Gentleman Auction House To Release Long Awaited Alphabet Graveyard On Emergency Umbrella Records on September 9th! Alphabet Graveyard is the #6 Most Added record on this weeks CMJ Chart!Check Out GAH’s Daytrotter session on the homepage www.Daytrotter.com
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Three Song Exclusive Download on RCRD LBL
It seems only appropriate that youth and maturation are two of the lyrical themes that thread their way through Eric Enger’s songs: His band, Gentleman Auction House, has spent the last year navigating the space where the two words intersect. Formed in the summer of 2005 (with its current lineup solidified in January of 2006), the band itself is still young, with the average age of its seven members hitting just below the quarter-century mark.
GAH spent their first year hitting the stages in St. Louis, MO, as frequently as their schedules would allow, playing shows in front of audiences across the town. As excited performances converted excited fans, the band took its cue and recorded their debut EP The Rules Were Handed Down just in time for their performance at 2006’s Pygmalion Festival in Champaign-Urbana, IL. The self-recorded EP was self-released in October 2006, and had sold out of it’s first pressing by the time the band played their now-annual Christmas show, which happened to score a mention in SPIN magazine’s list of must-attend events in St. Louis that December. TRWHD sold enough copies before the year’s end to make it into the Top 15 best-selling records of 2006 at Vintage Vinyl, St. Louis’ premier independent record store. The EP made the list again a year later, and now has sold over 3,000 total copies to date.
The next year was spent playing local and regional shows in support of TRWHD, and though the feedback was consistently filled with praise, the band’s recipe of boy-girl vocals, dueling drummers, and multi-instrumentation had become standard indie-pop fare. Around every corner loomed a band that bore a resemblance to GAH’s own musical reflection, and every review cited the same touchstone Canadian collectives. Feeling the need to delineate the band’s sound, Enger penned a handful of new pop songs to round out material for what would become Alphabet Graveyard, the band’s full-length debut.
October 2007 found GAH in Washington, D.C., recording at Silver Sonya studios with Chad Clark (Beauty Pill, Smart Went Crazy), Devin Ocampo (Medications, Faraquet), and TJ Lipple (Aloha), who the band hoped would help them audibly infuse the enthusiasm and youthful energy of their live show and contextualize all of the different components of their new record. After two weeks of feverish recording, a robbery at gunpoint, and the unexpected illness of Chad Clark, two records emerged.
May 2008 welcomed The Book of Matches EP, which serves as the thematic and sonic precursor to the band’s new full-length. Due out in August of 2008, Alphabet Graveyard is a record that documents the maturation of a band who has shed the weight of its comparisons and forged a direction all their own to a very new place where solemn folk ballads, epic mood pieces and infectiously danceable pop very naturally find themselves on common ground.
Fresh off of a string of spring tours including a showcase at SXSW and a Daytrotter studio session, the band will spend the remainder of the year touring consistently, including a stop at Diversafest (DFest) in Tulsa, OK, and their third trip to Champaign’s burgeoning Pygmalion Festival.
Tour Dates:
Jul 23 2008 8:00P- The Outland Springfield, Missouri
Jul 24 2008 6:00P- Good Records - FREE IN-STORE & BBQ!!! Dallas, Texas
Jul 24 2008 11:00P- The Barley House - FREE SHOW!!!! Dallas, Texas
Jul 25 2008 8:00P- The Vault Stillwater, Oklahoma
Jul 26 2008 7:00P- DFest - The Blank Slate Stage w/ El Paso Hot Button, Cat-A-Tac, & Callupsie Tulsa, Oklahoma
Jul 31 2008 8:00P- Off Broadway w/ What Made Milwaukee Famous & Black Joe Lewis St. Louis, Missouri
Aug 16 2008 9:30P- Full Moon Festival St. Louis, Missouri
Sep 19 2008 8:00P- Pygmalion Music Festival w/ Yo La Tengo, Black Mountain, Dan Deacon, Asobi Seksu, Centaur... Champaign, Illinois
Sep 20 2008 8:00P- Forward Music Festival w/ Neko Case, Bob Mould, Decibully, Headlights, Detroit Cobras... Madison, Wisconsin
Sep 21 2008 8:00P- Mid City Grill w/ Yea Big + Kid Static & The Orange Opera Fort Wayne, Indiana
Sep 23 2008 8:00P-The Elbow Room w/ Yea Big + Kid Static Ypsilanti, Michigan
Sep 25 2008 8:00P- High Five w/ Yea Big + Kid Static, Bookmobile, & Wing and Tusk Columbus, Ohio
Sep 26 2008 8:00P- The House Cafe w/ Yea Big + Kid Static & The Patience Dekalb, Illinois
Nov 8 2008 8:00P- Earlham College w/ Ponytail Richmond, Indiana
Nov 29 2008 8:00P- Rock n Roll Craft Show V @ 3rd Degree Glass Factory St. Louis, Missouri
Three Song Exclusive Download on RCRD LBL
It seems only appropriate that youth and maturation are two of the lyrical themes that thread their way through Eric Enger’s songs: His band, Gentleman Auction House, has spent the last year navigating the space where the two words intersect. Formed in the summer of 2005 (with its current lineup solidified in January of 2006), the band itself is still young, with the average age of its seven members hitting just below the quarter-century mark.
