Dartgun at the Twilight - Saturday, August 15

Punch and pie!

Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 9:00pm
Twilight Cafe & Bar, 1420 SE Powell Blvd., PDX

Dartgun - with Christine on bass (that's me! I'm excited to wield an axe again!), Melodie on drums and Suzie Q as a lone Vignette - our strangest lineup ever! Chad is camping, Emie quit (wah!), and we still don't have a freaking drummer!

COOTIE PLATOON will save the day.

With help from much-loved psychos the Hickmans!

The flyer says Advisory is playing but we're not really sure about that...

The Twilight is a cool rockabilly old-style diner so come hang out with us, have your beers and get up and dance for God's sake! Yeah SE Portland. See you on Saturday night!

Band Business

Here are a few shots of Dartgun & the Vignettes - from our show at the Twilight on Saturday night: Left to right: Chuck, Suzie, Chad, Billy, Emie, and me.

Here are the girls getting ready for our performance at Milepost 5:

And the Smash at the Ash (Chuck's birthday party):

Suzie and me after the show:

Here are some other bands we've had the pleasure of playing with in the past month - our old friends Husqvarna (their bass player Mike is the owner of the Florida Room):
The Hickmans:

The Oblivion Seekers:

And Cootie Platoon:

Our next scheduled show is for June 19 at the Ash Street - mark your calendars now and rock on PDX! It's a CD release party for Scott Deluxe Drake, of the Humpers fame.

Rock show alert - we're playing the Fez!

Woo hoo! We're playing the Fez Ballroom this Saturday night - November 15. Yes, after a day of madness at the Trillium sale, I will be rocking the night away. The address is 316 SW 11th in Portland. Come check it out, we're headlining!

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe

There is no drug quite like the drug of playing in a rock and roll band, especially when one gets the privilege of "hogassing" the spotlight, as I do every year on the occasion of our Halloween show, when I perform a recitation of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. Last night at the Jolly Inn I had the true Janis Joplin moment of my life, when The Raven was performed with full backing rock band and doo-wop girls. It was a big hit!
I first memorized The Raven when I was in eighth grade. My English teacher challenged me to memorize it, so I did, and recited it for our class. Melodie Beirwagen was in that class too. Here she is now with our best friend Suzie Q:
It was Suzie who started the Halloween tradition - when she heard that I had the poem memorized she demanded that I recite it at the Halloween parties. It has since evolved into quite a performance piece and I love the chance to share it with the world once a year.

Here's me and my partner in crime:

The Vignettes:
The she-devils of Cootie Platoon were looking especially sexy:


Advisory played, and apparently got kicked out of the bar shortly afterward.



Dartgun rocked!

But that's not all - we have another show coming up on Halloween night - that's Friday, October 31 at Hungry Tiger Too (207 SE 12th in Portland), with Pitchfork Motorway and 48 Thrills. See you there!

Dartgun's Halloween Party

Hey Portland! Looking for a Halloween party? Join us at the Jolly Inn (1937 SE 11th) on Saturday, October 25. That's Dartgun (and the Vignettes) with The Bloodies, Advisory, and Cootie Platoon! It's a costume party with other special scary surprises. Show up, okay? See ya there. It's FREE!!!

Dartun & The Vignettes - Saturday Night

Melodie from Cootie Platoon will be filling in on bass for this show. Don't miss the first chance to see her rockin' the bass since she played with The Plague in 1995!

Check us out on myspace: DARTGUN & The Vignettes.

Centaur Guitar's Summer Concert Series #3 with Advisory and Cootie Platoon

Chuck filled in as drummer for Advisory today at an outdoor show at Centaur Guitar. Cootie Platoon played too. Here's some choice photos and even some homemade videos! (I made us a youtube channel - it's http://www.youtube.com/DartgunAndVignettes.)

And yes, that is an Eye Pop mandala on the bass drum head!

Rockin' the Red Room

Billy (drums) aka Sir William Full Blast, Charles (guitar and lead vocals) aka Chuck Thrust, and Chad (bass) aka Chad Did It - the core team of the Dartgun machine.


Suzie loved her birthday presents! I gave her some handmade earrings and a handmade candle, and we got her her own microphone. Now if she ever has to leave the band she can take her microphone with her!

Doo-wop girls at the Red Room!

Kat showed up when we had four songs left so she's not in these pictures. But her arrival on stage in the eleventh hour was a classic moment in rock history.

That's right, I can wear the same dress to meet the mayor in the morning and to sing with the band in a dark nightclub at night.

Chuck's girlfriend from seventh grade showed up with her husband!

Dave is Suzie Q's long-distance beau. He just arrived from the Virgin Islands and is leaving to drive to New York tomorrow! He'll be working for the summer at a restaurant in Manhattan. He's looking for a place to stay. I hooked him up with Joan, as she is an apartment manager and can probably help. If nothing else I hope they will meet and hang out!



Crazy people! That's Obadiah with Kat, and Melodie down front.

Melodie just finished eating a delicious chocolate cupcake supplied by the sweet, sassy bartendress, who just happens to be Cari, the owner of Motokitty. Get this, Cari recognized my last name from Chuck's debit card, realized who I was (I did a craft show in her parking lot a couple years ago) and asked me about carrying my cuffs at her store! Thrilling! I am going there Thursday!

It was a fun, red-soaked evening in a small world.

Listen to our songs and be our friend!
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More rock and roll

Here's Cootie Platoon playing at Slabtown last night. Great show, great tights. Also a great exhibit of rock photography hanging on the walls - Portland bands in the background include Dead Moon and the Ones (with our old friends Andy and Tim, it was cool to see their faces on the wall).

Dartgun rocks your world

We played a show Wednesday night at the Tonic Lounge. The girls all had up-do's with big dahlias stuck in the back. Here's Kat doing a little pre-show primping (note her fabulous Record Cuff!)
I have to say, I LOVE playing with the band. It is so much fun, I want to play all the time. Our next gig is scheduled for October 30 (it's a doo-wop hop) at the Ash Street in downtown PDX, with the Hickmans, Cootie Platoon and Hello Cleveland.

Here's the guys during the sound check - unfortunately I don't have any pics of our actual performance but you can check out more band photos on Dartgun's myspace page.