“Six Guitars” live at Sugar Maple for “Stroboscopic”, Milwaukee, WI.

Wednesday, August 26th.  8PM
Info here:

http://www.myspace.com/sugarmaplebayview

http://www.rhythmplex.com/2009/07/stroboscopic-an-evening-of-guitar-music/

http://www.collectionsofcoloniesofbees.net/6guitars/

Collections of Colonies of Bees
The Dim Suns (featuring members of Compound Red and Signaldrift)
The Celebrated Workingman

Cactus Club
2496 S Wentworth Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207
10pm

It’s official!  The bees are going to Japan!  It looks like we’ll be hitting 5 cities on the great island of the east, and will be joined by the awesome Japanese band Toe for all of the dates.

Bees will be playing Friday, Dec. 19th at the Cactus Club.  Sleep Tight Co. will be opening.  We will also be doing an appearance beforehand on 88nine radio, on the show 414 with Scott Mullins.  We will be interviewed, and will play some little-heard songs as well.

Bees will be doing a small midwestern tour with our good friend Justin Vernon. Here are the dates:

Tuesday, April 8th - St. Louis, MO - Biliken Club
Wednesday, April 9th - Urbana, IL - Canopy Club
Thursday, April 10th - Chicago, IL - Lakeshore Theater
Friday, April 11th - Madison, WI - Orpheum Theatre
Saturday, April 12th - St.Paul, MN - Turf Club

Here is a tour flyer:

Friday, Feb 15th - Milwaukee WI - Cactus Club 10pm
Collections of Colonies of Bees (Birds CD release)
Nineteen Thirteen
Hello Death Goodbye Killers

Sunday, March 2nd - Milwaukee WI - Mad Planet 10pm
w/ Neptune (Radium / Table of the Elements)

Thursday, March 13th - SXSW, Austin, TX - The Hideout - 617 Congress Ave
All Ages - 7:30pm
8:00 Carlos Villarreal
8:45 Jon Mueller
9:30 Melissa St. Pierre
10:00 Collections of Colonies of Bees
11:00 Megafaun
12:00 Northampton Wools (Thurston Moore and Bill Nace)
1:00 Neptune

Friday, March 21st - Chicago IL - AV Aerie
with Mystery Palace (Zod Records)

Saturday, Jan 19th - Milwaukee WI - Mad Planet 8pm
Bon Iver
Collections of Colonies of Bees
Conrad Plymouth
There may be some Birds release celebration shenanigans afterwards… more on that soon.

Thursday, Feb 7th - Madison WI - UW memorial union (800 Langdon St) in the play circle theater 7:30pm
Bees will performing during, and after a screening of the 1968 Ira Cohen film Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda. Expect a very special, and one of a kind experience.

Thanks to everyone who made traveling to the East Coast an awesome time for the bees! It was fantastic beyond words to play with and meet Tony Conrad, Jonathan Kane, Paul Duncan, Mellisa St. Pierre and of course our great friends Megafaun. Please enjoy some pictures taken by Jim Schoenecker of our journey, and an audio collage of our experiences put together by Thomas Wincek that culminates in the Cambridge, MA performances of Mellisa St. Pierre and CoCoB. Have fun! We did.

Here we are with one of our musical heroes; Tony Conrad. Dan Spack is regrettably not pictured, as he was busy building something with his hands:

Jon died:

A man done up in urban war-paint on the subway, staring Jim down:

Megafaun + Bees - Jim + Pretty Lady + Bearded Man = Having fun downtown!:

Read it and weep, he totally did:

Ladies and gentlemen, Dan Spack:

And somehow, we remain among the living (except for Jon):

More pics here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/jschoenecker/COCOBEastCoast2007 

DATE HAS CHANGED, ALL ELSE IS THE SAME. IT’S NOW SAT.
Please join us for a rare, intimate performance from North Carolina’s indescribable Megafaun, fresh from a U.S. tour with Akron/Family
+
Collections of Colonies of Bees performing a new piece: “Six guitars” (with a limited number of special, advance copies of our forthcoming release on Radium/Table of the Elements, ‘BIRDS’, and new *very* limited shirts available).

Saturday, October 27th
10pm

1028 South 5th Street, Milwaukee WI
Look for the sign on the door for specifics when you arrive.

B.Y.O.B.

More information:

MEGAFAUN:
www.myspace.com/megafaun
http://mhayhurst.blogspot.com/2007/06/megafaun.html

COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES:
http://www.collectionsofcoloniesofbees.net
www.myspace.com/collectionsofcoloniesofbees

We have a brief East Coast stint coming up. Please come and check us out if you are in the area. We will have advance copies of the album for sale, along with EXTREMELY limited edition T-shirts.

Nov 3 + 4 Brooklyn, NY - Death By Audio 7pm
79 S. 2nd Street between Wythe + Kent
Collections of Colonies of Bees (Milw., WI)
Jonathan Kane’s February (New York, NY)
TK Webb & the Visions (Brooklyn, NY)
School of Seven Bells (Brooklyn, NY)
Paul Duncan Band (Brooklyn, NY)
Tony Conrad (Buffalo, NY)
Messages (Brooklyn, NY)
Megafaun (Raleigh, NC)
Jon Mueller (Milw., WI)
IUD (Brooklyn, NY)
+Special Guests

Nov 5 Cambridge, MA - Lily Pad 7pm
1353 Cambridge Street
Beautiful Weekend (Boston, MA)
Collections of Colonies of Bees
Melissa St. Pierre

Nov 6 Buffalo, NY - Soundlab
110 Pearl Street