Bandcamp Friday is upon us, and with it brings a brand new (and very limited) translucent red variant of Act III: This City Made Us. If you think red is a color, then you should grab one of these before they’re gone for all eternity. These are exclusive to Bandcamp Friday, so even if we have some left over at the end of the day (2am CST), they’ll disappear until the next Bandcamp Friday rolls around, sort of like a fireworks stand, or those Christmas stores that appear out of nowhere as soon as it hits Nov 1st.
We even got Joey Ciccoline to make a nice little video to post on our YouTube channel with a Youtube appropriate thumbnail and title for ultimate clickbaitability! Gander it below, and remember to like and subscribe so the Youtube robots will think about occasionally showing you the videos we post!:
We had some other things from the shows like signed posters and signed tickets, but those sold out before I could get this mailer out. But we do have a few of the 3-day event shirts left, if you’re into shirts about 3-day events. We also have some of the unsigned show posters if you want to make a bundle with your red record?
________________________________________________________ THREE NIGHTS + THREE ACTS – DALLAS EDITION
We’ve got our support for the shows locked down and it’s gonna be one hell of a time. Nate Bergman is gonna start the whole thing up on the Act II night. We met Nate in the trenches of Warped Tour ‘14 and his humor is the only thing that kept us alive. We’ve known Descendants Of Erdrick longer than we remember, and we knew they’d hold down the Act I night like the illustrious champs they are. And then there’s Urizen… we’d marry them if we could.
I’ll tell you that if you live relatively close and are on the fence about it because you’re hoping we might come to your town with these three night events… don’t count on that. We want to bring these shows to as many places as possible, but we’ll likely only be able to hit big markets in certain parts of the country because of the time/cost/scale of them. We have to play bigger rooms and sell those out in order for it to be fiscally responsible for us to be on the road with as many people as we have to bring to make these 3 night events work.
I know these records took a while, but we wanted to get them right… and I think we did! Big big thanks to Physical Music Products and Piper Payne for all their hard work pressing it (and for hand-delivering them to the Marathon shows). And let’s not forget Tommy Dorsey of Masterfonics for the pristine mastering job, and then Duncan Ferguson of The Voltage Exchange for the killer lacquering action! On top of that, big thanks for Steve Olson for coming back in for… a secret… (if you’ve already got the record from the show, try not to spoil it for everybody else!). This thing comes with all the stuff you expect, two black records, printed die-cut sleeves, and a big ol’ libretto with all the story and John DeLucca artwork you can handle, so get a copy before this first pressing is gone!
________________________________________________________________ NEW T-SHIRT FOR THE RECORD RELEASE
Hold On… to your butts, because we’ve got us a brand new shirt to go along with this fancy award-winning record release (what award, you ask? we don’t know yet, but let’s shoot for something!). With that being said, we’ll likely be retiring the Calling Out shirt soon, so grab that one while you can.
________________________________________________________________ NASHVILLE SHOWS An unbelievably huge thank you to everyone that came out to the shows in Nashville. It was a wild 3 nights that shan’t be forgotten.
We were truly honored to share the stage with all of the bands who came out to help make the weekend a most spectacular celebration station. If you didn’t get a chance to see all three nights, you should really take the time and check out the bands you missed out on.
Night one… From some of our oldest friends and fellow Boro-musicians, Imaginary Baseball League … to our newest ally and road-warrior-hero (who jumped out of a plane and parachuted onto the stage, whipped the crowd into a frenzy, then flew right back out to join his ongoing tour on the other side of the US) Amigo the Devil.
Night two… From the saviors of night two, Hans Condor (who, not ones to be topped by Amigo’s parachuting insanity, crashed their van through the backstage entrance, destroyed the crowd with rock and roll and threw all their shit back in the van to drive to a SECOND show in another city the SAME NIGHT) … to the only band to out-theatricalize us in a theatrics-death-match… our long-time Dallas buddies Urizen.
Night three… From the throes of rock and roll history, past and present, the most incomparable, the legendary, the lord of the sax himself… Tim Capello … to one of the finest rock bands to ever grace the Nashville scene, Diarrhea Planet. They will first win you over with their grace and kindness… and then MELT YOUR WHOLE DAMNED FACE OFF (while melting your heart). And while they may or may not be covered in liquid feces, they smell quite nice! Either way, it’s always to joy to watch them rock.
