Dear everyone,
Tick Tick Booking is officially entering retirement.
Please join us on Monday, April 27 at the Monkey House for our final show and going away party, featuring Son of Salami, Black Feelings, Ponytail, Think About Life, and DJs Drew Stock and Mike Device.
When we started booking bands in Burlington three years ago, our vision was to bring the music we wanted to see and the city we love together.  Burlington’s location in the northeast made it seem sensible to ask our favorite bands to stop here.  And they did, and people started showing up to see them, and we kept asking bands that said yes, and so we asked our dream bands, and they said yes too.
We are proud to have connected Vermont to so many other places through our shows, and we are grateful that we’ve been able to experience so many wonderful happenings with you all, as Burlington develops a fuller and more viable underground music scene.
The three of us are looking forward to relaxing and moving on to other projects.  Nick Mavadones will continue to be the lighthouse of Burlington music on his blog, (AngioplastyMedia.wordpress.com) and will try to maintain regular sleeping hours.  Julia Lewandoski is ghost-writing a novel and gardening.  Dale Donaldson II is drawing and giving drawing lessons to a nine-year-old, and considering art school.  Graham Keegan will continue to run Tick Tick Printing as a business and is thinking of moving to La-La-Land.
We consider everyone that has played music, designed something, done a thankless job, hung posters, told someone to come, carried a PA, let us borrow stuff, promoted us on the radio, let us use their space, hosted a band, never came but said something nice, paid extra at the door, paid at the door, bought t-shirts, or just showed up, a part of Tick Tick.  So thank you.

We would like to thank, first, EVERYONE, and then this short list:

OF PEOPLE
Graham Keegan, Matt Malenczak, Ben Mayer, Mike Device, Drew Stock, Eric Olsen, Molly Greene, Colin Patrick Charles, Meryl Lebowitz, Myesha Gosselin, Eric Eichmann, Chris Dunkel, Max Schwartz, RUCCHI, Steven Hazen Williams, Turkey P, Clark Derbes, Dan Munzig, Colin Clary, Paddy Reagan, Ryan Smith, Ryan Power, Joey Pizza Slice and Miss Marbles, Nick Mitchell, Shawn Grady, Phinneus Junktique, Lee & Jason, Brian Sweeney, Alana Smith, Alaina Janack, Karen Unsworth, Bob Kilpatrick, Dan Bolles, Brent Hallenbeck, Natalie and Roxanne, Jim Lockridge, Joe Beaulieu, Noah Gordon, Emma Hazlett, Alex Budney, Julia Roth, Jeremy Hadley, Owen Ashworth, Phil Elverum, Liggy, Troy Levy, Kellie Fleury, Luke Awtry, Austin Sirch, Davin and Hannah, Jaime Leclerc, Drew Cameron, Katie Nelson, Amanda Sanfillipo, Greg Davis, Vanessa Fatton, Emily Hilliard, Sara Armstrong, Mandy Davis, Wes Buckley, Luke Eddie Lauren Nathan & Sam Quest, Jan Lewandoski, Rachel Hexter, Ann Lawless, Jig Gresser, Dave Tanych, Matt Hagen, Tyson, Bridget Burns, Michael Sundue, Hilary Martin, Leslie, Noah Hoose, Matt White, Sam, Rob Ticho, Jon Will, Sarah Infoshop, Benjy Adler, Rose Montgomery, Tara Jensen, Adam DeMartino, Libby , Bobby Hackney, Julia Cerbone, Brooke Morrison, John Henry Donner, Mara Bethel, Dan Seigel, Katie Butt, Ruth Erickson

