2*Sweet Dudes & Guys!

Tour time again. We are idiots. Every time we've toured, we've gone to cold places in the winter, and warm places in the summer. THIS TIME, however, we are going to WARMER places during the WINTER. And let me tell you, it is a great idea. Walking around Texas today in only a shirt and jeans reminded me of when I used to go on family vacations to Florida during Spring Break. I would leave Chicago and it would be all cold and terrible and then I'd step off the plane and it felt warm and glorious. Places had their air conditioning on! It's February!

We played a few shows in Oklahoma. Good times spent with good people. Tonight was Dallas. The other band that played did some sweet 90s covers from The Verve Pipe to Third Eye Blind and various others.

We're watching The Office right now. Earlier, Dan and Pete were failing miserably at Rock Band. I, however, killed it on the vox.

Ok andy wants his computer back.

Hearts forever,
Dave

for real though, that new panic song is super catchy. so many bands are catching on to the 60s/70s-throwback-beatles-worship thing, and thats fine by me. i'll take that over terrible screaming and needless double-bass in pop songs any day.

tomorrow is the last day of our tour with mr. gutierrez. its been a ton of fun, and actually probably one of the best tours (turnout-wise) we've ever done. its been an interesting experiment going out with a spoken word dude like chris. hes used to speaking in coffee-houses, and the kids at these shows are used to seeing... well, bands. but kids seemed to respond well. once he got going into his thing though, he had them hanging on his every word.

it was also cool touring with that dude because honestly, i didnt really know him outside of shows. i think the internet might think that he and all of us were super tight to begin with, but really only justin and dave (and mostly dave) actually semi-regularly hung out with him. the rest of us just talked to him when he came to see us play. which was cool, but i never really felt like more than just an acquaintance with him. now though, we're actual, real-deal friends. which is awesome.

thanks to everyone that came out to see us. you guys are the only reason we tour, and you make it worthwhile for us.

watch out, west coast. we'll see you in a couple weeks.

<3,
andy

heyyy guyysss so tonight we're going to be interviewed on fearless radio again! heres how to check it out:

1. Go to www.fearlessradio.com
2. Click Enter Fearless
3. Click LISTEN - AM (not fm!!)
4. Listen to the show. Call us in the studio with questions or stories: 312/224-8273. IM them during the show: fearlessradio00 on AIM & Yahoo, fearlessradio on MSN

we're going to be on at 6pm so check it out!

so we just got back from long island yesterday morning. the recording came out amazing, and now we're just waiting on the final mixes and mastering. excited!

that reminds me... there was a news thing about us on absolutepunk.net saying that we had a finished version of "rested eyes tell no lies" up on our myspace. i dont know how or why this was posted, but its not true! all of the new songs we've been posting and showing you guys WILL be remixed, but WE dont even have the finished versions yet! so stay posted!

also- its not too late to sign up for the promotion contest i mentioned a couple entries ago. check the post for details, but basically, if you are among the top 20 people who can prove they promoted our chicago show at subterranean, you will be invited to an exclusive listening party of our new record AND youll get a hilarious dvd of the making of the record.

SO EXCITED FOR FIREWORKS/THE HIGH COURT TOUR (and you should be too!)!

<3,

&E

obviously youve never played goldeneye for n64!

tonight we're going on a band date to see no country for old men! yayyy!

pete is the baron. his weapon of choice is UNARMED. he ranks as MOST HONORABLE. proximity mines in the stack.

these are the clues. you must put them together to guess what activity transpires in epic proportions every night in the studio.

so yeah! we've been in long island for a week now. drums: DONE! bass: DONE! guitars: DONE! trumpet/piano/harpsichord/et al: ALMOST DONE! vocals: BEGINNING TOMORROW!

we're all beyond excited about finishing this record. its going to be composed of the 6 songs we're doing now, along with 6 we already recorded at vudu, but in other sessions. the previously recorded songs are going to remixed along with the new tracks, and when its all done, we will present the world with a 12 song full-length that would couldnt be more proud of.

