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LIFE ON LOAN
RED EYED FLY (715 Red River, 1 block south of Stubb's)
FRIDAY, JUNE 26
9PM

Tonight's show will be the best lineup we've played with yet - a LOT of fan favorites on the bill. Just take a look at this lineup:

The Soles - 8pm
LIFE ON LOAN - 9pm
Matchsticks for Memories - 10pm
Sixes & Eights - 11pm (EP Release party - free EPs for everybody!!)
Mike Truth & the Replacement Killers - 12:45am

If you've never come out to hear us, now is definitely the time. If you have been out to hear us, we would love to see you back again. We're adding some of the old favorites back into the set due to popular demand and we're looking forward to having a good time. This will definitely be one to remember and we hope to see you there! Bring some friends!!!

Friday night's show was fantastic - A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL YOU FANS THAT SHOWED UP!!! Unless something amazing happened for The Organics after we left at 12:30AM or so, we had the biggest crowd on the bill - which is a pretty great thing for the opening band on a weekend card. It was also great to see a lot of new faces in the audience - so for all you new folks out there, we hope you enjoyed yourselves and we also hope that we'll be seeing you at some later shows now that you've gotten a chance to witness the awesomeness that is the Life On Loan live show. I know that some of our "regulars" were out of town due to Memorial Day, so hopefully you'll be able to make it out to our next show. For all of you that continue to come out to the shows time and time again, you guys TOTALLY rock our world!

Speaking of which, mark it down on your calendars that we're hitting the REF again on June 26th (another Friday) at 9pm. This is going to be a killer show as we're not only sharing the bill with Mike Truth and the Replacement Killers, but also Sixes & Eights - and from what I hear, Sixes & Eights are one spiffy show and have a HUGE crowd of their own and we're looking to put on a great show for any of their fans that happen to show up early.

Once again, thanks for the support, thanks for coming out to see us, and also thanks for spreading the word to your friends and bringing them along with you! It's so much more fun to play for a roomful of people, and we hope that you enjoy the shows to come. We can't do it without you guys, so continue to spread the word and we'll see you in a month!

It looks like I will not be playing with Five Dollar Friend on Friday. Due to circumstances beyond my control, we won't be able to rehearse before the show and so they're going to bring in a drummer that knows the set and can drop in and play without practice. I'm a little bummed for sure - I never like to miss opportunities to play - but I really do think that this is for the best. I have to get up early on Saturday morning for the big campout and trying to play a set without practice is just more risk than I'm willing to take. This is Adam and Michelle's last gig with FDF, and I want them to have the confidence necessary to have a great final show. Plus having to setup, play with Life On Loan, tear down, wait 2 hours, setup again, play with Five Dollar Friend, and tear down again will be quite an ordeal - if the sets were back-to-back, that would be one thing, but it just seems like a lot of extra work (even though it would be awesome). I will be playing with FDF in the future, though, so I'll keep you posted on any gigs coming up with them.

HOWEVER, Life On Loan is STILL going to be settin' things off for the Red Eyed Fly on Friday night at 8:30pm (doors at 8), so we REALLY want you to come out and join us - and then stick around to see the other great bands and support the local Austin music scene. Getting a Friday/Saturday gig at a club downtown is a BIG DEAL, so please come out to support us and help us keep getting them! Just tell 'em at the door that you're there to see Life On Loan and BRING YOUR FRIENDS!!!

Allrighty, kids....Life On Loan's next show is going to be on Friday, May 22, at 8:30pm at our main haunt, the Red Eyed Fly. Bring friends, family, co-workers, and anyone you happen to meet off the street out to support us - we've been working hard on streamlining several of our songs, making them more enjoyable, and finding the hooks that will make the music stick in your brain and get your heads bobbin' and feet movin'. This is going to be a great show, so you won't want to miss it! Find a sitter, get off work on time, and come on down to rock out with us! NO EXCUSES!

AND, once again, we're on the same bill as Five Dollar Friend and they're still in need of a drummer, so I'll be playing with them for that show as well. They go on at 11:30 at the same venue, so come for Life On Loan, stick around for Five Dollar Friend! This is the band that I played SXSW with, so since most of you missed those shows, now's your chance to see me rock with a different crew of folks.

So, double the Drew drumming action! Come on out and ROCK WIT ME, PEOPLES!!!

