July 18
Hey everyone!
Wow, it has been such a long time since we have posted up a blog. It seems as though the term "busy" would be an understatement for what we've been through lately. The summer has been going great. Period. We've been having such a good time falling back into the recording/gigging mode that we all love so much. To those who have been out to the shows, you know that we've been four-piecing it. It has been a huge challenge for us being a man short, and it has helped us to realize how much we miss Payne. All is well with him and he is having a wonderful time at Governor's School. We can't wait for his return.
It seems as though we've been bathing in computer problems for a lot of the summer; at least since we've started mixing the new EP. Mat's computer decided to act up and corrupt a lot of the audio files, so we had to put the mixing on hold. He has since recieved a new computer and we've started back mixing yesterday. We are so sorry for the delay and we will get that out to you guys as soon as we can. It will be worth the wait- we promise.
The summer is rapidly coming to a close as well. We have our very last gig lined up on Thursday, August 9th at the Asheville Arts Center. This will be the official EP release show and we also have some new merch to throw in the mix. See details under our "Upcoming Shows" section.
Thanks again to everyone for their continued support! We've loved seeing you guys at all the shows and singing along to the music. We are trying to book shows throughout the school year so we dont have so much dead-time in between summers. More on that later. Peace and rock.
-B4B
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May 24
Hey everyone! The summer of rock has begun and we've been very busy and hard at work! We are finishing up the recording process and we'll start on mixing and mastering the EP very soon. Expect it to be available around July 1st! We are very happy with the new material and we are looking forward to getting it out.
We are also starting to pick up the pace with practices pretty much everyday now. We are happy to inform you that we found a sit in for Payne for all our shows (except June 2nd): Kevin Mills. He's a good and talented guy and we are looking forward to bringing him on board.
More info and news to come... Check back regularly for new Podcasts of our shows and our "occasional" shenanigans.
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March 24
Hey everyone.
Just a few updates on some things:
The summer is rapidly approaching and B4B is slowly getting prepared for yet another eventful vacation from school. We are currently in the process of booking gigs for May-July. If you would like B4B to come to you town, or if you have a specific venue in mind, please send us some info (name, venue, address, number(s)) and dates available for booking. We are OPEN for ANY dates as of now.
Also, some news concerning the upcoming EP: We have been busy with more demos and material (as always). We have decided to wait to release the EP until the summer and add a few more songs to the lineup. So instead of being a rather short, 5-6 song EP, we will have a longer, 9-10 song EP planned for your listening pleasure. Also, plans are tentative to release an acoustic EP of some acoustic versions of our stuff. Look for the EP's to be available at our shows and online this summer.
Other news:
-Our podcasts are now available on iTunes!
-Look for a demo from the new EP "Far from Eden: to be up shortly!
-A few songs are available for free download now!
-New B4B merch will be available this summer!
-We have a new website design @ bettingforbenson.com!
-Our album "Forever Tomorrow" is now only $10!
-B4B
www.bettingforbenson.com
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December 4
Things are finally starting to pick up again. School is almost out for the semester and the itch for rocking grows day by day. We finally found time to get together over Thanksgiving and it was as though the awesome times from the summer never ended. We practiced over at Mars Hill pretty much every day and worked on getting down a repertoire for the upcoming shows. Things are really clicking and the energy that were getting will make the live shows really something to look forward to and leave you wanting more. Mat and Ricky went out to some venues around the area on Friday and dropped off the press material. Hopefully well have a decent lineup of shows starting sometime after Christmas. Well keep you posted.
We spent the last few days of break working on new material that we have been demo-ing over the semester. Some of the new material you can hear on the upcoming podcasts. We plan to start recording as soon as possible once Christmas break gets here and hopefully have a pretty sweet little 5-6 song EP available for the fans next semester at shows! Of course well put a few tracks online for your listening pleasure.
We also had our first interview with the Citizen-Times Asheville paper. It was quite a fun experience and it should be posted up on the Take 5 online site either December 22nd or 29th. Thanks again to everyone that continues to keep us the #1 most visited music profile in Asheville! You can also download mp3s of some of our music there too if you havent already.
Also, thanks to all of you that voted for us a couple of weeks ago for the Star104.3 Battle of the Bands. We did not make it, but you can go there this week and vote any of the bands that were in it for a chance to play for the city of Asheville on New Years Eve! So check it out and PLEASE vote for us!
http://www.star1043.com/cc-common/mainheadlines2.html?feed=111401&article=578764
You can still get a copy of Forever Tomorrow from our online store as well! Looking forward to seeing everyone at our shows!
-B4B
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September 16
FINALLY!!!
The Album is here. I know we have changed dates around a lot, but that was our bad. We underestimated the release date and how long it would take to produce the cds. BUT WAIT NO MORE! They are here. And they are beautiful. We will have ordering info up on the site very soon.
If you are in the Raleigh, NC area, contact Andrew @
andrew@bettingforbenson.com
The Nashville, TN area:
mat@bettinforbenson.com
The Boone, NC area:
ricky@bettingforbenson.com
or the Asheville, NC area:
brandon@bettingforbenson.com
Thanks again to everyone for their support!
Hopefully we'll see you soon at a show!
-B4B
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AwakeningSoul
Hey Guys! So proud of you all. I miss seeing faces
around and am delighted to see Matt Paynes face :-) I
had no idea that he was doing this now .. I made an
account just so that I could root you on .. Now make me
proud!!! ( Do I sound like \"mom\" yet?)
posted Aug 31
.winter.chick.
hey guys i really like the new song.
posted Aug 24
.winter.chick.
wow..you guys are really good..like im serious. on the
first song i was thinking the music was really good and
stuff but that the vocals would end up being horrible-
but lol. theyre not. and omgosh andrew- haha you prob.
dont remember me cz i was a freshman when u graduated
but i had no idea u were in a band..not that i payed
attention to any seniors anyway..but yeah lol.
um..thats bout it. have a nice day! -ashley
posted Jul 26