Spring Into Social Distancing and Merch

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

Tour Soooon

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:

Sticker Sheet

***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

December Update

First off… 
Heads up, we’re playing MAGFest 2020 in under 3 weeks! It’s gonna be rad, so if you’re around the DC area at the first of January, you should stop on by for a spell.  We’re playing on Saturday night, but we’ll be there starting Thursday, so come see us at the merch table (or at the Tron machine).

JANUARY
02nd – National Harbor, MD – MAGFest (hang out day)
03rd – National Harbor, MD – MAGFest (hang out day)
04th – National Harbor, MD – MAGFest (show day)

Second off…

We’re going back out with TWRP for a short run in late February – early March for a Super South run!!!! Texas over to Florida!!! It’s gonna be some extreme fun!! Tickets on sale NOW! Exclamation Points!!!

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

Third off…

And sorta connected to the Second off. The signed and unsigned versions of the big fancy screen printed posters from our previous tour with TWRP are now available in the Sound Machine Store, so grab some before they’re gone for all of eternity.  Annnnnnd, for the rest of December, you can get free shipping on orders over $50 when you use this code at checkout: FREESHIP

Fourth off…

We’ve switched some things around and now all our European merch will be handled by Kings Road Merch (they’re the ones who printed our super fancy Euro Tour Shirts). And with that, all of the leftover merch from the Euro Tour is finally available for online purchase! There’s not a lot of it left, so grab it while you can. Seriously the best shirts we’ve ever done. Big thanks John DeLucca (for the art), Caspar Newbolt (for the design), and Kings Road (for doing a hell of a job printing it).  

***Also, you can get signed and unsigned versions of the super rad poster, too.

Fifth off… 
That’s all for now. More soon.

-Commander 

Holiday Super Sales Spectacular 3000

Black Friday Through Cyborg Monday

Our annual holiday sales action starts tonight at midnight (Friday 12:00am CST) and runs through Monday night (11:59pm CST) on the Sound Machine Store, so grab what you need while there’s stuff to grab! 

For 20% off your order, just enter this code at checkout: TWENTY2019

On top of that, the remaining super rad TWRP & Protomen Together At Last screen printed tour poster will finally be making an appearance (signed and unsigned versions available). Sorry for the delay on that, it takes a lot of effort to get a bunch of posters signed by all of us (both bands).  

We’ve got some cool stuff coming up soon, so keep an eye on our socials… Instagram, Facebook, Bandsintown, and Twitter

Don’t take that mention of Bandsintown to mean we have shows coming up. We don’t… or do we?

And yeah, yeah, Act III when? We’re working on it. It’s getting fierce. It’s looking like we won’t beat the next Half-Life to market, but I’ve got money that we still beat Avatar 2.

-Commander

Super Rad New Poster And Shirt

POSTER AND SHIRT
In just over a week we’ll be in Ireland getting ready for our show on the 03rd, so we wanted to go ahead and show you this toootaally original poster and shirt that we’ve been working on for a while. It’s pretty derned fancy, if you ask me. And even if you don’t ask me, I’ll still tell you it’s pretty derned fancy. Illustration and design by the ever-wonderful John DeLucca and Caspar Newbolt (respectively)……. and Boris

These are Euro show exclusive, so get to a show (or get a friend to a show) to grab one! If any of them survive the tour, we’ll put them up in our European Store

Just a general warning about tickets, they’re running reeeaal low for several shows. So don’t go around waiting till the last minute, because they could sell out, and then you’ll be sitting on the curb crying your metric tears and we won’t be able to help you, because we don’t understand the metric system. We hate seeing tears (metric, imperial, standard, or whatever… they’re all tears to us). Please don’t put us in that position. We want you to be happy. Grab tickets soon. And bring some people that have never heard us before, because we love looking out in the crowd and seeing that confused look on new people’s faces. 

SEPTEMBER
03rd – Dublin – The Grand Social  – LOW TICKET WARNING
05th – London  – O2 Academy Islington  – LOW TICKET WARNING
07th – Munich  – Backstage Club 
08th – Vienna – Chelsea 
10th – Berlin – Privatclub 
11th – Cologne – Luxor 
12th – Hamburg – Kaiserkeller  
13th – Amsterdam – Melkweg  – LOW TICKET WARNING

That’s all for now,

-Commander

p.s. Anyone who brings Panther a steel string acoustic guitar (with a pickup) and lets him borrow it for the entire Euro tour… and comes to pick it up in Amsterdam (otherwise he just leaves it on the street somewhere)… gets in free for the entire tour. First guitar wins!

