We got invited to Shreveport, LA, baby to play this cool joint Mojo's in downtown Shreveport. Mojo's had an upstairs where they had a club and downstairs where it was more like a traditional bar where they showcased live music.They hooked us up with a great payout and some hotel rooms so we grabbed Electric Courage Machine and Leg Sweeper and threw down for the get down. The crazy thing about Mojo's is they stay open till 6 in the morning. We didn't even have to load it till 11pm and the first band didn't play till midnight.
We hit the casinos before the show and I ended up losing 50 bucks at penny slots, don't ask me how. Jason made $200 at poker but I was all casino'd out and wanted to save what little else money I had for the liquor.Leg Sweeper opened up the festivities and just brought raw, punk power for almost 30 minutes. We kept telling them to extend their set, extend their set, but I don't even think most of their songs were over 2 minutes. So members of Electric Courage Machine jumped on stage and created The Fuck Yous. And The Fuck Yous played the most awesome set of indie punk pop that I think they just made up on the spot.
After The Fuck Yous, Electric Courage Machine took the stage and let me just say, they are up there with my all time favorite bands. Their song We Can't Count I can put on repeat and play for hours and I have. Midway through the set though, they had been drinking so much, Damnit Joe on bass, tripped over a monitor and flipped right off stage. I went to catch him because it was obvious that he wasn't gonna stop playing his bass and was gonna break his neck. He landed on top of me though so I took the worst of it and I don't know how he did it but somehow he managed to kick me in the face as we wiped out.
We ended up going on at 3:30 in the morning and it was an awesome show. We moved the last of our merch we had been hanging on to. Oh! And we met sexy ass Rita. (Who's secretly not a LSU tiger fan. shhhhhhhhh.)
And, And --- They spelled our name right on the marquee. Excellent.
