New Year’s Eve Rocque and Glam Slam!

Should auld acquaintance be forgot? Hell no! We should all get together and have a few cups o’ kindness ‘n’ glitter this New Year’s Eve! December 31 also happens to be Tad’s birthday, so things should be fairly festive. Meet us at Church of Boston for all of the merriment!

Our friends Gene Dante and The Future Starlets will kick the night off in sexy, glam-rock fashion at 9:15 pm. The Upper Crust will start melting your faces at 11:30 pm with their AC/DC-meets-18th-century-aristocratic-fops brand of ballz-out rawk. And right in between the two, at 10:15 pm, like the confetti ‘n’ lasers filling in a delicious rock ‘n’ roll sandwich, will be Sidewalk Driver.

Doors are at 8:00 pm, it’s 21+, and tickets are $20.00 in advance (get them here), $25.00 at the door. Here’s the Facebook event page. We promise to make it the best New Year’s Eve/Tad’s Birthday party EVER!

See you there!

Love,
Sidewalk Driver

London Calling!

We are beyond thrilled to announce that in January, we will be making our first trip across the pond! Yes, London is calling and who are we to ignore London? (Don’t worry – A.J. got his passport.)

While we’re there, we’ll spend a day at Dean Street Studios (David Bowie, T-Rex, Thin Lizzy, Duran Duran, Pink Floyd) with renowned producer Danton Supple (Coldplay, Starsailor, Kylie Minogue, Electric Soft Parade, The Doves). We’re incredibly excited to be able to spend a few hours with Danton and learn everything we can from him. We are fairly certain that we’ll all be besties by the end of the day.

We’ll visit the Tower of London, get cheese toasties, ride the Tube, and, oh yeah, play some shows!

On Friday, January 13, we’ll be at Camden’s legendary Dublin Castle (here’s the FB event page) and on Monday, January 16, at the Windmill Brixton. We’re still firming up a couple more shows and will keep you posted. Please tell all of your London friends! Remember, you can get show updates by signing up for our mailing list.

See you in Dear Old Blighty!

Love,
Sidewalk Driver

Dance This Mess Around!

Our new besties, The B-52s, are going to be in Boston next week and we get to rock (lobster) with them again!

We’ll be joining the legendary dance-rock party band for the Epilepsy Therapy Project benefit show at House of Blues Boston on Thursday, December 1, 2011. ETP was founded in 2002 by a small group of parents of children with epilepsy, physicians, and researchers whose mission is to accelerate new therapies for people with epilepsy and seizures.

You, our lucky fans, get to attend this awesome rock show, help out a wonderful cause, AND get a very generous $15 discount on each ticket, to (platform) boot! Just follow this ticket link, scroll down to the “Search for Tickets” section on the left, choose the number of tickets you’d like next to the “Sidewalk Driver” option and type “sidewalkdriver” into the code space thingy.

House of Blues with The B-52s, baby… That’s where it’s at!

Love,
Sidewalk Driver

This is Sidewalk Tap!

Saturday night, we’re gonna rock you, Saturday night!

Join us on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at Church of Boston, for we shall be performing several of the greatest hits from one of our favorite bands… SPINAL TAP!

‘Tis the rolling of the ocean and the rocking of the earth! We’ll go back in time to that mystic land! We’ll be bothering your livestock! We’ll play all of your favorites and make some eardrums bleed! Here’s the line up:

9pm Muy Cansado as Prince
10pm BrownBoot playing Revolver by The Beatles
11pm Sidewalk Driver as Spinal Tap
12am The Lights Out as Michael Jackson

But hey, enough of our yakkin’… whaddaya say? Let’s boogie!
18+ | FB event | $10 in advance, $12 at the door | TICKETS

Love,
Sidewalk Driver

RAWK LOBSTER!

Glitter on the boardwaaa-aaalk, glitter in the backstaaa-aaa-aaage, glitter on the front ro-ooow, glitter on Fred Schneideee-ERRRR! Yes, we are opening for The B-52s on Friday, September 30 at Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom.

“You’re WHAT?!”

Ahahaha! It has been an endless series of B-52s references this past week, to the delight of those around us! We are beyond excited that we will be rocking the supporting slot for one of the biggest dance-rock party bands of our time. What makes it even better is that we get to play Township‘s CD release show the following night at Brighton Music Hall! Thanks to our friend, booker-extraordinaire Randi Millman, for making both of these shows happen. Randi rules.

