We have compiled all the new songs we released this month into one EP that you will soon be able to download for free. (we will post a link) However, the whole mess with our work permits being denied for our 2012 European tour (see below) left us in debt for quite a lot of money. (lost airline tickets, etc.) So, please consider purchasing the EP from bandcamp if you enjoy it.
you can do that here..
Purple 7 has been doing some extensive basement practice sessions, and as much as we love it down there, we might go crazy if we don’t hit the road soon. So that’s exactly what we’re going to do, hit the road, try and play every night, and end up at the ocean. We’re really excited about our new songs and about playing them for a couple weeks straight. Come out and see us if we’re headed your way, and spread the word.
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FRI FEB 15th DAYTON, OH @ the Aberplex w/Apache Dropout! (1944 S Smithville Rd.)
SAT FEB 16th FT. WAYNE, IN @ the Brass Rail w/Apache Dropout (1121 Broadway)
SUN FEB 17th COLUMBUS, OH @ Ace of Cups w/Apache Droupout (2619 N High St.)
MON FEB 18th CINCINATTI, OH @ the Babe House w/Harlequin & Pure Predication
TUE FEB 19th ATHENZ, OH THE SERPENT MOUNDS
WED FEB 20th LEXINGTON, KY @ The Green Lantern w/Elsinores & All American Werewolves (497 W 3rd St.)
THURS FEB 21st NASHVILLE. We hope.
FRI FEB 22nd KNOXVILLE, TN @ the Pilot Light w/Big Kitty (106 E. Jackson Ave.)
SAT FEB 23rd CHATTANOOGA, TN @ Sluggo’s w/Big Kitty (501 Cherokee Blvd.)
SUN FEB 24th ATHENS, GA @ Farm 255 w/Outer Spaces (497 W. 3rd St.)
MON FEB 25th ATLANTA, GA @ WonderRoot w/I Want Whiskey (982 Memorial Dr. SE)
TUES FEB 26th ST. AUGUSTINE, FL @ Knobby’s w/Brown Diamond (10 Anastasia Blvd.)
WED FEB 27th ORLANDO, FL @ Uncle Lou’s w/Brown Diamond (1016 N. Mills Ave.)
THURS FEB 27th F L O R I D A
FRI MAR 1st “Rabbit, rabbit.” GAINESVILLE, FL @ Loosey’s w/Brown Diamond (120 SW 1st Ave.)
SAT MAR 2nd CHATTANOOGA, TN @ Thee Antarchtica
High Dive (Ryan from defiance, ohio + Toby Foster + Nick Romy) is doing a short tour in the midwest. The dates are listed under the “family” section of upcoming shows. If you don’t have the High Dive record.. you can download it for free here! You can also order a copy of the LP from No Idea records (www.noidearecords.com)
Theo and Ryan were recently featured on the Seattle based show Boating with Clyde along with Toby Foster. You can see them playing songs by Defiance, Ohio, Nana Grizol and High Dive here..
Boating with Clyde Season 1, Episode #4 “It Gets Wetter’” Guest Musicians: Toby Foster, Ryan Woods and Theo Hilton from Do it for the girls on Vimeo.
Check it out, here we have a video for the song “Poison Ivy,” the first song on our first record that’s getting released Oct. 4th on Let’s Pretend Records. Many thanks to Eric Ayotte, he did all the camerawork and editing on this sucker. We worked together on the “I’m Against the Government” video and it went so smoothly and turned out so well that I roped him into doing another. Check out his other videos, too. We leave on tour next Friday (our tour dates are posted over there to the right) so come out and see us if we’re in your town. Hope you dig scenic downtown Bloomington in the midwestern fall evening lighting ….
The Purple 7 is a band that features Will from DEFIANCE, OH/LANDLORD, Chris Mott from LANDLORD, and Patrick Jennings from the HOT NEW MEXICANS. Conceived in Chris’s attic and Will’s basement at MAGNETIC SOUTH on several experimental 4 track sessions while on leave from Landlord, the band has taken on new dimensions since Patrick arrived in town and set up shop in a suburban style studio on the south side of Bloomington. We were destined, it seems, to be in a band together. Our first 5 song record (one sided 12″ 45 rpm on marbled purple & black vinyl with an engraving on the back) will be available from Let’s Pretend records (www.letspretendrecords.com) on October 4th and to celebrate we are setting out on our debutante midwestern tour. See the list of shows in the “Family” section of this website. If you’re curious and need to know more, please visit our tumblr (www.thepurpleseven.tumblr.com) or check out our bandcamp (www.basementpop,bandcamp.com) and if you live in the midwest, come out and say hello.
First the bad news..
Our work permits to the UK were denied and the European tour is canceled. We are very sorry that this happened and we want to thank everyone that put work into trying to make it come together. We are hoping to reschedule in 2013 but have no set plans as of now. It’s a bummer, we were very excited to make it back over.
We have scrambled together a short east coast/midwest tour from August 29th to September 7th. The dates are posted. Thanks so much to all the folks that helped us pull this tour from thin air. Please help us spread the word as the shows are soon!
It’s been 10 years. Thanks so much for everything. The last song we are releasing for the month is a re-recording of the first song we ever wrote together. We thought it would be cool to see how it sounded 10 years later. haha.. maybe not all that different.
You can download this song for free from The Internet Archive, but please consider buying it (at whatever price you think is fair) from Bandcamp.
This is the fifth and last new song we are adding for the month!
You can download the song for free from The Internet Archive, but please consider buying the song (at whatever price you think is fair on Bandcamp)
Lyrics
This is a lyrics sheet we made for our set at Plan-It-X fest earlier this summer:
This is the fourth song we are releasing this month.
You can download the song for free from the Internet Archive but please consider supporting us by purchasing the song (at whatever price you think is fair) on Bandcamp.
Lyrics
They’ll lock you up if you don’t play by the rules.
Twist it out and beat it out of you in a padded room.
So, what do you do with a council full of charlatans
beating on the table with their dirty hands?
This is not an excuse, it’s just self defense.
Spit it out.
Come on, let it go.
They don’t want no one to drive electric cars.
Spending all the money obuilding rockets that can shoot down all the stars.
I’m against the government, anti-establishment and I love subversive elements.
Might not ever be the president, oh no.
Here’s the third song we are releasing this month!
You can download the song for free from the Internet Archive, but please consider supporting us by buying the song (at whatever price you think is fair) through Bandcamp.
Lyrics
They say it’s all in the wrist.
You give more than you take.
Those hours borrowed from sick days have been taken away.
You’ve been at it for too long.
Worn out car and tape by judas priest,
It’s hard to find a sense of meaning waiting here in your parking space.
You’re no single story,
A great expanse of open space.
They will call it a comeback.
Redraw lines with a sense of place.
Posted a half dozen poses,
With all your longings and hates.
The days stretched into weeks and no one is buying the claims.
You’ve been at this for too long.
Re-read the stories that make us feel alive and aware of, feel one in the same.
We’ll call it a comeback.
*This song is about reconsidering the way we view our own lives and (hopefully) using that consideration to view the rest of the world with a more open mind. It’s about not getting bogged down by work, or routine or negative cycles of gossip and criticism of each other. It was influenced by this talk by Chimamanda Adichie.