Dirty Lingo LIVE at Yucca TapRoom – Post Show
Sunday, September 12th, 2010Dirty Lingo performs their song “get Out” LIVE at Yucca Taproom September 1st, 2010.
Tyler opened the show solo acoustic.
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Tyler LIVE at Yucca Taproom Sept 1, 2010 9pm
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Tyler LIVE at the Yucca Taproom this Wednesday
Fresh off of a whirlwind tour of the Northwest US, Tyler Christensen will play a one-hour acoustic set at 9:00pm on Wednesday September 1st, 2010. Tyler will open for local band Dirty Lingo LIVE at the Yucca Taproom located at 29 West Southern Avenue.
Tyler Opens the show with local band Dirty Lingo taking the stage at 10pm.
Arizona WinterFest This Saturday 3-10pm
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Back in Town
Tyler is back from the Northwest Tour, and helping stage the first annual Arizona WinterFest: Beat the Heat Beer Festival.
SuperNormal Records has booked the bands for the first annual Arizona WinterFest: Beat the Heat Beer Festival. This event will be a showcase of local Arizona Talent, and great craft beers. No cover bands here. We are featuring your Local Arizona Music Scene on The Venue of Scottsdale’s stage from 3pm-10pm. For more information on the event visit. www.beattheheatwinterfest.com
August 28th, 2010
The Venue of Scottsdale
3-10 pm
Schedule of Performers
Tyler Christensen
Fresh off of a whirlwind tour of the Northwest United States, Tyler Christensen will be opening the show at the first annual Arizona WinterFest: Beat the Heat Beer Festival. A blend of Folk, Americana, and Pop; Tyler’s confessional songwriting has taken him across the US three times and to stages as far away as Czech Republic and Sweden. Tyler will be performing solo/acoustic for the first half-hour of the BTH music program.
Dirty Lingo
http://www.myspace.com/dirtylingo
Although the band does not have mop tops and Liverpudlian accents, they are heavily influenced by The Beatles. Their bouncy pop sentiment makes for a lively show. Together; Mike Chapman, John Hayden, Adam Wolin and Michael Levin’s combined talent, friendship, and experiences are Dirty Lingo.
Kings of Last Call
http://www.myspace.com/kingsoflastcall
Kings of Last Call are a Power Pop/Rock and Roll band from Phoenix, Arizona. Blending Alt-country, rock, and pop, KOLC’s songs hint at influences as broad as Wilco, The Jayhawks, and Tom Petty.
Formed in 2008 from the ashes of Kiras Rage and South Mountain Lights, the band solidified its lineup in early 2009 and released its first full-length CD, From Memory, in December 2009.
Little Person Projectiles
http://www.myspace.com/littlepersonprojectiles
Steeped in funk style LPP is blends common elements from disparate genre’s and creates a smooth unique sound layered with sick beats, sweeping guitars, and the one constant; Mister Dinger’s witty lyrical world-view which makes for kind conscious hip-hop.
Quixote
http://www.myspace.com/quixotephx
From sinuous extended jams, to tight and terse rock songs; Quixote is a genre promiscuous original band from Arizona. Comprised of three members: Tyler Christensen, Adam Kohler, and Ehren Stonner – Quixote lays down songs that transcend the genre line while serving their one soverign master – The Groove.
Musical Line-up presented by:
Northwesticles: The Globe Portland, Oregon
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
The Keg Tavern: How’d it Go?
Travelling without a laptop forces one to be creative as to where and when uploads and posts can occur. I have pictures and video to upload. However, finding the time and the proper ports to use can be challenging. So be patient and pictures and video will come soon. For now, here is a preview of the venue I play tomorrow night. If you’re in Portland, come on by… You know me, It’s free!
The Globe is located aty:
2045 SE Belmont St.
The Globe BarCafe:
To sum up Portland, Oregon in an unassuming and plainly profound way one can do it in one word: “Community.” Long since heeding the unspoken mantra, “Community not Competition” Portland Oregon’s foodie, drinkie, and music scene have all been nurtured and flourished by a populace that understands it’s food, loves it’s music, and welcomes new ideas.
The torch is passed gracefully in this town from the die-hard old-school restaurants and pubs to the new youthfully exuberant restaurant concepts staffed with young talent behind the stick, or in the kitchen. There is enough room for everyone in this town, and Portlanders decide if you get to stay and play. They raise their expectations and proprieters deliver. If not, it’s back to the other side of the bar, Chef-fy.
On SE Belmont, my friend and chef Marc Brazeau and his team are in their first year of staking their claim in the infinite frontier of The Portland Oregon Scene. The deed has been written and The Globe BarCafe is fervently supported by this little neighborhood in SouthEast they call home.
Following the cycle of the day The Globe BarCafe evolves. At Sunrise, a place to get a hot cup of coffee and read, By the Mid-day Sun – a quick-serve lunch counter, At Dusk a dinner-spot, In the witching hours – a Bar. Not to get all linen-shirted and Guru about it, but I forsee many sunrises on The Globe BarCafe.
Northwesticles – The Keg Tavern
Sunday, August 8th, 2010The Luckey’s Show: How’d it go?
Lucky, Lucky,Lucky, Luckey Me, again:
We left Phoenix at 7:30 am. We had just finished packing no more than two hours ago. We landed in Eugene in a short two-and-a-half hours. I say we, because along on this trip I have My lady (Jimmie) and our friends Maggie and Jim. We all are going to attend the Churchill/Teeters wedding on the banks of beautiful Lake Odell – (One hour and 20 minutes southeast of the town of Eugene, Oregon). And we are all heading into Eugene for the show at Luckey’s.
Come August 5th; there was a wedding, jetlag, and a 3 hour drive and a great show. In my experience, I have had show’s with only the staff in attendance. I have had shows where there was only one person at the bar facing a way from me and…tapping their toe? At Luckey’s I have had a show where I was in an unfamiliar town, with three of my most valued friends, the staff and a few stumble-in’s. Everyone at the wedding asked: “How’d the show go?” My answer? “Good.” True. It was good. But the process, the journey, us driving 3 hours plus, missing hitting a deer on the highway, making an illegal u-turn in front of the first cop I have ever seen in the Northwest, and getting away with it. Us going through ‘the process’ was great.
One great process deserves another, and now me and my girl are posted up at a life-long friends beautiful house in West Eugene. Ralph is one of those friends among those that I can count on one hand. One of those people you meet in life that stick. Friends for life. He and Karen have welcomed us into their home and we are hunkered down until tomorrow night. Tomorrow I play at the Keg Tavern in Eugene.
August 9th: The Keg Tavern in Eugene, Oregon
The Keg Tavern and Steakhouse in Eugene, Oregon is one of those quintessential, useful bars. My friend Ralph helped me book a show here and when he said to me a few weeks ago “you should play at my bar”. I didn’t know if he owned the place, bartended here, or just drank here. The words “my bar” can mean all of those things. I thought that was all right and I didn’t ask him to clarify.
There is a book called The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg, and a short-story on the same theme called A Clean Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemmingway. Both works speak to the fact that we need a good pub. A warm place close-by that always leaves the neon light on for you. Serves you a hot plate of food, and a cold glass of suds, or a three-finger pull of fire-water. Puts you under, picks you back up, and throws your drunk ass out cause it’s good for ya. The Pub will forgive you the next day and welcome you back in with open arms when you are a little hungry or thirsty. Daughters get married here, Lovers get found here, and some get lost here. The bar truly is a beautiful place.
Northwesticles: Into the Sky
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
The Ride
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Before it was utilized as a marketing slogan by InBev, this is the point where I would say something like, “Here We Go.” It is the first day of Northwesticles: A Public Transit Tour. The longest and biggest tour I have yet undertaken, so, a more complex statement is in order. “Joy is the fruition of a journey rooted in the heart”. I fain trust that will not end up in a beer commercial anytime soon.
Little Rock
This little painted rock in my hand was given to me by an old friend. Not directly however. Victoria, an acquaintance of mine from The Unlikely Theater Company makes these. I hadn’t seen her in many years and I stumbled across her booth at an art festival on Grand Avenue. There she was surrounded by a host of items she has made by hand. Things like the artist: Simple, quirky, fun. There is no other way I would have happened upon an artist like Vickey when I hadn’t seen her in years. You don’t bump into people like Victoria at the grocery store. You don’t realize suddenly that you are standing behind her in a record shop. Not that she doesn’t go to those places. But, when you have worked as an artist with other artists, you tend to find them again as they were when you knew them. You see them when they are creating. Because a true artist is always creating. Victoria Safriet is a true artist. I bought this little rock from Vickey, we chatted, and occasionally her and her guy have come to see some Quixote shows. We know each other through our art.
As we were, we are. Creating. Doing. And just being. Somewhere in every city there are those hunkered down putting their hands and hearts to make something from nothing. To take something and change it. To touch the world. To leave that indellible print. The following twelve days will be me doing just that, and just doing that.
Zero Hour 7:30 AM
Today I climb into that rocket tube and they fire it off with the trajectory and intention of landing in Eugene, Oregon in a few short hours. Tonight at Luckey’s I strike the first note on the Northwesticles Tour. Noone knows what will happen when those wheels touch the ground in Eugene, but I am sure of one thing: “I’m gonna YouTube the s#@% out of this thing.”
So, borrowing the now trademarked words of everyone’s ‘favorite’ American Beverage, “Here We Go!”
Luckey, Luckey, Luckey, Lucky me again.
The first club I play on this tour has got history.
Luckey’s Club Cigar Store was purchased in 1911 by Tad Luckey, Sr., the son of Irish immigrants and an early Eugene pioneer. It is the oldest retail business in downtown Eugene, and one of the oldest bars in Oregon. In its 95 year history, it has survived both the Great Depression and Prohibition.
The “Club Cigar,” as it was called in the late 1800s did not allow women patrons. It was a place for men only. A man could go to Luckey’s to shop for a cigar, shoot some pool, get a shoeshine, haircut and shave, and order a sandwich at the cafe in the back. Over the years, it evolved into a place for older men.
The “Club Cigar,” as it was called in the late 1800s did not allow women patrons. It was a place for men only. A man could go to Luckey’s to shop for a cigar, shoot some pool, get a shoeshine, haircut and shave, and order a sandwich at the cafe in the back. Over the years, it evolved into a place for older men.
Yes, that’s right. While the young lads were out chasing skirts and scaring up some tail, the Older Gents were sitting around smoking cigars all the while blissfully ignorant of the sheer breath of life and excitement a woman can bring when she’s hollering and whooping it up in a barroom. Which leads me to ask, “What were those old bastards thinking?”
Eugene, Oregon was a dry town before the end of Prohibition, therefore Luckey’s with it’s all-under-one-roof approach, was able to survive the nationwide ban on liquor fairly easily compared to the drinking establishments in neighboring Springfield. After Prohibition ended in 1933, Luckey’s became the first establishment in Lane County licensed by the newly formed Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
In 1934, in the height of the Great Depression, Tad Luckey, Sr. paid the relatively enormous sum of $300 for a horseshoe-shaped custom neon outdoor sign. At the time, most businesses rented their neon signs, and this is one of the few that survived. In fact, it is the oldest neon sign known to exist in Eugene.
In 1934, in the height of the Great Depression, Tad Luckey, Sr. paid the relatively enormous sum of $300 for a horseshoe-shaped custom neon outdoor sign. At the time, most businesses rented their neon signs, and this is one of the few that survived. In fact, it is the oldest neon sign known to exist in Eugene.
Northwesticles: A Public Transit Tour
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Summer Tour 2010
SuperNormal Records is presenting “Northwesticles: a Public Transit Tour” August 5th – August 17th, 2010. Cities on this tour are: EUGENE, PORTLAND, SEATTLE, and SPOKANE.
A public transit tour is a unique promotional tour to promote an artist and record label while simultaneously promoting the use of public transit. The Artist must travel via public
transit to all of the cities and venues.
By Rail, By Bus, By Flip-flop, Tyler Christensen will be v-logging and blogging about his travels and shows/venues as he goes. Follow the Tour at: www.Northwesticles.com(or) www.SuperNormalRecords.com
Tyler Christensen is the singer/guitarist for Quixote (iTunes: “The Hills of Ubeda”)
and has participated in three (3) Public Transit Tours in the past.
