Eric's House Of Ego

You can now find our CD on CD Baby. There are samples there to listen to if you have wondered what we sound like. We should be on ITunes and Amazon shortly.

Also, as someone pointed out elsewhere, Filk dealers all over the US have it now, so support your local Filk dealer if you can.

Saturday at 6 at Penguicon ... TOYBOAT !!!

And if you want to find me, I will be running sound for most of the rest of the music acts. It's gonna be fun !!!

I take off for Minneapolis Thursday sometime. Thursday evening I go to my 2nd favorite place to eat, Everest On Grand, then off to see The English Beat and Fishbone at the Cabooze. I sleep till I get up Friday, then off to the con to drop off gear and hang out. Dinner with everyone whenever that happens (6ish?) then concerts. Saturday morning, see Friday morning. Then more concerts, dinner, a dash back to my friends house for a nap, then back for most concerts and of course ... TOYBOAT live in a room. 1334 that is. Midnight. Come to the show to find out why that room number is so funny to me.

We will be performing at 9pm Saturday at Capricon ... more info as we get it.

And I was told this weekend that the band is showing up in someone's book. I won't say who, cause I'm just mean (that doesn't keep someone else from telling in comments), but how many writers who filk put people she knows in her books?

Ok folks, the moment you have all dreaded has arrived.

We are just over two weeks away from the release of the very first full length Toyboat CD. The official release date is October 24th at OVFF. If you want to order it now, there is a Paypal link on the band website. All preorders will ship on or about October 27th. We will also be taking orders at Conclave this weekend.

Here are the tracks ... be afraid

Sunset Boulevard
Hellraiser (Tom Smith)
Zombie Mama
Reach For The Stars
Banned From Argo (Leslie Fish)
Pool Hall At The End Of The Universe
Uplift (Andy Eigel)
This Island Earth (Paul Cooper) (with special Guest Villain Tom Jeffers)
Sucked Through A Wormhole
Would You Like To Play A Game? (this will be on The Fump October 23rd)

There was one more song that we wanted on there that just didn't get done in time. We ended up with a lot more originals than we originally thought.

Now I just have to get the cover done, and we're done. It's just the waiting game now.

This is going to be an insane month. I have one weekend to relax, then off I go

Oct 3rd - Toyboat rehearsal and then a s00j concert that night
October 9-11 - Conclave - Toyboat will be playing at 2:30 on Saturday
October 17 - Toyboat rehearsal then an evening of Marxian Fun !!! with shsilver & exapno
October 22-25 - OVFF - Toyboat will be playing at noon on Friday, we will also be performing in the Awards Concert and will be having our CD release party at 11 Saturday morning in the Con Suite ... there will be cake, may be ice cream too
November 6-8 - I will be in Nashville offending folks from a message board that I have been posting to for a couple decades now.
November 13-15 - Windycon - Perhaps some cool stuff ... wait for it.

OVFF will be fun. I can't leave here till sometime Thursday afternoon. We're playing Friday at noon. I'm driving to exapno's house, catching a couple hours of sleep, then heading to Ohio at you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me:30 in the morning.

I'm too old for this ... but if I survive it, it's gonna be fun !!!

I just got off the phone with Gundo. The album is in the can, now it's just mixing, mastering and printing.