The Gypsy West: News

Hello everyone.

So the Gypsy West is returning this fall with a vengeance. As of right now, we have three shows scheduled

September 13th @ Arlene's!!!!
October 3rd @ The All Asia!!!!

and, we're putting on an All Asia All Hallows Eve festival WHERE 6 bands will be playing, we're making a live recording of the night, and if you come in costume, make-up, or a mask you will get a discounted price on entry to the festival. The bands will be awesome, the beer will be awesome, and our jack-o-lantern will be awesome. You can be awesome too, by being there.

Also, check out our BUY section to figure out where you can your digital hands on digital copies of our digital album, "Dustfires". It rules, so you should download it. If you dont feel like downloading, come to one of those shows and/or the many to come and get it cheaper with the live show. See you there.

This post is for Steve, who begged that I recount the Good Friday as of now for the Gypsy West....
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From the beginninng....

Nine Thirty Eight AM

I awake at Steve's, hung over and grouchy, wake Steve up and we make our ways to get ready for our intended travel down to NYC for the show. The original plan; to get a U-haul from Cambridge with a 10am reservation, pack Steve's shit up and the instruments and drive them down. The reality?

Ass-hauls

In short, Steve got ignored more than an environmental protection bill in Congress. He went to Cambridge, just to wait for an hour, then to be told that he needed to go to the U-haul fucknuts on Mass Ave in the South End, who then told him he didnt have a reservation. By 130pm, Steve had made it back to his place where we loaded up that gas guzzling piece of shit and were on our way, complete with smoked almonds and green tea.

Bad Radio

Traffic, traffic, traffic. Because we got such a late start, all we basically did was sit in traffic. THANKS U-HAUL! We didnt have a gig to get to our anything.....nope. Oh wait, yes we did. We went on at 9. But, leaving from Boston at 2pm and getting to a gig in NYC at 9 should be fine no matter what the traffic right?

Wrong

After re-grouping, re-loading a new car and attempting to return the U-haul, the Gypsy West were on the road to rock. Only, it was 640 pm. What took so long you ask? Steve, having returned the U-haul soon found out the awesome Bush administration style incompetence the roast-beef lipped bitches of U-haul Boston are capable of, ie, wrong truck, wrong place, wrong time, therefore, big problems that take an hour to waste (not resolve) over the phone. Steve, angrier Nicholas Cage in Wickerman, eventually said Suck on THIS U-haul and we left.

The Most Awesome Traffic of All-Time

4.7 miles in 1.7 hours. Yea, that was amazing. The Gypsy West eventually got to the venue. Not on time, however, we had arrived. In the process of arriving, we lost Matt Smith, to the wolves of Steve Jobs seeing as we had arrived too late to play our 9pm set and had to be moved to a later set and Matt had to catch an 1130 bus home so he could make it to work in the morning. God forbid all you consumerist hipsters and rich pricks dont have your iPhones. And by the way, if you're not from this country YOU CANT GET ONE. THEY ONLY USE AT&T. ITS A MONOPOLY. THATS THE POINT.

Uncle Mike's

Not a bad place, people who worked there were super nice. Everything seemed cool until Steve and I went on to play two songs that rocked too hard for the place and they got a noise complaint and we had to stop. Landmine kicked ass basically. We missed you Matt.

Epilogue/Moral of the Story

Fuck U-haul. They witches that secretly rule that company cast a spell on Steve's beard that screwed up our whole day and show and left me pissing on the side of the road. That was too tangential to fit in. Thank you for all of you who came and then left and to all of those who watched and enjoyed. We'll see all of you at Arlene's on the 13th of September.

-Alex

Hope you're all enjoying nature, sun, and summer things. In addition to all things that are holy and awesome, the Gypsy West has a few more shows left this summer. Check the calender for more details..

June 14th @ the Draft in Allston
June 15th @ Uncle Mike's in NYC
September 13th @ ARLENE"S! in NYC (with Warcry!)

we're booking a few more shows in the city throughout the Fall and organizing the All Asia All Hallows Eve Bash at the All Asia of course. We're gonna get a bunch of really awesome bands including yours truly to kick off Halloween, with face paint, drinks, and good music.

