May 21 & 22 / Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan

Last year we finished out the tour playing in Brooklyn and it was easily the highlight of the trip. We wandered Bushwick looking for a place to eat and ran into Steve from Cheif Magazine and the Brooklyn Bodega venue. Not having ever heard of us and having only met us for maybe 10 minutes, Steve gave us a show 2 hours before the show that brought us to Brooklyn. We played with Titus Andronicus and Anamanaguchi and then the folks in the audience helped pick up our crap and walk it down the block to Goodbye Blue Monday where we played it all over again. Couldn't have gone better.

One year later, we've booked two shows in New York. Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. Aside from being eager to play in New York again, we couldn't wait to experience the city a little deeper this time around.

To kick off the visit, we set up camp at a pizzeria in Bushwick and in a matter of minutes, we were reunited with Steve. Apparently Steve is working on a novel right now in which a band loosely based on Metavari are among its characters. That's scary. Scary and hilarious. I think we love Steve more than NYC itself. Below are a handful of photos from the two days we spent there. Discovering amazing food, hauling the van through Times Square, climbing up onto the roof of the apartment we stayed in, and taking audio recordings of the sounds of the street.