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GTG Fest 2022 Artist Sampler
Posted in A Rueful Noise, Drinking Mercury, GTG Fest, GTG Records, Harborcoat, Lansing, Narc Out the Reds, No Skull, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals, The Stick Arounds, The Wild Honey Collective
Tagged DIY, GTG Fest, GTG Fest 2022, GTG Fest XV, GTG Records, Lansing, Michigan Music Scene, The Avenue Cafe
GTG FEST 2022!
GTG Fest XV! Oh man…
GTG Fest 2022:
October 21&22 in Lansing, MI
A celebration of DIY music and community curated by GTG Records.
OCT 21, DOORS AT 8, $5 COVER:
8:15-9:30 Wild Honey and Friends
(feat. Harborcoat, Drinking Mercury)
9:30-10:00 Little Things
10:00-10:30 No Skull
10:30-11:00 The Quirk
11:00-11:30 Cutlass Supreme
11:30-12:00 She/Her/Hers
12:00-12:30 The Stick Arounds
12:30-1:00 The Hunky Newcomers
OCT 22, DOORS AT 8, $5 COVER:
8:30-9:00 LoLo / Hattie Plural
9:00-9:30 Cameo Headlands
9:30-10:00 Narc Out The Reds
10:00-10:30 Sweet Pea
10:30-11:00 Lazy Genius
11:00-11:30 Ladyship Warship
11:30-12:00 A Rueful Noise
12:00-12:30 The Plurals
12:30-1:00 The Jackpine Snag
Posted in A Rueful Noise, Drinking Mercury, GTG Activity, GTG Fest, GTG Records, Harborcoat, Lansing, Narc Out the Reds, No Skull, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals, The Stick Arounds, The Wild Honey Collective
Tagged DIY, Don Giovanni Records, Fucking Awesome, Fun, GTG Fest, GTG Fest 2022, GTG Fest XV, GTG Records, Lansing, Lansing Music Scene, Madlantis Records, party, Punk, She/Her/Hers Band, Silver Maple Kill Records, The Avenue Cafe, The Plurals, Wow
July 2022
The obvious lead thought here is that The Wild Honey Collective Volume 2 is now available digitally and on CD. I’ve been chipping away at this project since LAST July so it looks like I need to find a new hobby. Or, a new volume. Check it out on all the streaming platforms – vinyl pre-orders are still happening too, fingers crossed our September projection for that release holds up. We’re celebrating the release of the new album with a few things this month, starting with a 6:45 set TONIGHT at Smiling Acres Music Festival in Trufant, MI. Then we’ll be all the wau up (UP) in Copper Harbor, MI later this month, before a certified weird GTG Revue tour will take a few Wild Honey folks and a few Harborcoat folks on the road at the end of the month. But, that’s later. Let’s check out the general show calendar for all the GTG-ers this July:7/1 – The Wild Honey Collective @ Smiling Acres Music Festival (Trufant, MI)
7/4 – Jeremy Porter & The Tucos @ Michigan Rib Fest (Lake Orion, MI)
7/7 – Jeremy Porter & The Tucos @ 11 Mile Sessions Live (Royal Oak, MI) Live audio/video webcast 6-8PM EST
7/8 – A Rueful Noise @ The Old Miami (Detroit, MI)
7/21 – The Wild Honey Collective @ Concert In The Park (Copper Harbor, MI)
7/22 – Jeremy Porter & The Tucos @ Short`s Brewing Company (Bellaire, MI)
7/22 – Narc Out The Reds @ The Avenue (Lansing, MI)
7/23 – Jeremy Porter & The Tucos @ The Workshop Brewing (Traverse City, MI)
7/26 – Cavalcade @ Sanctuary (Detroit, MI) w/ Cave In
7/29 – Erotic Novels @ The Saint (Asbury Park, NJ)
7/29 – A Rueful Noise @ The Avenue (Lansing)
Not bad for a mid-summer run! So, as mentioned above, at the end of the month we’ll be doing The Wild Honey Collective Featuring Harborcoat Tour 2022, following the lead of the run we did last fall with Jeremy Porter. For this tour Tommy (me), Danielle (my wife), and Adam (my Aymor) will be joining up with Matt and Joel from Harborcoat and whoever else gets in the van to do a revue and supergroup through the Midwest and up to New England. Matt will do some songs solo, we’ll back him up, he’ll play some songs with us, we’ll do some string band stuff, some electrified stuff, on and on it goes:
