GUEST DIRECTORS

Record Release show with Dead Leaf Echo and Black Nite Crash
2023-09-22 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Tijuana) | Tim’s Tavern, 9655 16TH AVE SW, White Center, WA, 98106, United States
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Join us for the release celebration of our first full-length record! We’re delighted to be playing with Dead Leaf Echo from NY, and our good local friends Black Nite Crash. Doors are at 7pm for this (covered) outdoor show at Tim’s Tavern, and the venue is all-ages until 10 pm.

Jupe Jupe/Guest Directors/Waves Crashing/Male//Gaze
2023-10-21 20:00 - 23:30 | Conor Byrne Pub, 5140 Ballard Ave NW, Seattle, WA, 98107
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Join us at Conor Byrne Pub in ye olde Ballard for a really great lineup with Jupe Jupe, Waves Crashing (Olympia), and Male//Gaze (Kingston).
Ticket link coming soon.

Tallies/Shady Cove/Guest Directors
2023-11-11 20:00 - 23:30 | Central Saloon
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Tallies
https://www.facebook.com/talliesband
https://www.instagram.com/tallies.band/

https://tallies.bandcamp.com/album/patina
On “No Dreams for Fayres”, singer Sarah Cogan’s sweet, flowy vocals coast effortlessly atop Dylan Frankland’s crystalline guitars, every note conjuring up the jangled melodies of classic groups like The Smiths, The Sundays, and Cocteau Twins. Under it all, drummer Cian O’Neill’s driving percussion propels the song into the stratosphere. But “No Dreams for Fayres” isn’t merely an exercise in nostalgia — TALLIES’ modern twist adds a tightness, an urgency, an awareness that breathes new life into a beloved genre. “I don’t want to wake up/I just want to lay back down,” sings Sarah on the song’s chorus, encapsulating in few words how just about everyone has been feeling over the past few years. “It’s kind of ironic; I wrote the song pre-COVID, about a time of depression in my teenage years, but as soon as the pandemic started I had the exact same feelings,” says Sarah. “It was insane — how do we have a song that’s about me 10, 15 years ago, and is now relevant to me at 30 years old? It’s pretty funny how that happened.”
“No Dreams for Fayres” is also TALLIES’ first release on new label Bella Union, a partnership that was written across the indie pop firmament since the band’s beginnings. Run by ex-Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde, Bella Union’s ethos aligns perfectly with TALLIES’ dedication to immersing themselves in the label’s signature sound. “Putting out a record with one of our heroes is extremely cool,” explains Dylan, “being on Bella is a really big deal for us.” It might seem hard to imagine a world in which Sarah and Dylan, writing songs together while studying sound engineering at Algonquin College in Ottawa, would someday be working with one of their favorite musical influences, but fans of the group’s heart-expanding, awe-inspiring tunes won’t be surprised — they’ll know they had it in them all along, and that the journey has just begun.
Produced by Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck) and Dylan Frankland of the band at Palace Sound, Baskitball 4 Life and Candle Recording in Toronto.
TALLIES return with their new single and video (directed and shot by Colin Medley and edited by Christopher Mills) for “No Dreams of Fayres” via Hand Drawn Dracula (CAN), Kanine Records (US) and Bella Union (UK/EU).
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Shady Cove
https://www.instagram.com/shadycoveofficial/

https://shadycove.bandcamp.com/
Four hours south of Portland, Oregon, the Rogue River flows right through the center of a small municipality called Shady Cove. This is where songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Sarah Rose and Sarah Nienaber, formerly of Candace, recorded the track that would become the name of their new project Shady Cove; this is where, in an unassuming cabin, the two seasoned collaborators began exploring desire’s revolutionary potential and the nomadic impulses borne of creative restlessness and the claustrophobia of city life.
“We were not writing these songs with the idea of a band in mind,” says Sarah Rose. “It felt like these songs wanted to belong to something new, rather than the continuation of a previous project.” Nienaber and Rose are hitting upon vibrations more intimate but no less immediate than those explored with their prior band, nudging guitar-driven dream pop into softer and more diffuse territories.
“Summer Days,” the group’s first single, dabbles in muted, homespun psychedelia, putting a contemporary twist on the type of lysergic pastoralism popularized by XTC on Skylarking. Shady Cove’s use of synthesizers suggest orchestral grandeur supported by melodies that are subtle but not subdued. Lyrically, in “Summer Days” the band refuses to shy away from paradox, oscillating between nostalgia’s idyllic detours into the past and the anticipation of something less familiar, perhaps, or somewhere more intuitively known: “Going back to summer days,” and “waiting for summer days” to return.
“We’re always searching for the right place, the good place, the landing place, the final resting place,” Nienaber reflects, implying that the only thing that will satisfy desire is more desire. “In these songs, I think there is a self-conscious acknowledgement that I, or you, or we, will never get there… Shady Cove is a celebration of that unshakeable longing, the forever search.”
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Guest Directors
https://www.facebook.com/guestdirectors
https://www.instagram.com/guestdirectors/

https://guestdirectors.bandcamp.com/
Like a broken mirror, Seattle’s Guest Directors reflect a multitude of emotional and musical pathways. On their new LP, Interference Patterns, the songs spiral one after another – sometimes powerful and sometimes delicate. They can sound like snowflakes and hail storms, sometimes in the same song. Their first full-length record is out 9/22/23.
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Tremolo
https://www.instagram.com/tremoloseattle/
Tremolo:Seattle is an events collective presenting dreampop / shoegaze / psychedelic / synth-based music.

Tremolo Fest 2023 (Night 2)
2023-12-08 19:00 - 23:30 | Central Saloon
We initially thought we weren’t going to be able to play this year’s Tremolo Fest due to scheduling conflicts, so we’re EXTRA psyched that it worked out! We’re playing on Night 2 with some incredible bands – The Veldt, New Age Healers, Soft Science, Tremours – but all three nights are super-solid and we’ll be there as fans on nights 1 and 3.
Doors at 7, music at 8 (that’s us, so don’t be late!)
Tickets for Night 2: https://www.venuepilot.co/events/86946/orders/new
Early-bird tickets for all 3 nights (only $40) https://www.venuepilot.co/events/87902/orders/new

CANCELED: Guest Directors/Levitating/Hutch Harris/Andrew Kaffer
2024-02-24 18:00 - 23:00 | Tim’s Tavern, 9655 16TH AVE SW, White Center, WA, 98106, United States
Sorry we have to cancel due to illness!

Our first show of the year is with our friends Levitating, along with Hutch Harris (from The Thermals) and Andrew Kaffer (from Kissing Book), both up from PDX. First two acts are acoustic, second two acts are decidedly not!
Doors at 6, music at 7. Tickets here

CANCELED: Portland! Deafhound/Guest Directors/Death Doula
2024-07-27 19:00 - 23:00 | No Fun (Portland), 1709 SE Hawthorn Blvd, Portland, OR
SORRY WE HAVE TO CANCEL DUE TO A MEDICAL ISSUE!
It’s been literally years since we played in Portland, and we’re excited to return! $10 CASH ONLY at the door.
Deafhound
https://deafhound.bandcamp.com/music
https://linktr.ee/deafhound
https://www.instagram.com/deafhound/
Guest Directors
https://guestdirectors.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.guestdirectors.com/links
https://www.instagram.com/guestdirectors/
Death Doula
https://deathdoula.bandcamp.com/music
https://linktr.ee/deathdoulaband
https://www.instagram.com/deathdoulaband/
https://www.facebook.com/events/720849430016985/

Star Anna/Sulk/Guest Directors
2024-11-08 19:00 - 23:30 | Darrell’s Tavern, 18041 N AURORA AVENUE, Shoreline, 98133, United States
Our first show in nearly a year! Come watch us scrape some rust off, and hear some new things we’ve been working on!

Planets in the Ocean/Patrons of Husbandry/Guest Directors
2025-01-24 20:00 - 23:30 | Sunset Tavern

Matinee! The Burning Negatives, Guest Directors, The Laughing Group
2025-04-27 15:00 - 18:00 | Tim’s Tavern, 9655 16TH AVE SW, White Center, WA, 98106, United States
Four o’clock rock! Show starts at 3 in the afternoon, we play at 4 – aren’t you always saying we play too late?

Tremolo Presents: bloococoon, Guest Directors, Ten Million Lights
2025-05-16 19:00 - 23:30 | Baba Yaga, 124 S Washington, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
The first night of a weekender with our Portland pals Ten Million Lights. Joining this show is Seattle band bloococoon.

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Six Beats Under Presents: Guest Directors, Ten Million Lights, MayRay
2025-05-17 08:00 - 17:00 | The Fixin’ To, 8218 N Lombard, Portland, OR, 97203, United States
The second night of our weekender with Ten Million Lights, in Portland this time with locals MayRay.

Ringo Deathstarr/Waves Crashing/La Fonda/Guest Directors
2025-05-31 19:00 - 23:30 | El Corozon, 109 Eastlake Avenue East, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
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Tremolo Fest 2025 (Night Two)
2025-09-26 18:00 - 23:30 | Central Saloon
An incredible lineup with:
Topographies
Cool Heat
Mo Dotti
Present
Guest Directors
New Age Healers
We play SECOND, so come EARLY! Get tickets here!

Guest Directors/Dirty Sidewalks/Levitating
2025-11-22 20:00 - 23:30 | Darrell’s Tavern, 18041 N AURORA AVENUE, Shoreline, 98133, United States
Our final show of 2025, with our friends Dirty Sidewalks and Levitating.
