Many thanks to all those that came to Art Outside this year! It was a spectacular venue with plenty of space and many wonderful things to see. We saw lots of familiar faces and got to meet some new ones as well. There were art installations from all over the country as well as three stages for musical acts, a clothing swap, and hanging art galleries. There was plenty of camping space and even sausage on a stick!
We were very happy to utilize our new Faraday cage for the first time in Texas and many folks were Cleansed of their negative emotions and became New with us. Although our performances were curtailed due to the rain, we still managed to jam out some live music and feature some of our new songs.

If you missed us at Art Outside, fear not, we have another upcoming show right here in Austin!!!
Electricity!

Saturday October 17
Kenny Dorham’s Backyard
1106 East 11th St.
Austin, TX 78751

http://www.diversearts.org/KDB/kdb_about.shtml

Doors open at 8 pm

Wow, what a whirlwind of activity, these past two months! We at Arcattack are pleased to announce that we have touched ground once again back home in Austin and the tour was a smashing success! We did around 205 performances in the 56 days of our journey to Abu Dhabi and the Netherlands, shot lots of video footage, got some great audio (thanks Ivan!) and met many new friends. We also gained many new fans! It was really a pleasure to travel the world and see all those new faces. We hope that you all come on and join us on facebook http://www.facebook.com/arcattack or Myspace http://www.myspace.com/singingtesla

Summer in Abu Dhabi was a wonderful experience. It is hard to say exactly how many folks we entertained over the course of the festival, but it was well into the tens of thousands. We got out to see some of the sights, experienced the nightlife, and ate lots of great food (Hooray for Eat n Joy!). It is hard to sum up the whole of the experience in even a few short paragraphs. We have posted some pics of the journey on our Myspace page.

The Netherlands tour was better than we could have hoped for! We played for student introduction week at three Universities and got a great private tour of the Delft campus. We played several outdoor festivals, as well, including Cultura Nova, Dynamo, Zomerparkfeest, and Zomerterras (just to name a few) and there are some great Youtube vids up of some of the shows. We played for our biggest single crowd ever at Zomerparkfeest, where roughly 20k folks saw the show! Perhaps the best part, however, were the three days off we had in Amsterdam. It was nice to catch up on some sleep and do some sightseeing. Then it was back through the airport with all our gear and back to Austin for one day before hopping in the van to Dragon*Con!

Everybody has arrived safe and sound and we are rocking out here in Abu Dhabi! We have been nothing short of pleasantly surprised by pretty much every aspect of both the country and the venue. Our first surprise was the stage itself. We were greeted by a wondrous neon sign declaring that we are Arcattack in three foot high red letters limned with Tesla sparks.

The crowds here are quite a bit more reserved than we are used to, but it was explained to us that this is simply a cultural difference. All the reports that we have had from the organizers (Red Filo) is that people like the show, so that is encouraging. Our technical support crew is top notch and we are busy recording both audio and video files in hopes of producing a “Live at Summer in Abu Dhabi” DVD in order to share with you our experiences here.

During the time between our shows we are busy hammering out some new material as well as building robots and making friends with support staff. We are also incorporating some new coding into our old songs in order to “liven” up our current material. We performed for the Sheikh of Travel and Tourism and the report we received was that he liked the show!

The third day of performances here we were supplied with a translator. This has helped us enormously bridge the gap between languages and culture and has significantly improved audience response. We are very much enjoying our visit here in the middle East; it has been an eye-opening experience!

Summer is almost upon us and Arcattack is heating it up around the world! We are pleased to announce the first appearances of the summer season.

First, we will be performing Thursday June 18th in New York City for The Most Interesting Man in the World! Dos Equis has invited us out to the Big Apple to entertain as only Arcattack can.

Second, we will be at MetroCon! June 19th – 21st with our main performance Saturday night. We are very excited about this show.

Third, and perhaps the most interesting of our summer stops; Arcattack is heading to Abu Dhabi! We will be engaged in a mission of education and entertainment in perhaps the most technologically advanced infrastructure on the planet. Arcattack will be performing two to three times daily, an educational set on the background, development, and use of our musical Tesla coils. We will be engaged there from July 1st through August 16th!

Then Arcattack flies into Amsterdam to kick off a whirlwind European tour! We will be hosting various dates and locations in the Netherlands and who knows where else?! Keep track on our Myspace page for listings of shows in Europe. We will be returning to the US around the 1st of September, just in time for our final stop in our whirlwind summer tour.

Dragoncon!!!

Arcattack will be performing once again for the Mad Scientist Ball!

We at Arcattack are really excited about the opportunities upcoming in the next few months. But, before we get into what the future holds, let’s wrap up a few gigs we have done recently.

Our Texas Burning Man Regional event was a wonderful success! The guys came together and did an improv performance on Saturday night that electrified the evening and the coils produced some of the most powerful sparks we have seen. The rain kept temperatures cool, but since we were prepared (as seasoned veterans are), the show went off without a hitch. See some awesome photos on Flikr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevehopson/sets/72157605286527432/

The VEX Robotics World Championships (Dallas) afterparty turned out to be one of our favorite audience interactions to-date! The questions we fielded during our technical discussion from the crowd were some of the most technologically savvy queries we have received so far. Congratulations to all that participated in the Championships! Special thanks to Anton Olsen of Geek Dad for making it happen and to Jason Morrella of VEX Robotics for putting it together. We are already plotting some spectacularly electrifying entertainment for next year!

It has been a wonderful Spring, but its still not over! Arcattack has a couple of performances left this month before we get into July.

http://metroconventions.com/ has inspired Arcattack to reach beyond our norm and to create an entirely new stage show. Not only will we be featuring the songs you know and love, but we will be incorporating performance art in telling a tale of love and woe. Metrocon takes place in Tampa Florida June 19-21st and is Florida’s largest Anime convention. Many thanks to Roy and Shadowfax for giving us the opportunity and inspiration to keep raising the bar!

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!