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Tour dates!
We’re doing a week of shows this coming May with Synthetic Division here on the east coast! The tour will include a performance at the 50th Dracula’s Ball in Philly, which seems appropriate seeing as we played the very first night of the event. We will likely be debuting a song or two from our upcoming album on this tour, which we’re planning to have out in the fall.
If you haven’t heard Synthetic Division, I’d recommend heading over to their ReverbNation profile and giving them a listen! Shawn Decker, the frontman of SD is also a published author, his memoir “My Pet Virus” published by Penguin Books a few years back.
Please spread the word about the shows folks!
~Andy
PS- Sorry to destroy everyone’s hopes and dreams with that Robocop prank… we wish it was real too. 
Connooga Schedule
Connooga takes place Friday, Feb 19th through Sunday, Feb 21st in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We will be performing live and appearing on several panels. Also, we’ll be finishing our video shoot for “In the Dirt” with Troma!
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6:00 PM Friday – 7:00 PM Friday: Andy reading from “The Sticks”
3:00 PM Saturday – 4:00 PM Saturday : Authors Round Table with Andy
4:00 PM Saturday - 5:00 PM Saturday : From the Band’s POV
5:00 PM Saturday – 6:00 PM Saturday : Bella Morte (acoustic performance)
11:30 PM Saturday - 1:00 AM Sunday : concert: Bella Morte
1:00 PM Sunday – 2:00 PM Sunday : Self-Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing with Andy
Show added – Feb 13th!
Come check us out Saturday, Feb 13th at Charlottesville, VA’s newest rock venue, The Southern! All ages welcome, doors @ 9pm.
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The Southern
103 S 1st St
Charlottesville, VA
Show Resheduled for Sat, Jan 2nd!
Yeah folks, that’s this Saturday! Our show previously scheduled for December 19th at The Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, VA has been rescheduled for this Saturday, and This Means You has been added to the bill in place of Egypt. The insane snowstorm that hit VA last week is to blame for the date change, so what was going to be the last show of ’09 is now going to be the first of 2010! See you there! ~Andy
Saturday, Jan. 2nd
The Jefferson Theater (Charlottesville, VA)
Doors @ 8pm
all ages welcome
Tickets on Sale Now for Dec 19th @ The Jefferson Theater
So we have one last show this year, and it’s going to be one hell of an event! We’re headlining at the newly-renovated Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, Virginia on December 19th, and I can’t imagine a better place to play our last show if 2009. The legendary “Egypt” will be opening the show, and for those of you not familiar with them, Andy Waldeck (Egypt’s bass player) co-produced our latest album “Beautiful Death”.
Doors open at 7:30pm and all ages are welcome to attend. Bella Morte will take the stage around 10pm.
I would highly recommend getting your tickets in advance for this one, and soon! Just follow the link below…
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See you there!
~Andy
Tour Dates Announced!
We kick off our tour with Ego Likeness on October 24th! Start making plans!
Bella Morte on tour with Ego Likeness
Tour with Ego Likeness / Autographed books
TOUR WITH EGO LIKENESS ANNOUNCED
Yep, we’re doing it again… had so much fun with the EL crew that we’re going to tour together again starting in late October! Here are the tentative dates… more will be announced soon!
-OCTOBER 24TH FLINT, MI @ THE MASONIC TEMPLE
-OCTOBER 25TH BERWYN, IL @ THE NITE LIGHT CAFE
-OCTOBER 29TH FAYETTEVILLE, AR @ THE GYPSY
-OCTOBER 30TH BRYAN, TX @ THE STAFFORD
-OCTOBER 31ST SAN ANTONIO, TX (TBA)
-NOVEMBER 5TH EL PASO, TX @ UNCLE PAULIE’S PUB
-NOVEMBER 6TH SCOTTSDALE, AZ @ MARDI GRAS
-NOVEMBER 7TH LOS ANGELES, CA @ BAR SINISTER
-NOVEMBER 10TH AUSTIN, TX (TBA)
-NOVEMBER 13TH NEW ORLEANS, LA (TBA)
-NOVEMBER 14TH NASHVILLE, TN @ THE RUTLEDGE
SIGNED COPIES OF THE STICKS!
