Tonight's Sunshine

Mood: ??? All over the place

Reading: The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin

Music: Consent by Tonight’s Sunshine

Upcoming Shows:

• Saturday 2/28 at Central Records 7-9:30pm

• Sunday 3/01 at Kuiper Space Sciences Building 2-3pm

• Saturday 3/07 at Brick Box (Queens of the Scene show, all femme/nonbinary artists, 2 songs per)

• Saturday 3/14 at Brick Box (Tonight’s Sunshine’s Second Saturdays) 7-11pm

• Saturday 3/28 at Tempe Timeout Lounge w/ Insomniacs and Tripolar

Howdy Space Cadets,

I’m gonna lay a bunch info out for ya’ll with plenty of upcoming events and news.

First off, we have a residency for every SECOND SATURDAY at Brick Box Brewery in Tucson. 🌝 February’s date landed square on Valentine’s Day and we got to witness our new bass player Ysa get PROPOSED TO ON-STAGE. It was epic and we’re so happy for them. ☺️

March’s date is on 3/14, and we’ll be playing with Tripolar from Phoenix, Marta (from Weekend Lovers), and Kaity (solo-project). The show has all femme/nonbinary fronted acts, and I LOVE it.

Please come hang out, play some of the bar’s arcade games with us, check out our new merch and come make friends!! RSVP BELOW!!! Let’s build some community. ☺️

Brickbox | 3/14 | Doors 7pm

RSVP to BBox Show

Also…🚨🚨🚨NEW SONG RELEASE ALERT: TWENTY 🚨🚨🚨

I know at least some of you have heard this song live, as well as the story behind it. As I talk to younger fans or friends, I’ve realized that the emotion I had back then is still alive and well in people who are now in that part of their young adult journey. At 20, you’re no longer a teen, but hardly feel like an adult, and -if like me- you didn’t have the best support system- juggling work, school and personal life can feel like being swallowed into a black hole. Even without all those things, sometimes growing is just.. depressing. Not everyone knows who they are at that age, or where they’re going, and if they do they beat themselves up about not being where they thought they needed to be.

It’ll probably be ready for release in about 2 months. Once it’s out- listen to it and know that times are gonna get better if that’s where you’re at right now. And if you’ve already been through it, celebrate the fact that your heart has grown. <3

In other news, I’d also like to announce that twice a month I’ll be doing a short, 2-3 song live stream on YouTube. You may ask any and all questions about each song’s lore and I’ll answer em live. BUT ONLY DURING THE LIVESTREAM. 😈

SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel so you can get the alert when I go live!!! COMMENT on the bottom of this post what songs you want me to BREAK DOWN and ASK ANY QUESTIONS you’d like me to answer!!!

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Here’s a light preview of what’s to come in April as well:

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and we’ll be talking about our song Consent and its importance. We’ll have a firm date for that soon. As a survivor, not only is sexual assault awareness important to me as an individual and gender non-conforming person- but as a band we have a duty to keep our shows, our scene, our loved ones and community safe. Too often we hear about awful things happening at shows when no one is looking (or when they are looking but don’t care), or about things that happen after shows with people you thought you could trust. Hopefully we can use our platform to create more awareness about problems in the scene, resources for help and ways in which we can keep each other safe.

We do have new CONSENT merch shirts that are currently only for sale at shows, and are rapidly selling out. We’ll make some more asap, along with our new Phoebe the Boy Cat shirts.

All merch purchases go directly into recording new music, show travel and helping us make EVEN COOLER MERCH so that everyone can go out in style. 😎

If you aren’t able to go to any in-person shows, just let us know and we’ll work something out to ship merch to you!

Alright Space Cadets, I think that’s all for now and I’ll try my hardest to send out another newsletter soon. :) Please come hang out with us at Brick Box on Second Saturdays (March 14th is coming up!!!), keep a lookout for the new live streams that will happen twice a month on either Wednesdays or Thursdays (Subscribe to the YouTube Channel!), buy some new merch (beanie’s are on sale on the website now but it’s starting to get HOT), and share some TS songs with anyone you might think needs it. <3

Aiight, FK out. ❤️‍🔥

It is a garden. 

It is a location in Tucson 👀

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYBODY! This is one of my fav performance pics because of the huge LGBTQ flag that was up at Club Congress behind me. Of course, we can’t see the whole flag but being nonbinary, I’ve always loved how the Trans flag colors are what were captured in this picture.

Hopefully this week has been treating you all well, and if not, thankfully the weekend is coming soon and you can always reach out to us on instagram if you just need to talk. <3

In our last newsletter, we were still gearing up for our latest release, “Country Gay.” It took us almost a whole year from the date it was recorded, to its actual release date, and none of us were expecting the level of success it had.

In all honesty, “Country Gay,” was a wild card. We’d been playing it live for about two years before it finally got recorded, and about half of the time it was a total flop on stage. for some reason, the energy in the crowd would drastically dip and we had to calculate what crowds would like it, instead of throwing it in when we felt like it, as we do with most of our other songs.

We knew there was a handful of fans that were itching for its release, but our monthly spotify listeners didn’t jump up just a few ten or twenty or even a hundred.

We went from from about 200 to 2,600 monthly listeners . WILD. It’s only been out for about a month and a half, but it’s steadily catching up to songs like Aphrodite and She’s a Rat, which have been out for years.

So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for listening and thank you for supporting us. Numbers don’t equate to dollar signs for us- they equate to real people who actually care and/or relate to what we have to say through our music. So again, truly, thank you all so much.

We’ve released an acoustic video of Country Gay on our YouTube channel (which you should totally subscribe to), and will be releasing an acoustic recording onto streaming platforms around mid-July.

In other news, we’re doing our first Live Radio Show!!!!

It’ll be on KXCI 91.3FM, Monday night from 9-10pm. Personally, I’ve been wanting Tonight’s Sunshine on the KXCI Locals Only show for years, so I was ecstatic when they asked.

We’ll do a few short, live sets with interviews in between, and you can tune in on the actual radio, their website and listen to it live, or if you happen to miss it- it’ll be up on their website’s Locals Only page for two weeks.

It’ll be super fun and if you do happen to tune in, take a video and tag us! We’d love to see some fan reactions. ☺️

Alright Space Cadets, I’m clocking off for today. Stay safe and remember to wear goggles and cover up tattoos at protests.

Love,

Firekid

Howdy, Space Cadets

If you’ve been to any of our recent shows, you may have noticed we’ve been performing without our guitarist Diego. There have been many times over the years where Tonight’s Sunshine has been a functioning trio, but that trio had always been Cougar, Diego and I, with our rotating/missing member always being the bassist.

For the first time in our 7 years as a band, we are a trio with drums, ukulele/vocals, and bass, with no guitar. Not having a guitarist can seem like a really scary thing to a band whose songs sometimes average 6 minutes due to long, soulful guitar solos. But while Diego will be missed by fans and most of all us, his longtime friends, we have a lot of current momentum that we’re going to continue to push forward with.

Country Gay just got mastered, Papillons Noirs (Dark) is getting mixed, and we’re scheduling more recording dates in late April. We’re going to try to get a 5 or 6 song EP out, or in the very least put out more music than we have in recent years.

We’ve written 3 new songs this year already, and have a handful of songs from the vault that have been begging to be recorded. The goal is to record three of our “old” but unrecorded songs in April, then record the 3 new songs we’ve written this year by the end of Summer or beginning of Fall.

Last year, we got a lot of press on our 2023 single W.Y.R. (Would You Rather) even though it was a year old at that point, and had a lot of people asking about new music that we would have out. Country Gay, Papillons Noirs (Dark), and 20 were initially set to release in February, but we didn’t know at the time that mixing and mastering were separate from the recording process. It was more time and money than anticipated, naive as we were, since our hometown studio does all three for a simple flat rate instead of three different prices and three different people.

We do agree however, that we’re definitely getting what we’re paying for. The records are sounding amazing and we can’t wait to finally have them out for your listening pleasure.

In the meantime, we’ve been playing about two shows per month; our next one being “pebbles and stones (and things that don’t go),” an art show on March 21st by Cicada Lune who- in their own words- “is dying and making it everyone else’s problem.” Due to a terminal illness and its rapid progression, they’re throwing their last solo art show at Subspace and hoping their art makes it into people’s lives instead of collecting dust in their basement after they’ve gone.

We’re really honored we were asked to play- it seems like almost all shows we’ve played at Subspace have held some deep meaning and importance for us so that’s really cool.

That’s all I have for now, Space Cadets. Be well and don’t take Benadryl just to see the shadow people.

-FK

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