Creeping up on 2012

I just posted a new video for the song "Into The Woods."  It was filmed this past October by Randy Scott Carroll at Prismatic Canvas Productions in Lynchburg VA.  Randy set up a house show for a tour I was on with PJ Bond and Brian Bond.  He feed us home made pizza, hosted a great show, put us up for the night and filmed a video for each of us the next day.  Randy is one generous human being.  You can view the video in the Video page.

In Plow United news:

We will be rehearsing next week for our show at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ w/ The Bouncing Souls, Leftover Crack and Detournement on 12/30.  The show is part of the Home For The Holidays series and SOLD OUT!

The other show we are getting ready for is our New Years Eve show at The Note in West Chester, PA!  We will be playing with three bands from the 90's who are reuniting for this show-The Crash, Jake & The Stiffs, and Third Year Freshman.  DJ Arik Victor will be spinning tunes as well.  Tickets for The Note can be purchased here:

PLOW UNITED NYE

*We will also have our first ever hoodies for sale at these shows.

Joel, Sean and I (plow united) have also been writing and demoing new songs for the next Plow United record.  We will be playing some of these new songs at our year-end shows.  To say we are excited about making another Plow United record is a total understatement.

In solo news-I'll be playing a set at Ray's Happy Birthday Bar on January 3rd.  And there is also a show in the works for January 12th at The Stanhope House in Stanhope, NJ.  These shows will feature new solo songs as well as new Plow United songs.

Alright!  Onward to 2012!  Thanks for all your support this year and I look forward to seeing you all in the new year.

best,

Brian

December

Here is a list of things happening now and coming up:

-Writing new songs for the next Brian McGee release and the next Plow United album.

-Working at Russo Music in Asbury Park.  I've been apprenticing to be a guitar tech doing set-ups and repairs.  If you are in the area-stop in and say hello.  If you are not in the area-make a trip and bring your guitar in for a set-up.  Check out Russo Music on line HERE.

-Prices in the Brian McGee store have been lowered!  Visit the store page and do a little Christmas shopping.

-For Plow United Merch, you can visit Plow United Store.

-A couple reminders for shows coming up in December:

Friday, December 2nd-Joel Tannenbaum and I will be playing as a duo at The V Lounge in Somerset, NJ.  We will be playing Plow United songs that we rearranged and performed this past September on WXPN's The Key and at Drexel University's KDU.  We will also work some of my solo song and a cover or two into the set.

Bryan Thomas Baxter and The Brigantines perform as well.  Here's a link 12.2.11 V Lounge

NEW YEAR'S EVE!!!!!!

Plow United will be playing at The Note in West Chester on New Year's Eve.  Also on the bill are three bands who will be reuniting especially for the event-The Crash, Jake & The Stiffs, and Third Year Freshman.  And Arik Victor, who started Creep Records and recorded all of these bands will be DJ'ing as well.

Get your tickets here PLOW UNITED at The Note on NYE.

Hope to see you before 2012!

FEST 10 tour with PJ Bond

"Lo and behold, lo and behold, looking for my lo and behold, get me out of here, my dear man..."  Oops sorry, stuck on the Basement Tapes again.

Well yeah, Lo and Behold I'm heading out on the road again.  With PJ Bond again to!  PJ and I are touring our way down to FEST 10 in Gainesville, FL.  We are making several stops along the way in VA, SC, NC and so on.  

This time I will have THE TAKING OR THE LEAVING on vinyl as well as some Plow United loot.  I'm still waiting on a couple addresses which I will gladly post on my Facebook and Twitter.  Here's a list of the shows we will be playing:

Sat, 10/22, College Park, MD, $7 address TBA

Mon, 10/24, Loft E, 1009 Jefferson St, Loft E, Lynchburg, VA

Tue, 10/25, Paul Eric Jansen's House, 30 Perry St, Greenville, SC

Wed, 10/26, House concert, 108 E. 40th Street, Savannah, GA, FB event page.