GAH spent their first year hitting the stages in St. Louis, MO, as frequently as their schedules would allow, playing shows in front of audiences across the town. As excited performances converted excited fans, the band took its cue and recorded their debut EP The Rules Were Handed Down just in time for their performance at 2006’s Pygmalion Festival in Champaign-Urbana, IL. The self-recorded EP was self-released in October 2006, and had sold out of it’s first pressing by the time the band played their now-annual Christmas show, which happened to score a mention in SPIN magazine’s list of must-attend events in St. Louis that December. TRWHD sold enough copies before the year’s end to make it into the Top 15 best-selling records of 2006 at Vintage Vinyl, St. Louis’ premier independent record store. The EP made the list again a year later, and now has sold over 3,000 total copies to date.
The next year was spent playing local and regional shows in support of TRWHD, and though the feedback was consistently filled with praise, the band’s recipe of boy-girl vocals, dueling drummers, and multi-instrumentation had become standard indie-pop fare. Around every corner loomed a band that bore a resemblance to GAH’s own musical reflection, and every review cited the same touchstone Canadian collectives. Feeling the need to delineate the band’s sound, Enger penned a handful of new pop songs to round out material for what would become Alphabet Graveyard, the band’s full-length debut.
October 2007 found GAH in Washington, D.C., recording at Silver Sonya studios with Chad Clark (Beauty Pill, Smart Went Crazy), Devin Ocampo (Medications, Faraquet), and TJ Lipple (Aloha), who the band hoped would help them audibly infuse the enthusiasm and youthful energy of their live show and contextualize all of the different components of their new record. After two weeks of feverish recording, a robbery at gunpoint, and the unexpected illness of Chad Clark, two records emerged.
May 2008 welcomed The Book of Matches EP, which serves as the thematic and sonic precursor to the band’s new full-length. Due out in August of 2008, Alphabet Graveyard is a record that documents the maturation of a band who has shed the weight of its comparisons and forged a direction all their own to a very new place where solemn folk ballads, epic mood pieces and infectiously danceable pop very naturally find themselves on common ground.
Fresh off of a string of spring tours including a showcase at SXSW and a Daytrotter studio session, the band will spend the remainder of the year touring consistently, including a stop at Diversafest (DFest) in Tulsa, OK, and their third trip to Champaign’s burgeoning Pygmalion Festival.
Tour Dates:
Jul 23 2008 8:00P- The Outland Springfield, Missouri
Jul 24 2008 6:00P- Good Records - FREE IN-STORE & BBQ!!! Dallas, Texas
Jul 24 2008 11:00P- The Barley House - FREE SHOW!!!! Dallas, Texas
Jul 25 2008 8:00P- The Vault Stillwater, Oklahoma
Jul 26 2008 7:00P- DFest - The Blank Slate Stage w/ El Paso Hot Button, Cat-A-Tac, & Callupsie Tulsa, Oklahoma
Jul 31 2008 8:00P- Off Broadway w/ What Made Milwaukee Famous & Black Joe Lewis St. Louis, Missouri
Aug 16 2008 9:30P- Full Moon Festival St. Louis, Missouri
Sep 19 2008 8:00P- Pygmalion Music Festival w/ Yo La Tengo, Black Mountain, Dan Deacon, Asobi Seksu, Centaur... Champaign, Illinois
Sep 20 2008 8:00P- Forward Music Festival w/ Neko Case, Bob Mould, Decibully, Headlights, Detroit Cobras... Madison, Wisconsin
Sep 21 2008 8:00P- Mid City Grill w/ Yea Big + Kid Static & The Orange Opera Fort Wayne, Indiana
Sep 23 2008 8:00P-The Elbow Room w/ Yea Big + Kid Static Ypsilanti, Michigan
Sep 25 2008 8:00P- High Five w/ Yea Big + Kid Static, Bookmobile, & Wing and Tusk Columbus, Ohio
Sep 26 2008 8:00P- The House Cafe w/ Yea Big + Kid Static & The Patience Dekalb, Illinois
Nov 8 2008 8:00P- Earlham College w/ Ponytail Richmond, Indiana
Nov 29 2008 8:00P- Rock n Roll Craft Show V @ 3rd Degree Glass Factory St. Louis, Missouri
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