Earwig made the top 10 final bands to play CD101 Day in April in Columbus at the LC. If you don't know, CD101 Day is the annual big blow-out concert hosted by the best Radio Station in the WORLD, CD101. Being the local band on the bill is a fantastic ride and provides a huge boost to whatever local band lands the slot. We should know, Earwig played this concert in 2008. We'd love nothing more than to get that chance again...and YOU can HELP US do it!
This is a BIG deal and we really NEED YOUR HELP. Now that Earwig is in the finals, we need EVERYONE to log into the CD101 Lounge and VOTE for EARWIG.
PLEASE take just a few minutes to do this and it will make a BIG DIFFERENCE for us. We do appreciate it very much.
Remember! You need to vote by this Friday 3/18. This should take less than 5 minutes and here’s all you need to do.
1. Follow this link http://www.cd101.com/sections/theLounge/TheLounge.aspx 2. Sign up If you’re not signed up already, it will ask you to sign up for the CD101 Lounge. They will ask for your Name, Birthday, City and Zip Code 3. Click on the link that says Vote for the CD101 Day Local Band! 4. Then, click on Take This Survey and vote for Earwig!(make sure you click the FINISHED button at the bottom)
I remember being very excited to play CD101 Day at the LC in 2007. Pretty unbelievably, our song “Used Kids” was being played on the radio like crazy. 400 spins in 6 months. You do the math. We got our own dressing room and were generally treated like conquering kings. Earwig got the second to last slot, which was great. The place was packed and the audience was incredible. Despite our nerves, we actually didn’t screw up and played pretty well. It was one of the biggest and best shows we had played up until that point. Then FOX TV called and asked us to come in for an interview and to play the song on their morning show ‘Good Morning Columbus’. We had planned on doing the tune as a full band but, as usual, things went awry and we ended up on-air as an acoustic duo, just me and Matt. It was a happy accident though, since I don’t know if we would have been able to deliver fully functional rock at 7am. I bet the soccer-moms probably liked the stripped down version better anyway . Next, we somehow landed the headlining spot Friday night on the main-stage at Comfest. Despite technical difficulties (with my brain) we did an admirable job and went over well with the massive audience that’s a cross-section of free-music fans and beer lovers from the Midwest. We capped the summer off with another show at the LC, this time outside, and then a short tour (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York) to promote ‘Center Of The Earth’. At the end of October, a week after we got back from the tour, we went into the studio and put down basics for 14 songs that should comprise our next full length album. All in all, it was a fantastic year. You can see clips of Earwig at Comfest, The LC, CD101 Day, FOX TV and several stops on the tour in this new video for ‘Used Kids’, superbly edited by Matt Parker. Enjoy.
*BONUS* Look for the scene where I have Matt in a headlock and then throw him to the ground. We were playing in Cincinnati. I broke a string mid-song and, disposing of my guitar, finished the tune by flailing around the stage like an aerobics instructor on PCP. I guess that I got a little caught up in the moment. Matt, if your out there...I’m sorry.
