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Round 63: Bumbershoot Preview feat. Michael and more! August 10th

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Michael will be play­ing Tomor­row, August 10th at The Fre­mont Abbey as part of The Round 63: Bum­ber­shoot Pre­view show. More infor­ma­tion can be found below:

TICKETShttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/4401

John Ram­berg (THE TRIPWIRES)
http://www.myspace.com/thetripwires
Nouela John­ston (PEOPLE EATING PEOPLE)
http://www.myspace.com/peopleeatingpeople
Michael Har­ris (Idiot Pilot) *rare acoustic per­for­mance!
http://idiotpilot.com/
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GREG BEE (SEATTLE POETRY SLAM)
KATIE (YOUTHSPEAKS)
CYNDEE BALDWIN (LIVE PAINTING)
improv band, guest­sRound 63 fea­tures singers who will be per­form­ing at this years Bum­ber­shoot Fes­ti­val! As part of Bum­ber­shoots 40 years cel­e­bra­tion, you can see these singers first in a rare acoustic per­for­mance in the Abbey’s inti­mate space.

Also, new this month – BBQ!
Spon­sored by our friends at Grass­routes Eco-Travel books

Come early for the potluck/BYO bar­be­cue with veg­gies from Full Cir­cle Farms, and a choco­late and cheese tast­ing with our friends from Theo Choco­lates and Beecher Cheese.

[Buns, condi­ments, plates, etc. spon­sored by Fre­mont Abbey. BYO meat/fake meat please]

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ROUND 63 – AUG 10
FREMONT ABBEY
6-8pm BYO BBQ
8:30–10:30 show
$7 advance, $10 door
always all-ages

http://www.theround.org/

The Round {Seat­tle} is founded and curated by Nathan Mar­ion at Fre­mont Abbey Arts Cen­ter. See web­site for links to The Round in other cities like Tacoma WA, Austin TX, Port­land OR, and Lebanon PA

FREE show at Seattle Center!

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Check out our upcom­ing show!

The Expe­ri­ence Music Project presents Sum­mer­Sound feat. Idiot Pilot, Peo­ple Eat­ing Peo­ple, SEACATS and one more TBA. Thurs­day, July 8th — EMP Out­door Stage @ The Seat­tle Cen­ter — 7pm — All Ages — FREE

The Face­book event page is HERE!

Bumbershoot 2010!

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Idiot Pilot will join the all-star line up of this year’s Bum­ber­shoot
Music & Arts Fes­ti­val in Seat­tle, WA. They will be play­ing open­ing day
of the fes­ti­val Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 4th on the new Cen­ter Square
Stage, located between the EMP and Memo­r­ial Sta­dium Main­stage. As of
now they are sched­uled to per­form from 1:15pm to 2:15pm. This will be
Idiot Pilot’s sec­ond appear­ance at Bum­ber­shoot, their first was in
2005 on the EMP Sky­church Stage. More infor­ma­tion about their
appear­ance will be made avail­able soon.

Now in it’s 40th year Bum­ber­shoot is North America’s largest urban
arts and music fes­ti­val. This years head­lin­ers include Bob Dylan,
Weezer and Mary J. Blige, along with many other regional, national and
inter­na­tional acts.

Live Show Webcast

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Can’t make it to the show tonight in Belling­ham because you live far across the globe?

Don’t fret, because through the magic of tech­nol­ogy we will be broad­cast­ing live our entire set from tonight’s show across the inter­net. We will be on at approx­i­mately 11:30 Pacific time, and you can watch right here below, or over at Justin.tv.

Watch live video from Idiot Pilot TV on Justin.tv

Of course, if you live in the north­west you should swing down to The Wild Buf­falo in Belling­ham, WA for the real thing. More info and tick­ets can be found here.

Bellingham Show!

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Idiot Pilot will be play­ing at The Wild Buf­falo House Of Music on May 13th w/ The Globes and The Mis­sion Orange. Check out the Shows page for more info and go here to see the Face­book event! Belling­ham and NW peo­ple make sure to invite your friends!

Review Winner

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

And the win­ner is.…. Justin Driel­ing. Con­grat­u­la­tions Justin, and thank you to every­one who sub­mit­ted. It was a tough call, lots of great sub­mis­sions. Keep a look out for more news and con­tests com­ing soon! Check out Justin’s blog right here, which includes his review of The Tail of a Jet Black Swan, among other things.

I also wanted to give a quick shout out to our friend Hol­lie Huth­man, who has been tak­ing pho­tographs of us pre­form­ing for many, many years. She snapped the pic­ture that is fea­tured on our main page as well as the ones in the photo sec­tion. Her web­site is here.

SXSW Round Up

Monday, April 5th, 2010

In the lat­est issue of Bellingham’s What’s Up! Mag­a­zine, I wrote an edi­tion of their “Tales From The Road” col­umn regard­ing Idiot Pilot’s trip to SXSW. If you live in the area you can pick up a copy of the mag­a­zine just about any­where, but for those of you who can’t, I’ve included the full text from the arti­cle for your read­ing plea­sure. Just click below to check it out…
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Jet Black Review Contest

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Hey every­body! Thanks for all of the great feed­back we have been get­ting on The Tail of a Jet Black Swan sin­gle, we really appre­ci­ate all the sup­port and gen­eros­ity from those of you who have decided to pay for your down­load, and from every­one who has shared the song with their friends.

In honor of the release we are going to be hav­ing a lit­tle con­test. The idea is sim­ple, on your blog, web­site, Face­book, or what­ever pub­lish­ing tool you pre­fer, do a review and analy­sis of The Tail of a Jet Black Swan. It can be either pos­i­tive or neg­a­tive, but the win­ning review will be deter­mined by how insight­ful and per­cep­tive your analy­sis of the song is. You have until April 7th, once the win­ner is deter­mined they will be noti­fied and will receive a signed copy of the very, very, very rare and dif­fi­cult to find Cruel World Enter­prise EP by Michael and myself.

To enter, post your review and send a link, along with your con­tact infor­ma­tion to: JetBlackSong@hotmail.com

The win­ner will be notifed on April 7th. Good luck!

New Single Debut On 107.7 The End!

Friday, March 12th, 2010

This sun­day, March 14th, between 9pm-10pm PST, Idiot Pilot will be debut a brand new song exclu­sively on Seattle’s 107.7 The End. For those of you out­side the area, you can lis­ten to the sta­tion right here. The fol­low­ing day we will make the sin­gle avail­able for down­load on our web­site and steam­ing on Myspace and 1077TheEnd.com.

Cooking

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Mak­ing songs, mak­ing dinner

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