Come check us out this Friday at Grotto. We’ll be playing short sets throughout the night starting at sunset, until they make us stop, or we get too sleepy.

You can buy tickets at:

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This is Parsec with our latest concert update.

We at Arcattack would like to thank everybody at Chattacon; friendly hotel staff (Thanks for recovering my lab coat from the room, Beth!), gracious con staff for making us so welcome, the vendors in the dealer room (especially the leather bondage guys and the steam-punk wear), and even the volunteer citizen security!

A special shout-out to the Chattanooga Choo Choo electrical staff, who handled a novel situation thoughtfully and professionally. Finally, we would like to thank Cyndi for inviting us out. We really appreciate the opportunity to entertain and we hope that our paths will cross again in the future.

I must say that the morning after our show was a delight. Never before at a convention have I been hailed by so many people! Everybody was so appreciative and gracious with their compliments and stories about the time they had the night before during our performance. To everybody that came and saw and participated: You are awesome!! It was really gratifying, as well, to hear so many folks in the registration line tell us that either they saw us at Dragon*Con or that they tried to see us but the room was full/lines too long, etc. I was passing out fliers and many the con-goer told me ldquo;thanksrdquo; for the flier, but also that they knew exactly when/where we were playing.

Special thanks as well to those Dragon*Con staffers in attendance. Do you guys ever NOT work? Ha ha.

On a more personal note, everybody in Arcattack would like to especially thank Steve Jackson for taking time out of his busy schedule to come and see us. I actually got all choked up when I finally got to meet him and personally thank him for all the joy he has brought to me and my friends over the years. What was even cooler was autographing a t-shirt for him. What a strange ride, this life!?

Anyways, hopefully next year we will get to see you all again at Chattacon 35!

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This is Parsec with our latest concert update. ArcAttack is pleased to announce that our next experiment will be performed at Chattacon 34 in the historic Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The convention is held January 23-25 and the keynote speaker is none other than Steve Jackson(http://www.sjgames.com/)!. Hotel, ticket, and entertainment information can be found on the Chattacon website.

http://www.chattacon.org/Joomla/

We are super excited to be bringing our electrifying style of entertainment to the Grand Central Station Saturday evening from 10 pm till Midnight. Our Weird Science Ball will be sure to keep the crowd on their feet with two hours of non-stop musical entertainment powered not only by Arcattack, but also featuring Polyhymnia.

http://www.myspace.com/djpolyhymnia/

It is our sole intent to help you get your groove on. What a better place to meet up with friends to prepare for the infamous room crawl? Guaranteed to give you ample fodder for conversation for the rest of the evening, if you have any energy left at all!

We are excited, as well, to be featuring our new Arcattack! Sticker in addition to our insanely popular Arcattack! T-Shirts

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Still more to come! Stay tuned till next week when we unveil our latest performance venue!

Happy New Year from Arcattack! This is Parsec with our wrap-up report. This past First Night was one of the best New Year celebrations that I have ever been to! The weather was perfect, there was interactive art, music, performance art, fireworks, digital media, art cars… and the Resolution Clock was one of the finest burn spectacles I have had the pleasure of attending. Auditorium Shores was a fine backdrop for a wonderful evening of lights and sound and friends as we ushered in yet another year of opportunity.

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It was made better by the fact that we had friends in from out of town to share the New Year with! Steve Ward came down from Chicago and assisted us with some hardware and software upgrades. Pretty much as soon as he got off the plane, he and Joe went to work and kept going right up until the performance. Tesla coils take lots of love. Even though he worked most of the visit, we managed to take him out for one good night on the town Friday. We showed him around 6th street for awhile, then to some other clubs around town. We painted the town red and closed down the bars and I think I heard him mumbling about moving down here sometime before I went home.

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As for the show for First Night, all I can say is WOW! It was an awesome experience all around. There was little wind, we had a wonderful new centerpiece crafted by Patrick Sullivan from Iron Lion Metalworks (special thanks to Austin Green Art for letting us use their warehouse space!), and the crowd was festive. The HGMB stage provided wonderful entertainment while we set up and we got to hear not only a 15 minute version of Hamlet, but a 3 minute and a 10 second one, as well! I brought the BBQ pit and we had a lunch of hot dogs and flavor-aid and then I put on a brisket for dinner. Good food, good fun, comfortable chairs, and we even brought a propane heater for when it started to get a bit nippy. With all the essentials covered, all that was left was to have a great time!

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The performance was wonderful! There were people as far as the eye could see; not even sure how many there were. All we know is they were such a wonderful crowd, and so LOUD! Wow, Austin can really bring the noise! The coils were looking awesome and everything was going smoothly, but then we had a few technical difficulties. First, we started having some flash-over (when the secondary coil arcs to the primary coil and strike ring) on the right coil, so we had to turn it down a little bit. Then, during the oh so popular Zelda/Justin Timberlake mix-up, there was a huge POP from the left coil and it went dead. I could sense the crowd tense; there was no mistaking that sound.

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Well, it turned out that one of the transistors had exploded! We had spent the last few weeks doing some hardware upgrades to the machine, and when it was put back together, a screw on the transistor didn’t get tightened well enough. Woops. So, here is a picture of the blown up transistor, right next to one that isn’t blown up for reference. You can see in the picture the arcing to the bolt terminal that caused the failure! Special thanks to the guy in the audience that donated $5 to me directly after the show to pitch in on repair cost. It really meant a lot to us.

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Thanks once again for a wonderful New Year’s Eve, Austin!

We at Arcattack are very excited about this upcoming First Night celebration! We are going to be doing our part to keep New Year’s Eve weird, including keeping thing flowings throughout the day at the First Street bridge. We have been offered the opportunity to act as entertainment when the acts are transitioning on the main stage throughout the evening, starting around dusk thirty.

Always happy to be of service!

A full schedule of entertainment will be released shortly on the First Night website for your viewing pleasure. Please be sure and stop by sometime during the day to say hey and then join us for the Clocktower burn and then for our feature performance around 10ish.

It is going to be an experience!

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