DNFMOMD: Sophia's Year in Review

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Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling:


In July we recorded 3 songs with Mike Quinn at The Moontower (download them here!), and had a kick-ass photo shoot with Kelly Davidson. In August, we played our first real show on my birthday at The Middle East Upstairs, which was an amazing evening for me. We also played Church and finished out 2009 with a show at Harpers Ferry. In November, we shared our top 10 movies with a British underground film magazine, Electric Sheep Magazine. In December we were interviewed by them for a podcast that should be up shortly, also we were interviewed by SciFiPulse for their podcast that should air in January. At the end of December, we began work at The Moontower to record our next three songs.

Looking forward to 2010: We’ll be on WMFO’s On The Town on January 6th, we’ll be finishing up our first EP to be released this Spring. We’ll be opening up Mascara’s CD Release on January 29th, and playing with HUMANWINE and Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys in February, and shortly will be beginning preproduction on a music video to be released in the Summer.



Boston Band Crush:

I had a great time meeting tons of new bands and people this year through Boston Band Crush. Highlights include my SXSW and WBCN Rumble coverage (including talking about it on Boston Emissions with Anngelle Wood), interviewing Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes, and co-planning and executing our coming-out event, One Night Band.

Launch Over:

Mike and I started the groundwork on a Boston music licensing, publishing, strategy consulting and targeted marketing company that will be operational in 2010.

Personal Highlights:

I enjoyed trips to (vegan eating guides are linked): San Francisco, San Diego, & LA; Portland, OR and Seattle, WA; NYC; the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate NY, Maine, & North Carolina.

I got to spend two wonderful weekends with my adorable 1 year old niece – I’m hoping to be able to spend more time with her this year.

Saw more than 100 different local bands play (full list is forthcoming) and attended 18 The Motion Sick shows this year.

Had the privilege of experiencing Leonard Cohen in concert.

Had a ton of fun being an extra in Ad Frank’s music video for Winterthru – I’m excited to see the finished product!

The Motion Sick: The Motion Sick rocks New Year's Eve at Church Rock Club

Royal Rocking New Years Eve!!
11 PM - The Upper Crust
10 PM - The Gentlemen
9 PM - The Motion Sick

For the third year in a row Boston Rock Royalty returns TO CHURCH!!

Tickets are $20 Advance and $25 Day Of Show! So buy now as this ALWAYS sells out!





Press:
Playground Boston

DNFMOMD: DNFMOMD: Recording at The Moontower 12/27/09

Mike and Sophia took to the studio last weekend to record the songs:

Episode 4: The Chimes of Big Ben
Episode 9: A. B. and C.
and their Leonard Cohen cover, First We Take Manhattan

Working with the esteemed Mike Quinn, we cruised through the tracking and we'll be headed back in to finish mixing in early January.

Here are some photos:

The Motion Sick: The Motion Sick in the studios: Bopnique and The Moontower

We've been spending some of our holiday-season time visiting the studio to prepare our next recording.

First, we've been working on our cover of Golden Bloom's "Doomsday Devices" for our shared split 7" project. The artwork contest has just wrapped and we'll be announcing the winner and runners-up very soon.

Here we are doing a little "Doomsday Devices" at The Moontower in Cambridge, MA.

MORE PHOTOS AT http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=357381&id=23967955009&ref=mf

...and tracking for 4 songs at Bopnique with Anthony Resta, remixer extraordinaire of the "30 Lives (Up-Up-Down-Dance Mix)"
Watch Anthony J. Resta rock out for fun...

MORE PHOTOS AT: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=357387&id=23967955009&ref=mf

The Motion Sick: The Motion Sick celebrated Golden Bloom's Shawn Fogel's Birthday on 12/12!

We told you about our final show of the year - which may or may not be our final show of 2009...but more on that later...

Until then, here's some video from the 12/12 show celebrating a Golden Bloom birthday!

In order to celebrate our upcoming split 7", The Motion Sick was joined by Golden Bloom to perform "30 Lives" and Golden Bloom was joined by The Motion Sick to perform "Doomsday Devices"

"30 Lives"


"Doomsday Devices"


Claymation Velociraptor


Strange Rivals

The Motion Sick: Our last show of 2009 - 12/12 in Brooklyn and Happy Holidays from Patrick!

The Motion Sick says farewell to 2009 with our final show on 12/12 at Bar Matchless in Brooklyn with Golden Bloom, Claymation Velociraptor, and more... Details at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184696857755&ref=ts


We'll have one more update in the next few weeks to tell you what we're up to for 2010 (and it's a lot!), but until then, Patrick just really wanted to wish you happy holidays!

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The Motion Sick: Aquaman's Lament

We are still working on an updated version of our Ash Wednesday's Residency 4-song collection (poster from the event on the left).  One of the songs, "Aquaman's Lament" has been getting some notice lately.  We even had the honor of earning a friends of Aquaman certificate (below) for our inside perspective on one of Aquaman's down days.  We had the great honor of working with Leesa (of the band Naked on Roller Skates) to make the video for the song.


We've highlighted a few of the times Aquaman got into tangles with his fishy friends.  For anyone interested in a very extensive list of all of Aquaman's chat's, check out: http://www.comictreadmill.com/finny.php - from this, we've learned of great moments in Aquaman's adventures where he: convinced crabs to pinch the toes of Fire Trolls to distract them, got a giant clam to chomp on and crush magic gem, made eels form into a lasso, got some flying fish to drop a seaweed net onto pirates, requested that a shark bypassed eating a delicious-looking Flash, and got a whale to wear an alien land creature costume to trick them.  Ah, the joys of Aquaman.

Some press coverage of the song and video:
http://ryanssmashinglife.blogspot.com/2009/12/video-for-motion-sicks-aquamans-lament.html
http://www.interney.net/blogs/melhoresdomundo/2009/12/07/swingueira_do_aquaman/

http://www.bostonbandcrush.org/2009/09/music-video-crush-aquamans-lament-by.html

http://comicsblips.dailyradar.com/video/the-motion-sick-aquaman/

http://www.nunoxei.com/LOAH/2009/10/14/aquamans-lament-by-the-motion-sick/

http://www.aquamanshrine.com/2009/10/aquamans-lament.html

http://livingbetweenwednesdays.com/?p=2551

http://ciudadanopop.blogspot.com/2009/10/el-lamento-de-aquaman.html

http://comicsalltooreal.blogspot.com/2009/10/aquaman-can-talk-to-some-fish.html

http://comicsmakenosense.blogspot.com/2009/10/pg-13-tuesday.html

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/the_comics_reporter_video_parade100309/

http://butbeforeikillyou.blogspot.com/2009/10/look-its-sound.html

http://www.thedollarbin.net/quick-hits/aquamans-lament.html

http://www.rogdykker.com/iss-mailbag-aquamans-lament and http://www.the-iss.com/2009/10/iss_mailbag_aquamans_lament.php

http://onceuponageek.com/2009/10/01/aquamans-lament/

http://thedcuniverse.blogspot.com/2009/09/aquamans-lament.html