Andy Sadoway

I am a musician living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Mayday Weekend

This past Friday, bentshapes opened for Descendents and King Tuff at the Sinclair as part of Converse’s week-long Rubber Tracks live festival in Boston.

Sunday Bent Shapes played at MayFair in Harvard Square.  It was very hot up there, the stage was made of chrome.  

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¡┴ONIפH┴¡ w/ Foreign Tongues, Makthaverskan (Sweden) @ The Middle East Upstairs. Early show, all-ages!

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Saturday 4.4 at Mill #5 in Lowell

This coming Saturday, Tommy and I will be playing a few sets of my songs and Babydriver songs.  We’re going to throw in a few covers as well.  Just 2 guys having a time.

We are playing as part of Thread & Groove II, which is a marketplace in an awesome old mill building, featuring vinyl and clothes vendors.  

The event goes from 12 PM to 6 PM, with me and Tommy playing around 5 PM.

Here is the Facebook event.

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show :: 3/21/15 @ The Gutter > Bent Shapes + Night Powers + Kindling + Decorum + DJ The Flag http://gimmetinnitus.com/2015/03/show-32115-the-gutter-bent-shapes-night-powers-kindling-decorum-dj-the-flag/

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This was about 2 weeks ago and it was very fun.

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A weekend at O'Brien's, 3.6 w/ TW Walsh, DigiPOW; 3.7 w/ Babydriver

Tomorrow, Friday March 6, I am playing with my full band at O'Brien's Pub in Allston.  I was able to convince TW Walsh that he needs to start playing full band shows again and he finally agreed.  I am very excited for tomorrow; I have tremendous respect for him as a songwriter, drummer, and engineer.  

Supriya aka Digital Prisoners Of War is also on the bill.  Tommy P of Babydriver will be doing double duty again, playing bass with her and guitar with me (thanks Tommy)

Tim and his band will start the night off at 9:30 PM.  21+, $6.  Check out my flyer above, I made it in SSMS, duh!

Saturday March 7 Babydriver is playing at O'Brien's.  I'm wondering if we can leave some gear at the club?  Stephen from Eternals asked me about playing there after a band dropped off the bill, so BBD is going to play as a 3 piece. 

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Tuesday 03.03.15 on WMBR's Pipeline 88.1 FM

Tonight I am playing some of my songs on WMBR (MIT Radio), 88.1 FM.  Jeff Breeze hosts a show called Pipeline! that features a lot of great local music.  I've played on the show a few times (with Spirit Kid, Girlfriends, and maybe the Sterns and Bent Shapes?)

Jeremy will be joining me, playing the Wurlitzer.  I'm going to see if I can get the TR-505 going too for a few songs.

The show goes from 8 PM - 10 PM, but I believe we "hit the stage" around 9 PM with an interview to follow.

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2.27 w/ Babydriver, 2.28 and 3.1 w/ Bent Shapes

Tomorrow night (Friday 2.27), I play my second show on bass with Babydriver.  It is at Audrey Ryan's loft in Union Square in Somerville.  Details as follows:

The Loft, 438 Somerville Ave #4, Somerville MA 

8pm- Audrey Ryan 9:00pm- Babydriver 10:00pm- American Echoes 11:00pm- F A G E T T E S USA

21+, $5-$10 suggested donation

I have heard really good things about this spot.  The picture above (stolen from the Facebook event) makes it look like a great space.

I think I went to an art sale in this room once before (or maybe another spot in this building).  I bought a drawing of a boy with very long arms, tangled in knots.  It was done with ink and white out, on a page ripped out of what looks to be an old trigonometry book. The piece spoke to me because it reminded me of all the times I have tried doing math.

Saturday 2.28 Bent Shapes is playing at O'Brien's.  We finished tracking our album earlier this month.  Elio at the Soul Shop tore through a ton of mixing last weekend, and it's more than halfway mixed.  

We are going to see if we can remember all these new songs and DELIVER them LIVE.  Very pop punky bill it seems.

Sunday 3.1 has Bent Shapes over at Spare Room Sessions to perform a song to be videotaped (we are going to do "New Starts In Old Dominion").  I'm pretty excited about this; Fitz Ross Productions, who runs the sessions, does an incredibly professional job with these.  The sound is great and the video is crisp.  I feel flattered that they are asking us to come by and perform.

We did one of these "in studio" performances for Tastemakers over at Northeastern this past fall and it was a lot of fun!  I got pretty sweaty under the hot lights, but we ate pumpkin donuts.

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2.18 w/ Babydriver @ Great Scott

Tonight I am playing my first show on bass in the band Babydriver.

I begged Tommy to let me join on bass, and he finally gave in!  PHEWWWWW!!!!

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Bent Shapes recording LP #2 this week!

Tonight Bent Shapes begins recording our second LP with Elio DeLuca at the Soul Shop!

What I am most excited about is that we are setting some boundaries for ourselves for this record.  I feel as though most people get excited about having endless possibilities in the studio, but I prefer having a finite set of choices.