Will Of One Live and Euro Tour Extravaganza

So our tour with TWRP was a terribly incredible time. Things may have started off rocky 5, but they quickly turned into Rocky 1-4 and then 6, and then Creed 1, (I still haven’t seen Creed 2 yet, but I’ll rectify that soon) once we got past all of our bus and trailer issues, about 4 days in. I’d dare say it was one of the very best tours we’ve ever toured, and we already miss the poop out of being on the road with those dudes. We WILL do it again someday. 

But enough of this gooey shhhow of emotion, let’s get on with the stuff…

Will Of One – Live In Nashville
In honor of the recent Act I vinyl repress, and in honor of us finally going to Europe, we figured it was time to pull the wraps off of this thing we’ve been working on for a while. 

This is a clip from the night we first released the Act I vinyl. We were hoping to have it done for the repress release, but we just didn’t make it in time (Act III recording took priority!).  So yeah, this is just a teaser for the entire show video AND live album that’s on the way. It’ll include all of Act I and most of Act II, soooo better late than never?

We’re pretty proud of where it landed. We’ve wanted to do a live video/album for a long time and this show turned out to be the right fit. Buuut… as with most live recordings, this one came with some gremlins that had to be dealt with, so it’s taken some time. There were things we had to fix because of bad cables/mics… and there were things we had to fix because of Freddie Wong stepping on Ringo’s cable RIGHT at the start of one of his solos (we forgive you, Freddie…). There were just all kinds of lovely little nuggets of, “how the shit did that happen?!” that we had to fix. So what I’m saying is… because we wanted this to be a great listening and viewing experience for everybody, there were things we had to fix before we could let this see the light of day. But there were plenty of other turdy things we could have fixed but didn’t, since this is a live record/video and all live albums/videos are mildly turdy (I think it may be a law), unless you’re watching a Europe live show from ’86 or ’87. Seriously, everything that comes out of Joey Tempest’s mouth at those shows could be an album take.

Everyone who was part of our documentary Kickstarter will get the full show video for free… HOWEVER… those wonderful kickstarterers will also get a free copy of whatever the documentary is that we release in the future, because we said you’d get a for-real documentary, and by damns, we’ll get you a for-real documentary….. eventually… 

LIVE IN EUROPE
Speaking of live shows and documentaries… we’re headed to Europe in just over TWO WEEEEKSSSS!!!!!!

Tickets are running super low for several of the shows (especially Ireland, London, and Amsterdam), so jump on them quick. Who knows when/if we’ll get back over there. Grab some tickets below and tell all your friends about tickets, because I’ve heard that friends LOVE tickets.

SEPTEMBER
03rd – Dublin – The Grand Social  – LOW TICKET WARNING
05th – London  – O2 Academy Islington  – LOW TICKET WARNING
07th – Munich  – Backstage Club
08th – Vienna – Chelsea
10th – Berlin – Privatclub
11th – Cologne – Luxor
12th – Hamburg – Kaiserkeller 
13th – Amsterdam – Melkweg  – LOW TICKET WARNING

We’ve got a ferocious new poster and t-shirt to show you soon. Expect another mailer next week! Seriously, maybe the best shirt and poster we’ve ever had.

-Commander

2019 Tour Countdown + Act I Vinyl Returns!

JULY TOUR WITH TWRP (LOW TICKET WARNING!!!)
We’re heading out with TWRP in exactly TWWOO WEEEEEKS for our co-headlining tour, and tickets are nearly gone for most shows. If you haven’t gotten tickets yet, you’d better grab them super immediately. 

