The Parish

176 The Parish <div id="WebPartWPQ2" class="ms-WPBody"><div>The Parish room is one of the key stops for any visitor to Austin. Housing arguably the best indoor sound in all of Texas, The Parish has attracted some of the best acts in the independent music scene, as well as rock legends. Most recently, The Parish was the infamous SXSW venue that hosted the a la carte jam including Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction), Pete Townshend (Who), Les Claypool (Primus) and Slash (Guns n Roses). For future shows and festival events, check out the Parish calendar. </div><div>  </div><div>The Parish room is also a key spot for all your special event needs. Whether it’s a private business party, a product launch, birthday, wedding, or anything else you can imagine, The Parish room is the top spot in Austin for anything that you need. Custom menus, AV set ups and meeting facilities are just a small percentage of what we can make available for anyone looking for a venue in the heart of downtown Austin. Just minutes from the Austin Convention Center, and situated next to the famous Driskill Hotel, The Parish caters to locals and Austin visitors alike.</div></div>www.myspace.com/theparishroom www.theparishroom.com http://do512.com/venue/the-parish http://do512.com/venue/the-parish.xml

214 E 6th St

Austin TX 78701 theparish http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/129129/1_poster.png http://www.theparishroom.com 106125 Ring The Alarm w/ Jah Mighty, DJ Baby G & Jr. Vibes http://do512.com/event/2009/11/07/ring-the-alarm-w-jah-mighty-dj-baby-g-jr-vibes http://do512.com/event/2009/11/07/ring-the-alarm-w-jah-mighty-dj-baby-g-jr-vibes.xml Saturday 11/07/09 20091108T040000Z/20091108T040000Z false 0 10.0 10:00 PM Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:00:00 -0600 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:00:00 -0600 0 SAT The Parish

89786 Austin City Life: Church in the City for the City <div>Austin City Life is a diverse, Christ-centered, city-focused church that gathers Sundays @ 10am at The Parish. All are welcome! </div> http://do512.com/event/weekly/sun/austin-city-life-church-in-the-city-for-the-city http://do512.com/event/weekly/sun/austin-city-life-church-in-the-city-for-the-city.xml Sunday 11/08/09 20091108T160000Z/20091108T160000Z false 0 4.0 10:00 AM Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0600 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0600 5 SUN 03/24/2010 The Parish

106126 Neil Armstrong w/ DJ Mel http://do512.com/event/2009/11/10/neil-armstrong-w-dj-mel http://do512.com/event/2009/11/10/neil-armstrong-w-dj-mel.xml Tuesday 11/10/09 20091111T040000Z/20091111T040000Z false 0 10.0 10:00 PM Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:00:00 -0600 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:00:00 -0600 0 TUE http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/302607/m_3d3c22dd189da8a775f846d848503532_sq_90.jpg The Parish

101150 Elvis Perkins w/ AA Bondy http://do512.com/event/2009/11/13/elvis-perkins-w-aa-bondy http://do512.com/event/2009/11/13/elvis-perkins-w-aa-bondy.xml Friday 11/13/09 20091114T020000Z/20091114T020000Z false 0 35.0 08:00 PM Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0600 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0600 16 FRI http://c3presents.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=35168&eid=41459 http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/181005/m_8e328a150f4e444fbffb2825f0f597d1_sq_90.jpg The Parish http://c3presents.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=35168&eid=41459

95591 My Empty Phantom, Fiction, & My Education + DJ Mos Jef <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">The last Fiction Show ever!! http://do512.com/event/2009/11/14/navdo-presents-my-empty-phantom-fiction-my-education http://do512.com/event/2009/11/14/navdo-presents-my-empty-phantom-fiction-my-education.xml Saturday 11/14/09 20091115T030000Z/20091115T030000Z false 0 34.0 09:00 PM Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:00:00 -0600 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:00:00 -0600 10 SAT http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/298329/20091114.gif_sq_90.png The Parish http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/298329/20091114.gif.png 104855 Switchfoot http://do512.com/event/2009/11/18/switchfoot http://do512.com/event/2009/11/18/switchfoot.xml Wednesday 11/18/09 20091119T020000Z/20091119T020000Z false 0 12.0 08:00 PM Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0600 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0600 2 WED http://c3presents.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=36674&eid=43052 http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/72175/7_sq_90.png The Parish http://c3presents.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=36674&eid=43052

