The Sardine is Night Court’s home away from home, we even wrote a song about it! One of the benefits of being on Recess is we sometimes get added to epic shows like this one (thanks Todd!) We’re all long time fans of Pegboy so this was a dream come true until that drunk asshole from the EpiFat band started acting like a real privileged piece! We actually booked an entire tour around this one show which in hindsight might have not been the greatest idea ever but was still worth it to get to play with these absolute legends.

Canadian indie darlings released their classic album Apologies To The Queen Mary 20 years ago!? I’m not a die hard fan but I think if you were into indie rock at all in the early oughts, in Canada at least, you’d be familiar with Wolf Parade. This band originally came out of the same scene in Victoria that produced Hot Hot Heat but then they relocated to Montreal and became part of the scene that birthed Arcade Fire, talk about being in the right place at the right time… twice! Anyway very nice of them to ask Autogramm to open for them. I’ve never played the Vogue before so check another one off the old bucket list.

A few days after returning from Spain I flew with Night Court down to Texas to play four shows with our BFFs The Dumpies and their labelmates Faulty Cognitions. I first met their singer/guitar player Chris Mason through our mutual friends Needles//Pins when he still lived in Portland. We have gotten to know eachother via messaging on socials over the years so it was really cool to get to see and play with eachothers bands this year. FC are a great live band and all the dudes in the band are super nice. I actually had them in the #2 slot on here but it worked better chronologically to have them in third place. Again tho I don’t really like to pick favourites!

As mentioned Night Court continued our ongoing weird love affair slash never ending tour(y) with Portland OR’s The Dumpies. Along with the Texas dates, we played a couple amazing shows with them in Oregon earlier in the year. We just keep riding eachothers’ coattails to the midtime! We’re in love and don’t care what you think about it Jordan.

I’m sorry I’m just going to go ahead and call this a 10-way tie for fifth between My Dolls, Rad Dog, Gadfly, Worrywart, Fan Club, Paul Rodie, City Mouse, Tranzmitors, Los Jumping Beans, and Big Ethel. There’s so many more I want to mention but it’d probably be ridiculous for me to list every band I played with this year so if I played with your band and you’re not on here I apologize and blame my notoriously bad memory!