Risk Everything, Regret Nothing
Here's an official statement from our band regarding our decision to play our final show:
Tomorrow we will share the stage one last time and we invite everyone to take part in this joyous occasion! This is going to be our last chance to pretend like we're 17 years old all over again, so let's make it a memorable one! Like I've said before, without Dear Life there would be no Glad Rags Ink and there would be no Loud& Obnoxious. If it weren't for DL, we would have never started printing our own merchandise and we also wouldn't have met Brian. He saw our band at a local show and ended up buying one of our shirts and becoming friends with us. Funny the way things work out.
The festivities begin at 8PM but we advise you to arrive a little earlier just to be safe. Free drinks will be provided by Monster Energy and there will also be tacos for sale, so bring cash!
To commemorate our final performance, I wanted to make sure we had something to remember it by so I designed this t-shirt. One of my favorite lyrics of ours goes "building until we break the sky" so I wanted to include some clouds amidst the shapes created by our band name. I've always loved how simplistic and iconic punk band shirt designs were and how they usually involved geometric shapes. The design also features the lyric "risk everything regret nothing" and our years of existence "2003 2010". The shirt will be limited to 50 so come get a piece of history!
See you tomorrow!
- Vince
p.s. Here are some directions to find our warehouse if you've never been here before. DIRECTIONS: When you are on Valley Blvd, the entrance to our warehouse complex is a large wooden archway next door to Paradise Showgirls between the Orange Ave & Athens Way street lights. Check this link for a map/image - http://bit.ly/byjui4 - or call 626-336-4726 if you get lost.)
Dear Family, Friends and Fans,
As many of you already know, Dear Life is soon coming to an end. Vince, Matt, Mike and I have decided that the time has come for us to say our goodbyes.
Dear Life first started at the end of 2003 and has been an integral part of all our lives over the past 6 years. We have done many things, seen many places, and accomplished a few small goals, which, however insignificant they may seem in the grand scheme of life, meant the world to us and forever will be in our hearts.
While we have always been a band fueled by our own hard work and passion, there has definitely been a significant number of people who have helped us along the way. To them, we offer our sincerest thanks and appreciation. And to anyone who has ever come to a show, listened to our album, bought some merch, said a few kind words or gave us a place to stay for the night, we say to you: thank you, thank you, thank you.
We will be playing our final show on Saturday, February 13th at the Glad Rags Ink warehouse and invite everyone to come out and party with us. This will be a free show and Dear Life will be playing all of our songs we have ever written (including new, never released songs), one last time, for everyone there. The flier is on our page.
As we have never been a band to live in the past, Dear Life is not remorseful in the least. Some choices turned out differently than planned, but in the end, we are still left smiling and happy for the way things are. In closing, I think the lyrics from one of our first songs ever written is a fitting way to end this memo, as it applies to how we tried to live our lives for the past 6 years.
“Risk everything. Regret nothing.”
Tomorrow we will share the stage one last time and we invite everyone to take part in this joyous occasion! This is going to be our last chance to pretend like we're 17 years old all over again, so let's make it a memorable one! Like I've said before, without Dear Life there would be no Glad Rags Ink and there would be no Loud& Obnoxious. If it weren't for DL, we would have never started printing our own merchandise and we also wouldn't have met Brian. He saw our band at a local show and ended up buying one of our shirts and becoming friends with us. Funny the way things work out.
The festivities begin at 8PM but we advise you to arrive a little earlier just to be safe. Free drinks will be provided by Monster Energy and there will also be tacos for sale, so bring cash!
To commemorate our final performance, I wanted to make sure we had something to remember it by so I designed this t-shirt. One of my favorite lyrics of ours goes "building until we break the sky" so I wanted to include some clouds amidst the shapes created by our band name. I've always loved how simplistic and iconic punk band shirt designs were and how they usually involved geometric shapes. The design also features the lyric "risk everything regret nothing" and our years of existence "2003 2010". The shirt will be limited to 50 so come get a piece of history!
See you tomorrow!
- Vince
p.s. Here are some directions to find our warehouse if you've never been here before. DIRECTIONS: When you are on Valley Blvd, the entrance to our warehouse complex is a large wooden archway next door to Paradise Showgirls between the Orange Ave & Athens Way street lights. Check this link for a map/image - http://bit.ly/byjui4 - or call 626-336-4726 if you get lost.)
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