MY FRIENDS FUCKING RULE!!!!

yes i mean you!! i posted that thing about voting for echo station at the sxsw show this afternoon and it just blew up! one douchebag wrote "not echostation" but there are like 13 other comments from fans who are just making a lot of noise (as one person put it!) and there was only one from yours truly so that means you guys RULE! if you haven't voiced ur opinion (ahem, hopefully echo friendly) shout them out here!

OH and did you hear the amazing news?

echo station got offered a shot at Mercury Lounge. it is a huuuuuge ass deal and they are so stoked. mr. joebags booked himself a 12 day notice plane ride home from costa rica...so you know that shit is important. unfortunately it is on a tuesday night at 10pm. while a lot of the college kiddies are home until the next week (is anyone out there still in college?)most of us other folks have jobs and reasons to be rested...however...I REALLY REALLY NEED TO BEG Y'ALL TO PLEASE PLEASE GET UR BUTTS TO MERCURY LOUNGE. the next morning i'm taking a 6am flight with a crazy and "out of sync" 2.5 year old to disney, so you know i'll be sacrificing some sanity... but this is a really amazing opportunity. mercury lounge is one of those "you guys really made it!" kind of joints. things are really happening for them. it's so funny cuz there are always shennanigans with echo station and florida. when echo station first started out, we had booked a vacation to sarasota w/my sister and her boyfriend. then echo station got a gig somewhere that was at the time very impressive. i think it was the elbow room, and one of their second or third shows. so we changed our flight to come home early and mr. dot com had to come pick us up... here we are six years later, playing at MERCURY LOUNGE. and if andy hadn't had an exam on tuesday the 16th (which, yes he does, so imagine how beat he will be) we would have been in disney world by that day. oh how fate intervenes. anyway, enough of my philosophizing (or something). here is what mr. dot com had to say!!!

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Happy New Year to all. 2007 is starting off great for us.
One of our major goals since we started this band was to play The Mercury Lounge. There are bigger and nicer places in NYC and around the country, but The Mercury Lounge continues to be one of the most highly regarded venues to play for up and coming and established bands. We are extremely excited and grateful to have finally gotten the chance to be one of those bands.

We will be playing The Mercury Lounge on Tuesday, January 16th at 10:00pm. That is only 12 days away! We realize that this is short notice and that we're asking you to come out on a weeknight. We promise you though that the exhaustion you will feel the next day at work will be well worth it. Every gig is important for us, but since we consider this place to be one of the Mecca's of the music scene, this gig is more important for us then usual. We want to make a good impression on Mercury Lounge. We're ready to do our part but we need your help to make it a truly great show. Mark your calendars and if you have to, take a sick day on Wednesday. It is after all, a new year!

We'll see you at Mercury Lounge on Tuesday, January 16th!
-Mike