it wont leave your stereo. i promise. even if you try to take it out, your cd player will totally explode all over the place.

in the meantime, you can chat with us while we're here on the screen name: YOWEINDASTUDIOYO (not case-sensitive!).

and ive already seen tons of pics online of you guys promoting our chicago show at subterranean! youre seriously amazing. this dvd is already hilarious... who knows what the future will bring?

so keep being awesome, and we'll do our best to reciprocate. expect new promo-pictures, exciting news updates, and maybe even a few sneak peeks of upcoming delicious treats in the near future!

loveforever,
andy & the sweetpeaz

WE NEED YOUR HELP



WE ARE HEADING TO THE STUDIO TO FINISH OUR FIRST FULL LENGTH AND WONT BE GETTING BACK TILL OUR SUBTERRANEAN SHOW ON DECEMBER 22ND



HERE IS THE DEAL;



YOU HELP PROMOTE OUR SUBTERRANEAN SHOW/ HELP PROMOTE 2*SWEET IN GENERAL, TO DO THIS YOU CAN;



-HAND OUT FLYERS (AT SHOWS, MALLS, SOCIAL GATHERINGS, NON SOCIAL GATHERINGS, EXORCISMS, RAVES AND WRESTLING MATCHES)

-POST FLYERS ONLINE, ON MESSAGEBOARDS, ON MYSPACE, ON BLOGS AND JOURNALS AND CYBERSPACE ON THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD WIDE WEB

-GO AROUND AND SHOW STRANGERS OUR MUSIC (TAKE YOUR IPOD AND GIVE PASSERBYS A PREVIEW)



WHATEVER YOU GOTTA DO



TAKE PICTURES OF YOURSELVES PROMOTING AND TELL US HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU MET, FLYERS YOU HANDED OUT, AND HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU SHOWED OUR SONGS TO AND EMAIL THEM ALL TO 2SWEETCONTEST@GMAIL.COM



ALSO, COPY LINKS TO WEBSITES YOU POSTED ON AND EMAIL THEM TO 2SWEETCONTEST@GMAIL.COM



TO SIGN UP, SEND IN AN EMAIL 2SWEETCONTEST@GMAIL.COM WITH YOUR NAME, EMAIL AND TELEPHONE NUMBER AND WE WILL SEND YOU FLYERS AND ANYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO PROMOTE



ALL EMAILS WITH PICTURES AND PROMOTING INFO MUST BE TRUE AND MUST BE IN BEFORE DECEMBER 19TH



WE WILL COUNT UP ALL THE DIFFERENT SUBMISSIONS AND FIND THE TOP 20 PROMOTERS, THESE 20 PEOPLE WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL AND A CALL TELLING THEM A SECRET ADDRESS AND TIME WHERE WE WILL HAVE A LISTENING PARTY OF OUR WHOLE NEW RECORD AND YOU WILL RECEIVE A VERY SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW DVD

THE PARTY WILL BE ON DECEMBER 22ND BEFORE THE SHOW

HELP US OUT AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED FOREVER!

dang, some cops were just walking around my house with flashlights. i asked them if everything was ok, and they asked me if i had seen a group of dudes in hoodies. i said no, and they told me to make sure my car doors were locked. SNAP.

we recorded demos for 6 songs last night and today. these, along with a few others yet to come, will be brought to VUDU studios in long island where we'll pick the best of the best. justin said it in our myspace blog, and i will say it here: NO autotune bullshit, and boatloads of heavy riffs WITHOUT resorting to JUD JUD WEE. straight up riffage and hookage.

it will be the best pop-rock-metal-indie-jazz-punk (ok, all those genres next to each other look stupid, but its actually pretty accurate) record youll hear this year, if not EVER.

so we got a record in the works, shows coming up (november 23th in DOWNERS GROVE and december 22nd at SUBTERRANEAN in chicago with FIREWORKS, THE HIGH COURT, AND CHRISTOPHER GUITAREZ), and a sick tour on the horizon (FIREWORKS and THE HIGH COURT).

so comment all over our myspace page and let us know what you learned in school. and come hang out when we're in your town.

in the meantime, listen to "dear god" by XTC.