JULY
12th – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall • All Ages – SOLD OUT
13th – Pontiac, MI – Crofoot Ballroom • All Ages
14th – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom • All Ages – SOLD OUT
16th – Toronto, ON – Opera House • All Ages – SOLD OUT
17th – Buffalo, NY – Rec Room • +16
19th – Kingston, NY – BSP (Back Room Theater) • All Ages
20th – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club • All Ages – SOLD OUT
22nd – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere • +16 – SOLD OUT
23rd – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live  • All Ages – SOLD OUT
24th – Baltimore, MD – Soundstage • All Ages – SOLD OUT
25th – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry • All Ages – SOLD OUT
26th – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West • All Ages – SOLD OUT
27th – Nashville, TN – Basement East • +18 – SOLD OUT

And here’s the extremely limited edition VIP EXCLUSIVE poster that goes to everyone that buys (or bought..) VIP tickets for this PROTO-TWRP tour. There’s still a few VIPs left, so grab them while you can. We are some serious Beef Supremes in this thing!

poster by Lazerhorse

EURO TOUR
And tickets are also going really fast for London, Dublin, and Amsterdam. There aren’t many spots left, so grab them before they’re gone for all of eternity! 

SEPTEMBER
03rd – Dublin – The Grand Social (LOW TICKET WARNING)
05th – London  – O2 Academy Islington (LOW TICKET WARNING)
07th – Munich  – Backstage Club
08th – Vienna – Chelsea
10th – Berlin – Privatclub
11th – Cologne – Luxor
12th – Hamburg – Kaiserkeller 
13th – Amsterdam – Melkweg (LOW TICKET WARNING)

EUROPEAN STORE
This store is getting off its feet and we’ve figured out how to lower shipping costs a bit more. Go check it out! europroto.bigcartel.com

ACT I VINYL RETURNS!!!
If you didn’t get your fill of Act I vinyl with the last few pressings, now’s your chance to live your dreams! These usually go pretty quick, so get them while they’re around. Plus, we have some rad new color variants for you to gander (Blue smoke and Red smoke!)!  Plus Plus, we’ve brought back the original Proto logo shirt and Elec Man shirt (from our first animated Hope Rides Alone website video), for a limited time (Wil Wheaton approved)! And these are all ready to ship.

More stuff coming next mailer (remember that live Will Of One clip from the Euro Tour announcement video?)

See you soon,

-Commander

European Store And Dublin Action

WE HAVE A EUROPEAN MERCH STORE NOW!!!
Our friends at Eat Music are helping us get a store going over there, so no more having to pay nearly twice the price for shipping from the US! It’s pretty slim right now, but we hope to build it up over time. Try it out – europroto.bigcartel.com

EURO TOUR
Heads up! We just added a super awesome Ireland show to the start of the tour, so spread the word around. Tickets are available now, but they may not last long. London sold out in a day, so they moved us up to the big room and now it’s well over half-sold, so grab these euro tickets asap if you like music stuff. And while you’re at it, bring everyone you’ve ever known to a show (or to all of them…).

SEPTEMBER
03rd – Dublin – The Grand Social (tickets on sale NOW!)
05th – London  – O2 Academy Islington 
07th – Munich  – Backstage Club 
08th – Vienna – Chelsea 
10th – Berlin – Privatclub 
11th – Cologne – Luxor 
12th – Hamburg – Kaiserkeller  
13th – Amsterdam – Melkweg

PROTOMEN + TWRP TOUR
And we couldn’t be more excited for our tour coming up with TWRP. It’ll be here in less than a month, and tickets are running out fast, so get to gettin’ if you haven’t gotten! 

JULY
12th – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall • All Ages – SOLD OUT
13th – Pontiac, MI – Crofoot Ballroom • All Ages
14th – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom • All Ages
16th – Toronto, ON – Opera House • All Ages
17th – Buffalo, NY – Rec Room • +16
19th – Kingston, NY – BSP (Back Room Theater) • All Ages
20th – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club • All Ages
22nd – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere • +16
23rd – Philadelphia, PA – World Café Live  • All Ages
24th – Baltimore, MD – Soundstage • All Ages
25th – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry • All Ages
26th – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West • All Ages
27th – Nashville, TN – Basement East • +18

That’s all for now, but more good stuff coming up real soon.

-Commander

Protomen European Tour – Sept 2019


Hey Europe,

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It’s happening. We’re finally heading your way this September, so tell your friends, and tell your parents… and tell your friends’ parents.. and their parents’ parents (parents love us), because we’re gonna need all the help we can get. I’m gonna admit, we’re kinda nervous. We hear you guys don’t even have hot chicken over there. I did eat at a place in Nashville the other day that essentially had hot chicken schnitzel (it was super good), so we know it’s possible. Get on it, Germany.

