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06:16 pm
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Back from Tour!
Hello my dears! The summer is coming and after a short break, what do you know, The Scurvies are going to be rocking and rolling once again in standard fashion, (albeit turned up a few notches by popular request).
And with our hearts throbbing we will be harnessing all our energy into what can only be called an Alaskan rock show. Namely, the Clucking Blossom festival, an all-day, all-free tour-de-force of music, art, activism and of course, "nice thinking".
Your chance to be swept up in this beautiful chaos will be May 17th, 2008. Keep your eyes peeled for additional performances by The Scurvies as they prepare to hit the lower country again in June-July.
On a side note, the bright minds at the University of Alaska have once again turned out a quality bit of journalism regarding our last 4-month tour.
You can check it out here:
http://www.uafsunstar.com/?q=20080422trials-touring-punk-band-fairbanks
Mark your calenders, and we will see you next month!
Love and sweet kisses,
Your Scurvies
Tags: clucking blossom, festival, punk rock, scurvies, sun star, tour
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05:15 pm
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Tour 2008, Reviews and more
Hello Scurvies friends, fans and family!
We are on the road, again! We recently played a handful of Northwest shows, which were an absolute blast. Thanks to our friends in Tacoma at Hell's Kitchen and The Gypsies for making our first time in Tacoma the beginning of a long and wonderful tradition. Portland was very good to us as well, our second home did not dissapoint. Before long it was back to California, where in Redding and Sacramento we met new friends Broadway Calls and P.A.W.N.S. We always are blessed when we come to California and this recent time is no exception.
Nick making new friends in Brentwood, CA
We'll be heading east for some shows in Arizona and Texas before long, and in addition, we are visiting some states that are new to us, such as Florida, South Carolina and New England!
In other news, the reviews have been pouring in for our latest long-player, "Nightprowler"!
"Punk rock was never supposed to sound safe. The Scurvies are a good die-hard definition for punk rock.....16 raw, flying-by-the-seat-of-their-pants old-school punk songs that clock in at under 30 minutes. This one's for anyone that knows what the gutter tastes like." HM Magazine - Doug Van Pelt.
"This lot provide you with quality, melodic, old-school type Punk with a hint of Garage... and they do it bloody well I can tell you! If you're into bands like The Ramones, The Stooges, etc., I think that you'll think that you'll go bundle on The Scurvies. 16 tracks of top drawer Punk and a band I wouldn't mind hearing more of..." - Sean - Oi! Warning fanzine (UK)
Visit our myspace blog for more reviews!
...and we'll see you on the road!
Tags: alaska, boot to head, nightprowler, punk rock, scurvies, tour
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05:39 pm
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New photos up!!
We've put some new tour photos up from our show last night at Skelletones in Grand Rapids, Michigan!
Click here to check them out!
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02:38 pm
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Giving Thanks
We have been having a wonderful tour. It has been excellent getting to know the Filthy 42's, and fun hearing them play every night. They have a new song called "Empty Bottle Blues" that is really fun to sing along with.
last minute show in Hannibal, Missouri.
We've had a lot of fun saving good food from dumpsters. The best cities so far have been Seattle and Denver, which both have Naked Juice Dumpsters.
our traveling friend Brandon getting Naked Juice with Daniel.
Staying with people is so great, and we got to stay with some awesome community houses as well. The Compost Heap, The Boing House, The Pitchfork, and The Boiler Room have all been kind and welcoming towards us.
On our way to Denver we found this abandoned zinc mine which we explored. There were so many buildings and not enough time.
Brandon watches Andy climb into a wall.
In Denver we got to help out with our first Food Not Bombs.
Julia coordinates while loading up food to bring to the park.
Playing with Flatfoot 56 at a roller rink the other night was really fun. We got to stay with them and had a great time. Those guys are such a blessing and inspiration.
Last night we had a great show at Skelletones in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We are staying in town with Sarah, and they are cooking a Thanksgiving meal as we speak.
More pictures can be found by going here.
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02:34 am
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Fun Things Ahead!
We are planning another tour, November 1st until Christmas. Seattle to New York, down the East Coast, through the Southern States, and West to California before heading up the West Coast back to Portland. We are very excited and hopefully you are too.
There will be a show at Joel's Place for October 13th. This should be a very fun show with their great sound system and venue setup. It could be our last show in Fairbanks for the next six months, so please come and have fun with us!!
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02:22 am
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Josh likes us.
I saw a photo of our friend Josh from Flatfoot 56 wearing one of our shirts at a show in Pennsylvania this month.
