Our Friends Bully In The Hallway Train For This Friday Night at Metro (Chicago, IL)

We're headed up to Wisconsin this weekend for shows in Milwaukee and Green Bay which means we're gonna miss our buds from Bully in the Hallway performing at the Metro...bummer.

Saw this video they posted and now I'm extra excited for all you Chicagoans who'll be there.



Looks like bi's, tri's and glutes are all prepped which usually = a pull out all the stops kind of rock show.

You can see why I'm bummed to miss it...make sure you don't.

Bully in the Hallway tomorrow night!
Friday May 6th at the Metro

Cobalt and The Hired Guns
Bully in the Hallway
Kelsey Montanez

18+ 9pm - $9 @ the door
Check out Bully's official's site for ways to save money on tickets.

GRACIAS! GRACIAS! GRACIAS!

To all of you who came out, braved the post snow-pacolytipc world, fought for parking and seats on the public transportation and trudged through the sometimes yellow snow to join us for the release of our new record, Pound. this past Friday night at Subterranean in Chicago......... THANK YOU!

It means so much to us to be able to share that with you.  For us the night felt like the kind of party that you hope will never end.

Right off the bat The Rails had us all singing and doing our best attempts at M.J. dance moves backstage.  We were all blown away by Michael Pineada's pipes!

Bully in The Hallway....well there really isn't enough good things I can say about them.  Not only are they all really cool people, but they put on a hell of a show.  There's this kind of unruly energy that is so refreshing about them.  I was so stoked they could be on the bill.  It's been way too long since we've done a show together!

Here's some pictures and a few more thank you's to recap the night!  For some of you, this might help put some of the blurrier spots back together :) 

Thank you Bethany Thomas!

Thank You to Our Fantastic Horn Players (Ethan, Alex and Eric)

Thank You to Arman Fathi For Sitting Like Adam and Tinkling Those Keys

What's next?  

Well, for all you fans of digital downloads, our new record, Pound, just went up for sale on our Bandcamp site, right HERE.

It should be up on other digital sources like I-tunes, Napster and Rhapsody very shortly!

For you physical album lovers, you can now purchase a hard-copy of the record on CD Baby by clicking HERE!

The good times are just beginning, stay tuned for more hot and steamy updates!

WE LOVE YOU!

We Ready...We Ready... Weeeeee Ready... For Yall....

Tonight's the night!!!  Kick mother nature in the balls, and come join us at Subterranean (2011 West North Ave.) for our record release party!

Verona Red (http://www.myspace.com/veronared)
Bully in The Hallway (http://www.myspace.com/bullyinthehallway)
The Rails (http://www.myspace.com/therailschicago)

Doors at 9:00 PM
17+ Show
$10
Visit (www.subt.net) for advanced tickets (Recommended!)

We are so excited to share this new music with you!

Here's some of what Reviewsic (a super-cool blog) had to say in their review of the new record, Pound yesterday.

• The infectious EP is chock full of rollicking tunes that make us want to shimmy, shake, jump, jive and create a general ruckus.
• Pound caught our attention in the first five seconds of its opening track and continued to hold on to it through the very end.
• We’d gamble our entire savings account on this band putting on an awesome live show.

Thanks Reviewsic!

To read more of the review, AND to read Verona Red's 12-question interview with Reviewsic, click HERE.

Well you don't need to bring your life savings... just enough to get in, plus your ears and your dancing shoes! We've been waiting for this night for the last 7 months, I can hardly contain myself... might want to bring a poncho!

See you tonight!

Snowmaggedon Stealing Our Thunder? & Verona Red Live On Fearless Radio Tomorrow!

Governor Pat Quinn declares the entire state of Illinois a "weather disaster"?!

WTF weather!?  What the hell is a snowmageddon?

Where do you get off trying to rock the city right before our record release?!?!?   It's like "oh hey there goes that old man winter again.. getting all up in my face trying to prove himself, pounding our city with his 20 inch snowboner"

I can only assume that mother nature feels threatened.  Or perhaps the gods are unhappy about the unruly degree of rockage that we're about to unload on the city of Chicago this Friday night at Subterranean with our friends Bully In The Hallway and The Rails.

I've spoken of similar kinds of rock and roll apocalypse surrounding our shows in the past... however it seems this time it may be serious.... anyway if there is a tomorrow I've got good news for you....

We're going to be live on-air at Fearless Radio during the Hank and Cat morning show at 10 AM.  Here's the link to listen.  We're really excited to hang out with the folks from Fearless and are keeping our fingers crossed that we don't get blown out into the lake on our way there.

Finally, thank you to everyone who voted for us in the Deli's Emerging Artist of The Year poll.  We finished 8 out of 37 nominees.  Although we didn't win in quantity of votes I do believe we certainly won in quality of votes.  You guys are the best, thanks!

Check out the results here!

UPDATE: Due to impending snowpocolypse Verona Red's on-air appearance at Fearless Radio originally scheduled for tomorrow morning has been postponed to a later date...looks like round one goes to you old man winter dong.

RECORD RELEASE SHOW - FEB. 4, 2011!

3 months of bloody fingers, broken drum heads, and just about the hardest damn playing we've ever recorded is almost ready for your ears.

Our new 7-song EP Pound will be released on Friday, February 4, 2011 at Subterranean in Chicago. (2011 West North Ave.)

We're suggesting two pairs of underwear.

Verona Red (http://www.myspace.com/veronared)
Bully in The Hallway (www.myspace.com/bullyinthehallway)
The Rails (http://www.myspace.com/therailschicago)

Doors at 9:00 PM
17+ Show
$10

Visit (www.subt.net) for advanced tickets (Recommended!)
Pre-sale starts Jan. 8 at 10 A.M. CST


Facebook event link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173245712711825&num_event_invites=0#!/event.php?eid=173245712711825


Please also take a moment to check our Kickstarter page to learn how you could help fund our new record.  We'd love your support, and have plenty of goodies for those who offer it!  Even a $5 donation helps! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/veronared/verona-reds-new-7-song-ep

Reggie's Rock Club (Chicago, IL) 8/21/2009

This was a benefit show for the Autism Research Institute put on my good man Agile Roy. Good guy, good cause, good times.

This was also our first time at Reggie’s. It had everything a skuzzy band could ever want.

Shower

Washer and Dryer

Dick In The Butt?

See more bathroom art here (_____)

Anyway, when we got there we heard a band playing tunes in the front bar that sounded strangely familiar. It was our good friends in Bully in the Hallway (http://www.myspace.com/bullyinthehallway).

These guys are cool dudes, they have an Edmund Fitzgerlad party every year, I had the pleasure of attending last year, got shit faced and made an ass of myself…par for the course, except this time I got to listen to Gordon Lightfoot on repeat.

Was cool to chill out with them a bit unexpectedly.

Then we ate burgers and got sleepy.

Then we rock and rolled

Then we hit up the town

 Thats how you charm a lady...