NEWS
AUGUST 7, 2011
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JUNE 1, 2011
Our follow-up to "All these Slippery Things" featuring songs recorded during the same sessions at Tiny Telephone is now available for free on our BandCamp page. Please have a listen to "All those Slippery Things".
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
JANUARY 1, 2011
At this point, our blog is the definitive resource for all the big il gato happenings. Please go and check them out! They are current.
However, we have a show Sunday, January 23rd at the Bottom of the Hill and then in March are taking off for a tour to Austin.
DECEMBER 17, 2010
We want to send a huge THANK YOU!!!!!!!! to all of our friends and fans for helping make us the official SF DELI Artist of the Month for December! It truly is such an honor and with it we get free recording time which will help bring our next EP to fruition much sooner than later.
Thank you again!
Plus a show!
DECEMBER 2, 2010
We just got nominated for the SF DELI Band of the Month for December! If we win, then we get free recording time. PLEASE VOTE!
Also, a documentary film with a couple of our songs in it, "Crime after Crime", just officially made it into the Sundance Film Festival! Congratulations to them and good luck to both of us getting into SXSW as well!
Hope to see you Monday at the Rickshaw Stop!
NOVEMBER 15, 2010
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
At this point, our blog is the definitive resource for all the big il gato happenings. Please go and check them out!
However, a quick recap:
* Pandora! Whoo-hoo!
* Cafe Du Nord! Rickshaw Stop on December 6th! Whoo-hoo!
* Lots of great press and tons of tunes being played nationally on the radio! Whoo-hoo!
* T-shirts! Posters! More! Whoo-hoo!
* Whoo-hoo! Whoo-hoo!
OCTOBER 2, 2010
We just added a show at Cafe du Nord on October 27th and got an excellent review in the wonderfully supportive, Performer Magazine. Plus check out our blog for more updates, pictures and more.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2010
AUGUST 21, 2010
We just got an excellent review on awesome music site, Consequence of Sound. Check it out!
AUGUST 14, 2010
JULY 17, 2010
JULY 14, 2010
JULY 13, 2010
Tonight marks the official release of our new album, "All these Slippery Things". We are celebrating with a free show in Dolores Park featuring The Ferocious Few, The Shants and Wolf & Crow.
At this point, our blog have either a video, music or more of one track from the upcoming album, "All these Slippery Things". Please go and check them out!
JUNE 28, 2010
Over at our blog we are unleashing a video, music or more of one track from the upcoming album, "All these Slippery Things" every day in July. 13 tracks to countdown until the official album release on Tuesday, July 13th which we will commence with a secret show somewhere in the Mission.
Also, we have a show coming up this Sunday we were just recently added to:
JUNE 28, 2010
We are now officially, "Heroes of Indie Music"! We just had a little write-up in a blog. Check it out!
JUNE 24, 2010
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
JUNE 17, 2010
JUNE 7, 2010
JUNE 6, 2010
We are finalizing all of the last minute details for the album's official release on July 13th, 2010. Videos are coming together. Shenannigans are being planned to celebrate on the day of and future plans are being hatched.
Additionally we are preparing for the Album Release show where we will be playing "All these Slippery Things" in its entirety. This takes place Tuesday, June 22nd at the Bottom of the Hill and we will be performing with a string section, a horn section, banjo and much more. Should be a caucophonous joy. Hope to see you there!
Additionally, we just made it on The Bay Bridged's podcast highlighting upcoming shows. The podcast also features Alela Diane, the Dum Dum Girls, Woods, Sleepy Suns and much more.
MAY 16, 2010
Our interview we just completed with SF Weekly just went on-line. It is wonderfully and frequently misquoted.
MAY 2, 2010
We just booked our Album Release show for June 22nd at Bottom of the Hill where we will play our upcoming album "All these Slippery Things" in its entirety complete with a string section, a horn section and more!
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
We are in the midst of recording at Tiny Telephone (John Vanderslice's studio where Spoon, Okkervill River, Deerhoof and many others have recorded) and will be working pretty non-stop of copious amounts of overdubs until we get back in the studio in April to mix. We master at the end of April and do all the rest in May with an estimated late May/early June release of "All these Slippery things". It is sooo exciting to be able to see it on the horizon.
