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