The Wild Honey Collective Featuring Harborcoat Tour 2022
7/25 – Cleveland, OH @ Medieval Pub
7/26 – Syracuse, NY @ House Show
7/27 – Troy, NY @ Troy Speakeasy
7/28 – Portland, ME @ Blue
7/29 – Searsmont, ME @ Threshers Brewing
7/30 – Brattleboro, VT @ River Garden Marketplace
7/31 – New City, NY @ District 96
Summer tourin! We love New York (state)! Looking forward to it very much…
In other news, Narc Out The Reds is on track for a fall release, Bank Of America is set to begin album recording sessions this month, Cavalcade is havin’ at it, A Rueful Noise will have their debut 7-inch out in August, and Jeremy Porter and the Tucos will hopefully have their latest 7-inch out by year’s end. And…
GTG Fest is October 21&22 in Lansing. Mark it down!
Posted in Cavalcade, Drinking Mercury, GTG Activity, GTG Records, Harborcoat, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Lansing, Narc Out the Reds, The Wild Honey Collective, Tour
Tagged Bermuda Mohawk Productions, DIY, Fucking Awesome, GTG Records, Harborcoat, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, July 2022, Phonophore Records, Punk, The Avenue Cafe, The Wild Honey Collective, Wow
GTG Fest Audio Ink Interview + Full Schedule!
Big thanks to Audio Ink Radio for this brand new feature/interview about GTG Fest 2021!
Full fest schedule:
Friday October 22 – The Avenue Cafe
8 PM, 21+, $5 Cover:
8:00-8:45 Dani Plays 45s
8:45-9:15 I Believe In Julio
9:30-10:00 Bloody Butterflies
10:15-10:45 The Hunky Newcomers
11:00-11:30 Narc Out The Reds
11:45-12:30 The Plurals “Futurospective” Full Album Live
Saturday October 23 – The Record Lounge
3 PM, All Ages, $5 Cover:
3:30-4:00 Cashcow Boytoy
4:15-4:45 Drinking Mercury
5:00-5:30 The Plurals “Hattest Hits” Set
5:45- 6:15 Dasterds
6:30-7:00 Rodeo Boys
Saturday October 23 – The Avenue Cafe
8 PM, 21+, $5 Cover:
8:00-8:30 Dani Plays 45s
8:30-9:00 A Rueful Noise
9:15-9:45 Jeremy Porter and The Tucos
10:00-10:30 KIND BEAST
10:45-11:15 Bank of America
11:30-12:30 The Wild Honey Collective & Cutlass Supreme
All venues are limited cap. Be vaccinated!
Posted in Drinking Mercury, GTG Fest, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Lansing, Narc Out the Reds, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals, The Wild Honey Collective, Tommy Plural
Tagged Anne Erickson, Audio Ink Radio, DIY, Fucking Awesome, Fun, GTG Fest, GTG Records, Lansing, Lansing Music Scene, Michigan Music, party, The Avenue Cafe, The Plurals, The Record Lounge, Tommy Plural, Wow
GTG Fest 2021 Sampler!
GTG Fest 2021 Sampler is live! Check it out and get ready for GTG Fest XIV this weekend at The Avenue and the Record Lounge!
Posted in Drinking Mercury, GTG Fest, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Narc Out the Reds, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals, The Wild Honey Collective
Tagged DIY, Fucking Awesome, GTG Fest, GTG Fest 2021, GTG Fest XIV, GTG Records, Jeremy Porter, Lansing, Michigan Music, party, Punk, Rodeo Boys, Small Brown Bike, The Avenue Cafe, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals, The Record Lounge, The Wild Honey Collective
GTG Fest XIV – 10/22 & 23
UPDATED 10/16/21 WITH FULL LINEUP
GTG FEST XIV: Oct 22 & 23, Lansing, MI
GTG Records’ annual celebration of independent music and community is back with events in Lansing, MI on Oct 22 and 23.
