We played a show with two incredible bands, Post Honeymoon and Coins
@ the Hideout. Post Honeymoon got the talented Karen Tisel to make the mindblowing flyer:

we all had so much fun, there are talks of doing duofest yearly, as well as a future collaboration with all three bands. Videos by Thomas Banks:

Faiz co-curated an exhibit through Stockyard Institute called Nomadic Studio at the DePaul University Art Museum.

Nomadic Studio was a four and a half month exhibit about the artist and non-traditional studio spaces. For the month of July, we are focusing on the musician and the home studio. As part of the exhibit, Faiz, Brian McNally and Beth Wiedner recreated the Rumpus Room, the space where, among other things, Small Awesome would rehearse. Kelsey Moher took the following picture:

We played with onono and bric-a-brac, both bands who also have recorded and rehearsed in the original Rumpus Room.  Steve Albini opened up the evening discussing his home/studio, Electrical Audio, the joys of anvil  ownership and the difficulty in scoring adobe from new mexico.

Jim Birch also video taped the show. The video for “Song #1” shows the Rumpus Room in its glory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6osIXKysPyY

The full show is here.

We played with the exceptional Crooked Fingers @ Schuba’s it was exciting and fun.

Crooked Fingers were also a duo that night. it was a duo of duos.

We played a show at Beat Kitchen on May 20th:

thanks to our friends BBGS for setting up a great evening, and a positiviely civilized dinner beforehand.  cheers.

while sound checking, we ran through “the Ivy Twines” with John of BBGS and Columbines on Lap Steel.  he guested on the forthcoming LP for this song.

Jim Birch of the Infrasonics also recorded us playing “the Ivy Twines”.Here it is on the you tubes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlzooQhrdyI

We played our first show at Quenchers in Chicago on 4/15/10.

we played with some excellent bands.  there were two flyers:

Born on the Floor did not play that night after all.

Our good friend, Jim Birch, of the Infrasonics recorded the show.  here is one song:

I Don’t Think Any of them Do (live at quenchers)

you can find the rest of the show here, on Jim’s site.