Estimated Mileage and costs

Here you go guys.
Some of this might not be too accurate.
I added 100 miles ( LEWAY miles )
I used my dads old address in Hyde Park as a starting point and I used a sample address in Denton to see the Ideal Mileage.
Please take a look and feel free to correct me.

Austin to Denton - Total Estimated Time: 3 hours 42 minutes
Total Estimated Distance: 223.76 miles

DENTON TO KANSAS CITY - Total Estimated Time: 7 hours 56 minutes
Total Estimated Distance: 512.86 miles

KANSAS CITY TO DAVENPORT -Total Estimated Time: 5 hours 39 minutes
Total Estimated Distance: 366.69 miles


DAVENPORT TO UPTOWN LOUNGE CHICAGO -Total Estimated Time: 3 hours 17 minutes
Total Estimated Distance: 180.54 miles


UPTOWN LOUNGE to BROWN RICE IN CHICAGO - Total Estimated Time: 9 minutes
Total Estimated Distance: 3.10 miles

BROWN RICE TO THE TOO DAMN EARLY RADIO SHOW- Total Estimated Time: 5 hours 41 minutes
Total Estimated Distance: 338.47 miles

RADIO SHOW TO THE SWAMP -Total Estimated Time: 0.90 minutes
Total Estimated Distance: 0.29 miles

THE SWAMP to the BUCCANEER ( Memphis ) - Total Estimated Time: 3 hours 29 minutes
Total Estimated Distance: 216.36 miles

BUCCANEER to SUPER HAPPY FUN LAND (HOUSTON)Total Estimated Time: 9 hours 25 minutes
Total Estimated Distance: 578.71 miles

SHFL to Austin ( test location ( dads old house ) )
Total Estimated Time: 2 hours 51 minutes
Total Estimated Distance: 167.25 miles

Total Mileage ( + 100 extra miles ) = 2688.03

Raw Mileage : 2588.03
Average Gas Cost : 2.15

MPG: About 10
2688.03 / 10 = 268.803
Multiply by Avg. Gas Cost - 2.15
= 577.926 ?
Divided by 10 people = 57.79 a person?

Some Places Contacted ( from Dieter )

Hey Guys here are some places I have contacted. ( Some multiple times)
Check them out if you have time. Feel free to contact them if you want.
Much love.

VENUES CONTACTED:
The Cinemat Bloomington. ( not booking for August ) .

Rhinos ( all ages ): Bloomington.
BlueBird Night Club: Bloomington
Huntington Music Connection: Huntington

http://www.melodyindy.com/booking.html ( NEED TO SEND DEMO )

The Sanctuary: Indianapolis

Terre Haute's Music Venue: Terri Haute, Indiana

http://www.futureshock.net/radioframeset.html

http://www.birdyslive.com/

The Poison Room
301 W. 5th St.
http://www.myspace.com/poisonroom


Cincinnati, OH

The Alrosa Villa
5055 Sinclair Rd.
http://www.alrosavilla.com


Columbus, OH

The Orange Express
336 E. 5th St.
http://www.myspace.com/oregonexpress  


Dayton, OH

Redstone Room
129 Main St.

http://www.redstoneroom.com
Record Breaker's Rock Club
Chicago,Illinois


Brown Rice (called them and left a message).

Bottom Lounge ( Chicago )



Davenport, IA

http://www.recordbreakers.net/rockclub/booking.shtml

http://chicago.metromix.com/music/dance/brown-rice-albany-park/289258/content
http://www.undergroundwonderbar.com/contact.html (Chicago)
http://www.bottomlounge.com/contact.php
http://www.elasticrevolution.com/contact.htm (Chicago)
http://whistlerchicago.com/about/
http://www.abbeypub.com/html/contact_the_abbey.html
http://www.arthospital.net/booking.php
http://www.vaudevillemews.com/index.php?p=contact (DES MOINES IOWA)
The Brass Rail ( Fort Wayne,IN)http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=181708240
http://indycdandvinyl.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thereverb ( IOWA )
http://www.thehublivemusic.com/contact.htm (IOWA)
http://www.thehouseofbricks.com/index.html( IOWA )


Radio Stations Contacted
http://www.whpk.org/contact/
http://www.wnur.org/contact/

Texas Publicity Resources and Venues

Good thing to look at to get music across different outlets.
Thanks Victor!