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02:02 am
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Anchorage Adventure
We went to Anchorage on September 8th to play with Stubby's Crack Company, Spitshine, 12 O'Clock High, and The Lives of Famous Men for a going away show for Morgan. Our friend Nicholas offered to drive us in his sweet Astro Van.
Of course we had a fun spray paint session before leaving.
It was riding pretty rough, and by the time we checked it out in Denali we realized we would be causing a lot of damage to drive it further.
We asked a fellow named Stephen who works as an ATV tour van if he knew of any rentals in the area, and he said there weren't any.
So then Stephen told us he would give us a ride to Anchorage!! We hopped in his Suburban and headed down the road.
In Bitoz the kids were amazing and we had a great time. That night we got to stay with Victoria and Stephanie!
The next morning we rode bikes to a grocery store and got breakfast supplies.
Stephanie cooked for us and it was very good. Dan got a ride with half of our gear while the rest of us rented a van for the ride back.
You can see more photos from the trip here!
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11:41 am
[Link] | We had an interesting show at Barnes and Noble the other day. We played in the store in celebration of the new (and last) Harry Potter book release. We were kicked out after about ten minutes. The store manager told us they recieved fifty complaints in ten minutes about the noise level. Really we should have played outside. That Sunday we put on our own CD release show at The Dog Mushers Hall. Sunday Morning, The Moon Knights, and Three Chord Ho played with us. We had a potluck before the show, and lots of fun was had. We are planning to play on Saturday, August 11th at 8pm at the Tanana Valley State Fair. This should be a fun show as it is the last day of the Fair. I uploaded some photos and videos from tour.
http://flickr.com/photos/duh17/sets/72157600995355263/
http://www.youtube.com/user/figgymoses
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05:29 pm
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home again
So we just completed a short (three week) summer tour. Our main objective was to play at Cornerstone Music Festival. On June we played at The Wandering Goat Coffee Shop in Eugene, Oregon, and stayed with our friend Jimmy. The college kids were all moving out so we dumpstered a lot of food that night. We also picked up our friend Rainbow. We played an acoustic set around a campfire at the Stargazer Ranch in Twin Falls, Idaho. In Salt Lake City, Utah we played the basement of a bookstore called Red Light Books. The kids literally knocked down a wall while we were playing. Afterwards we got to stay with some of the kids at a Food Not Bombs house called the Boing Anarchy Collective. They fed and treated us very well. The next day they took us to a ten foot in diameter culvert that goes for about five hundred feet(?) under a freeway. They dammed up the entrance while others get in sleds inside. When the water gets to about four feet high, they release the plywood and a torrent of water blasts you down the tube. It was easily the most fun and dangerous waterslide any of us have ever experienced. Afterwards they made us homemade vegan burritos. So good. In Denver, Colorado we played a house show and Rainbow got a bunch of vegetables, fruits and breads from the Wild Oats compost dumpster down the street. She made yummy salad and smoothies. Everyone at the show was fun, and they did the worm pit dance with enthusiasm. We played in Chicago, Illinois, and got to stay with our friend Josh Robieson (bagpipe/mandolin/guitar player from Flatfoot 56). He took us to eat real Chicago pizza, and we shopped at Reckless Records, finding many gems. Cornerstone Festival is unexplainable. Thousands of bands. Always good bands playing. Fun people everywhere. Free food and free hugs. It lasts a week, and we had enough fun to last a few years. We played three times. Our last show was at the Fat Calf stage, which is run by Dan, the father of the Flatfoot 56 brothers. That show was insane. Maybe three hundred kids packed in a tiny tent? SO many good times. On our way to Grand Rapids we took a wrong turn and so we didn't get to play with Our Corpse Destroyed and The Last Hope as planned. We DID, however, get to play with Flatfoot 56, The Fisticuffs, The Geriactrics, and our new friends The Filthy 42's, and Revolution Radio at Ashbary Coffee House in Willow Springs, Illinois! We then drove back to the Stargazer Ranch in Twin Falls, Idaho, and played in a horse barn. That was a really fun Fourth of July show. Afterwards Mikey took us to watch the fireworks display. The next day we played a backyard BBQ in Billings, Montana, and then played with Neutral Boy at the bottom of the space needle at The Fun House in Seattle, Washington. We went back to the Wandering Goat and played our final show before flying home out of Portland. Soon we will have more photos posted. Our new CD is out, and we're planning our Fairbanks shows now. Thanks for reading!
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02:21 pm
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Summer Tour!
Boys and Girls we are on another adventure! A few weeks ago we traveled to Anchorage for an excellent show at Bitoz, and then we drove to Homer and played at Down East Saloon and Kharacters. We had a really good time, met a new friend (Neil), and camped on the beach.
