great interview with the band in boston. you can get to know all of us better. the girls conducting the interview & taking pictures were so fun

http://www.teapartyboston.com/2009/08/the-mieka-canon/

the band & I did a new music video – it’s for All The Same Mistakes off Elijah Drop Your Gun. it was shot by the wonderful Eric Hurt with help from Johnny St Ours.

here it is, hope you enjoy:

Mieka Pauley – All The Same Mistakes – Music Video by miekapauley

A lot of interesting things have happened to us in the past year or so. We won a few contests, made some money, got hooked up with a great producer, and wrote some great songs. A certain clarity has developed with regard to our identity, as a band. A creative force, resulting from 4 (and sometimes 5) distinct personalities has somehow managed to transcend any one of its singular creative voices, culminating in what has become… Mieka Pauley. Which brings us to the week of South by Southwest, 2009… a chance to find out what happens when (putting lame band bios aside) you throw a handful of seriously neurotic music nerds into a soccer-mom-van and send them across the country to play shows.

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the band and I just got back from charlottesville a couple days ago, where we were shooting the music video for All The Same Mistakes. the director eric hurt just sent me this video still, and I didn’t even recognize myself:

you can check out more pictures from the shoot here.

can’t wait to see the video, eric …

what a fun time last night, the show was amazing, great crowd – just love playing rockwood. my friend sarah versprille was gonna to join me to sing, but unfortunately, a plane in the hudson prevented her from making it in from jerzy (man sarah, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that excuse … ). my other buddy dan torres did make it, and jumped on stage with his voice & a snare drum for the end of the set.

here’s a picture that completely sums up the band dynamic (thank you robbie !!):

Mieka, Brian, Andrew after the show
photo by robbie michaels

you can check out more photos here and here’s a video of a song (Faster) from last night (thank you tony !!):

Faster- Mieka Pauley at Rockwood Music Hall
video by Tony Maceli (whosthebass)

yay ourstage: me, brian, andrew & gabe at cmj: