Hey dudes, this post is gonna be rapid-fire cause there is just so much amazing stuff going on right now. You won’t believe it!

1. We are playing in Chicago on Halloween! Believe it! Beverly Art Center. 8pm!

2. We are playing on the roof of the City Museum in St. Louis. Unbelievable, but true! Sunday, November 1st at 3pm. Free with admission! P.S. the City Museum is the most magical muggle place in the world.

3. Wizard Rock For Equality! The Harry Potter Alliance is joining the fight for Marriage Equality in Maine. In early November, Maine residents will have a chance to vote on Proposition 1, a ballot measure similar to California’s Prop 8 that would repeal the marriage equality laws passed this past May by the Maine legislature. We are planning a one-day event on October 24th that is aimed at getting people to the polls to defeat Prop 1. Our event takes place all day long in Portland, ME, but everyone will be able to participate online.

We want volunteers to join us in Portland for this rock show/canvassing/coffee/donuts/fun/inspirational awesome day.

North Star Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME

Our Schedule for the Day
10:30am -12:00pm Coffee, donuts, some songs, and some training
12:00-5:00pm Canvassing against Prop 1
5:00-7:00pm Awesome rock show with Harry and the Potters and Draco and the Malfoys

If you can’t make it to Portland, we will be broadcasting this event live via ustream. During the canvassing time, we want our online volunteers to join the fight by calling voters in Maine. Get your friends together and be a part of something awesome!

More info on this amazing event at the HP Alliance’s Wrock 4 Equality webpage. Sign up to be a part of this now!

4. Live Dumbledore’s Army call this Sunday! The HP Alliance is hosting a live call to action on Sunday afternoon at 3pm EST to talk about the upcoming Wizard Rock 4 Equality campaign. Participating HP Alliance members will be earning house points through phone banking and canvassing, so we’ll have all the Heads of House in attendance to cheer you on and discuss this event. Your heads of house are: Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter movies) as Head of Ravenclaw, Paul DeGeorge (of Harry and the Potters) as Head of Gryffindor, Brian Ross (of Draco and the Malfoys) as Head of Slytherin, and Lauren Fairtweather (of the Moaning Myrtles) as Head of Hufflepuff. Please sign up for your House in the HPA Common Room. The meeting will be broadcast via ustream.

5. Some college shows happening in the next month. Some public, some private. Party crashing is encouraged. Tufts/Olin/Alfred. There ya go.

6. We are hard at work on an elaborate 10 year anniversary reissue of Ed in the Refridgerator’s debut CDr, Good is Dumb. Who are Ed in the Refridgerators? Well, way back in 1999, long before the birth of Harry Year 4, Joe DeGeorge was 12 years old and he started an awesome band with his friend Andrew (whom many of you may have seen behind the drumset for Harry and the Potters on previous tours - either as Young Ollivander or Baby Hagrid depending on the facial hair of the day). They played many shows in Boston back in the early aughts, released a few records, and once got a song reviewed by the band Spinal Tap. But their crowning recorded achievement will always be their 10-song demo recorded on a cassette 4-track in August 1999. Issued in the fledgling days of CDr technology, Good is Dumb has long been considered out-of-print as many of the songs were later rerecorded for Ed’s official debut CD, It Could Happen to You. Now, we are planning an elaborate reissue, complete with many additional demos from the time period, two live shows, rehersal tapes, and Ed in the Refridgerators’ score to a MassArt student theater production from early 2000.

We’re hoping to have this deluxe edition ready by their show next Thursday at Tufts University.
Yes, you heard right! Ed in the Refridgerators RETURN! They’re playing live at the very same spot as their very first performance a full decade earlier. Back in the 90’s. If all goes right, this should be broadcast live on WMFO. Ed in the Refridgerators plan to perform Good is Dumb in its entirety. If you would like to attend, the show is free, but you must be on the guestlist. All you need to do to get on the guestlist is email edintherefridgerators@yahoo.com with your name and any of your friends who will also be coming to the show. You will not regret attending this show. You will regret not attending this show. Email now to get on the list!

