We're in the lab working on the new cd. Not booking anything until we're done. If it kills us. We have 10 people short attention spans here. Drastic measures. See y'all when we see y'all!

Email us for $8 presale tickets! This is going to be nuts.

Come on out and see a couple of Rochester's original bands. Ian Downey is Famous puts on a fantastically raucous show--it's going to be a great evening.

http://www.abilenebarandlounge.com

http://www.facebook.com/events/280077865362895/

This Saturday we'll be having our annual Halloween performance at Marshall St. Bar & Grill (81 Marshall St. in Rochester, right around the corner from the Bug Jar...where Damien's used to be...http://www.marshallstreetbarandgrill.com/), 9pm, for a paltry $3 cover! Should be a good time. We'll be giving out prizes for best costumes, so come ready.

Outside of a small Abilene show slated for December and a quick jaunt to Albany, this will be your last chance to see the LQ before spring. We're going to put our heads down and get this new CD done. Hope to have something for you around March, 2012.

We want to thank John of the Clockmen and everyone who made the Our Band Could Be Your Life tribute show so fantastic. That was a truly insane evening.

And thanks to everyone who's supported all the shows over the course of this busy summer/fall in Rochester, Poyntelle, Ithaca (esp. the folks from Last Exit for the Lost), Hartford, and NYC. We've had a great time and now we're exhausted.

Join us for this year's Meeting of the Minds festival in Poyntelle, PA! Last year's was a goddamn hootnanny and a half, no shit. 

Lots of great bands, beautiful land, camping, nice vibe--no sketch factor, which is important for those of us who don't do this kind of thing much.

And we have discounted tickets for only $50! Email us at info@thelobsterquadrille.com if you're interested. Chickenoot:

http://www.jibberjazz.com/motm4/home.html

EPIC WIN, as these damn kids are saying these damn days. The Vacant Lots are a really fantastic sort of psychedelic outfit from Burlington, VT that critics are shitting a big tomato about right now (http://www.myspace.com/thevacantlots), and INN (Celebration of Man) is a really fantastic sort of psychedelic outfit from right here (http://www.myspace.com/thecelebrationofman). Why are we on this bill? Who knows! But it's going to be a great show with three great bands, so come on out and let's put some sugar in each other's bowls.

Check out this awesome flyer. I'm going to find out who did it and give him proper credit. I think his name might be MIke. I love this.

That would be us, gentle reader, coming your way SOON, provided you live in or around Ithaca, NYC, or Hartford, CT. We have an absurd caravan of people (17 or so at last count) heading this Thursday to Delilah's on Cayuga in Ithaca, where we will be playing for TWO FUCKING HOURS (count them!), starting at 10pm. We don't normally play for two hours. So it should be interesting toward the end. Now we've got two hours of material. Hell, we've got a good deal MORE than two hours of material. But we don't usually DO TWO HOURS OF MATERIAL. So this should be a good deal of fun. And everybody should be good and shithoused by midnight. Why wait for Friday? Start your weekend hangover early!

The plague of locusts descends the very next day on Fontana's Bar in NYC for an 830pm show. After us will be two bands (the Ricecookers and Watermelon) we don't know and that don't know us. And presumably they don't know each other either. This is the way they do things in Fontana country. Apparently they ask you at the door which band you're there to see. We trust you to do the right thing. To be safe, please just start saying "The Lobster Quadrille" aloud, over and over, from about a block away, and then continue until we're done playing. We really appreciate your help with this. If your teeth are brushed, we'll kiss your mouth.

Onward on Saturday to B.O.M.B. Fest in Hartford! We'll be going on at 5pm on Saturday. Lots of other great acts, and some you might find interesting. Also lots of people you may have not heard of. Anyway, Snoop Dogg, Weezer, P-Funk, RJD2, Coheed and Cambria, New Pornographers, Man Man, Wiz Khalifa (recently pegged by Ghostface as one of the top 10 softest rappers in the game!), and many more!

We'll be back in Rochester next week for a show at Abilene with up-and-coming prog daddies The Movie. We're only doing a handful of Rochester shows this year, so it should be a good one to catch.

Hope to see you soon! 

Found out recently we'll be on the bill again for Meeting of the Minds IV this year! Best time we had all last summer. Pretty cheap for a festival, and well worth it. It's on beautiful land with a big lake, the entertainment was high quality last year, and the crowd was really great--nice people, kept things clean, very nice environment. It's going to be a hoot.

Our good pal Marc has just uploaded three videos featuring highlights from our Bug Jar show with Sports on March 12. Sports videos are in the works! In the meantime, here's us:

Exciting! Won't be doing too much in Rochester this summer, but we're very much looking forward to playing Abilene again on June 4. Big news is we were just confirmed for this year's B.O.M.B. Fest, which should be a hoot. Doing Meeting of the Minds again, which was a really great time last year--our favorite festival of last summer. If you're interested in camping for the weekend, the location is really fantastic--lovely, clean, and lots of high quality bands that span several genres. Sinferno in Pittsburgh should be fun, and we haven't been to the Iron City in a little while now. Oh! We will be doing another Rochester show--in July with The Vacant Lots, about whom we are really excited. Our Fat Baby show got cancelled, but it looks like we're probably going to be in NYC either just before or after B.O.M.B., and we might hit Ithaca or Albany that weekend too. Hope to catch you soon!

Finish up your St. Paddy's day puke-off by coming to the Bug Jar to watch local darlings SPORTS and local Charlie-Sheen-the-drug users The Lobster Quadrille, joined by special guests Instead of Sleeping from Pittsburgh! 

