It's A Weird Band, Man
But some of you might want to know about it?
Ten years ago, we here at Dreadnoughts Inc. were certain that we’d just fade away, having moved on to Real Jobs and grown tired of the massive, youth-destroying machine that some people call “rock touring”. But here we are, in 2021, and for some reason a whole bunch of you bastards keep listening to the songs, and you keep asking for more concerts and demanding more albums. This, even though we are a Promotional Company’s nightmare, defying all industry categorization in an endless quest to add another genre to our increasingly hyphenated and bizarre band description.
“Harry, you’re going to love this… they play klezmer sea shanty polkas with a bit of Polish Bregovic-inspired, well, liquored up rap basically, and a lot of it is exclusively about how the First World War was not a very nice time.”
“JIM, SIGN THEM. GET THEM ON THE COVER OF ROLLING STONE AND SIGN THEM NOW. I DON’T CARE IF YOU HAVE TO BUMP TIMBERLAKE FROM SNL, WE NEED THIS.”
So this incredibly weird band is still going, and people still care. This is puzzling and heartwarming at the same time. So we are once again releasing a new album, and tentatively planning some tours, also here’s a Substack. We are going to do a lot of things on the Substack. We will feature:
Tour stories from the old and new days, with all the van-barfing, crowd-surfing and cider drinking that you might expect….
In-Depth song analyses, highlighting the songwriting process and the real meaning behind many of your favorite Dreadnoughts toe-tappers,
Spotlights on artists who have had major influences on us
Extensive commentary on the music scene, and on what various genres mean to us (Polka, sea shanties, cider punk, klezmer, etc.)
Podcast-style interviews with other people in the folk-punk scene.
And for just 5.00/USD per month (50.00/yr), Paid Subscribers will get:
MP3 and/or video downloads of our songwriting process
MP3 and/or video downloads of old demos, showing how songs were created and reworked
The right to vote on upcoming tour set lists, and comment on all posts: all questions to us will be answered!
A bi-monthly “snark time” episode, where the gloves come off and we say some potentially controversial and definitely snarky things about the music scene, the media and punk rock in general, and
Video acoustic covers of Dreadnoughts material and of other beloved artists.
And, you know, there will be other things too once we think of them. And believe me, we are always thinking. As Winnie the Pooh says: “Think. Think. Thinkthinkthinkthinkthink.”
Why subscribe? Well, we promise that 100% of the Substack dough will go straight into costs involved with writing, recording and producing new material.* The more support we get, the more we can write, play, and maybe even tour again. So please do consider! Or, you know, don’t, because none of this really matters and we’re all going to fucking die anyway.
T.T.F.N.! Ta ta for now!
*This may involve buying lots of real cider and drinking it. You really have no idea how important this is.