Istanbul was the final leg of my 5-week European tour with the Heathens in July 2009. We played several shows at clubs (Jazz Stop, DogzStar, Limon) in the Taksim neighborhood of Istanbul, which contained a dizzying maze of side streets, cafes, and bars. It was a neighborhood that never seemed to sleep. Here’s a...
During a European tour with Oakland’s Damon & the Heathens this past July, we played a few gigs in small, underground clubs in the Belleville neighborhood of Paris. Crowds were small, but enthusiastic. Here’s a few images from our show at Le Zorba with the Paris noise band Casanova Frankenstein:
I recently returned from a five-week tour with Damon & the Heathens, a six-piece punk-soul band from Oakland, California. It was a chaotic, disorganized, wonderful, amazing trip. I didn’t find the time to write much of anything during the tour, except for pages of messy, scribbled notes in a notebook I carried around in...