103955 Spoiled Royals, Katsuk, and PAUL RENNA! What an eclectic night of music in Austin, Texas Friday 11/20 when Spoiled Royals, Katsuk, and Paul Renna bring their music to the 2nd floor stage of the upscale PARISH on East 6th Street in the heart of Austin's entertainment district. Spoiled Royals (featuring former members of Steamroller) get the night started with their rapid fire blues/rockabilly/punk rock set, followed by a world music influenced set from Katsuk (formerly of Spoonfed Tribe). Late night don't miss the soul shaking set by Paul Renna with his full band from Dallas in tow. Show up early and take it all in! Tickets available at the door. http://do512.com/event/2009/11/20/spoiled-royals-live-at-the-parish http://do512.com/event/2009/11/20/spoiled-royals-live-at-the-parish.xml Friday 11/20/09 20091121T030000Z/20091121T030000Z false 0 15.0 09:00 PM Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:00 -0600 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:00 -0600 5 FRI http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/291681/cwvDm9asA3Lw9atmAbl5etGTDg_sq_90.jpg The Parish http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/291681/cwvDm9asA3Lw9atmAbl5etGTDg.jpg 105066 FunkFest IV FunkyBatz Presents FunkFest IV.  One night only, Sat 11/21/09 @ The Parish.  It doesn't get better than this!!   Garage A Trios - a collaboration between four of the most visionary improvisers of the time: Skerik on sax, Mike Dillon on vibes, Marco Benevento on key's & Stanton Moore on drums. Their CD "Power Patriot" will be available on line & in stores 10/27/09.  Stanton Moore Trio - Stanton Moore on drums, Robert Walter on organ and Will Bernard on guitar. This trio continues to produce notably one of the best live music performances you will experience.  We will be Groovin All Nite!!! http://do512.com/event/2009/11/21/funkfest-iv http://do512.com/event/2009/11/21/funkfest-iv.xml Saturday 11/21/09 20091122T030000Z/20091122T030000Z false 0 13.0 09:00 PM Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:00:00 -0600 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:00:00 -0600 3 SAT http://www.funkybatz.com http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/297207/FunkFest_IV_Final_Artwork_sq_90.jpg The Parish http://www.funkybatz.com http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/297207/FunkFest_IV_Final_Artwork.jpg 106021 Peligrosa w/ Hobo D, Orion, & Manolo Black http://do512.com/event/2009/11/27/peligrosa-w-hobo-d-orion-manolo-black http://do512.com/event/2009/11/27/peligrosa-w-hobo-d-orion-manolo-black.xml Friday 11/27/09 20091128T040000Z/20091128T040000Z false 0 17.0 10:00 PM Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:00:00 -0600 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:00:00 -0600 2 FRI http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/220602/m_73ab8c86e4bd46299347b32804cf0634_sq_90.jpg The Parish

