Have you missed UY?

So we had a lot of fun with this blog last year. It helped us keep in touch with you while we were in the process of writing and putting out a new record. You got to see a few things and hear a few things and it felt like we really connected. Since then a lot of things have changed. There's a new sheriff in town, Obama. The economy has gone to crap and we really felt it when we went to Maui in November to promote the record. We had amazing support from radio stations there as well as the local newspaper, but the gigs were heinous. We've never had such a bad experience as we did there and a large portion of it can be attributed to the economy, as well as other business practices.
We got back from Maui and took a few months off - in order to take a breath after hustling our new record out the door and so people could finish school. It's been a sweet little break and we're now back together trying new ways to spread our music to the world while balancing our familial and financial responsibilities. We also sent our trumpet/vox member off to the mainland, Aaron Eskaran. It'll be really hard to have to same vibe on stage without him, but we wish him the best in his new place on the mainland.
As for what we're doing now, UY is trying to focus our efforts outside of Hawaii as much as possible. We feel like the economy has really tapped the music scene in Hawaii and we've decided to play at fewer bars, spend more time promoting ourselves outside of Hawaii, and take care of our music from a business perspective. There's a lot of the business side of our music that we have greatly neglected. We have decided to tackle all the hurdles necessary in order to get our publishing/licensing taken care of. Think you know someone who would like to help us take care of that? Let us know. Also, once that is taken care of we can finally answer all the people who have approached us to get our music into tv/film/radio/commercials. Once this fundamental part of UY is finally taken care of we feel like we can really start making music take us to where we want to go. It's been a huge stumbling block to us up till now.
On a side note, our CD release shows were EPIC!! We had an amazing show at the LOFT in China Town, Honolulu 18 Oct 2008. The place was packed and we had a great time with great friends. For those of you who missed it, here is Warning Call from the night. Enjoy!
-marc

Maui

Click here to see more pictures from the tour.


Here's an article written in MauiTime.com
Click here to view the article

Maui bound.

Maui should be sweet. We are all staying at Demitri's house tonight because we have to be at the Super Ferry loading zone by 5am. A few details- Demitri made a roast; Mythbusters; Stormchasers; Marc is sleeping on the benches we took out of the Uhaul.



Check out this CD review/article from MauiTime.com.

Help Us Out!

We are in the process of getting our new CD on iTunes. It would be great if you could help us request it!
Here's what to do:
Click here to go to the iTunes feedback page
From there pick "Request an Album"
Type in-
Artist: Upstanding Youth
Album: A Sense of Urgency

Thanks for your help!!


<3 UY

The Loft, Oct 18th!

The loft is located at 115 N Hotel St.
See you there.

Tonight is the Night

CD Release Show Tonight!!



Coffee Talk is located @
3601 Waialae Ave.
Honolulu, HI 96816

They're here...

Well folks, we have come to the end of the music production phase of this record. Now on to the promotion!



For the last week we have premeired these songs on our myspace page:
Bigger Than You or Me
Sing To Me
Flying V
Empty Pockets
Warning Call
Wailing and Gnashing

I just uploaded Detonate, Tell Me Will We, and (drum roll please...) Wailing and Gnashing the REMIX! Tim's brother Kui is an amazing artist and he took the Protools tracks and came up with something you won't want to miss. Go check it out now.

One more time, I'd like to say thanks to those that pre-ordered a copy of A Sense of Urgency, we will be sending them in the mail tomorrow morning.

Okay well I better go, The Office starts in 3 minutes :)