The Rumpus Presents: HOT NIGHTS

August 9th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. 7pm.

Featuring authors Antonia Crane, Matthew Zapruder, Victor Martinez, and Steve Almond! Music by Chuck Prophet!

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Solo dates…. Sherman In Reverse

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GIGSVILLE: “Sherman In Reverse” solo show details: http://chuckprophet.com/gigs/

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Dates and support acts being added all the time. Check the listings here: http://chuckprophet.com/gigs/

THU JUL 22 EDDIE’S ATTIC DECATUR, GA Ruthie & Linda (of Magnapop) open

FRI JUL 23 BERKELEY CAFE RALEIGH, NC w/ Tres Chicas

SAT JUL 24 THE EVENING MUSE CHARLOTTE, NC

TUE JUL 27 THE GARAGE WINSTON-SALEM, NC

WED JUL 28 JAMMIN JAVA VIENNA, VA

THU JUL 29 TIN ANGEL PHILADELPHIA, PA

FRI JUL 30 CLUB CAFE PITTSBURGH, PA

SAT JUL 31 MAENNERCHOR COLUMBUS, OH

SUN AUG 01 NATASHA’S CAFE LEXINGTON, KY. Check the gig link.

Gentlepeople of the UK spread your beautiful slime all over us.

Okay kids,

Couple things…In the UK, Buckingham and Winchester are SOLD OUT but they added a Sat matinee show in Buckingham, which is only an hour or so from London. Captain Chris Metzler also wanted us to mention London will be sold out any day now as well.

Dates have been a gas. In Spain, Dan Stuart took time out from writing his novel and joined us for a heartfelt but sloppy version of “Time Ain’t Nothing” in Barcelona. And the band played for the first time in Croatia.

We’re playing a San Francisco homecoming show of sorts June 18th at the GAMH with special guest Stephanie Finch who’s record “Cry Tomorrow” is coming out on (((belle sound))) May 19th. The Company Men (Stoltzy, Rusty, yours truly) will back Stephie.

But for the rest of you non San Francisco folks, this is the last chance Texaco, baby. Yessir, we’re closing in on the final lap of the “Are You Riding with Me?” TOUR 2010.

Me, I’m looking forward to sleeping like a human again. No more touring stress dreams for me. No more nightmares morphing into hallucinations of giant pterodactyls carrying guitarists off over the Alps.

No more, no more.

I’m tired of waking, afraid to open my eyes, in fear I’ll find myself playing in a snowstorm on an outside stage in Colorado with the flesh freezing off my face, unable to form a G chord, totally paralyzed (Oh wait! That one definitely happened).

Or learn of a volcano erupting in Iceland shutting down all air traffic, effectively stranding us on the European continent. (Oh wait, that happened too!).

Is there a cure for this affliction, I wonder? Ambien? Anti-anxiety drugs? Yoga? Duct tape? Pilates? It’s intense, vivid, real stuff: Exploding suitcases, disappearing drummers, guitar cables that lead down long hallways under locked doors, water rising up in the hall. The back door of the van left open, swinging in the breeze, gear spilling out onto highway 80, guitars churning under 18-wheelers.

How long will I suffer through the recurring nightmare where the band gets food poisoning and craps their collective pants? One bathroom in a club full of 400 people? God help us.

Yaa-ahhhhh-rrr-ggghh!

What can I say, I miss it already.

Hope to see you out there,

CP

PHOTO: keith corchoran

“Are You Riding with Me?” TOUR DATES

Gentlepeople, know this: there’s a couple last minute UK solo shows and some corrections here and there: we were bumped up in Nottingham to the Town Hall and we’re playing our first Paris gig in far too many years to count. And another date added in Holland. These booking agents just won’t take no for an answer apparently! You know who else doesn’t take no for an answer? Rapists. I shouldn’t complain. After all, it beats folding underwear at Nordstrom’s.

Come see Stephie at the merch table: “Dreaming Waylons Dreams” is being released for the masses! It was originally recorded in 2006 and was only available as a limited edition in super-special packaging. But it will now be coming out (in a less expensive and more widely available edition) on Decor Records. Check it: < http://www.decorrecords.com>. ¡Let Freedom Ring! will finally be available on vinyl, too. Last but not least we’ll have some new T-Shirts for sale (if we can get our act together, of course).

We’d also like to give a tip of the hat to new guy Paul Taylor on drums. Paul’s from Memphis, the cradle of Western civilization, the capitol of the Mississippi Delta, the death-place of The King, and the birthplace of rock and roll and wrestling. We first met Paul when he was playing with the Dickinson boys years ago and again last summer when he was playing with Amy Lavere. Paul’s got that Hill Country groove in his blood, so expect us to dust off some old songs (and work up some new ones, too).

Yours,

Chuck

SXSW:

FRI MAR 19 MOMO’S AUSTIN, TX . SXSW - KUT Showcase

SAT MAR 20 JOVITA’S AUSTIN, TX Twangfest & KDHX-FM PARTY

SAT MAR 20 YARD DOG GALLERY AUSTIN, TX SXSW

SUN MAR 21 Continental Club

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