Monthly Archives: February 2010

Bed Selection via GRPS

Recently, in a hotel up in Vermont, the 5 members of Darlingside were faced with a difficult choice at the end of a long day: 2 queen-sized beds, 2 double beds, and 1 couch.  The critical question: who’s going to sleep where and/or with or not around whom?  We decided that a game of Group [...]
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Dilemma

Last night I overheard Don, Dave, and Auyon debating whether to schedule recording sessions right after gigs. Don: I don’t know, you can only do so much before the quality just goes way down…by the end of a gig I feel like I’ve put everything into it, and I’m just done. Dave: By the end of a [...]
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Gig Concentrate

1/29: The Teapot Gallery, Westfield MA Pro: The venue was a candy shop. Jars of individually wrapped, brightly-colored bits of high-fructose corn syrup lined the walls. It was a free-for-all. Con: The candy shop had closed down a few weeks prior, and we were the last event before the owner leased the place out. Due to [...]
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A Negative Space

Darlingside has just completed a string of six gigs in nine days. If you’re interested in learning what happens at these gigs, please scroll down to a previous post. If you would rather hear about what happens somewhere else, though I might normally condemn your attitude as being against the spirit of this [...]
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