This Friday, May 11 at Home Room

Wow, I’m really excited about this one. Home Room is one of my favorite spots in town, and I’m playing with groups I really admire!

Body Parts is headlining the show and will be debuting the video for their song “Doing Things.” In celebration, they’ll playing an acoustic set rather than an electric one. Everything Body Parts does seems so meticulously crafted (their debut album is even called “On Purpose”), so I’m interested to see how they translate their tunes without electricity. I’m confident that it’ll be excellent.

Joining us on the bill is Norse Horse, a relentlessly-catchy guitar driven project that last year released the excellent Grids EP on Family Time Records.

Opening the show is iloilo, a project from ex-members of Pek Pek. This is their first show, and I couldn’t figure out how to embed their tracks, but they sound good! Lots of hazy, hypnotic acoustic guitars and reverb-drenched mystery.

Home Room is located at 3121 Beverly Blvd, in that area of town that could alternately be called “South Silverlake” or “North Koreatown.” The show starts at 9PM, and I go on second. It’s all ages and $5.

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What am I doing?

This month sees me returning, happily, to the grind of having performances all the time. I’ve got a lot of solo shows in November, including one to celebrate my first music video! I also started playing bass in So Many Wizards, and I’ve got a few performances with them. I’m very excited to be part of a group that has long been among my favorites.

Here’s the calendar:

• Thursday, November 3. So Many Wizards at Pomona College Museum of Art in Claremont. With Avi Buffalo (solo) and Cosmonauts. Free.
• Friday, November 4. So Many Wizards at the Echo in Los Angeles. With Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Gauntlet Hair. $5.
• Friday, November 11. Geoff Geis at Lot 1 Cafe in Los Angeles. With bands TBA, presented by KXLU.
• Saturday, November 12. So Many Wizards at the Sunset Temple in San Diego. With Lord Huron and Writer.
• Friday, November 18. Geoff Geis at PB&J in Pomona. With bands TBA, presented by KSPC.
• Saturday, November 19. Geoff Geis at Home Room in Los Angeles. With Maston and Verbs. Video release party for “Jeremy” by Geoff Geis, directed by Walt! Gorecki.
• Saturday, November 26. Geoff Geis at Space 1520 in Los Angeles (daytime show). With Peachy Keene, Dead Ships, and Dark Furs, presented by KXSC. Free.
• Tuesday, November 29. So Many Wizards in studio at KSPC.

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Alabama show

I’m going to play at Vertical House in Huntsville with Porcharitas on October 10th!

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Update!

The picture above is from my show at Pehrspace on August 1st, which was the release party for my album Princess. It was an exciting show, and I’m really grateful for all the amazing people who came to see it. Sean Carnage has more photos on his website.

I’ve been doing a lot to promote the album, but probably the most fun thing has been this interview I gave to Mark Givens (of D.I.Y. heroes Wckr Spgt) for his massive electronic literary zine, MungBeing. Mark let me talk – a lot – about my musical history, my ideas about digital distribution, and Marcel Duchamp (of course). If you like that kind of stuff, you should read it! If not, you might want to check the nice little mp3 sampler that comes along with the interview – it includes some rare and unreleased jamz from my solo act, Big Whup, the New Motherfuckers, and Pizza!

Speaking of Pizza!, we just released this new video for our old song “Be a Man.” It was directed, beautifully, by our friend Blaine Ludy. When will we finally release new music? Sooner than you’d expect…

Oh yes, and there are also a couple of live shows to promote. One is this party at 5 Star Bar to celebrate the anniversary of the Summer Fun Time Society, an event production crew headed by my pal Vivian. You can RSVP on Facebook. Here’s a flyer for that one:

Finally, I’m organizing an event with FMLY on Saturday, Aug 27 at Tierra de la Culebra in Highland Park. It’s a “stripped-down” affair, and it will feature semi-acoustic performances by the likes of the Monolators, So Many Wizards, Dnonkong, Seasons, and Magick Orchids. You can also bring an instrument if you’d like to jam as well. Here’s the Facebook invitation. A flyer is forthcoming.

