Pics from our Velo Rouge show

As promised! There will be more posted on our myspace page because thanks to our photographer friend Will Davidson we have a shitload of photos from the show! Enjoy!

Here is the lovely Velo Rouge itself

Where's Manuel?

Is that the fabled keyboardist lurking?

There he is! What a sexy bastard!

Not sure what I'm pointing at but apparently it amused us all...

Full recap to follow. Tonight, however, I'm going to bed! Sweet dreams y'all.

Velo Rouge

Our show this past Friday, September 26th, at the Velo Rouge Cafe was a blast! Full recap and photos to follow very soon. This should tide you over until then:

Hope y'all are havin' a great weekend!

Update 9/21/08

Sorry 'bout the lack of posts lately folks. We've been hard at work practicing and getting our keyboardist Manuel up to speed with our entire set. Might I just add the man's doing a phenomenal job!

We have a few shows coming up and a recording session for our first EP in the works, but for the time being I'd like to point you toward our new official website http://www.tobelamusic.com! There you can hear samples of our tunes, read about the band and find out about upcoming live shows.

Til next time here's the flyer for our show next week...

As promised...

...here is a massive update!

First off a recap of the show last Saturday as we headlined The Red Victorian Hotel. Upon arrival we realized that the promoter/organizer of the show, Bill, was not only absent from the event but had also failed to mention the fact that the Red Vic has no house P.A. So, at 7:30 (a half hour before we were to go on) Matt, his brother in-law Jeff and myself raced to our practice studio to pick up the P.A. we use there, though it did not belong to us. Due to Matt's skillful daredevil driving, and Jesse staying behind to set up whatever gear we already had at the venue, we were back in just enough to time to set everything up and start the show only 10 minutes late.

We had a great crowd and our 2 45-minute sets went over quite well. Seems as though we are always able to attract at least a few folks casually walking by. These days we are frequently asked about CD's to purchase. Hopefully those will come soon...

Here are some pics from the show taken by my lovely friend Joy Han:

This is either really passionate singing or I really had to go to the bathroom half way through the set. I can't remember which...

And here is one of the least hetero pics I've ever taken:

Next on the Agenda is we have at long last found a fantastic keyboardist in Manuel Camacho! Praise Allah! We have been bringing him up to speed on our 15+ originals and I have to say the man is a trooper...as well as a fabulous musician! He brings so much to our sound and will be joining us on stage for the first time next Thursday, August 14th at the SNOB Wine Bar.

Which brings us to the last item on this post...SHOWS! As mentioned above we will be playing the SNOB Wine Bar next week. We also have a slew of upcoming shows including Velo Rouge on August 29th and The Nomad Cafe on Halloween! Keep up to date with all of our live dates at our myspace page, www.myspace.com/tobela!

I reckon that's all fer now...

Massive news update coming...

Including upcoming shows and a new member! I'll also have pics and a full recap of our last show so y'all come back in a few days, y'hear?

Just as a teaser, here is the promo flyer created by Matt for our latest show:

Return to the Red Vic

Hiya folks....been a little over a month here between posts. Matt, Jesse and I have been quite busy writing and recording new material as well as making a push to book several gigs in the next couple of months.

One of which commenced yesterday, Friday June 6th, when we played once again for the "Red Vic Sessions" at the Red Victorian Hotel in San Francisco. We went on around 8 and played a tight 40-minute set to a number of friends and new "fans". Overall it was a very pleasing experience which only renewed our belief that we actually are a unique band and the response all around was nothing but positive. In fact, once we finished we were approached by the owner who enjoyed our set so much that he offered us our own headlining show on a Saturday night. Pretty cool huh?

Then we went drinking. Luckily there are no photos of that :) j/k...kinda....

Here are some pics from the show taken by Ronnie Cato (the fella who organizes the sessions and a great singer/songwriter himself).

I'll try to post more in the next few weeks as shows and other news develops. See ya soon....

Catch up

Hiya folks!

Sorry it's been sooo long since the last post. Matt, Jesse and I have been bustin' our asses for the past month or so trying to finalize the demos we recorded and workin' on our set for the charity show we played this past Saturday, April 26th, up in Placerville.

By way of Matt's step mom (in law), Tobela was asked to play at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society benefit show this past weekend. As we figured it would be a great way to pop our performing cherry we gladly obliged. We played about a 50 minute set out in the gorgeous sunshine and while there was no pay (I mean, c'mon...it's a benefit!) we were very graciously given great BBQ and beer. Quite a bit of the performance was captured on video by Matt's wife Jodi and I hope to post some of the clips, either here and/or on our myspace page, soon.

For anyone interested here was our set list (lead vocals in parenthesis):

• Simple Things (Matt)
• Brighter Day (Matt)
• Wait (Jesse)
• Oh Angeline! (Alex)
• Another Day (Matt)
• Brighter Kind of Life (Alex)
• Better Things to Do (Jesse) - which we forgot to play!!!
• Mellow Mood (Matt) - Bob Marley cover
• Standing in Line (Alex) and for our encore....
• Cats (Jesse)

The crowd seemed to really enjoy themselves and we even had a couple of invites to do other shows up there. All in all it was quite a fun day....

More news (including a possible new member....again) coming soon!!