Recording @ Bob Lang's

We are excited to announce we will be going in to track our song Cherry Tree at the infamous Robert Lang Studio's Dec. 13th! A few of us have worked out of that studio but this represents the first time Pandacon will have ever tracked there as a whole!

Laser Prom

So much to blog about so little time! I’m going to do some back peddling the next few days here and try to recap the last week because it kicked so much ass! So for this post I will start with the epic Laser Prom party we threw with Delhi 2 Dublin on June 3rd. Sometimes concerts aren’t really worth writing about. Trust me, Ive seen enough to know this as truth. Luckily Panda Conspiracy doesn’t do those kind of shows. Take Laser prom for example: Thursday night, Sold out, Laser madness, crowd surfing and an all round great time! I may be a dude but I love to decorate and appreciate an eye for style as well as creating atmosphere. That is where DJ Shape Shifter came in and KILLED it! He draped colorful black light sensitive fabric and converted the Wild Buffalo into a magical neon palace. Not to mention that he’s my new favorite DJ! Shapy spun sets at the beginning middle and end of the night and always picked the choice cuts keeping the crowd pumped up and dancing the ENTIRE night! We did our part to warm up the stage and welcome BC’s Delhi 2 Dublin to rock the 2nd set. One thing I’ve learned over the years is it is just as important to do a killer opening set as it is to headline. My goal is to be associated with great concerts start to finish every time regardless of who plays when. Big thanks go to the crew responsible for pulling this off! Austin with Build Strong, Ken from Soulful Elements as well as Marika, DJ element, Jeff Silverman and Chris with Nth Degree Lasers, and the Toledo. We are fortunate to be surrounded by such talented and creative people in our scene!

The Music Generalist features Panda Conspiracy!

This is pretty cool. A random dude named Nick walked up to me on the street out front of the Comet before our show and asked if he could review Panda for his blog. . . Of corse I said yes! But I have to admit. . 99% of the things people tell a band at their shows are total bullshit. This time we were pleasantly surprised when we got a message on our facebook page from Nick! Check out the Music Generalist's latest blog posting! He's got some great picts too!

http://themusicgeneralist.net

Where the !@#! is our Panda Head?!?

Ok, who has our panda mascot head?! It got hijacked at the Comet Tavern last weekend! Normally I would be totally pissed off but that show rocked so much that I'm almost alright with it. Still, should of listened to TJ and left it in the van! Other then that lots of cool stuff has been happening! My friend Charlie who is some what of a superhuman when it comes to electronics modified my keytar to house the wireless transmitter inside! This will allow me to be more ridiculous onstage! Total keytar freedom!

With Folklife and the Laser Prom just around the corner, we are doing some things to prepare. This morning I got up at an ungodly hour and started working on a giant pandaconspiracy stencil to use for making some custom flags and other various things.

I'm taking an idea from co-conspirator Jenn Chung who made a smaller version for us out of cardboard. . . this one will be quite a bit bigger. .and I have to say it is WAY harder then I thought it would be.

Tracing the panda was easy but cutting out the cardboard was a pain in the ass! As I was starting to loose it, Alisa stepped in and helped cut out the Teeth.

Some of the lines got improvised a little bit but all in all I think it worked out great! After testing the stencil on an old drop cloth we went down to the fabric store and bought some black fabric to use for the final prints. Later on we will make a frame for them out of PVC and hopefully we'll have some strange creatures rocking the flags on stage with us next saturday!! This is going to be a busy week! 2 rehearsals, a meeting, a solo show, a panda show, not to mention ordering lasers, and finishing the flags!

JUST RELEASED! The latest video from VC publications. All the footage you see here is from 4 separate shows and the audio is a live stereo recording from last year's Summer Meltdown performance.

Sunrise Sunset Live from Panda Conspiracy on Vimeo.

Festivals on the horizon!

We're excited to have some more great festivals to announce this summer! Seattle Folklife may 29th, Fremont Fair June 19th, Seattle Gay Pride June 26th and Sumer Meltdown August 7th! Wow this year is really stacked! Hope we can get this new website done soon!

another poster another day

I made this poster using a combination of hand cut panda heads from various magazines and a hand drawn rainbow in felt pen all brought together with the magic of computer science. You should come to this show! --Do it!

Return to Tonasket!!

This is a picture from a renegade marching band we formed at the Barter Fair I'm guessing 4 years ago. We we're bent on making a ruckus and bringing it to everyones camp on foot! We did play an official Panda Con show that night on some dude from Idaho's flat bed truck. The barter fair is so funky and such a good time! Sadly we haven't been able to make it back for a few years. Good news: this summer they are holding the first annual Conscious Culture Fest (not to be confused with the Coitus Culture fest. . .) and we have been invited to perform! I'm thinking its going to be a bit more organized then the barter fair and it sounds like they have a completly legitimate stage and sound system! Check out the awesome lineup including Buffy Sainte-Marie!

New website on the way. . .

It's true, it has been a while. Our old website looks kind-of. . well. . blah. I recently talked to Brian Thompson from Thorny Bleeder records in Vancoover, BC who was kind enough to give us a critique. The first thing he noticed was our image online did not seem to fit with the style of music we play and the atmosphere at our concerts. I was surprised, but then again we hadn't given too much thought to this in the past. . I was always like "Yeah, we have a web site and stuff. . so?" Well, as we go further and further into the realm of digital life "web presence" seems to be increasingly important. So here is to 2010 and some change with the panda band from Seattle's online style!

Key words I'm using for inspiration through this process: fun, bright colors, cut and paste, lasers, slightly crazy, dance party, good times! . . . I'm sure some other keywords will pop up too.