I was going through some boxes this weekend and unearthed a fat box of Dance Hall Crashers paraphaenalia from the Blue Plate Special era. I certainly don’t need 29 identical posters so I’ve put a crazy auction up on Ebay that includes:
18″x18″ Blue Plate Special Poster
4-page Blue Plate Special “Menu” (flyer)
First 20 people to pay after the auction closes get a sticker
Free USPS priority mail shipping in the US with a poster tube
All that for $10, shipped!
Now here’s the bonus. Everyone who buys one (I have 29 of these “packages” for sale) will be entered into a drawing for an autographed copy of the Blue Plate Special CD, signed by all 5 members of the band! There is only one of these CDs, so no guarantees, but your odds are pretty good at 1 in 29.
Update Aug 10th – Bidding is complete and 29 lucky winners have finished the auction. I will be out of town this weekend and will let people finish sending in their paypals/etc. I will ship Monday or Tuesday and post a note here when I do.
Update Aug 20th – All of the goods have been shipped and I’m happy to announce the winner of the CD auction is Simon Rhodes from Australia! He’ll be receiving his autographed CD in the mail soon. Thanks again to everyone who bid and to Julie and James for their patience and understanding.
If you’ve been living under a rock, YouTube.com is basically a giant video sharing site. Like Napster was for music, but somehow more legit. People have posted all of the DHC videos like this one for “Lost Again” (Flash required):
I dug out a handful of concert posters from my hard drive and google and other sources. They represent about %0.001 of all DHC shows since 1989. If you’ve got a poster to submit, please send me a picture to controller -at- dancehallcrashers -dot- com and I’ll get it added. Thanks!
John, a friend of the band who works at an ad agency here in San Francisco, graciously redesigned the site a couple of months ago. Lack of time on my part has prevented me from getting the new look up and online. I’m hoping this weekend is it… bear with me if the site is horribly, horribly broken as we go through some testing.
UPDATE – so the new design is mostly in place. It’s not yet perfect, and we have a neat jukebox we’ll be adding shortly. Bear with us while we get all of our ducks in a row.
UPDATE 2 – To encourage participation, I’m happy to report that you no longer need to register in order to leave a comment. I’ve enabled some anti-spam measures and assuming they work, commenting will be open to everyone. So try it – leave a comment!
We (the website people, not the band) have been hard at work on the discography, getting it in the right order and adding all of those crazy old and rare albums we can find info about. Big thanks to Ryan Kelley who after years and years is still a great guy willing to help out. Also a big thanks goes to Jeremy Patton who gave Ryan the oldest known DHC release, “Say Cheese“. More coming soon…
We’ve been really busy touring the antarctic suburbs for the past year since we made the DVD. It’s a little cold, but the people are super friendly on account of they’re crazy. People ask why we’re wasting our time down there when we could be playing NY, LA, Chicago, etc. Playing NY would be so obvious… so 2001. We got a letter from a fan in antarctica and he sounded crazy. At first we just put it in the crazy box along with the rest of those letters, but then we realized that he probably didn’t get enough sunlight and had gone off his rocker as a result. Then someone thought that because of where he sat on the pole he got way too much sunlight, and then we started arguing about it. We decided to go down ourselves and check because we all liked the idea of someone sitting on the pole.
Which brings us to the first quarter of 2006. It took us a minute to edit the DVD last summer because Karina and I had to edit out the thousands of bad shots of us. It’s interesting what camera guys can get when they’re in the pit filming up our skirts. We had a good time in the editing bay laughing at ourselves because for the past ten years we had imagined that we looked way cooler on stage. This is not the case. We are not cool at all . To top it off, when we were doing the commentary the first time around, Karina and I started arguing, which then escalated into a full
blown fight. The guys thought it was the funniest thing they had ever heard, but we decided to keep the first pass at the commentary to ourselves. It actually is the funniest thing we could ever release, but we burned all copies, so you will never know.
Now that the DVD is out, we have decided it’s probably time to finish those songs we claimed to be writing. We managed to play one at the show without blowing it, but we really should have finished them all a year ago when we started them, because we forgot a lot of the parts between then and now. I swear we will do it. We are almost done with a bunch of songs. We talked about putting them all together and making one long medley so that you couldn’t tell that they were missing a part. We will ask Fat Mike what he thinks of our Frankenrecord idea and get back to you.