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“Princess” release party

Sooo… to celebrate my new album Princess, I’m going to play a Monday Night at Pehrspace on August 1st. I’m extraordinarily honored, because my performance is also the first week of a monthlong celebration of six years of Monday shows curated by Sean Carnage and Kyle Mabson. I’m so excited!

You can RSVP on Facebook. Here’s the poster:

Geoff Geis Princess Release Party at Pehrspace with Sisterfucker, the Monolators, and Mind Cemetery. Presented by Sean Carnage.

Monday, August 1
$5 All Ages 9 PM
Pehrspace
325 Glendale Blvd

http://www.seancarnage.com​/

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Where have you been all my life?

I mentioned last week that I was playing a solo show at Pehrspace this Friday. That’s still true, and you can still RSVP on Facebook.

Today, Lord Growing (the guy who is producing the show) posted a new mp3 by me on his website. I titled it “Where U Been?,” and it’s a cover of Arthur Alexander‘s “Where Have You Been (All My Life)?”

Download it here.

Read more about it on the 704 Blog.

I had an interesting conversation with Sarah about my choice for a title. I’m a writer by profession – of educational materials, moreover – so I should know better than to use “U” in a song title. Moreover, it’s a little odd that I decided to replace a perfectly proper title with something silly. I’ve always disliked it when artists use “R”s and “2″s and “U”s.

I told her that I did it as a goof on Prince. It’s a joke!

Nonetheless, she thinks that’s unacceptable. Perhaps there are things about which we oughtn’t joke, like proper grammar and spelling.

She has a point. Can anyone even tell that I’m joking?

“Where U Been?” by Geoff Geis

 

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Solo show

On Friday, April 1, I’ve got a solo show at Pehrspace – only my second show of the year! This is a brief breach of a  performance hiatus that will resume after the show is complete.

I’m excited, because I’ve got some new material to show and because it’s the first time I’ve played a show put on by Lord Growing’s 704 Blog. I’ve been following that blog since it emerged about a year ago, and I’m honored that Mr. Growing has chosen me to represent his enterprise. I’m also stoked because I’ll be playing with Pulse Out! I haven’t heard Pulse Out! yet, but my buddies Nima and Erik (of So Many Wizards) are part of it and I just love those dudes.

So anyway, RSVP on Facebook and visit us at Pehrspace on April 1. If I see you there, I’ll personally smile in your direction.

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Saturday: LA Lottery League

Oh, so this is happening…

LA Lottery League – THE BIG SHOW (RSVP on Facebook) Saturday, February 26 at Project Infest, 3201 Maple Ave. 90011. $5.

Modeling themselves after the original Lottery League in Cleveland, a “Council of Chiefs” has randomly created 12 new bands from a pool of Los Angeles musicians. I’m involved, as are Tyler and Duncan from Pizza!.

On January 29, we were split into our new bands. Mine is called Magii, and it features Bizzart and members of Masks and M31. For a month, we’ve been writing and rehearsing our set. It’s been rewarding to work with these people, none of whom I knew very well before this adventure. I’m stoked about the results. I’m also excited about all of the other bands – the show is sure to be eclectic and entertaining.

Here’s the logo for Magii. It was created by bandmember Matteo Himes:

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“Just Look at What He’s Doing!”

I’m very excited to present an art exhibition, entitled Just Look at What He’s Doing!, at Echo Curio from October 21-24. I was asked to do a “solo show,” but in reality it’s been a collaborative effort that I’ve done with the extraordinary help of Sarah Cisco, Caitlin Craggs, and Kitty Dexter. We’ve been working hard on it, and it’s coming together quite nicely. I’d love it if you attended. Here is a link so that you can RSVP to the opening on Facebook. Echo Curio is located at 1519 Sunset Blvd in Echo Park, and the opening event begins at 9pm.

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Toe Jam

I’m in a new band called Toe Jam. We had our first practice last night, and it was pretty killer. Check it out:

Saturday, October 2
Sean Carnage and Kyle Mabson present:

High Castle
Zulus
NASA Space Universe
Toe Jam

Starts 9:30pm / $5 / all-ages

Pehrspace—325 Glendale Blvd., in Historic Filipinotown

Toe Jam, the world’s first Free Grunge band, features members of Pizza!, XBXRX, Big Whup, Violence and Negativity, Foot Village, Cockwind and Essay.

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