Tonight at Black Sheep: Big Storm, Old Fox Road, Paqui, Yogi Beara, Mystery Gift

1377434_10151591070970059_917429083_nWe got a rockin’ show for you tonight, folks! Opening things up here we got Mystery Gift, a local group with members of Mildred and Meredosia. What IS the mysterious gift? That’s the age-old question. Following Mystery Gift, we have have the two-piece garage rock group Yogi Beara. Following them, we have the lovely Paqui who will grace us with some wonderful tunes. After Paqui, we have a folk punk group from Arthur, IL called Old Fox Road. You can check out their stuff down below. Finally, closing off the night, we have the beloved rockin’ and rollin’ Big Storm.

This rock and roll show starts at 7:00 pm (be there or be square, hippies) and costs 5 buckaroos. You can check it out on the Facebook right here, and be sure to check out all of the other shows going on this year including Hobgob!

Sunday at Brewhause: 19/20 Years of Tom Irwin

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This Sunday at long running Springfield bar The Brewhaus, there will be a celebratory night honoring 20 years of Tom Irwin playing there on Sunday nights. The flier pictured above does say 20 years… but Tom might have miscalculated and it might be an actual 19 year celebration. From Tom’s column in The Illinois Times:

This Sunday we celebrate an anniversary at the Brewhaus. The venerable downtown bar opened in 1994 as the first of the new wave of downtown drinking and entertainment establishments. I’ve made a mathematical memory error for years now, always celebrating my events there as if I had started in 1993. But the light came, the darkness lifted and I’ve been shown the error of my ways and next year we will celebrate completing 20 years of live music at the same venue. But please come celebrate this Sunday as we begin the 20th year of yours truly at the Brewhaus nearly every Sunday at 7 p.m. with guests Murder of Crowes.

Tom Irwin has been a solo musician in Springfield for a while now as well as a columnist for the music section of the Illinois Times. There will be a show at Black Sheep on Sunday, but for those of you who are ages 21 and up you might want to head over to Brewhaus and celebrate 19 or 20 years of Tom Irwin. Their show starts at 7:00 pm and also features Murder of Crowes.

Tom Irwin was featured as a guest on The Black Sheep Radio Show earlier this month. You can download that entire episode right here.

The Black Sheep Radio Show Today

558064_704236416255833_1023968523_nToday is Friday so it’s another episode of The Black Sheep Radio Show! There isn’t a show happening at Black Sheep tonight so you can sit at home and stare into the radio instead. We do have shows coming up on Saturday and Sunday. Today on The Black Sheep Radio Show we do not have any special guests- it’s just normal boring Brandon Carnes and Robbie Kording. You can catch the radio show from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on 88.3 WQNA fm. You can also stream the show online at wqna.org. If you are extra bored and need more Black Sheep Radio, head over to our radio page where you can download all of our past episodes!

 

The Illinois Times: “Graffiti Grows Up”

imagesnewsA_01.16920.widea.0The Illinois Times have published an interesting article this week in their issue discussing graffiti in Springfield and also touching up on the mural on the side of Popeye’s Barbecue we told you about last week. You can see some of the progress on the new mural pictured above. From The Illinois Times article:

Wilson and Spencer Stokes of Springfield, another TVR founding member who goes by the nickname “Marsho,” are painting a mural on the side of Clay’s Popeye’s Barbeque, 1121 South Grand Avenue East. The mural fittingly features the cartoon character Popeye, his arch-nemesis Bluto and other characters from the cartoon strip.  The completed mural will feature the slogan of the Springfield-based genHkids Coalition, “Eat real. Move more.” and the currently vacant lot it overlooks will become a community garden providing fresh vegetables for the restaurant.

You can check out the full article right here. We plan on updating you again when the Southtown mural is completed or when we have more news on the community garden.

 

Our Lady West Coast Tour

Our Lady West Coast TourThe local emo jammers Our Lady are going on a west coast tour, ladies and gents! Check out the places they’ll be venturing to on the awesome tour poster posted above. So far, here are the set destinations they’ll be playing at:

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11/07 St. Louis, MO- The Livery Company (event)
11/08  Nashville, TN- The Owl Farm (event)
11/12 Houston, TX- Super Happy Fun Land
11/14 Denton, TX- Macaroni Island (event)
11/18 Pheonix, AZ- The Trunk Space
11/23 Reno, NV- The Holland Project
11/24 Salt Lake City, UT- The Shred Shed
11/25 Denver, Co- Seventh Circle Music Collective (event)

For all the other dates, the venue status is TBA, so if you are from any of those TBA areas (or know someone in the music scene there), give Our Lady a hand by contacting ourladyband@gmail.com and helping them book! Here’s their facebook page as well.This band is so rad and the people in it are swell so make sure to check them out at any of these shows if you are able to go.
Below is their album Dawning, which they have been revamping whilst recording a few new hits! Check out their other emotional and heartfelt tunes on bandcamp.

