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Free Download – Sweet Fascination

Craig — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 02:28:14 +0000

Happy Valentines Day! For a limited time only, Sweet Fascination will be available for free on Noise Trade! Sweet Fascination is from the album “The Beauty of Innocence Remains.” Available here.

Black Heart Tour: The Mountains

Craig — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:23:00 +0000

Our trip from Birmingham, AL to Statesville, NC was about 6.5 hrs… not too bad compared to the hours we had been putting on the road up until this point. Again, Atlanta caused us some trouble. We were totally oblivious as we approached the exit we were supposed to get off on. As we were about to pass it, Naph, who was driving, made the trek across 3 lanes of highway over to the exit and came to a screeching halt about 3-4 ft. from the exit sign. We made sure everybody and everything was ok, then kept going. We left our mark (literally, burn marks) in Atlanta so they would remember us.

After our little episode in Atlanta, we made it to Statesville just fine. That night we played at The Upper Room. Downstairs they have a room where all the artists that play, sign the wall. We were going through the signatures on all the walls and to our surprise came across a familiar name to us… Shawn Young. Shawn Young was our professor at Greenville College. It was because of this man that we ever got involved with Cornerstone Festival, and ultimately are doing this now. Apparently his band had played at the Upper Room a while ago, and it was awesome to see him on the wall.

That night we stayed at the Varvaris’ household. Home of our good, good friend, Philip Varvaris. He opened for us that night in Statesville, and hung out with us the rest of the weekend as we proceeded to Asheville, NC for the Harvest Gathering Festival. This festival is put on by the Clarke Family… who coincidentally run the Jesus Village Stage at Cornerstone Festival. It was Glenn Clarke that Shawn Young talked to about having us play. The Clarke’s were generous enough to let a no name band play on their stage that first night at Cornerstone 2006. By the end of our set that night, Glenn Clarke got a hold of Tom Cameron (Director of Grrr Records) and told him to come check this new band out. That’s when we started talking to Grrr Records.

The Clarke’s had been asking us to come play the Harvest Gathering Festival for a few years now, and we finally were able to do it this year. We were so excited about playing, but got rained out the first night. Because of this some of us were able to check out downtown Asheville, grab some sushi, talk and debate about how to reshape the music business, and play poker for a spot on the only bed available for the night. Good times. The next day we caught “Michael Jackson’s – This Is It” at a unique movie theatre that’s a restaurant/bar/theatre all in one. Pretty cool and a great documentary of Mr. Jackson’s final performance. That night we closed out the Harvest Gathering Festival. It was really cold, but we had a good time. We look forward to next year!

We spent the night in Greenville, SC with some of Jason’s friends. The house was incredible, and we wished we had had more time to explore it a bit more; but we had Universal Studios to get to the next day.

Black Heart Tour: The Groove

Craig — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:31:27 +0000

We made our way down to Lansing, VA where we met up with our host couple, Suzy and Brian Spears. This was a unique situation in which Suzy had offered to give us free haircuts. It was like nothing we had ever experienced! When we got to the salon there was dinner and drinks waiting for us… so while one of us was in the hot seat, the rest of us were chilling out and eating. Good stuff. This again, was a late night. The haircuts started at around 9pm and finished at 2am. Here’s a video recapping this experience….

We spent the night at the Spears. The next morning we woke up to an overwhelming breakfast, said our good-byes and were off to Washington. The day in DC covered the Capitol Building, Washington Memorial, World War 2 Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, a walk by of the Vietnam Memorial, the White House, lunch, Starbucks, the Airspace Smithsonian, a drive by of the Jefferson Memorial, getting lost, finding the Iwo Jima Memorial by mistake and being thrilled that we had gotten lost because of our find, and finally dinner with our friend Chris Stoneburner. Our feet were a bit sore by the end of the day.

Our next stop was Richmond, VA — home of Hechler, David (our sound engineer). It was awesome seeing where he grew up. We stayed with his parents, and played a show the next night at his church. It was our first time using our new in-ear system, so it was a bit rough technically on stage, but the crowd was really into and made the show! Thank you Richmond!

The next day we welcomed the sun into the day heading down the road towards Birmingham, AL. Traveling through Atlanta was probably the toughest part of the trip, but even there the traffic was still moving. We arrived at the venue by 7pm. At first glance, it seemed like we were going to have to play a stripped down set because of space, but instead, we decided to blast the speakers; and that seemed to work pretty well.

By the end of the night we had a full house, and we were having a great time! This was where we finally felt like we were getting into the groove of the tour… we locked in and just had an awesome time playing! We spent the next 2 nights in Birmingham with Naph’s family… thank you Aunt Lisi! Some of the guys even got a bit of Southern culture introduced to them. Bless their hearts.

Next stop… North Carolina.

Podcast 1 : From The Studio

Craig — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:05:06 +0000

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The Latest Video Blogs

Craig — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:56:27 +0000

We’ve uploaded a few more here, www.youtube.com/photosidecafe

Enjoy!

It won’t be long…

Craig — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:15:20 +0000

We’re back in the studio putting the icing on the cake with background vocals, didgeridoos, djimbae’s, singing bowls, and anything else we can’t spell. The album is coming right along, and we’re hoping to send out an update pretty soon.

Thank you for sticking with us, the wait will soon be over!

Happy Holidays!

Craig — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:35:28 +0000

Friends, we hope this coming season of holidays will be a blessed one; we’re looking forward to spending time with family! We’ll be taking a short break and then returning to the studios on January 12th. We’d love to have you join us as we continue the process of recording our full length album! To facilitate this we will be broadcasting live from the studio, and you can see it through our blog: www.photosidecafe.com/blog

Till then Merry Christmas and Happy new years!!

Love,

Photoside

Recap of our 2nd Session

Craig — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:11:15 +0000

Soundguy Update

Craig — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:45:11 +0000

Hey everybody, Its the Hechler here. Just wanted to update everyone on my whereabouts and life. I am currently located on the eastern seaboard, but near the mountains. I’m 3 hours from the beach and minutes away from a college with a great football (american) team. That’s right……you guessed it. I am currently residing in Roanoke, Virginia. It is wonderful here with the snow and the rain and the 52 degree weather. Let’s see….what else…..I think that is it. So that is my life in a nutshell right now. Keep warm everybody.

Recap of Week One

Craig — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:08:09 +0000

Part One,

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Part Two,

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See you again for our next session on December 4th through 7th!