The Sleep-ins

*it couldn't

yes it could almost accurately said* that we lost one member of the band to microwave addiction, very sad

Our first album Songs About Girls & Outer Space was released fifteen years ago today. We were on the way to play a show in Raleigh NC.

The album charted on what was then the CMJ 200 and the song 'Silver State' got a film placement. The band made enough money to each buy their own small microwave.

apparently there is a university crazy enough to have made one of the Sleep-ins a vice chancellor

Chris Colla with electric guitar, Chad Corley with electric guitar and singing, Stefan Pope with bass guitar and Josh Schuberth drumming perform as the Sleep-ins at Cat & Fiddle in Balmain NSW Australia

#ProofOfRock

the Sleep-ins
Cat & Fiddle Balmain NSW
11 may 2005

one thing I did almost completely throughout my career as a band-former is not hesitate to get some kind of gig booked as soon as there were three or more people in the same room making something that sounded like music

play as many gigs as you can because that's how you get better at playing gigs

I don't know who needs to hear this but you're allowed to be a fan of your own work

Photo taken behind the Excelsior Hotel in Surry Hills NSW of members of the Sleep-ins from various eras (left to right): Chris Colla, Josh Lanham, unidentified female in the background, Stefan Pope, Ben Price, Chad Corley

Edited version of photo taken behind the Excelsior Hotel in Surry Hills NSW of members of the Sleep-ins in April 2004 (left to right): Chris Colla, Stefan Pope, Chad Corley. Photoshop was used to remove people from the picture and add the words, "the sleep-ins @ BarMe April 29 10pm" to the wall in the background

I did some real Stalin shit on this photo taken after @sleep-ins.one28.us first gig to make a flyer for an acoustic gig we did later on

Advert in Sydney Drum Media for gigs at the Green Square Hotel on Friday 21st May, 2004 and Saturday 22nd May, 2004. On Friday it was The Sleep-ins + The Get Wells + Special Guest (an Oscar Wright performance!) and on Saturday it was Blues, roots and raw, original performances starring: The Pheromones + DeMitri James + Stringer & Thorn with special surprise guest + Claire Whyndam. Both shows are $8 - doors open @ 8pm. At the bottom of the advert it says: Proudly supporting the Sydney live scene crn Bourke & Elizabeth Sts, Zetland 1 minute from Green Sq Station, 5 mins from Central Bookings contact: Michelle @ Bleu Solstice on 02 9311 1498 or bleusolstice@hotmail.com

the sleep-ins and the get wells

everyone left the gig feeling better

cc:
@sleep-ins.one28.us

shame on all of these Trump Democrats, they continue to fail us

Post by Dan Lamothe: "But he also has faced setbacks in his attempt to align the Defense Department more closely with Trump's "America First" agenda and, on Tuesday, appeared to be singled out by Cabinet colleagues over his handing of the administration's military plans. Tube Amps for Justice: why would you report this with Trump's frame of the agenda when the agenda is not "America First" or even competent?

this cowardly joke of a journalist blocked me for asking this

posts from Bluesky

fuck you coward

I'm also in a band, we've been working on an album (for 15 years) that will be released later this year.

We've been successful on paper, you can read about it on Wikipedia if you want.

The band is the Sleep-ins - @sleep-ins.bsky.social
Just set up on Pixelfed - pixelfed.social/sleepins

Thanks

YouTube video by The Sleep-ins Patience is the Key (Song of the Bullfighter) by kingsizemidget

Later the same day after everyone was gone, I went back and edited the trumpet parts, and copied some phrases to fill out the end, and well here it is:

youtu.be/JCtSqFuv9Jw

Tying a bow on this thread🧵...

The way we tackled the trumpet parts was phrase by phrase. We'd play a bit of the song, I'd hammer out notes on the piano and say, "play that." We'd record him playing it and move on to the next phrase.

Even though we didn't finish the song I had enough to finish.

Things were now completely out of hand as there may have been more drunk people than sober in the session. We were so close to done, but I knew there was no longer any hope of accomplishing anything further.

So I called it a day on drunken trumpet.

Things were going great, and we had gotten about 2/3 of the way through the song when one of my partners in the studio, also an extremely talented musician and producer, walked into the session.

Which would've been fine, except he was also extremely drunk. And just bursting to offer his own advice.

Instead of getting him right in front of a microphone to put down a track, we sat with him and played the tune while we gave him drinks. We explained what we wanted, which was a kind of Ennio Morricone bullfighter theme, but drunk.

As soon as we noticed he was slurring, we got a mic on him.

#weirdsessions

I was in Sydney working with my friend Mike Johnson, AKA kingsizemidget, on his second album. We had a track that needed a specific kind of trumpet: drunken trumpet. So I called a friend of mine who was a trumpet player I thought might work and asked him to come up to the studio.

Since we're recording an album, I'm going to talk about recording albums.

And when I do, since many if not all of the recording sessions have been weird, I'm going to use #WeirdSessions.

Hate Club 1488 is the name of the group that marched through Columbus, Ohio are led by former Blood Tribe/GDL member Anthony Altick, aka Combat Carl.

He murdered a black man in 2015.

This is not anti-semitism alone it’s about eradicating anyone that is opposed to a white ethnostate.

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YouTube video by The Sleep-ins The Sleep-ins - Silver State

This is from the before time

youtu.be/sHvtEbs4GdY?...

I'm also a member of a band called the Sleep-ins (@sleep-ins.bsky.social). A thing we're trying to do amidst the increasing chaos is record another album.

if there's one thing I've learned about social media, it's that positive messages work best - even for the haters, the losers, and the dumbasses