all things must pass...
Current mood: morose

dear friends--it is with a heavy heart that i tell you this: the shows we have listed are the last we will ever play. our fetching charismatic mercurial bass player, Cherilyn Dimond, is moving to Maine and getting married in the very near future. in fact, by the time we play the Bloodshot CMJ party in Brooklyn in November, she will already live there. Jo, Peter, and Bill may play together again by sometime next year, but without Cherilyn it is doubtful whether we will ever again call ourselves the Meat Purveyors.
considering that we already broke up once and did not play a show for two years after New Year's Eve 1999/2000, then re-formed and recorded three more albums, it would seem that we are in bonus time anyway. it has been so much fun, and we have met so many cool people and/or hilarious characters. we have had a great run and seen a lot of places that we never would have seen.
so try and come see us one more time if you can. here again are our last 10 shows.

fri aug 18 Replay Lounge 9:00 (pre-Split Lip) Lawrence, KS ($3 cover)
sun aug 20 Record Bar midnightish? KC, MO (partly electric)
thu aug 24 Make Out Room S.F. middle slot (earlyish)
fri aug 25 Forestville Club Forestville, CA middle slot
sat aug 26 Starry Plough Berkeley, CA middle slot
sun aug 27 Stork Club Oakland, CA 8ish (all-day multiband festival)
sat sept 9 Hole in the Wall midnight (last Austin show)
we sept 13 Doug Fir Lounge Portland, OR
thr sept 14 live on KEXP Seattle, WA 8ish
fri sept 15 Tractor Tavern Seattle, WA
sat nov 4 Union Pool Brooklyn, NY (multiband Bloodshot party)

thanks everyone for all the support, the laughs, the free shots of whiskey to the stage, the drunken confusing directions to the afterparty....
xox, TMP