abilene & TBA
12/5 - Tulsa, OK @ TBA w/ El Paso Hot Button
12/6 - Stillwater, OK @ Eskimo Joe's w/Mayola & El Paso Hot Button
12/7 - Oklahoma City, OK @ TBA w/ El Paso Hot Button
12/8 - Dallas, TX @ Good Records - FREE In Store Performance
12/8 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada w/ Cocky Americans
12/9 - Austin, TX @ Lambert's w/ The Lemurs, The Ovenbirds
12/10 - Houston, TX @ Rudyard's w/ Motion Turns It On, Spain Colored Orange
12/11 - TBA - Help!
12/12 - TBA - Help!
12/13 - TBA - Help!
12/19 - St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway w/ The Hibernauts, Target Market, Cold Bear Sc0ut

Thanks for helping us spread that holiday cheer around like frosting on a sugar cookie. We love Christmas, and we love you all.

Cheers,
GAH

Givin' the GAH a good WOXY-clean scrubbin'!

Greetings, mates!

We're back from a short October jaunt to NYC and back. On the way up we sneaked into Cincinnati, OH and stopped by popular internet-radio station WOXY.com to chat with Shiv and record live-off-the-floor versions of some Alphabet Graveyard tunes. Everyone at the station was super-nice and, to reciprocate, we tried our best to tidy up after ourselves. We also celebrated a shared love of Grampall Jookabox's videogame for his new song, The Girl Ain't Preggers. Our set list from the show:

You And Me, Madly...
Call It Casual
- interview -
I Sleep In A Bed Of Scissor Arms
The Book Of Matches
We Used To Dream About Bridges

To download the mp3 of errythang and check out some in-studio pictures head here:














Gentleman Auction House at WOXY

Stay tuned!!!!!!

TWO NEW TRACKS UP!!!!

you can go to our myspace page to check out two brand new GAH tracks

The Book of Matches which appears on both The Book of Matches (EP due in stores 5.6.08) and Alphabet Graveyard (LP due in stores 6.3.08)

and

Our Angry Town Stamps Them Out appears on The Book of Matches





we recorded these with our great friends, Devin Ocampo, Chad Clark, and Nick Anderson in Arlington, VA at Silver Sonya/Inner Ear Studios

the album artwork was done by the fabulous Mr. John Vogl at The Bungaloo - thebungaloo.com

we hope you like em!

love,
gah

Victoria w/ Gentleman Auction House, Early Day Miners & Grace Basement @ The Bluebird

go...

Photo Update 1 - Richmond, IN 10/5

ryan, mike and steve attempting to change a blown tire


blown!!


Big Princess tears up the living room



eric e. and his best setlist ever