The Positions News

People are all about reasons nowadays. Everyone has to have a good reason for everything. But it didn't used to be that way. Back in the old days, no one needed reasons for anything. You could glue a live weasel on your back, call your nose "the emperor of all Kansas" or wear your clothes inside-out and if anyone asked "Why?" (not that anyone would) you would just say, "Oh...no reason."

But The Positions are a modern band, and we understand your modern craving for reasons. Frankly, we think you should just come to our show at IOTA tomorrow night with Meredith Bragg and Lejeune because it'll be fun and you should stop being so damned reasonable about everything, but if you want reasons, we have a bushel of good ones:

• This is our first show at Iota (which, as a sub-reason, is very conveniently located near the Clarendon Metro station and some of your homes), and not only is it a great place with fantastic sound, but we'd love to get a good showing of folks so we can play there again. If this sounds suspiciously like begging, that's no coincidence.
• Didn't you see the subject?! Meredith Bragg! Playing solo! He's fresh off his US Tour '05, and now you can see him as everyone else around the country did. Reasons don't get much better than that.
• We're going to buckle down and concentrate on writing new material and then getting it recorded, so barring, say, Belle and Sebastian asking us to open for them, we won't be playing again in DC for a good long while. Seriously.

Come on. Be cool. Be reasonable.

(Reprinted with our own permission from the mailing list)