Life On Loan now has a YouTube channel! We got some great video from the last show at the Red Eyed Fly and so we decided to post it up on YouTube so that those of you who missed the show can see it (and you know who you are). We're going to link one or two of them on the MySpace page as well, but you can basically see the whole set on the YouTube channel. We're also planning to add videos of some of the local bands we're friends with (if we can without violating their copyrights) so that others can be exposed to their music.

I think you'll find that we've gotten a lot better than the demo that we recorded way back in August, and the videos show four new songs that aren't on the demo at this point. So, feel free to subscribe to the YouTube channel, spread the word around, pimp the videos, and check the MySpace page for updates on upcoming shows and new Life On Loan news.

Enjoy the show!

Saturday night's show was awesome - 43 people showed up specifically to see us, and that was a great start to Life On Loan's weekend gigs at the Red Eyed Fly. We got a lot of great compliments on the new songs, and the response was tremendous. Thank you to all of you who showed up to help us rock out, and a double thanks to those of you that stuck around to help our friends in Five Dollar Friend have a rockin' CD release party as well!

We did a lot of networking this weekend, although it was unexpected. After a 2-hour practice session and pack-up on Friday night, JP and I headed down to support our friends in Language Room for their CD release party at La Zona Rosa and we ran into one of the fellas from Five Dollar Friend. We got a chance to interact and meet some of the guys in Distant Lights, and several of the folks that were at the Language Room show came to our show the next night (including some of the Language Room members themselves). We ran into one of the guys from Five Dollar Friend who was at the Language Room show, and got to talking about potential team-ups beyond the show on the 7th. There's talk of maybe getting together with them for a week or so in April to do some touring of Texas (although at this point, that's all it is - talk).

It's been great building relationships with these two bands, and we've already learned a ton of stuff from both of them. Hopefully, when they have some slots that they can fill with bands of their own choosing, they'll think of us and we'll do the same for them. With so many different bands out there these days, I can't see how it pays to not build relationships with other bands. On the downside, supporting your friends can be time consuming and expensive over time; on the upside, there's some exposure to people that would never hear one band or the other without being on the same bill as the band that they really came to see.

But I love this stuff. This is a personal dream for me, and it's just awesome to see it finally coming to fruition. To be part of building a scene and a community in something which I love as much as music is a pretty amazing feeling. Hearing positive comments and accolades from other musicians is worth it's weight in gold, and that gives us confidence that yeah, we can totally do this thing...and do it well.

So thanks again for supporting us, thanks for supporting our friends, and keep looking out for announcements of new Life On Loan shows. We're way better live than on the demo that's up on MySpace. We rock hard.

By the way, you really should check out Language Room's debut album, "One by One" (available on amazon on Tuesday), Five Dollar Friend's second disc, "See You In Manhattan", and Distant Lights' album, "Simulacrum". Then you'll be able to hear the music that I've been listening to all weekend at all the shows.

Witness my poor excuse for graphic design skills. This is my lame homemade gig poster for our upcoming weekend gig in March.

If you're in Austin, the only excuses that we will accept for NOT seeing your face at our show are:

1. I am so far out of town that Life Flight is the only way I could get back in time, and I don't have that kind of money or am not willing to lose an arm to see you.

2. I am dead.

Other than that, we don't want to hear it. Come to the show. New songs, cheapo cover ($5), and a lineup of some great bands besides Life On Loan, including Five Dollar Friend's CD release show!

First of all, a big THANK YOU to those of you that came out to the show on Thursday night! As a result of the big crowd, we scored a weekend gig! We're not quite sure when it will be, but you can be sure that we'll let you know as soon as we have it scheduled. And then those of you that STILL haven't come out to any of our shows will finally have no excuses not to come because it will be the weekend. Our recent success at the Red Eyed Fly will also give us more of a springboard to branch out into other clubs in the area, so we're hoping to book some shows at some different venues in the coming weeks not only to garner new fans that haven't heard us before, but also to give our faithful following a different venue from which to enjoy our music as well as proselytize others about joining the LOL fanbase. Aside from coming out to the shows to help support us, you'll also get to hear songs that aren't on the demo - we've been playing two songs that don't appear on the demo, and we're working on three more, trying to figure out where they fit into the set and what we're going to do with them.

And speaking of the demo, we handed out somewhere between 25-30 copies of the demo on CD for free at the last show and I think we're going to do that again to help spread the word. I'm also working on making the mp3's available for download from the LOL MySpace page, but I'm having some trouble (insofar as I can't figure out how one would actually download them, because there's not some button saying 'download this' or whatnot). We want to get the music into the ears of new folks, and the quickest way to do that is hand out demos on cd at the shows and allow people to download them to their mp3 players once they get back to a computer so that they play them for other people in their cars, while working out, etc.

