Wednesday, January 27, 2010

One more reason we love these guys!

As if we needed any more reasons to love these guys! Our favorite violinist/can-play-anythingist has done some good in the world today. Ryan, an alum of Houston's SPVA, made an appearance at the new downtown location of The Austin School for the Performing and Visual Arts (ASPVA) for the ribbon cutting and grand opening.
At the ceremony he said "Austin is such a culturally rich town, and ASPVA will definitely play an important role in grooming the next generation of artists." Not only that, but in between tours he will teach master classes for ASPVA! We BlueFanGirls have a soft spot for teachers so we say, Right On Ryan and Thank You! Check out the full press release with more info on ASVPA here: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs017/1101756201666/archive/1102968181169.html

Monday, January 18, 2010

More Tour Dates...

Here is a nice article about the Pick of the Phone Tour dates in April.

Alternative Addition

Enjoy!

Sunday, January 17, 2010

CB Gets Married!!!


Get out your box of tissues, one of the boys is no longer an eligible bachelor!

One of our Utah Blue Girls, AmyO discovered that CB Hudson got married just this weekend!!

Here are some pictures from Sweet Caroline Photos:

Sweet Caroline Photos - CB & Betsy's Wedding


There are even a few shots of the whole band in the mix! If you scroll all the way down, you can see a slideshow of the wedding. Both the bride and groom look super happy!

We wish Mr. & Mrs. Hudson the all the best! Congratulations!


In light of this recent event, we thought we would gush some more over CB. Here are some interesting tidbits about our favorite guitarist.

From Wikipedia
"Charles Britton "C.B." Hudson III (born October 8, 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is the lead guitarist of the American rock band Blue October.

Hudson grew up in Dallas and received his first guitar on his 10th birthday. He was influenced by MTV, was a fan of heavy metal and early on was influenced by guitarists Steve Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Satriani, and Eric Johnson.[1] Later, Hudson explored the music of jazz guitarists such as Norman Brown and George Benson.[2]"

CB earned a degree in psychology in 1999.

CB co-wrote "Somebody" with Justin Furstenfeld and Blue Miller.

"For Blue October's latest album, Foiled, Hudson wrote the music for the popular song "18th Floor Balcony" and his jazz influence shines during live performances of "Everlasting Friend" which features a jazz guitar solo to close the song.

Hudson continues to write and record jazz-influenced instrumental solo material under his publishing name Reflxblue."


Blue October is on myspace, facebook,

and http://www.blueoctoberfan.com/approachingnormal/



Friday, January 8, 2010

NEW TOUR DATES!!!

OK...INSERT FANGIRL SQUEEEE .......HERE!!!!





The boys announced new tour dates this afternoon. We are already scheming and planning to find a way to go see them in Denver at my sister's house...we'll see if that pans out. In the meantime we are SERIOUSLY hoping that they decide to add dates to CA!





The dates and locations are listed here & here.

Presales go live Monday, Jan. 11th!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

New Tour Dates

Blue October just announced new tour dates for February and March. Too bad they are all in Europe. From what I hear (and see on the youtube footage) the shows in Europe are super small and there is no barrier with big grumpy burly guys glaring at you. Come on guys! We just want to express our fangirly joy!!!

Here are tour dates, just in case you are fortunate enough to be in Europe in the next few months.

(And NO Valerie and Janicca, we can't go...or should I say, I can't go!)

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Kangaroo Cry on NCIS

Blue October's song Kangaroo Cry was played on an episode of NCIS. This scene is from Season 7, episode 10 - Faith. It has a super nice message to all our troops at the end.

Enjoy!

Lyrics for Kangaroo Cry...
Losing my control
Here it is the day I have to go
Just sit beside me
I can't let this show
How sick I feel to leave you so alone
God I'm terrified

We've lost respect for decency
When one can turn our world into an ant pile
We run circles, no direction do I see
The dust has blinded you, the dust has blinded me

I kissed her on the cheek
And then I waved goodbye
She had the saddest look I've seen in years
A kangaroo cry
A warm pathetic ocean flow we have to live by
We have to live by
Because we have to live

Chorus
And you choose to break our families
Tell me you've used all precautions known
And I'll stand beside the ones who stood alone
How long will we have to sing until you finally bring our sons, our daughters home?
We'll let the prayers start healing, what time's been stealing

We only want to feel as close as we can be
Use hands for holding on to your precious family
Just believe in all who shine
The light to help you see
Cause if I believe in you, will you believe in me?

I kissed her on the cheek
And then I waved goodbye
She had the saddest look I've seen in years
A kangaroo cry
A warm pathetic ocean flow we have to live by
We have to live by
Because we have to live

Chorus
Keep hanging on
Keep hanging on
Keep hanging on
Keep hanging on

We'll let the prayers start healing, when time's been stealing
Start healing
Start healing

Chorus
Live perfomance of Kangaroo Cry from March 2009.

LA Road Trip!

March 21st, 2009
Shortly after the Acoustic Show in Sacramento, Janicca and I drove to LA to see them in concert. We met up with a few of our So Cal mom friends for the show.
Isn't the view from I-5 lovely?

We stayed at a wonderful apartment complex appropriately called The Meadows!

We got there a few hours early. We had a nice dinner at California Pizza Kitchen then walked over to the venue...which happened to be a small club called Club Nokia. We tried our hardest to get into the meet and greet but alas, we had to entertain ourselves outside in line for the last couple hours.



After much anticipation (and a not so awesome opening band) the real fun began! We were about two people from the front. We were tempted to kick the guy in the front row in the arse, since he kept leaning over the railing and sticking his hiney out... but I digress. The show was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!! They played all their new songs off of their new, yet to be released CD, Approaching Normal plus many more songs off their previous CDs. We got to hear Say It several times since they were recording the music video during this concert.


After the show, we were too wired so we went to have breakfast. ; )


I didn't take any videos at this show. But here are some from youtube. (It may sound like my fangirl screaming in the background, but it is not...LOL)

The first song they played was Weight of the World.
The second song they played was Say It.
Been Down (This one he serenaded Janicca!!!)
Hate Me (partial)
~~Donna