“Travelling and touring like this presents a unique challenge. This is gonna take some fortitude, this is gonna take some balls, this is gonna take Northwesticles.”
- Tyler Christensen
- Luckey’s in Eugene on August 5th, 2010. 10pm
- The Keg in Eugene on August 9th, 2010. 7-9pm
- The Globe in Portland on August 12th 8-10
- The Blue Spark in Spokane on August 15th 9-11p
Arizona Winterfest: Beat the Heat Beer Festival
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
August 28th, 2010
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SuperNormal Records has booked the bands for the first annual Arizona WinterFest: Beat the Heat Beer Festival. This event will be a showcase of local Arizona Talent, and great craft beers. No cover bands here. We are featuring your Local Arizona Music Scene on The Venue of Scottsdale’s stage from 3pm-10pm. For more information on the event visit. www.beattheheatwinterfest.com
Schedule of Performers
3-4:30pm Jack Young
Local singer/songwriter who has been playing the Arizona scene loyally for years, Jack Young “The Ambassador of Arcadia” takes the stage at this years BTH: Beerfest.
5-6pm Dirty Lingo
http://www.myspace.com/dirtylingo
Although the band does not have mop tops and Liverpudlian accents, they are heavily influenced by The Beatles. Their bouncy pop sentiment makes for a lively show. Together; Mike Chapman, John Hayden, Adam Wolin and Michael Levin’s combined talent, friendship, and experiences are Dirty Lingo.
6-7pm Kings of Last Call
http://www.myspace.com/kingsoflastcall
Kings of Last Call are a Power Pop/Rock and Roll band from Phoenix, Arizona. Blending Alt-country, rock, and pop, KOLC’s songs hint at influences as broad as Wilco, The Jayhawks, and Tom Petty.
Formed in 2008 from the ashes of Kiras Rage and South Mountain Lights, the band solidified its lineup in early 2009 and released its first full-length CD, From Memory, in December 2009.
7-8pm Little Person Projectiles
http://www.myspace.com/littlepersonprojectiles
Steeped in funk style LPP is blends common elements from disparate genre’s and creates a smooth unique sound layered with sick beats, sweeping guitars, and the one constant; Mister Dinger’s witty lyrical world-view which makes for kind conscious hip-hop.
8-9pm Quixote
http://www.myspace.com/quixotephx
From sinuous extended jams, to tight and terse rock songs; Quixote is a genre promiscuous original band from Arizona. Comprised of three members: Tyler Christensen, Adam Kohler, and Ehren Stonner – Quixote lays down songs that transcend the genre line while serving their one soverign master – The Groove.
Musical Line-up presented by:
Northwesticles: A Public Transit Tour
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Summer Tour 2010
SuperNormal Records is presenting “Northwesticles: a Public Transit Tour” August 5th – August 17th, 2010. Cities on this tour are: EUGENE, PORTLAND, SEATTLE, and SPOKANE.
A public transit tour is a unique promotional tour to promote an artist and record label while simultaneously promoting the use of public transit. The Artist must travel via public
transit to all of the cities and venues.
By Rail, By Bus, By Flip-flop, Tyler Christensen will be v-logging and blogging about his travels and shows/venues as he goes. Follow the Tour at: www.Northwesticles.com(or) www.SuperNormalRecords.com
Tyler Christensen is the singer/guitarist for Quixote (iTunes: “The Hills of Ubeda”)
and has participated in three (3) Public Transit Tours in the past.
“Travelling and touring like this presents a unique challenge. This is gonna take some fortitude, this is gonna take some balls, this is gonna take Northwesticles.”
- Tyler Christensen
- Luckey’s in Eugene on August 5th, 2010. 10pm
- The Keg in Eugene on August 9th, 2010. 7-9pm
- The Globe in Portland on August 12th 8-10
- The Blue Spark in Spokane on August 15th 9-11p
Quixote LIVE at Estate House 7-16-2010
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Quixote will perform LIVE at The Estate House Lounge in Scottsdale, Arizona
Saturday July 16th 9- Midnight.
Buy the album “The Hills of Ubeda” on iTunes, or wherever digital music is sold.
