Casey's Residency Night 1 : January, 7th 2011

The Terrapin began our Friday night residency at Casey's in downtown LA this

past week on January 7th. As you can tell by the fancy poster above made by

graphic artist Andrew Wilson (http://wilsonicillustration.blogspot.com/)

we played with the lovely ladies in the band Bombon. We've known Jerico

their drummer from way back when she was in a band called Sleepover. They

played the record release show for our first EP. She now kicks ass full time

in Bombon. They've also just put our their first LP and happen to play some

of the funnest garage/surf music you can imagine. They put on a great show

and we were very happy to have them on board for this first night.

We also had DJ Oldboy (a.k.a. Chris 'Sex Bob-omb' Lynch) spinning records

between bands. If you've never heard him DJ you are surely missing out on

some amazing tunes. He plays a great selection of blues, R&B, Soul and

Rock & Roll to whet just about any musical taste. The guy has great taste.

How many DJ's have you ever seen rock out with a tambourine during their

set? He sure does. Go see him when you have a chance.

The first night of the residency was even more of a special occasion for us

because it marked us debuting our first ever music video! Director Donovan

Vim Crony made an amazing video for our song 'Birthcake' from our first

EP. He also came down with us to see it premiered. Reaction was good.

We shot the video with him at the end of November. Watch it below!

How cool is that? We know, we know. Donovan is an all around great

classy man and we couldn't be happier with how it turned out. If you want

to see more of his work go check out his Youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/vimcrony

We also made a made a video for our residency dates in the same vein

as the one we made for January 2010. Don't want to ruin the surprise

so here it is:

Hopefully that didn't induce some really weird acid flashback.

If it did, we apologize.

We are also working closely with visual artist Zach McGinnes for

the live visuals you are going to see this month. Below you'll see two

pictures taken the first night of the residency by Katy Diaz that might

give you a hint of what we're doing. To get the full impact of it you

should come down to one of our three remaining residency shows.

Are you wondering what we played that first night?

Well, here's the setlist from night 1:

1)Numb

2)Drag

3)Birthcake

4)It All Goes Away

5)Kill (1-5 is the 'Kill' EP in its original running order)

6) T-Rex/Goat Adventure (NEW SONG!)

7)Bawdy Politic

8)Know

9)More (7-9 are from our upcoming 'Inner Machine' EP)

10)Moonage Daydream (DAVID BOWIE COVER!)

That covers most of Night 1.

What else will happen?

Come down and find out for yourself.

This Friday will see us playing once more with Hexham Heads

and the ladies of CMYK DJ'ing.

See you then.

The Terrapin

Bear, Cat, Koala, Ferret

XOXO