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SEPTEMBER
03rd – Dublin – The Grand Social (tickets on sale Friday 10amGMT)
05th – London  – O2 Academy Islington 
07th – Munich  – Backstage Club 
08th – Vienna – Chelsea 
10th – Berlin – Privatclub 
11th – Cologne – Luxor 
12th – Hamburg – Kaiserkeller  
13th – Amsterdam – Melkweg

Grab some tickets and spread the word!

And we’ve also got some good news coming soon about a European Store so y’all don’t have keep paying such terrible shipping costs. Hopefully that’ll be heading your way in a few weeks, so stay tuned.

And a big thanks to Eat Music for helping us make it happen!

PROTOMEN + TWRP JULY TOUR
And you east coast US/Canada people better not forget about our tour with TWRP in July. It’s gonna be the most crazy. Grab tickets as soon as possible, because they’re going fast. Chicago is already sold out and a few others are getting close. Paragraph

JULY
12th – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall • All Ages – SOLD OUT
13th – Pontiac, MI – Crofoot Ballroom • All Ages
14th – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom • All Ages
16th – Toronto, ON – Opera House • All Ages
17th – Buffalo, NY – Rec Room • +16
19th – Kingston, NY – BSP (Back Room Theater) • All Ages
20th – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club • All Ages
22nd – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere • +16
23rd – Philadelphia, PA – World Café Live  • All Ages
24th – Baltimore, MD – Soundstage • All Ages
25th – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry • All Ages
26th – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West • All Ages
27th – Nashville, TN – Basement East • +18

And for all you people who can’t make it to the July and Sept shows, we’ve got some live show video action coming your way, so you don’t feel left out. Watch the video at the top for a taste of that. We’re gonna post the full “Will Of One” video sometime next month, along with more info on the whole project.

That’s all for now, but keep your eye on the pies. That is a saying, right? If not, it is now. Somebody go put that on that on a wikipedia.

-Commander

Protomen and TWRP Tour 2019

Protomen and TWRP sitting in a tree, T. O. U. R. I. N. G. … for two weeks in July. 

That’s right, we’re heading out on a co-headlining tour in July with TWRP (they’re the fancy space fellas that we did “Phantom Racer” with last year, remember?). It’s gonna be a short run across the Great Lakes (that’s right, we’re gonna swim) and up the east coast. And don’t worry, both bands are playing full-length sets, no matter who is playing last on any particular night. This is gonna be one incredibly fancy tour, so you shouldn’t not try not to not go. Tickets are live now, so grab them quick, because they’ll probably go seriously fast.

JULY 
12th – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall • All Ages SOLD OUT
13th – Pontiac, MI – Crofoot Ballroom • All Ages
14th – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom • All Ages
16th – Toronto, ON – Opera House • All Ages
17th – Buffalo, NY – Rec Room • +16
19th – Kingston, NY – BSP (Back Room Theater) • All Ages
20th – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club • All Ages
22nd – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere • +16
23rd – Philadelphia, PA – World Café Live  • All Ages
24th – Baltimore, MD – Soundstage • All Ages
25th – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry • All Ages
26th – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West • All Ages
27th – Nashville, TN – Basement East • +18

MEET AND GREETERY
There’s also some super duper limited Meet and Greet and Early Entry tickets for most of the shows, so just a heads up, if you’re into that sort of thing. Here’s what they’re about:

TWRP & Protomen – Meet & Greet Package
– One general admission ticket 
– VIP early entry into the venue 
– Exclusive pre-show meet & greet with TWRP & Protomen 
– Group photo with TWRP & Protomen (no individual photos) 
– Autograph session with TWRP & Protomen 
– Limited edition tour poster 
– Exclusive TWRP merchandise item 
– Exclusive Protomen merchandise item 
– Official VIP meet & greet laminate 
– Very limited availability 

TWRP & Protomen – Early Entry Package
– One general admission ticket 
– VIP early entry into the venue 
– Limited edition tour poster 
– Official VIP early entry laminate 
– Limited availability

That’s all for now, but there’s some other super fun stuff coming down the pipeline pretty soon. 

And yes, Act III. Working on it super hard, and it’s sounding pretty most rad. 

Be well,

-Commander

p.s. Hey Europe, do people like The Protomen over there?