Thursday, April 30, 2009

Cheesin'

May 1-Black Flag Tribute
Morgantown, WV
we are playing 'Scream' and 'Damaged'
Check out some original live footage of Black Flag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4vhydPLpwo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQktX6Tx2mc
w/Old Age and Count Me In

May 9th-Red Dragon Tattoo
Rainelle, WV
w/Old Age and Count Me In

May 15th-Justin's House
Parkersburg, WV
w/ Old Age, Landmine, Most Ill

May 22-123 Pleasant Street
Morgantown, WV
w/Mega Touch, The Handshake Murders

May 31- Robot Project
Pittsburgh, PA
w/Rosetta, The Handshake Murders

June 15- Yesterdays
Wheeling,WV
w/Architect, The Handshake Murders

We have 2 new songs done, so we will be able to reshape our set list quite a bit. They are agressive still, and more coherent in that they are just well written, so we are getting better at this.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Make it

We are lining up shows in May. One per weekend. Black Flag semi-tribute show with us, Old Age, and Count Me In on May 1st at 604 ARlington. Each band is doing 2 covers and 5 of their own songs.

The 9th, 15th, 22nd, and 31st are the other dates but nothing is final yet.

This was a good week of hearing some new music online.
www.myspace.com/oldageband
www.myspace.com/theplagueofplagues
www.myspace.com/widowersucks

The handshake murders are working on new music so show them support

CDs, stickers, buttons, and shirts are available just message us on here or post a comment and let us know where to send them.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

In a minute...

We finished 'Death Dreams' this week. We have yet to play it live, and have only played 'Anatomical Theatre' live once, and that was as a 4 piece. So at the Feb 10th show at Pleasure Island we will have both of those in the set and the tracks on the EP. Just fyi in case anyone is like me and likes to hear setlist spoilers.

We are preparing to record this May. As it sits we are going to Skylight and we are stoked on that.

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Shows:
Feb 10th:Pittsburgh
March 6th: Maryland

We might be playing Parkersburg on Feb 7th, but that is not solid.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Gear Update

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Behind the frontlines, here is the rest of what is goin on...

Fender Telecaster Deluxe Reissue
Vox AC 30
Top Hat 2x12
Teisco 2x15
on one side

Tama 1980s 24x18
Tama 1980s 18x16
Tama 1980s 13x13
Fibes Vintage 6x14/Pork Pie 7x13
2 Zildjian 20" rides
in the middle

Late 70s Grabber
76 Guild M80
Peavey VTM 120
Peavy Series 400
Mesa 4x12
Traynor 2x15
on the other side

Cruncher revenge

Client State EP is out
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Details include being recorded by Brian Spragg (Morgantown, WV), mixed and mastered by Vince Ratti (Fairless Hills, PA), and recorded in about 5 or 6 sessions; nothing extreme.

If you want one, let us know. We can dice in some buttons and sickers as well.

We had our first show this past weekend at 604 Arlington. I think our last show was the sixth of November; a two month layoff. So we wrapped the cd up, and wrote a new song that we played at the 604 show. We have some plans to head to Canada this summer and play a few shows and record for a vinyl release.

We will be adding shows around southern, northwestern PA, western/central MD, and in the parkersburg area of WV/ohio. Lot of places and friends in those areas.

Right now we have a show in St Albans on the 7th of April, so we will add more as we get them.

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Saturday, November 15, 2008

About time

it's a tricky thing.
We finished recording all of our tracks with Brian Spragg (Morgantown, WV), of it's Birds, and sent them away to be mixed and mastered. We will get to all of that in the next post when we have the songs back and done.

You have seen the packaging, and we will include the lyrics, so get at us if you want a cd, button, sticker, or spraypaint shirt.

The halloween show was awesome. Having Don the Reader hop on was super, and we have plent of pics on the myspace, plus more to be put up. We do have vid from that show.

The 123 show with Trigger Effect the next week went well. Jarred made it up specifically for that show. It is pretty amazing when your friends move away to move further in life, but still make special trips to see what you are doing and especially with this band, it is an appreciated effort. I hope more people can get in to our shit like that, but if not who fuckin cares. Jarred is awesome. Plus its pretty great when all of your friends that may see you practice, or see you a couple times a month still come out and pay money to go to a show. That is definitely appreciated cause we have played shows to zero people like every other band has, and it is better when you are in your home town and have a good amount of your friends occupying the immediate space. Parkersburg was like that too. Thank you Trigger Effect for playing that show too. Swell men.

Our next booked show is in April but we will have some more before then.

We finished a new song this week, and will be starting another one here in the next couple weeks. No slow song yet, but we will get there...in due timeI do not think we need to write one actually. Cursed and Trap Them have covered that base well enough this year.


New vid up on youtube, and more to come. We have more vid from that Pburg show, and the Halloween and 123 shows yet to put up.

For now, that is everything going on with Ancient Shores.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Real Tuff

The Epic show got cancelled. Pulled out from under 5 good bands.

The 213 Green St show is still on for Sept 26th. We will post our flyer for it if we can find an operating scanner.

Also still on are the 10/2, 10/3, 10/4, 10/31 shows. The Halloween show is suited for confetti and good times. Come hang. Thanks to Andy, Matt, and Evan for hosting the 10/2, 10/31 shows and Chuck for having us at Yesterdays on 10/3 and thanks to Justin and Jarred for getting us a house to play in on 10/4. We appreciate the hospitality. Shit has just been whack with getting shows together.

Evan starts tracking drums Sunday (the 21st). Not sure about guitars, bass, and vocals yet. It might be a drums only EP.