Looks like summer has finally shown it’s sunny face here in Portland and with the weather changing so is the band. We will now be performing as Kept Men (but for August we’ll be the Evan Churchill Band!). Same lineup, same music, just a simple name change. We’ve been thinking on this for quite some time and have heard countless times, Break As We Fall doesn’t fit with our style of music, so here we go. Many thanks to all of you for continuing to support us with our musical careers, we couldn’t do it without you! Look for a new and improved website coming soon.

The next month is gonna be busy with heaps of opportunities to see the band live. This Thursday, July 28th, we have the honor of playing for a private event at The BING Lounge. For those of you who don’t know, this is the venue where many nationally acclaimed touring acts give exclusive live performances for KINK.FM and other Alpha Broadcasting radio stations. Folks like Amos Lee, Lyle Lovett, Sara McLachlan, Los Lobos and many more. Sorry to say, this is a closed event, but we will post some video from this event online as soon as it’s available.

Every Monday night in August, we’ll be playing at McMenamin’s White Eagle Saloon (836 N. Russel St, Portland) joined by a different local band/artist each week. I’ll send out more reminders, but here’s a run-down of the lineup. This is gonna be one heck of a weekly party with tasty food and drinks, great live music, free giveaways like movie tix, concert tix and more, plus NO COVER!

We’ve been on the road since 10am this morn’. Before heading out we started with a boss breakfast courtesy of Dan. Alex did his laundry and Steve cleaned up the cat vomit. Evan did nothing, per usual. We also just pressed some new CD’s with a choice selection of songs from our self-titled EP and full-length album If You’re Lonely, plus two new unreleased tracks, “Mistakes” and “Holdin’ Out”. This will be a limited run, specifically so we can have something to give people on tour (and at whatever price you guys want!).

Thirsty Girl

Event details…

• Artist: Break As We Fall
• Format: Full Band – Electric
• Date: Wednesday, September 15th 2010
• Time: 9:00pm
• City: Break As We Fall in Moscow, ID
• Venue: John’s Alley
• Address: 114 East 6th Street
• Venue phone: (208) 883-7662
• Country: US
• Age restrictions: No Minors
• Notes: with Amadan!
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First off, we’re playing at the Hood To Coast Relay finish-line party this Saturday from 1pm to 4pm. So if you or anyone you know is running or walking the relay, you’ll hear and see us performing on the main stage at the finish in Seaside. We’ll be rooting for all our friends, but especially “Swift Justice”, the crew running from Alex’s law firm (the place the lets him pay rent!).  Saturday will be a fun, exciting day since right after the HTC party, we’re jumping in the cars to rush back to Portland for our friends Paulene and Chris’s wedding celebration.

Over the past 6 weeks we’ve been working with our friend Greg at Rack Recording in Hillsboro to record two of our newer songs “Mistakes” and “Holdin’ Out”. We go in today for a final mixing session and you all will be the first to know when these tracks are finished and posted online.

In late September we’re hitting the road again for a short summer tour, this time heading North to ID and WA. Here is our tour schedule:

September. 15th – John’s Alley w/ Amadan (Moscow, ID)
September. 16th – Tom Grainey’s (Boise, ID)
September. 17th – Sunset Lounge (Baker City, OR)
September 23rd – TBA (Olympia, WA)
September 24th – A Terrible Beauty Irish Pub (Renton, WA)
September 25th – TBA (Tacoma/Seattle, WA)

If you live in any of these cities or have friends there, please help spread the word!

Halloween will be here before you know it and we have two great shows that weekend. Friday, October 29th we’re back at The White Eagle Saloon with Ruby Hill in Portland and Saturday, October 30th is Dancin’ with the Devil 2 with Target for Tomorrow and the Horns of Destruction at Bombs Away Cafe in Corvallis.  Both shows will feature costume contests and special Halloween songs!

That’s all for now. Stay tuned for pics from the studio… Have a great weekend!

Much Love,

Evan, Dan, Alex & Steve

BAWF has a long-standing commitment to using our “talents” for local non-profit organizations’ fund-raising needs, and we’re excited for our latest: The Public Interest Law Project. We discovered this opportunity through a friend’s roommate who’s inolved with the PILP at Lewis and Clark College in Portland.  Evan, Alex and our friend Ali Clayrs will be playing at  Holocene on Thursday February 4th to benefit this organization.

The Public Interest Law Project was organized by law students in 1990 as a chapter of the National Association of Public Interest Law (NAPIL) – now known as Equal Justice Works. PILP is dedicated to encouraging law students to pursue public interest careers. PILP’s primary goals are two-fold:

1. providing summer stipends for students working in public interest law; and
2. establishing a loan repayment program for graduates choosing to pursue careers in the public interest profession.

An annual auction and other fund-raising efforts have allowed PILP to award ten to fifteen stipends per summer. Summer stipend recipients have worked for a variety of organizations, dealing with issues such as children’s rights, environmental protection, domestic violence, and civil rights. The maximum amount of the summer stipend was recently increased to $5,000.

We’re very thankful for the work they do, and we’re glad they’ve allowed us to assist in the only way we know how: playing tunes! The show starts at 8pm, and we’ll go on around 9pm. We hope to see you there! More details below.

The next day we all go to the beach for our first ever BAWF weekend retreat where we’ll write new tunes, have plenty of business time, and (in-between that) play ungodly amounts of Rock Band™ (NO BEATLES! -Alex).

Event details…

• Artist: Evan Churchill
• Format: Trio Acoustic
• Date: Thursday, February 4th 2010
• Time: 8:00pm
• City: Evan Churchill in Portland, OR
• Venue: Holocene – PILP Benefit Show
• Address: 1001 SE Morrison St
• Country: US
• Notes: Public Interest Law Project (PILP) of Lewis and Clark Law School raises money to provide summer stipends to students working for free at public interest law firms (environmental firms, legal aid, etc), and loan repayment assistance for graduates working in the same fields. All the proceeds from the door will go to the summer stipend & loan repayment programs of PILP.
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First: Big thanks to the fans who showed up at Ash St. last night, along with Fez Fatale and t.h.e.m.e for making it a great show. You all rock! Now we do it all again tonight in Corvallis with our former bassist Tim Karplus, and his new band!

Tie down your mom… This Tim is the mother-flippin’ bomb.

Tim has a brand new group, and with his name on the band it won’t be long before he ascends from obscurity and surpasses his meager roots. Wait a sec, we are part of those roots… damn! In any case, go check out Tim on MySpace and show him some love. That is, if you can remember your MySpace password (zing!). We’ve also embedded a music video from Tim below, so be sure to check that out, seeing as he can do no wrong.

“$1 beers? Surely you’re crazy!”

Don’t call us Shirley (I don’t think that joke works in writing). We’ll be playing tonight at Impulse Bar and Grill on Monroe (in the old Tailgaters’ spot). They’ve remodeled and classed the place up, so don’t write them off as the same “old ****hole” that the previous owners ran (would someone please put a leash on Alex?). Music starts at 10pm, but get there early and enjoy $1 BEERS ‘TIL YOU KILL THE KEG! We like this deal because music sounds better with every drink consumed. This is also the first night of live music that Impulse has ever had, and we’re going to make it one to remember. We’re looking forward to hanging with our Corvallis friends again, so we hope to see you there! Check some details at the Facebook event page, or at the bottom of this post.

Event details…

• Artist: Break As We Fall
• Format: Full Band – Electric
• Date: Saturday, January 23rd 2010
• Time: 10:00pm
• City: Break As We Fall in Corvallis
• Venue: Impulse Bar & Grill
• Address: 1425 NW Monroe Ave
• Country: US
• Admission: $3
• Age restrictions: No Minors
• Notes: With The Tim Karplus Band!
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This post is only relevant for about 12 more hours, but we’re crazy and reckless like that. (And we’ll repeat this folly tomorrow, Saturday, the 23rd.)

Come see us tonight at the Ash St. Saloon in downtown PDX! BAWF will be supported by fellow Portland bands Fez Fatale (lounge/jazz/rock) and t.h.e.m.e (acoustic/latin/rock). Show starts at 9:30pm, BAWF goes on at 11:30ish. $5, 21+. Arrive early and get your drink on with us while we wait to play!

Special bonus!

THE FIRST FIVE (5) PEOPLE TO SHOW UP IN SNUGGIES GET IN FOR FREE.

First 5 snugglers get in free!

Why would we do such a thing to our fans? Is it because we’re sad about missing the PDX.FM 2010 Portland Snuggie Pubcrawl tomorrow night? That’s partially it, but we’re making our own destination party in Corvallis at the same time at Impulse Bar & Grill, so we’ll have plenty of fun anyway. We’re mostly doing it because Alex likes to force his faux-ironic sensibilities upon the masses (read: five people). If you see someone wearing a snuggie at the show be sure to buy them a drink because they’re probably broke. If you see someone with a backwards bath-robe on, please buy them 2 drinks. You will not see us wearing snuggies on stage because A) we’d get way too sweaty, and B) we’re all too broke to afford snuggies (or bathrobes for that matter).

Check out show details below, or at the Facebook event page for this show. See you there!

Event details…

• Artist: Break As We Fall
• Format: Full Band – Electric
• Date: Friday, January 22nd 2010
• Time: 9:30pm
• City: Break As We Fall in Portland, OR
• Venue: Ash Street Saloon
• Address: 225 SW Ash St
• Venue phone: (503) 226-0430
• Country: US
• Admission: $5
• Age restrictions: No Minors
• Notes: w/ Fez Fatale and t.h.e.m.e http://myspace.com/fezfatale http://myspace.com/t.h.e.m.e
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Meet our new bassist.

