Haiku Rd. Update

Well, I must say that in spite of the busy-ness of my schedule lately and my best efforts at self-sabotage, Haiku Rd. seems to be taking off ... slowly, certainly, and without much income, but taking off nonetheless.

For your edification, here's the cover of our 'demo' CD, the images on which are derived from the Ministry of Peace ... errrr, Dept. of Homeland Security, as filtered through a less-funny e-mail take on them made better in this blog entry of Richard's.



The CD contains tracks from Hadrian's Wall's Haiku Rd. album, with a few of Richard's solo demos and a track by our new bassist/multi-instrumentalist, Erik.

For your reference, if you're in or can get to Phoenix in the next few weeks, here are our scheduled gigs:

• Dec. 11, 8:30-11:30 p.m. Paisley Violin, 2nd St. & Roosevelt in downtown Phoenix. note: This is a change to what I may have previously reported by word of mouth.
  
• Dec. 15, 9 p.m.-midnight. Willow House, 3rd Ave. & McDowell in downtown Phoenix. I may be late for this one, in which case Richard and Erik may start things off.
  

We're working to add others to the schedule, and we'll be able to start work on a real Web site for the band which will include calendar information, but for now, this is it. http://www.in-the-wall.com contains information about Hadrian's Wall, but only a bare mention of Haiku Rd.

Please come to our shows for fun, frivolity and songs about suicide (no, really, we have a funny Christmas suicide song), all rolled in with our other songs and our trademark lame jokes and mildly amusing on-stage patter. Oh, and bring $8.00 (better yet, bring $10 so you can tip us a couple of bucks; in most cases we're either not getting paid or ain't getting paid much) for one of our lovely CDs! Hadrian's Wall's Haiku Rd. has been out of print for years, so for the forseeable future this is the only way to get the best tracks from it in digital form if you don't already have them.