OF ORGANIZATIONS
Perfect Day Media, False 45th, Myers Bagels, the UVM Lane Series, WRUV, The Radiator, Bear Cub Productions, the Monkey House, Speaking Volumes, Kriya, Big Heavy World, the Bobbin, Royal Cycles, the city of Montreal, Invisible City Booking, Panache Booking, Kork Booking, the Billions Corporation, Windish Booking, Battery Street Jeans, Green Door Studio, the Firehouse Gallery, Aether Everywhere, Nu New Age Tapes, Grimeology Records, ISKRA, North End Studio, the Bakery, Radio Bean, the Second Floor, the Stannard Historical Society, Penny Cluse, Uncommon Grounds, Euro Gourmet, Recycle North, SEABA, Burlington Unitarian Universalist Society, Rachel and RMB Sound, Maven, Skinny Pancake, Main Street Landing, the Tinderbox Collective, White River Junction, the Main Street Museum, Center for Cartoon Studies, the BPD, Seven Days, Burlington Free Press, Phoebe Magazine, FutureClaw, the OP, Handy’s, 242 Main, Pure Pop, the Batcave, Kasini House,
AND THESE BANDS:
Abigal Lapell, Adventure, Agnes Palier, Akron/Family, Anna Pardenik, Arbouretum, Arrah and The Ferns, A Snake in the Garden, Bat Attack, Beach House, Bellflur, Big Suit, Birds and Beasts, Black Feelings, Blowtorch, Blue Leader, Bocca Chica, BONJOUR HI! Dance Party, Brenda, Bridget Martin, Brown Bird, The Capstan Shafts, Castanets, Casey Dienel and the Flapjacks, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Charlambides, Chow Nasty, Chris Brokaw, Christian Wolff, CLUES, CONCERN, Crinkles, Cuddle Magic, Cursillistas, Dead Unicorn, Death Set, Death Vessel, Deleted Scenes, DJ Baby Bantam, DJ Classic Hits, DJ David Goliath, DJ Divorce Party, DJ Gris Gris, DJ Llu, DJ Mix by Force , DJ ZJ, Doby Watson, The Donkeys, Don Browrigg, Drew Stock , Duane Pitre, Dust From 1000 Years, Dygn, Dynasty, Echoes Still Singing Limbs, Elfin Saddle, Emperor X, Evan Miller, The Evens, Fantastic Dungeon, Farm, Fiasco, Fighter, Forrest Mulerath, Future Islands, Genevieve et Matthieu, Get Him Eat Him, Greg Davis, HARMONIZER, Hello Shark, Health, HEARTTHROBZ, Hercules & Love Affair, The Hero Cycle, Horse Back, Horse Feathers, I Am Hidden and I Am Not, Imaad Wasif with Two Part Beast, In Memory of Pluto, Infinity Window, Jack Wright, James Kochalka Superstar, James Tenney, Jason Kahn, Jason Anderson, Jazz Guys, Jenny Montana and the Fancy Pants, Jess Clemons, Johanna Kunin, Jon Mueller, June Debris, Kamikaze Hearts, Karl Blau, Killer Whales, Kira Kira, Kris Gruen, Kurt Wiesman, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Laura Gibson, Lendway, Let’s Whisper, Lexie Mountain Boys, Lizz King, Loch Lomond, Luke Temple, Lullatone, Lisa/liza, The Mae Shi, Marie Claire, Matthew Loiacono, Metal Feathers, Mi3, Micah Blue Smaldone, Mike Device, Mike Tamburo, Miracle Fortress, Missy Bly, Mixylodian, Monotonix, Momster, Moonbank, Mount Eerie, Musee Mecanique, Nat Baldwin, Nethers, Nick Jaina, Noa Babayof, Nosebleed Island, Nuda Veritas, Oak, Off Minor, Oh So Insidious, Old Believer, Olivier Toulemonde, Paleo, Paddy Reagan, Paper Castles, Phosphorescent, Papercuts, Pink Bacon, Pontiak, Ponytail, Pretty & Nice, Raccoo-oo-oon, Ramona Cordova, Real Life Time Machines, Remote Islands, Rough Francis, Ruth Garbus, Ryan Power, S(band)EX, Sarah Mangle, Screaming Females, Sean Hood, Shapes and Sizes, Sharon Van Etten, Sinaloa, Sister Suvi, Small Sur, Small is Beautiful, The Smittens, Steph Clark, STEREO WARMUP! Dance party, Stellar OM Source, Strand of Oaks, Sun Circle, Swale, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra La La Band, The Berg Sans Nipple, The Depreciation Guild, The Devil Music Ensemble, The Engines, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Persian Claws, The Robot Ate Me, The Vacant Lots, The Wailing Wall, These United States, There Were Valleys, Think About Life, Tiger Saw, Tom Carter, To Bad Catholics, To the Trees, Toby Aronson, Tooth Ache, Truman Peyote, Tullycraft, Twin Cats, Vandermark 5, Velella Velella, Video Hippos, Viking Moses, Visitations, VIVA RADIO DJs, Voles, Vultures of Cult, We Versus The Shark, White Hinterland, Will Johnson, Women, Wye Oak.
And worthy others who we inevitably forgot.  Thank You.
Love,
Nick, Dale and Julia — Tick Tick Booking

We’re very excited to report that our annual dance party, Stereo Warmup, happily ensconsed at the Monkey House on the last Saturday of every month, is expanding, and coming to Club Metronome on the first Friday of every month!  So that’s next Friday, November 7th!!  We’re really excited about the new spot and time, and hope that you all will come out and dance in both places.  If you’ve never been, you can expect Tick Tick’s official DJ Mike Device to play some bangers, and more recently, plenty of disco, and you can expect to find people dancing.