105612 Dreamtime Productions Proudly Presents: EOTO w/ToasT...Live ART The Parish Room. DeamtimePros. Synaesthesiax Lighting. Dancing to give Thanks. Live Art, From The Heart. <a href="http://dreamtimepro.com/" target="_blank">http://dreamtimepro.com</a> ~EOTO~ Jason Hann & Michael Travis (SCI) LIVE DUB-STEP!, LIVE ELECTRO!, LIVE HOUSE!, LIVE BREAK-BEAT! All Improvised!!! ((((Nothing Pre-Recorded.))))  Intelligent Dance Music, Original Dance Music: For the mind, the booty, & the feet... gonna make you move. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/eotomusic" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/eotomusic</a> ToasT ATX: Experimental~((((Funk))))~ Some hometown love. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/toastband" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/toastband</a> All Ages show.  $12 pre-sale $15 Under 21 pre-sale you can also buy tix at the door. Art Attack of Love. Life Loving Back Rubs By Caitlin Rowe!!  Donations Welcomed! Perhaps more Flowers, Crystals and O-Pyramids to come, what do you guys think?  Live Painters:Pharo, Katie, Blake, Maybe Omar and Todd too. Perhaps a DJ set or two by Pharo and Blake!!! Amazing Lights by the one and only <a href="http://www.myspace.com/synaesthesiax" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/synaesthesiax</a> http://do512.com/event/2009/11/28/dreamtime-productions-proudly-presents-eoto-w-toast http://do512.com/event/2009/11/28/dreamtime-productions-proudly-presents-eoto-w-toast.xml Saturday 11/28/09 20091129T033000Z/20091129T033000Z false 0 22.0 09:30 PM Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:30:00 -0600 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:30:00 -0600 12 SAT http://theparishroom.inticketing.com/events/58060/EOTO http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/300783/sti_sq_90.jpg The Parish http://theparishroom.inticketing.com/events/58060/EOTO http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/300783/sti.jpg 105530 DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE (incl. Dave & Gillian Welch) 12.13 and 12.14 All Ages show, $20 cover DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE A FRIEND OF A FRIEND A Friend of a Friend is the first record by Dave Rawlings, the guitarist, producer, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Gillian Welch and Old Crow Medicine Show.  These long time compatriots join Rawlings on this record beside newer friends Benmont Tench from the Heartbreakers, Karl Himmel, and Nate Walcott of Bright Eyes.  The notion of recording as Dave Rawlings Machine began in 2007.  “I had a few older songs that I had written with other artists that I wanted to record myself.  Then the last year or so Gillian and I spent a good deal of time in Los Angeles, hanging out with a new group of musicians and songwriters.  This inspired a number of songs that seemed to complete the picture.  So we started recording.  It was as much of a surprise to me as it was to anybody.” Of the nine songs on the playlist, Rawlings wrote seven.  The other two are “The Monkey and the Engineer,” a country blues by Jesse Fuller, who died in 1976, and a medley consisting of “Method Acting,” by Conor Oberst, and “Cortez the Killer,” by Neil Young.  Rawlings learned “Method Acting” two years ago while playing guitar on a Bright Eyes tour.  “I played ‘Method Acting’ every night on that tour,” Rawlings says, “and it sort of sank into my awareness in a very deep way.  ‘Cortez the Killer’ is a song I heard long before I ever played guitar and it changed the way I heard music." “Ruby” is a plaintive recitation of love for a woman whose affections are remote and self-engaged.  “Sweet Tooth,” sung by Welch and Rawlings in their more customary style---two voices, two guitars sparely arranged---is an ironic and wry description of the bittersweet allure of addiction, and the obsessive pleasures and despairs revolving around the satisfaction of a powerful need.  “It’s Too Easy” has a narrator blithely content with the simplest indulgences and baffled by why anyone would lift a finger for more.  “I Hear Them All,” which was first recorded by Old Crow Medicine Show, is a solemn tribute to the under-equipped, the lost and lonely, the left behind, and overlooked, and a condemnation of the outrages that the powerful practice against the weak.  “To Be Young,” a kind of half-apology, half-screed both justifying and rebuking imperfect behavior, was written with Ryan Adams.  Rawlings’s version features his banjo playing.  “How’s About You” is a rueful, Depression-tinged monologue reflecting on hard times, past and present.  The record concludes with “Bells of Harlem,” which has an eerie, spell-like quality.  It is the sort of simple, classic-sounding melody that one can imagine being sung by Louis Armstrong or being used as a soundtrack for a David Lynch film.  