Join us at Ruta Maya for another night of infectious grooves. (Two weekends in a row now at Ruta Maya! Thanks for loving us in the 78704.)
$10 cover gets you a most excellent set from A Live One starting at 9:30, followed by an equally excellent set from Holding Space at 11:45. All ages show!
Also, check out our Ruta Maya photos from last week!
Also also, try the shroom pizza.
If you didn’t try to win those Paco de Lucia tickets, you did – all it took was a pic posted on our Facebook, and Amanda Goodbrake ended up front row in front of one of the best guitarists, like, ever. Next time we give something away, jump into the fray! You might win something. At the very least, we’ll think you’re cool for getting involved.
Because a) we love our phans, and b) if Trey were a flamenco player, he’d totally be Paco de Lucia.
Paco de Lucia’s ‘fusion’ style flamenco, influenced by jazz, has made him one of the most influential and dazzling flamenco artists of the last thirty years. With mesmerizing cascades of high velocity notes, de Lucía’s performances offer superb playing and have been called ‘flamenco fireworks.’ “Explosive, percussive, perpetual-motion concert,” hailed the Chicago Tribune. (<-- some text borrowed from One World. Sorry, One World.)
AND he's playing here in Austin on May 2 at the One World Theater (a great and very intimate venue), AND we have tickets, AND we're giving away two of them!
The deal is:
1. Find a photo of you at either a Phish show or an A Live One show. (Preferably while clothed and vertical. Wait - scratch that.)
2. Post it on the A Live One Facebook page wall.
3. Subtly, humbly suggest to your friends that they “like” your photo. (You can outright beg, too. We won’t judge.)
4. The photo with the most likes by 2:00 pm Monday WINS the tickets! If multiple photos tie, we’ll pick one at random. You can submit more than one.
Once we’ve picked the winner on Monday, we’ll Facebook message them with the info for a Will-Call pickup of the tickets for the 8:00pm show Tuesday at One World.
For the full official rules (which we’re obligated to post even though they read like, “blah blah, blahdity blah blah”), go here.
Morning Phitches!
April Fool’s is now over, and every skeptic can rest assured that starting an 80′s band was definitely a prank. We got a lot of feedback. Some loved it, some hated it, but hey… we got you guys talking 
As we keep up the April Fool’s tradition, we hope to play a prank every year, and maybe get you guys to prank us. Next year, since people will be expecting it, we will not make the “we’re quitting” claim. Stay cool Austin, nothin’ but love!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) March 28, 2012 — Every tribute band faces tough decisions regarding the direction of their music, most choosing to focus on a given band’s music because it appeals to them on a personal level. But in every decision, there is a business side to consider, and for A Live One, the time has come to follow in Phish’s footsteps and take a hiatus. As of the first of April, A Live One will be retiring the familiar sounds of Phish and embracing the more composed sounds of 80s pop, kicked off with an evening of Huey Lewis and the News this Sunday in Austin, TX.
Guitarist Josh Pearson had nothing but positive things to say about the move away from the more open-ended jams of Phish. “You should have seen the vibe at the roller disco I played with Dimitri’s Ascent a couple weeks back,” mused Pearson. “Give people a reason to wear out-of-date clothes and listen to music they’d totally forgotten about, and they’re over the top, man. This is gonna be amazing.”
As keyboardist Wesley Haynes noted, “Learning Phish music is extremely time consuming. If we’re going to properly present this music, we need more time to keep up with the number of new songs the fans want to hear. That’s the best reason, I think, for some time off. Also, keyboards in the 80s made some pretty rad sounds.”
Bassist Michael Boyd added, “Not only will this build tension for when we do come back as a Phish tribute band, but it’ll also help us develop what has worked best for us, which is putting our own spin on other people’s music to appeal to a wider audience. I mean, Phish covered all kinds of other artists’ music, so in a sense, we’re just out-Phishing Phish here.”
Probably most enthusiastic about the idea was drummer Dan McGreevy, who assured us that the band was not actually breaking up, but rather simply taking a year off of Phish. “After this weekend’s show,” Dan said excitedly, “A Live One will be known by our new name, Ticket Stub in Your Hand.” McGreevy stopped, then added for emphasis, “Balls!”
This Sunday, April 1st at Antone’s Nightclub in Austin, A Live One is set to open the show with a new set of songs at 8:00pm, take a bow, then hang up the Fishman dress (“Which kept making my damn knees cold anyway,” grumbles McGreevy) and return to the stage with the new act. Covering Prince at Halloween was only the beginning, the band says, and after April, there is sure to be plenty more to follow.
Come celebrate this fully blown 80′s themed costume event as A Live One turns the clock back three decades with hits from Huey Lew’is’ top-grossing album “Sports.” Show starts promptly at 8pm and will keep you dancing through two full sets of music. This is an all-ages show, and an all-out theme party, so find your best formal evening wear and throw it out the door, because who would wear that stuff to an 80′s dance party? I mean, really.
A Live One’s been keeping it quiet for the last couple months, but there’s been a good reason: introducing Milo, spawn of bassist Michael Boyd! (Say it: Awwwww.) We’re measuring his fingers for bass lessons already, and we’ve determined they’ll do.
That said – it’s time to bust the quiet period wide open. Next Thursday, March 8th, come see A Live One matched up with Forgotten Space at Ruta Maya here in Austin, followed by a show in Dallas at Green Elephant on Friday, March 9th. We’ve got months’ worth of jams waiting to spill, so don’t miss these!