June 30th, 2k9AD. Posted by Brian
All kinds of FREE SHOW TONIGHT at the 7house 1914 Myron Cove South, Cordova, TN 38016.  FRENCHIE!, FIVEnine, Voltron, Five Dollar Refund (acoustic), WISC at 6:30.  Good to have Frenchie back around come hang out and reminisce about 5 years ago.  Show FIVEnine some love, they're from Jacksonville, AL, and they hooked up Wicker a month ago.  Sam Prager is in Voltron, he added WISC at the last minute.  We did some gang vocals with Five Dollar Refund yesterday just before they put the finishing touches on their new album.

June 23rd, 2k9AD. Posted by Brian
For the first time in a long time, we have some new family, after the excitement of Pants Tour '09 we joined forces with Five Dollar Refund, Voltron, and Abe.  We had so much fun with these dudes last week that we had to join forces with them. Check them out.

June 21st, 2k9AD. Posted by Brian   show tonight at the 7house at 7
The Acorns
The Raleigh Symphony
Wicker-(all DUDE RANCH tonight)

the pool party got bumped to tomorrow.

this week has been phenomenal, better than we could have ever asked or hoped for. all of it is because of the venues being so generous, the bands always being cool, and all of you guys being awesome. i was a little concerned with all the people who i thought had really held the Pants Tour so close not showing this year that it wouldn't be as great.

This has been the best Pants Tour ever.

Thank you to everyone.

June 15th, 2k9AD. Posted by Brian
Survived the first day, last night went better than expected, selfishly, Pants Tour is the best week of the year.  I get to play every night, see awesome people having a great time, hang out with new people, give away cds, let new bands play shows, and raise money for charity.  It's stupid how much this rules.  Thanks to everyone who came out and was so respectful of our house/neighborhood/the bands.  Tonight is at Memphis Music at Poplar and White Station, my buddy Chuck is running things, he'll hook you up.  Should have shirts TONIGHT!

June 14th, 2k9AD. Posted by Brian
The first day of Pants Tour is finally here!  Any words for the kids Skates? "Tell 'em to come to the Pants Tour."  There you go, Skates and i are finishing the new album, in your hands tonight.  The game'll be on in the Sports Room so you can watch the Magic begin their historic comeback and enjoy rock, punk and otherwise.  See you tonight.

June 12th, 2k9AD. Posted by Brian
Hello to everyone else.  Glad you're back too.  The past couple days have been devoted to awesomeness.  Right now, while we're being tornadoed, The Summer League is playing the Icthus Festival in the Commonwealth. Today Skates and i finetuned the split we're putting out with Wicker, The Acorns, and The Amblotics. We're making them right now, tomorrow is artwork, Sunday is the first day you can get one, just the way the founded fathers of Native Americans would have intended:  you come to a show and hang out, you get a cd for free, you live out of town and want one, we'll send it. The You Can't Have Our Kids split comes out Sunday on the first day of Pants Tour '09.  Yesterday was Chad working tirelessly on the Icthus sampler while Dustin flodged on the show.  Also yesterday, my dad had helped put the shelf up in the Sports Room and Billy and i worked on it while Jason Baker came back in town and we discussed the Smith7 Records Basketball Team going 1-0.  Our softball team won and stays in first place in our division. I can't sleep when it's dark outside.

June 10th, 2k9AD. Posted by Brian
Hello Matt Hall. Your devotion is touching.

In 4 days we've got the 4th annual World Pants Tour.  Here's the idea, most of us are too young or too jobbed up to go cross-country for a tour.  There's also the fact that with us being non-profit, there's not a whole lot of wiggle room on gas money.  So the Pants Tour is a full week of shows in Memphis where the kids we care about most get to hang out every night for cheap, see lots of different bands, and have their money go towards a good cause.  This year all profits are getting shipped overseas to Recife, Brazil where our old friends Craig, Mary, Gennifer, and Shelby DeLille continue to work with the food bank they started, the youth center they work at, the 3 new homes they are building.  If you want to contribute directly, there's more info at www.southamericanmission.org or you can just come to the Pants Tour and we'll toss it in.  If you want to help but got no cash and hate music, you can still support by sending them emails.  They left their air conditioned existence a few years back to do some real good in the world, tell 'em how awesome they are at cmdelille@southamericamission.org . So yeah, Pants Tour, bands don't get paid, wow, sounds like other local booking fiascos, well here's what we do, bands that play Pants Tour get in to all the shows for free all week long.  That way bands are having more fun and supporting each other without having to pay for it.  It's more like a barter system, America, feel free to take note.  Not in a band? still want to see awesome shows all week long but $5 a night is too steep? Get yourself one of those Pants Tour All Access Passes for $25 and you'll get into every show, the Pool Party at the end of the week, the real cool club at the other side of town, and we'll all hi-five you a lot. 

Things i'm not good with:  computers, capitalism, comma conservation.  It falls squarely on me that the site's been down for so long and that even now is woefully in need of updating.  Now that my full-time job is missing my students out at Snowden, i'm gonna try to keep this alive, let me know if you care or have some way to help.  Adam, Drew, and Mikey (and countless others) have done so much to keep the site going and looking great.  As with everyone who has devoted years of their life to this unpopular way of thinking, none of them ever made a dollar for all of their efforts.  Many thanks to them.  We were all raised to worship money.  We must all fight to see that our system is flawed and that we can aspire to be more than just consumers.  we're still here if you want to help or talk, brian@smithseven.com  901-624-4797

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