Farewell Typewriter

See us play, help Haiti

2010-01-22T21:07:00.000-08:00

We'll post some more details about both of our upcoming shows soon, but we wanted to let you know that if you come to see us play at Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco Feb. 12, 25 percent of the ticket price goes to Doctors Without Borders, who are helping Haitians who are obviously in need of serious medical care in the wake of the Jan. 12. earthquake.

Additionally, we'll be giving out free CDs with any donation made to DWB, and T-shirts for any donation over $15. We're a struggling band, but there are folks who need your money A LOT more than us.

More details about our February shows, as always, on our shows page.

In which Stephen bashes a cymbal

2009-12-11T14:18:00.000-08:00

We had a fabulous time at the Great American Music Hall on Wednesday. Check out our opening song, "Better Things To Do."

Last show of the year at Great American Music Hall!

2009-12-07T16:41:00.001-08:00

As you're probably aware, we've almost reached the end of 2009. And with it, the last show of the year is upon us this Wed., Dec. 9. In fact, this will be the last show of ours for a couple of months, as Steve goes on high baby alert due to the impending birth of his first child. It's also a very important show for us for the following reasons:

1. It's at the Great American Music Hall, one of San Francisco's oldest and finest venues.
2. It's a benefit for Music in Schools Today, which is a cause we feel is important.
3. Did we mention: the Great American Music Hall?!?!

Buy tickets here (this link gives you a $5 discount on the VIP and "huge fan" tickets) before noon on Wed., Dec. 9. Hope to see you there.

Wed. Dec. 9, 2009 @ 7 p.m.
Silicon Valley Rocks (a benefit for MuST)
Great American Music Hall
859 O'Farrell St.
San Francisco, CA
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$15 / $30 / $70 (buy tickets)

Tonight: Music, comedy & burlesque @ Elbo Room

2009-12-02T11:39:00.000-08:00

Tonight, we play with our friends The Actors at the lovely Elbo Room in San Francisco. Phil from The Actors has put together a great show, with headliner Mass Fiction as well as the comedy of Lauren Siegal and the burlesque act Cheese Puffs. This is our second-to-last show for a while (babies, etc.) and is right in the heart of the Mission. We'll play 10 percent harder tonight to make it worth your while to come out.

Next week, we close out the year with a show at Great American Music Hall. While we hope to return there this may be your only opportunity to see us at such a beautiful, historic venue. It's the Silicon Valley Rocks show, a benefit for Music in Schools Today, so get your discount tickets here and check us and some other great Bay Area bands.

Also check out this interview we did for SV Rocks' blog: "Farewell Typewriter: Musicians. Artists. Barbers." It's all true.

Wed. Dec. 2 @ 9 p.m.
w/Mass Fiction & The Actors
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
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21+
$6

Vodka + Farewell Typewriter = who needs to go to work Monday?

2009-11-18T14:28:00.001-08:00

When our friends at St. George Spirits (makers of Hangar One Vodka) in Alameda invited us to play at their annual holiday party, we said, "Are you sure?" But then we said, "yes." This gig will be a little different – it's an open house, so there's food, booze and we'll be playing a lot of covers, mostly from that most glittery of decades, the 1980s. There will be Spandex.

The open house takes place from 1 - 6 p.m. this Sat., Nov. 21 at the distillery, though we don't play until about 3:30 p.m. (guitarist John Clarke will play before us). Tickets are $40 in advance or $50 at the door (call the number below for tickets) and will be worth every penny.

We've got a couple of gigs coming up in December that you won't want to miss, either: Elbo Room Dec. 2 and Dec. 9 at Great American Music Hall. More about those in a bit. Also some photos from our recording sessions in Sacramento, and more exciting surprises (hint: Steve naked).

Sat. Nov. 21, 2009 from 1-6 p.m.
St. George Spirits
2601 Monarch Ave.
Alameda, CA 94501
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$40 advance or $50 @ door
Call (510) 864-0635 for advance tickets

Recording...

2009-10-01T11:04:00.000-07:00

Recording was rad... Stay tuned for new songs.

Also, come see us at Cafe Du Nord on October 25th. It's going to be a fun time, I promise.

Starry Plough and more...

2009-09-02T13:16:00.000-07:00

Hey if any of you missed us at The Starry Plough last weekend, then you should know that you missed something special and that you should cry. We played with out Audie, our favorite tambourine player. So the three remaining members went punk rock. We played fast, loud and out of control.

The place was packed, as most of our shows are. It smelled like The Starry Plough, which is good and the people there were fun to be around.