After Halloween we’ve officially got a new bass player (Steve Hammond!) whom we’re very excited to be playing with. It’s incredible how quickly he has taken up the reigns to help us bust out our same tasty grooves, and been ever-helpful when we’re writing new tunes. Watch our blog for a BAWF v. Steve interview to get you better acquainted with our new power bottom. (We’re assuming Steve is on-board with this idea. We haven’t told him yet.)

Tim’s new band and BAWF in Corvallis Saturday, 1/23.

You may be asking, “What happened to Tim‽” Fear not, denizens of Earth! We’re still great friends, and we were lucky enough to have him guest with us for a rendition of ‘If You’re Lonely’ at our Buffalo Gap show last week in Portland, andwe had a blast. We’ve got even better news for this coming week though: We’re playing with Tim’s brand new group, The Tim Karplus Band, on Sat. January 23rd at 10:00 p.m. for just $3 at Impulse on Monroe in Corvallis! (At the old Tailgater’s spot, but don’t mistake it for that same old crummy bar, there’s apparently a dress code at Impulse, see this article for more info on the new venue.) Tim’s got some great players in his band who are long-time friends of BAWF, like drummer Dave Schwarm (such a good friend that our drummer rented his room over the summer) and bassist Jason Lusk (we’ve shared the stage with his other awesome band, ‘Target for Tomorrow’, countless times).

BAWF returns to Ash ST. Saloon Friday, 1/22.

Before you drive all the way down Corvallis to see us at Impulse, come see us on Friday in Portland at the Ash St. Saloon at 9:30 p.m. with ‘Fez Fatale’ and ‘t.h.e.m.e.’ The show will also be 21+ & $5 cover charge. We’ve played at Ash St. a couple times, and we’ll keep coming back as long as you guys return the favor! Great beer, great location, great layout, great staff, great bands. It’s GRRRRREAT! (Yes, the poster is almost identical to the Corvallis one. But to be fair, this one is PURPLE!)

Gettin’ busy with BAWF.

We’re now half-way through January, but that won’t stop us from making a New Year’s resolution! With the start of this new year, we’re going to be far more diligent about keeping this website a fresh experience with new pictures, videos, recordings and blog posts. We’ve got a great intern working with us thanks to the University of Oregon school of journalism (I’ll resist the urge joke about a Duck interning for a bunch of Beavers, hi John!). Don’t let his title fool you. His presence makes getting things done easier, but he also gives us more things to get done! Before John showed up we’d have PR projects piling up with little progress, so we owe him a lot for kicking us in to action. We’re lucky to have him as part of the BAWF family, and we’ll be sad (and stoked!) when he has to go and hit the “big time” working for an organization that can pay him properly for all his hard work.

Now you’ve been updated on some of the BAWF happenings since Halloween! Stay tuned for our next (and timely!) blog post where we talk to Steve about the finer points of being in BAWF, the new music we’re writing and playing, and our current plans for new recording sessions.  Attending our shows means you won’t have to wait to hear new BAWF, so stay in touch with our website, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter accounts. :)

<3 BAWF

We have two awesome shows coming up this week…

PORTLAND 10-29-09, 9:00pm, +21 NO COVER
On Thursday, we’ll be getting you primed for a weekend of mischief at The Buffalo Gap (6835 SW Macadam Ave. Music starts at 9pm with our new bass player Steve Hammond opening with a solo set…and I hear he’s gonna have some crazy cool special guests joining him! Then Break As We Fall will lay down the funk, rock, reggae and soul for you to get your dance on!

CORVALLIS 10-30-09, 9:00pm, +21, $5
On Friday, we’re getting back to our roots, “Dancin’ with the Devil” at Bombs Away Cafe in Corvallis. The party starts at 9pm and be sure to wear your costume because there is a contest for the best dressed and first prize is a $50 bar tab! Corvallis’ own “4th wave ska” powerhouse Target for Tomorrow and The Horns of Destruction will be kicking things off and BAWF will close out the night. Check our “Band on Band” interview in this week’s issue of The Alchemist (pg 2)

Hope can you join us for some tricks and beats this week!

<3 BAWF

<3 BAWF

After a kickin’ set last night at Viento y Agua in Long Beach (and a delicious pizza dinner), we drove to Costa Mesa to stay with our good friends The New Limb.  We had a fun night of singing and jamming together at their house.

We have the day off today, so we are each up to our own thing. Alex is out to lunch with his grandparents, Evan and Alia are longboarding it up, and Dan and I are hangin’ at the house, playing guitars and writing witty and informative blog posts.

It has been really fun to play our music for so many new people. The response we have gotten so far has been very positive, and we hope it will continue to be so as we head down to San Diego (which, as we all know, is Spanish for “San Diego”) for our next show.

Thanks again to The New Limb for hosting us here, check them out if you get the chance.  They play a very likable sort of music.