Too much awesome rock ‘n’ roll fun for one weekend? Perhaps… But we’ll take it!

Love,
Sidewalk Driver

Brighton Music Hall Blowout!

Hi, everybody!

Holy crap! It’s almost October 1. That means it’s almost time for us to join Township for their record release show at Brighton Music Hall. It’s no secret that we are in love with Township, what with their scrumptious riffs, soaring guitarmonies and glorious rock ‘n’ roll hair. Together, we shall rock the ever-loving bejeezus out of BMH.

Also on the bill are the Andrea Gillis Band and Trabants. That’s a whole lot of rock for only $10 in advance or $12 at the door (get tickets here or at the club)! Here’s the FB event page.

We haven’t played at 158 Brighton Avenue since it became Brighton Music Hall, so let’s pack the place, OK? We’ll have some new tunes for you and A.J. will make out with each of you after the show.

See you there!

Love,
Sidewalk Driver

Nun Fest Fun Fest!

While we are sad to see the summer coming to an end, we can’t wait for the third annual Red Nun Music Festival on Labor Day weekend!

Join us at the Red Nun in Chatham on Saturday, September 3 for a day of music, food, drinks and dancing! The day will be full of awesomely eclectic original, local music. We are thrilled that our friends Jordan Valentine & the Sunday Saints and Mellow Bravo will be making the trip from Boston to join us. And you definitely don’t want to miss The Incredible Casuals, Shango Axe, Funktapuss, Jeff Conley Band, The Skiffs, Sean Brennan and Dave Hickey! Here’s the FB event page.

Come and get some glittah in ya chowdah!

Love,
Sidewalk Driver

Extra, Extra! Exclusive EP!

Hi, everybody!

We are very excited for our big summer show at the Middle East Downstairs on Friday, July 29! To add to the excitement, we are offering those of you who buy tickets in advance an EXCLUSIVE acoustic EP! Download the preview track for $10 HERE and you will have a ticket to the show waiting for you at Will Call & your physical copy of the complete EP will be held for you at our merch table. Such a deal!

The EP will have a couple of fresh takes on old favorites, as well as some tasty new tunes. And you will be among only a handful of people to get this limited run EP. How thrilling! If you already bought presale tickets online via Ticketweb, just shoot us an email and we’ll set your EP aside.

Oh, and did we mention that the show at the Middle East Downstairs is packed to the gills with an eclectic mix of amazing local bands?

8:30 pm This Blue Heaven
9:15 pm Streight Angular
10:00 pm Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys
11:00 pm Sidewalk Driver
12:00 am Mellow Bravo

Holy crap, that’s a lot of rock/glam/indie/powerpop/steamcrunk/music! We will, naturally, arrive upon the back of our rock dragon. Our Pegasus will lead the way, merch bin in tow. We will pull out all the stops to make it the show of the summer and to rock you to your very core.

Here’s the FB event page!
7:30 pm doors
18+
$10 (buy your ticket directly through us and get the EP!)

See you there!

Love,
Sidewalk Driver

Party in Providence!

Hi, everybody!

We are thrilled to be joining our good friends, Township, for our first Providence show. Please join us on Friday, July 15 at Firehouse 13!

The hirsute fellows of Township always rock our Chucks ‘n’ sparkly platforms off! Also on the bill are Sun Gun (CD release) and The Rice Cakes. Doors are at 8pm, it’s an all ages show and the cover is a mere $7. Get yer tickets here! Here’s the FB event page.

Please spread the word to your Rhode Island friends!

Love,
Sidewalk Driver

Rapture Schmapture!

Tad wrote this song about the end of the world. Then we started hearing all of this hullabaloo about The Rapture, which is apparently scheduled for this Saturday. So, THEN we thought, “Hey! Let’s share our end of the world song with everybody before all the saved people get sucked up into outer space!” We gathered ’round the studio dinner table, acoustic guitars in hand, and here is the result:

If you are planning on being saved, please don’t forget to wear clean underwear on Saturday. The rest of us will have to do a lot of tidying up as it is…

Love,
Sidewalk Driver