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The Late Joys Seek a New Keyboard Player

Josh Wolf’s Video of an honest-to-goodness All-Night Pillow Fight (with music, of course)! San Francisco knows how to have fun!

The new songs are up!

Three songs, newly recorded, are right there on our player! Like Big Girls Do, You Won’t Talk To Her and The Bitter End await your listening! Give them a click.

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Member Since: 4/5/2006
Band Website: latejoys.com
Band Members: Robi : guitars, vocals
Patrick : bass
Rex : drums
Stephan Jessin: keys

The Late Joys Seek a New Keyboard Player

Stef is taking a three-year trip around the world, so it'll be hard for him to make it to gigs, let alone practices. We need a replacement. Harmonies a plus!

Click here for the details

If you're interested or if you know someone who may be interested (and is in the Austin area), please get in touch!
Influences: Faves
The Jam
The Beatles
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
The Clash
Billy Bragg
The Housemartins
X
Scruffy the Cat
The Who
Treat Her Right
The Lemonheads
Tim Keegan
The Pretenders
The Smiths
The Cure
The Velvet Underground The Gershwins (Ira and George: were there any more?)
Cole Porter
The crowds who sing at UK football matches (Come on ye Reds!)

Plus we have soft spots for
Ambulance Ltd
Blondie
Crystal Flavola
David Bowie
Grupo Fantasma
Old 97's
Phil Ochs
Ray Wylie Hubbard
REM (pre-1987)
The Kinks
The Pixies
The Pogues
The Police
The Proclaimers
The Replacements
The Sex Pistols
The Specials
The Stranglers
The Tourists
The Undertones
The Young Bobby Dylan
and Austin's awesome bands!!!
Sounds Like: we're gonna nuke Iran
Type of Label: None

My Blog

A Brief History of The Late Joys

The Late Joys were formed to perform as the "house band" in a play about working-class life in 1930s Lancashire, England. Playwright, song writer and egomaniacal frontman, Robi Polgar, wanted the comb...
Posted by The Late Joys on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:41:00 PST

Band Member Bios

For those of you interested in the parts that make up the sum of The Late Joys, do, please, read on. Please, also, believe everything you read. And there's this bridge in New York City we'd be more t...
Posted by The Late Joys on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:33:00 PST

The Gigs Archive

Click the link and you'll be flown to a page on the official Late Joys website where you can see all the places we've played....
Posted by The Late Joys on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:58:00 PST

Cover Songs in The Late Joys Repertoire

So we play a bunch of original, left-leaning numbers, rocking and less-rocking. We also play this lot, songs that make The Late Joys get up and groove. A collection of faves and fancies that we like t...
Posted by The Late Joys on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:44:00 PST

Late Joys Update: A World Without Vinyl

Took a break over the past month from simply poring over the contents of our growing set list to record what your parents might remember as an "EP" although it is still a "CD" so it'll be recognizable...
Posted by The Late Joys on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:06:00 PST