Better late than never.
Hey, it's been a while.
At the start of the summer, I posted a short note over on our Instagram page saying that we'll be a bit slow for the next couple of months, and it's definitely been like that. I meant to have this letter out mid-July, but with moving to a new city, I haven't had the time to properly sit down and write one. I've been job-searching every day.
June was pretty good in terms of releases, and I attended my first post-pandemic show: Joyous Wolf. They were amazing and the lead singer, Nick Reese, was very kind to me. I'm not the best at eye contact or going up to strangers and making friends with them, but Nick was friendly, we chatted a bit. Overall, they seem like nice men who make very good rock 'n roll music (my favorite track of theirs is "Mother Rebel," also, Nick has SUCH a fantastic stage presence. if you ever are presented with the chance to see them live, take it! he reminds me of Mick Jagger).
cleopatrick released their debut album, BUMMER, in June. I wrote a review of it, which wasn't so much a review but ultimately a post about how I personally felt about it. Sometimes music is so personal that you actually can't find the words for it, you just want to keep it private, like your favorite book that you've read tons of times and have wrote all over it, little notes in the margins, bits and pieces underlined, the cover starting to tear because you've dragged it all across the country with you, that sort of thing. That's how I felt about BUMMER, but I felt I owed the band a post about it, despite feeling privately about it.
I don't remember much of June. BUMMER came out, I attended a show, then I took a train from Denver to Salt Lake City at the beginning of July. I've been writing a lot, but not about music, just personally. I've been listening to music, but not as many new releases as I should have been - I've been obsessed with The Beatles for a few months now, especially in June. I haven't heard their entire discography yet because I've been too obsessed with Rubber Soul (listen to "Norwegian Wood," "In My Life," and heck, "Drive My Car." great stuff!). I've also slightly been getting into Black Sabbath, which I 100% blame Almost Famous for. Other than my recent obsessions with The Beatles and Black Sabbath...Wild Honey: ISSUE ONE is coming. I wrote about it a bit in the last letter, the special one year anniversary one.
It's planned to come out on September 18th, 2021. It'll be digital, you'll be able to read it on your phones and whatever other devices you use, and it might be up for print purchase. Print's a bit expensive, so we'll see. I don't want anyone to be unable to access the issue just because they can't afford it, so at the very least, it'll be downloadable for free. I read a book about the founder of Rolling Stone Magazine, Jann Wenner, back in June, called Sticky Fingers by Joe Hagan. Jann Wenner had the means and help to fund print copies of the magazine...granted print was all they had back then, but still. Print is a dying form of media, especially with magazines, and alone, I certainly can't afford to take Wild Honey to print. But hey, maybe someday we'll have a subscription service and mail you issues, haha. Or maybe we'll go the punk way and put together a little zine and mail it out. We'll see!
That's it for now, the next letter will come mid-August and then in September we'll be back to the letters at the beginning of the month.
Stay groovy and stay safe.
with love,
Cherri Cheetah
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