Touchingelbows' Journals

2nd Place!!!

WE GOT 2ND PLACE AND WE'RE GOING ON TO FINALS!!!

Thanks to everyone who came out to the show at Jaxx, we couldn't have do it without you.

A obscene amount of pictures are up now from the set - go check 'em out.

Stay tuned for more info on the Finals show - and get excited for new music coming your way!

JAXX SHOW ANNOUNCED

TOUCHING ELBOWS LIVE!

ALL MEMBERS SELLING TICKETS PRESALE ($8) NOW!!!

AUG. 23rd @ JAXX NIGHTCLUB IN VA

SET TIME: TBA BE THERE!

TICKETS ($10) AT DOOR!

In Studio

Exciting news!

After winning recording time from a gig at DC's 9:30 Club, Touching Elbows went in studio. They recorded three songs- now posted up on myspace, purevolume and buzznet. Make sure to check 'em out and thanks for all the support!

New Song!

Zoe from Touching Elbows here. Just like to say that all is well at Camp Elbow- we're practicing/fine tuning all our old songs and hard at work writting new one. SO here a look at some of the stuff we're working with:

VERSE:

How’d this happen?

I said - how the hell did this happen!

How did I get this voice singing?

How I get these feet tapping?

In my head I never thought

Id ever get too trying at all

But then you’re telling me

That this is all my fault

CHORUS:

Forget bad timing and bad luck

Too late to look back,

My minds made up

VERSE:

Only the privilegedgot to see you play

You push me to go my way

Isn’t this you've waited for?

Nothing but full out war

Maybe I really needed this

And maybe I really want this

I can run faster now

Never going to get enough of it

BRIDGE:

I know- I have my head in the clouds

So what if I work best under the gun?

This is my life and I’m living it

This time I won’t be outdone

NO TOLERANCE?

June 10th at 12o'clock?

What what?

Stay tuned for more updates

Belated Thanks

Thanks to everyone who came out to Azalea Festival and sorry to those who didn't catch us. Yes, our slot got moved again. This year AzFest was running an hour late so we traded with another band who was missing a member, so we ended up playing the same time as the set before us would have been (aka 30 mins early). We have no luck with this place. BUT it was a successful 2nd year, so thanks for coming out, and if you didn't see us, we hope to see you next year!

QUICK NOTE: COFFEHOUSE TIME CORRECTIONS

COFFEEHOUSE :D
THIS SATURDAY @ THE HOLTON-ARMS SCHOOL

Performance I - 4 pm (barista service begins at 3:15 pm)

Performance II - 7 pm (barista service begins at 6 pm)

FYI: We're preforming in -both- so come to either

(and honestly - caffine & live music. whats not to like? you have no excuse not to go. period.)

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ps. gonna miss us saturday? never fear...

UPCOMING SHOW: AZALEA FESTIVALS @ LANDON: MAY 2-3

Shows & Updates

Updates:

firstly...

BIG THANKS TO THOSE OF YOU WHO CAME AND SUPPORT US AT THE 9:30!
The show was incredible. We felt the love :)
We'll be posting pictures of everything from ticket selling, practicing, sound checking, and of course the show- so keep checking back! And be jealous of whoever it was that ended up with Marcus's tri-cornered hat by the end of our set- Haha...

Shows:

March 14th @ the Holton-Arms School
7303 River Road, Bethesda MD 20817
Coffeehouse '09

May 2nd-3rd @ the Landon School
6101 Wilson Lane Bethesda, MD 20817
Azalea Festival '09

Exciting News: T.E. will be heading into "studio" soon to record. We received hours with local Cue Studios for selling 100+ tickets at February 9:30 show (thanks Concerts First). We hope to get down to work around Easter, till then we're back to basics and writing songs. If you're lucky- we'll post some demos :)

Again, thanks to everyone who came to our 9:30 show- it was awesome. Our MySpace now has versions of all your favorate T.E. songs and will soon include Live versions from the Big Thing show.

Also we listed a few new shows (see above). We'd love to have you guys show up to them and spread the love. As always stay tuned for set times and such.

"Stay Classy"-
Touching Elbows
(J, M, M & Z)

Blink 182

Completely unrelated to the band but something had to be said....

SO-

Blink 182 reforms and it doesn't make the Buzznet homepage.

WHAT?
I'm sorry but that doesn't sit with me.

Buzzent seems to pride in including a strong musically element and Blink 182 is argued to be one of the best bands of its time.
Even if you don't like their music, you can't disregard the music skill of someone like Travis Barker.

Thoughts?

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And as always...

REMINDER: Buy your tickets from band members on a pre-sale for $15 (otherwise at the door) for Touching Elbows show at the 9:30 club on February 15th.

Updates & more lyrics

REMINDER: Buy your tickets from band members on a pre-sale for $15 (otherwise at the door) for Touching Elbows show at the 9:30 club on February 15th.

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Hi everybody,

So its been a while since an actual update from us here at Camp T.E. but don't worry we're still here and we're working as hard as ever.

For starters, like we mentioned in an earlier photo post, the band received recording time over the holiday season and we fully plan to use that time soon. So be on the look out for new songs and better versions of the old ones.

Also, it's been a snowy mess here in MD. That being said, we've lots of cold weather and even our first snow day! So where does this leave the members of T.E.? Well for one thing the winter-y mix has prompted us into updating our myspace and purevolume sites (so make sure to check them out!!!)

In other news, for a new song that that band worked on this week we're proud to introduce Zoe on backup vocals and Jonah on cello. Plans are to have it in the set list for the 9:30 show so get excited! But just to give you an idea of what we're working with...

Title: Btown Shakedown

INTRO:

Itâ�™s almost April now

Iâ�™m feeling better than home

Waking up, walking down

Breathing in the cold

VERSE:

The locals and lost bets

All the sights and the sounds

The Set-ups and sunsets

I plant my feet on the ground

Before they find out

Before they know we've slipped away

Come on, run back

Iâ�™ll think of something to say

CHORUS:

Letâ�™s enjoy the time we have

And Iâ�™m feeling more than I can say

Letâ�™s enjoy it while we still can

Feeling the best that I can today

BRIDGE:

Sunglasses inside

A white collar

The afternoon

And ten dollars

VERSE:

The bedroom communities

Of New York or New Jersey

Just can't compare

To the lights of DC

CHORUS:

Letâ�™s enjoy the time we have

And Iâ�™m feeling more than I can say

Letâ�™s enjoy it while we still can

Feeling the best that I can today

Hope you're liking what your seeing. We'll try to have a recording of that song up by this weekend :)

And remember to come to our 9:30 show!!!

-the members of Touching Elbows