Merch Sale, European Tour, & More

I’m not sure how to double check, but it wouldn’t surprise me if December is National T-Shirt Month. Just in case it is, we’d like to celebrate with a limited time shirt sale over at our Storevny Page! In fact it’s not just shirts– ALL merch is 25% off if you use the code “BP2014.” If that wasn’t enough, we also have two copies of the Fat Music For Fest People comp and 10 koozies that we’ll throw in to random orders. Nice! What do you have to lose, other than money you may have worked hard to accumulate? Nothing! Go check it out now— it’s for a limited time only.

In other news, we are heading back to Europe in the spring of 2015 and we couldn’t be more excited. We’ve already announced Groezrock and Uncle M Fest, and will be announcing the rest of the tour soon. It’ll have some of our favorite spots as well as some countries we haven’t played in before. Check our website and/or Facebook page for additional show announcements.

We’re also stoked that Jeff Matika will be joining us on guitar for this tour! Jeff’s a great dude and is currently the touring guitarist for Green Day. Pretty sure he’ll be able to handle a Banner Pilot show. Welcome aboard, Jeff!

Look for more show announcements and other stuff soon!

Local Shows Coming Up!

Thanks for everyone who checked out our recent Midwest and East Coast tours; the shows were fun and it was nice being back in a few cities we hadn’t been to in a long time. In some cases it had been so long I really had no idea how the show would go — for example, one of my previous memories about Boston was playing to six people, four of whom were in the other band, one of whom was dressed as a pirate — but they were consistently solid. Best Host award goes to Firehouse Pizza in Normal, IL, hands down.

Now we’re back home and we have a couple of local shows later this month. First up is Wrestlepalooza IV at First Avenue, this Saturday the 14th. I’ve never been but have heard great things. They’re going to bring a wrestling ring into the main room and then we’ll play between matches and possibly throw around some folding chairs and stuff.

One week after that, on June 21st, we’re playing the Extreme Noise 20th anniversary, outdoors at Memory Lanes. With… Cleveland Bound Death Sentence!! And a bunch of other cool bands.

Check out both shows if you can, I hereby predict they will be excellent and well worth your time

-Nate

Regional CD Release Shows!

Originally Posted 8/19/09 on Myspace

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So, we’ve got a new album coming out on September 1st and we decided to do a record release show for it. But then we thought “You know, it’s kind of lame for bands to do their release show in just one city…. all the kids in other cities miss out.”

Luckily, we came up with a great solution: Regional Release Shows! Now that there’s multiple options you can drive to the town nearest you and enjoy a sweet release show. Here’s the details:

The Western third of the country should attend the Minneapolis show on September 4th at the 7th Street Entry. The Framed, Amen and the Hell Yeahs and The Dirty Hits will also be playing

The Eastern third of the country can check out the Chicago show on September 5th at Ronny’s. Brickfight, Arms Aloft and Everything is Ruined will be there too

And for those of you in the middle of the country, we’ve got you covered on September 6th in Elgin, IL at the Gasthaus. More bands TBA

Convenient for everyone. See ya at the show!

-Nate