Here’s the stereo warmup blog. If you’re lucky you can get your greedy paws on a Mike Device mixtape.

Both parties are FREE if you are over 21+.  If you are 18-21, it’s $5.

I know, I know.  We here at Tick Tick all went to many a show before age 21, and so we make an effort not to ever do 21+ shows if we can help it.   We all feel grateful for the many wonderful venues that are inclusive, including these, who could just as well make things 21+ and leave it at that.

So, if our shows get more successful, hopefully we can get that cap off of there.  Alternately, if you know a great, alternative space to have a dance party, LET US KNOW!

And in the meantime, we feel you, and we’re working on it.

Thank you to everyone who made it to the open studio / birthday party on friday, we had a great time.

For those of you who couldn’t make it, here is a peek at Julia setting up our spiritual bazzar. More photos soon.

Julia sets up the merchandise for the night

More info on cooling down the planet here!

They are gonna blow up! Come check them out at Burlington’s most figuratively and literally speaking “underground” venue before they only play places like higher ground !!

(l to r: Christopher Reimer, Matthew Flegel, Patrick Flegel, Michael Wallace) Photo by Lindsey Baker

Take a listen to my favorite track Black Rice:

It’s like a mixtue of eveything awesome happening in LA with a little bit of the Zombies and Beach Boys thrown in for good measure.

Women S/T debut

And of course locals Ryan Power and The Vacant Lots are gonna blow some minds too!

Get All the info here!

Yes, its true!  Tickets are available for this Saturday’s fantastic show, featuring MOUNT EERIE, CRINKLES, and SWALE at the Bakery.

You can buy tickets on our website (there’s a little button for your paypal pleasure underneath the show listing).

Or at Pure Pop.

Or at Radio Bean.

Or at Battery Street Jeans, which, by the way, has a truly exquisite collection of Tick Tick posters.  Probably the best poster collection in town.

Tickets are $9 advance, or $12 at the door.

If you need directions to the Bakery, please email julia@ticktick.org.

SEE YOU THERE!

Fresh site! Though not so fresh taste in my mouth….weird fish.

Then, later in the morning, a kick-ass (but foul-tasting) launch party from Paaaaris….

The Vacant Lots also played that night — they are awesome and you can see them this Friday, the 26th, at the Monkey House.

Celebrity DJ The Small is Beautiful played a celebrity set at the Monkey House, and the next morning, baked some chicken at my house.

Dude does a rad combo of live playing and DJing

While you may have formerly known him as J’aime Tambeur, drummer for the Unicorns, in truth he is a dance phenomenon with a blog. Catch him in Europe! He was also a very nice person who did a one-off for us, and all this from the member of a band who was really a LEGEND to me in their time.

The Mae Shi came to Metronome and rocked it pretty hard.

Using this sweet synth (photo by Emma Nevers Hazelett)

But not before Heartthrobz lathered up the crowd into a screaming frenzy. The Mae Shi expressed a desire to have Heartthrobz open all of their shows.

Photo by Emma Nevers Hazelett

Tick Tick and some friends endeavored to have a Community Garden Plot at Rock Point. Then, they go busy and it rained for three weeks. Still, we grew some stuff.

Dome by Graham Keegan

More to come!

If you rip down Tick Tick posters and put them up in your living room, and then feel guilty about it, feel better by joining our new POSTER SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE!

We’re still working out the details, but beginning October 1, we’ll be offering a quarterly subscription service. For $50, you’ll receive a tube in the mail with ten or more limited edition, hand screen printed posters, signed and numbered. You will get posters, other art prints, who knows what else we might throw in the tube!

The first selling point here is that while the posters you ripped down are on crappy newsprint, these are on lovely, archival-quality poster paper. Someday, you might be able to sell them on e-bay for way more!

The second selling point is that money from poster subscriptions goes directly to support Tick Tick’s booking work. Tick Tick booking is a labor of love, which is a nice way of saying that it doesn’t make any money. Because we book in alternative venues (which we love to do) and don’t charge high ticket prices (because we don’t want to), and because gas is expensive, and because we want to book bands who aren’t wildly famous, it is very very hard to make any sort of money at the door at a show.

The money from your subscription will go towards buying poster paper for these lovely show posters, towards paying off the new PA that we bought this summer (which is what allows us to do shows in alternative venues and have them sound ok), enable us to pay every band we book a reasonable amount of money, and give us the flexibility to take chances on bands that are a little bit more expensive than we can normally afford. And those are the shows that could totally BLOW YOUR MIND!

Soon there will be more details and a little paypal button up on the webby for you. And don’t forget to come to the shows too. All we really want is to enjoy some excellent music from out of town, in your company! Check our shows page for all the details on the upcoming.

Poster by Dale Donaldson