sundance

sundance was dope
had a fabulous time
nice to be in a real cold climate to be reminded of why we live in los angeles...

much much love to the amazing fans who travelled from denver, an 8 hour drive, to see me. i wound up totally changing my planned set cuz it was a slightly raucous club, and that seemed to work, had a great little show and a great great time playing with matty d on bass, marco m on drums, a little jay nash guitar and some katy perry vocals. hanging with the hotel cafe crew is always a party, i'll put up some new pics for you to check out in a minute.

other than that, the hotel was THE BOMB, so thanks to draven & jay & marko for that. and also thanks to brett denney for hooking up a great radio show at kwcr, weber state radio in utah - soon there'll be some video from that when he gets a chance to edit...

it's the day before my birthday

it's the day before my birthday
and i've got a moment to write
so here i am
with a little update
but don't get me a gift, really, it's fine
most of you probably get my emails, if you don't, go to gabrielmann.com and sign up for my list - so this will have some of the same info, some new

the most important issue at hand is that "go up to go down" is gonna be featured in abc's "what about brian" on monday, jan 22, so that's exciting. i'm not sure exactly where/when it happens, but it plays for like a minute and a half, so that's pretty good. hopefully you'll hear it, or even better, hopefully you're reading this cuz you heard it and you never heard of me before but somehow you figured out how to find me. these tv placements are pretty major, it's like radio for the indie artist, and i certainly have had limited radio play, and i certainly am indie, so there you have it. hopefully my shit is blowing up as we speak.

so here i am...

in other news, the new record is killing. i'm so psyched about it, i can't believe it. we've been making it on and off for about a year, & every time we finish a song i'm like "yeah, that rules," and now that we're nearing the end, we've got all these songs which i think are so great, the album is just gonna be killer. i actually just wrote what probably will be the last one, it's called "this feeling," and maybe it's about love, but it's kindof more about knowing that there's some good thing out there that you're waiting for, and you want it to treat you right. it's kind of a song of love's personification, or something.
but i think the best song is going to be either "slow motion" or "just fine with me." but don't listen to me. you be the judge...

i predict a march-ish release. gotta finish everything within the next couple weeks, then get it mixed, mastered, printed, artwork, etc........

and

i'm going to sundance this weekend with the hotel cafe folks, so hopefully i'll have some time thereafter to write more. i'd like to keep the blog going more regularly than once every 8 months or so. we'll see how that goes. oh, and this saturday while at sundance i'm doing a radio show on kwcr, 11a, 88.1 FM, in ogden, utah (weber state university). a.m. and i are going up together, should be good times, great oldies...