Thr, 10/27, The Peacock Room, 1321 N Mills Ave., Orlando, FL 

Sat, 10/29, FEST 10 @ The Lunchbox, 104 SE 1st AVE, Gainesville, FL (my set time is from 7:50 to 8:20)

Sun, 10/30, The Mill, North Charleston

Mon, 10/31, New Brooklyn Tavern, Columbia, SC (Dead songwriters Halloween show)

Tue, 11/1, Tir Na Nog, 218 S Blount St., Raleigh, NC

Hope to see some familiar faces!

Brian

It's Been A While

Jeez, so much has happened since I've updated the site, and so much more will be happening.  One month ago today my wife and I moved to New Brunswick, NJ.  Here's what has been going on:

-I took a job at Russo Music in Asbury Park, NJ as a guitar tech.  I'm apprenticing under Scott Engel of The Holy Mess.

-On September 8th, I opened for The Horrible Crowes which is a side project of Brian Fallon (Gaslight Anthem) and his longtime friend Ian Perkins.  The show was at the Bowery Ballroom and sold out!  Here is a review of the show (with photos) from theaudioperv.com.  It was a total blast to play to a New York crowd of 600 people.

-Plow United reheasing has begun!  We are playing a festival this weekend called RIOT FEST EAST at Festival Pier in Philadelphia.  Joel and I have been going over songs and rearranging a few to perform on the radio as a duo.   Last Sunday we played live on Drexel University's station WKDU.  And this Thursday you can listen to our performance at WXPN on The Key.  Joel and I also got together with Mike Bardzik (Super Hi Five, The Boils) at his studio Noisy Little Critter, to run through out Riot Fest set list before Sean gets into town from Oregon. 

-Plow United is also releasing a DOUBLE VINYL and CD called SLEEPWALK : A RETROSPECTIVE on Paper + Plastick records out of Gainesville, FL.  It is a collection of songs from all three full length records plus singles and an unreleased instrumental track.  The limited edition CD will be available at Riot Fest.  The vinyl will be released in October.  And we are also working on another album for next fall!

-Plow United is playing New Years Eve at The Note in West Chester PA.  The line-up includes THE CRASH, JAKE & THE STIFFS (both of whom are reuniting for the show), TWO DAYS AGO I TURNED PUNK ROCK (Tom Martin) and DJ'ing by Arik Victor.  Tickets go on sale this Sunday at noon!

For my solo shows-I will be heading down to FEST 10 in Gainesville FL at the end of October.  I'll be touring down and back with PJ Bond.

Farewells, Moving and Reunions

Hello and I hope summer is treating you well.

This summer has been rolling along with some pleasant surprises and it's going to end with big goodbye.  So here is what's happening:

Reunions:  While I was on tour with PJ Bond this past June (which by the way was awesome) I received a phone call asking if my old punk band, Plow United (facebook,twitter) wanted to play a reunion show in Philadelphia on September 24 during the one day Riot Fest East festival.  The festival's headlining bands are The Descendents, X, and The Dead Milkmen.  If any of you know these bands, then you understand what a big deal this show is.  If you don't know those bands, the show is a big deal.  So after working out the details and talking it over, we agreed that the timing was right and we got on board.  We are really looking forward to playing together for the first time in 13 years and we are talking about writing new songs.  This is going to be fun.

Moving:  My wife and I are leaving the Old North State.  We will be moving to the Garden State known as New Jersey.  Graduate school calls and my wife answered and no it's time to go.  I've lived in Western NC for 11 years and I will miss this great state.  We were reminded what a great place it is geographically this past weekend when we drove from mountains to sea... cardinal to pelican.... dogwood to palm.  We leave in August right after I play a 

Farewell show:  On Saturday August 20, 2011 I will be playing a farewell show at The Grey Eagle.  I will be playing with full band and will do some solo stuff.  Also playing the show and sitting in on my set will be The Electric Owls and PJ Bond.  This will be a great way to play my last show as a NC resident at my favorite venue in Asheville.

Vinyl:  The Taking Or The Leaving is now available on vinyl and you can purchase it here-Vinyl

Thanks once again for all your support and see you all soon!

Brian