Now we are in Portland, Oregon, preparing to tour across the US to play at Cornerstone Music Festival in Bushnell, Illinois. We will be touring for three weeks, and are excited to meet new people and see new bands. We will post photos and more blogs soon!
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10:18 am
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Saturday show
The Gologothaz show was canceled, but our friend Mike bailed us out and let us have the show on his roof patio! All the bands did well, With Teeth played twice since a lot of people missed their first set. Nathan Becker from 58 Roadsigns set up his laptop and recorded some of the show. 3 Chord Ho! played a righteous set and 58 Roadsigns played with two temporary replacement members (highlights include Bernie singing through Brandon's bullhorn)! Thank you to everyone who came out, and Nathan and Steve for helping so much with sound and general set-up. We are planning to have another show at this location when it's warm and we can swim in the gravel pit!
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01:08 am
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tour photos
hey boys and girls!
I posted new photos from our West Coast Tour! I hope you enjoy them!
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12:56 pm
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Fooled in April
It's so great to be back with our loved ones. Spring is finally making it's belated appearance.
We've played a handful of shows since getting back in town, including Chris' Birthday Party, a Cabin, The Cover-Up at the Pub, and two out of control shows at the Musher's Hall and College Coffeehouse.
It's so encouraging to see the scene thriving, with incredible new bands like With Teeth, Colorcast, and Type A.
Thanks to M Tentacles for organizing and playing a great show at the Mushers Hall, shows there are always a treat. It was great to play with 58 Roadsigns again. It was also really fun to see Sunday Morning again. Bernie's vocals are off the hook, delving into falsetto and looking almost emotionless while simultaneously sounding like Kurt Cobain on crack! With Teeth is also progressing quickly, getting better at every show. Their spastic Deerhoof meets Blood Brothers style is chaotic in the best way possible, with Paige, Angel and Steve's individually unique voices blending and overlapping to make the funnest band I've seen in Fairbanks in quite awhile.
The CCH show was by far the craziest show I have ever seen there, with the pit taking up more room than the tables and chairs. I couldn't believe how many people participated in the worm pit for our last song. Thanks for making our week.
We are working on artwork for the new album, and planning some renegade (non-venue) shows for this summer. I'm also working on updating the real website (as opposed to myspace) so we can have a place to go without advertisements.
Thanks for reading.
-Nick
Current Music: Avett Bros.
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12:51 pm
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Tour Diary
Hello everyone,
I've been meaning to put this up for some time but when you live in a van it is a bit difficult to get on the internet. Now that I've got some time I'll give you a bit of an update on what we've been up to.
We started off our West Coast tour by playing a few shows in the Portland area, including a house show that started everything off on the right foot, driving up to Longview and playing with 800 Octane (where we fortunately got to meet some great individuals and eat at a cheap-as-good 24 hour mexican joint and regretfully lost our video camera.)
Seattle being our next stop, we played a handful of shows, met up with our buddy Jon, invaded the Pike Place Market and met some new friends that we'd be touring with, Flatfoot 56 (Chicago celtic punk) and Our Corpse Destroyed (San Antonio hardcore punk) whipped a frenzy in the circle pit and then made our way to the eerie, misty town of Ocean Shores.
There, we met all kinds of kids, played our hearts out until our amps failed and our voices left us. Afterwards we jumped the fence at the motel in the middle of the night to cram in the hot tub with our new buddies, visited the deserted beach, and headed to California.
 Brandon changing strings in Themiddleofnowhere, California
In nothern California I came down with a cold that rendered my voice useless, and at our shows in Marysville, Chico, Santa Cruz and San Francisco, between not being able to sleep at night and coughing up phlegm all day we struggled and played every show like it was our last and somehow made it alive.
By the time we made it to Lomita, (greater LA area) my voice had slowly returned to the point that people could finally understand what I was saying without me having to repeat myself several times. We played with some great bands, stayed on a drunk guy's floor, camped in the San Bernardino mountains and in San Dimas, where progressively the rest of the band got sicker and sicker, trying to nurse ourselves to health with lots of echinacea and vitamins.
In Colton we played at an Irish pub two nights back to back with some great guys (Axis 1, The Misguided, Apathetic Youth and the young and talented Glen Or Glenda). Last night we played at at all day festival with mostly hardcore and metal bands with a few punk/oi exceptions, (Destroy The Vile, Dead City Swagger, our friends Flatfoot 56, and a great band called The Rekoning) made lots of great friends and made it home for the night at 3 in the morning (a regular occurance).  Friends in Chino
Well, my friends, that pretty much brings you up to date with part one of our US tour. I will be back in a few weeks to fill you in on the rest of the adventures of your favorite scallywags.
