Ovipositor played The Hemlock Tavern in SF on Saturday night with our friends Generalissimo and Cartographer (both great bands who kicked out the fucking jams). Not only was it the unofficial kick off of our Fall ’09 tour (with Generalissimo), but it was also the public unveiling of the CD we had a release party for — also at The Hemlock — back in December.
It’s about time we had some product to sling, but I still say it was worth the wait. The custom screen printing and die-cutting on the package looks and works great, and aside from the absence of the album info on the spine on the package, it’ll sit nicely on the shelf along side your other favorite CDs. (People still buy CDs everyone once in a while, right? Right.)
Here are a few photos of the newly released physical version of Oakland Minor (holler at us over at the Ovipositor site for some mail order action):
(Front)
(Back)
(Open)
(Interior)
Saturday night’s show was a bit of a trial run of a tour setlist for us, though we have a pretty good repertoire of tunes at this point, so we plan on switching up every night. Of course, we also played last, which, to quote Colin, meant that we were either headlining the show or cleaning up the mess, depending on how you look at it. Turns out it was a little bit of both.
Generalissimo and Cartographer killed it, and of course I forgot both my camera and my digital recorder so I failed to document their greatness (stay tuned, however, for plenty of Generalissimo tour photo action in the coming week). They played to a good crowd that trickled in as steadily as they trickled out as the evening went on. By the time our set ended, the audience had thinned out. Luckily the homie EJ showed up right before we played and managed to get some photos of us in action. So here you go, just like you were there: