B&E Finally Has a Facebook Page

While our MySpace page has a lot more content like music, videos and connections with other bands, with so many people jumping the MySpace ship for Facebook, we thought it was a good time to jump with you.

Just click here and you'll find us.

B&E Does the Double Door

B&E drove up, caravan-style, to Chicago last weekend to open up the Double Door on Friday the 13th. Now we're home, and looking back, we had a blast.

Despite our ampersand being replaced with a "+" and being listed as "BE", the show was fantastic, the sound was incredible and the other bands were great.

Thinking back to when we started as just a duo playing acoustic guitars at a dark, dank J&A's -- damn, we've come a long way to make it on that stage.

The set was all killer, no filler and we sobered up to some real Chicago-style pizza on Saturday afternoon.

Ended up hanging out with the guys in A Modern Bison, and we'll hopefully bring those guys down to St. Louis for a show soon.

Thanks to the venue, all those who showed up, our friends who made the trip with us and the bands: The Webstirs, Coventry and A Modern Bison.

It was a great weekend, "worst band manager ever" Tad Trier came along and we even got to meet up and hang with former B&E bassist Johnny Castle.

Here are a few pics of the crew and show: (More photos can be seen here.)

Heading to Chicago to Play The Double Door

Jeff Rifkin made this for us.
Check out his blog:
http://superhappyfuntimeblog.blogspot.com

'08 is Over. '09 is Coming. We're Still Alive.

Man, 2008 went by pretty damn fast. A little too fast. Yes, ok, ok. We know it's been a few months, but we're still busy working on mixing the record. We do have some light at the end of the tunnel and foresee an early spring release. We'll keep you posted as it all comes together, but it really is a monster and needs just a little more time before it's unleashed.

Some visual proof that we've been busy: St. Louis photographer Greg Rannells took some great shots of us at The Way Out Club down on S. Jefferson. They'll probably end up in our album artwork. The pic above is a good one where we almost look like a proper band and not some band of wankers. Or you may disagree. Either way.

Jumping right back into it, we already have a few shows scheduled for Jan and Feb.

January 9 at The Way Out Club w/ Resoldered and Googoloplexia

February 21 at The Wedge w/ Tight Pants Syndrome

Thanks again to everyone who came out and supported us in '08. We're really excited about all that's set to happen in '09. It's gonna be a good one.

Recording Update

It's been a couple months since the band entered Dogbite studios, and we're happy to say that we're moving on to mixing the album. The recording already sounds great, and we can't wait to get it out there and into your ears.

Right now, we're aiming for a spring-time release. Don't worry, we'll definitely plan a release party at one of the best venues in St. Louis.

Until then, we've got a show or two left for 2008, so come out and catch us if you can. See ya's soon!

B&E

B&E Heading Into The Studio

As you may have noticed, we're taking a short break from live shows. That's because we're headed into Dogbite Studios to being recording our new album!
Edwardsville legend Rick Harmon's going to be recording and producing us (he's the man behind Left Arm's rocking album "Dissatisoul").

We're laying down our first tracks in mid-August and the band's really excited to get the project going and the music out.

On top of nine brand new songs, we're recording three of our old favorites that we recorded acoustically as just a duo/trio in '06.

You can get a taste of what the sound will be like on our myspace--it's four songs recorded live in our practice space.
www.myspace.com/bandelive

We'll keep ya posted and see ya soon!

Look Ma, We're On The Radio!

Here's us playing 'Things Stay The Same' live and "iCoustix-lly" at the iChannel.fm studio.
The rest of our session can be found out on youtube, too.