hey there! This blog is rarely touched, but that will change soon. In fact, it changes now! At the very least, I'm going to post here for a quarterly state of the union, as it refers to Girl Guts. I'm a bit late for a "year in review", but that's precisely what I'd like to talk about.
2012 was an amazing year for us. We are still in our infancy, and we are quickly growing and learning what it takes to be up on par with our favorite bands. We made our stand in 2012 with the help of our trusty home venue "The Lil' Wisconsin". We had an incredibly successful time causing ruckuses and playing some damn good music. In fact, all of the bands who have ever come through (save one or two) have been bands that we would love to play with again. We released an album. I heard from a little bird shaped like a spray painted beer can that you guys kinda liked it. For those just joining us, the spray painted beer can was the award you voted us to win at the 2012 Whats Up Awards Show for the "Best Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock" category. I can only imagine the year's success was your fault. So thank you.
Not to take all the credit to ourselves (in reference to getting us out there and heard), a HUGE thank you goes out to the following bands, venues, and people for their help in 2012: The Shakedown, The Cabin, Make.Shift, Yellingham, The Palisades, Rookery, The Cathoholix, Bowlcut, Caparza, Candysound, Creech, Totalizer Death By Steamship, Tori Schoone, Adrien Paulsen, Joe LeDoux, Nick Duncan, Toby Reif, Casey Nolan, Aaron Apple, Marty Watson, Hollie Huthman, David Ney, Luke and Ryan Greer, Jeff B, Tim Pennington, Whats Up Magazine, KUGS and countless others.
2013 is gearing up to be a huge year for us, personally and professionally. We are doing our best to keep our heads and hearts fixed on what we are: 3 friends making the best music we can, both recorded and performed. With Whoa! Boat records (Seattle, WA), we will be releasing two 7 inch records. One of them a 4 way split to be shared with some of our closest pals in Caparza and Death By Steamship. The 4th band, we've never officially met. But we did play a show with them and they are dynamite musicians. It is an easy statement to make to say that we are very excited. This release is expected in spring. Later on in the summer, we expect to release our own 7 inch record that will showcase all new and original Girl Guts material. We intend to plan several small west coast tours to promote the release(s). In addition to our talk of vinyl release, we are discussing several tape releases and alternate split projects with Haze Tapes (Bellingham, WA). We look forward to giving you more specific news on that front.
Thats all for now!
love you all,
Andy
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