<3
andy*sw33t

hypnotic eyes
starin at you from the dead of night
take refuge in the trees and beg "please oh please just let me survive"

this is my kind of place
where creatures crawl under your skin
and everywhere are claws sharp is blades
that'll cut you even if your soul is saved


in ohio, first week of tour is done, i have learned a few things, i have lost a few things, i feel a little out of sync with everything going on, but it wont last long

please come out to the east coast shows, i need to see your faces


enchantment under the sea dance when we get home, i hope biff doesnt show with beef

-justin

hey everyone, sorry we've been kinda quiet on here lately. we've just all been busy working and seeing friends since we've been home. and of course practicing and writing/demo-ing delicious new songszsz.

we're going down south and then up the east coast for september/october so keep checking our myspace for show updates.

4 quick notes:

-one of our videos is featured in buzznets main video section!

-we're playing the beat kitchen in chicago this saturday (september 8th!) with THE ATARIS! pre-sale tickets are up now!

-petes dad found 2 dead bodies in a van that had been parked outside our practice space for a week! they were sitting in there, rotting, while we practiced!

-holy shit!

<3andy

TONIGHT, THAT IS TO SAY AUGUST 13TH, WE'LL BE ON FEARLESS RADIO AT 6PM CENTRAL TIME. 

so go to fearlessradio.com to the AM section (THE AM SECTION) and listen!!  you can IM the station or even call in and ask us stuff live on the air!

ive never done anything like this before and it kind of makes me nervous.  i hope i dont accidently swear.  i also smell bad and am wearing the same clothes i wore yesterday.  these things just happen i suppose.

oh yeah, we're home and stuff too...  look for new pics from the west coast up soon! 

6PM FEARLESSRADIO.COM AM SECTION YAY YAYAYAYy!32131

<3andyklfhfdgsd

so we just got done playing our first show in california EVERRR. it was pretty awesome, actually. not to mention this is the start of round two of our glorious fun times with THIS TIME NEXT YEAR. i love them, and i missed them. they took us to the beach today, and now im way sunburned. it felt good when my guitar strap was rubbing against my shoulder while we played.

so yeaaah

did any of you happen to check out the new song we posted? it was only up for 24 hours, so i hope you listened while you had the chance...

so far, this tour has been super awesome. we've made a ton of new friends and played some great venues and i havent worn deodorant once. we still have some unconfirmed dates, so if we're not playing anywhere near you, keep checking our myspace because stevie is working hard to fill them last minute.

tomorrow we're playing in laguna hills, which i think is in the vicinity of laguna beach, which is a tv show i might watch if you paid me one million space bucks. actually, id probably rather swim in the bottom of a porto-potty than watch it. this is not a judgement call on you if you enjoy the show, but youd probably be a thousand times better off reading a decent book.

one more thing. as much fun as i'm having on tour, i cant wait to get home and play the HOUSE OF BLUES AUGUST 17th. however, since we'll only be home for a week before the show, we wont be able to promote the show ourselves nearly as much as we'd like to.

SO. we're asking for everyones help to promote this show. its an incredibly big deal (as you might have guessed!) for us to have the oppurtunity to play a place as rad as the house of blues, so ANYTHING you can do to help us promote it in the weeks before the show would be appreciated beyond measure.

tell all your friends, print out flyers to hand out at ANY and EVERY show you hear about in and around chicago, ANYTHING. dang, you could even play us for people on your ipod or discman or BOOMBOXXX outside of shows for people. we'll be right alongside you as soon as we're back, but in the meantime, we need all the help we can get to bring as many people as possible to this show.

so yeah, thats all i got. you guys are the greatest and i cant wait to see you all again when we get back. lets hang out and get hilarious.

<3andyshweet.

ok so its the first day of tour and i already smell like i havent showered in many days. i think im going to keep this up, so come out and smell me forever.

also, our good friend mattydizzle is doing merch for us. he basically quit his cushy job at h&m to hang out with us for a month and a half. so be sure to say hi to him at the merch table and compliment his slick armani eyeglasses.

ok thats all for now.

love, andysuite

oh hey you guys. we're watching the departed at vudu right now. i just had a magical shower so now i am a clean boy and in my jammies.

today we tracked drums. mikes yamaha set sounds HUGE. i swear to god the toms sound like fucking cannons. dan was a regular nick menza today. tomorrow we're doing bass and getting as much guitar done as possible. i cant wait to lay done some heavy riffs. RIFFS DUDE. FA;SDHFA;

some of the hopesfall dudes have been hanging out and theyre pretty rad. their new record has been getting some good reviews and im curious to hear it.

petes trying to play a right handed guitar right now (hes a southpaw in case you didnt know FYI LOL). dave is upset because hes stoked on the scene where captain queenan gets thrown off the roof.

alright, thats all i got. i think i update this thing more than my actual livejournal.

hello chief lets talk why not? ANDY

so our boy deadxstop had a show last night in chicago, hes leaving for tour, and i think its fucking great that hes going out there so you can hear his shit, the new book is fucking amazing. i heard the show went well, im bummed that i wasnt there. good luck man

last night we played a highschool in bethesda maryland, our awesome friend jennie and her family let us stay in their house, i finally got to shower, my hair was in bad shape, now its poofy, what can ya do...


brooklyn tonight, VUDU tomorrow, i cant wait to do these new songs, they are gonna be heavy

luv

-j and the sweaty sweeties

So last night we played in middle of nowhere north carolina, it was amazing, anyone who watched the live feed of the show knows the insanity that persued, and I want to know who watched it. but if you didn't see it, all you need to know is that an extremely wasted stranger wandered onto the stage and demanded that we play christina aguilera's "dirty" and refused to give me the mic back, it was awesome. Brian danced with her and then she freestyled. It was a beautiful show. We are 3 for 3 so far...

After the show I drove a few hours and we stopped to sleep in the parking lot of the mall that has been our home all morning in virginia, I bought the new AP, I suggest you do the same, and I just ate some pretty good vegetable fried rice.

Maryland tonight, can't wait to see our friends there, dave is still kinda sick, I don't know what his deal is

Multi functional lazer tigers are my life

God bless the south
-j

north carolina, the show was amazing, all the dudes working at the venue ruled, brian got wasted and stopped making sense

dave is still super sick, we are hotel aheading it again, that dude needs to get better


pool tomorrow, another show...

i read deadstops book, its fucking great, do yourself a favor and get that thing, im so proud of what that dude does and i love his words, i wish they were mine.... maybe they will be.....


hotel rooms feel a little more like home, but nothing compared to strangers floors, the sad part is im being serious

i like to be nowhere, i like to feel like no one, is that weird? god i hope so

-j*Sweet

we are in a hotel in ohio, just outside of kentucky, dave has a terrible fever, but hes being a trooper

andy and pete and i are sharing a room, dave, dan and brian are in the next one over

tonight we played in kentucky with set your goals and fireworks. there were tons of kids in attendance and syg got an insane reaction, omar and the hit the lights dudes rolled out and there was mad hangouts and dude touching.

it has been a year almost to the day that we met fireworks and went on our very first tours together last summer, i truly value these dudes friendships more than anything, they are our brothers, and this last year has brought us together closer than any other band we have ever met, they are insanely talented dudes and will soon be taking over the world. im going to edit a video for one of their songs when we are at vudu, its going to be awesome...

first day of tour was amazing, it was so great to see friends from chicago come all the way out to send us off right, you mean the world to us, also thanks for the amazing gifts and goodies, i dont know what we would do without you, we probably wouldnt be doing anything, we would be lazy losers...

tomorrow we are playing in north carolina, we have to wake up early and hightail it to the show, i am excited to be out east again, i cant wait to go back to vudu studio and get rowdy with mike, these new songs are totally wild, i hope they turn out how i think they will, and i hope you love them

because i love you



=j*sweet

im getting up at 630 tomorrow so i can be packed and at daves by 8.  of course its 1:15 am im still awake. 

i need to finish drawing a silly flyer for the fireworks/thistimenextyear/julian vena trio show at dave cronins house.  i will probably drink some more coffee and watch the sopranos. 

jeffree star hung out at the practice space for a bit today.  hes a nice boy and has pretty hair. 

our good friend brian blake is coming on tour to do merch for us.  he is very cute and will charm your socks/pants off.  be sure to give him lots of tips because he got kicked out of his house and is coming on tour with us partially because he is homeless. 

its always awkward/terrible explaining to my coworkers (when im not on tour, im working at TARGET) what tour is like. 

manager: "what kinds of places do you play?  like bars or something?"   

me: "well, sometimes.  more often smaller venues and stuff."

manager: "oh, like the riviera?"

me: "not exactly..."

its funny, because even though we all grew up playing in metal/hardcore bands, doing this band (a POP band) has been one of the most punk rock things ive ever done.  we dropped out of school/quit jobs to go on tour, we're unsigned, and booking our own tours.  well, WE arent booking them, stevie does that because hes a moon master.  but still.  we're all taking huge risks...  financially, relationship-wise, et al. 

trying explaining to your civilian friends why playing a show in delaware to 30 people is worth dropping out of school. 

it IS worth it.  we're a band, and there seem to be a few people who enjoy our music.  people who cant drive 14 hours to chicago every couple of months.  so its our job to go to them.  and in the meantime, we get to hang out and take off our clothes in a van.  we love playing music, and if we ever want to make playing music something we do completely fulltime, then we need to tour.  simple as that. 

i wont even go into how much it pisses me (and all of us) off that there are REAL BANDS, on BIG LABELS who seriously dont like to and dont want to tour.  i cant even explain how fucked up that is.  but thats another rant. 

i have things to do and this entry came out way longer than i anticipated. 

come see us when we're in your town!

so last night was the most insane thing ever


we drove out to aledo illinois, its super close to the quad cities, definitely in the middle of nowhere. we roll up to this all day metalcore fest pretty late, but in time to see our boys the hero estates play. after they play i went out on the roof and watched the most unreal storm clouds roll in while the dudes set up to play, our merch gets blown over when the clouds finally pass, so we closed some windows and i went over to start the set.
we open up with antrhax and dudes immediately start moshing, it ruled, then it began to storm super crazy and poured, so everyone from outside came in, so the room filled up quick and there were about 200 or more people there. we went into our set and i was expecting these "metal/hardcore/whatever" kids to be bummed out, but they all completely flipped out and went off like nothing i have ever seen for 2*Sweet before, it was pure mayhem. dudes were climbing up into the rafters of the ceiling and diving off, i saw one of them do a flip off of them, it was completely wild. tons of new and familiar faces singing along, nonstop mosh antics and dancing the whole time, it was so fun, it was seriously the last thing i expected, i loved it.
then we lit some insense (i cant spell) and devils pie dished out some sick riffs, those dudes are rad even when they dont cover down so dan could go into blind rage mode, but its all good. pete fed stix beer while he riffed and bled all over his guitar.

all in all, an awesome night, thanks to everyone who came out and was a part of it, for real a night i wont soon forget, now im still in my bed, hoping that it doesnt rain today because im going to ride my bike to my grandmas and do some yardwork for her before we leave for tour on tuesday.


i cannot wait to tour, it is the life, and live is for the living

i am rather upset because brian snaked his way into coming, i dont know about that dude....


SIKE!!!!!
-Jsweet