Cat Prisoner. Cat Cat Prisoner.

Howdy! After a nice 13 hour nap from our weekend in New York City I am ready to be semi productive! MAJOR Special thanks to Social Hero for getting us the bill at Ace of Clubs and for putting us up for the night!

It’s been no secret that we are preparing to hole ourselves up for a good part of the winter to get into writing. On our way back home from the Big Apple we decided to get a head start on our next single. The video below will give you a taste of the new direction we are heading in. Hope you enjoy it and I wish you the best of luck getting this tastey lick out of your heads in the near future. Ladies and gentlemen, Roman Traffic proudly presents “Cat Prisoner”!

We are not apologetic for this whatsoever,

steve

Stripped Down Show Success! Turbo Grafx 16 Marathon! NYC This Weekend!

Hello Hello. Thanks to everybody who made it to our stripped down show at O’Brien’s! After weeks of rehearsing and rewriting our songs for this show, seeing all of you there really made it pay off. We’re working on getting some video up here so stay tuned for that!

Last weekend we played at Cousin Larry’s in Danbury, CT. Fun show. It was the first time we played our normal set in a while so it was good to rock out. The drive home felt like forever. We (and when I say “we”, I mean “I”) went the wrong way on the highway and had to drive for like 20 miles to get to an exit to turn around. Every mile after that was a struggle. We camped out at my compound out here in central Mass. It still smells like 5 unhygenic dudes in here. When we woke up we got breakfast at Dan’s Diner (Best Dan Breakfast in Town!) and got our oil changed by swindlers! After that, back to the compound for some quality Turbo Grafx male bonding. Alex destroyed us. For someone who gave up games ages ago, he’s still got it when it comes to one of the most obscure consoles of all time. After this rant I’m practicing.

This Saturday we are heading to NYC to play with our homies in Social Hero at the Ace of Clubs! Always a blast hanging out with those guys. So anyone in NYC that missed us on our fall tour with Keep Me Conscious, here’s your chance. We’ll be testing some new stuff on you guys before we go into hibernation for the winter. Oh don’t be sad, we’ll still be playing some shows here and there! The big plan is to get back into the swing of writing. We’ve got some pretty great ideas, but now it’s time to put them all together and make something spectacular. And if we can’t do spectacular, then we’ll just settle for something that passes as mediocre. But we’ll try our best!

Aaaaannnywho, we hope to see you all in New York this weekend. You all get one cheap shot for the Yankees for winning, but one only!

Love you,

steve

“Stripped Down” show tomorrow night at O’Briens Pub in Allston!!!

Yes, the much discussed Roman Traffic Stripped Down show is finally here! We’ve completely revamped our usual set so you can all come to a show where you can actually hear yourselves think! If you are thinking to yourself, “How is this going to work?”, go hear for yourself at our MySpace where we’ve posted “stripped” versions of Acquired Attire and Halls and Butchered Columns. Where did we get the inspiration for such an idea? Right here:

See you sexies at O’Brien’s! Doors are at 9pm!

steve

Happy Halloween!

Hello there! Hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween!

We were fortunate enough this year to celebrate Halloween twice. Last weekend we played at Dodge Street in Salem with KMC and High Tolerance. Man, what a great show. Always good to see a whole crowd rocking Halloween costumes a week before the actual holiday.

Here’s a sick video of the show, filmed by Bob Bowser from Keep Me Conscious and edited by the one and only Matty A!

Come back soon. We’ll be talking about this Friday’s special “Stripped Down” show!

Busy writing! Sort of…

Just got home from a nice full weekend of writing and recording between our practice space and Matt’s up-and-coming home studio. Not really stuff that you could call “new”, but some new renditions of some of our favorite songs from “Calico” and “Three Four”. Even though live and recorded our songs can come across as heavy, we’re finding that they work really well as scaled back, stipped down songs too. If you heard our performance on WZLX a few weeks back, we were really inspired by how a song like “Acquired Attire” came out as a less distorted, waltz-esque feeling song. So we’ve chosen 6 songs from our catalogue and done a similar overhaul on each of them. It’s really surprising how well they are coming together. We’ll be performing them all in this rendition on November 6th at O’Brien’s in Allston. We’ll post more details in the next week or so as the date approaches but we figured we owed everyone an update on what we’ve been doing to keep busy.

Also, check back this week for some details on this Saturday’s gig at Dodge Street Bar & Grille in Salem, MA with Keep Me Concious. If you’re like us and like Halloween so much that you want to celebrate it a week early, this is the show for you. More to come…

steve

Hey Rob B. Wu! Birthday show, for you! Roman Traffic at The Pickled Onion in Beverly Friday Night!

