Austin Show this Saturday @ Flamingo Cantina, 10P

Guys and gals our show has been OFFICIALLY RESCHEDULED for this Saturday. We play at 9:30 for 45 min at the Flamingo Cantina, so plan on getting downtown and parking early. We love all of our fans and friends and we thank you for your patience as we got this show sorted out! Now let’s GET FUNKY!

After party at our best friend DJ Aaron Steinman’s show at Lanai!

Video Update 9: Fan Questions + Voodoo Recap

Achachay! Answers fan questions, talks about opening Voodoo Music Experience, and encourages fans to spread the word in this 9th video update. Watch the vid! We love interacting with you guys so make sure to comment – on the video, on our conference call next Tuesday (see related post for info), here on the site, twitter, facebook, or in person!

Achachay! Call-In Show

We want you to know us, and we want to get to know you. We invite you to join a FREE conference call on Tuesday, November 15th at 8PM CST where you can ask Jordan, Ryan and Hooch anything you want, live and unedited! It doesn’t matter where you live, you can join the fun using the following information:

Free Conference Call information:
Conference Dial-in Number: (559) 546-1000
Participant Access Code: 612141#
Live stream: http://justin.tv/achachayband

The stream is also available for you to see our pretty faces. We look forward to catching up with you soon!

Love,
Achachay!

p.s. We’ve answered some fan questions on our latest installment in our video update series.

Achachay! Plays Voodoo Music Experience

This Friday we play Voodoo Music Experience.

We are all INCREDIBLY excited. This is the biggest festival we’ve ever played. We get to the grace the stage with such giant musical allstars such as Soundgarden, Girl Talk, The Raconteurs, Snoop Dogg and Blink 182. I’m excited to see Givers, Ani DiFranco, the and the Meters.

In fact, we’ve already gotten a SWEET INTERVIEW available here, and been mentioned in an article with Cheap Trick. How cool is that?

We’ll be playing at 10:15 AM on the Boingo! Parlor Stage. It’s not too late to get tickets to see us ($150 weekend tickets or a $70 day pass). We’ll also be doing an on air interview with WTUL 91.5 after the show, at 12:30 P. You can stream the station live here!

Voodoo Rules
Voodoo Fest 2011 Countdown An Interview with Achachay! Plus+
Witch Doctor, October 25, 2011
“They’re new. They’re different. They’re not the most well known band at Voodoo Fest, but they’re on the adventure of their lives. They’re living the dream, traveling from gig to gig, making music, meeting new fans, and paying their dues. There may come a day when everyone thinks that these guys were overnight wonders. If they do become overnight sensations, The Witch Doctor’s readers will know the full story behind their success. So come along with me on this interview, what you’ll find is some dedicated souls, who believe in their ability to make a difference in the world.”

Babylon in Fresno

Unfortunately sometimes a show will get double-booked and one of the bands ,or even an entire group of bands, will be dropped from the show. A week before we left on tour this happened to us for a Saturday night gig we had in Sacramento. I thought to myself that we were pretty much SOL, but I wasn’t going to take it lying down. So I got on the ol’ interweb and emailed 20 or so places in the region just north of Paso Robles all the way to the Sacramento area. I was sure to lay it on a little thick with the “we got dropped from our show” bit to see if we couldn’t get a last-minute show, and sure enough we lucked out big time! Within days I heard back from the booker of a cool club in Fresno called the Babylon Club. They were happy to let us jump on the bill and they even offered me a guarantee. Needless to say I was ecstatic.

The show went really well too. We played last to a smaller, but very energetic crowd that hung around after the local bands played. Also all of the other bands who played were great, and actually brought out people (believe it or not this is rarely the case). So from having a show canceled we ended up making a new contact with a booker and promoter who, I feel, really appreciate good music and aren’t afraid to do some work to promote a show. Can’t wait to come back!

Lompoc ‘N’ Around, What? What?!