Tonight at Black Sheep: Doomsayer, Purgatory, Gutterpriest, Bo Mellado

1377537_731905423503134_1632734487_nThis show tonight is going to be raw. Champaign based Doomsayer will be playing some hardcore, blackened metal. They feature a member of Rvins and will most likely knock our socks off with their rad metal power. We’ll also be seeing Purgatory, a heavy metal band from Lincoln. This metallic hardcore set is sure to be black so make sure to check them out and mosh your wits away! Gutterpriest is another set we’ll be seeing this evening, which features Dogfood of Execution Techniques. He’ll be giving us some entrancingly deliberate noisecore definitely stick around. Bo Mellado of Mildred and Meredosia will also be gracing us with his talents tonight, so as you can see this show is going to rule.

This is all going to be happening right around 7pm, so come out and pay $5 to see these awesome bands! Here’s the facebook event for this show, and make sure to check out our shows page to see what other shows are coming up at Black Sheep this fall.

November 16th at The Radon Lounge: Filmloom, Mayhew The Traitor, Jess Knight

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Springfield house venue The Radon Lounge are going to be on FIRE this November with three whole shows lined up for the month. For the complete list of upcoming Radon shows, check out the shows page on their site right here. The show we are bringing you news of today is happening on Saturday, November 16th. This show will feature the electronic/pop band Filmloom from Grandrapids, Michigan. The band is pictured above and you can find some of their music streaming on the player embedded below. Also playing this show is an acoustic/folk project from Urbana, Illinois called Mayhew The Traitor. Opening up the show will be Jess Knight of Looming and Mother Leopard. Jess will also be playing a solo show at Black Sheep coming up on November 5th with Two Knights, Our Lady, and Wir Konnen.

The Radon Lounge show will start at 7:00 pm and guess what? The show is FREE! That means you have no excuse not to come. If you want to check out something else happening at The Radon Lounge before this show happens, they will be hosting a Bob Dylan cover show on Saturday, November 9th. For a complete list of shows going on around Springfield, check out our Springfield shows page.

December 8th at Black Sheep: Brandon Carnes, Family Lumber, Jess Knight, Austin Connelly

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December shows are now showing their faces! There’s going to be one on the 8th of December and it’s going to be full of acoustic goodness to warm us from the cold. Brandon Carnes, who is also in Big Storm, The Timmys and Looming, will be playing 666 devil worshiping musik. Michael Tietjen, also in the band Family Lumber, is travelling solo at this time and so he will be giving us some swell acoustic tunes to enjoy. He is pictured above and some of his full band’s music is on the player embedded below. Jess Knight of Looming and Mother Leopard will be singing great songs and playing guitar for us. It’s gonna be great, and Austin Connelly is performing too! He’ll be playing music and he’ll either think about telling bad jokes or he’ll actually tell them. Only time will tell, so come out to this show and make sure to wear your hip winter clothes, even though we should hopefully have a super rad heating system in place by then.

This will be at 7pm, Sunday December 8th. Bring $5. Find a facebook event for this show right here. To see more shows happening before and after this one, check out our shows page.

Calling All High School Newspapers!

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Today we are once again calling out to all you readers and show goers for help! We have tried our darnedest to get in touch with high school newspapers this school year, but have had very little luck.

If you go to a high school and it has a newspaper, we would love to get in contact with the people who run it. If you have any information that points us in the right direction, please email it to blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com. Any little bit of info will help!

November 8th at The Poon Lagoon: Hospital Job, Big Storm, The Timmys, Nathan Leigh

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Check it out, there’s a show coming up at Poon Lagoon with a killer lineup. Local pop-punk and well-loved band Hospital Job will be playing their rad, feel-good tunes. Big Storm will be performing their upbeat, powerpop songs to lift the spirits of the downtrodden. The Timmys will also be playing their super-swell punk stuff and they’re surely going to give a good set. Also, Brooklyn artist Nathan Leigh will be producing some rad folk-punk sounds, so check out this awesome show at Poon Lagoon!

Here’s the facebook event, feel free to contact the moderators with questions on where Poon Lagoon is if you can’t figure it out. The show starts at 7:00 pm, so try to check it out because it’s sure to be enjoyable. Make sure to see what other shows are coming up in Springfield right here on our Springfield shows page!