Hey people – good to be here.  If you don’t know us already, we are Dave Hates Chico, based here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.  We play music on a couple of acoustic guitars and try to lay out some cherry vocal harmonies over the top.  Dave is our good friend and he doesn’t really hate the town of Chico.  It’s a great place – Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves was filmed there.  Pick your name carefully, fledgling bands – you may need to stick with it to the end.

 We play at a lot of open mics in Seattle - almost every night of the week there is a handful of places to play.  We also host a show at the Mainstage in Seattle’s lower Queen Anne neighborhood every Tuesday night, which we broadcast live on a site called www.synclive.com.  Feel free to log on and check out some of the archived shows, and decide if you want to come down and show us your stuff.  We’re right in the shadow of the Space Needle, across the street from Key Arena (where the Sonics play for now).

We also make ample use of another great site, www.openmikes.org.  It’s the best resource out there for mapping your week of playing open mikes, in whatever city you choose.  In Pittsburg for a few nights?  Got your guitar?  Check out openmikes.org and find listings for every venue in the area.  Map it out, take down the phone number, and read the comments.  DHC just got back from touring New York City and Brooklyn for a week, and we wound up playing 11 places over 7 nights all thanks to this great site.  And in our hosting, we often get travelers from all over the country who stop by because they found us on openmikes.org.  It’s a great service and I highly recommend it.

We will keep this blog updated as often as we can – I also post quite a bit on www.myspace.com/davehateschico2, so if you want to check us out a little further, it’s a good place to start.

Mahalo, DHC