The World's Greatest Band ™️ has answered the call to warm up the crowd for
@SManifest
Come see us melt the audience on...
11/1 in Cleveland at
@HOBCleveland
11/2 in Michigan at
@RoyalOakMusic
11/3 in Chicago at The Riveria!
Come see us rule too hard. Thanks
@Salellington
Day 7 of the Merch Rate discourse. Brothers are fighting brothers. Families are at odds. Live Nation is sending a man to your house right now to see how many shirts are in your closet just to be sure.
The sheer amount of people standing up for merch cuts is WILD.
Places would laugh in my face if I charged an "equipment rental fee" for hauling my amps to the show.
It's predatory, antiquated & honestly I've never seen venue staff look thrilled to ask for it.
Felt appropriate to post this on Labor Day. Here are the merch cuts being taken by the venues on this upcoming tour. This is going to cause us to sell our merch for higher prices than we'd like to at certain venues. We think that sucks. 1/
We say "All Cops Are Bastards" every night... Literal bare minimum shit.
Tonight this band we played with wore a thin blue line shirt on stage.
I assure you. We've never roasted a loser so hard from side stage.
Nerd.
FINE!
We signed with
@BadTimeRec
to bring you FINE: A SKA EP. 5 new songs released one single at a time monthly.
Go peep the first single "Pump Fake" now!
Please pick up (GET IT) some merch so we can pay off this very nice van!
This is so freakin' cool ya'll!
Fans of bands. Buying stickers to sell sucks. The margins are low. No one wants to pay for em. If I had a nickel for everytime someone asks, "Can I just take this?" I'd have a fuck-ton of nickels....
That said I ordered stickers today.
Dude nearly destroyed our band.
He took money from customers and never ordered a single record. Completely ghosted me till I threatened to sue then gave us our masters and disappeared.
Sucks that it happens to anyone.
This a project I have to leave in the rear view. Vinnie did not do an acceptable job of filling people's orders. Kickstarter can be hard, but, if you're gonna do it you gotta DO IT. I had messages about issues, but, its a WAY bigger horror show than I feared.
🚨NEW SKA SONG🚨
"Kinda, Man" is streaming everywhere you stream music.
Watch the music video.
See us on tour this week with
@DollarSignsBand
.
Send money.
Thanks to
@BadTimeRec
for supporting our dumb ideas!
Band friends. A lot of you are doing the best you've ever done. It's hard to see it and it can burn your brain out but remember that the only way more stuff will happen is if you keep at it.
I believe in you.
Most of you.
A few of you.
It doesn't matter what I believe.
I feel like there is a real epidemic of people who look at musicians and think, "Making money takes away from the art."
Making money funds the very thing you refuse to pay for. There is no other industry in the WORLD where you consume everything and then decide if you want...
Yea. We are touring with
@LessThanJake
for their 25th anniversary of Hello Rockview.
That's it. I'm too speechless to go further.
Tickets on sale Thursday!
I dunno. We prolly aren't getting our old account back at this point. No sense getting upset but we have new music dropping next week and it's really a bummer to think a lot of people won't be notified.
Maybe tell some people to follow us?
ok.
Trying to make my Aquabats costume. I have the belt, the shorts, the mask/goggles... now I just need the Anti-Vax Helmet to complete the look.
NEGATIVITY! I meant Negativity Helmet. Weird how I even GOT that idea.
Imagine this lineup:
Devon Kay & the Solutions
Devon Kay & the Solutions
Devon Kay & the Solutions
Devon Kay & the Solutions
An unbelievable night of entertainment
That time we hypnotized the crowd in Orlando with our music and theatrics.
Thanks to
@Skatunenetwork
for joining us on stage making our band legitimate for a few minutes!
Tour rules. Follow ur dremz.
I once heard Fine: A Ska EP described as "an EP of the best ska songs by Devon Kay & the Solutions" and nothing in the world is more accurate cause that's what it is.
Oh hey.
Fine: A Ska EP is now available for purchase and the final single "Never Going Back" is streaming everywhere!
Go order it from
@BadTimeRec
now or buy it from us on our current tour!!
FINE
This is my first long tour as a lead singer and good lord is the voice starting to hurt.
Hive mind. Tell me how you deal. I don't wanna grind this thing down.
Fuck. That. Buy. Things. You. Farthole.
Bands are a business. It's ok. We are. Let's all grow together.
This isn't 1997. We are allowed to make money. Fuck.
I drank two beers. Marry me.
It's very easy to get caught up in the fatigue, burnout, desperation, anger, financial despair & the other joys of making music but like....
This is exactly where we wanted to be two years ago and that feels good.
Thanks for listening to us. The World's Greatest Band.
Now that Merch Cuts have been solved it's time to tackle another issue in the music community...
Sometimes on stage I sweat a little and it gets in my eyes.
I'm overwhelmed with how amazing and nice the reception has been for Pump Fake & our signing to BTR.
I'm a goof most the time but this means the world to me.
We are close to a streaming personal record so maybe pass this on and show someone our new tune:
Hey
#ska
twitter. Devon Kay & the Solutions got their twitter hacked and uhhhh, THAT SUCKS. Anyone wanna help us out by following here and reporting our real page lol!
Happy 1 Year to our weird child Grieving Expectation!
I love this album with all my heart. Take chances and always be weird.
Got a favorite song? Hey. That's great.
SOMETIMES YOU GET TO VENT ON AN HOUR LONG PHONE CALL ABOUT HOW STRESSFUL/TIME CONSUMING/DRAINING MUSIC IS WITH
@BadTimeRec
AND YOU DON'T GET THAT KINDA SHIT AT INTERSCOPE.
Fuck it. Get us to 500 followers on this account we had to start from scratch because it got hacked on a dying platform and nothing matters wake up you're actually in high school and you have a test or some shit.
This take will always genuinely confuse me. Why do people feel like ska NEEDS to be mainstream??? The community is thriving and doing great. A band doesn’t become better because it’s placed in a moderately successful movie lmao like why do so many ska fans act like we need that?
🚨New Music Alert!🚨
Our new theatrical
#ska
masterpiece Millennial Homesick Blues is streaming everywhere with a lyric video that changes the music video landscape altogether.
Go watch it on the
@BadTimeRec
y-tub and listen to the tune wherever you pay to listen to tunes.
SKA
Fuck me up we got added to Spotify's Essential Ska Playlist.
"This really is the ska song of the summer." - Mike Sosinski of
@BadTimeRec
"I love summer and this song is the ska song of it." - Tim Spotify
We wrote five perfect ska songs out of desperation and spite and now the genre deems us "absolutely important."
Follow your dreams.
You're Welcome... Ska.
Today I pressed 300 shirts in my works basement for tour. Sorry I haven't been promoting as much. Please go to the shows. Please.
Look at this poor photo of a shirt. Buy that shirt at a show.
Find the shows.
📸Rae Mystic
🖼️Walker Dubois
TL:DR
Devon got sick and we have to back out of the last two nights of this amazing tour.
@FRStheBAND
&
@Gruberites
are gonna party on. You are still going to go.
Texas. We're gonna make it up to you.
- DK&S