Skattish

-<UPDATE!! Plymouth Church (on Franklin & Nicollet) coffee house on May 13th>-

April 21st, 2005

Hey guys! It's Noah! Just got back from Jamfest, and boy what an interesting night we had. A lot of Good Bands played at Jamfest befor us, and then we got to play second to last. We were told half way through the show we could only play one song, but we bargained into getting five minutes, which was basically 2 songs. It was also funny cause during our huddle, an older guy came up to us and just told us to rebel and play what we want, since they havent cut anyone off yet, and they wont. Anyway, we warmed up with "Chillax" which was really fun, but got cut short and then we shakily entered the infamously catchy July. However, right at the begining of the song, Colin beckoned everyone up on stage, which aparently was a taboo, and our power was cut! the stage went black, and people were sill skanking. we love you guys. Anyway, we still had a blast, and after we got kicked off the stage, the 'pit'was chanting "skattish! skattish!" it was a good time. Hopefully we'll play a bit better at the change debut. who cares. it was a blast.
cya guys soon.

HELLO ALL! Colin here. We are a busy bunch of babes lately. Lot of good shows coming up for your pleasure. Check us this Thursday April 21 at Southwest, 6:30ish at Jamfest. And then, May 6th with the beautiful Change. That'll be a riot. And on May 13th we'll be at Z's church playing. We need a lot of support so that we can all have fun and skank up the place. New songs in the making, and the lyrics we've been writting are very insperational. The message of unity, peace, and love are mos-def being spread in these new songs. New name coming in the future, any ideas???? Post them in the guest book if you have an idea for a name you think would be excellent.

Sorry guys, those of you who ever actually look at the web site, (in other words, no one) probably think we are all dead or something. Well we're not! we're alive and well. We haven't been very active with the band lately but i think we're gonna start working on stuff a lot more lately. I just wrote a damn fine sounding tribute to Operaton Ivy and I'm feelin great about that song. The other night we decided that we're not gonna have a lead singer anymore, Jonah's gonna play keyboard instead. We're all pretty good at signing so we're just gonna give songs to whoever wants to sing them or would be the best for singing them. We're playing at The Underground with The Change for their debut party, that's gonna be one hell of an awesome time. This is on May 6th so mark your calenders now, I think we're also playing at a coffeehouse at my church on May 12th but I'll get more details about that later. It's spring break and life is great! Music is a beautiful thing and I'm learning to appreciate it more and more every day... but that's a different story. Anyways, Noah and I (Zac) got into a play at Southwest, there were a whole lot of people auditioning so it's really cool that we got in. Colin and Jonah are in Track, Nick's in Lacrosse, Brent's got ladies all over him all the time, see how busy we are? This is why we always suck at our shows cuz we never have time to get together and practice! Well whatever, I really love all you guys, ciao.
~Zac

Hey you guys, its Jonah I just wanted to notify you that were going to be rockin it out with The Change and these other guys on May 6th, more to come about that. In other news, Skattish is thinking about changing its name from Skattish to something else because we don't want our band name to tie us town to one genre of music. (thanks Marosi) Here are some of the candidates, let us know what cha think and give us your idea for a band name if you happen to think of one. -The Pistachios -The Maybe So-So's -Knew Fruit -Table Fable -The Beautifuls E-mail us about which 1 you like the most if you feel like it.

So, the battle is over! But we're not done yet... no no we're NOT done yet. We do need places to play though, so if anybody's having a big party or anything and would like us to play there, just give us a jingle. The battle of the bands was a whole lot of fun, overall we got fourth (out of five in the final battle), which is a-ok with me. We played really well in the final battle, it was definately the best we've ever played although we didn't have jonah. The judges gave us a lot of good and helpful feedback, I think the judging system was pretty accurate. They said we're all very talented, we just need to learn to siphon all our talents into one great thing, then we'll "be the best". Anyways, we won a bag of stuff as a consolation prize but i didn't hear what it was. I think all of us are really starting to be able to work together much better so we'll be able to write some really kickass stuff shortly. Well I know there's more stuff that happened that I'm forgetting to tell you about but if I remember I'll just post it later. Ciao guys, Love u all.
~Zac

Hey everybody, we're (Noah, Nick Ray, Colin, and yours truly) at the Los Culeros CD Release Party at the TC Underground and it's a funky good time. We're playing the final battle tomorrow and we're all more ready than we have ever been for a show. We're doing a cover of a really awesome song by the greatest band in existence tomorrow, and it's gonna be oh so sweet. Jonah probably won't be able to sing w/ the band and that's a load of moose piss but Colin and I are ready to take over for him and it's going to rock like crazy none the less. We're playing with The 4 Minor Drawbacks, Risen Below, The Big One Two, and The Hollywoods tomorrow and it's gonna be one hell of a sweet show. I'm gonna go mosh/skank like whoa so peace out fans.

