Jaguar Love

In Graz, Austria right now. Its hot as hell but that’s not a complaint. I’ve never been here before though the town seems pretty great. Haven’t gotten a chance to venture out much, but we are going to this vegetarian joint near the club called Mangold for dinner in a bit. We just spent two days in Prague, which was really great as well. Zane, J and I stomped all over the city and back a few times it felt like. Prague is most definitely a tourist trap, but it almost doesn’t seem to matter because the city is so powerful. It’s kind of great being in a place with so many people from all over the world around you. I suppose you gotta be in the right mood to deal with it. I was. It was also the Euro finals and people were gathered in the center to watch the game. Crazed. Germany vs. Spain. It seemed that the people Prague had Spains back for the most part. I was expecting the town to blow up when Spain won, but it turned into a ghost town pretty quickly. Short-lived excitement. Sunday night blues. We tried to get into something, but nothing was going on at all. The train stopped running at midnight so we hopped in a cab ride back to the bus and found Jessie and Craig hanging in the dark. We lost bus power, but we had a good time shooting the shit until we fell off to slumber one by one. Woke up in the heat of the bus in the morning. We all pounced on a Laundromat near the club. Pretty much all In dire straits. The show ended up being really fun in Prague. A lot of great people came out to the show and it made for a good night. Even saw our good friend Aaron unexpectedly. I gotta split now to go and eat. Talk soon…

Aug 6 at Que Sera in Long Beach 21+
Aug 8 at Chain Reaction in Anaheim - All Ages
*both shows with Crystal Antlers.

We are just over a week into our European tour. Things are going well so far I’d say. It’s about 2 in the afternoon. We are in Koln, Germany today and the sun is burning good and hot. We all woke up a little dazed and sweaty this morning, but I have to admit its a nice change from the throes of the seemingly constant Northwest drizzle in our home of Portland. Spirits are high. Zane, J and Craig are all off to the music store to pick up some supplies, Johnny and Amy are stomping around the city somewhere, Jessie is in the shower and I’m sitting backstage at Luxor on a black leather love seat writing this. We’ve been playing a bunch of festivals so far on this trip (which I love), but last night we played our own headlining show. It felt great to be inside a club. It was in Weisbaden, Germany. Weisbaden is a pretty great city. Apparently after World War Two the US decided to stay there for a while and it kept it from getting bombed, so the city is well preserved. Like any European city there is a square with commercial shopping and the like but on the outskirts its pretty rad. Really beautiful homes and buildings. The club we played is called Schlachthof. It’s a collective run by 16 people and really amazing. After the show was pretty chill. I think some of us are still trying to shake off the jet lag blues. Give it a few more days…

Matador’s rusty brains brain trust were amongst the lucky throng observing the kick-off of Jaguar Love’s U.S. tour in Pomona, CA this past Sunday night. We’re still trying to figure out how to repair the synapses that were snapped like twigs. The new Jaguar Love quintet are already so scary-good this early in their existence, venues oughta bar patrons from entering during the final 30 minutes of the performance. That’s the only William Castle gimmick we’ll suggest this time — - no 3D lenses are necessary when this band is on stage. They’ve got dimensions to spare.

Wednesday, May 28 San Diego, CA Beauty Bar
Thursday, May 29 San Francisco, CA Popscene
Friday, May 30 Modesto, CA Fat Cat
Saturday, May 31 Eugene The Indigo District
Monday, June 02 Vancouver, BC Richards on Richards
Tuesday, June 03 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
Wednesday, June 04 Seattle, WA Neumos
Thursday, June 12 Hultsfred, Sweden Hultsfred Festival
Saturday, June 14 Interlake, Switzerland Greenfield Festival
Sunday, June 15 Brugenland, Austria Nova Rock Festival
Tuesday June 17 Wiesbaden, Germany Schlachof
Wednesday, June 18 Cologne, Germany Luxor
Thursday, June 19 Paris, France La Moroquenerie
Saturday, June 21 Neuhausen, Germany Southside Festival
Sunday, June 22 Schesse, Germany Hurricane Festival
Monday, June 23 Berlin, Germany Lido
Wednesday, June 25 Copenhagen, Denmark Loppen
Friday, June 26 Arendal, Norway Hove Festival

Jaguar Love - “Bats Over The Pacific Ocean” (mp3)
June 3 - Jaguar Love CD EP (preorders shipping now)
August 19 - Take Me To The Sea LP/CD

Hello Friends. Happy Holidays. We want to send our greatest gratitude and thanks to everyone in/with Queens of the Stone Age. It was an honor and blast to do a short tour with them. They rule. As well we would like to send our thanks to Mr. Rob Pope for coming out and playing bass with us on the trip. He is a gentleman and a scholar. You should check out his band Spoon if you haven’t already. We also want to thank our dear friends Randy Torres and Cory Alfano(Nazca Lines!) for coming out and helping us on the trip. We couldn’t have done it with out them. Thank you as well to anyone who came out to support us at the shows. We felt your love and extend it back to you. We are hitting the studio in a few days and are very excited for a new year of making music and touring. That said, happy holidays and we will see ya next year!
xo
 Cody