Other news... We just landed a couple big shows. We will be returning to Evergreen Lodge in Yosemite on November 14th. If you want a vacation and you have always dreamed of going away with Farewell Typewriter, this is your chance.

AND... We will be back at Cafe Du Nord on October 25th. Playing with The Disciplines Featuring Ken Stringfellow of the Posies.

We are also recording our new record next week and partying hard forever.

Have fun!

Elbo Room TONIGHT!

2009-08-10T09:51:00.000-07:00

We're having a great summer, having recently played in Yosemite, and a couple days ago in Sacramento, and we're totally excited to be playing Elbo Room again, tonight! That and it's with our friends All My Pretty Ones (who rock the vocal harmonies like no other) and our new friends The Phantom Kicks - this is going to be a memorable show. Last time when we played a Monday show it was a blast - this time it's summer so we're planning for a definite repeat of that kind of energy...if you're going to be in San Francisco, or would like to be; whether it's to escape because Monday ruined your weekend, or because Monday is your weekend - forget school, forget work, think summer and come on out and party with us!

Farewell Typewriter with Phantom Kicks and All My Pretty Ones
Elbo Room

647 Valencia

San Francisco, CA

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9 PM | 21+ | $5
(and $2 drink specials! woot!)

See you tonight!

Yosemite

2009-07-20T09:31:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, we just got back from out weekend getaway in Yosemite. We stayed and played at Evergreen Lodge. It was an average of 103 degrees the whole weekend, which made hiking and biking a sweaty good time. Out door ping pong at midnight was rad and the food was really really good. (I had Venison... it's like eating Bambi).

We played on Saturday night to a packed crowd, mostly dancing and screaming girls. Show started at 10, we played 3 sets ending sometime after 1 AM. We mixed our original songs in with a bunch of cover tunes including... Toxic, Maneater, I Saw Her Standing There, Mr. Brightside, Whip It, and many more.

We will probably be playing up there at Evergreen again next fall. Hopefully you can all join us next time, it's like a non stop party up there.

Cafe Du Nord

2009-07-08T10:08:00.001-07:00

Hey, thanks to all of you that came out to support us and hear some great music at Cafe Du Nord. The other bands we played with were really cool, All My Pretty Ones and Miniature Tigers. We highly recommend checking both of those bands out in the future.

If you have never been to Cafe Du Nord, then you are missing out – it's a great place to see a show. The bands that play there are good, the vibe is great and it's on the basement level of the street.

Anyhow...thanks for coming out to the show. Check out the other bands' websites:

All My Pretty Ones

Miniature Tigers

See you at the next one.

FT on the Radio!! 90.1 FM

2009-05-26T12:47:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, stay home Wednesday night the 27th, watch some TV, cook dinner... Then at 9, turn on the radio to 90.1 FM. Farewell Typewriter would like to fill your house with music and entertain your whole family.

If you can't seem to get that station in your area, don't worry. You can stream the show online at:

http://kzsulive.stanford.edu/

Enjoy the show.

Also, don't forget to check us out at Bottom of the Hill on June 11th. We will be playing with Love Is All, from Sweden.

Bottom of the Hill
June 11th, 9:00
ALL AGES
$12 in advance, $14 at the door

To purchase tickets in advance, in case it sells out, go to:

www.stubmatic.com/bottomofthehill/event/811

Ok, see you later.

FT

Berkeley 5/14, SF 5/16

2009-05-11T21:11:00.000-07:00

We'll be returning to Berkeley this Thursday, May 14 for a show at The Starry Plough, a great little pub on Shattuck, to play with Boy in the Bubble and ~~The Clarences~~ Kid With Katana. Show is $7, 21+ and starts at 9 p.m. We're excited about this show and want you to join us for a pint and a good night of rock music. That sounds really corny but it's true.

We're also playing a show at House of Shields in San Francisco on Saturday, May 16 with Leilujh and Jon Garcia. This show is $5, 21+ and also starts at 9 p.m.

Bottom of the Hill

2009-04-29T12:23:00.000-07:00

OMG... Thank you so much to all the people that attended our Bottom of the Hill show. It was one of our best shows. The place was packed, people were dancing, screaming, cheering, crying, dancing more, yelling, drinking, crying again, dancing faster, talking, hollering... Well, people were just doing stuff.

If you missed it, you can see the videos online.

Next show is at Starry Plough in Berkeley, on May 14th. Try to come see us and bring a friend.

May 14th @ Starry Plough
3101 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA

21+, 9 PM, $7

Last song from Bottom of the Hill. Song is called Patience.

Off to Potrero we go...

