my good friend grey watson, with whom i play in two bands, is moving to south korea at the beginning of june for a one year teaching contract. he's in his late 20's, so this is pretty much the perfect opportunity to go abroad. this will effectively dismantle our rock trio, rubys... and will put a definite damper on through the sparks. we were planning on starting an album soon, but everyone stayed in a holding pattern until we knew what grey was going to do. now hopefully we can at least record some live demos of the new material so it doesn't get lost. at some point we might release the ep we recorded as a 5 piece at jody nelson's house in early 2010.
at my age, i don't think in terms of years anymore. they go by too fast. 5 years ago, i was already recording with the spots. life moves pretty fast. anyway... so rubys will be going out in a blaze of glory. we have two shows lined up with the grenadines - one at the nick in birmingham and one somewhere in tuscaloosa. war eagle.
there's also a set during the debut of secret stages in the downtown loft district in mid-may. and there's also talk of doing a house party somewhere in southside. that would pretty much cover all the bases. we have a lot of rehearsal to do in order to get up to speed, but rehearsing as a trio is super easy. much easier than a 5 or 6 piece. here's the rubys feature page for the city stages festival. i might post some rehearsal or performance footage on here once we get through all of these shows.