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A lot has happened in the last two years since we started this project. We firmly believe that any good band takes a couple years to gel and find their collective voice. In the first year we played at the Decatur 4th of July festivities, at private parties, and hosted an open mic at Broadway Nites in Springfield, plus we played at a political rally at the Capitol Building and at several fundraisers for the Access 4 Producers Group and the Illinois Stewardship Alliance as well as several Third Thursday Art Shows.

We played our first out-of-town gig in St. Louis at the Crack Fox last May (2011) with the Legendary Clampetts (see the video section), a fish fry for Basement Radio, and have been assisting Roger Smith in helping to revitalize the near East Side by playing at Bourbon Street on 11th & South Grand, and we played at the Pre-show at New Salem's Theatre in the Park.

Flyer for the BRN Fish Fry we played at in May 2012.

And we did all this without a DEMO! But that has now been rectified by Casey Cantrall, our bass player, singer and songwriter, who has recorded our first awesome studio recordings at the Casa through Nature Calls Recordings so we expect to start booking a line up of shows in the next year.

2012 will be the year of the Donut!