What follows will be a very serious news post. I know I joke around a lot on here. To be honest, I think it’s a defense mechanism. If I could swing it, my heart would be wrapped around in a prickly wall of dick jokes 24/7. My whole life I’ve been coasting, riding high on a spaceship powered by laughter, chortles, and retweets. Probably part of the reason I’ve felt comfortable joking like this is because I’ve never seen the human cost of my tomfoolery. That is, until now.
You might remember that back in April I wrote up a pretty glib little post about a new LP guitarist Steve Gunn was planning to release with Cian Nugent and John Truscinski as Desert Heat. The album is called Cat Mask in Huggie Temple so I did what was natural and made a couple diaper jokes. What’s the harm, right? Well that’s what we all thought, too, right up until the diaper mafia hits started happening.
It was a Friday afternoon. I was about to take a nap, and Steve Gunn was prepping for a little relaxing “time off” when people just started dropping like flies. Friends, families, neighbors, all of them. It turns out that not only is the diaper mafia actually a thing, but they also HATE being misrepresented, and they make “corrections” with a vengeance. There was never any Huggies® sponsorship. It was a dumb joke — I can see that now! That’s why I’m writing this from hiding, and why Steve is leaving for a European tour soon. He’s got to keep moving, and he’s traveling with bodyguards/rhythm section De Stervende Honden, which consists of Erik Heestermans on drums and Tommy De Nys on bass. Steve, I don’t know if you’ll ever read this, but if you do, know that I am so very sorry. If I had any idea that things would turn out this way, I would have never joked about you and about diapers. I would’ve kept my mouth shut. Things would’ve been different.
Dates:
10.12.13 - Barreiro, Portugal - Outfest #
10.15.13 - Vigo, Spain - Sinsal +
10.16.13 - Barcelona, Spain - Miscelanea +
10.18.13 - Paris, France - Espace en Cours *
10.20.13 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - OCCII *
10.21.13 - Ghent, Belgium - 019 *
10.22.13 - Brussels, Belgium - Ateliers Claus *
10.23.13 - Köln, Germany - King Gerog*
10.24.13 - Zurich, Switzerland - Elmo Delmo *
10.25.13 - Lausanne, Switzerland - Le Bourg *
10.26.13 - Torino, Italy - Blah Blah *
10.27.13 - Geneva, Switzerland - Cave12 *
10.28.13 - Bologna, Italy - Modo Infoshop +
10.29.13 - Rimini, Italy - Neon Club +
10.30.13 - Warsaw, Poland - Pardon To Tu +
10.31.13 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Din Nye Ven +
11.01.13 - Gothenburg, Sweden - Koloni +
11.02.13 - Moscow, Russia - Oldich Dress & Drink +
# duo show w/ Mike Cooper
+ solo show
* w/ De Stervende Honden rhythm section
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