Agents of Mercy/District 97 US Tour Starts 5/16

For anyone around Chicago, we're playing a show tonight, which is essentially a mini-progfest:

The tour starts in a week!  Hope to meet some of you!

Man Overboard and myself will be at the Baltimore show.

District97 wrote: Tomorrow, Monday 5/16 at 5 PM EST, you can check out an interview with Jonathan on Delicious Agony where he talks about the D97/AoM tour (which opens tomorrow in Milwaukee!), Hybrid Child, new D97 material, and much more. More info is here: http://deliciousagony.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4427.

Playing right now @ http://deliciousagony.com/

Edited by ProgressiveAttic - May 16 2011 at 17:31

^ I didn't see you there. I was looking out for you though. (Doesn't help that I don't know what you look like and had the mental image of Hayden Christensen in my head ). Erin and I were there though, rockin' the hell out at the side of the stage, like every show.

Garion81 wrote: ^You will love D-97

I knew I could count on your good taste.  Very impressed by their performance. I went into that blind not having heard a lick by them but always remembering you spoke highly of them.  They seem to have gone over VERY well there. They won me over to the point where I'll be seeing where they go from this point.

Garion81 wrote: I knew you would.   Seriously how can you resist them?  They just blew me away last October at Calprog and I thought then and everyone's reaction from RosFest now reinforces that I believe this band can really go places outside the net of Prog and still sound like a prog band.

The potential is most certainly there to break down that barrier.  However that goes a lot back to what we all discussed in the Nearfest post-mortum.  I'd like to see how this group is promoted and sold.  If they are labeled as prog, and sold to prog audiences.  Welcome to obscurity-city...  MTV isn't going  to break them.  No one watches that anyone unless you have some strange fixation with what Curley Q..  Suzie Q or McQ's crib looks like and who be his hoes..

I do think 'prog fan' is a remaining defender, perhaps an unwitting one, of the walls that keep prog from a more mainstream appeal.  Sorry.. as much as 'punk' country.. or hip hop are a gag reflex to prog-fan..  I wonder if they think what trips the gag-reflex of fans outside the prog fish-bowl.   Hmmm..   prog with it's steortypes of kimono wearing pencil necked geeks, pseudo-philosophical bullsh*t for lyrics.  We know it isn't that... but what we know isn't the issue is it?  I think they can bring prog to mainstream...  but they won't (or anyone IMO)  bring mainstream to prog.  Quality is not the issue,  prog has always has quality.  It is all preception.. and that can be swayed by how a group is marketed and to what audience it is trying to attract.  If their management gets them .. not in prog festivals.. but out with the other genre ambigous groups.  They can break down the wall.  We'll see, it's like I said in my mini review of RosFest. Only time will tell, but man alive do they have the best chance since EMO humped his Moog for a prog group to break into the mainstream.