Let's Rock Cancer!

We had a might-fine time in Port Washington earlier this month. Good to see all the familiar faces who made the drive--Mike and his wife from Belgium, WI (i'm sorry I can't remember her name!), Jason, Angie, and Matt from Milwaukee, and everyone else who came out to party with Noise Pollution. There was something odd about that night at Foxys though. For whatever reason, people didn't seem to want to "rock and roll all night". I suspect many had been "partying [all] day". Or maybe there was that much stuff going on around the Port Washington area that folks were making stops and then moving on to other venues? I dunno. Overall we had a good crowd, it just had a lot of turnover is all.

Up next Noise Pollution is playing a very important show. August 11th we'll be at Bindelli's Safari in Kenosha for the Susan Pataska Benefit. Susan is fighting a battle with breast cancer which has progressed very quickly. As one can imagine, the bills are piling up faster than she can handle them--even with her health insurance. So friends of Susan's have gotten together and organized a great Saturday afternoon benefit complete with food, drinks, raffles, silent auctions, and of course live music with Noise Pollution.

Everyone knows someone who's either fought cancer or had a family member fighting cancer. It's sad, really. And there are lots of great money-raising events for cancer research like the annual "Relay for Life" in communities all over the country. I know locally the Relays are this weekend. If you're not walking in a relay, make sure to make a donation. And if you are a relay participant, that's awesome! I've already committed my donation...have you?

Hopefully, someday, we'll have a real cure for cancer. Until then, we have Relays for Life and the American Cancer Society and other organizations who are making the daily fight against cancer. Noise Pollution is happy to do our little part for this one person who's struggling with the disease right now. Come on out to Bindelli's Safari on August 11th, and let's Rock Cancer!

hope to see you on 8/11/07!

Summerfest ROCKED!

Hey Hey Hey!

Big thanks to everyone who came out to the Rock Stage at Summerfest on Friday, July 6th! We didn't know what to expect since we were performing at 1pm on a Friday...but we were blown away! In the three years that we've been performing as Noise Pollution, we've never seen so many of our TShirts in a crowd! It was awesome and we truly appreciate all the support!

There were lots of people in the crowd--all ages. Kids, adults, moms and dads, grandparents. It was awesome!

We've all been in bands off and on over the last 20-30 years, and none of us in Noise Pollution has ever been fortunate or lucky enough to have been in a band that was invited to play at Summerfest...until this year!

It was really an honor and a privilege to be able to perform for everyone who came through.

Coolest thing...from the stage we were able to see people walking into the Rock Stage area. Sometimes it'd be just one guy, other times it'd be a a group of people. Didn't matter, cuz every time the reaction was the same...

They walk in with their back to the stage, one guy looks over his shoulder to see who's playing right now, and then he'd take another look and we'd see his face light up! If he was with anyone else, we could read his lips, "check these f***in' guys out!" Then his buddy would look, and someone would whip out a camera phone and start taking pictures! What's great is that once people would catch a glimpse of us, it seemed as though they wouldn't leave! I can only imagine what it must be like, walking around the Summerfest grounds looking at bands all over the place, and then you wander into the Rock Stage area and see a bunch of guys decked out like Angus, Slash, Tommy, Nikki, and Ozzy. I'd probably get out my camera phone too!

We have to thank the Rock Stage crew for taking good care of us and making sure we sounded great. We have to thank our crew for sharing the day with us: Kevin, Darren, Joel, Mary, and Nichole. We have to thank our agent Louie Higgins at ACA Entertainment for getting us this dream-come-true gig. And of course, we have to thank everyone who took the day off of work to come out to Summerfest and Rock with Noise Pollution!

Now if you saw us at Summerfest and had a good time, just imagine how much fun you'll have if you come out this weekend to see us in a full-on club show at Foxy's in Port Washington! It'll blow your mind! Hope to see you Saturday in Port Washington!