A mesmeric coda, played by strings, trails off at the end like lights rising in a dark theater.  Making A Friend of a Friend, Rawlings discovered that different considerations applied when recording himself singing melody instead of harmony.  “When I listen to a Gillian record there’s a particular place and feeling in it that has an awful lot to do with the sound of her voice,” Rawlings says.  “A lot of things change from track to track, but that has always been the constant.  And a lot of the arrangements we’d worked out over the years---the way we put chords, the way we sing together---I was shocked at how little they worked for my voice or my record.  We had learned to make records in a particular way because we were always framing her voice, which is this large, takes-up-a-lot-of-space, very intimate, very good sounding thing, a beautiful tone, so you can frame it in a skeletal way.  It almost seems to me that the less you put on her records, the more powerful they are, but when we started working that way with my voice, which is so different, it turned out that nothing from that approach was valid, so we had to find different sounds and treatments that we were happy with.  I was really surprised when we started that we were in territory as uncharted as we were.  We broke new ground from necessity.”  Spontaneity was an important part of the recording. “I've learned over time that as a lead singer, I do my best singing live and on early takes, so it was essential that we capture the band quickly and in an organic way.  So when we stood in a circle to rehearse the first song I thought, ‘Well, I guess we better put a mic in the center and be done with it.’  It tied my hands as far as mixing the vocals went, but it helped us capture something in the air.  I knew that Gillian and I would be at the core of the recordings, but I became interested in a particular acoustic sound with more vocal parts that I knew the Crows could conjure up.  Karl, Benmont and Nate were the icing on the cake.”  A Friend of a Friend has more lavish arrangements than songs from the Gillian Welch catalog typically do.  They are more boisterous, but they are built on the same careful spine that Welch songs are.  Rawlings’s sly and succinct guitar playing is embedded within ensemble play as opposed to carrying the bulk of the arrangement.  The songs are exuberant, sturdy, and carefully constructed, but they also reverberate poetically.  The music on A Friend of a Friend is cousin to the deftly modern and haunting music that Welch and Rawlings are known for, but it has here been expanded; the crowd is larger, the party more robust, but the room is the same room.  http://do512.com/event/2009/12/13/dave-rawlings-machine-incl-dave-gillian-welch http://do512.com/event/2009/12/13/dave-rawlings-machine-incl-dave-gillian-welch.xml Sunday 12/13/09 20091214T020000Z/20091214T020000Z false 0 14.0 08:00 PM Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:00:00 -0600 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:00:00 -0600 4 SUN http://theparishroom.inticketing.com/events/57981/DAVE-RAWLINGS-MACHINE http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/300141/daveraw_cover_select_sq_90.jpg The Parish http://theparishroom.inticketing.com/events/57981/DAVE-RAWLINGS-MACHINE http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/300141/daveraw_cover_select.jpg 105475 DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE (incl. Dave & Gillian Welch) 12.13 and 12.14 all ages show, $20 cover, on sale now! DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE A FRIEND OF A FRIEND A Friend of a Friend is the first record by Dave Rawlings, the guitarist, producer, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Gillian Welch and Old Crow Medicine Show.  These long time compatriots join Rawlings on this record beside newer friends Benmont Tench from the Heartbreakers, Karl Himmel, and Nate Walcott of Bright Eyes.  The notion of recording as Dave Rawlings Machine began in 2007.  “I had a few older songs that I had written with other artists that I wanted to record myself.  Then the last year or so Gillian and I spent a good deal of time in Los Angeles, hanging out with a new group of musicians and songwriters.  This inspired a number of songs that seemed to complete the picture.  So we started recording.  It was as much of a surprise to me as it was to anybody.” Of the nine songs on the playlist, Rawlings wrote seven.  The other two are “The Monkey and the Engineer,” a country blues by Jesse Fuller, who died in 1976, and a medley consisting of “Method Acting,” by Conor Oberst, and “Cortez the Killer,” by Neil Young.  Rawlings learned “Method Acting” two years ago while playing guitar on a Bright Eyes tour.  “I played ‘Method Acting’ every night on that tour,” Rawlings says, “and it sort of sank into my awareness in a very deep way.  ‘Cortez the Killer’ is a song I heard long before I ever played guitar and it changed the way I heard music." “Ruby” is a plaintive recitation of love for a woman whose affections are remote and self-engaged.  “Sweet Tooth,” sung by Welch and Rawlings in their more customary style---two voices, two guitars sparely arranged---is an ironic and wry description of the bittersweet allure of addiction, and the obsessive pleasures and despairs revolving around the satisfaction of a powerful need.  “It’s Too Easy” has a narrator blithely content with the simplest indulgences and baffled by why anyone would lift a finger for more.  “I Hear Them All,” which was first recorded by Old Crow Medicine Show, is a solemn tribute to the under-equipped, the lost and lonely, the left behind, and overlooked, and a condemnation of the outrages that the powerful practice against the weak.  “To Be Young,” a kind of half-apology, half-screed both justifying and rebuking imperfect behavior, was written with Ryan Adams.  Rawlings’s version features his banjo playing.  “How’s About You” is a rueful, Depression-tinged monologue reflecting on hard times, past and present.  The record concludes with “Bells of Harlem,” which has an eerie, spell-like quality.  It is the sort of simple, classic-sounding melody that one can imagine being sung by Louis Armstrong or being used as a soundtrack for a David Lynch film.  A mesmeric coda, played by strings, trails off at the end like lights rising in a dark theater.  Making A Friend of a Friend, Rawlings discovered that different considerations applied when recording himself singing melody instead of harmony.  “When I listen to a Gillian record there’s a particular place and feeling in it that has an awful lot to do with the sound of her voice,” Rawlings says.  “A lot of things change from track to track, but that has always been the constant.  And a lot of the arrangements we’d worked out over the years---the way we put chords, the way we sing together---I was shocked at how little they worked for my voice or my record.  We had learned to make records in a particular way because we were always framing her voice, which is this large, takes-up-a-lot-of-space, very intimate, very good sounding thing, a beautiful tone, so you can frame it in a skeletal way.  It almost seems to me that the less you put on her records, the more powerful they are, but when we started working that way with my voice, which is so different, it turned out that nothing from that approach was valid, so we had to find different sounds and treatments that we were happy with.  I was really surprised when we started that we were in territory as uncharted as we were.  We broke new ground from necessity.”  Spontaneity was an important part of the recording. “I've learned over time that as a lead singer, I do my best singing live and on early takes, so it was essential that we capture the band quickly and in an organic way.  So when we stood in a circle to rehearse the first song I thought, ‘Well, I guess we better put a mic in the center and be done with it.’  It tied my hands as far as mixing the vocals went, but it helped us capture something in the air.  I knew that Gillian and I would be at the core of the recordings, but I became interested in a particular acoustic sound with more vocal parts that I knew the Crows could conjure up.  Karl, Benmont and Nate were the icing on the cake.”  A Friend of a Friend has more lavish arrangements than songs from the Gillian Welch catalog typically do.  They are more boisterous, but they are built on the same careful spine that Welch songs are.  Rawlings’s sly and succinct guitar playing is embedded within ensemble play as opposed to carrying the bulk of the arrangement.  The songs are exuberant, sturdy, and carefully constructed, but they also reverberate poetically.  The music on A Friend of a Friend is cousin to the deftly modern and haunting music that Welch and Rawlings are known for, but it has here been expanded; the crowd is larger, the party more robust, but the room is the same room.  http://do512.com/event/2009/12/14/dave-rawlings-machine http://do512.com/event/2009/12/14/dave-rawlings-machine.xml Monday 12/14/09 20091215T020000Z/20091215T020000Z 0 14.0 08:00 PM Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:00:00 -0600 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:00:00 -0600 4 MON http://theparishroom.inticketing.com/events/57981/DAVE-RAWLINGS-MACHINE http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/300135/daveraw_cover_select_sq_90.jpg The Parish http://theparishroom.inticketing.com/events/57981/DAVE-RAWLINGS-MACHINE http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/300135/daveraw_cover_select.jpg