Donoma: Blog

Hello Blog readers.  It's been a while huh?  The last time I wrote I was in a glass case of emotion a month ago.  Today...I'm in a glass case of REALLY EXCITED THAT LAST NIGHT WENT SO WELL!  I believe we have played our biggest show yet!  We took a trip to Madison to play on Red Dragon T.V. where you play in a room in front of a camera, live on the web, for hundreds of people.  We eventually had over 600 viewers , probably 2 or more to a computer...you add that up and that's a lot of people!  Of course, for Donoma, nothing turns out to be a simple 2 hour drive to go play a show.

So the plan was, take the hundreds of flyers that we have, leave at 10 to get up there by noon, go to the campus and such handing out flyers, then play a small acoustic set to encourage people to come or watch on the internet, grab some lunch and get to the place at 4:30 for set up time to be on air by 7.  Reasonable plan.  We're Donoma, so of course we're running at least an hour late...no big deal, there's plenty of time to stop at the gas station, fill up our tires and our tanks, grab some breakfast (for me it was french fries) and get on the road ( Oh, not to mention that we played a show last night where our guitar strings and bass drum head had been broken).  So we have to drive a bit out of the way to make a quick stop at the music store.  Then we get on the highway and everythings goin' smooth.  We split amongst ourselves (Izz and I in the van, Shelle, Brian and Bob in the Jeep).  Israel had just inherited a van from a family member so we named him Charlie Brown and called him our band van.  This is the first real trip we had made with Charlie Brown.  We had taken him to the Penny Road Pub, which was sorta a hike, but nothing too bad.  Actually, Madison isn't that much of a hike either really.  We were so excited!!!  We had just got this van recently mind you.  Paid plenty to get the title and the plates, bought curtain hangers, made our ouwn curtains, and installed them.  The van was awesome.  It was so awesome, Shelle and Brian couldn't even wait for a band tour to sleep in it so they slept in it in my driveway! Silly monkeys :)

A bit over an hour into our trip (everything's finally going smoothly) Israel and I hear a loud rattling noise.  So we pull over, popped the hood and it smells aweful and smoking (I know nothing about cars except for what color they are).  All I could think about is the irony of how a few weeks ago our friends who are also from Kenosha were supposed to play on Red Dragon and thier van broke down so they couldn't make it.  After hours of trying to jump it on the freeway (that was an adrenaline rush) we only got it to move half a mile before it was done for.  Getting it towed somewhere wasn't the problem, but what about all of our equipment!?!  Long story semi-short, thanks to the help of our friends and family we were able to make it to the show.  And I'd say we had a kick ass time and a lot of good comments.  Thanks you to all of you who supported us that night.

Love Love Love,

Stephanie

oh charlie brown, even though you weren't with us long, how I miss you so.

Shelle - Donoma