Cheese On Bread was born in a university cafeteria, the bastard child of a post-structuralist education and a rather poor dinner menu. After naming themselves in honor of the West’s most dependable dish, Sara FitzSimmons and Dan Fishback spent the rest of 2002 perfecting their blend of cultural commentary and complete silliness. They quickly saturated the West Philadelphia party circuit with C.O.B. pins; simple economics forced them to cut an EP in Matt Keesan’s bathroom.
Their debut was received with critical approbation. Even so, Dan followed his heart to New York City. He stumbled upon a new home for Cheese On Bread in the city’s prolific anti-folk scene. Sara and Dan soon returned to Matt’s bathroom, revitalized, to record a full-length record.
During the sessions, Sara picked up Kevin Kelly in a bar and quickly put his Ph.D. in music to good use. From Kevin’s bass and banjo to Matt’s plinky toy xylophone, new musical textures kept sneaking into Cheese On Bread’s live show until the two boys became Side Of Fries, an official backing band. Like any good side plate, they were soon augmented by a special sauce: Dibson T. Hoffweiler, a Sidewalk regular, who relieved Dan of his acoustic guitar.
Luv-a-Lot Records released Maybe Maybe Maybe Baby in 2004. By then, Cheese On Bread had grown into a six-piece pop-rock outfit featuring Daoud Tyler-Armeen full-time on drums.
Daoud eventually left the band to finish college. After his successor, Gregg Mervine, left for a financially-viable Klezmer ensemble, Cheese On Bread reconfigured into a quintet for an acclaimed 30-state tour in 2005.
These days, Dan, Dibs, Kevin, Matt and Sara swap instruments like children swapping lunches, bouncing all over the stage with joy, disguising Cheese On Bread’s biting critiques of the modern condition with a sincere exaltation of life.
I decided to post it here because I am really happy with how it turned out. It’s nothing groundbreaking design-wise, but it was so much fun to make because the band has so much personality (and style!!!). Cheese on Bread is an amazing, energetic and mind-blowing band; unfortunately, the band is on an “indefinite hiatus” but you can still enjoy their tunes here.
Fondly,
Crystal
Heirloom Arts Theatre is located at 155 Main St. in Danbury, CT. 06810 It used to be The Empress Ballroom, but they closed. Now, its going to be a new era. Here’s the plan: Movie theatre, bar, live shows. TOTAL RENOVATION. The plan is to begin renovations in May for a June opening. Until then, we need to raise a few bucks to make it all happen. Please check out our FUNDRAISER SHOW with APSE, ARMS AND LEGS, TOMBSTONE MINDS, HOME MOVIES on APRIL 21. Doors at 5, show at 6 or 6:30. ALL AGES, but then we are going to kick out all the 21 and under people after the show and have an after party with DJ’s like PROROCK, and CRANE, and PARTYTIME. They are going to play good stuff, too. Anyways, this kind of line-up pretty much sets the tone for the new place. We are going to be all about getting good bands to play here and showing crazy movies. There will be couches and tables, and drinks. It will be an awesome place to hang out. I’ll let you all know how the renovations are going soon… Until then, we’ll see you on the 21st! Oh, yeah…Just to make it worth your while, we’ll give people who are 21+ a free drink ticket with admission that you can use when we start selling after the show. Ok, Thanks!u
Support the arts and repost this flyer wherever you see fit! It’s great to see great people doing great things. High fives all around.
This weekend has been productive at yes, have some.
Today, we started working on some prototypes for one of the stuffed creatures and we have a lot of work ahead of us. We have to design the patterns (which we’ve never done before! yikes!) We still have yet to set a release date for the Toby Goodshank line, but hopefully in the next week or so, we’ll have a better idea. We’re hoping for early May.
Also today, Andrew finished a prototype for a duffel bag. The real deal is in the works and we should have those up for sale relatively soon as well.
We have a bunch of vintage bags and some vintage clothes to photograph for the Etsy shop, so keep your eyes out for those.
In our professional practice, we will endeavor to:
Learn: Engage in the topic and seek to understand the issue
Think: Make a sustainable mindset second nature
Act: Put our knowledge to use in our daily work
Inform: Share information and build awareness for sustainability
Unite: Spark change through collective strength
Last night we finally had our meeting with Toby Goodshank and the wheels have been set into motion for our next project. You can read more about this project a few posts back. There had been some setbacks, but yes, have some: Toby Goodshank (this is the tentative name for the project) is finally happening. We have yet to decide on the release date, but we’re hoping for sometime in May. Our meeting seemed ambitious and we’re hoping that everything comes together without a hitch. Toby is an unbelievably productive artist, so we don’t imagine the slacking will be on his part!