Brice Randall Bickford

Except it’s our old hometown. In early March we’ll be moving back to our beloved Carolina for good. The hated exile in the District (despite the nice folks we met up there) ended more than a little while back, and for the past three months we’ve been trying our hand at travel writing. But it’s time now to come home to our friends and family in the Triangle…and find work again.

Check the Shows page for for upcoming performances, the first of which will be a benefit show at the Lincoln Theater in Raleigh on March 23rd.

More shortly.

Photo by Agatha Donkar, TRKfest 2011, Saxapahaw Ballroom

Come to the District’s finest house venue, Cellar Door, on Friday October 21st for the final 2011 BRB+Band performance. Details are at the venue’s Facebook page here.  Starting the evening off will be Strange Victories, an off-shoot of the orchestral DC pop group The Cascade. Strings, flute, french horn, and all manner of aural candy will be on hand.

Thanks to the good people at Hopscotch for organizing a fine festival last month. Best two shows I’ve played in I can’t remember how long.

Also, just finished up some new recordings at Fret Sounds in Graham, NC. With any luck the winter hiatus will yield the remainder of a next album for 2012.

That’s about it for now…lying low.

Regards,

Bixxx

BRB + band will be performing at the fourth annual TRKfest this Saturday, August 13th. We are set to go on at 5:40, but there’s a ton of other great acts on the bill as well games/activities/shenanigans and local vendors.

Playing Charm City, USA’s annual music festival on Friday, August 26th as well.

And finally, back to Carolina for the Hopscotch festival on Friday, September 9th.

Worlds collide this Thursday night at the Black Cat’s Back Stage when DC friends Office of Future Plans join us along with NC’s Hammer No More the Fingers. We play first, and I’ll have Carolina brethern backing me up this time.

Literally just this minute landed a slot opening for Paul Dempsey, a bloke I didn’t know from Adam before but who seems to have a serious rock resume. So come and see us (or me, as it will probably be another solo performance) Monday night at this Northern Virginia institution.  If I could pick one venue in this area that has the best sound and vibe, it would be Iota. With any luck, the powers that be will be impressed and we can finally host an actual official District-area album release show there.

Speaking of which, a big thank you goes out to all the folks who helped make the BRB debut album release a reality. And to those who played the shows in NC a few weeks back, and those who’ve gotten in touch to express their appreciation for the musics contained therein. To quote Foreigner, it feels like the first time…even though it’s my fifth record. Perhaps because this is the first one to be issued on vinyl, the historical format for albums, definitely the ideal one in my mind.

Another solo engagement here tomorrow night.

And if you’re in the NYC area I’ll be at the Living Room at 8pm on Saturday night, with my old friend LJMo tickling ivories and perhaps some old NY friends sitting in.

Oh and below is what some of us looked like on the Cradle stage a few weeks back in Carrboro.

Photo by Eric Wallen

here.

Album release shows coming this week in the NC triangle and Charlotte.

Here’s a clip of me singing a tune from the record amongst tomato plants in the Trekky garden to whet appetites.

A wise man once wrote, “I maybe ain’t so good at speechifying, but I can sure as fuck split my head open and deliver its real hardworking matter to the hungry air! I can also turn furniture upside down (if it isn’t too heavy).”

We don’t care much for the blog format, or for maintaining a web presence at all for that matter. But it’s 2011 and here we are, and there is no one else to disseminate the relevant dispatches.

You can see on the shows page that performances are lining up to coincide with the release of an album we recorded with Scott Solter way back in 2009. After sitting on the proverbial shelf for umpteen months, this collection of songs will finally be issued in proper vinyl/CD/mp3 packaging in mid June. This combo format is fast becoming the signature product of the NC friends of ours who are doing the honors this time around. You can listen to and download for free some of the songs from this record on the media page.

Not much else to say at this point except that if you want us to come to your town, please get in touch. We want to get out, desperately, but booking is a young man’s game, and in the Riggs/Murtaugh dichotomy of this world we’ve long since established ourselves in the latter camp.

Some polite words from a blogger about last Monday’s show with Lost in the Trees are here.