Also, we just started a Tumblr because I actually like those things, check it:
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
JANUARY 19, 2010
The Hemlock show was quite a success:
The Bay Bridged just posted a demo from our upcoming album.
SF Station send a photographer and have pictures of the show. Now we are right near Sonic Youth and spitting distance from Jay-Z. Awww yeah!
JANUARY 13, 2010
The San Francisco Chronicle piece just showed up on-line. It is quite an honor and accomplishment to be in such a prestigious paper. I have been reading it for years on the BART. Oh, John Carroll and Tim Goodman! Even you Mick LaSalle! Peruse it here! Or better yet, buy a paper. They're still around.
Also, we just got added to two new shows. One is January 20th at the Elbo Room and one is February 11th at The Blue Macaw. Please see the shows page for more info.
JANUARY 6, 2010
We have a show coming up Thursday, January 14th at the Hemlock Tavern with the Shants and Ash Reiter. Really excited for this show.
Also I am pleased to announce that we have won a The Bay Bridged Recording Grant!!!. We are going to be recording at Tiny Telephone at the end of February and mixing in the beginning of April. As such, hopefully the full album, "All these Slippery things", will be out in May or June. It has been a long time coming, but as we have been working tirelessly on the composition it should be pretty amazing.
DECEMBER 4, 2009
So, the details are so close to being finalized for our February recording which is so exciting. We are also pretty close to being able to release some demo tracks we recorded a couple weekends ago. And SXSW is looking more and more official.
The show at Adobe Books was amazing (plus it was pick of the day at The Bay Bridged!!!). Wolf & Crow are so good and you should without a doubt check them out at some point. We are most definitely going to be playing more shows with them in the future. Annie Bacon's The Folk Opera was a delight as always. They are just getting better and better. And to play acoustically in a quiet space with all those books was surely a treat.
Also, we received some press from the San Francisco Chronicle, who even quoted a Jim Jarmusch film. Awesome!:
"Remember the film, "Down By Law", where Roberto Benigni says over and over, "It's a sad and beautiful world"?
Walking away from an il gato song reminds me...yes it is a sad and beautiful world.
Fun with instruments in the theme here as il gato utilize guitars, loop pedals, mandolin, banjo, upright bass and more. On their Myspace they describe themselves as indie-baroque-folk."
DECEMBER 1, 2009
NOVEMBER 14, 2009
OCTOBER 30, 2009
The First ever il gato tour was a huge success. We played a place in Seattle where Nirvana once played, we went to the Pizza Research Institute in Eugene where we had a curried cauliflower, apple and cranberry pizza (yum!), we ate biscuits and played music in Portland (plus vegan Cap n' Crunch donuts at Voodoo Donuts!). Plus we got to see all the leaves changing color (yellow, orange, red, and every shade in between).
Now we have T-shirts and a couple shows coming up before we finally record at the very beginning of the year. In the meantime we will try to leak a few alternative tracks, but we are oh so excited about the album. It is going to be ambitiously epic. Let's hope!
One show is at the wonderful Amnesia on Sunday, November 22nd with a couple of extremely fun bands.
Another is at Adobe Books on Thursday, December 3rd which will be an intimate affair with Annie Bacon's The Folk Opera which is a 30 minute song cycle comprising one really big story. There also will be new San Francisco band, Wolf & Crow, who have some gorgeous songs. Please come check it out.
OCTOBER 5, 2009
Yes!
SEPTEMBER 19, 2009
More exciting news! The excellent Bay Area resource, The Bay Bridged, just posted "On Feathers and Arrows (on Burnt Pine)" and had this to say....
"Local folk-rock band, il gato, has been working on a new album. Here is a preview that makes us want to hear more..."
Additionally, the Pacific NW tour seems to be coming together and I am super excited! Will post the official dates when they become, well, official.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
Exciting news!
Two new songs ("Blue Skies" and "On Feathers and Arrows (on Burnt Pine") were just posted on Largehearted Boy. They combine literature, music and film, and I honestly pretty much go there every day. I mean where else can you learn that Pearl Jam is the Grateful Dead of our times (seriously!) and find a link for a shirt that say "I Listen to Bands That Don't Even Exist Yet"?
ON FEATHERS AND ARROWS (ON BURNT PINE)
Additionally, soon we will be embarking on a Pacific Northwest tour at the end of October. Tour!