2009-03-25T10:52:00.000-07:00

Happy end of March! wait....that's not a holiday? Happy spring then! We've been super-busy working out tons of new material for a show in Yosemite at the Evergreen Lodge in July. We're very excited - and we get to play a ton of our favorite songs and go camping all in the same weekend. We're equally stoked about our fast approaching ALL AGES show at Bottom of the Hill in SF April 21st @ 9pm (for you early sleepers, we're on first!). They have food and pool if you want to get there early, and it was voted Best Rock Club by the SF Guardian for 4 years running. Never been? We may pull out some re-arrangements of songs of ours you already know...or maybe we'll have something new...? Regardless, it'll be a great show.

Tues., Apr. 21 @ 9 p.m.
Farewell Typewriter, Moneybrother, Franz Nicolay
Bottom Of The Hill
1233 17th St. (17th @ Missouri)
San Francisco, CA 94107
All ages
$8

Oakland 2/18, this time for real

2009-02-18T10:01:00.000-08:00

We're playing a make-up show for our canceled January gig at The Uptown in Oakland tonight. The Uptown is a great venue with a killer bar, and this show is FREE! Come hang out for our first fully-electric show of the year.

Wed., Feb. 18 @ 9:30 p.m.
Farewell Typewriter, Sun House, Walty
The Uptown
1928 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, CA
21+
FREE

On the radio

2009-02-07T15:48:00.000-08:00

Farewell Typewriter makes its live radio debut TONIGHT on Pirate Cat Radio, 87.9 FM in San Francisco. You can listen on the radio, online, or come to the cafe and see our acoustic performance in person.

It will be a fun night, a fun set, and the host will be interviewing us, too, so you'll learn more than you could ever care to know about your favorite band.

Sat., Feb. 7 @ 7 p.m.
Pirate Cat Cafe & Studio
87.9 FM or online
2781 21st St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
All ages
FREE

What a Riot!

2009-01-08T18:20:00.000-08:00

Well, the show last night with Farewell Typewriter was closed due to rioting one block from the club. We got down to the Uptown and the employees had just decided to close the club. Probably better for everyone since the rioters were setting cars on fire, breaking windows, and causing a real scene.

Farewell Typewriter is not in the business of playing dangerous shows. Nor do we like to endanger our fans.

Since we didn't get to play, we invited anyone going to the show over to The Fireside Lounge in Alameda. (plenty far from the riot) That was a blast, not as good as playing a live show, but still fun. There were a ton of people that followed us there, we played pool, had some drinks and hung out.

Looks like the show will be rescheduled for Feb. 18th, hopefully you can all make it.

Here's a video of the riot: http://www.wikio.com/video/749830

Happy holidays

2008-11-30T13:49:00.000-08:00

We're late on wishing you a happy Thanksgiving, but may the rest of the winter season be filled with warmth, family, friends, and most importantly, rock.

Love,
Grant, Steve, Jason & Audie

Tonight in San Francisco

2008-11-08T16:42:00.000-08:00

Come see us rejoin our friends Hey Young Believer at Kimo's in San Francisco. We aren't making any promises, but there's always a chance this could be our first shirtless show.

Sat., Nov. 8 @ 9 p.m.
Gravy Trainwreck, Juanita and the Rabbit, Hey Young Believer, and Farewell Typewriter
Kimo's
1351 Polk St.
San Francisco, CA 94109
21+
$5

This Friday, 10/17 in San Jose

2008-10-15T12:29:00.000-07:00

Those of you in the South Bay (and perhaps even those of you in other parts of the Bay with working automobiles) have a chance to see us at the fabulous South First Billiards in San Jose again this weekend. We're playing with New Agents and Powder Train, and the last show we played at S. 1st was one of our best, according to totally non-biased people in the crowd.

As always, we're working on new songs, including some new covers that might please you, so come out and see another unique Farewell Typewriter experience.

Friday, Oct. 17 @ 10 p.m.
Powder Train, Farewell Typewriter, New Agents
South First Billiards
420 S. 1st St.
San Jose, CA
FREE
21+

Fulfilling your dreams

2008-09-10T11:08:00.000-07:00

We know that every waking moment of your day is spent wondering when you'll get to see Farewell Typewriter again, so here's our schedule for the rest of the month. It includes a rare Peninsula-area show on 9/18 and a San Francisco show on 9/29 with two friends' bands: Shayna and the Bulldog (their San Francisco debut!) and Hey Young Believer.

