The Taxpayers

CAT BAT PRINCESS

Well, Richmond Elementary had it’s last day of classes today. It’s kind of both scary, sad, and exciting when that happens, for both the teachers and the students, because yeah, you’re getting out for the summer (!), but you’re also turning a page…you’re never going to see the same group of kids in the same capacity ever again, and…well, what the hell are you gonna do now?! We had a talent show with the preschoolers and kindergarteners - the talents were things like “running”, “hopping”, “fake sleeping”, “burping”, and “light saber fighting”, and each of the talents were accompanied by one of the teachers playing a piano jingle while the kids hopped around on stage. One of the boys came up to me at the end of the day with cardboard wings on, lipstick all over his face, and started yelling “ROB!!! I AM CAT BAT PRINCESS! I AM CAT BAT PRINCESS!!!!” while flapping his wings. He then turned around and ran out the front doors of the school, no longer a student, but rather a deranged creature of the summer night.

On the evening prior to our 8th national tour, I keep thinking about Cat Bat Princess - wings flapping against all odds, lipstick defiantly smeared all over his face. This tour is sort of bittersweet - it’ll be the last one for a while. Kevin’s moving to New Orleans for a year, I’m going off to grad school to get my teacher’s license, and while we’ll continue doing the Taxpayers, there’ll be less tours for the next 2 years or so. We’re so incredibly lucky to have discovered DIY music, and to have made all the incredible friends all across the damn country that we have, that I’m not even all that sad about it, just excited to become another deranged creature of the summer night. Like Cat Bat Princess.

I’m searching for the lipstick as we speak.

CAT BAT PRINCESS TOUR

(subtitled: Punk’s Not Dead, It’s Locked in my Basement Eating Fish Heads Tour)

JUNE TOUR:
June 15: Tacoma, WA @ The Red Room (2313 S. Tacoma ave) All ages! We play at 9pm! w/ The Fun Police
June 16: Cheney, WA @ 601 Clay St w/ Harpo, Wombo Combo, and others! (6:30PM SHARP!!)
June 17: Missoula, MT @ the ZACC Basement ( 235 N. 1st St. West) w/ Buffler, Tyson Ballew, Harpo, and The Scribblers (link)
June 18: Day Off
June 19: Minneapolis, MN @ Psychic School - 2440 Lyndale Ave S w/ Destroy Nate Allen, The Scurvies, Apathedicks, Crimes (ex Paper Cup Band!) (link)
June 20: Minneapolis, MN @ Hymie’s Vintage Records w/ the FUCKING Annadale Cardinals!!!! (link)
June 21: Minneapolis, MN - @ The Krondstadt (ask a punk!) 9 PM SHARP! music over by 10pm w/ Bouncer Fighter
June 22: Milwaukee, WI - Anthony Pointer Benefit @ Cream City Collectives w/ Harpo, State of Nature, Temple, and Borderline Human (link)
June 23: Chicago, IL @ Pancho’s w/ BUST!, Street Eaters, This Is My Fist, and Mean Mug (link) 18+ boo.
June 24: Bloomington, IN @ Plan-It-X Fest (link)
June 25: Bloomington, IN @ Plan-It-X Fest
June 26: Bloomington, IN @ Plan-It-X Fest (WE PLAY!)
June 27: Belleville, IL (near St Louis, MO) @ Illegal Tone Recordings (8 South Church St) w/ Family Might. 16+ or accompanied by a person 18+
June 28: Lincoln, NE @ Mad Ave (2800 N 48th st) 7PM w/ Scratch Howl, Gutterbal, and Minkus (link)
June 29: Fort Collins, CO @ Old Fort Collins Airport Terminal (2200 Airway Ave) w/ Sour Boy Bitter Girl and Dead Dogs (10 pm!)
June 30: SLC, UT @ BOING! w/ Fuck Yes!!!, Society Mis-call, and Cuddleslut.
July 1: Reno, NV @ TBA
July 2: Oakland, CA @ TBA
July 3: Eugene, OR @ TBA w/ Hi Ho Silver, Away! and Quick Attack

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