Happy to announce that Rochester's Sports and Pittsburgh's Instead of Sleeping will be sharing the bill with us at the Bug Jar (in Rochester) on March 12 (which also happens to be Solomon's birthday, just in case you were wondering [and if you were hoping that it might be SOMEONE in the band's birthday so that you could feed them free drinks all night and totally ruin the show because that person would subsequently be too hammered to perform properly <you degenerate>]).

Sports

Featuring former members of The Sister Lovers, Baby Shivers Boutique, Power Douglas & Loud Magic, Sports is much discussed in Rochester currently, serving up tight performances of crisp, smart rock reminiscent of early Elvis Costello. http://www.sportsrochester.com/

Instead of Sleeping

Instead of Sleeping is an Indie/Experimental Rock band that formed in Pittsburgh in 2008. Originally a completely instrumental rock band, the band learned to focus more on the music than the message. Now, with the addition of vocals, IOS has completely transformed itself, and is starting to gear its focus towards the (once neglected) message behind the music for their upcoming debut. http://www.myspace.com/insteadofsleeping

Took a bit of time off, and now we're back. Come out to Dub Land Underground in Rochester on Friday, January 21 and see Jatoba--they've got a nice bluegrass and more thing going on. And there's us, which is fun. $7/21+; $10/18+

Eom! Omfg! Stfu! Diaf! Unf!

From www.thehaunt.com:

Bella Morte (www.bellamorte.com)

Matching the gothic industrial aesthetics similar to Nitzer Ebb, Bella Morte molds quick synth beats inside brooding vocal mystery to produce the new millennium's kind of shadowed darkwave/goth rock. All hailing from suburbs of Charlottesville, VA, Bella Morte can be likened to sounds of fellow goth rock bands like the Cruxshadows, Rosetta Stone, and Sisters of Mercy.
For 2008, Bella Morte’s Beautiful Death exhibited how the band has truly come into their own. Featuring everything you’d expect from this exceptional band, Beautiful Death mixed dark driving rock anthems with electronic sequences to create a one of a kind listening experience. 

A Rebours (www.myspace.com/arebours)

À Rebours is a musical dream-machine fueled by a combination of several different genres--goth, shoegaze, darkwave, electro, and hard rock--all colliding under a dark, melancholy umbrella. Aiming to extend beyond the borders of genre, this pastiche of many elements creates something familiar, but creatively unique for the listener. À Rebours is a message from outer space, a Victorian Romance, a walk through 20's Berlin, a haunting, a dark rock epic, a Tesla experiment, and an overcast day all in one.

The Lobster Quadrille (www.thelobsterquadrille.com)

The Lobster Quadrille is a nine-piece Southern Gothic rock outfit that combines elements of punk, klezmer, bluegrass, gospel, and more. Their distinctly unique sound is reminiscent of the music of Tom Waits, Jon Spencer, Nick Cave, Dame Darcy, Johnny Cash, and the Handsome Family. The illustrations of Dame Darcy and the written works of Flannery O’Connor provide a deeply influential foundation for the band’s musical and visual appeal. It is moody, atmospheric, dark, and humorous with a turn-of-the-century flair. 

Their live shows are a high-energy mix of thundering rock-n-roll with the laid back, folksy charm of a travelling Deep South carnival. Performances reflect the band’s influences and showcase their cross-genre sound as they frequently, seamlessly shift between styles; from deadly serious to humorous banter. 

A New Low (www.anewlow.net)

The filmmakers behind "A New Low" have been overstepping the boundaries of socially acceptable behavior and good taste for over ten years now. Their controversial library of pranks, sketch comedy, gross-out gags, skateboarding & reckless behavior has garnered a lot of negative publicity, banned DVDs and PTA protests...yet, also piqued the interest of established industry peers, allowing them to have worked with the likes of (let the name dropping begin) Tom Green, David Wain, Bam Margera, Kevin Smith and Lloyd Kaufman...as well as the opportunity to direct three of headlining band, Bella Morte's, music videos.

They return to The Haunt on the 15th to celebrate (or, more specifically, capitalize) on the release of Jackass 3D. So, grab a drink, tip your bartender and laugh 'til you puke (or puke 'til you laugh?) at the video shorts they've whipped up for the Halloween season...and wish a happy birthday to A New Low alumni, Tony Shaddock and Sam Lisi, while you're at it.

This is going to be a good time, folks.

Our friends at the Stuart Bedasso show are having a benefit this Saturday (Sept 25) at Joey's in Rochester in order to raise money for new equipment (they're dealing with some old, persnickety shite currently). They've been supporters of ours for a while, so Amber and Solomon will be doing a set to show support. There will be raffles (sex toys, LQ merch, etc.), spanking booths, and other fun and debauchery. Pop by!

We were just invited to perform at Wicked Ithaca, which takes place on October 1 and 2 at the Clarion University Hotel & Conference Center. This is their first year doing the event and it looks like a goddamn hoot! We'll be playing Saturday evening--dress your ass up and come on out!

On Friday, Sept 10 we’ll be playing the Meeting of the Minds III festival in Poyntelle, PA. We have pre-sale tickets available at only $40, which includes 3 days of camping and music on a huge lake. Bands include Dr. Didg, J-san & the Analogue Sons, and of course, the Lobster Quadrille! Send us a message if you’re interested in tix. Here’s the festival site:http://www.jibberjazz.com/motm3.html

Our good friend Kevin recorded our recent visit to the Local Show. We had a nice time yacking and playing a few tracks by our favorite Rochester bands (Like the Quartershots, the Priests, Velveteen Fox, illinoise, Varnish Cooks, the Blastoffs, Taduya, Computerface, Tranquilatwist, and more). You can check it out here: http://www.kevtrout.com/media/LobQuadLocalShow/.