Thanks + Last Show of Summer TONIGHT!

Swimmers!

Many thanks to everyone who came out to the fundraiser at Bar 9 this past week, we had a blast and it was a smashing success! Good job, everybody!

REMINDER: Final show of the summer is TONIGHT at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch. We're opening up the show with a stripped down line-up and will be debuting some rare tunes from the Lifeguard Nights catalog for the occasion, as well as some new tunes and some old favorites. Also on the bill: Birthwater, HRNY WRMS, Sassafrass Spine and Weasels & Mumps

Come on out!

Bar 9 7-28-10 Setlist:

White Lights
Dire Straits
Allie Says
The Kids Ain't Alright
Lost Boy
The Gun Show
Lonely Hwy
New Regrets
Batten Down the Hatches
The Red Eye

FINAL 2 Shows of the Summer This Week!

Swimmers!

Even though there's still plenty of Summer sunshine left to bathe in, we lifeguards only have 2 more shows this season, and they're both this week!

Wednesday, July 28th -- 8 PM @ Bar 9

A very special fund-raising event, opening up for Wormburner! $10 gets you in to see the bands, $40 gets you in + 10 raffle tickets, and all proceeds will be going to help Liam Hayden cover his medical expenses!

For more info on Liam, check out www.liampolooza.com

Come on out for a great cause!

Friday, July 30th -- 9 PM @ The Brighton Bar

With Hrny Wrms, Birthwater, Sassafrass Spine and Weasels and Mumps! We'll be opening up the show with a stripped down line-up and some mellow tunes. Should be pleasant.

Come support the team one last time before we head into studio hibernation!

Safe swimming,

Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

Dublin House Thanks/Sets

Swimmers!

Thanks to all ye who came out to the Dublin House in Red Bank this past Thursday, twas a beautiful night of rock and roll under the stars! Special thanks to Sean for setting up the show, Pat for letting us borrow the PA, and Kathy & Steve for the big assist with the extension cord and power strip, couldn't have done it without you all!

Set One:

Swim Children
Lost Boy
Robin Hood
Serenity Now
Disaster Area
The Gun Show
Lonely Hwy
Dark Side of The Pool
Bank Account
The Parting

Set Two:

Amen
Stealing Coins From Wishing Wells
The Kids Ain't Alright
Beach Party
Sandbox
New Regrets
Ruiner
Whore
The Red Eye
Wave Goodbye

FREE OUTDOOR SHOW!

Swimmers!

Tomorrow night at the Dublin House in Red Bank, NJ, we'll be rocking out under the stars on the patio for free! We're playing two sets, a mix of SJSLCB and Lifeguard Nights tunes old and new, and it's gonna be great. The rock starts at 8:30 and the band will be comprised of:

Me on stuff
Special Guest Mike Biskup on lead guitar
Boris Veysman on the bass
Beach Boy Hudson on the drums
Sean Calvert and PJ Donofrio on percussion

Come on out! We're going to have this much fun:



There's only a couple more chances to catch us live before we take the rest of the summer off to finish up recording.

Hope to see you there, safe swimming,

Vincent & LGN

Many Thanks!

Swimmers!

Many thanks to all ye who came out to celebrate my birth these past two nights, many thanks to my fellow lifeguards for rocking out with me, many thanks to Kieran, Bar Nine, and Mad Larry as well! Love you all.


(photo by Mad Larry himself, Bill Ryan)

WONDERBAR SET

Bastille Day
Amen
Medicine
Serenity Now
Everything's Falling Apart
Sea of Death*
Stealing Coins
I Rattle When I Run*
The Gun Show*
White Light
The Red Eye*

*skipped because we got douched

BAR NINE SET

Bastille Day
White Light
If Only
Dire Straits
I Don't Like Love
Driveway Dreams
Allie Says
The Gun Show
Batten Down The Hatches
The Red Eye
Over It
RSVP

See the previous blog entry for more rock and roll coming up this month! After that we'll be on hiatus for all of August so catch us while you can!

Safe swimming,

Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

July is Lifeguard Awareness Month!

Swimmers!



July is my birth month and that means two things: party all the time, and I'll cry if I want to. I'm hoping for more party, less crying and to ensure that, we're taking some time out of our busy Lifeboat For Fatty recording schedule, and playing a few awesome gigs. They are:

Sunday, July 4th -- Independence Day party at La Casa de Mullet

(if you want to come, get in touch and we'll send you an application)

Tuesday, July 13th @ 8:30 PM @ WONDERBAR in Asbury Park (right across from the boardwalk)

A mere $2 cover! With Birthwater and Rapid Cities.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 14TH @ 8:30 PM @ Bar 9

My actual birthday. Bastille Day! Salsa cook-off! Mad Larry! Free!

THURSDAY, JULY 22nd @ 8 PM @ Dublin House Red Bank

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28th @ 8 PM @ Bar 9

Fundraiser for Liam Hayden! With Wormburner! Come on out for a great cause!

Friday, JULY 30th @ 9 PM @ The Brighton Bar

We'll be doing an intimate, mellow set of rare jams. Then HRNY WRMS will pound you into submission.

These may be your only opportunities to see us for the summer! Come August I'm going into hiding to complete the aforementioned epic adventure LFF and we'll hopefully return in September for a CD Release extravaganza somewhere sweet. I'll keep ya posted. Hope to see ya soon, safe swimming!

Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

Lifeguard Retreat Update

Swimmers!

Heyo, how goes it? We Lifeguards just got back from a week-long retreat at an oceanfront home on Long Beach Island. The weather was beautiful every day. We swam in the ocean. We napped on the beach. We rode bikes into town. We played games with balls. We built sandcastles. We scored cheap crap at garage sales. We played mini-golf. We saw old friends. We bbq'd. We drank. We smoked. We laughed. We danced. We got naked. We recorded a bunch of new tunes. We had a great time. Pretty much the best week ever. While we're all sad it's over, we really couldn't have possibly had a better time. As soon as we get settled back into work/crap/reality we'll be posting some fun pics/videos from the week, so check back soon. Or right now. Whenever's cool.

Good morning:




Boro surveying the scene:



Timmay emerged from the sea on Sunday afternoon:



He dried off and then we did some hard rocking on the deck!







LISTEN!

zSHARE - I Don_t Know.mp3

Love was in the air! Quite literally, as this heart-shaped (un-doctored, fo'real) photo of the red red Moon from Sunday night proves:



Fireworks went off (literally, yet again) Thursday night as Lead Guardette/Hello, Boat vocalist extraordinaire Kato Cunningham proposed to President of Lifeguard Operations (Bass Division) Boro Veysman on the beach. He said yes. Hooray! Congrats to the happy couple!



We shot em from every which angle!



Hi-five!



Then we celebrated. Hard.



We turned into animals.







Then we had pie.



The next day, Pete saved us all from a shark! (Plus he made the best goddamn food and drinks all week. Pete = VACATION MVP!)



Intermission: "The Ocean"



Then Steve and Pete built a sandcastle:





That one sucked. Then they built another:






It was better.



AND NOW STEVE TAKES YOU ON A TOUR OF THE HOUSE:




Then Steve got engaged to beer. Congrats to the happy couple!



Buddies showed up and took pics of other buddies!







On the 8th day, God said, "LET THERE BE MANGAN!"



Intermission: "The Heart of Saturday Night" by Tom Al Waits



And there were rainbows! Magic all up in this bitch!



Steve shows me his canvas for the "Lifeboat for Fatty" album cover. I give him the thumbs up.



Steve always meditates before the letter "R" :



Steve gets back to work:



I ride Steve hard, to get the best out of him:



Finally, the masterpiece is complete:




Oh yeah, we also got some recording done.




HARD ROCK.



Break time.



Back to recording.



Break time.



Back to recording.



Break time.



We were having a great time! As you can probably tell from my drunken camera work.









Yep, there is a shit-ton of new music in the works! Even more of a shit-ton than usual. Boro and I went into Retromedia Studios in Red Bank last week with drumming ma-cheen Steve Hono and recorded bass/drums on five tracks for the upcoming "Lifeboat for Fatty" album, plus a couple old Lifeguard Nights rockers that never got the studio treatment but are going to melt your ears off. Then, at the LBI house we recorded bass/drums for the rest of the "Lifeboat" tunes with drumming ma-cheen Steve Dans, as well as a bunch of tunes for an upcoming SJSLCB (possibly) album. Steve also laid down some drum beats that I'm gonna have fun with, and Lifeguard Timmay laid down a song I'm pumped to have fun with as well. So keep your ears peeled for some new tunes soon, I'll try to post em as soon as they're done!

Bye bye beautiful beach house! (Note Steve's ruggedly sexual 80's movie poster pose)



As for going back to work/reality:



And goodnight:

Dublin House 5/27/10 Sets + Video

Swimmers!

