The Skamatix

So says Jay Dockendorf of the New Haven Independent. Check it out!

Phew! What a day – we had a great gig at the Ideat Village, thanks to everyone who came out and showed their support! Check out this lovely montage from our friend David Sepulveda:

Credit: David Sepulveda

We’ll be playing at the Ideat Village this Saturday, June 12th at 3pm – for free! Our friend Chris Critella put together a line-up of ALL instrumental bands for this year’s Village, and we’re proud to be part of it.

The Skamatix will be playing an ALL INSTRUMENTAL set – we’re pretty thrilled to be repping our jazz roots, playing tunes by Mingus, Hancock and Coltrane – as well as our own originals.

Here’s a link to:

• IdeatVillage.org
• Ideat Village on Facebook
• Skamatix @ Ideat Village on Facebook


NHIC - Mayhem Circus Electric

There will be lots of other great bands on the bill, including sleazy free jazz Dog Hunch (featuring Nate’s buddies Enrico Merlin, all the way from Italy and Steve Assetta), and the New Haven Improvisers Collective, who will be previewing their new Mayhem Circus Electric disc.

(Incidentally, Nate will be playing with both of these groups because he has musical A.D.D.)

Ideat Village 2010

Thanks to everybody who came out to see us at Kehler Liddell Gallery this week. It was awesome to see a lot of new faces, and it was awesome to have our drummer John Columbus back and in good health! Next stop: THE WORLD!

Listen to The Skamatix on WPKN! – Bob D’Aprile of 2 Boots was kind enough to spin us on his show this week – listen to the archived show here! Lots of great stuff on there.

Gia Manalio-Bonaventura of the Hartford Examiner recently and kindly interviewed Nate for her column on Connecticut music – check it out!

So the bloggers among you might be aware of the scourge of comment spam – comments on your blog posts that try to get your readers to buy sketchy Viagra, download malware, and do who knows what else.

This blog has been the recipient of a particularly intense spamming campaign, and the new breed of spam tries to masquerade as an comment on the actual content of blog post. (”Great job! I was making a similar point to some ladies in a club as I was buying some AUTHENTIC LEGAL V1AGRA!!!!!!).

This morning I got a particularly great comment:

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[highly sketchy links deleted]

I’ll take this as a compliment. Thanks, Forgotten Love Child of The Terminator and a Fortune Cookie!

Welcome to The Skamatix website! If you want to hear more of our music, you can grab a copy of our EP here (pay what you want! Download it now and get 2 extra songs for free!):

Or you can see us at a gig – we’re stoked to be playing at Two Boots in Bridgeport on Feb 20th with our friends in the killer KILLER band I Anbassa.

This is going to be a great show of great music, don’t miss it! All ages show, a mere $5 to get in!

We hope to see you there!

Sometimes we’re a bit like this:

(On a side note, I love these YouTube videos of nothing but the original vinyl):

See you Saturday!