Here’s the flier for our show at Space on May Day. Thanks to Kimmie Convery for designing it for the show.

Space Gallery will host a benefit May 1st for the Russian punk group Pussy Riot, which we’ll be playing. Pussy Riot has been in the news lately after two of its members were arrested following a protest held the day before a controversial presidential election at the Christ the Saviour cathedral in Moscow. The benefit is still in the planning phase, so make sure to check out Space Gallery’s site and ours for more details in the coming weeks. For recent developments in the Pussy Riot case, check out freepussyriot.org/news.

Remember when we posted in April of ’11 about how “we couldn’t find the flyer ["for a show we played with Brenda and Gully at Geno’s back in 2009"] anywhere on line”? Well, our good friend and occasional photographer DJ Moore posted a picture of it on some twittesque site recently. Here it is:

This flyer currently resides in the Foam Castles Museum of Fine Art

Our fans keep asking us how they can stay on top of the most recent developments with our band now that we’ve filed all those restraining orders to thwart their efforts to pig-pile on Derek again. We considering installing a webcam in our practice space, but none of the other bands in the building have an unsecured wireless signal we can leech off of. Jason, ever the film buff, suggested we use a series of beacon fires to alert fans to various goings-on. A preliminary beacon lit by the practice space raised sufficient concern from the proprietors of nearby oil tanks to squash that idea before we could fully realize it. Around this same time Derek remembered he’d set up a Tweeter account and figured he should look into tweeting from his phone. Several explanations of the difference between a rotatory phone and a cell phone later, he was tweeting away like the guy in Slaughterhouse-Five. So, the next time you find yourself wondering what we’re doing, hope on over to Twitter to find out. If you tweet @us, we might even respond if we’re not to busy bitching about the 12-pack of 8 oz. Budweisers we bought by accident.

Seriously, who do they make this shit for?

You might ask us, if you could be bothered to keep in touch like you used to, why we haven’t updated this website in a while. Well, Mr. McNosypantsky, we’ll have you know that we have lives outside of Metal Feathers. Why, just the other day Derek erected a stone wall in his apartment to keep his roommate’s apple trees from getting across and eating the cones under his pines. Jason invented an ingenious device to prevent liquid from falling into his lap while drinking by putting a base on a ceramic cylinder to hold any liquid he likes, except liquid helium 3, of course. Jay’s been catching up on his favorite television program, Antiques Roadshow, and considering branching out into a new form of artistic expression.