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Griddle

Griddle wants to tour Greece. Summer or fall?

About Me


If you want to play Griddle on a podcast, you can . You've slept on three albums to this point: the zero-budget Beak (2002), and then the big-budget Turning Violet (2004), and then back to zero-budget for the hideously underrated collaboration with painter Stephen Tompkins, Klimty Favela (2006).

While writing continues on Album Number Four, the boys in the band have been playing in New York City a lot as of late, and are continuing with the California love.

The four personalities of Griddle are still in full force: Kimo, the mysterious one; Fortier, the flirtatious one; McGrew, the energetic one; Seal, the midwestern one. They hope to stroll the cobblestoned streets of your fair city, and sleep on your couches. Griddle loves you.

Loss For Words

The video here is "Dr. Becky Bolanky," from the most recent album, Klimty Favela:

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/17/2005
Band Website: GriddleMusic.com
Band Members: Kevin Seal - vocals, keyboards

Xifer Fortier - vocals, guitar

Kimo Ball - bass, keyboards

Chris McGrew - drums, bacon
Influences: weather, food, tim and eric, hemlines.
Sounds Like: you've got some explaining to do.
Record Label: Turkeyleg (Pasadena, CA) & Your Permanent Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

(Reviews of our new album)

Klimty Favela is now out in the world, beginning to crawl.Following the admonition that you shouldn't read your own reviews, we promise that we won't read any of these:FakeJazz (USA) : "The talent of ...
Posted by Griddle on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:58:00 PST

Our blog is moving away

So now it lives over here, all y'all:  http://griddlemusic.com Sure, it's not syndicated, or RSS-friendly, but if you're a code-knowing type who wants to help us with it, toss us a line. Also li...
Posted by Griddle on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:52:00 PST

New Griddle video, album, podcasts, & haircuts

That's right, you all and all of you.  Hugs, kisses, and inappropriate touching from the city by the bay.  The latest Griddle concoction, Klimty Favela, is now mastered and ready to press.&n...
Posted by Griddle on Mon, 15 May 2006 03:40:00 PST

Wrapping up Kentfield

san marcos, tx arnie and anita are awe-inspiring. we all wish molly was here. and rosie. we miss them. a&a showed us around san marcos, a picturesque college town 30 miles southwest of austin. ...
Posted by Griddle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Going at it bovine-style in El Paso

the Phoenix New Times chose to write about Griddle as their Friday Night pick this week. (they're the sister publication to the SF Weekly.) El Paso, TX El Paso! Yes, we skipped New Mexico. ...
Posted by Griddle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Pekora in, pekora out

(from the tour diary of Xifer Fortier) Approaching Winslow, AZ The road. On it. 17 North from Phoenix toward the 40 with Albuquerque in the offing. The iPod has studio outtakes of John Bonham  ...
Posted by Griddle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Las Vegas -a-gogo -- Prescott or Bust

Las Vegas, NV, 2:30 a.m. The toilet flooded. Five minutes into our room at Excalibur on the Vegas strip, and a layer of rank asswater is spreading across the tiles, advancing toward the carpet with...
Posted by Griddle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

our first Piss off the 5

-- On the road the first morning of the Spring 2005 Griddle tour of the Southwestern US. Nine shows in foreign territory, but then it's all foreign. Griddle has never been a touring band per se. Week...
Posted by Griddle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

want to live in the Mission district?

want to live in the mission? beautiful san francisco? the couple who live with gary (hobish) are getting their own place, and he needs two housemates pronto. gary, if you don't know him, is a great...
Posted by Griddle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST