THIS FRI. DEC 19 @ OFF BROADWAY - A BLUE RIBBON XMAS w/GAH, The Hibernauts, Target Market, & Cold Bear Scout

This Friday, you're invited to...

A BLUE RIBBON CHRISTMAS
December 19 at Off Broadway
3511 Lemp Ave, St Louis, MO 63118
Doors at 8:00 | Show starts at 9:00 | $8



Featuring...
Gentleman Auction House
The Hibernauts
Target Market
Cold Bear Scout

Sponsored by...
KDHX
PABST
VINTAGE VINYL

GENTLEMAN AUCTION HOUSE


"Gentleman Auction House put out one of the great records of 2008 with their debut full length, Alphabet Graveyard, and as if that wasn’t enough, they have also put together the excellent 6 song Christmas In Love EP for your Holiday enjoyment. If you like ["On The Rooftop"], you’ll definitely want to pick it up, the rest of it is just as good. The pefect stocking stuffer."
-Tom @ bagofsongs.com

"The mode might be indie rock, but the mood is pure Christmas. This six-song pop romance buzzes with hope and loss, ends and beginnings, and all that good wintry stuff… These St. Louis-based newcomers have created a stellar Christmas classic..."
-Linda Laban, Rock 'n' Roll Examiner

RIYL: The Starlight Mints, Beck, The Polyphonic Spree, Modest Mouse, The Rentals, The New Pornographers

THE HIBERNAUTS


"They do have a typical pop thing going on but add their own touch to the din of swirling, swooning guitar licks, trippy hooks, and lyrical effervescence… The whole album has a smooth continuity with each tune being the piece of a well-constructed puzzle."
-Kent Manthie, Amplifier Magazine

"The Hibernauts play a strong, stripped-down style of indie rock that comes forth into pop glory...Their superior musicianship and arrangement skills here are why the band ultimately succeeds. Each of the tracks here could conceivably be a single."
-Neufutur Magazine

RIYL: White Rabbits, The Features, The Strokes, The Killers, The Deathray Davies

TARGET MARKET

"This band has the aesthetic and the melodies, all wrapped up in a package of straight-up fun. Well, maybe 'fun' isn't the right word; this band has some darkness to their music, too. This one isn't long, but it's durable… Three hours later from now, [it] will still be stuck in your head."
- Music For Robots

"…Spring-loaded, danceable rhythms and howling vocals… Think the corrugated riffs promulgated by J. Robbins in his various bands, or the atmospheric, experimental angles found on ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead's recent albums. "
-Riverfront Times

RIYL: Thunderbirds Are Now!, Enon, We Versus The Shark, So Many Dynamos

COLD BEAR SCOUT

"Cold Bear Scout is the solo project of a damaged man named Steven Colbert (pronounced "Coal-burt")... He asked me to make his EP... It was one of the most fun records I've made so far because there were absolutely no rules the entire time."
-Ryan Wasoba, Bird Cloud Recording

RIYL: Sunset Rubdown, Handsome Furs, Frog Eyes, Swan Lake

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

VOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTEEEE!!!!!!

(please)

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!!!!!!

RIP: Cannonballs & Catapults Tour

We just got back from a fun-filled tour with our new BFF's, Yea Big + Kid Static. Thanks to everyone who came out to the shows, it was fun!


Stay tuned for info on our upcoming East Coast October trip, and another special GAH release before the end of the year!

Cheers,
GAH

"The Book of Matches" Music Video

Our video for "The Book of Matches" premiered at thetripwire.com yesterday, but if you missed it (even though it's still there), here it is in all of its glory...



Thanks to everyone that helped out and donated their weekend - I hope it was worth it!

Cheers,
Steve | GAH

GAH on Daytrotter.com

The radboys over at Daytrotter.com posted our feature article today, along with four live in-studio tracks that we recorded while we were on tour a couple months ago. The article is a dreamy read, and Eric even explains some lyrics! Lookout!

Cheers,
Steve | GAH