And to top it off, Cybertonic Spree finally made it to the venue after it was over at like 3am! We all ate hot chicken and played music together for a few hours in the back gravel lot of Marathon while we were packing the trailer. Sorry you missed it! But don’t worry, there WILL be a rematch.
And we know the merch line was insane (which is great for us, but horrible for you), so we’re working on plans to make sure that’s not a thing in Dallas (more on Dallas down below).
________________________________________________________________ SPEAKING OF MERCH…
Thanks a lot everyone… you crushed our dreams of quitting music so we could become a world dominating, yet benevolent, coffee empire. We had our friends at Bongo Roasting Co. roast so much wonderful coffee and none of you bought any of it (well, a few did, but we’re sitting on 3,000 lbs of coffee here!). We spent two hours after the show on Saturday night (actually Sunday morning, if you want to get technical… we were still loading out at 5am) loading it back into our trailer… a work van… every car we own… our friends’ cars… strangers’ cars… the train that ran behind the venue… we even threw some in the river). It was shocking how little coffee we sold that weekend. So I hear you saying, “… but I hate coffee, why would I buy it?” Well, thanks to Stefanie Cobb, it has the raddest package design possible and would be a great collector’s art piece for a shelf… or as a gift for any occasion… or even as a hand-tossable projectile weapon (you could even use the beans themselves in a slingshot)! Either way, the show-goers hatred of coffee is you on-liners boon, because now you can have a go at it! So please, please, please buy it all. We swear we’ve learned our lesson and will stick to music and never make any coffee ever again! … or will we…
You may hate coffee, but you sure seem to love mugs. Does that make you posers?? Either way, we’re not complaining or judging, we just wish you’d buy something to go in that mug… like maybe you’d like 4 packs of damn fine Redline Coffee??? But yeah, we ran out of mugs at the show (aside from two boxes that showed up late to the party), so we’re doing another short run of these for the online store, but will likely transition to a new design soon. Get these while you can.
We’ve got a few of the Nashville/Marathon show posters left over that we’d love for you to take off our hands. They look incredibly rad (thanks to Stefanie again). But once these are gone, they’re gone… foorrreevverrrr.
*one quick note, though. If you want a signed one of these, maybe hold off buying one on this store right now, because we’re gonna release a really limited quantity of signed ones on our Bandcamp for the next Bandcamp Friday on August 7th, so just a heads up about that.
________________________________________________________________ TOTES
We also have some totes left over from the show, but we’ll probably keep pressing them for a while, so no real FOMO on these, unless you don’t buy them… then we won’t press them anymore. So I guess that means you need to buy them so you can buy them. Because if you don’t buy them you won’t be able to buy them anymore. Sort of seems like a commerce paradox?
________________________________________________________________ ACTS I & II ON CD + ACT I BASEBALL TEE Also, Act I and Act II CDs are back in stock on the store, as well as the new Act I Baseball Tee:
________________________________________________________________ DALLAS SHOWS – AUGUST 27th, 28th, 29th
Everybody got their Dallas tickets lined up? Things are starting to move now, so if you’re wanting to go, better grab tickets sooner than later before they’re gone. And if you can’t go, but know somebody that should… tell them to get on it ASAP. Again, please help spread the word, the faster this show sells out, the quicker we can decide on how doable this is in other cities with the bigger venue sizes that make it make sense for us to bring this whole ridiculous 3-day event on the road.
________________________________________________________________ JAPAN So here’s the deal… we want to play in Japan. Anybody know anybody that runs any festivals or conventions over there? Do any of you happen to own the Tokyo Game Show? Do you happen to own Capcom and want us to play your event? If so, call us up… we like doing stuff.
See you all in Dallas with your Redline Coffee in hand!
Welcome to the new Act III site. We hope you dig it. As ever this heralds the beginning of what will be an evolving online Protomen experience, so stay tuned.
The site was built out from pieces of John DeLucca’s original paintings for the Act III album cover. It was designed by myself and The Protomen, and was developed by Jules Janssen. We’d also like to give Michael Eades a shout out for his help with the previous “under construction” website, and the foundations of the site you see now.
