I’m happy to say this year I played some of the best shows of my life. I’m also happy to say I’m done playing until next year. For the record all these shows were in Chicago (unless noted):
1. ONO at Go-Go town, 1/16/09
2. Genius School at Double Door 1/28
3. ONO at Elastic Artspace, Marvin Tate’s tribute to Dusty Springfield, 1/31
4. Feedbacula (with travis) at Backstory Cafe 2/11
5. ONO at Enemy 2/27
6. ONO at Metal Shakers 3/7
7. ONO at Mopery 4/3
8. ONO with Sid Yiddish at the Building Stage, 4/4
9. Jesse solo at Uncommon Ground 4/27
10. Genius School at Reggie’s Music Joint 5/1
11. Feedbacula at Hottie Biscotti 5/23
12. Jesse solo at Andersonville Midsommar Street Festival 6/13
13. ONO at Chicago Peace Festival 6/19
14. ONO at Noise Shock, Mixtapes! East Moline, IL 7/11
15. Jesse solo at US Beer Company 7/17
16. Mike Videogames at Midnight* (secret location) 7/17*
17. ONO at Metal Shakers 7/18
18. Feedbacula / 8-Bit Fatty at Silvie’s Lounge “Full Moon Fever” 8/6
19. Feedbacula / Genius School at the Mutiny 8/26
20. ONO on WHPK’s Pure Hype 8/28
21. ONO at the Viaduct Theater, Something To Tide You Over 9/5
22. ONO at the South Shore Community Arts Center 10/16
23. Feedbacula / Genius School at Silvie’s Lounge 10/22
24. ONO at the Mopery 11/6
25. ONO at Silvie’s Lounge 11/20
26. Jesse and His Electric Band at the Mutiny 12/3
27. Feedbacula at Mixtapes! East Moline IL, 12/4
28. Feedbacula Presents VIOLENCE / Mike Videogames, Silvie’s Lounge 12/10
29. ONO at Mixtapes! East Moline, IL 12/12
Thursday after work I had the 1st show with my new electric band at the Mutiny, opening for dadad & mermaids - mermaids, who are hart, mike forbes, andrew & others from the mopery ! the set got off to a rocky start when i forgot to bring the bass and bass amp for my bass player so i had to scrum home & rush back ! Anyway, having all those mopery noise heavies got me really inspired - i think even though the new group was pretty loose (we’d only rehearsed once so far, over a week ago) we really played an inspired, wild set. dadad had a new song and it was great, i unfortunately had to leave before mermaids as it was already after midnight & i had to open the cafe the next day. turns out my back pack was stolen out of my car, containing my 2010 road atlas, some mix cds made by anna, and about 20 CDs each of Genius School Menagerie & Jesse Thomas solo cds… no time to worry about that… got out of work at noon on Friday, picked up the Genius School trailer & dropped it off at like Harlem & Irving Park, pulled the plates & hopefully thats the end of it, rushed home, packed up the car, then to downtown to grab lady feedbacula & promptly immerse ourselves in downtown traffic quagmires … we made it to about downers grove and ate sandwiches, then hauled ass the rest of the way to Mixtapes! the show was GREAT! love playing there. Helen Money was the big name, she didn’t stay for feedbacula but it turns out we both work (or in her case, worked) at the same cafe. small world after all. heat made it out to see us, and expressed excitement about ONOs upcoming performance next weekend.