Hey guys, this is just to let you all know that this is not really a news entry. I'll try to write one tomorrow, so check the site then. The big battle's coming up. Shit I'm tired.
~Zac

Well, it's the big day, yes yes the big day of the big show. Finally. I've done the math and it turns out we only need 30 votes to bump the 4 minor drawbacks out of round 3 and make it to round 3. If we get 50 votes we'll be in FIRST!! we could be on our way to second or third place! The Hollywoods are gonna be in round 3 too! That's gonna be awesome cuz they are another ska band and I hope they rock. Man this show's gonna be intense. For those of you who didn't see us play on Feb. 18, PREPARE! We've gotten so much better, even from the Lake Harriet Uniter First Methodist show. WE'VE GOT A NEW BAND MEMBER!! I'll get Luke to add him to the site post-haste. He can already seen around the site in various places but now he's officially part of the band!!! He plays the mini-sax and it's really sweet having two saxophones! In the Heat of July sounds SO GOOD NOW!! None of us ever realized this but it desperately needed another horn! MAN this rocks! We're gonna get some photos of us playing live and stuff! AAHH!! I'm SO EXCITED FOR TONIGHT! I'LL SEE YOU ALL THERE!!!
~Zac

Hey im Louque
im skattish's flash animator and im becoming their website guy
I'm working on getting a new website for skattish and slowly converting their entire website into flash
as much as i love zac im taking his job from him so he can concentrate on other things
if you have advice for me on the website email the band email and ill get it

~Louque

Hey guys, how ya doin, Zac here. The band's feeling pretty stoked to play more shows as an aftermath to the rockin one we played last friday. That was so sweet. I'm really happy that we're finally good enough for people to actually like us instead of a bunch of our friends coming to shows just because they know us. Life is good. It definately is for me at least. Colin's girlfriend broke up with him like last night, and i'm still not sure if he's happy or sad about that, whatever, not my place to investigate. Jonah and his girlfriends are doing good I think... but nevermind that. We're working on a new song and it sounds like its gonna be pretty kickass. It's pretty in your face, it's got a bit of like a WE'RE SKATTISH SO SHUT THE FUCK UP feel to it, I like it a lot. It sounds good with the sax machine.we're also working on all our other stuff, like we're starting the cover we're gonna do, it's real simple, and apparently Nick's got something sweet planned for us but we haven't seen him in a little while. Anyways, the band's really happenin in a good way and we all look forward to playing on March 5th a lot. I hope all you guys can make it cuz it's gonna be awesome beyond belief.

~Zac

Holy fuck.

So we played an amazing show, you guys...yeah, i know it is about time. But the whole reason i wanted to write this for the site is because, in actuality the thing that rocked our day wasn't just the show. Well, the beginning of the day (from my point of view) started with a stark morning-wood and then a shower to wash it off. As the day progressed, Skattish got word via the wind that our beloved Brent was blowing chunks everywhere... the band was going to meet at B-Huts after school but we called him and he said we waslying in bed hot, sweaty, naked, and unable to move, (in a sick flu way, not a sexual way) so we shouldn't come over. Holy Fuck. The drummer of love was down, and we had no second options. Skattish met at Z-Money's house and talked about whether or not to even show up at the show. This was our magical moment, Colin was worried, as we all were, but he was feeling quite a bit more melancholy than the rest of us. He really self-sacrificed for the show tonight and if you guys would... at your computers tonight ...just give him a round of applause. He invited his old best friend Mitchell Malloy to the show, and wanted to put the best show Mitchell would ever see, except he was really set on doing it with our full band. After long discussion he finally said, "well, its either me being a large butt, or performing to be the hottest man alive." The decision was pretty clear. After a breakdown like that, the condition of our band had nowhere to go but up. Good times. We got to the church ready to rock, but we had to wait for 8 other bands to go before us. So we waited and heard some amazing talent, it was a shame that we had to wait so long to play, most people had left by the time we played, me might've gotten more votes and gotten 3rd place if we had played sooner. I wish House of Love had won, they really deserved to, those guys are all really really awesome guys. We met some very nice ladies from Edina by the names of Christina, Kristina, Shaehan(wtf), and Kelly and Marrisa... They gave the band Skatish faith for Edina. So as you can probably tell, we did alright, and for us alright is great.

Thanks for reading this all the way thru ~ Jonah Sarg. (Editing and extra notes by Zac)

Shit, so we're playing a show tomorrow (hopefully) at Lake Harriet United Methodist Church. It's another battle of the bands deal, but Brent is sick like none other. This is a big problem, Brent is the most talented guy in our band anyways! Shit, what a time for a guy to get sick. He's been at home puking his brains out all day long, I feel bad for the guy, that is pretty gross. I just talked to him and he said he wishes he could play drums but he doesnt really feel like moving at the moment. Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit, I really hope he's better by tomorrow, it's not like a big deal gig or anything like it's gonna be on March 5th but I really like playing live shows but it's just not the same without the whole band. Me and Jonah played The Spooning Song and an acoustic version of The Chipotle Song at an open mic a last week with Will on guitar and Louque Ordoyne on the musical shirt with buttons (percussion), but it just wasn't the same. It's definately not as much fun. Man I hope Brent gets well, I love that kid, and I feel so bad for him... so everyone, when you see Brent I want you to tell him that you love him, and comment on how hot he is, that always cheers him up. (Even though he might not be as attractive when he's puking all over your face.) So anyways, I guess we'll just have to practice all we can and hope for the best tomorrow. Wish us luck.

~Zac