Signing off,
Chris
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01:39 pm
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Newsminer/FBX Square Article
By Abbie Stillie
Staff Writer
Published December 21, 2006
Sometimes getting signed to a music label is as simple as e-mailing a sample of their music. The Scurvies, a Fairbanks band that recently joined Boot to Head Records, are a little puzzled by how easy it all was. “It’s weird,” said lead singer and guitarist Chris Meurlott. “It’s a small indie label, though, so it’s a little more realistic.” This month, four of the five Scurvies members are headed off to Portland, Ore., where Boot to Head Records is located, to record an album and tour the United States in a rented van. They don’t know exactly where they’re going to play yet — they said the label is setting up some gigs for them — but they know they’re going to have fun. “We’ll probably be skateboarding. We will probably live like savages in the van,” Meurlott said. “It’ll just be a bunch of friends going on a road trip.” It all started when Nick Meurlott, Chris’ brother and the Scurvies’ drummer, was surfing the Web and saw that Boot to Head Records, which had been out of business for a few years, was back and looking for artists. Nick Meurlott mailed the company an MP3, and next thing they knew, they were being asked to come to Portland. The label is a perfect fit for the Scurvies, most of whom grew up listening to Boot to Head artists such as Blaster the Rocket Man and Ceasefire. The Scurvies play “fast, old-school punk with a rock influence,” Chris Meurlott said. It’s working out pretty well for a band that before now has played out of town only a few times, mostly in Anchorage. The owner of Boot to Head Records is going to let them live in the recording space while they record, and will book gigs for their tour as well. While scurvy usually brings up visions of malnourished sailors, it was another aspect of the maritime lifestyle that inspired the band’s name, Chris Meurlott said. “Growing up, pirates were always about adventure.” The Scurvies definitely view their upcoming tour as an adventure. “We’re not trying to be cool, we’re trying to have fun,” Chris Meurlott said. “We do take ourselves seriously as a band, we just have a lot of fun.” The only cloud over their adventure is that lead guitarist Peter Gardella won’t be able to join them for the trip, due to a commitment to the military. Gardella, who grew up with the Meurlotts, has been with the band for most of its three years of existence. Brandon Stoner (guitar) and Daniel Firmin (bass) are new additions. While they’re excited about playing for different crowds in new cities, the band has no plans to abandon Fairbanks just yet. Their goal is to live and work in Fairbanks, and go touring every now and then, building up a fan base as they go. “We’re just going to try to cram in as much fun on the trip as we can,” Stoner said. Abbie Stillie may be reached at astillie@newsminer.com or 459-7590.
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12:41 pm
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Tour Plans For 2007
We're going to Tour the West Coast. Starting and ending in Portland, Oregon, where our Record Label is based. Our newly acquired bassist EJ Skinner has decided to attend UAF this fall, so our longtime friend and road trip buddy Daniel Firmin is going to sign on as our new bass player! Our lead guitarist Peter Gardella has joined the Air Guard, and is heading off to boot camp. He will be replaced by our new friend Brandon Stoner, previously from Portland. Despite the changes and setbacks, we are determined to go through with the tour and have a blast doing so. We have no grudges against our old members who have different priorities, and we wish them the best in life!
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12:25 pm
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Clucking Blossom
To all those who stayed up past their curfew, tired as you were, just to see us at Clucking Blossom, thank you, thank you, thank you. We had so much fun!
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12:24 pm
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Marlin Show
Wow! We just played with Fourth Rotor (from Chicago) and Defect Defect (from Portland, OR) and let me tell you, those boys and girls can rock like none other. Thanks to all that came and saw us! We have just begun recording our new album, which will probably have around 15 songs. That's right, a full album! Hope to see you guys at the Great Cover Up next week and then Clucking Blossom the next.
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12:21 pm
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The Scurvies Win Battle To Warped Tour!
Thanks to all the people who came out and saw us both nights, and danced and helped us win! Thanks also to the other bands that we played with, especially 58 Roadsigns, Junk Show, Terror Train Orchestra and Under Six!!
We'll be playing next week at Chilkoot Charlie's in Anchorage to compete in the final battle against Makeshift and The Riot. We hope to see some of you down at the show in Anchorage!
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12:16 pm
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Blood and Water Vol.1
Our song, "Taking Over", is on the Blood and Water compilation. We have some copies, and you can also order it from interpunk.com by clicking on the image below.
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