http://achachay.com the band that makes cool hot Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:40:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi, I’m Amanda, the merch girl. Slash designated dancer slash unofficial band photographer slash freelance designer slash self-proclaimed wild card. I’ve been on the road with these guys for a good four weeks, so I feel I have a pretty good understanding of the touring thing. Honestly, I had no real ... http://achachay.com/2010/09/touring-female-perspective/ The day we played Eugene was a good day. It started with a beautiful hike in the Mt. Shasta area up to some crater lakes. Since we ended up missing the lake we initially intended to find it was certainly more about the journey than the destination. Touring is certainly ... http://achachay.com/2010/09/eugene/ After a late night at the Weed Brewery we woke up at a reasonable hour so we could attempt to find a pick-up gig. The show we had booked got cancelled because the bar had been sold and was being renovated. So we went to The Vet Club downtown ... http://achachay.com/2010/09/mt-shasta-landform/ Last week we played a super fun show at the Mt Shasta Brewery in Weed, Ca. The show originally was set up to be an acoustic gig, but after we arrived the manager encouraged us to play a legit-electric set and we were happy to oblige. The brewery itself is this ... http://achachay.com/2010/09/weed-ca/ Last Tuesday we played in Sacramento, CA at Marilyn's on K. I didn't expect to see so many homeless people. They're not hanging in the state capital to make a political statement, it's more because sacramento is significantly warmer- we got there on a 101 F day. Anyway the show ... http://achachay.com/2010/09/good-times-sacramento/ We played at a small club called Johnny V's downtown San Jose. Dave and Confused from San Francisico played the show with us along with a couple other bands from the bay area. It was definitely a night of rock. Jordan got totally over involved with watching 'The Departed' ... http://achachay.com/2010/08/san-jose/ We played an awesome show last Saturday in San Francisco. Personally, I love the city of San Francisco. Aesthetically it is pretty, the summer weather is mild, and it seems largely like the people there share a pleasant mind set of non judgement and awesomeness. We spent the afternoon in ... http://achachay.com/2010/08/san-francisco/ I'm lucky to get to share with yall another one of my highlights of our trip so far. One of my best friends from college, and the guy who started "Big Talk Project" with me (a website/online community/newsletter to help encourage people to more easily incorporate the opposite of small ... http://achachay.com/2010/08/joyous-stay-monterey/ We flopped at their pad and they hooked us up with all sorts of fruit and veggies they had grown as well as some bad ass eggplant lasagna (Thanks Rudy!). After being overfed all day... the show in San Miguel was at a great venue called the Ranch. The Ranch ... http://achachay.com/2010/08/nada-rasta-rocksa-san-miguel/ Our next show after Santa Barbara was in Los Osos, a town just outside San Luis Obispo and right in the central coast. We started the night of right by eating at one of the famous local-eateries: Sylvester's. Sylvester's is a burger place that has a ... http://achachay.com/2010/08/slo-county/