Lompoc, pronounced Lom-poke, is a midsized town of California’s central coast, and scattered throughout are dive bars and sports bar-n-grill sort of places. One such bar was our venue for the night; the name was The Wicked Shamrock.
As the name implies, the Shamrock is a hybrid between an Irish Pub and a club that caters mostly to the punk/goth/darker-side-of-rock genres. Needless to say, Achachay! funked ‘n’ rolled all night and made the place their own. Like they do.
There was dancing and drinking, as much on our part as on the part of the audience. I guess that’s not exactly true, the crowd was definitely boozing a bit more. A particularly drunk group of boys comes to mind. They were pretty on fire about the show- bought merch, chatted about the band- and really brought the house down. By which I mean, one of them fell victim to gravity, and toppled himself, a table, and three of the four chairs around said table onto the floor. On the other hand, other folks were more suave, like the New Yorker named Boston who broke into various swing routines with her friend.
All in all, the show was a blast and the bar was good to us- buying us a round of Patron when the clock struck twelve and Hooch began the festivities of yet another birthday.
The Lompoc post would not be complete without mention of our hospitable host Brian. He was generous with his his time, energy, and home. We went out for dinner before the show (delicious!), he hung out for most of the show, and then invited us to breakfast in his kitchen the next day. We found out that he was a fellow Texan and preparing to move back home. He shared stories about his experience in the air force, which had an almost uncanny semblance to passages from Catch-22, so conversation was never lacking.
Good show, good company, and we hope to see Brian back in Texas!

-Liza

Another Religion Video

Official music video for Achachay!’s “Another Religion.”

Download the music FREE at this link (right click and save file as): http://achachay.com/Another_Religion_Album_Version.mp3

Live recording FREE download here:
http://achachay.com/Another_Religion_Live_DentonTX.mp3

Spread the word and let us know what you think.

Last year Achachay! and a team of dedicated volunteers brought the Gorilla Run 5k to Austin, TX. Proceeds from the run benefit the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund. Find out more about the MGCF here http://www.saveagorilla.org/, and the Austin Gorilla Run here: http://www.austingorillarun.com

Find out more about Achachay! by browsing this site.

Introductions: Liza

Let’s start with the basics: My name is Liza Mitrofanova and I’m accompanying your favorite Achachay! boys on their 2011 West Coast Tour. Why, you ask, do I have the supreme honor of making this pilgrimage? Well, it’s all quite simple, really. The only cosmic alignment that had to take place was their need to promote and sell merch on the road, my availability and pre-existing plans to forage into the West, and a tiny amount of social network intervention.

This is why there has been a random girl you probably don’t recognize popping up in the later posts by Jordan and the Ryan’s. So let’s get cozy – here are a few factoids about Yours Truly.

I was born in the wintery month of February in Siberia…. As a point of reference, pull up a map of Russia, now point with your index finger to the exact middle of that glorious country, and Voila! You have now, more or less, identified my birth place: Novosibirsk.

Three of the people I consider my parents are either biochemists or moleculuar biologists. Nevertheless, neither my sister or I have (or intend to) follow these career paths.

As is made obvious by my decision to embark on a six week tour in a van with three strangers, I like journeys, people, music, and all kinds of new experiences… preferably the ones you can’t predict. The elements just mentioned have brought me to an appreciation of Peruvian box drums and sharing yerba mate.

I don’t get homesick really ever (though I do love my family very, very much), but I do miss my 120 pound pooch. Home is where your dog is, I say.

All in all, I’m a pretty simple being, and all I want right now is to see the West the way Thomas Moran did… and despite all the domestication of the Wild that’s taken place, I’d say I’m feeling it.

Nice to meet.

-Liza-

Tour #7: The West

Excitement. Long drives. Merch person Liza. New songs.
This tour will be another crazy fun adventure as we strive to improve lives through funky thoughtful dance and laugh inducing music. Follow along as we blog the whole trip, come see us, and help spread the word.

Mini Tour to Oklahoma + Kansas + MO

We’re super excited to bring a bunch of new music back to one of our favorite states – Oklahoma – and branch out into new territory in Kansas and Kansas City, where we’ll catch up with new friends from SXSW.

Aug 15 in Stillwater, OK: The College Bar @ 10P

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Aug 16 in Enid, OK: The Q Spot @ 8P

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Aug 18 in Norman, OK: The Brewhouse @ 10P

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Aug 19 in Oklahoma City, OK: Belle Isle Brewery

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Aug 20 in Wichita, KS: The Pumphouse @ 9P

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Aug 21 in Stillwater, OK: Ell’s #$%& Cancer benefit @ 5P

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Aug 22 in Kansas City, MO: The Riot Room @ 9P

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