Ugly Christmas Sweater Show pics

Thanks to everyone who came out to Club Cafe for our second annual Ugly Christmas Sweater show. View the pics here, and if you have any from the show, please email them and we'll put them on the site.

Ugly Christmas Sweater Show is tomorrow...

Since being named "Best Indie Rock Band" by the readers of the Pittsburgh City Paper, a lot has changed. I really can't pin-point what it is exactly... maybe the hourly massages, the constant calls from major record labels... it could be the endorsement deal from Nike or the five-way relationship the entire band is having with Paris Hilton. Whatever it is, something feels different. I'm sure it hasn't changed us, although I really haven't seen Drew since I ran into him on the 7th floor kitchen of our new mansion.

I'll save the rest of my stories for our new book, movie and reality show.

Tomorrow is going to be a great night at Club Cafe. We play with J. Creepers for our second annual "Ugly Christmas Sweater" show. The show starts at 10pm tomorrow (December 22nd). Be sure to wear the ugliest Christmas sweater you can find. Bonus points are awarded for working lights on the sweater.

Other upcoming shows are January 4th at Diesel in Pittsburgh's south side. We're playing with Raising Pilate at 10pm. Then we'll be at Mt. Lebanon's Southminster Church to play with Triggers on January 19th. We met a lot of awesome people last time we played and I hope they are able to make it out to see us again.

We have some great things planned for early 2007 and we hope you'll be around to enjoy them with us.

If you aren't able to see the above pictures correctly, view the entire email here.

Neal, Johnny, Mike and Drew
School of Athens

Beer Girls...

It's a tradition as old as time itself...
The band plays a show, the bar has some Miller Lite or Bud Light girls doing promotions, giving away XXL t-shirts to skinny hipsters while Mike and Drew pose with a beer beauty... well, Drew poses and Mike pulls one of those a-hole in the back moves like you'd find in Maxim Magazine.

And I laugh every time.

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Hard Rock Cafe Video

I make a bloggins! (as Borat says)...

You've heard our music on the radio and have seen us dance, but did you know that we actually play our own instruments? Thats right, and now we have proof thanks to Big Green Tanks Productions. You can video the entire Hard Rock Cafe show filmed on October 6th here.
The video also includes an interview in which we try to make jokes and look cool but just don't come off that way at all. After I learn how to eat with my mouth closed, i'll sign up for some personality classes or something. I'm sure when Capitol Records signs us they'll put us through a bunch of training seminars. I'd also like to learn how to do my own plastic surgery. I sure wouldn't want a botched nipple job like Tara Reid...

Enjoy the video and thanks again to Big Green Tanks.

Piano Bench Conspiracy

People of Pittsburgh, audience of The Hard Rock Cafe show that took place on Friday, October 6th, 2006... we ask you to join us in helping solve the mysterious events that resulted in a destroyed piano bench owned by lead singer of local rock band "School of Athens". The photograph you see above is the last known picture taken of the in-tact bench. You will notice the bench is at a perfect horizontal level allowing Mr. Fogle to strike the piano keys at an even and non-arthritic motion. Tragically between the opening song "Kids with Guns" and the final song "The Manuscript" the piano bench (pictured) was horribly bent to a near 45 degree angle prohibiting Mr. Fogle from correctly sitting on the bench. Witnesses claim seeing a man wearing a yellow shirt with a bird print, holding a Gibson Les Paul guitar dancing violently across the stage. At one point the guitarist (later identified as Mr. Rosenblat) was seen jumping close to Mr. Fogle and even seen having a foot "or more on the piano thing" as described by audience member Federica Meier of Germany. Ms. Meier could not be located for comment.

Conspiracy theorists and bloggers have already cluttered the Internet with scenarios pointing the blame not only at guitarist Neal Rosenblat, but other persons of interest. Some of these people were not even in attendance. Outlandish and improbable, popular figures from present day and past have been named. Included are "Cee-Lo", "The lady who hit Ben Roethlisberger" and "The Flying Spaghetti Monster". If you have any information, please leave comments below.

Donations are now being accepted for a new piano bench.

WDVE Morning Show

We can now say we've played a show at 8am. Fueled by Starbucks, we had a great time playing this morning on Pittsburgh's WDVE Coffe House program. We played The Manuscript. Thank you to Ryan Camuso, Jeff Paul and everyone at WDVE for having us play and supporting local music. We were able to talk to Jim and Randy also. Unfortunately I wasn't able to do the weather or traffic reports, even though I was the official Clarion University weather guy. People say I have a face for radio.

We also met Mikey and Big Bob from the 96.1 Kiss Morning Freak Show. They invited us to watch the freak show karaoke contest, but we're not rock stars yet and all had to run back to work...

Thanks to everyone who listened this morning and called and text'd us, too.

Neal
School of Athens