FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -
The JetBlue 2009 Follow Your Whim Tour
Featuring live music by Goh Nakamura, The Invisible Cities, and Eric Lai
Friday, October 2, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Giant Robot
437 East 9th Street
Between 1st Ave.& Ave. A, in the East Village
New York, NewYork 10009
(212) 674-GRNY(4769) | grny.net
Giant Robot is proud to celebrate the Follow Your Whim Tour with musical performances by Goh Nakamura, the Invisible Cities and Eric Lai.
The Follow Your Whim Tour was conceived on a whim, when JetBlue announced their $599 all-you-can-fly pass for the month of September. The tour has taken two San Francisco-based acts (and their roadies) through Los Angeles, Houston, Austin, Seattle, Chicago, and now New York City, playing venues, living rooms, and public spaces.
Goh Nakamura is a San Francisco Bay Area based musician who writes ditties about parking tickets, impossible crushes and faraway dreamlands. With one foot in the traditional troubadour world and another in the digital age, he performs at venues small, large, and virtual, to an enthusiastic and ever growing audience. A fortuitous 2007 feature on YouTube's front page brought his music videos over a million views and earned him a huge new fanbase from all over the world.
http://gohnakamura.com/
The Invisible Cities began in 2001 in San Francisco when Han Wang (guitars, vocals) met Sadie Contini (guitars, vocals) on craigslist.org — for music, not for dating. The duo then started collaborating with band members in San Francisco and in New York, including Han’s brother Gary Wang (bass, arrangements) and Tim Bulkley (drums). With the help of many friends, the band’s first album, Watertown, came out in 2004 and was praised on many best-of-the-year lists. With the addition of singer-songwriter Goh Nakamura on guitar, the band recorded basic tracks for their second album, Houses Shine Like Teeth.
http://www.theinvisiblecities.com/
Eric Lai led the Oakland indiepop band Highwire from 2003-2005, playing songs about diaries, femme fatales and coffee. He now occasionally plays solo around New York, when he's not tied up running a cancer genetics lab.
http://www.myspace.com/thenewmilogreene
http://www.mskcc.org/lai
Musical performances by Goh The Invisible Cities and Eric Lai will take place from 6:00 to 8:00 on Friday, October 2. For more information about the artists, GRNY, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact:
Eric Nakamura
Giant Robot Owner/Publisher
eric@giantrobot.com
(310) 479-7311
Labels: Eric Lai, Follow Your Whim, Giant Robot, Giant Robot Magazine, Giant Robot New York, Goh Nakamura, Green Candy Press, GRNY, Han Wang, Jet Blue, Sadie Contini, The Invisible Cities