http://www.peekaboorecords.com/etcetera/texas.aspx

Kansas City

I made a list of Venues and potential press outlets for Kansas City

Kansas City Venues

Record Bar
1020 Westport Rd
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 753-5207
www.therecordbar.com

Czar Bar
1531 Grand Blvd
Kansas City, MO 64108
(816) 221-2244
czarbar.com

Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club
3402 Main St
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 753-1909
www.daveysuptown.com

Crosstown Station
1522 McGee St
Kansas City, MO 64108
(816) 471-1522
www.crosstownstation.com



Beaumont Club
4050 Pennsylvania Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 561-2560
www.kcclubs.com/beaumont.cfm

The Studio Restaurant and Bar
1118 McGee St
Kansas City, MO 64106
(816) 214-9701
www.thestudiodowntown.com

The Riot Room
4048 Broadway
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 442-8179
www.theriotroom.com

Blayney's of Westport
415 Westport Rd
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 561-3747
www.blayneys.com

Knucklehead's Saloon
2715 Rochester St
Kansas City, MO 64120
(816) 483-6407
www.knuckleheadskc.com

Buzzard Beach
4110 Pennsylvania Ave
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 753-4455
www.buzzardbeachkc.com

The Phoenix Piano Bar & Grill
302 W. Eighth St.
Kansas City, MO 64105
(816) 472-0001

12 Baltimore
106 W 12th St
Kansas City, MO 64105
(816) 221-7000
www.12baltimore.com/

Angel's Rock Bar
1323 Walnut St
Kansas City, MO 64105
(502) 540-1461
www.angelsrockbarkc.com



Kansas City Press

• The Pitch
1701 Main
Kansas City, Mo 64108
Music Editor: Jason Harper
jason.harper@pitch.com
816 561-6061
Clubs Editor: Berry Anderson
(816) 218-6775
berry.anderson@pitch.com
• The Kansas City Star
1729 Grand BLVD
KCMO 64108
Music Editor Tim Finn
tim.finn@kcstar.com
• KBZR 96.5
Sonic Spectrum
Host Robert Moore
sonic_spectrum@yahoo.com
Robert also has a pod cost on the present magazine website
• KKFI 90.1
(816) 931-3122
PO Box 32250
Kansas City, MO 64171
www.kkfi.org
• KCUR 89.3 FM
(816) 235-1551
4825 Troost, Ste. 202
Kansas City, MO 64110
Music producer: Michael Byars, byarsm@umkc.edu
Arts reporter: Laura Spencer, spencerl@umkc.edu
www.kcur.org
• KCOU Radio
(573) 882-7820
Music Director: Greg Winegar, gswxt8@mizzou.edu
www.kcou.fm
• Sun Publications
Kurt Kloeblen
Staff writer
www.kccommunitynews.com
kkloeblen@sunpublications.com
• Ink Magazine
816-234-4586
Inkkc.com
info@inkkc.com
• KC Studio
the most comprehensive calendar of events in Kansas City
www.kcstudio.org
Submit events to Kellie Houx: kellieh@townsendprint.com
• The Explorer john@thex.info
Good for calendar and reviews
• http://www.lawrence.com
Go and explore your needs! Great website
• http://www.patchcord.com
• Present Magazine
Pete Dulin, Editor
present@presentmagazine.com
http://www.presentmagazine.com
http://www.myspace.com/presentmagazine
very supportive KC culture webzine w/ bi-weekly email blasts
• Heavy Frequency
calendar@heavyfrequency.com
A great resource for heavier artists
• Hip-Hop KC
A great resource for hip-hop artists

SXSW Bands to Meet

Below is a list of Bands playing SXSW that I have found on the OFFICIAL listings only. I am going to try and meet these people, give them a FG album, and hope for the best! There are a few I missed, mostly because their name sounded really, really lame. Some of these bands are really, really lame, but so what, they might be really cool and help us out! I've made little notes to myself about genre, and if I like them, next to some of the names, hope it's not terrible cryptic.

CHICAGO

The Poison Arrows- cool experimental

Friday, March 20 8:00 p.m.

Barcelona (209 E 6th St)

Holywood Holt- Hip Hop

Thursday, March 19 8:00 p.m.