Friday October 22 – The Avenue Cafe
8 PM, 21+, $5 Cover:
I Believe In Julio
Bloody Butterflies
The Hunky Newcomers
Narc Out The Reds
The Plurals “Futurospective” Full Album Live
Saturday October 23 – The Record Lounge
3 PM, All Ages, $5 Cover:
Cashcow Boytoy
Drinking Mercury
The Plurals “Hattest Hits” Set
Dasterds
Rodeo Boys
Saturday October 23 – The Avenue Cafe
8 PM, 21+, $5 Cover:
A Rueful Noise
Jeremy Porter and The Tucos
KIND BEAST
Bank of America
The Wild Honey Collective & Cutlass Supreme
All venues are limited cap. Be vaccinated!
Posted in Drinking Mercury, GTG Fest, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Lansing, Narc Out the Reds, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals, The Soods, The Wild Honey Collective
Tagged DIY, Fucking Awesome, Fun, GTG Fest, GTG Fest 2021, GTG Fest XIV, GTG Records, Indie Rock, Lansing, party, Punk, The Avenue Cafe, The Plurals, The Record Lounge
The Wild Honey Collective Volume 1 – OUT NOW
Here it is, The Wild Honey Collective‘s debut album – the whole thing! 11 songs, originals, traditionals, and songs written by friends. Stream and download right now via the GTG Records bandcamp, and pre-order CDs and Vinyl too!
The Wild Honey Collective is very much a product of the events of 2020 – without any shows to play or go to and missing the spirit of an active band, GTG originators and Drinking Mercury bandmates Tommy McCord (Plural, etc) and Timmy Rodriguez (Sleeping, etc), joined with Danielle Gyger (who had contributed harmony vocals to the last few Drinking Mercury releases) in June 2020 to play some acoustic music on a back porch in Ionia, MI. Dan O’Brien (multi-instrumentalist and a former bandmate of Timmy’s) joined the group a few weeks later and very quickly we began building an extensive catalog of music ranging from folk traditionals, original songs, and songs written by friends. An appreciation for classic country music and early country rock had been rising amongst the individual musicians for the last few years, and with Danielle’s lifelong association with the legendary Wheatland Music Festival came a catalog of traditional songs (both vocal and fiddle-led) that were made for these back porch sessions. This bridging of musical styles modern and traditional dramatically helped fill the void of a concert-less summer, played outdoors for only the crickets to hear (or possibly Tommy’s dad who developed a reputation as a conspicuous eavesdropper on these practices).
As the summer ended and COVID-19 cases began rising in Michigan again – and thus, no shows anywhere in sight – we shifted our focus to making an album through a series of socially distanced recordings and file sharing to capture the spirit and friendship of a musical collective. And it is a collective! In addition to the core band members the album features contributions from acclaimed pedal steel guitarist Drew Howard, drummer Dave Shilakes (Small Parks, Gumsmack), singer Alyson Rodriguez, pianist John Gyger, Tommy and Timmy’s Drinking Mercury bandmate Michael Boyes (who took the original photo featured on the cover and the band also does a rendition of one of his songs), Crooked Sound/ Calliope/ Sexy Murders songwriter Eric Merckling, and the rhythm section of The Plurals, drummer Hattie Danby and bassist Nicholas Richard. It’s a new year, but the pandemic isn’t over, and to help get this winter over with a bit sooner we’re releasing the album right now for everyone to listen to. Thanks for being along for the ride, and bring on 2021!
Drinking Mercury – 2020: Well, We Tried
Celebrating one year since the release of the Drinking Mercury album, here’s a compilation of the band’s vague attempts to salvage the year 2020. Stay safe out there, everyone!
WATCH: GTG Fest 2020
The whole darn thing, GTG Fest 2020! A great time and still a fest, as weird and not-in-person as it was. Thanks to all who played and all who watched!
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