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BREAKING NEWS The Leftovers have a snazzy new lineup featuring Kurt Milton Baker, Andrew Rice, Adam, and Drew. 6.28.04 HEY, everybody. So we have had a bunch of cool shows lately. i wont get into them very much cuz now we have this awesome scene trendy thing called myspace, where i get into all the nasty deatails about our shows and stuff... check it out.. http://www.myspace.com/theleftovers but in terms of news we are going to be LIVE on 94.3 Wcyy Spinout, Thursday July 8th. Its going to be fun, we might play a live song, who knows, it will be a suprise! but, also we are n the works of planning a new album. studio time has been booked, and we are happy to be working with the great Jon Wyman at Big Sound again. so more news on that soon. later yos! 5.22.04 opening day of whiffle ball: the battle of the drews vs the jews. final score: machias moose (adam and kurt) 5. millinocket moonbaggers (?) (drew and andrew) 0. no contest. We have had a bunch of cool shows over the past month. lca was awesome, although drew proceeded to get arrested after. find out how by going here http://leftoversband.proboards12.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&num=1084745514. yup theres the whole story. but we have a few weeks off whilst i (adam) must graduate high school and eat some jelly. but we have a show with avoid one thing on sunday june 13 where we will finally get to sing our song amy for Amy Griffin of Avoid One Thing. landmark day in leftovers history. we have a lot of new songs and maybe a demo soon, but we plan to record some shit and then release it. whoa. see you in a few weeks. keep it real. 5.13.04 Hey whats up! Its adam again this time from study hall!!! AHHH! so we had three shows last weekend. we'd like to thank all of those who came out to liquid blue on friday to see us. DONT PAT YOURSELF ON THE FUCKING BACK WE KNOW YOU WERENT THERE. beacuse NO ONE was there. yup. thats right. we played for zero people. well...we played for glenn who is the man. he's in haven't talked since who played that night too. the rest of his band split though after they finished. not cool. but liquid blue has an awesome stage. like the best on we've played on. its cool. but yea to sum it up, fuck 21+ shows. fuck em. ...but the show on saturday with headstart and others was awesome. there were tons of people for that and somehow we managed to get people to like us. AWESOME. sunday was cool too. although there wasn't that great of a turnout because it was mothers day and a sunday and it was 8 bucks. but the vapids are a really awesome band and the guts ripped it up as usual. check both of their bands out at www.thegutsrock.com and www.thevapids.com ...i think thats the vapids one.`we had a photo shoot on tuesday with this awesome dude from bates college named stu. we'll probably have the pictures back on friday and then you can all drool over our emo hottness. lost city angels show this saturday at the edge...as long as it doesn't get snowed out. thenw e have a show on tuesday in portsmouth...our first out of state show!!! landmark. landmark. come and then we can go eat at the friendly toast. awesome@!!!!! alright this is the longest news update ever. one more thing though...this may be the last news update before we get our NEW WEBSITE!!! ben from every forty seconds is designing it so its guarenteed to ROCK. alright. keep it real. you know i do. may 9, 2004. r.i.p. kitty 5.5.04 wow. its been a good month since a news update. adam must be whackin off to kurt cobain again... hmm. so we were able to play some awesome awesome shows in april. they rocked alot. and there are some nice photos of them at http://www.purevolume.com/theleftovers/photos so check that shit out fools. Turns out , we won somthing in the rockoff... yes, thats right, we tied 2nd place with Carmine on songwritting. well, thats just cuz we steal everything from the beatles. BITCH. so yeah May 8th... we are back in Auburn for a big rock show, which should be awesome, go to that, BUT, we also have a show on May 9th at the Alehouse with THE GUTS AND THE VAPIDS along with some other great bands. hah run on sentance? anyway, you should seriously please attend the May 9th, cuz The Vapids are from Canada and if nobody is there to see them, they will cry, and we wont get money for burgers after. so go. --kurt 4.5.04 Alright. So we lost the rockoff. We didn't even make it to the top 5. OOF. ANYWAYS. We have some kick ass shows lined uo over the next few months. We have on this wednesday at the big easy with everyfortyseconds and more. GO TO IT IT WILL RULE. we're playing a house party in fri the 9th. Next wednesday we will be making leftovers history as we play TWO shows in ONE NIGHT!! we'll be in westbrook at the sacarappa lodge with DTK and another band from baltimore, then we'll scoot on over to the portland high auditorium where we'll play a few songs at the John Fords Variety show to raise money for the John Fords Scholarship which I (ADAM) will be getting! YAY. We're writing some new songs and need money to record them...so send some money donations to us. AWESOME. AND BUY OUR CD AT BULLMOOSE. PLEASE. We had the number 4 selling local cd at bullmoose last week and we want to stay on that chart...but to do that you have to BUY OUR CDS. 3.22.04 CD release party was last night! It was a pretty good show. There was a good turnout and it was a goodtime...except that it cost 3 bucks for a soda. We sold a bunch of cds...get yours at bullmoose music NOW. we were featured in the monday magazine of the portland press herald today! ALRIGHT. We have the rock off coming up this weekend...i hope we can win so we get some money. money is good. Make sure you remember to pick up our cd...it will be awesome. we have a ton of shows coming up in april and may...and we guarentee that they will rock. alright? alright. 3.14.04 We had a show last night in Sanford. IT ROCKED. The people were awesome and ricky crackers threw up. awesome. we currently have a bunch of promos circulating around in bull moose and various other stores. they're free so take one! and everyone be sure to come to the cd release show THIS SUNDAY at the alehouse. good times will be had by all. 3.9.04 Hey! CD RELEASE PARTY IS SET. MARCH 21. go to the shows section to get all the info. after a short break from shows, we're backin sanford on sat. march 13 with go casual. come check us out. Also, we entered the Reindeer Records 20th Annual Rock Off. its on march 28, so come support us and help us win, cause winning is awesome. We have some awesome shows lined up for april also, and we ahve some bigger news coming soon...but we can't tell you about it yet. everyone go to the cd release and buy our cd. We have some new songs lined up as well. we're working on recording them in my (adam) basement. we're too lazy to finish them though. as soon as we get it, we'll put em up. thats all for now. SEE YOU LATER. 2.29.04 Yea...we just got home from the Jeremiah Freed show. It was alright. BUT friday was soooo much awesomer. We played with the Guts. There was an awesome turn out and all the bands were awesome. Thanks if you were one of the peoples going nuts for us. "Mitton Street Special" ep will be released sometime in march, and look for a dynamite cd release with every forty seconds that will most likely be at the big easy. alright i'm done i cant form sententes. 2.17.04 Hey kiddies. Our CD mumbo-jumbo is progressing swimmingly, with the artwork practically completed, and things settled upon. It's frightfully technical, so I won't bore you with details. 2.11.04 HI! Alright, the Lost City Angels show was goddamn postponed because winter in maine it a fat bitch. its moved to April 16. same bands, same price, same place. tickets will still be honored. IN OTHER NEWS...our ep is just days away from being pressed. the artwork is being completed as i speak. EXCITING isn't it? be sure to buy it at bullmoose when it comes out. O YEA WE WERE ON THE RADIO!!!! to keep it that way, call up day and night and request "AMY". 792-9299 (wcyy). CALL RIGHT NOW. and at least 4 times a day. support and make those nu metal alternative cyy guys notice us. come check us out tomorrow at the Portland High School Talent Show! YAY. well...i'm gonna stop talking now. 1.27.04 alright, now adam is back doing the news updates cause kurt's not allowed to talk. we have like two or three more songs and they rock. seriously. we have another show on feb 24 in westbrook. our e.p. release will be sometime next month, we're just figuring the artwork and title and stuff out. it will be called "Mitton Street Special" e.p. yup. if you don't like it, then go to hell. we'd also like to say thank you to muscle city because they have done tons for us and have high hopes for the invasion...i mean. ya. everyone saddle up and go to the headstart show in biddeford this saturday. ROCK. 1.24.04 hey there, kurt milton here, reaporting from the mitoon street hideout.Last night we played a show at the kave in Bucksport, it was about a 5 and a half hour drive round trip, and we almost didnt even get to play. We are all gald we got back to portland in one peice. If you were at the show, you would know why. anyhow we gotz a great show on the 31st. go to the shows page. and it might just sell out so buy your tickets are the nearest bullmoose music right now!!! 1.15.04 OK go to the shows page. we're playing with lost city angels on feb 6. YEA. 1.14.04 there is now a lyrical page, as well as a guestbook (see homepage under sign our boobs). yup. we're working on getting our ep pressed, and it will happen very soon. meanwhile we have all sorts of shows lined up for you crazy kids. we added two shows, one of feb 1 and one on feb 21. just go to the shows page...we have like 7 or 8 over the next two months so far, so that rocks. 1.11.04 Just confirmed a show with THE GUTS on feb 27. go to shows page for more details. we've also been added onto a show with Headstart on Jan 31. You crazy kids should start a petition to get us on the Lost City Angels show. email steve at eye9d.com and tell him we should play cause it would rock. we're sending out cds to labels today so rock on. we also wrote a song last week and we remember it so we're keepin it. 1.10.04 Woooo. rock. well we recorded at big sound on sunday jan 4. we got 6 songs done in 10 hours (13 if you're not the owner of big sound) which is really awesome. we will be sending it out to labels to see if we can get it pressed cause we sure as fuck don't have any more money. go to the sounds page and listen to some of our songs. the show on the 10 is postponed because the other bands are sick. check the shows page for a complete list of our upcoming shows. if you would like us to play at a show, email us at leftoversband@hotmail.com or go to the contact page to find out other exciting ways to get ahold of us. we still don't have a good website...but we have PICTURES NOW. AND A BIO. AND SOME SOUNDS. so it makes up for it in the end. thats all for now... NEXT SHOW: Fri Jan 16 @Sabattus Church, Sabbattus ME w/missing direction and others. 12.24.03 we (the leftovers) have played 3 shows in december and have had one postponed! YA! the shows were rockin. we also unleashed the Paper+Scissors=ROCK demo 2003. we are going into BIG SOUND recording studio on January 4 to record some rockin songs. we will then release the Paper+Scissors=ROCK ep sometime soon. our catch 22 show was cancelled or "delayed" yet again cause catch 22 can't make it on the 3rd. we'll keep you posted...right now it looks as if it could happen on feb 13...but that's ways away. if anyone wants to buy a cd or to get one for free or wants to buy a button for 50 cent or a t shit for like 6 bucks...email us at leftoversband@hotmail.com . we'll have mp3s up as soon as we figure out how. ben from every forty seconds is constructing a website for us to replace this tub of poo. we took some pictures of ourselves...and those will be up on the new website. kurt is away all of christmas vacation, so no shows for the next couple weeks. but rock! yup.
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