Yes, that’s right, the infamous Chicago based band Nonagon performed live as the headliner to our annual summer extranvaganza, playing live in our studio. The session, which was streamed live over the internet, was lovingly recorded by Mr. Matt Engstrom, and filmed by Mr. Thomas Banks.
Check out the Nonagon Live at Caffeinated Recordings album to see the rest of the videos from the perfomance.
Ladies and gentlemen, it pleases me to announce the band line up for the 2nd Annual Autumn BBQ, the PRF Auktoberfyst 2011 The schedule includes a lot of new bands, and even more old friends.
The three day even will be held at Thursday, September 29th at Quenchers Saloon, which is located at the corner of Western and Fullerton in the city of Chicago. From there it heads out to the largest Czech restaurant in the United States, Klas Restaurant, which is located at 5734 W. Cermak Road, in lovely Cicero, IL.
Faiz Zeppelin, featuring an all star lineup of PRF Musicians can be seen here performing live in front of a near sellout crowd at The Hideout in Chicago, IL on Saturday April 30th, 2011. Following an opening set from Chicago’s The Columbines, and an amazing 12 year old guest lead singer, Faiz Zeppelin took the stage with a wild abandon, launching into a slammed together run of We’re Gonna Groove, Heartbreaker, and Communication Breakdown. Fists were pumping high in the air.
Check out more from the band at https://faizzeppelin.com/.
Post Honeymoon, who performed at the 2010 PRF BBQ, is seen here smoking up Quenchers Saloon in Chicago, IL on Saturday May 7th, 2011. Check out more from the band at https://posthoneymoon.com/.
I made a post sometime in early 2009, around the time of the initial talks of this basement BBQ in the works, suggesting that we should include live karaoke. I didn’t expect anyone to care enough to respond, but within a few hours had been contacted by MF Nightmen (guitar), Ruy Lopez (drums), hench (keys, though more on that), and kerble as the MC. I offered to fill the open bass role, though MF thought we’d be better served by 2 guitars and asked the other bassist in his band (-o-), Erik, to join. Wow, we had a karaoke band!
Colonel Panic at The Hype perform Live at PRFBBQ2010
Months later, we’d kind of forgotten about it and realized we needed to get our shit together. The show was about a month away and people we’re actually anticipating my half-assed karaoke concept. Oh boy. Around that time, hench told me he was too busy to do it, then got seriously ill, then moved to LA, so we we’re SOL in the keys dept. Uh oh, no one on EA plays fuckin’ keys (as far as I knew at the time). I even contacted a professional keyboardist through craigslist to fill in as over half of the requests had pianos or synths. Luckily, the dude didn’t write me back (he seemed a little too into Ben Folds anyway) and Noise&Light contacted me 3 weeks before showtime. Saved! We had our first practice about 2 weeks before the BBQ and after some shaky run throughs, we managed to get 19 songs down in 4 or 5 practices @ MF’s Ravenswood Manor bungalow (which is like playing in a 1960s basement, in the best way imaginable).