PICS FROM ZEBULON

Here are some pictures from our CD Release party at Zebulon.  There are MORE on our website www.belairtheband.com

FORTUNA NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE!

Hey there!  Thanks to everyone who made it out to our CD Release party for FORTUNA, our second full-length album!  It was a great night and we were thrilled to have the opportunity to give away as many copies of Fortuna as we did!  If you were not able to come to the party, you can still get our CD!!   It is available for purchase on our website!!  www.belairtheband.com

Also, available on our website ....... 

T-SHIRTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are very excited about our hand-screened, American Apparel BEL AIR t-shirts!  We hope you like them!

BEL AIR DID SOMETHING ACTIVE!

Here are some pics of Jeff and Turner playing soccer with Asher, the son of our great friends and hosts in Chapel Hill, Jill and Dan.

We're Back!!!

In more ways than one! Not only are we playing our first show in NY for a long while, we will be announcing our long awaited CD RELEASE SHOW shortly. That means FORTUNA is finally ready to see the light of day. Stay tuned for a lot more updates on the old Blog (I'm going to try and update at least a few times a week) and the start of some weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly series. It's gonna be a good winter!!!
xoxoxo,
Jeff (and Allie, Wyatt, Turner, and Eric)

ALBUM COVER

CREATE YOUR BAND NAME & ALBUM COVER:

To Do This

1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to Quotations Page and select "random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together.



I really feel like I lucked out with that band name.


Anyway, as you may know Bel Air is finishing up our second record. We had a hell of a time coming up with cover art and a title. We should have just used this handy set of instructions! We would have saved ourselves a lot of trouble! Luckily, it didn't come to that. We now have both art and a title. Yay! More on that later...

MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN

Bel Air is playing tomorrow night at the Lakeside Lounge!! 9pm. FREE!
Avenue B and 10th Street.

XO.

PLEASE WORK...

I am going to give this ONE MORE TRY.

Are you ready? No. I mean, are you ready? Are you REALLY ready? Or, are you just kidding around? I'm about to unveil something major here. I've been waiting for a while to do this so you're going to need to be significantly ready to handle what I'm about to "drop".

First, though, the back story: A while ago, a little band called Bel Air released a little album called Pole to Pole that had a little song on it called "Almost". "Almost" is a simple song. A country ballad, sad and slow. Except, NOT ANYMORE!!!

Almost - Disco Remix by belairband


Re-mix genius Chris Amann with Bel Air's own Jeff Mensch

I think we can all agree that Chris is brilliant beyond his years and should quit his job and start doing this type of thing FULL TIME. Thanks, Chris for all of your hard work and Jamaican rapping!

FORT USELESS PREVIEW

StereoActiveNYC.com wrote up a preview of our show at Fort Useless!

It has some cool pictures of us from our Mercury Show.

Check it out!


photo by Jeremiah McVay

MIX PICS

Hey Y'all! We posted some pictures from our recording/mix sessions on our website including this amazing pic of Wyatt with two pairs of headphones on. Check them all out here.

BEL AIR - NEW ALBUM

Last week was a long week but a productive one! We mixed our 10 song album in 5 days at Excello Recording. We were thrilled to have mix master Hugh Pool at the helm because he is so talented and such a great guy. Mixing can sometimes be a daunting process but Hugh made it a really fun experience and the songs sound better than we ever imagined they would. Plus, he made a toast at the end of the session. I love it when people make toasts...

Next up... Album Name and Album Art...

OH MAN.....

I've had something up my sleeve for a while and I think it's about time that I let you all in on it. But, only if you think you can handle it... Let me know if not, because this is big. BIG, I tell you!

On second thought, maybe I'll make you wait a bit.

Maybe tomorrow...

Maybe not...

MERCURY PIC

Here's a pic from our Mercury show on Monday. It was taken by our lovely friend Jamie MacKenzie.


Click on it for a larger version!

NEW REVIEW!

Hey there. We had an amazing show at Mercury last night. War Party and the Library were awesome. Thank you so much to them and all of our friends that made it out!

Check this out! Our Into the Sea 7" was just reviewed on StereoactiveNYC.com!! Read it and weep!

TONIGHT...

...we rip the Harrisburg, PA Radisson a new one.

We are playing the Millennium Music Conference (Friday, February 19th, 10pm). Our show is at the Local Beat and we will be playing with fellow country rockers The Hello Strangers and Booker Lee and the County Fair. After the show, the party continues at the Radisson Hotel Bar! Woot!


The Local Beat
212 3rd St
New Cumberland, PA
10pm

After party:

Radisson
1150 Camp Hill Bypass
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

BEL AIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL

There are some new videos on the Bel Air YouTube Channel!! Check 'em out!

SMOKE BEL AIR

(Thanks, Erich)

BEST OF 2009

Earlier in the year, our debut album, Pole to Pole was reviewed for the music blog Fensepost by one of their reviewers, Ron Tremblath. Months later he included us in his "Best Of" list for 2009. We are flattered! Thanks, Ron!

WILCO LOFT

This here's a link to a very cool article about Wilco's loft in Chicago. Click me!

For a bit of contrast, here's a quick video of our practice space. (God help us - we have a YouTube account.) The boys were busy geeking out about Keith Moon or something when I shot this. I don't even hear it anymore.

BEL AIR'S TOUR DE SOUTH!!!

Hey All,

Just a reminder about Bel Air's Tour de South 2009. We'll be heading out on the road for a week starting November 15th! We've got some great shows lined up and we couldn't be more excited about it. So, if you live in any of the cities listed below, we'd love to see you! If not, please feel free to pass on the information to any friends who do. We're grateful.


BEL AIR - SOUTHERN TOUR 2009

Nov. 15th at The M Room - Philadelphia, PA

Nov. 16th at The Juggling Gypsy - Wilmington, NC

Nov. 17th at The Garage - Winston Salem, NC

Nov. 18th at The Bobo Gallery - Asheville, NC

Nov. 19th at 8th and Rail - Auburn, AL

Nov. 20th at Hang Fire - Savannah, GA

Nov. 21st at Slims - Raleigh, NC


Follow us on twitter (www.twitter.com/belairband) if you want to keep up with all the hot gossip from the road in real time.

We'll be back in NYC and playing at Union Pool on December 4th. Fresh off the tour, we should be in good shape. Or, completely busted. We shall see.

xoxoxo,
Allie, Jeff, Wyatt, Turner & Eric
www.belairtheband.com

WHEELS

I just remembered that we were seriously considering naming the band Wheels before we came up with Bel Air. I'm glad someone talked me out of that. It was probably Wyatt.


Photo by Jamie MacKenzie
Sepia nonsense by me. I was bored.