A week after an ice stormed knocked out power to half the state, the first big snowstorm of the season hit us on the night of our last show for the year, a one song performance at WCYY’s “Home for the Holidaze” at the Big Easy. Mark Curdo from WCYY kept texting all the participants [ More ]
Based on the strength of our performance at Mark Curdo’s Spinal Tap tribute show, Robin Ivy (WCYY’s morning gal) asked us to perform unplugged on the air as a promo for the WCYY “Home for the Holidaze” show at the Big Easy, where local bands all play holiday songs. Unfortunately, the song that the band [ More ]
w/Red Cross Sky BBA has never played at The Bridge Street Taven before, but I had gone to check out the venue when we booked the gig. The joint turned out to be a neighborhood bar, but a really clean nice one with a very friendly and local-music enthusiastic staff. The patronage was diverse – regular [ More ]
Mark Curdo, who is a DJ on WCYY-FM (Portland’s primary modern rock radio station) called us a month or so ago and asked if we wanted to be involved in his pet project, a Spinal Tap tribute show involving all local bands. In particular, he wanted us to perform the one song on the disc [ More ]
Last time we performed on WMPG was three years ago right after “Eternally” came out. we had intended to perform in Sept 2007 but Cruella’s breast cancer got in the way of that, so a year later we made good on the original plan. Unfortunately, this time around the broadcast was fraught with technical problems [ More ]
w/Manwitch, The Hot Tarts Unlike the WMPG performance, The show at Geno’s totally crushed. The Shondes dropped off the bill last minute, which was disappointing from a musical standpoint, but a bit relieving from a logistical standpoint, so everything ran a lot smoother. Cruella’s decorations were by far the best and creepiest I have seen her [ More ]
w/ Heart Shaped Rock, The Hot Tarts, Lead Stiletto Since our last show was such a disappointment – we walked out on it without playing – the band was in a bit of a down mood about this show. Fools that we were for thinking that, because it turned out great! Great as in the best [ More ]
w/Red Cross Sky Well, the best way to sum up this show was that it is the only one in the history of By Blood Alone where we walked out on the gig without playing. It’s only the second time I have done it in my career, and only the third time in Runtt’s, and we [ More ]
w/ Ghosthunter, Pigboat We had not played in Lewiston in over a year, and were a bit surprised to find they missed us! As we hung around outside the bar before our set, some fans came up to us and exclaimed “did we miss you? did we miss you?”. We assured them they had not and [ More ]
w/ The Project Seven, Big Coffin Hunters, Thrown from the Womb The Project Seven asked us to perform with 3 other bands as well as themselves. Over the course of a few weeks, those three other bands all dropped off the bill (one of whom dropped off that evening), and were replaced by Big Coffin Hunters [ More ]
w/ Eternal Embrace, Mornalir, Forever’s Fallen Grace Runtt states time and time again (and the rest of us completely agree) that we do not fit in with the scene we normally play in. The fact is there is no other progressive/gothic rock band in Maine, and we usually stick out like a sore thumb on a [ More ]
w/ ManWitch What a difference seven months make: at our last show in Oct, the future seemed so unsteady. Now, it’s looking brighter than ever. Cruella has been back at rehearsal with us for a few months now, and her breast cancer battle seems so in the past. We have 5 new songs, and considering how [ More ]