Fall Update 2018 - Some Potentially Bad Ideas & Upcoming Performances

I’m releasing some things this year!

(None of them are the thing that I intended on releasing this year, the visual album - which Fixing a Clock was the first single for...But that’ll be coming out next summer instead) 

The first release this year being the EP “Eternity in Hell is a Long Time” which I put out around a month ago.

I've got a lot of other dreams / audio journal things recorded...and maybe at some point I'll release another record of them if I feel like there's another collection of them that sort of fit together the way that those 5 on that EP did.  I also might make a separate soundcloud for just these recordings for folks who want to tune in...

I’m also going to release “God Bless America” (the track I mentioned on that EP which I decided not to put on it).  It's pretty ridiculous and probably more raw and unfiltered than anything I've ever recorded...which is why I initially decided to not release it...but watching the news has brought me to tears every day this week - & I still don't know what to do with myself about everything that's happening other than make music...so I'm currently finishing it up and I'll be putting it out on the interwebz once it's done.  

-here’s a super short preview: 

On a different note, for a while I've been writing on a bunch material that is about online dating / swiping apps.  My current plan is to invite every person I’ve ever met / messaged on swiping apps to a live show my where they will be the entire audience for it, and the video of that show will be the album.  I haven't decided if this is a bit too Cavehesque...but one way or another I'm planning on releasing this material at some point this year since if I wait too much longer swiping apps / dating through the internet will be all different and the material on the record won't make sense anymore...

A L S O  - I’m playing some shows coming up!

Two of which are this weekend!

The first is on Saturday at Webster Court - a house in Newton that is going to be demolished which they have opened up as an art installation / performance space before they do so.  I can't even begin to talk about how special this space is and all the amazing art that is there - but check out this rad video tour Krystle Brown made:

There's also some of the work from the project posted on the facebook event page & the instagram account.  I'll be starting my set at 8:25 and will be playing around 35 minutes.  The set this time around is darker than the one I played for the opening, but mirrors it at times.  I'll be playing some material that I haven't played in years that's been reworked and such. 

Then on Sunday afternoon I’ll be playing an acoustic set at Folked Up in Cambridge - the very first show at this venue hosted by Windowsill & Ashtray who just moved to the area from Hong Kong.  I'll be playing some material off "Eternity in Hell", "Just a Phase" and some other stuff as well.

More shows on the upcoming shows page (which I'll update as more get set up and such)

Much love,
<3
Mike Sim