Join us this Saturday, March 10, as we return to the Northside Tavern’s front room. Our good friend Scott Cunningham of Wake The Bear will join us. He’ll open and we’ll do a mini-set of each other’s songs before we close out the night with our set. Time is 9-11pm-ish. See you there?
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Tom Petty Tribute – Feb. 24
Join us and some of Cincinnati’s best bands to honor the music and life of Tom Petty: Saturday, Feb. 24 at the Southgate House Revival. The show starts at 8pm and we’ll be on right at 9pm, doing three of our favorite Petty songs.
The lineup also includes: Lost Coast, Wilder, Frontier Folk Nebraska, Calumet, Krystal Peterson & the QCB, 500 Miles to Memphis, Arlo McKinley & the Lonesome Sound, The Lovers, Ben Knight & the Welldiggers, The Damn Torpedoes, Moonshine & Wine, The Brand, No Sorrow, The Kentucky Struts, Nick Baker, The Grove, Boxcar Suite, and Magnolia Mountain.
Great press for The Long Fight + my favorite music of the year
We had a great record release show at York Street Cafe last month. Thanks to all who joined and made it a phenomenal night. We’ve gotten some great press for the record so far — check out Mike Breen’s fantastic review in CityBeat and Jim Nolan’s thoughtful interview at WVXU. We’ll have photos and more press up soon.
In the meantime, check out my annual list of my favorite music of the year. Let me know if you find something new to dig. Check out the Spotify playlist, too!
Happy holidays — we’ll see you soon.
– Dave
The Long Fight is available!
The Long Fight is available for listening and purchase (CD, download) at our Bandcamp site. The release show was epic — more updates on that and the record coming soon (we need a break!). Cheers to everyone who made it a great night.
Nov 11 — Record Release Party @ York Street Cafe
Join us on Saturday, Nov. 11 at York Street Cafe (9pm) for our record release party for The Long Fight.
We’ll be joined by special guests Mike Tittel & Lauren Bray from one of our favorite bands,
New Sincerity Works.
More news soon!
Please Allow Us To (Re)Introduce Ourselves
Pike 27 by Jude Mecher
Bands change lineups like the trees change leaves. goes Brian Jones, in comes Mick Taylor. See ya, David Lee — welcome, Sammy. The Spice Girls continued on without Ginger Spice! Pike 27 may have carved out a small corner of Cincinnati music history by…having the lead singer fire himself just as the new record is done?
Long story short: although Dave Purcell has always sang and played guitar in Pike 27, he fell back in love with drums, his original instrument, just as he fell out of love with singing. He approached Dave Killen about moving from drums to guitar, but Dave saw this as a good time to focus on finishing his Master’s degree and offered to move on. Now what?
Enter singer/songwriter/guitarist Dan Mecher, formerly of The Turnbull ACs, Denial, and many fab courtyard sets at Neon’s. The seeds were planted when Dan opened for us at the Listing Loon a couple of years back: he joined us on some of our songs, we backed him on his, hugs were exchanged, and everyone drank too much and had a lovely time. When Dave P. approached Dan with a typically long-winded explanation of the situation, Dan simply texted back, “I’m in.”
Dan sings most of our songs, and Dave P. still sings a few from behind the kit. We’re doing Dan’s songs, too. We still sound like Pike 27. Dave K. is staying in the extended family to sit in the many stringed instruments he plays.
We’ve played a few low-key gigs with Dan, Friday, Oct. 13 is our official coming-out party. You can do your part by coming out, too (#seewhatwedidthere?).
We haven’t had time to get a new band photo yet, so please adore the artistic interpretation by Jude Mecher. Thanks for listening. Hope to see you Friday.
— Pike 27 v4.0
P.S. RIP, Tom Petty.
October 13 w/ Flying Underground & Shrug
Excellent guitarist/songwriter Brian Lovely recently started a new monthly indie rock series at MVP in Silverton, and we’re thrilled to be included in October along with Shrug (from Dayton). It’s a great room with excellent sound — join us!
We kick the show off at 9pm, followed by Shrug, and Flying Underground.
Westwood Art Show this Saturday (9/9)
We’ll be at the Westwood Art Show (2:45-3:45p) this Saturday, just before The Kentucky Struts. Rachael Mousie, Acarya, Freedom Nicole Moore play before us. The art show is at the Westwood Town Hall on Harrison, and their Second Saturday event with additional bands follows immediately at 5pm.
July 10
Just a quick reminder that we’ll be at Northside Yacht Club on Monday, July 10. The Division Men (from Austin) go on first at 9pm, we’re on second at 10pm, and the wonderful Royal Holland Close out the night.
We’re Coming Out…
Hi. It’s been a while. We’ve been busy finishing out new record, The Long Fight, which will be out later this summer.
We have some other surprises for you, too. More about that soon.
Until then, our first show in quite a while will be free and outdoors at Clifton Plaza (on Ludlow across from The Esquire) with our good friend, Andrea Rosenthal. Friday, June 23, 7-10pm. Come say hello — we’d love to see you.