Thank you so much for those of you who have been supporting us so well this summer. It is amazingly appreciated. Hope to see you at these upcoming shows as well!

Apparently we are on iTunes. We didn't even realize it. But excellent nonetheless. Click here to go to our iTunes page and pick up a copy of Dustfires, if you haven't already. In other news, we've been playing a plethora of shows in both Boston and New York City, and will be playing a few more throughout the the summer. Check the calendar page to see what's coming up. And if you're bored of that "Same Ol' Gypsy West," many of our shows will feature the extremely talented, extremely beautiful and extremely awesome violinist, Liz "Warcry" Anaya. Stay tuned for more shows, and some possible "BIG NEWS" on the horizon.

Ten Years After rules. In more recent news, we have a lot of shows coming up which you should come to!!! Go to our calender page and check 'em out. There will be some new artwork for them by the fabulous Adam Shepard, and perhaps a guest appearance at one of the shows by the infamous Warcry! There are some new pictures up as well. See ya soon.

Adam Shepard, our dear close friend did a BAMF job making us posters for the upcoming shows this week.

Unfortunately, I cant post them here but if you go to our Pictures section you can see them.

COME TO THE SHOWS!!!!!!

We are playing a good amount of shows in the next two months... and you should come to THEM!

You can get more detailed information about this in our Calender section, but the skinny....

May 8-Sullivan Hall-NYC
May 9-The All Asia-Cambridge
May 12-The Oasis-New London, CT
Jun 7-Kennedy's-Boston
Jun 26-Arlene's Grocery-NYC

Come support us at our shows and party with us! We appreciate nothing more than your support/company/and heads bobbing.

PS-Listen to the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

So, the cover of "All Along the Watchtower" we recorded is finished and mastered. Check it out, let us know your thoughts by emailing us or posting your thoughts on the guestbook. Anyway, the cd that'll be available on should be released in the next few weeks. When we get a copy we'll upload a .wav. In fact, I think we'll re-upload all the songs to .wav. We'll see. Enjoy April.

I feel that it is prudent to point out, that at this very moment, Dustfires is available for purchase from both Digstation (mp3 downloads) and CDBaby (hard copies). Check out the "Buy" page for the links. You can also of course, still pick up copies from us directly, either at shows or through PayPal.

So, recent in the life of the Gypsy West. Our tour, was interesting. We all had fun, except for Matt cause he became near-deathly-ill which in turn got Steve and Claire Dowd (our road manager) deathly ill. I, however, survived the plague.

Aside from that, we played some cool places like the Living Room in Providence, The Oasis, WERS, to name a few. Anyway, we're going to be playing a bunch of shows again in May and June in New York City, New London, and Boston with Hello Tokyo, from Brooklyn. We'll also be rocking those places out with some new material as well. Cool eh?

You can get our cd and t-shirts and stuff through our website here, there's more info about the PayPal thing on here somewhere. More information to come....

The Gypsy West's premiere LP, "Dustfires" is now available. For now, we can only take orders through PayPal. If you would like a copy, please send $10 (plus $2 shipping) to gypsywest@thegypsywest.com along with your mailing address. Or, if you are able to attend a Gypsy West show, we'll be selling the disc for $5. In the coming weeks, we will have hard copies available from CDBaby and mp3 downloads available from DigStation, for those of you without PayPal accounts.



In other news, we now have a whole slew of shows in March, including a performance at the All Asia in Cambridge, MA. We will also be appearing on 88.9 WERS on March 24th. Check the Calendar section for more info on all that.

Also I'd like to take this opportunity to encourage all of you to join our mailing list, which we will be the best way to stay current on the latest Gypsy West news.

Peace.

This is our website. Bathe in its almighty glory. We promise that it will soon be much cooler than it is right now. Our CD Dustfires is currently being pressed and will be available at our shows and through CD Baby and Digstation. We will also be playing several shows in New England in March. Check the calendar for more info. Additionally, we will be appearing on WERS 88.9. Stay tuned for more info on that.