Howdy Howdy Howdy,

I plan on being pretty brief. There are only a few things I want to talk about.

1. ) Tour
2. ) Life Finds a Way as a free Download
3. ) The Metro

I will start with tour. We are heading out on a quick jaunt out to the east coast and back at the en...

Howdy Howdy Howdy,

I plan on being pretty brief. There are only a few things I want to talk about.

1. ) Tour
2. ) Life Finds a Way as a free Download
3. ) The Metro

I will start with tour. We are heading out on a quick jaunt out to the east coast and back at the end of the month. We have a new Van, we like it. I am just happy that the trailer is no longer needed. So yes, anyway, we will hit the road in our new van. Check out the dates.

The Inspector Owl – “Botosti to the Coasti” Tour 2008

May 29th - Dekalb, IL - The House Cafe
May 30th - Ann Arbor, MI - The Mandatorium
May 31st - Columbus, OH - Cafe Bourbon St
June 1st - Washington, DC - The Red and Black
June 3rd - Montpelier, VT - The Langdon Street Cafe
June 4th - Hamden, CT - The Space
June 5th - New York, NY - Pianos
June 6th - shland, KY - The Ashland Plaza Hotel
June 7th - Athens, OH - Lobsterfest

Click on a show for more info. If you can make it out to show say hello. We are nice guys.

So secondly we have decided to give our current EP Life Finds a Way away as a free download. Pretty neat huh? So if you don’t already have the record, or know someone who you think might enjoy it forward them to the download page on our website.

http://www.inspectorowl.com/album-download.php

It will only be available as a free download until July 1st so make sure you get it while you can. Sweet.

Annnnnnd, lastly when we return home from tour we will be playing at the Metro in Chicago. The date is June 19th. The show is free before 9 pm, is 18 plus and is our first time headlining the Metro stage. We are playing with our friends Ultra Sonic Edukators, The Laureates and the Gunshy. I am excited.

That is pretty much it, we have a few more Midwest shows in May before we head out for tour as well. All of these shows are with various friends that we have made of the years. The shows should all be pretty awesome if you can come. Yup.

May 9th – Peoria, IL – The Meeting House (with the Forecast)
May 15th – Madison, WI – The High Noon Saloon (Awesome Car Funmakers CD Release show)
May 23rd – Rockford, IL – The ELB (with Dr. Manhattan)
May 24th – Milwaukee, WI – Stonefly Brewery (with Sleeptight Co.)

Thanks! See you all at shows, tell your friends about our free record.

-Corey and Inspector Owl

Winter sucks.*

 The roads around Chicago are in terrible condition. I don't know
about other parts of the country, but the potholes here could swallow
a bus; maybe not a full sized bus, but at least a short bus.

Winter sucks.*

 The roads around Chicago are in terrible condition. I don't know
about other parts of the country, but the potholes here could swallow
a bus; maybe not a full sized bus, but at least a short bus.
Regardless, spring is here and with spring comes shows. When the
weather gets warm it no longer hurts my face to load and unload the
trailer so we hit the road again.

 We did manage to stay productive this winter, writing and demoing
for a full length record. We have been playing a lot of the new
material at shows, so if you want a sneak peak at what is coming you
should check out a show. We hope to be recording for real this spring
or early summer.**

 So, before I get to the shows I wanted to ask if any of you have any
videos or photos of us playing and what not. Soo umm do you? (raises
one eyebrow) If you do have anything of that sorts please fell free to
send stuff to inspectorowl@inspectorowl.com">inspectorowl@inspectorowl.com I will get it and put it on the interwebs. Thanks!

 So anyway, shows. We have a bunch this spring. We also soooooon will
have some pretty cool news for May including a fun show in Chicago and
our first tour out to the east coast. Are you excited? I am! Yup.
Well, below are our shows. Come out if you can, say hello, give high
fives and hugs or whatever so long as it is not like a pig's heart
in a brown paper bag. That is creepy.

 In high school my friends and I thought it would be funny to scare
one of our teachers by sending a 6 foot subway party sub to her house
with a note that simply said "I Will Not Be Igonred." We never did
send the sandwich… it was probably for the best. Thanks!

Waffles,

 -Corey B. Wills and the rest of Inspector Owl***

 * Except for when you get snow days from work or school. Those are
awesome. Oh, and doing donuts in empty parking lots. That is fun as well.

 ** We make no promises that this record will be finished in a timely
manner. We want to, and are certainly going to try to, but I mean come
on, this is the band that took over a year to make a 6 song EP. We do
have a very nice start though with like 8ish songs ready and about 5 more to finish up.

 *** Anything other than actual information pertinent to the band was
neither approved nor seen by the rest of the band. I usually just end
up rambling in these emails about things varying from being creepy to
Battlestar Galactica and Heroes. Currently I am pretty far behind on
TV and have instead been reading books. Currently I am reading the
Razor's Edge. I rather enjoy it so far. What was I talking about?


3.7.2008
AA - 6:00 PM
The ELB
 Rockford, IL
 w/ Venna (CD Release), Kid You'll Move Mountains, Fable and the World Flat


3.08.2008
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI
 More Details TBA, keep an eye on our various internet sites.


3.09.2008
18+ - 7:30 PM
Subterranean
Chicago, IL
 w/ Travis Morrison Hellfighters and the Rikters

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

3.21.2008
21+ - 8 PM
Baba Louie's
DePere, WI
 w/ Company of Thieves

3.22.2008
AA - 7 PM
University Center
Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI
 w/ Ben Kweller and Company of Thieves

Free to Students, $10 for others
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS