AN ISLAND OF LOVELY PEOPLE

Scarce is sending a shout out to Martha's Vineyard this weekend, for giving us not only the royal carpet treatment, but by surprising us by knowing all our songs! We arrived off the ferry in Vineyard Haven greeted by Colin, our new friend from the island—rocker, promoter, and Scarce's tour guide for the day, who gave us a lift in his wagon. As we stepped onto the island the clouds litterally parted and the sun came out. Colin and his girlfriend Neddy (an awesome jeweler and artist) took us to a private beach down a long dirt road, where we met up with a bunch of their friends to hang out on the beach for the afternoon. We had such a chill afternoon we almost forgot we had a show to play. We had a quick bite on a dock down in Menusha, fresh oysters, crab cakes, and other delicious delites straight off the dock and into our mouths. Then we headed down for soundcheck.

Nectars, formerly Outerland and we were told Hot Tin Roof, (Carly Simon's bar) was just getting up and running. Second show of the summer that night. The club was great, nice bartenders, clean white towels, even a shower to wash off from the beach. Alex the club manager heard us soundchecking our new song called Circus Boy, and he made sure we had a huge bucket of Magic Hat Circus Boy beer. Sweet. It was Joe's birthday too, and a lovely waitress brought us shots to celebrate. The show started with Loira Borra a lively punk rock three piece, and then Kahootz followed with a rockin set that had the crowd dancing and making us wonder why they weren't headlining. They were celebrating their record release, and I highly recommend buying their music if you don't have any. Elijah and Rob the two main guitar players and singers told us afterward they were the first ones on the island to see us at The Loudfest in Northhampton so long ago and brought a single back to a great local record store named Above Ground Records. So shout out to them both and to Michael who owns the record store for promoting our records ,and who invited us back to play a show their next time.

We took the stage thinking everyone but the bands would leave, and then the crowd surprised us. Not only did they stay but they knew our songs, and they knew Scarce. They sang along to all the songs, and danced, and gave us some much needed love. After an hour of bloody, sweaty, messy punk rock set, Rob from Kahootz put us up for the night in his groovy house in the woods. So shout out to Rob too, hope you enjoy reading the book! We met up with Colin and Neddy again for a goodbye breakfast and talks of another show there in the fall. Felt so much like Halifax there. Great people, great music, good vibes all around. So cheers to you Martha's Vineyard. We will be back soon. Thanks for your hospitality and love of music—and well just being lovely.

Scarce is coming to the UK and Scotland too!

Hey all! So Sally Irvine, fabulous filmmaker, is putting together a great tour in the UK for the fall for Scarce and her Documentary: Days Like These. So far we have confirmed a great Scarcefest of sorts at the Luminarie in London for Saturday October 17th. We will have great bands opening up, the Scarce documentary, then Scarce will play. Then Scenesters DJ's Nick Saloman of the Bevis Frond and Paul Simmons of the Alchemysts will be spinning some groovy tunes for the after party till 2 am. So tell one tell all. Spread the word. A night of all this for 10 pounds!

Here is the link to check out the fest: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=232928075584
Here’s where to go to buy tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/52530

Other shows are also in the making, and awaiting to be confimed. Here are the other cities:
Brighton, Manchester, Nottingham, and Glasgow. We will post those tickets as soon as they are confirmed. Let's make this thing huge! We need your help in spreading the word so we can keep coming back over to the UK. And thanks to all! We can't wait!

UK CALLING

This past weekend was a busy weekend for Scarce, hence the delay in my writing. We were back in the studio tracking the last of the main guitar tracks. For most of the record Chick has rediscovered using his old Les Paul Goldtop which he hasn't played in years. Chick channelled a little Alex Chilton, TREX, Westerberg, and oh yeah Chick too, with his slide. The songs are getting nice and layered but we still have a decent amount of tracking to do with vocals, lead guitars, and the maybe some keyboard from me. Chick would like all of you to imagine me in a bat cape when you listen. He says I get so serious when I play I look like I am in one of those b horror movies. If any of you have copies of Ocean Blue that is me playing the keyboards on that one, so you can have a good laugh when you listen.

Chris Cugini has been a star at the board and adding some nice suggestions for guitar parts and vocal ideas. His rock and roll/pop sensibilities and calmness have made this recording session so wonderful. We are so lucky to have a talented friend in our lives, and you can hear that on the record too. It has been one big family making this record. We literally take over Chris's whole house when we record there, and there is wood everywhere so the sounds are amazing.

Sally Irvine was also here from London to spend some time filming the three of us for the Scarce documentary. We reminisced about where we all started, where we been, and where we are going. We are most excited about where we are going-the new record and the documentary. Sally is beginning to organize a wonderful tour for us and the documentary in the fall in the UK. The cities for the tour being tossed around are London, Brighton, Nottingham, Manchester, and Glasgcow- cross our fingers we will make them all. We will post everything as soon as we confirm.

UK calling, can't wait...