The Fallen Stars

We are mostly on vacation but we are planning one show in Southern California in February 2019.  

Details to come.

It's been over a year since I've posted or updated here.  Sorry about that.

In that time:

Tracy and Bobbo released a new Firefly EP for their "Leaves on the Wind Music Project"

Ben has released a new solo album "Nidelk".

Bobbo has released a new solo album "Two Sides To This Town".

But what about Riddle & The Stars?  

I'm glad you asked. We will be getting together in October for two shows in the northeast of America - New Hampshire and Massachusetts and then Ben and Bobbo will travel across the U.S. playing a few shows and then we will be working on new material in California after that and finishing up with a single Southern California show on November 10.

That's our news. 

Hey, you might have noticed there's not a lot of shows posted on our site right now - rest assured, it's not because we don't have any booked - it's because I'm looking into calendar options for the site to make it easy to post the shows.  Currently I'm trying to use Songkick but so many of the venues are not in the database that I'm having to enter in all the information for them.  It's very time consuming and frustrating.  

 

It's been a minute huh?  We're all in different countries again.  Tracy and I in Southern California and Ben is in Melbourne, Australia.  

We're gearing up for a return to Europe in 2017.  Not sure on details as of yet.

Here's a fun review that we can't read. (It's in Hungarian)  

https://gondola.hu/cikkek/103784-Szorakoztato_albumok.html

Talk to you soon.

Moin!    

That's German for good day, good morning or something.  Like all things - it's very similar but still quite different.    

We're still a couple weeks away from being back in the states but I wanted to stop in and say hello.    

I've been here touring since the end of August supporting my solo album "Motel Americana" and Tracy flew over the end of September and we met up with our buddy Ben Riddle (creating the pseudo Wonder Twin Power form of Riddle & The Stars) and we've been all over playing shows.    

I thought it would be nice to not be in the U.S. during the run up to this election but everyone here wants to talk about it.  I had an hour long radio show and interview in Chemnitz, Germany that was 25% about the Presidential election.  It puts you in an interesting place when you're in a foreign country and are asked to speak for and represent your fellow Americans.    

Oh, and remember that link I sent you about voting for our song "Hold Me" for Song of the Year?  Well, interestingly - I got an email on my facebook page from someone in Serbia guaranteeing me all the winning votes I would need for just $300.*  I was obviously disturbed by this and kept pressing them for more information about themselves and then gave the info to the folks at The Miews who run the contest. To their credit they are looking into it and have had some issues with folks and cheating/voting going on.  He said to me that they just wanted to do something good to support Indie music and they've had to deal with all kinds of crap.  So the voting aspect of it may go away entirely.    

If you're reading this and are in Europe - we still have a bunch of shows left including Immanuel Church this week and Club Moments on Sunday.    

And if you're in the US of A - here's a quick breakdown of what's going on in the next month(s).  

Wednesday, Nov 2  
The Pasta Loft   
Milford, NH  
w/ Morgan Keating  

Wednesday, Nov 16  
Barley House  
Dallas, TX  
w/ Professor Fuzz (Mike Farmer)  and Ronnie Fauss!  

Saturday, Nov 19  
College Radio Days  
Long Beach, CA. (More info soon)  

Monday, Nov 21  
Americana Mondays at @beatnik Bandito Music Emporium  
Santa Ana, CA  
w/ Patty Booker and Deja Nichole  

Saturday, Dec 3  
Gram Parsons Birthday Celebration (GramFest)  
Don the Beachcombers  
Huntington Beach, CA  

Sunday, Dec 4  
Courtney Chambers Live Album recording  
(Tracy and I will be opening up for CC and this will be at our studio)  
Costa Mesa, CA  

And then I think we're off until January when I will be scheduling a cd release show locally for "Motel Americana" and it will be released worldwide on Songs & Whispers Records in January of 2017.    

I think that's all that's going on.  I am keeping a really fun tour diary on my personal FB page at www.facebook.com/BobboByrnes if you feel like following along.    

Ok, it's almost 3 am here in Bremen, Germany.  Time for bed.    

Bis Spater.  

~Bobbo, Tracy and Ben.  

*The person who guaranteed votes even went ahead and got me 50 votes as a show of good faith that she could easily do this.  I of course told the folks at Miews to not count the last 50 votes I got.