Thanks for coming out to the Dublin House last week, you guys is the best! Special thanks to Vera's Lair for kicking major ass in between our sets. Check those dudes out, great shit!

Lifeguard Nights Set:

the church of song
amen
spare tire
everything's falling apart
dire straits
ruiner
stealing coins from wishing wells
unrequited love
robin hood
the gun show
batten down the hatches
the red eye
rsvp

SJSLCB set


swim children
bank account
sideways smile
serenity now
mexico
downstairs
beach party
wave goodbye

Bar 9 5/21 Setlist/Photo

We rocked Bar 9 hard the other night. You want proof? Here's your proof:



SETLIST:

Allie Says
Dire Straits
Whore
LOST*
I Don't Like Love
Shame
Lonely Hwy
The Gun Show
Batten Down the Hatches
The Red Eye

*Skipped

Late Nite (Post-Bogmen) Party @ Bar 9!

Swimmers!

Hi there, hope you're all staying healthy amidst this wild weather! Something wicked is going around but we're slowly beating it off like it's 1992 and we just discovered the Spice Channel through the wavy lines. Victory shall be ours!

Anyway, we here in Lifeguard Nights are pumped up about the Bogmen shows at Highline Ballroom next week. For those of you who don't know The Bogmen, they're one of our favorites, and one of the best live bands around. They released a couple stellar albums in the 90's, "Life Begins at 40 Million" and "Close Captioned Radio" and then went their separate ways, splitting off into such fine acts as Vic Thrill, Mad Larry, & more. While they've mostly been on hiatus the past ten years (reuniting occasionally to play some amazing shows), they're back with a new EP "Lookin' For Heaven in the Barrio" which kicks ass and you can check it out at WWW.THEBOGMEN.COM and you should go do that now.



I'm pretty sure if you dig us, you'll dig them (probably a lot more than you dig us, but don't worry, we won't take it personally.) I believe tickets are still available to Thursday night's show, so you should get on that NOW!

Following their Friday, May 21st show, we'll be heading up to Bar Nine to play a special late-nite set. Probably starting around Midnight or so. Should be fun, and free, and you should go. Hope to see you there,

Vincent & Lifeguard Nights

The Boys Were Back In Town!

Swimmers!

Thanks to everyone who came out and made this past weekend's SJSLCB reunion a special, special evening! There was something in the air that night...the stars were bright...Fernando? I must say that I personally haven't had that much fun on stage in a long, long time. It was great to play the old tunes, to rock with some old friends (Mikey B and AQesha!) and to see some SJSLCB Hall of Famers (Biff!). It felt so right that **SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT** I think we're going to try to keep it going in some fashion. Stay tuned because we just may be playing some more gigs this summer! Who the hell knows.

SETLIST:

The Boys Are Back In Town
Swim, Children
Bank Account
Sideways Smile
Serenity Now
Mexico
Downstairs
Beach Party
Sandbox
Disaster Area
We Are Not In Tune
Dark Side Of The Pool
Wave Goodbye

The Return of the SJSLCB!

Swimmers!

One night only! SJSLCB reunion (kind of)!



okay so my photoshop skills aren't the greatest. you get the point.

click the link below for all the details!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=115703181792524

Many Thanks! + Bar 9 Setlist/Pics

Swimmers!

A gigantic THANK YOU to everyone who came out to the Fundraiser for The Almighty Talbot this past Friday night at Bar 9 and helped make it a smashing success! We were able to raise a ton of dough for Courtney and couldn't possibly be more grateful for your support! Many thanks to The Band Formerly Known as Death Mask, Mad Larry, Steve "Hank" Henry from Wormburner, and all of my lifeguard associates for rocking extra hard! Extra special thanks to KA and Eve for helping organize the raffle/work the door and much much more! Good job everybody!

Don't forget to check out www.thealmightytalbot.com often for more info/updates on Courtney, fundraising events, ways you can help out, etc. GO TEAM TALBOT!

Lifeguard Nights setlist:

White Light
Allie Says
Dire Straits
I Don't Like Love
Driveway Dreams
Whore
The Gun Show
Batten Down the Hatches
The Red Eye
Over It


SJSLCB setlist (oh yeah, that happened):

Swim Children
Sideways Smile
Bank Account
Mexico
Serenity Now
Beach Party
Sandbox
Disaster Area


A little pre-show strategery outside:



Executing the strategery:



Getting overrun by handsome fans (all part of the strategery):



The SJSLCB back in action: