Excited to open for Roger Clark Miller from Mission of Burma with a solo set as part of the Oak Cliff Film Festival at The Wild Detectives in Dallas next Friday June 23 ❤️ -Eric
Wednesday May 17th, 7:00pm we will be out on the courthouse lawn in Denton, TX giving a sight seeing tour and performing songs from the album Waitsgiving. All are welcome to observe patience and join us. There will be an insta live stream at 6:30 pm (central) on May 16th (tonight) for for those who are unable to travel to Denton.
Additionally I gave an interview for KGTL Bozeman, MT which will air the album in full alongside the interview on May 17 the show will air 3-4 p.m. (Mountain time zone) at KGLT.net. After the show airs, it can be streamed anytime for two weeks afterward at this link: https://spinitron.com/KGLT/show/207748/Coffee-Show
-Eric
We are performing as a full band on Friday March 31st in Denton, TX with Dirty Dan and the Basketball Boys and Emma Seckso and Her Mirror Selfies for Trans Visibility Day. Music starts at 9:30 with Fishboy finishing out the night. -Eric
We are playing three Texas shows on the No Kidding Around Tour with Koo Koo Kang Roo and The Homeless Gospel Choir. It’s been too long since we’ve been to Houston and Austin! Please come out!
02/10 7pm Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall - Upstairs
02/11 6pm Dallas, TX @ Three Links
02/12 8pm Austin, TX @ Ballroom at Spiderhouse
Fishboy at Rubber Gloves Nov 13th 2022. Video by BY ANIMALS MISTAKEN FOR MONSTERS
Happy to announce we are playing three Texas tour dates on this beautiful bill with Koo Koo Kangaroo and The Homeless Gospell Choir! The No Kidding Around Tour is adults only! I love both of these bands and I’m thrilled to be a part of history in the making. ❤️❤️❤️❤️-Eric
We are playing as a trio on Saturday Nov. 12 in Dallas at Double Wide with Dogbreth, Teal Stripe and Wish Kit.
The Next day we’re playing an early show in Denton at Rubber Gloves with Brave Combo, Python Potions and Yeah Def to benefit my neighbor Daniel Rodrigue and his family whose house caught on fire on Halloween night. 5pm! There will be food and friends.
I gave an interview on the 200th episode of the supernatural podcast Paranormal Almanac where I sat down with Curt to discuss how he found my 2005 (cover) song Haunted Highway and the weirdness that has been happening surrounding that song.
It’s honestly a fantastic talk and Curt is a wonderful host. You can find it here or wherever podcasts are found.
It’s a long episode and I’m in the 8th(!!!) hour if you are only looking for Fishboy stuff. Curt has a very cool and active community over on the PA FACEBOOK where sometimes plays Fishboy in the background of live videos.
-Eric
June Shows! 6/4 in Fort Worth at the Unicorn Club and 6/23 in Denton at the Gold Room. ❤️
I am honored to be included in the lyric collection Great or Small 2021 put together by Primero Fue El Sonido alongside several other fantastic artists each contributing hand written lyrics and art for songs the released in 2021. Please check out along with accompanied playlist of all the artists.
Hello friends!
Tuesday May 17th, at 7pm, please join me at the Denton, TX courthouse to celebrate the 2nd Annual Waitsgiving. I will play some songs and walk around the square with a megaphone giving a tour of the notable locations from album Waitsgiving (which just turned a year old!) Here is a facebook event link if you are into that kind of thing.
Around this time last year I was posting the first songs from Waitsgiving. Here I am in the backyard playing a version of BBQ Artist. “Every step adds up in the long run” -Eric
The Best Ever Boom Box Cassette Tape from Durham (full live version
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Hello!
The idea for the new Fishboy single (out today) started as a bitter joke nearly two decades ago after we were asked about the Mountain Goats one too many times on tour. The Best Ever Death Metal Band from Denton is the (incredible) first track off the album All Hail West Texas. Both are celebrating their twentieth anniversary this month.
As most Fishboy audiences are fans of this song/album we routinely get roped into small talk where we are pressed to explain that the Mountain Goats, as great as they are, have no hard connection to Denton, TX as far as I know.
One night in the car I told my bandmates that I should write a revenge song about the Goats hometown and have it haunt them in greenrooms and merch tables across the world.
This joke came in and out of my mind until I was giving a virtual interview last Spring by Riley Soloner. Again, he mentioned the song, and again I made the revenge joke but this time I felt compelled to give it a shot.
After writing a killer first verse for The Best Ever Boom Box Cassette Tape from Durham. I did a quick search to find out the album was only reissued out of Durham. Crushed, I sat the song aside for a few months and and really, truly, deeply asked myself why I was even compelled to write this here and now in 2021.
After discovering the obvious solution of swapping “released” for “reissued,” I decided to finish out the track in character as if my 20 year old self had grown crazy and bitter at the growing popularity of this song only to have a come-to-god-moment in front of an audience and accept the magic of a simple lo-fi recording out-pacing it’s piers to the point of lasting forever.
Writing these words into song, however exaggerated they may be, has inched me a little bit closer away from comparing my art to others. My hope is that it does the same for you. Thank you Mountain Goats. Happy Anniversary. Hail Satan,
Eric
New song coming Feb 11th to celebrate the 20th anniversary of a famous song about Denton. More details to come. Pre-save at tbebbcfd.yofishboy.com to hear it as soon as it drops. -Eric
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