Beauty Bar Backyard (617 E 7th St)

Pelican- Rock

Friday, March 20 1:00 a.m.
Emo's Annex (600 Red River St)

Maps & Atlases (pop)

Friday, March 20 10:10 p.m.

Karma Lounge (119 W 8th St)

Pugs Atomz (rap- krs one)

Saturday, March 21 8:45 p.m.

Barcelona (209 E 6th St)

Andre Williams (R&B – good)

Saturday, March 21 11:00 p.m.
Continental Club (1315 S Congress Ave)

Ezra Furman and the Harpoons

Saturday, March 21 10:00 p.m.
Submerged (333 E 2nd St)

Disappears

Friday, March 20 8:00 p.m.
Flamingo Cantina (515 E 6th St)

TENNESSE

The Magic Kids (awesome pop)

Saturday, March 21 9:00 p.m.
Red 7 (611 E 7th St)

Jack Oblivian and the Tennessee Tearjerkers (ehh, rock)

Thursday, March 19 7:00 p.m.
Dirty Dog Bar (505 E 6th St)

Leslie Keffer (bad dance music)

Saturday, March 21 11:50 p.m.
The Hideout (617 Congress Ave)

Lord T and Eloise (rap)

Friday, March 20 12:10 a.m.
Prague (422 B Congress Ave)

Backseat Goodbye (cheesy Pop- Murfreesboro TN)

Saturday, March 21 12:00 a.m.
Cedar Street Courtyard (208 W 4th St)

Ryan Jewell (Columbus ohio, experimental?)

Saturday, March 21 11:00 p.m.
The Hideout (617 Congress Ave)

OKLAHOMA CITY

Shiny Toy Guns

Friday, March 20 8:00 p.m.

SXSW Live (The Bat Bar) Austin Convention Center (500 E Cesar Chavez St)

The City Lives (shitty rock, 30 sec. to mars)

Saturday, March 21 9:00 p.m.
Habana Bar (708 E 6th St)

IOWA

Diplomats of Solid Sound (awesome funk!) Iowa City IA

Saturday, March 21 8:00 p.m.
Opal Divine's Freehouse (700 W 6th St )

Advice from Wise Men- SXSW

All,

I've been talking to village elders, collecting advice from their experiences playing music on tour. One message has been loud and clear in all their voices, "Take advantage of SXSW!" Basically, we won't need to email, myspace, and pester people through communications channels if we meet them during SXSW. Everyone we need to meet, everyone that can give us a show in these cities, all the cool bands we need to play with and the radio dj's will be present, in our town, next week.

The elders have cried, "Save yourself the trouble and meet these people face to face, get thier phone number, tell them your plans, give them your music free, in hopes that they can offer a helping hand on tour. You need to be willing to approach people that look like they can help you, you need to make a point to find bands from your tour-cities, watch thier shows and meet them."

FG is playing Wednesday and Thursday, but I plan on networking as much as I can Friday and Saturday, and perhaps a little on the sabbath. As I tell you this I'm inviting you to come out and network, with or without me, and help all of us avoid future headaches and turmoil by contact folks now, in the convienence of our home city.

Also, advice which I value, though take with salt, has been that our tour plans are logistically ambitiious; not impossible, but ambitious. It has been suggested that we take a more narrow path to Chicago to minimize miles, mayhem, and potential mishaps. This route may avoid Nebraska, MN, and curve off ~800 miles from our trip, while still providing plenty of worthwile cities. This is something to stew on, we can decide as time progresses.

Compilation

Ideally I need a Falcon Buddies CD this weekend at the latest. Then I can import them and FG songs into a project file and we'll be ready to master when we meet at my place March 28th or 29th. I'll probably do it earlier myself, then we can just check it when we meet and get the artwork, etc together. I was thinking we should do it again on Sunday Morning at 11am, 3/29. Lemme know.


I'm about to get some lists together for Nashville and Kansas. So we're not working double, I'll email you my lists as soon as I'm done to Morris for Kansas (also Lincon and Omaha) and Tizoc for Nashville.
Also, I made the graphic above for myself, but ya'll may find it useful. Notice there are two geographic routes, clockwise and counter clockwise; and that either way we spend the 12th and 13th in Chicago, so those days may end up being the most secure, at least for now. I'm going to try and book shows in the respective dates and hope everyone works with us...

Without Wax,
Mike D