photo: Brian Fowler

We’ve moved our last (headliner) gig from September 10th (Saturday) t0 September 9th (Friday). Update yr. calendars!

We’ve also signed up to play Castaways with our friends Gadje on Thursday, September 15th.

(We’ll call this one the epilogue, and it’s where we’ll show the heroes sitting in a bar drinking and crying into their beverages, when Richard Attenborough walks in and says how he’s putting a team together and…nevermind. It’ll be fun.)

To recap:
The Catherine Joy Band: Last Night on Earth
Friday, September 9th, 2011
The Nines, 311 College Ave., Ithaca
10pm
(more details TBA)

• facebook event

This is it, the last hoorah of The Catherine Joy Band before CJ and the Rocketkar leave Ithaca on an epic quest to find and destroy the source of the seagull menace, a quest from which they may never return.

Like all hopeless missions, it must be preceded by an epic night of debauchery and merrymaking with all the people who will be so sorely missed.

Appropriately, that night will be taking place at the venue where Rocketkar first glared lecherously over the bar at Miss Joy as she mantled mysteriously over a tuna melt and Magic Hat.

Bang the drums, crack the whips and hold nothing back, for tomorrow we fly!

The Catherine Joy Band: Last Night on Earth
Saturday, September 10th, 2011
The Nines, 311 College Ave., Ithaca
10pm
(more details TBA)

• Facebook event

Join us this Saturday for glorious shenanigans at Delilah’s on Cayuga in Ithaca this Saturday at 9:30pm. $5 cover, 18+

Opening the gig will be our friends Souk, purveyors of glorious transcendental middle eastern grooves which have been known to cause people to fly into strange trances and dance the dance of abandon.

PS: Facebook is occasionally showing the gig as starting @ 6:30, no idea why. Actually starts @ 9:30.

Links:

• Facebook event page
• Souk: Middle Eastern Grooves
• Delilah’s on Cayuga

We’re leaving iTown. Leaving New York. Leaving the right coast altogether.

Sometime in September, CJ and Rocketkar are blasting off for Seattle on a hopeless mission to find and destroy the source of the virus that’s turning the seagulls evil. Also to get new jobs and more and stronger coffee.

So the band as we know it will be….not so much. We’re sad as hell to go, but nothing can be gained without giving something up. We are so freakin’ grateful for the awesome times we’ve had here in Ithaca and especially the guys at Big Time Studio and for Dan and Tonya who’ve made us an actual rock band that can do some real damage. And when they wake up in their cryotubes and realize they and their families have been kidnapped and brought along with us, they’ll see it’s all for the best.

But that’s the future, that’s all the way on the other side of tomorrow. For now, let us enjoy what we have, make the most of the gigs we’ve got and make this shit happen.

Lucky for you you can see us all sortsa places in the next couple weeks. Come see us:

• Tuesday July 12th at the Ithaca Commons
• Saturday July 16th with Gadje at the Rongo
• July 30th at Delilah’s with Mutsu.

Full schedule heyah:

• Upcoming Shows
• Catherine Joy Band on Facebook
• Catherine Joy Band on ReverbNation

So qvick! Snag at Guitarworks, Angry Mom Records and Buffalo St. Books or via bmoas@yahoo.com.

In the meantime, observe:

see also:

• facebook event

• Radio: Tuesday the 28th @ 6pm on WVBR
• Wednesday the 29th with Timatim Fitfit @ The Nines – 10pm
• Thursday the 30th @ The Rooster Fish Brewery – 4pm
• July 9th  with Dusty Pas’cal @ The Rongo – 7pm
• July 16th @ The Rongo – 9pm

We’ll be playing some live stuff plus talking about our shows with TimatimFitfit on Wednesday the 29th and at Rooster Fish Brewery Thursday the 30th and giving away some tickets to our July 9th show with Dusty Pas’cal

Facebook events:

• Wednesday the 29th with Timatim Fitfit @ The Nines – 10pm
• Thursday the 30th @ The Rooster Fish Brewery – 4pm
• July 9th  with Dusty Pas’cal @ The Rongo – 7pm
• July 16th @ The Rongo – 9pm

Wednesday June 29th

The Nines, Ithaca NY

with Timatim Fitfit – 9pm-1am facebook event

Thursday June 30th

Roosterfish Brewing, Watkins Glen NY

4pm-6pm

Saturday July 9th

The Rongovian Embassy

with Dusty Pas’cal – 9pm, $10 advance/$12 door  - tickets @ Guitarworks, Angry Mom Records and Buffalo St. Books or via bmoas@yahoo.com – facebook event

Five years ago, I caught Mr. Webley performing at The ABC Cafe and my life would never be the same. I decided then and there to stop lollygagging and to get out there and start playing music. I started attending open mics. I started wearing a denim coat. I started getting solo gigs. I started wearing a hat. I met my bass player. We got drunk together and then got married on a raft. We recorded an album. We met Dan and Tonya. We formed the Catherine Joy Band. We all get drunk together and wear hats. The world is a better place.

None of this would have happened without Jason Webley.

So please, if you are in the area, come out and pay tribute. The show starts at 7:30 and the cover is $8. We will be opening with a very short set, so be prompt!

Facebook Event Page

Photo by Jenn Owen

Good god, that was a baller weekend at The International Steampunk City in Waltham, Mass.. Two kickass gigs, excellent road trip, super-successful guerilla promotion, late nights and a maniacal crew of friends and band members marauding like champions. Had an awesome time at the Skellig looking out at an audience full of pith helmets and top hats. Dressup is much more fun when you’re an adult.

Everyone’s photos here:

Also got a mention by the festival organizer, Stephanie Bassert in an article in the Boston Globe. Special thanks to her and all the festival staff, especially Jeremy who jumped in saved our asses from trying to manhandle an unfamiliar sound system.

Also: Read more about it on our Facebook band page