COVER UP CD

After all the starts and stops, it’s finally in our hands and ready to ship!!! Space-age-laser-technology could be at your fingertips. All you have to do is act now. And while you’re at it, why don’t you grab one of those really awesome giant Cover Up movie posters to go along with it? There’s even a combo pack that makes it even cheaper!

TERMINATOR THE SECOND – THE MERCH
Remember that time we did the score for, and acted in, the world’s greatest Shakespearian play of Terminator 2? Well… we sure do. And we recently found some of that old merch in the vaults. It’s available now on the Sound Machine Merch Store. There’s really not much left, so get it before it’s gone for all eternities (at least until I decide that I need another one of those rad shirts and demand that they reprint some, because that’s the only shirt I ever wear… well, that and three ELO shirts). 

**the soundtrack is also now available on all your favorite streamers, so get to streaming. 

SPEAKING OF STREAMING…
I posted this on the social medias a while back (facebook, Instagram, Twitter), but I figured you fancy mailing listers/proto-news-page readers should have a fair crack at it, too.  It’s the Spotify Playlist that we play as house music before shows. Since we’re not out there playing for a while, might as well give a taste of what it’s like waiting for us to go on…

That’s all for now, but expect another mailer in a couple weeks with even more fun stuff.

Stay safe out there,

-Commander

NASHVILLE TORNADO RELIEF
It’s a rare time (hopefully) when you have to decide between to two major crises to focus on, but here we are. While we were on this last tour with TWRP, the COVID-19 pandemic was starting up in the US and chasing us across the south. And then midway through the tour we got word that our hometown, Nashville, had been hit by a massive tornado. It was quite a blow to be so far from home and unable to help with the initial cleanup effort.

While there’s not much we can do to help in the COVID fight (aside from following the guidelines of the health officials), we figured we could at least lend a hand with the Nashville tornado issue.

We started to toss around ideas and, obviously, the first thing we thought to do was a benefit show as soon as we got home from tour. But then the (much needed) lockdown started to happen, making shows impossible. So we turned to the idea of making a limited edition “THIS CITY NEEDS YOU NOW” shirt to sell with all the proceeds going to Hands On Nashville. We’ve come up with this design that we hope you’ll grab and sport around your living room for all your pets to see. Wear it in your video meetings and twitch streams. Wear it to bed. Wear it in the shower, because maybe you’re a nevernude (no judging). Wear it wherever you want! Just grab one and help us support Nashville through the painful tornado cleanup/rebuild.

Pre-order starts now on our Sound Machine Store.

HOWWWWEEEEVVER, we know times are really really tough right now with the larger pandemic issues, so DON’T spend money on this if money is scarce. Nashville is strong and we’ll still be standing when all this is over. What we’re saying is, don’t buy Protomen Merch over buying, say, flaming hot cheetos or paying your rent. We need you to stay fed, housed, and safe… and non-corona’d.

EUROPEAN EASTER SALE
Right on the heels of that spiel about not spending money when you don’t have to…

That’s right, WE’RE HAVING A EUROPEAN EASTER SALE!!!
20% off of everything in the Kings Road store. Friday – Thursday (April 10th-16th) … *EDIT* sale was originally Friday – Monday, but there were technical difficulties, so we extended to Thursday.

Enter this code at checkout: EASTERMEN2020

But seriously, if money is tight, please don’t buy our stuff. Save your money for the essentials, like food and toilet paper. But mostly toilet paper.

That being said, you can probably use most of our merch as toilet paper*. Sooooo maybe buy a bunch of our merch, just in case?

*most merch is non-flush

COVER UP ON CD
For those wondering about the Cover Up CDs that I mentioned in the last mailer, they ran into production issues and have, unfortunately, been delayed. They’re still coming, but we don’t know exactly when. Keep an eye on our socials (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) for more info on that between mailers. We’ll probably post a picture when they finally get here.

Stay safe out there,

-Commander

PROTO/TWRP SOUTHERN TOUR
Southern tour with TWRP starts in under TWO WEEEEEEKS (I could have said it starts next Thursday, but I really just wanted another reason to link to the Two Weeks lady… there, I did it again!!)!!!

We’re hitting parts of Texas, Louisiana, and Florida, so if you live around there, you better grab tickets soon, because tickets are running low for most of them (except for SOME cities… we’re not pointing any fingers, but you need to pick up the pace, New Orleans!). 

FEBRUARY
27th – San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger
28th – Austin, TX – Mohawk

MARCH
01st – Dallas, TX – Gas Monkey B&G
03rd – New Orleans, LA – Southport Hall
05th – Orlando, FL – The Abbey
06th – Orlando, FL – The Abbey
07th – Gainesville, FL – High Dive
08th – Tampa, FL – Crowbar

VIP/Meet And Greet ticket Holders will get a pretty rad Sticker Sheet of band members, Limited Poster, tour themed Phone Popper THing, Tour Laminate, and fancy Drawstring Tour Bag. I really didn’t know what I should be capitalizing in that last sentence, so I decided to wing it. Either way, here’s some mockups of some of the stuff:

***The VIP packages are running low in some places, so don’t snooze on it. 

And if you can’t make it to this tour, but want some Proto/TWRP merch, we still have some signed and unsigned posters left over from the last tour on our merch store.

IN OTHER NEWS
We’re finally pressing The Cover Up to that new technology everybody’s been talking about, Compact Disc (or C.D. for short), so keep an eye out for that in the very near future (we’ll hopefully have some of them in time for the tour). 

We’ve got two color variants of a new shirt style (well… it’s new for us) we’re testing out for this run, so let us know if you’re into it and we may make more. 

And all you European people, don’t forget that we’ve got a new merch store over there. Buy all that stuff (and spread the word) so we can send them new things!

That’s all for now, but more fun stuff coming soon,

-Commander