For example, we are recording to 16 track 1” tape, purely analog.  While I like analog sounding recordings, I’m by no means a “purist” and wasn’t necessarily seeking out a studio that stayed clear of digital technology.  I am more excited by the fact that we only have 16 tracks and we are, once again, working with an experienced engineer.  I don’t like many mics on my drums and I tend to prefer more minimal guitars; in fact, I usually hate doubled rhythm track guitars (but I do love Jeff Lynne).  I think our method of recording this way will lend itself to these preferences.

I am very excited to work with Elio as well.  He recorded Stephen Konrads and his band Eternals and that’s what originally had me considering the Soul Shop.  Originally, Ben and I were looking at more “punk rock” studios: cheap day rates, simple production.  Many of these recordings had lots of open hi-hats, LOUD in the mix.  

Stephen’s music is very different than Bent Shapes, but I thought that it would be exciting to realize this LP with someone who tends to record a slightly different style.  It’s kind of like Bill Szymczyk and the Eagles: Bill didn’t record bands like the Eagles (well, he technically didn’t record bands at all, he worked in the Navy), but he was able to get the exact sounds they wanted, better than Glyn Johns could (and Glyn helped define their sound!).

Our goal is to work through 10 songs over the next 5 days, recording everything from drums, bass, guitars, vocals, keys, and maybe even a stringed instrument or trumpet (time permitting). 

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New flyer I did for a rad show comin’ up w/ my bestie andysadoway, Parks, and Stephen Konrad’s Eternals at Aeronaut Brewery. Gonna be a great time!

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Check out this siqq poster Ben made! "It's my life" - Jon Bon Jovi

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All these lovely people will be playing Ben’s Boston Hassle-backed birthday show with us at The Lilypad in a couple days!

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This is tonight!  Happy birthday, Ben!

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Tastemakers Magazine got some great video of us playing five of our newest offerings (LP recording starts next month!) a couple weeks back. We’re real proud of this new batch of songs and stoked to give you a preview here. Head over to Tastemakers’ YouTube page to see every song/video!

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Here is us Bent Shapes playing a couple songs that will be on the album we are recording in February.

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Last night's solo show at Zuzu

Thank you to the folks that came out to our show at Zuzu last night!  Extra special thanks to Tommy Palmer for doing triple duty, playing in all the bands, and helping to juggle so many of the logistics.

Here are some nice pictures that I stole from other people’s Instagram accounts!

Tommy, Dan, and Supriya = Digital Prisoners Of War (photo by Mary)

Avi, Me, Tuck, Tommy, and Jeremy = Andy Sadoway (photo by Mary)

me time (photo by Caroline)

Chris, Tommy, Tuck (and Jeremy, not pictured) = Babydriver

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Spirit Kid "Reunion Shows" 12.29 and 1.3

Emeen is back in town for the holiday time, so Spirit Kid is playing a few shows: 

Monday 12/29 @ ZuZu in Cambridge w/ Colleen Green and Beach Toys Saturday 1/3 @ Great Scott in Allston w/ the Fagettes, Rivergazer (fr. NY), and Hands & Knees.

He's a video of us spirited children from earlier this year playing "Too Good For #Winning", my favorite song that Emeen has written in recent years.

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12.27 solo show @ O'Brien's w/ BISON BISON, Look Sharp!, and others

(Bison Bison, stolen from Facebook)

Tonight I am playing solo (sans the full band) at O'Brien's in Allston for Bison Bison's (kind of annual) holiday throwdown.

Bison Bison was a staple in the metro west VFW hall scene when I was growing up.  Most notably they hosted their annual concert, Mollusk Fest.  I remember Sgt. Peterson & the Chicago Police or Formula 1 played one of them at the Ashland Fish & Game hall.  

Several years after the Mollusk Fest days, I met Tommy Majkut through a mutual friend and found out he was in Bison Bison.  What a pleasant surprise!  We became friends and I learned that he was a very talented video artist.  

He did a video for Don't Mind from my Str8 Sh00ter EP and before that did a video for Girlfriends - Eat Around The Bad Parts.

I believe I play before Look Sharp! tonight, who play right before Bison Bison.  Doors at 8 PM, so I'll probably be on around 9:30 PM.

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Allston Pudding Review of 12.8 @ Great Scott

Allston Pudding reviewed my concert on 12/8 at Great Scott w/ Exit Verse and Thalia Zedek; check it out here.  Thank you very much for coming out and sharing kind words, Becca!

I have noticed that many reviews have categorized my music as "beach-inspired" and I am curious to hear what beaches people are imagining when they listen.  I don't really imagine myself on the beach ever, I'm more of a cold weather New England kind of guy.  But I suppose if I had to choose a beach it would be in the Caribbean.  I would say that west coast beaches are more trendy these days, but I am a big fan of reggae so I would head south.

So which beaches are you referring to, reviewers?!?!

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Andy Lightning EP Release 12.19

Tonight, I am filling in on keys and guitar for Andy Lightning & The Storm for Andy's EP release.  The show is in Newburyport at the Grog (13 Middle St, Newburyport, MA).  We are on first 9:30 PM.  21+.

He posted the tunes just this morning, check them out:

Andy Lightning EP (Bandcamp)

I met Andy this past summer when he asked Spirit Kid to come play an outdoor concert in Methuen, which he had helped to organize.  I'm looking forward to playing with a new crew of musicians, it's fun to tickle the ivories and strum a guitar from time to time!