A glimpes of veinmelter history

“Becky's Schedule of Cool Music Stuff - May 1998”
(a blog we happened upon recently it kind of blows my mind….did we have internet in 98?
thanks for the moment in time Becky, TPF ; )

2 - Solar Folklore festival featuring Disco Biscuits, Jook, Love Child,
Bluesuedegroove's, Veinmelter, Catfish Soup, Hot Pants, and Brown Brain
@ Tussey Mountain Amphitheater, Boalsburg, PA.

This link represents one of Veinmelters earliest shows just outside State College PA. One of many gigs since the conception of Veinmelter in 1997. Matt and I have had the chance to play many gigs with an awesome list of incredible artists and bands. Notable appearances have been in combination with Marc Ribot, Los Straitjackets, Kid Rock, Disco Biscuits and String Cheese Incident, more resent gigs have included The Heavy Pets, Dirk Quinn Band, Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm. The list of venues Veinmelter has played is extensive we started Vm in State College PA, Played just about every bar in town and many of the festivals and campus events like Earth Day and the Solar Folklore festival. Other notable gigs in recent years have taken us to NYC for a battle of bands called Emergenza in 2006 & 07 where we played incredible rooms: Crashmansion, Webster Hall, The Bitter End. One more place we played frequently in 2008 was The 8X10 in Baltimore MD, and a bunch gigs in Philly bars like the Pontiac Grille, The Khyber, and the old Grape Street Pub in Manayunk PA.

This summer Veinmelter went back to PA. from AL. for 10 days and 7 dates in July and will always frequent Pennsylvania. But we have fallen for the Alabama & Florida Gulf coast this summer playing at The Hangout Gulf Shores, The Wharf’s many venues, Rafters, Ginny Lane, The Villaggio, plus Cobalt, Cosmo’s, Lulu’s Home Port and Moe’s Original BBQ, these are on our regular rotation of gigs.

2007	The Hook	Oct 21 2006	1st step n° 6	06	6
2007	The Bitter End	Apr 21 2007	2nd step n° 13	06	25
2007	Crashmansion	May 26 2007	Semifinal n° 11	02	34
2007	Webster Hall	Jul 6 2007	Final n° 2	13	45

(We loved the venues, the contest was ok, it’s not our bag though we did come in 2^nd during our final round gig for our genre.

It was hard at the time to get our people to NYC for the Webster Hall gig we chartered two buses for friends and family, lots of fun! )

Nigel Dickie, songwriter, bass player, singer, multi media artist & thepeoplesfriend

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