Hoagie outdid himself on these. . . and oh boy did we get into some shit!

TAKEOVER TOUR UPDATES 2 (Philly) and 3 (Brooklyn)

Before we knock this TAKEOVER TOUR outta the park we’re starting off with a killer club date in New York City this coming Saturday July 12th at Sullivan Hall. Who doesn’t get hyped up for a visit to NYC? Considering how bad ass our recent shows there have been and also that Pukey and Chito (the two dudes with us on this tour) have nevery been there, it’s sure to go OFF.

If you haven’t had a chance to peep Hoag’s video flyer for the show, it’s rather funny. “These vagabound shoes. . .” I love that part.

I hope all y’all New Yorkers can make it and we’ll see you Saturday!

BONESAW

Hoagman is always right on top of getting video footage of shows out. In this black and white highlight reel, see if you can spot yourself in the crowd shots. if ya missed the show, well as B Real says “here’s a little sample, just an example.”

This past weekend we had the incredible good fortune to be able to play a full concert at the Houston Astros v. New York Yankees game during batting practice. The whole show was broadcast on the Jumbotron and there were thousands of people there! It was especially cool because Bonesaw and Hoagman’s older brother (that would be my older brother) Tyler Kepner is the Yankees beat writer for the NY Times. So of course he and all his writer buddies wrote about the show saturday.

Check out what they had to say (and the funny comments people left)! FS IN THE NEWS

Well look at that, maybe the Austin Chronicle is catching on! There is a little blurb about Hoagman’s video for “Alpine” in this week’s edition. Go Hoagman!

FS in the Austin Chronicle 5-30-2008

And then there’s this - an East Coast based blog picked up on the Takeover Tour and wrote a cool feature. Check out the old TourSaw VI picture they grabbed!

Full Service on Instrumental Analysis Blog 5-30-2008
More later today for the FS Takeover Tour Press Conference!

Took us long enough, but we had to wait until the summertime to get the right footage. But here’s Hoagman’s video for our song “Alpine” about our south austin neighborhood. Enjoy!

Well, there’s been talk of a Full Service and Grimy Styles concert for a long time since we first ran into them through our producer (and their manager) CCGrady. Plus, we both rock the same venue - The Flamingo Cantina - regularly.

So finally it’s going to happen, though at a different venue!

FRIDAY MAY 23rd, 2008 @ The Parish Room (Austin, TX)
Show @ 9pm with FS playing first, Grimy headlining.

Hey fanSizzles….. Hoagman has already diced up the footage from our show in Houston at Ugly’s last weekend and I just uploaded it onto the FULL SERVICE VIDEO PAGE. Check it if ya missed the show, or if you were there and wanna see yourself rocking hard to the FS jam!

Be warned, though - the interviewer DOES reveal Bonesaw’s real name in the interview! The story ran yesterday in Bonesaw’s alma mater (Amherst College) newspaper. READ THE INTERVIEW

Austin’s FULL SERVICE
TAKES OVER 311/Snoop Dogg Summer Tour

Austin’s band of road pirates FULL SERVICE has just announced it’s most far-reaching and risky stunt yet: a month long “TAKEOVER TOUR” spanning the entire eastern and south central United States. The target – 311 & Snoop Dogg’s summer tour.

Having successfully toured the nation’s club circuit independently for much of the last three years, FULL SERVICE has decided to take touring and promotion to a new level.

Wait, so the band has been invited to tour with 311?

“Definitely not. We were not invited by any means,” says drummer Hoagman. “This is parasitic infiltration at its best. Will it be our greatest Takeover of all time? All signs point to yes.”

Armed to the hilt with a generator, a traveling crew of three dedicated street-teamers and existing fans in every city, 10,000 demo CD’s, and a commitment to go without sleep for a month, the band will play ‘takeover concerts’ outside of the arena venues, before the inside concert begins, at all fourteen stops along the 311 tour, beginning in Philadelphia July 15^th and ending in Austin August 2, 2008. The band is also booking late-night club dates in the each city after almost every takeover.

Full Service has been in takeover training for several years now, having successfully executed missions ranging from college campuses at lunch time (UCLA, UC-Berkeley, FSU, for example) to the Austin City Limits Festival (see FOX News coverage). Their most successful takeover came in 2006 outside the Austin Music Hall at a 311 concert in Austin. Full Service set up directly in front of the venue, which was heavily patrolled by Police. After a full ten-song set with no hassle from the authorities (gotta love Austin cops), a large crowd was begging for sample CD’s and info about the band.

Amidst the ever more competitive environment for bands to gain attention, FULL SERVICE has forsworn the standardized and impersonal myspace “friend-requesting” campaign and has instead decided to take it straight to the people, LOUD and LIVE and definitely UN-INVITED!

Visit www.fullservicemusic.com or www.myspace.com/fullservice for music, videos, and info.

TAKEOVER DATES
7/15 Tues – Penns Landing (Philadelphia, PA)
7/16 Wed Keyspan Park (Brooklyn, NY)
7/18 Fri – Tweeter Center (Boston, MA)
7/19 Sat – PNC Bank Arts Center (Holmdel, NJ)
7/20 Sun – Nissan Pavillion (Washington, DC)
7/22 Tues - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (VIRGINIA BEACH, VA)
7/23 Wed - Walnut Creek Amphitheatre (Raleigh, NC)
7/24 Thur – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Charlotte, NC)
7/26 Sat - Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheatre (Atlanta, GA)
7/27 Sun - Ford Amphitheatre (TAMPA, FL)
7/29 Tues - River Center (BATON ROUGE, LA)
7/30 Wed - Showgrounds at Sam Houston Race Park (HOUSTON, TX)
7/31 Thur – Smirnoff Amphitheatre (Dallas, TX)
8/2 Sat – The Backyard (Austin, TX)