Halflight Full Band Shows

The Halflight Full Band Shows Start This Week

This Friday, August 23rd, when me and my band The Coyotes play Halflight live for the first time, it will have been 1114 days since the album came out. It’s been a long time coming, and now it’s time to plug in, turn it up, and fill some rooms with Halflight! I hope to see you there (if you’re in the Seattle area anyways).

There’s three shows. There are commemorative posters for each show (read all about them below). The artists we're playing with are inspiring. Also, I get to introduce you to my band, The Coyotes (Brian, Erin, Jordan, and Dan). I can't wait!

Friday, August 23

The Conway Muse, Conway, WA
With Golden Hart and Gabe Archer
Tickets

Thursday, September 5th

Miller’s, Carnation, WA
With Debbie Miller
Tickets

Saturday, October 12th

Chop Suey, Seattle, WA
Joseph Pennell
Tickets

It's a good idea to get your tickets early. These rooms are on the smaller side and could sell out.

The Inspiring Artists We’re Playing With

Golden Hart

This is my old friend Dana Little’s new project. Dana & I played a bunch of shows together in previous bands, and here we are many years later still making music. I love this. Can’t wait to hear Golden Hart’s debut at the Muse!

Follow Golden Hart on Instagram

Gabe Archer

If you were in Seattle in the oughts and you listened to 107.7 The End, you know Gabe’s band The Pale Pacific. They’ve been on hiatus for awhile and I’m so stoked he is playing the show with us at the Muse. Me, Gabe, and Dana played so many shows together over the years, this is going to feel like a reunion. I can’t wait to see all the familiar faces this brings out to the show. It’s going to be a super special night!

Listen to the Pale Pacific
Spotify
Apple Music

Debbie Miller

I haven’t met Debbie yet, but I’m really stoked she’s playing with us at Miller’s. We seem to know a lot of the same people and when I tell them that we're playing this show together, they get really excited.

Follow Debbie on Instagram and listen to her latest single Heron:
Spotify
Apple Music

Joseph Pennell

Joseph’s new album Middle Class Hero is really, really good. He’s been quietly writing over the years, but until the last couple years hadn’t put himself out there. Holy moly are we glad he did. His voice sounds like if Ray Lamontagne decided he wanted to sing like Nick Drake. The album is so well performed and produced, I can't oversell it. Can’t wait to hear him play these songs live.

Listen to Middle Class Hero
Spotify
Apple Music

Posters

This may come as a shock: music is not my day job. I'm a designer. A UX Designer to be exact. Interestingly enough music is why I'm a designer. My first band in high school needed fliers so I used my high school tech lab to make the first PUPPET flyer (we were Christian thrash metal, if you wanted to know). Over time I started doing more of this. Then other bands started asking me to make fliers for them. Then t-shirts. Then CD art. Then websites. And so on.

These days I don't get to do much visual design because most of my time is spent designing software, so music is a fun place to reach back into those skills and try things out. Stylistically, I'm really into typography and letterpress. With these posters, I wanted to blend letterpress style layouts with digital imagery to evoke a sense of the place I feel the music comes from - desert imagery. So each poster is set with some desert image and the text is a sort of reverse block print stamped on top. The image in the Conway Muse has some meaning for me: that's Mono Lake in the background.

My grandmother lived there on 40 acres off grid in a solar house with only her pet pig. She was badass. We used to hide her cigarettes. She didn't like that at all. Anyways, so much time spent there. The High Sierra desert is where I come from and is as much of a musical influence to me as anything else. It seemed fitting to imbue the first poster with that meaning.

The posters are for sale right now on my Bandcamp Page. Get one for $10 or get all three for $20.

Head over to Bandcamp to get yours today.

That's it for today. Go buy your tickets! See you at the shows.