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Updates and Another Fitted Shirt Show!

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Hey all,

Saw this today, I want to play here!

Site Updates

My apologies for the lack of updates in the past 2 weeks. I’ve mostly been doing work on the music section around here, so there hasn’t been a whole lot to report over here on the home page. I’ll post up when that section is done and filled with musical goodness! Currently, you can check out a few songs on the production page. More will be added soon! Other than that, I’ve been doing some general back end work to tidy things up on this site(adding, subtracting, etc.)

Show Tomorrow!

Here’s the juicy info for tomorrow nights show! Come on over for great food and fun!

Friday 04/17/09
@Life Alive, Lowell, MA
7-7:45pm – Christopher James Michaud
8-8:45pm – Clara Berry
9-9:45pm – The Fitted Shirt
FREE!FREE!FREE!FREE!FREE!FREE!FREE!

DREDG!

Last night I saw my 2nd favorite band dredg at The Middle East. They put on such an amazing show. I absolutely love that band. The last song, I think, was the last song of their upcoming album and it was absolutely incredible. No words can describe how I felt when they played that song. It was every bit perfect. I can’t wait to get my paws on their new album in June!

See you beautiful people soon.

Kev

Tags: acoustic, dredg, live, Music is my life, recording, The Fitted Shirt, Vigor
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Even More Shows, TFS Recording, A New Geeetar, and An Interesting Feeling

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Friday’s show a Brew’d Awakening was wonderful! Sooooo much fun. We got invited back to play a full set, details below. We also managed to snag a show at Life Alive. We’re 4 for 4 in playing shows and then getting asked back to play again! As for the Life Alive show, we weren’t even playing! We were eating dinner! ahhaah. We’re playing another open mic in Groton, Ma at the end of the month, and again at Tupelo next month. More deets soon!

Saturday 03/21/09
The Fitted Shirt
@Brew’d Awakening
61 Market St, Lowell, MA 01852
7-9pm / FREE!
The Fitted Shirt will be playing originals, covers, and Vigor songs for approx. 2 hours.

The Fitted Shirt will be here to record in my studio next weekend. We’re going to start tracking drums for a few of the hitz. We love music, yay music!

Now that playing shows seems to be routine, I bought a new acoustic electric yesterday. It’s beeeauuutifulll!!!! SEE!

yay!

It’s a Yamaha APX500FM OVS. I’ll take more pics when I get my camera back from Janelle this week. Plays beautifully and makes me happy .

As for the interesting feeling part. Now that I have music back in my life, when I get home after a show or the next day, I feel very alone. It’s a new sort of alone feeling. I believe that music is always a part of me, but nothing can compare to the feeling of sharing it on stage. It’s almost like I settle into the old me when I’m back home, but my brain thinks, “Don’t do that! You’re awesome now, remember?!?!?!”. A very, very interesting feeling.

I know exactly what is missing, I’m just not sure how to get to it.

Tags: acoustic, Music is my life, New Geeeetar!, The Fitted Shirt
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“33″

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Tonight I recorded a new song titled “33″. It came out great! One acoustic, one lead and one track of vocals. Simple! Sounds very nice and relaxing. I’ll mix it tomorrow morning and deliver it to it’s rightful owner on Sunday .

Tonight I remembered that ultimate feeling that I get when I’m working on a song and it all starts to come together. It makes me feel perfect. It’s the same feeling that I get when I fall in love. This helps confirm that my life purpose is music. It’s what I was made to do!

The site is almost ready to launch! I made a bunch of major and minor tweaks today and it’s looking great!

Next Thursdays show at rockos has been cancelled. It’s okay. I’m more excited to play the acoustic show on the 26th!

Laterzzzz
Kev!

Tags: acoustic, fay, Inspiration, new song, recording
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Practice, Practice, and a mini Vigor set

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Heya,

Things have been great here. Practice for the two Fitted Shirt shows have been going great so far. Playing bass has been ripping up my fingers, which is GOOD because I haven’t been playing enough stringed instruments lately! I asked Dan if I could play a few Vigor songs at the upcoming acoustic show and he said “sure”. The two of us practiced “Life In Circles”, “Patient Persistence“, and “Sketching Perfection“. He wrote some new parts and sang some new back ups and these songs are sounding AMAZING! It’s SO much fun to be playing again.

Speaking of how much fun it’s been to be playing shows again…

Playing shows again feels incredibly relieving. Music is what I was made to do, so why did I let myself not fully be a musicians for so many years? Well, many reasons I suppose, but any way you want to look at it, I’m back %100 and it feels natural. I love seeing the looks on people when I play. You know, that one person in the crowd that is really enjoying themselves. I LOVE that. It makes me feel perfect.

When I play live I try to have as much fun as humanly possible and I think it shows by watching this video(after the break). It’s the way I enjoy to see shows, so it’s the way I perform shows. Give the best show possible!

In awesome news, my best friend Janelle is back from the Air National Guard for a month! I just picked her up at Logan this afternoon. Steph is having a bday thang for me tonight and we will be heading over there later ! Wahoooooooooo!!!!!!

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Tags: acoustic, bass, Janelle, Music is my life, Practice, The Fitted Shirt
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