![]() Touring is especially important to an act like A Giant Dog. It’s not optimal but it’s a calculated risk that bands are taking these days just to resume their livelihoods and get music to fans again. But, at some point if one of us got COVID we’d just have had to pack it up and call the tour quits or just delay a bunch of shows and stay in a hotel for a week.” So, it did feel a little safer being out there and everybody was wearing masks and stuff. ![]() It’s like the wild west out here, nobody really cares about COVID. But it was also kind of scary too because California is a long way away from Texas and if one of us were to get COVID during that time - we were being super-careful - they’re a little more health conscious on the West Coast than they are in Texas. It felt great, felt good to be back out on the road. “Not very many people are touring these days so it’s always an accomplishment. They toured out west earlier this year, Cashen said. It won’t be the band’s first foray back to live shows since the pandemic. But, we’re still going to tour I think the entire month of August.” “Hopefully we have those records in time. The band hoped to have physical copies of those re-releases for the approaching tour, but that plan is pending industry-wide record plant delays. We’re gearing up to tour the whole month of August out to the East Coast and up to Canada, New York, all that,” Cashen said and also reported Merge Records, which released Toy and Pile, the band’s last two albums, has plans to re-release Fight and Bone, its first two. The festival gave us a chance to catch up with the band and its various offshoot acts. Several of its members have Houston roots. Show poster The band's been active since 2008 and has played Houston plenty over the years. When A Giant Dog performs, as the video for “Roller Coaster” suggests, prepare for inventive, spur of the moment thrills. A Giant Dog will be joined by HR of Bad Brains, The Suspects, Piñata Protest, O’ Doyle Rules and deejay sets from DJ Fermented and DJ Muskratch. The song might be in the set when the band plays this Saturday's festival which pairs beer and burlesque acts with local, regional and national punk bands. The video was for the song “Roller Coaster” from A Giant Dog’s 2017 album Toy and stars Cashen and the band's lead vocalist Sabrina Ellis. You guys want me to just get a camera and make another music video?’ So we did it. “He’s like, ‘Well, you know, I actually have hits of acid in my freezer and Disneyland’s like three blocks that way. to edit that music video and the guy editing it, Ed Dougherty, I had just told this story about me being in high school and taking mushrooms and going to an amusement park and me and all my friends thought that we were gonna die and he thought it was really funny. We had shot a music video previous to that and me and Sabrina flew out to L.A. I think that one’s pretty cool,” Cashen said matter-of-factly. “There’s a video of us taking acid at Disneyland for a music video. We asked Cashen to suggest a video or two to best represent what A Giant Dog does, something to encapsulate everything that’s made fans of fellow artists like Jack White and Laura Jane Grace. It was a different, completely innocuous question which revealed much more about the Austin-based band. A bit of a mundane question and a direct answer. “I think Sabrina sometimes likes pilsners, sometimes likes stout kind of stuff like Guinness.”įair enough. He goes and picks the weird beers,” Cashen said. For instance, since A Giant Dog is one of the featured acts on the second installment of Punks & Pints Fest at SpindleTap Brewery this weekend, we asked the band’s guitarist/vocalist Andrew Cashen if the band enjoys beer and which styles they prefer. There are certain questions one might ask a member of a band to gain some insight on the group.
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