Breaking up for Christmas

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Here’s the accompanying description for this spirited number –

Nothing says holiday spirit like breaking up just in time for Christmas. the breakups (featuring the sweet hurt) bring you a new holiday classic yule be singing to your grandkids. Enjoy!

Credits:

written by Jake Gideon & Brandon Schott
lead vocals: Jake Gideon & Wendy Wang
background vocals: Lindsay Barnett, Maria DeLuca, Corinne Dinner, Parisa Fakhri, Lexy Feuer, Jillinda Palmer, Jonathan Price, Jim Saunders, Greg Weigel
recorded at the bait shop (hollywoodland, ca)
mixed by: Jake Gideon & Robert Bonilla

Pictures from Desmond Dekker Tribute night

Thanks Candice Kortkamp!

Candice’s photo of the light-brights

In case you missed my previous post, I posted a video of The Sweet Hurt playing “Take This Away.” This was my first vimeo post, and I hope to post many more. Here’s what I wrote to accompany the video on the vimeo page:

The Sweet Hurt closed the Desmond Dekker Tribute show produced by Social Science Recordings. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the mental wherewithal to record her cover of Desmond Dekker’s “Honour Your Mother and Father” but at least the ol’ noggin assembled together in time to record “Take This Away,” The Sweet Hurt original. Here’s Wendy and Gabe. I wish you could see Gabe’s shoes. They’re Reebok Pumps!

Gabe can jump really high because he has the Reebok Pumps

The folks at Social Science Recordings were kind enough to post a schedule for the night. It’s my fault you can’t read this.

I managed to get there in time to watch my friends, the Monolators, but like I said earlier, I thought I didn’t have my camera so I didn’t take any pictures of the first half of the night. Well, Candice was there, and she took some AWESOME pictures:

B.R.A.M. (Did I get that right?)

Eagle and Talon

Six bands later, I found my camera. Just in time for Obi Best:

audience

Just about the same as the “audience” shot, but it’s with default flash here

The Sweet Hurt performs a hit

Social Science Recordings produced an awesome event, the Desmond Dekker covers night. There were 16 bands (14 bands?), playing that night. Each band started with a Desmond Dekker number, then closed with one of their own. Not a hard concept. Well, one of the bands got pushy and we were all like, no they di-int! Other than that, everyone was very respectful of the producers’ way.

There aren’t any pictures from the earlier part of the night because I couldn’t find my camera (yeah, yeah, yeah…same old story) in my purse/abyss, but I managed to find the camera near the end of the evening, so I’ll post those pictures tomorrow. Not now, because I’m sick. I shouldn’t be staying up at this hour anyway. However, I’m excited to share my first vimeo uploadness, which is of Wendy and Gabe playing “Take This Away” from that night. I know I got a little wobbly in the first ten seconds, but I managed to keep things smooth for the rest of the song.

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