-Sunday March 18th, Exclusive Rock & Roll Dinner Party House Show in Sunderland MA with Motel Mattress, 6PM Contact us for full info: walkingghosts@gmail.com

-Friday March 30th at The Elevens in Northampton MA, with Cat Whisker, 9PM EVENT PAGE

-Saturday April 21st at The Flywheel in Easthampton MA with Janet Labelle and Jimmy Destri (keyboardist and founding member of Blondie), 7PM EVENT PAGE   PRE-ORDER TICKETS HERE

- Friday June 8th at THE IRON HORSE in Northampton MA, with Cat Whisker and Sarah Smith, 10PM PRE-ORDER TICKETS HERE

We’ve also got a number of exciting shows already lined up for the Winter and Spring, including a huge one at the Iron Horse in June with Cat Whisker and Sarah Smith (Date & Pre-sale ticket info coming soon). Check them out here or over on our SHOWS page:

-Saturday, January 28th at The Rendezvous in Turners Falls MA, with Ipomoea and Champion Sleeper, 9PM EVENT PAGE

-Sunday March 18th, house show with Motel Mattress, location and time TBA

-Friday March 30th at The Elevens in Northampton MA, with Cat Whisker, 9PM EVENT PAGE

-JUNE: The Iron Horse in Northampton MA, with Cat Whisker and Sarah Smith, Date and Pre-sale ticket info coming soon!

With plenty more Winter/Spring dates we’ll be announcing soon!

And man, I wish I could.

I remember the first time Cat and I saw Viva Viva. It was in the autumn of 2007 (WHOA) at Great Scott, and they were opening for… shoot, who? (I have a notebook that has all the bands I’ve ever seen in it. Unfortunately it is buried under heaps of sweaters. Love sweaters.) I guess this blank in my memory suggests all we really need to know – that Viva Viva owned that room. To me, they’re like a tougher Kinks, a more psychedelic Rolling Stones (I always think this because of “Sympathy for the Devil’s Little Helper”).

Tonight, you can watch them captivate Great Scott once again, at a Sleepover Shows presented event.

photo: matt teuten

It gets better. Thanks to Fort Point Recordings, they have a full length debut that you can have and hold and love, which is just what the Weekly Dig, Time Out Boston and the BMAs have been doing. After they’ve knocked you over and made you a believer, get yourself that album! Digital download available at their bandcamp if you don’t like material objects.

Also making a play for the room will be Pray for Polanski and Cat Whisker (WAIT are these dudes responsible for the tag on the foot bridge? You are, aren’t you?)

9 PM 18+ (this is cool, this means even Will Deeks can go!) $8

Viva Viva sure have been showing up on lots of year-end best-of lists lately, and we can’t say we’re surprised – their self-titled debut is an instant local classic packed with hooks and frisky guitars. Tomorrow night they’ll rock your little heart out on one of this town’s most beloved stages, and from what we hear this might be their last local show for a little while so be there or be sans Viva². Listen and get psyched below. Pray for Polanski made you a video in anticipation of this show and put it all up in yo’ Facebook, but in case you missed it, you can see that below too. The video was produced by Sleepover Shows, who are also presenting tomorrow night’s rock ‘n’ roll show. They caught one of Cat Whisker‘s songs last time that band played at Great Scott which happened to also be the night that my most-recent-now-defunct band played there! (Whores at the Door 4eva!!!!) Visit the Sleepover Shows site to check out the Cat Whisker video and a whole lot of other ones they’ve shot over the past year or so.

http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2418760411/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB//

Thursday 12/16 • Great Scott • 9pm • 18+ • $8
Facebook event

We’re teaming up with our delightful friends at Sleepover Shows to co-present this big fiesta on Wednesday night. Won’t you come out and join us?

The bill:
Pray For Polanski
Streight Angular
Cat Whisker
Big East

and special guests Whores At the Door
(three Band Crushers & a Streight Angular)
doing an abridged encore performance of our Pixies cover set from Halloween

It’s only five bucks, 18+, 9pm.

Pray For Polanski: