March Recap

Paradigm had a fun group of shows these past couple weeks, performing in Cincinnati, Asheville and Chapel Hill, NC, and Greenville, SC. We had the pleasure of sharing the stage with some highly talented bands as well: East Coast Dirt, The Dig, Iolite, and IsWhat.

Cool venues as well. Reverb in Greenville is an interesting spot. It's a sort of multi-functional space; part music venue, part recording studio, part art gallery, part music store, and part electronics repair shop. Multitasking "venues" such as this seem to popping up more frequently these days, and it makes sense. In this independent day and age, where bands are now wearing the many hats that used to be reserved for the suits: booker, producer, manager, promoter, publicist, etc., it makes sense for a music venue to be more than just "one thing" as well.

Mansion 462 in Chapel Hill looks, more or less, like a "normal" building from the outside. No different than any of the other store fronts along the main drag, really. Inside, though, it opens up into this very decorative, Victorian-type, well...mansion. It had a real comfortable vibe, and the sound was stellar as well. Along the same lines, the historic Southgate House in Cincinnati (well, technically in Newport, KY) was built way back in the early 1800s, and is best known for its mobster ties. Apparently the Tommy gun (you know, the type of gun you see in pretty much every gangster movie ever made) was invented there.

I snapped off a few random pics along the way. Click here for pics from the Carolinas trip, and here for Cincinnati. Want to know what it's like to go on the road with Paradigm? It's a non-stop rollercoaster ride that fully embodies the celebrity lifestyle of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll. Here's a little sample of us maxin' in the hotel in Greenville, SC:

We trashed that room 5 seconds after the video was shot, I swear.