Thurs., Sept. 18 @ 7:30 p.m.
Red Sunday, Farewell Typewriter & metabear
Zen Lounge
251 Castro St.
Mountain View, CA
Doors @ 7 p.m.
21+
$7

Mon., Sept. 29 @ 9 p.m.
Man/Miracle, Hey Young Believer, Farewell Typewriter & Shayna and the Bulldog
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
21+
$5

SF, we missed you

2008-08-11T13:16:00.000-07:00

Has it really been three months since we played in San Francisco? Jeez. Well, fret not, my pets, because we'll return Tuesday, Aug. 12 to the city that never sleeps. Wait, that's a different city. The city where everyone smokes pot and you can't ever find a parking spot and liberal commies run everything? Is that San Francisco's catch phrase?

In any case, we're playing there for what might be the only time this month tomorrow night, at the Rockit Room in the Richmond district. We're headlining Tuesday night's installment of the International Pop Overthrow festival, a multi-city showcase with events in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Portland, Liverpool and more. It will be fun. We will make it so.

Tues., Aug. 12 @ 8 p.m.
International Pop Overthrow
feat. Farewell Typewriter, The Onlymen, The Clarences & more
Rockit Room
406 Clement St.
San Francisco, CA 94118
21+
$8

All upcoming shows:
8/12 @ Rockit Room, San Francisco, CA ($8 / 21+)
9/18 @ Zen Lounge, Mountain View ($TBD / 21+)
9/29 @ Elbo Room, San Francisco ($5 / 21+)

Two San Jose shows: 7/26 & 8/1

2008-07-24T14:02:00.000-07:00

We're gracing San Jose with our presence twice in the next couple of weeks. The first of these shows is Sat., July 26 at the Britannia Arms Cupertino (technically in San Jose) and the second is Fri., Aug. 1 at South First Billiards.

We're headlining the Brit show, so we'll be on relatively late (midnight-ish) and quite possibly intoxicated. This could be interesting.

The Aug. 1 show is unique: local artist and friend-of-a-friend Lacey Bryant will be painting live while we play. Sounds strange and wonderful.

We shall return to San Francisco and other regions in August and beyond...

Saturday, July 26 @ 8:30 p.m.
Farewell Typewriter w/FIRME, Ground in Gray, Whiskey State, Almost Honest & Andrea Hamilton
Britannia Arms Cupertino
1087 S De Anza Blvd.
San Jose, CA 95129
$5
21+

Friday, Aug. 1 @ 8 p.m.
"OH SHEET!" art reception w/ Tree House City, Farewell Typewriter, Deathhat
South First Billiards
420 S 1st St
San Jose, CA 95113
FREE
21+

End radio silence

2008-07-07T17:46:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been quiet around here the last month or so. Between out-of-state gigs with other bands, Hawaiian vacations, and ankle/foot injuries, we didn't rehearse much in June, let alone play any shows. But now we're back in action with a few shows on the calendar that should pique your interest.

We're playing this Friday, July 11 at Red House in Walnut Creek with Phoenix Ash (it's their CD release). This show is all ages and relatively early – it starts at 7:30 p.m. and we'll go on around 9 p.m. We've got some tickets to pre-sell, so contact us at info at farewell typewriter dot you-know-what to get tickets. There will be a limited number of admissions at the door.

Friday, July 11 @ 7:30 p.m.
Red House
1667 Botelho Dr. (in the Palm Court Shopping Center near Petco)
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
$10 adv/door
All ages

Other upcoming shows in San Jose and San Francisco below. Hope to see you there:

7/11 @ Red House, Walnut Creek ($10 / all ages)
7/26 @ Britannia Arms Cupertino, San Jose ($5 / 21+)
8/1 @ South First Billiards, San Jose (FREE / 21+)
8/12 @ Rockit Room, San Francisco ($8 / 21+)

Free all ages show at Stanford this Thursday, 5/29

2008-05-27T14:45:00.000-07:00

Well, we didn't advance past the third round of the Emergenza Festival, but that's okay with us. Thanks to all of you who've come out to support us at these (and other) shows. Back to business now.

We're playing what ~~we are 99 percent sure is~~ is definitely a free, all-ages show this Thursday on the Stanford University campus. This should be a fun one because we'll get a little bit longer set than you may be used to and you can purchase and eat a crepe while we play.

Thursday, May 29 @ 8 p.m.
The Axe & Palm at Old Union
520 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Free
All ages
map

Directions to the Old Union (adapted from this page):
Old Union is located across from the Stanford Bookstore and near Tressider (the student union). The best bet for parking is the Tresidder lot.
From Campus Drive East, turn onto Mayfield (The Row) toward campus.
If you're coming from Junipero-Serra/I-280, you want to turn left onto Mayfield and if you're coming from El Camino Real, then you should turn right.
Mayfield will make a left, and then take an immediate right onto Lagunita Drive.
Parking will be to your right, and Old Union is straight ahead through White Plaza.