There’s good news for those of you who have written me looking for signed copies of my book… They just became available on the Bella Morte online store. The book is doing great, and I’m working on getting a publishing deal for my 2nd one right now… it’s a vampire novel and I can’t wait to get it in your hands.
That’s all for now! Hope to see a lot of you at Dragon*Con next month!!!!!
~Andy
Troma Films and Dragon*Con
I recently got some very exciting news concerning Dragon*Con… I’m assuming that all Bella Morte fans are familiar with Troma Films. I’ve loved them ever since watching The Toxic Avenger as a kid. If you’re unfamiliar with Troma, immediately CLICK HERE and check ‘em out! Now, to the point… Troma is going to be shooting a Bella Morte video, and the filming starts at our performance at Dragon*Con. So, if you want a cameo in the video, work your way to the front row at the show and you’ll have a damn good shot at making the final cut! Costumes are welcome, and I’m hoping to get the Bella Morte zombie squad (see previous blog entry) in the video as well!
We’ll be going on at 1:30 am on Friday (Saturday morning if you want to get technical), September 4th in the Hyatt’s Centennial Ballroom. Be there and get loud for the Troma film crew!
Also, I got the set time for our “unplugged” performance as well… 5pm on Saturday at the concourse outside the Centennial Ballroom in the Hyatt. I still don’t have info on our panel appearances, but I’m sure I’ll know something in the coming weeks.
See you soon!
~Andy
Confirmed for DragonCon 2009
It’s been a couple of years since we’ve been to DragonCon, but I’m happy to announce that Bella Morte is returning this year. I just got the call about this a couple days ago, so I have a mountain of work to do over the next few weeks to prepare for the event. The past couple of months have found me writing music at a pace I haven’t kept in years, and I’m excited to say that a follow up to Beautiful Death is coming along very nicely.
Last time we performed at DragonCon a fan of the band suggested that we enlist an army of “Bella Morte zombies” to promote our performances at the con, similar to “The Cruxshadows fairies”, but with a greater tendency toward eating brains. So I’d like to know… if you are going to be at DragonCon next month, would you be interested in joining up? It would involve dressing up as a zombie (a sexy zombie if you’re a lady) and passing out flyers, spreading the word, that sort of thing. Maybe work an impromptu zombie parade in there somehow! I think it’d be a load of fun.
I for one am looking very forward to the weekend at D.C. All this hard work has me looking very forward to a fun, stress free weekend in Atlanta… play a couple shows (we’ll be doing an acoustic set along with our regular performance), sign some books, and most of all hang out with you guys. No schedule has been posted yet, but as soon as I know when our performances and panel appearances will take place I’ll pass it on to you.
So, for all you folks who want to be Bella Morte zombies at DragonCon, send an email to BMZombie@gmail.com. Include your real name and cell phone number so we can text you at the Con to organize a time and place to meet.
Can’t wait to see all you crazy bastards next month!
Best,
Andy
From the road
I’m writing from a hotel somewhere in Iowa. I’ve been having a really great time on the road with our label mates Ego Likeness. They’re an excellent band and amazing people, and I think you ought to check ‘em out.
The stripped down Bella Morte shows have been so much fun. I have to admit to being nervous at the first one. It was in La Crosse, WI, and there weren’t a ton of people there, but I was nervous for the first time in ages! After getting that show under my belt I was fine, and the stripped down version of the band has been a ton of fun! And seeing fans’ faces light up when the first few notes of Fall No More, The Rain Within Her Hands and Relics kick in is priceless. LOVED the shows in Chicago and Cedar Rapids, hoping for more of the same once we get to St. Louis and Indy. We’ve been getting tons of requests to play this set in other cities, and we might… but no promises! After getting home, Tony L. and I plan on recording the acoustic versions of Find Forever Gone, Fades Like A Song and As the Storm Unfolds and making them available to you.
As for my novel, The Sticks, I sold out of everything I had with me by the Chicago show! And the books selling like mad online too. It was #1 in presales and #2 in digital downloads at Horror Mall for April. And it’s doing well on Amazon.com. I’ve re-ordered copies and will have them for the shows in Raleigh, NC, Springfield, VA and Charlottesville, VA.
That’s all for now. Thanks to everyone who’s made it to the shows and mentioned it online. Your support kicks ass and we love you for it!! See you at the shows folks!
~Andy