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Ed in the Refridgerators @ Tufts University
Hotung Cafe, Mayer Campus Center, Medford, MA
9pm | FREE! | email edintherefridgerators@yahoo.com to get on the guest list

That’s what’s up. Stay cool.

-paul

DRUMMER AD:
Harry and the Potters Seek Drummer, Not Golden Snitch

Are you a human?  Are you able bodied?  Can you play drums?  Can you pretend that you are a wizard?  Can you play upside down in a rotating cage?  Can you play without an in-ear monitor?  Do you mind jumping on top of your set and throwing up?  If you answered yes to some of these questions then maybe you would like to drum with Harry and the Potters.  If so you would need to learn at least half of the 2,000 songs we’ve written, also would need to commit to playing a handful of shows each month, and live in New England (preferably not Connecticut).  Also be able to commit to light touring.  Drummer must play fast. Bonus points if blast beat can be achieved.  Drummer must be serious but not serious at the same time - but definitely serious about fun.  We are serious about fun.  We ALWAYS have fun.

If you are interested in this opportunity please submit audio or video (preferred) of yourself playing a song of ours and a song of your choice.  Contact us at harryandthepotters@yahoo.com.

Bonus if you are familiar with DEAD MILKMEN, TMBG, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, NIRVANA, JONATHAN RICHMAN, FUGAZI, MANOWAR, ANDREW WK, THE MICE.

Also if you are Jay Weinberg you automatically have the job.

Some quick news!

We are playing at 4pm this Sunday at Worcester’s annual stART on the Street Festival. It’s fee and outdoors! Come early and buy local art!

Next week we’re doing another free show outside the Brooklyn Public Library’s Main Branch. MC Kreacher is opening! DO NOT MISS! 3pm!

The Peppermint Patties, Joe’s one-night-band from a couple weeks ago, are making waves in the Boston area. They’ve been getting some quality airplay on WFNX and now they’re the Boston Phoenix’s MP3 of the Week. Boston Band Crush has a recap of their show, complete with video and a write-up by Patties’ drummer Rich Adkins.

We’re busy prepping the 10th Anniversary reissue of Ed in the Refridgerators legendary Good is Dumb CDr. Expect bonuses galore as a simple 10-song demo expands to a 2-disc/1-cassette behemoth capturing the best heard and unheard ED from way back in 1999. In the meantime, if digital downloading is your thing, Ed in the Refridgerators two proper albums are finally available in that trendy MP3 format over at iTunes.

And to finish this trio of updates in “Joe’s Other Band” news, 926 Main St., Apt 2 plays their first show in almost a year.  It’s next weekend in Worcester: September 25th.  House party!

Love, luck, and lollipops,

-paul

Joe and I did some recording last week. Just the two of us, down in the basement, blasting through some old Harry and the Potters favorites, all the while running everything into the old Tascam Portastudio 424. We recorded a total of seven different cassettes, each of them 20 minutes in length, each with a totally different tracklist. The result is what we hope is the first in a series of cassette-only releases.

We are offering these seven cassettes for sale, but there’s a catch. We are only selling one copy of each: the original MASTER copy. A moment in time, captured on tape, for your ears only. We’re not even saving a copy for ourselves.

Some performances are sloppy and raw. Some are haunting and beautiful. They are all, unquestionably, unique.

Each cassette comes with the following:

We are offering this first volume at $25 per cassette plus a few dollars shipping. These cassettes will be available, in numbered sequence, to the first seven people who email me at harryandthepotters@yahoo.com. First person to email will get Tape #1, second person gets Tape #2, etc. One cassette per customer. are now SOLD OUT!

These SOLD OUT pretty quick, so please add your name to our Sonorus Cassette Series mailing list below and you’ll be the first to be notified when subsequent volumes in the series are released.

This was a really fun project, so hopefully we’ll do some more of them. Let us know what you think of the idea!

-paul