Monkey Pub this Saturday

We are rocking the Obligatory Show Post (OSP)

this OSP has been generated for the following show:

ubik. @ the Monkey Pub
w/ Red Rapture
5305 Roosevelt
Seattle, WA 98105
9:00 PM / 21+
$5 at the Door

Now that the official business is done and the OSP has been filed, I intend to spend the rest of my night making silly beeping noises, none of which should prevent you from coming out to the Monkey on Saturday, which is going to be lots of fun: playing with Red Rapture is always a good time, and we love the Monkey Pub.

deep breath

ubik needs a nap... we aren't used to playing shows three weekends in a row. After a really late Sunday at the Funhouse and a rockin party at The Octagon, we just played The Blue Moon on friday, which was a pretty unique experience for us. The Blue Moon comes with its own built-in crowd, so that set was played to some unusual folks that had never seen us before.

Much thanks to everyone who made it out to see us over the last few weeks-- we're taking the next two weeks to work the kinks out of a new song, maybe get some more writing done, and show up well rested for the show at The Monkey Pub on Friday, December 1st. Any of you may have seen a random ubik member staggering blindly out of the Monkey some night around closing time: that is one of our favorite bars in the U.

--eric

Free on Friday

We're playing the Blue Moon with Red Rapture on Friday, which can't help but to be awesome: we played a dry run with them a The Octagon house party on Saturday night, and that party was great! The music was fantastic, and the incredible (technical, trippy, and heavy as hell) Barefoot Barnacle was on the bill, the room was packed, and the crowd was phenomenal. Pack a bunch of us in a small room and the energy level goes up! (My apologies to the woman I was always almost stepping on and/or smacking in the face with my headstock)

Also, you only get to hear flirtations like "You hella don't wear your contacts anymore" at house parties. That's a lot of contact-not-wearing. It blew my mind and completely reconfigured my concept of math, as I thought it was a binary system: either one wore contacts, or one didn't wear contacts... but now we all know there are hella permutations to the system (only in the U-District, where the IQs are high and the education runs deep).

We're up on 45th this Friday, so we're rocking the convenient. The Blue Moon is on myriad bus routes, is right off of I-5, it's a Friday night show, and it's totally free. Stack all of that stuff together: it's not a school night, it's easy to get to, and it doesn't cost you anything... and that's a winner. That'd be a winner even if you didn't like ubik, as you could sit around and laugh at us for free, and we've got variety on tap: singer-sonwriter Paul Jameson is our first ever hyphenate billmate, and Red Rapture rocked the Nectar Lounge with us a few months back (not to mention the rad house party).

Standard showlist format:

Ubik @ The Blue Moon
712 NE 45th St
Seattle WA 98105
w/ Paul Jameson
& Red Rapture
& Mutilated Goat Sewage
9:00, $0 at the Door

We're still soliciting contributions to our genre-naming in the post below, so feel free to contribute. No-- don't feel free; feel obligated. This has even become a feature on Artomaton, so it is obviously something you need to do.

--eric

Mailing List

Oh boy... appy polly logies to anyone who put pen to paper on our mailing list, but still doesn't hear from us. Truth is, the mailing list gets filled out after we play, and... well... sometimes the handwriting looks a little creative. We do our best to include everyone that signs up, but there may have been drinking involved when the mailing list got filled out, and some of the entries are tough to translate.

If anyone is accidentally omitted, you can put in for the mailing list here.

Genre Naming Contest starts now!

So... what do you guys sound like?

Aargh! The most hated question: what do you sound like. ubik has never had an answer... we aren't slavish to any genre, though we do use a few traditional genre flourishes here and there. But we're not the sort of group that can answer The Big Question with a simple "We're a punk band." (we are so very much not a punk band. or rock band, or a metal band, or...) well, you understand our problem.

So what do you call us? A few ground rules: First, we're digging for a quick descriptor, so the "genre" name is limited to five words. Second, no band references: "Rammstein combined with Soul Coughing" isn't really valid... for so many reasons. Comments are enabled on this blog, so you can reply right within this post-- the contest begins now.

Early Monday Mornings

The Funhouse had a completely rocking lineup last night-- it is very hard to climb onto a stage right after Wah Wah Exit Wound just played (those guys rule!), but the ubik mailing list grew significantly, so it looks like we impressed a lot of people... even played our first encore. It's not easy playing first thing Monday morining (we went on around 12:30AM), so thanks to everyone who stuck around until last call on a school night. This was a late one, and you guys have the big bouncin' yar blockos.

That was a tough day: we want to thank Jon from Barefoot Barnacle for coming through at the last minute and loaning us a van... that was supremely awesome and really saved our collective asses. Intra-band, we have to give the love to Michelle for going down to Auburn to get the van: ubik is a collection of bike riders and bus takers, and she really put herself out bussing down there.

So... keep up with our shows page: we've got a free show at the Blue Moon coming up on the 16th, which is a Friday, so... do the math with me here... Free + Friday = Good.