Finally, along with all that, we're also working up some business cards to hand out with contact info and such so that when we tell people about Life On Loan, we have something to give them so that they remember the conversation later and maybe they'll check out the site.

It's exciting times for us, and I'm personally really looking forward to hearing and seeing what happens for Life On Loan in the future. Thanks again for all the support, and we'll be seeing you at the next show!

Well, one of my personal dreams as a musician was finally realized last night - I have officially played my drums in a real rock show (a headliner, to boot!) at a club in Austin, TX! And I got paid to do it! Granted, my cut was only $12.50...but for an 11pm slot on a weekday night, that meant a free dinner! Munny is munny, hunny! Life On Loan brought it hard last night and I think we did some serious face melting. Check out Kyle's flickr set of LOL at the REF.

Aside from HUGE thanks to the Red Eyed Fly for giving us a chance to play, and Shaitan, Mutant Press, and Madam and the Teapot Athiests for getting things moving in the show before us, the biggest thanks has to be to our friends who came out to support us so late on a Wednesday night. We had 21 people show up to hear us and as a result, we got bumped up to the next level - we now have a show scheduled for a Thursday night, Nov. 20th, at 10pm! Our first gig ever and we brought in enough people to get bumped up to a better timeslot on a night with higher attendance! And, if everyone that was there last night brings just one person with them to the Thursday night show, then we have a shot at a Friday or Saturday night gig. How sweet is that? So, we're hoping that those of you that couldn't make the late-night gig last night (and believe me, we totally understand that - we were floored that so many people showed up last night!) will be able to make an earlier gig on a night when there's a better chance that you can play hooky from work the next day in order to come rock out with us.

I'm still overwhelmed with the response that we got from people on how good we sound. The guys from Madam couldn't believe that this was our first show. Co-workers that came with friends were asking our friends to keep them up to date on when we play next. But for me, the biggest compliment came from Todd Sabo, lead singer and guitarist in the band Language Room (which we all in Life On Loan really enjoy). Todd's kind of our unofficial mentor, as he works with Justin and JP has been pickin' his brain on what we need to do to get started and for some booking contacts and such. Todd was really impressed with our sound, loved our music, but for me his compliments on my time keeping, my fills, and just my overall playing meant the world to me. To hear another musician whom I respect a lot say that I have good drumming skills and can keep a steady beat, well...that's the sweet spot. It's always super-hard for me to play when I know that there are musicians in the room because I start thinking about all the technical aspects of my drumming, but to have one of those musicians come up and say that everything sounded slammin' (even when I know that I missed some beats and was thinking about things I could have done better) was worth it's weight in gold. So, thanks, Todd, Madam, and all the others that complimented not only the band as a whole, but me personally. That was a great feeling!

So, this is just the beginning! We'll see y'all hopefully on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 10pm and keep your eyes glued to the MySpace page for more up-to-the-minute information, show schedules, and music, music, music! And, as always, make sure to pimp us out to your friends as much as we pimp ourselves to y'all! Get the word out...Life On Loan is HERE to RAWK!!!

I'm totally pumped and it's hard to concentrate on work. Life On Loan's first public show is TONIGHT at the Red-Eyed Fly at 11pm. Apparently, we're headlining the show - how awesome is that?

For all my readers in the ATX, I hope to see you there! Dude! How awesome will this be?

Life On Loan has been booked for our first club show at the Red Eyed Fly on Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 11pm. Cover is $5 for 21 & up, $8 for minors. Yes, it's a terrible time slot but that's part and parcel with being a new band that has zero street cred as of yet. So, for all you LOL fans out there in the ATX, we'd really like you to come out and support the band that night (as well as come on out to see us live). Besides, who needs sleep anyway? We promise, it will be well worth it...and you can say that you were there at the first club show of Life On Loan so when we get famous, you can sell your ticket stub for like $15 on eBay - triple the price you paid!

This is a bit more of that silver lining of the canceled show, too, because if we hadn't been prepared to play the Remedy Drive show, we wouldn't have been ready to play this gig in a week and a half, nor would we have called them and gotten the ball rolling most likely because we would have been resting on our laurels a little bit (such as they are). So, we're hoping that this is a positive sign that we're moving in the right direction and hopefully this will be a good jumping off point for LOL's career in the Austin music scene.

Be sure to tell your friends, listen to the myspace page if you haven't yet, and come on out and support us in a week and a half!