The CC’s show was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who promoted, played, worked, attended, and bought CD’s. I’ll be back later today to finish this entry.

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thanks a ton to AJ for these photos.

we played about an hour and a half (i think). we played well and had a really fun time on stage. we played songs from swim, songs from nostalgia, a few unreleased things, and a cover of areosmith’s “sweet emotion”.

the room was full, the sound and lights were great. thanks again to everyone involved. we’re just so happy it all went so smooth.

T ripping it up. i am lucky to be in such a kick ass band.

Opening the show were Massive Headwound Harry from lakota high school and my sister Amy Hedges, who also just released a CD. here i am with amy:

for those of you who missed CC’s, we just announced some more ohio dates at the frog, mcguffy’s, and soupies, as well as a new york cbgb’s show (feb. 10th). we are going to surround the new york show with a couple routing dates. we’ll be selling CD’s at all those shows. we are kicking around the idea of returning to CC’s sometime in June.

so finally there are some new July For Kings CD’s floating around out there! that makes me happy. we are getting lots of e-mail from people wanting us to mail them CD’s. if you haven’t heard, we are releasing the CD for online sales in a couple weeks at CDbaby.com. we’ll let you know when that happens. we’ll also be making mp3’s for sale on alternativeaddiction.com, itunes.com, napster.com and more.

we are getting some good press lately. and actually…we are collecting it, or attempting to, to use for our press package. if you happen to have an extra copy of the cincinnati post from december 23th. or city beat, the middletown journal, or other papers that might have done write up’s on or around that date, please e-mail me and let me know. we could really use a couple copies. thanks! thanks also to our friends at the local papers, especially the folks who have been supportive of us for years.

if i come across some other photos i will put them up

talk to you soon
joe

let the countdown begin… in exactly one week we’ll be driving to soundcheck at CC’s in middletown for the big release party. more about that later.

i just put full mp3’s of one by one and invincible up on our music page. (i usually make the journal hyperlinks open in new windows so that you may keep reading the journal while you are browsing.)

since the last time i wrote, we had a show in columbus and a “flyer day” in middletown. thanks to britt for these photos.

the show was good, except that i accidentally smashed the microphone into my face, giving myself a bloody lip. i’ve done that about five times in my life. it hurts pretty bad. i turned over to drew at one point saying “drew i gave myself a blody lip. is it bad?” “no. don’t worry about it. rock and roll!”

earlier this week we had flyer day with the JFKArmy. we met at O’Charley’s restaurant, had dinner, and went out on the town to hang up flyers. it was a cool, humbling experience, as it was last year.

thanks to everyone who came out. it was freezing. next year we’ll have to bring extra gloves and stuff. it was just too painful to be using tacs and tape with the wind blowing.

we did get a lot accomplished, hitting most of the middletown hang outs.

lisa took these and they are great:

if you are interested in printing and hanging some flyers, please download the flyer now by right clicking this link, selecting “Save Target As…”. print, copy, hang (repeat…).

our good friend Andrew Ellis from the UK wrote a new bio for us. english is better in england. check it out on the bio page. we’ve been sending that and this press release out to local papers, and some not so local papers. the place should be full. now i guess the thing to worry about playing a decent show.

we have been getting some great feedback from the music so far, even some early radio play. the other night we won Allentown PA station WZZO’s “cage match”, a battle of the songs, with our song “like that”. i believe we are on air again tonight, up against someone else.

also this week dan, T, and myself flew to pittsburgh and back for an event at a kenneth cole store with instyle magazine. i might put up some pictures eventually.

lots and lots of good stuff happening right now. i feel good. kick ass.

it’s going to be yet another busy week, so this may be the last journal before the show.

happy christmas!
i hope you get everything you want

joe