Hey Killifans- Happy New Year!

We’ve got a lot of stuff planned for 2012! We’ve booked studio time at the end of March to start tracking the new album. We’re booking shows for the spring and early summer. We’re planning our annual St. Patty’s Day show(s?). And we’re happy to offer you a couple of live tracks from our recent show at Knickerbockers!

The first is a brand new song called “the Bottoms” which Brad wrote and we’ve played live a couple of times. This will be on the new album of course, in a much more polished and less “just had a shot of Jameson” sort of way! Available as a ‘”Pay what you want” download. The second song is one of our favorite silly Xmas songs, “Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer” – offered to you here as a free download. Check it out.

Thanks for your continued support, and have a happy 2012!

tracks recorded and mixed by GREENLIGHT RECORDING – thanks!

We are hosting our 2nd annual Christmas/ugly Sweater Show at Knickerbockers this saturday night December 10th at 9pm.  You don’t HAVE to wear a Christmas sweater, just wear ANY ugly sweater.  Or dont, we dont care. We will give out a couple prizes for the best sweaters (according to us) and should be a great festive atmosphere all night.

Joining us on stage are our good friends Bent Left from KC and The Last Slice from Oklahoma.   Both are high caliber high energy bands who will make the night that much better.

So help us celebrate the meaning of the season by smashing into friends and pumping your sweater clad arms in the air.

RSVP on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/212912945444496/

We’ll be playing with some really great bands/musicians on a Sunday night, so get your butts down to Duffy’s and hang out. Old Man Markley is a 9 piece band from California on Fat Wreck Chords, and MF Ruckus is a rockin’ band from Colorado. Come show them the hospitality Lincoln is known for in supporting touring bands!

We’ll be debuting at least 1 of the new songs we’ve been writing, and blow your freaking minds, man.

xoxo

So, its been a little while since we updated.  Here you go:

We have the following shows on the radar:

September 25th in Lincoln at Duffys Tavern with MF Ruckus and Old Man Markley (fat wreck)

October 12th at the Bourbon Theater for Lincoln Calling with Larry and His Flask (side one dummy)

October 15th at Bombay Bicycle Club DesMoines IA with Flatfoot56

October 21st in Kearney NE at the Garage with the Bishops (omaha ska)

October 22nd at Rockaway Tavern Denver CO with TBA

In the meantime, we are frantically writing new material.  I think the last count was around 13-14 songs.  We are trying to wean that down to around 10 for a new full length album, we will hopefully begin in December.  We are all very excited about the new songs and feel they are a step above and beyond anything we have done before, obviously.  We have experimented with some new sounds while still staying true to our roots.  A lot has happened to us personally in the last year and it has brought about some great music.

We have also started doing these impromptu acoustic sets in and around Lincoln, most notably at McCourts Ale House.  The atmosphere lends itself well to quaint little get togethers where we can play some stuff we wouldnt normally play on stage.  The goal here is to get people out and get people to get involved in the music and encourage sing alongs.  We did a pilot last weekend and it went over really well.  More to come on that. 

If you arent already, please head over to facebook and add “LIKE” our band page.  We have been doing most of our updating over there.  Also started doing some contests where you could win some cool stuff. 

As always, thanks for the continued support, and look for great things from the Killigans in 2012.  Cheers and Beers you filthy mugs!

just a quick heads up to remind you that we are playing 2 shows this weekend:::::

Club Mustache
Friday, July 15, 2011
9 pm

Fools Rush
The Frantic
The Killigans
Red Kate

and an ALL AGES show this saturday at Mad Ave in Lincoln NE //////

No, the Killigans don’t take summer vacation and set on our laurels… we woodshed our music in a hot and humid garage, writing stuff for the next album, and honing some old favorites. We have a handful of new songs that are nearly ready to play live, and a bunch more in the hopper. We hope to be able to record this fall, all things going well.

We have updated our Calendar with some shows coming up in July, August, and September… so check that out. We will be playing a Killigans Summer Mini-Tour™ including dates in KC on July 15, and an All-Ages show in Lincoln on the 16th.

See you out there!

Join us at the Zoo Bar on Thursday, June 16th for a rare “early” show!

6-9pm

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This Saturday night we are playing with great bands, great friends, and at a great bar.

FLATOFEST
the Killigans
Bloodcow
SOJH
Ideal Cleaners

Duffy’s Tavern – Lincoln NE
14th and O Street
9pm
$5

We’ll be packing up the van and speeding down to Kansas City this Friday night to take part in the Spring Invitational at the Riot Room. Hope to see you there! We’ll be playing with some amazing bands – this is quite a festival they have planned! For more information check out the Riot Room’s site and the Spring Invitational site linked below:

http://www.theriotroom.com/event/37489/

http://kcspringinvitational.wordpress.com/artist-lineup/may-6th-riot-room/

See you there!

Heads UP! We are playing this Saturday night with our friends Flatfoot 56, who are on their way back home (Chicago) after a month of touring around Canada and the USA. If you haven’t seen Flatfoot- they are high-energy Celtic punk, wonderfully funny and gracious guys, and a great live band- you DO NOT want to miss this show!

We will do our best to not get destroyed by these guys.

You can listen to a bunch of their music RIGHT HERE if you want! Go LIKE them on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/flatfoot56

not on the list: Saturday April 16th at Knickerbockers with the Killigans!

More info here : http://www.knickerbockers.net/