The Material tour dates cancelled. Please read.

To all of our loving fans, we have some unfortunate news...
It has been 3 long hard working months of tour for us, and we were looking forward for that last month, but unfortunately we have decided to cut our current tour short. Given the current costs of being in a touring band, cancelled shows, multiple days off, constant van issues, and personal health problems, we have had to make a decision that we know is best for the future of our band. We apologize to all of you who were looking forward to our second trip to your city this month, and we promise to make it up to you on our next national tour!

We have nothing but love and respect for And Then There Was you and Blameshift. We made life long friendships with them and learned a great deal from both bands. Please check both of these bands out if you haven't already. www.myspace.com/blameshift & www.myspace.com/attwy. Both of these bands work harder than anyone we have ever played with. They have a love and passion for what they do that is unmatched by a lot of bands that are out there right now.

What happens now? We are going to get some much needed rest after our 3 month journey and then finish writing our next record. We are all very excited about this and can't wait to share our new music with everyone. If you have seen us live in the last few months you have heard our new song "On and on and on". That is a small taste of what we have in store for everyone. We will continue to keep you updated on our lives and promise to not be away for too long. Our show in San Diego on Nov 7th at the Epicentre is still on! We will see all of our hometown friends then and give everyone one last show before we lock ourselves into our rehearsal space.

Hugs,
The Material

3 days (so far...) in Texas

Tonight we will be rejoining our friends Blameshift & And Then There Was You in Tomball, TX at Gary's Spot. We are aware of the tragedy that hit the Houston area and were weary of heading there to play a show. We just hope that we can provide a service to the great people of the Houston area by showing them love and a great time for the evening.

We have been hanging in Austin the last 2 days. Noah apparently has more family than he knows of so we were blessed with an amazing place to stay here! This was particularly heartwarming given our experience with our trusty steed Rover. He is doing much better now and is ready to take on the rest of the tour.

Yesterday we hit the town in Austin for a bit and ate at one of our favorite restaurants, Veggie Heaven. To me this is heaven since almost everything on the menu is Vegan, delicious, and under $6! We checked out Stubb's BBQ since we will be playing there Monday and were quite impressed by it. After that we hit up the UT campus and did some promotion for the show. I would have to say that Austin is one of my new favorite cities, hands down. Later in the evening we surprised our friend Ian by showing up to his house and hand delivering his cd order. This is the kind of friendly service that we provide here at the Material Music Inc!

Thanks to everyone for sending us well wishes while we were down and out. See you all soon!

Roi

Hotel rooms...

Hotel rooms are good for writing. We're stuck in Amarillo, TX waiting
for Rover to be fixed. We figured we would take advantage of our
lovely Taylor acoustics and write some music. Nothing comforts like a
Taylor. Our next album may be called "I've got 99 problems and a van
IS one." ;)

New Tour Journal

We made a new tour journal. Go there, bookmark it, and check back
regularly. www.wearethematerial.com