Jonny "Radio Shack" Bylsma (photo: Faithdesired)

“The first band, Rain the Shining, is a band from Baltimore with a great sound… keys, guitars… nice! And their guitarist was awesome!”

- A quote from a new friend of the band’s Flickr Page describing her first RtS encounter on Aug. 22nd.

Lucky for us, our new friend, Shantel was also kind enough to take some great pics from the evening. These pictures may be the most professional looking pictures ever taken of the band. (Sorry Jenn…)

Unfortunately for me, when Shantel compliments our “awesome” guitar player, the guitar player she is referring to is of course Jonny “Radio Shack” Bylsma (pictured to the right), and not me. But it’s true, once again Jonny’s nimble baby carrot fingers and fire hazardous pedal farm produced some sonic awesomeness to our already awesomely-sonic set. Though Jonny’s loose guitar explorations brought people to tears…or at least deafness, the band as a whole rocked the stage at Baltimore’s Ottobar. (Remember Jonny, there is no “I” in Rain the Shining.)

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Last week, completely out of the blue, we got a message from the Ottobar asking us if we were interested in playing a show on August 22nd. Of course I was SUPER excited because I love the Ottobar—not to mention the fact that’s it’s been a WHILE since we’ve last played. What makes this show even cooler is the fact that we’re playing with an amazing Smiths/Morrissey tribute band called Girlfriend in a Coma, which for us is great because we dig the Smiths and Morrissey, so it’s going to be a night of good times all around.

Here’s the info on the show: August 22nd (Friday), @ the Ottobar, All Ages, doors open @ 9pm!!!

We’re going on @ exactly 9:30pm, which gives everyone time to get out of work and head down to the Ottobar. We really hope we see a lot of friendly faces in the crowd. Check out the “SHOWS” section on the right for more. There’s a flier to promote the show, save it and print it out to hand out to your friends, famliy, co-workers, and even random people you run into.

-Mike