Thursday, January 13, 2011

Help Send The Rovers To HONK in Austin TX!!



CLICK HERE TO HELP US OUT

The SOCROVERS are trying to get to HONK, TX in Austin for a massive festival of like-minded street activist bands. We'll use this trip to energize our current members, and recruit newbies for our 2011 street roaming season in Durham and around the triangle region of NC.

By the first week of March, we'll be ready to plot and plan our musical onslaughts, and will be gearing up for our Texas pilgrimage from March 11-13. We already have a few dollars in our account, and are seeking funding to ensure our members $250 each to offset their HONK expenses.

Any additional funds raised will be used to reduce the cost for each member to make the trip. If we do really well and raise enough to pay for each member's trip in entirety (estimated expenses are at about $400 per band member, with 8 of us currently planning to attend), we'll use additional funds to pay for our indoor winter practice space, and save any remaining balance for our HONK trip to Somerville, MA in October!!

Making music in the streets is a powerful way to remind ourselves that public space is ours! No sound is illegal. Our sounds may not reach the top of the pop charts, but they beat the sound of car horns, spinning tires, construction work, and lawnmowers hands-down...Fund our 2011 season and help keep public space vibrant and alive with the sounds of music!

It's easy to give, just click here.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Here's a video of "Cobra" gestures. Three minutes to learn all the gestures you need to start off playing our improv game. These gestures are based on Soundpainting, a sign language developed by Walter Thompson to facilitate instant musical composition.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

SOC Rovers & a real orchestra

Video from our Third Friday show at the Durham Armory. We played together with the Really Terrible Orchestra of the Triangle www.rtoot.org

Friday, July 17, 2009

Third Friday Roving

You will find us out and about in downtown tonight, joining the Really Terrible Orchestra of the Triangle at CCB plaza (or the Armory, in the event of rain) the Armory, later playing at the Scrap Exchange, and probably making a general spectacle of things at points and times in between, after, and around.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Saturday, July 11, 2009

SOC Rovers--tonight!

Hmm...seems we forgot we had a blog. Sorry about that.

We're playing tonight at Golden Belt for Bombadil's CD release party along with Luego and The Tender Fruit. Starts at 7pm. Come on out!

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Caught on camera



Via

(p.s.: Despite the youtube title, this is not our theme song.)

Sunday, May 3, 2009

No Practice Tonight!

We're taking a break after doing TWO shows yesterday.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Plan for Saturday 5/2

10:00 meet at the Scrap Exchange to review set list
10:45 start parade at farmer's market
11:00 play at Strawberry Festival (724 Foster St, we can also park our cars in their lot)

3:00 meet at Club Blvd Magnet School (400 W. Club Blvd, can park at Northgate park)
3:30 play at the Manatee Mayfair

Set List

1. Dixieland
2. Wild Rovers
3. Vlasti (begin while marching, vamp in to courtyard, form standing half circle, then solos start)
4. Witch hunt (need to review format)
5. Funky Dance song (with audience participation)
6. She Shimmy (maybe)
7. Exit with Minimalism/Maximalism
also Cobra at some point

Monday, April 27, 2009

words to Wild Rover

I've been a wild rover for many a year
And I spent all my money on whiskey and beer
But now I'm returning with gold in great store
And I never will play the wild rover no more

And it's No, Nay, never,
No, nay never no more
Will I play the wild rover,
No never no more

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Can we play this?

Takayuki Hattori - Godzilla's Theme (Akira Ifukube)
Found at skreemr.com


If you can't read the skreemr bar, this is the theme to Godzilla.

Friday, February 27, 2009

SOC Rovers ca. 2006

Benefit Show for Central Park School Poll

I'm guessing this will be at a family friendly hour, but after work?

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Mardi Gras


Wild Squatoolas
Originally uploaded by Barry Yeoman
More photos here. Plus some great shots of Brian's zebra pants!

Friday, February 20, 2009

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Next practice -- Sun March 1

We'll also have our bi-monthly band meeting during the first hour of practice on 3/1.

No practice on Feb 22 since we have 2 shows that weekend.

Next weekend things

So, Friday, it looks like we will meet at the scrap at 7.00 to 7.30 to
do the rove around downtown ( Revolutions is a must!! ) set list to be
decided that night.

Saturday, meet at Richard Hart's house at 4.30 to
get ready to march in the parade which starts at 5.00 pm.

Set list, start with the Dirge to get the parade moving then jump into
Dixieland, back to the dirge depending on how long the parade takes.
When we get back to the house we will do She-shimmy in the street in
front of the house then end it. We are then free to drink and be merry.

ROVERS!!!!

Rob.