Remember how I promised some news about a surprise show last night? Well here it is! This Friday, October 9th, we will be playing at the Pickled Onion with Keep Me Conscious for drummer Rob Wu’s birthday! We’re stoked to be sharing the stage with them again! Definitely make sure to come by, and pleeease, say hi to Rob when you’re there! He’s really a great guy, but he has a lot of different “looks”. So to help you spot him in the crowd, here’s a reference guide for you! I personally like him best in acid-wash jeans. Happy B Day Rob!

steve
RT

Our Triumphant Return From Dewey Beach!

We have returned from The Dewey Beach Music Conference unscathed! We met some amaaazing people over the weekend and had so much fun that we cried like it was our last day at Summer camp when we were packing up. Oh the funny things that happened…

We arrived at Dewey Beach Friday morning at 6am and Evan and I watched the sunrise on the beach like an elderly couple. We cursed at the birds and dog walkers that passed by. We tried waking the others in the van by blasting “Invisible Touch” by Genesis, but it was no use. If that won’t wake them, nothing will. Alex and Matt did manage to watch the sunset later on but it was skewed by a band of 8 year olds covering Olivia Newton John.

After our gig later that night, Ben and I met a couple of awesome girls from Pennsylvania who brought all of us to a condo where we sang Pat Benetar and AC/DC covers with a live band performing in a living room. In the morning, pictures surfaced of me wearing a bright orange furry hat. I think it was made from the scalp of a Dr. Seusse creature. I wept.

Saturday we had nothing to do except hang out and catch some music industry expert panels (Education!). Alex took notes! So after all that we cut loose and watched a ton of sick bands all night. Evan missed out on a bunch of stuff because he “feels like shit after eating so much sea life”. He claims his night was fulfilled by watching a Married With Children marathon in the hotel. Got to admit, it does sound pretty awesome. Matt and I got a little out of control watching The States (our boys from New York) set. He threw me about 10 feet, causing my full drink fly all over everyone behind me. I provoked it I suppose. I pushed him into the butt of a cougar who was attempting to grind on him. Needless to say, we had a hard time making eye contact with strangers for a few hours after that mess.

Sunday, we left Delaware at about 10am and had a pretty smooth ride home. That is until on highway 84 where we witnessed a 3 car accident of epic proportions directly in front of us. We pulled over and carried a bus full of sick children off of a burning bus before it exploded. The nuns tried to thank us and wanted to know our names, but we declined. We don’t need that kind of publicity. We trash hotels, shake up every city we play, and put Satanic messages on our records to corrupt your children. If word got out of what we did, we would lose all that in an instant. Next thing you know, we are opening for The Wiggles next world tour. Nope. No way. Not going to happen.

So anyways, I was going to tell you all about the gig we have Friday night but that’s going to have to wait until tomorrow. For now though, check out some pics that are surfacing from our weekend on our Flickr page! Boo ya! Special thanks to Danielle for the pics!

steve

Dewey Beach Music Conference This Weekend

Hey All!

We’re leaving tonight for our second appearance at the Dewey Beach Music Conference in Dewey Beach, Delaware! We’ll be playing Friday night at 9:40 PM on the Bottle and Cork Main Stage. We had so much fun last year, met a bunch of really cool people who we hope to hook up with again. This year is represented well, with our friends The Lights Out, The States and Planeside all rocking with us!

We should have plenty of ridiculous stories to tell when we get home, so stay tuned. Here is the website for the conference, so check it out!

http://www.deweybeachfest.com/dbmc/

See you in a few days!
Evan

Three Four

We’ll see you tonight at TT’s for The Lights Out CD release of “Color Machine”!

Download the new tracks from “Three Four” right here! You can pay whatever you want, or pay nothing at all. This widget gives you the ability to download the songs for free, so long as you tell five friends about Roman Traffic. All we want is for you to have the songs and for new people to hear it!

Them Roman Traffic boys are at it again! Friday, September 25th at TT the Bear’s Place!

Stop watching the Heroes season premiere and read this. What’s that? You don’t watch Heroes? Good for you! You are an upstanding citizen with a brain!

For those of you that missed our last Boston gig (we have your names on a list) we are back from our tour and giving you another chance this Friday at TT the Bear’s Place this Friday! Do not wind up on the other list! We are supporting our good friends, The Lights Out, for their CD Release with Boston heroes (not the TV show) Township and Reverse! We’re on at 9pm so don’t give us your Sally-Face excuses! You can get tickets at the door, or you can be a big boy and purchase them in advance by clicking the link below:

THIS ONE!! CLICK ME!!

See you Friday!

Sorry for being such a jerk tonight. Especially to you Heroes fans. House premeired tonight too. Let’s make fun of those people next time. Together.

steve