Due to family commitments, we’ve had to cancel our trip to DC to play at the MAGFest New Years Eve party. But you should still go! Looks like a lot of fun.
http://magfest.org/
Love and parental responsibilities,
Linda
Here’s another opportunity to experience The Captains of the Chess Team in organic 3-D. We will be playing the evening of November 20th at the Independent Game Conference in Austin, TX. Yee haw, no less! Take a gander at our Instance page for more info on this and other shows.
Elbow, elbow, wrist, wrist, wrist (the royal wave),
Queenie
Come party with The Captains! You know you wanna.
We will be playing a New Year’s Eve party at MAGFest at the Hilton Mark Center hotel in Alexandria, Virginia.
http://magfest.org/guests
Click on the Music tab.
It says this on the MAGFest website. And we believe it because we read it on the Internet:
MAGFest is a video and computer gaming festival run by fans, for fans. It’s similar to most fan-based (anime, scifi, etc) conventions, but aims to be more of a laid-back video game party atmosphere. No huge dealer rooms here, but rather lots of fan art, film and music. The special guests tend to fit right in and socialize with the rest of the crowd. Game movies and cartoons are shown weekend-long. Lots of attendees set up games in their rooms and leave their door open to invite others inside.
Perhaps most importantly, MAGFest has a huge focus on game music — multiple concerts worth — filled with video game music tributes, some even with the original composers! On Friday and Saturday nights multiple bands perform on our main stage, and our ‘JamSpace’ is open 24 hours for collaborative music and special treats alike.
Love and silly hats,
Party Queen
Randy Buck, the Captains of the Chess Team’s godlike soundman, got laid off recently. Worst thing ever? Maybe, maybe not.
Looks like he spent the afternoon making amazing sound. I got this mix today from him, with a note that seemed kind of exuberant to me:
It’s from The Captains’ most recent performance at the IGDA picnic at Richard Garriott’s house last month. Randy’s had very little time to do mixing because of all the demands of his work schedule.
Our performance was OK, yeah…but What a MIX!
I dunno, I hate to hear about anything bad happening to anybody, but So Often I can look back at the “worst thing that’s ever happened to me” and see that it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I’m trying to keep faith, and watching Randy, I’m hoping that this “Job Loss” will turn into a huge gain for him. It’s not for me to say, it’s none of my business, bla bla bla, but:
The words we use are strong. They make reality.
Love,
Your friend,
FAT
We’ve just posted several recordings of The Captains of the Chess Team “rehearsing”. But we don’t call it rehearsing. That word has too much baggage. We call it farming. Since none of us grew up on farms, we have no farm baggage or potato sackage. We call a recording session cheese making for similar reasons. We are slowly making cheese, but it’s not ripe yet. We’ll keep you posted.
Love, Queenie
The Captains are now a GO as the live entertainment for the official Austin GDC party - Tuesday, September 16th at Maggie Mae’s on the famous Austin 6th Street.
There will be new songs! New Captains! Nude Dancing!
Okay, I don’t know about the dancing…
See you there!
-Bish
Here are some pix of the gig by Amanda
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pafuts/?saved=1
…and I just want to say that I really like playing with Josh. I’m going to miss you, Captain. You come out to the jams now, y’hear, or I’ll kill you again.
Love,
FAT
Austin Chapter: Chapter Events Archives
Once again your mighty Captains will headline the entertainment portion of this year’s IGDA Picnic event at Richard Garriott’s estate. If you’re in the Austin Area - come on out! Last years event was a lot of fun - and now we’ve had a WHOLE YEAR to practice! We’ll just think of this as the patch for the last gig here. 
Rock and Roll a 20!
The most excellent song written by our friend Thom Robertson, and performed by the illustrious Captains has now been posted in the Pieces section for your listening pleasure.
http://www.captainsofthechessteam.com/pieces.php
Next up - more YouTubieness…
The Captains have made their first appearance on YouTube.
Check it out here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpzVwNoDvtE