THURSDAY!~

another one with deadly syndrome. these guys slay, don't miss it. and of course, PANDA !!! requires no introduction.

...and thanks again to everyone for coming to the echo. we'll be back soon!

-the morning benders

LA..

we're coming to you! we'll be playing at THE ECHO this Saturday, that's the 8th... with a pretty sweet band known as The Deadly Syndrome. this is a release show for their new CD, which i hear is amazing. check some of their stuff out here:

The show starts at 7:30, and we recommend you get there on time, it will sell out early.

www.myspace.com/thedeadlysyndrome




Update: Show is FREE for 21+.. $5 for the rest. Still All Ages welcome.

click here to buy tickets: ticketweb link

we play 2nd. see you there.

venue info:
http://www.attheecho.com/

city in the smoggggggggggg,
the morning benders

funtimes, dp sings

thanks for coming out to our show at bottom of the hill the other night. sorry to those who were turned away, that's the one downside to sold out shows.... seriously, we hate not being able to get everyone in. thanks so much to oh no oh my! and au revoir simone for playing with us. on top of being awesome bands, they were all super cool and friendly. check those dudes/dudettes out if you haven't already

soooo.. here's a picture our friend adrian took:



a couple of our friends took pictures, but we haven't gotten them all back yet. we'll post more pictures once we receive them.

here's a video clip of a new song:


..and a bonus video of dp singing an oldie but goodie!



in other news, our next 2 shows are up on the space. the first one is @

THE ECHO in LA on september 8th, a saturday. this is ALL AGES, unlike our last couple shows in LA. hope to see all you kids out there.

the next show in the bay area is september 13, a thursday, at du nord. this show is also all ages. we are headlining this one, and expect all you kids to be out there.

both shows will be with the deadly syndrome, a sweet band from LA. i just heard them for the first time a couple weeks ago and was thoroughly impressed.

check them out here: www.myspace.com/thedeadlysyndrome

here's the amazing flier:

THE BIG APPLE AND BACK (TO OTOWN)

as you all know, we've been very busy making a record. in fact, we just got back from NY where we were putting on some finishing touches. we've been so busy actually that we had no time to make a real poster for our show next weekend, and had to steal this one off the internet. pretty silly looking, but hey, it's got han solo on it...



buy tickets for that one on ticketweb if you want to come, they seem to be selling pretty quickly. we play at 9:00 pm. all ages!

we've been busy practicing, a bunch of new songs, and newified old ones. here's a couple videos from our practice space. the first is a clip from the guitar'd out version of 'last today.' the second one is a new song (or about the first 1/3 of a new song) off the new record called 'waiting for a war.' sorry they are so dark, they don't have lights in oakland. well, they have christmas lights. ENJOY!

DON'T CALL IT A COME BACK

Hey duders/duderettes,

A quickie update...

Everyone is finally back, which means we'll be doing lots of cool stuff again.
-Joe is back from Europe probably sleeping.
-DP is back from Colorado.

We are going to New York early August to master the record.

We will be playing shows again in August, the first of which is August 24th at Bottom Of The Hill w/ Au Revoir Simone and Oh No Oh My! Yeeeeeaa.

New music and more exciting news coming soon!!!!!

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Julian and I have been holding it down in the bay. This weekend we went to the Ratatat show, you can see how much fun we had:







see any trends here?

more pics:
http://www.severegentlemen.com/

phil spector and the ronettes !!!

hello friends,

we've got a new cover for you, it's an old phil spector song, as performed by the ronettes, as performed by the morning benders. hope you like it.

the morning benders - why don't they let us fall in love (cover)



in other news:

-our first record will be mixed / mastered soon.

-we played a show on tuesday with two awesome bands you should check out if you haven't already, the rosebuds and land of talk. the rosebuds invited us to play that show, and we couldn't have had a better time. everyone was so rad. it was our first time playing the great american in sf - great night all around. thanks to all the local kids for showing up early!

-the next day we drove down to LA to play a show at spaceland with white rabbits. i hadn't heard much of them besides a couple things online, and they blew me away. been listening to their cd a ton. check them out here: myspace.com/whiterabbits

bueno

We played a few shows over the last few weeks. i don't have any photographs but i drew a picture of what they looked like:






now i think i'm going to europe for a month and we're taking a little hiatus but Chris and maybe some others might play some sort of acoustic shows in the meantime that will be real fun and hopefully they will post some more covers too that everyone will like lots. i'll try to post from other countries and tell people about france or spain because i'm sure they're really interesting places and nice too.

xoxoxo

joe