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hi! I listened you on youtube…you’re great!
i’m from argentina…here we habe a band called “la bomba del tiempo”…that’s like your band. but less kusturikense (lol)… but only with percussion instruments
hope you could come here sometime…both bands together could make the grates how
i listened the songs in your web and youtube, i really love it…where can i buy your cd here in argentina buenos aires?
kisses!
Saw you guys on election night outside Bravo Brasserie downtown. KICK ASS STUFF! Keep the Cheer coming.
Saw the What Cheer? Brigade at the Olneyville Fall Festival with the Big Nazo puppets. What an awesome experience.
I was overwhelmed to the point of tears for the first three tunes. Only Prince and Loretta Lynne every brought tears to my eyes. Great stuff.
Way to rock HONK! fest!!! we loved every second of our time hooping to your music in the parade! Boston Hoop Troop loves What Cheer?! Hope we can all play in the street & stop traffic again soon!!
Alicia & The Boston Hoop Troop
Whoa! I just saw the show at Pearl St. It was a band geek’s wet dream…
ALSO at the wedding this past weekend and I was FLOORED. You had my 82 year old nana, my 60 year old dad, and me up and dancing. You were INCREDIBLE!
was at the wedding you played this past weekend. oh my! superstar amazing!
thank you!
Hey Photos don´t work..! By the way you are one of the most energetic bands i´ve ever heard!!! Shit, it does good to me. PLEASE deliver your CD to one of Europe´s net shops. Shipping from USA is too expensive.
ROCK ON!!!
You guys were a very pleasant surprise last night! I’m so glad I temporarily ditched a wedding to come out and see what was going on. Thanks for the CD, and I will definitely be there the next time you’re in the Jersey area
You were the highlight of the UC Music fest on Friday night.
…AND the pig roast!
I heard y’all are missing Purchase! Can this possibly be true? What are we going to do with all the liquor and tuxedos we prepared?!!!
hi there.
we are putting together our annual harvest dinner and wondered if you all
would want to play at it. the last time we heard you was lots of fun, at
coyle street in maine.
below is info on our project…the harvest dinner is always fun, and we
are planning a day of workshops/skill share, too. we’d love to have you there. we are
planning for saturday nov 8, in portland maine.
thanks so much,
margot and wcp
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dependence on industrial agriculture and to increase our community food
security by developing sustainable local food systems. By growing and
storing our own food to last throughout the winter and educating ourselves
about agricultural issues, we aim to create a working example of how we
can come together as a community to provide for our basic needs by
employing the principles of mutual aid, equal access, and
self-determination.
The Winter Cache Project
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hey guys, I saw your vids on youtube and juz wanna tell you that I loved your version of Dum maro dum. You guys bring street bands to the next level!
love and respect from Singapore!
I’m ready to pack my trombone and move to Providence to join you. Take me - Please!
It was enlightning to see you Sunday night parading around the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle, playing around our beloved Troll and underneath our Lenin statue. Please come back - maybe we can get some locals to join in.
It was great chatting with you, the drummer and t-bones - great guys! Owe you all a few beers!
You guys make my day last week here in Hollywood, I’m the one who let you come to my building, in the roof remember? OMG. It was the happiest day I have in years! No only me, but most of the tenants here went crazy. I don’t know what to say! The band, natural enthusiasm, I never saw something like that, and I’m from Brazil, I though I have seen everything. Please come back to Hollywood, CA again! Come to my roof again! Please! Thank you!
Wow, you guys stomped us into the ground in SF last night (in a good way). Thanks so much for coming to the West Coast.
I’ve linked my user name, below, to a handful of pics. Rock on.
Had so much fun at your impromptu show last night near the Santa Monica Pier. Just happened to be riding my bike and had to stop. What an amazing sound!
Hello,
I saw on the street band page that your gonna be in L.A !
Well ……….
I’m start g a radical marching/samba band here so will come out to see ya next week.
Our first practice is tommorrow.
Wish us luck.
Take care
where the fuck you guys at yo?
Hay - sounds good! Never have seen yall, but looks like fun. I’m a former drum corp dude and present drumset playah + really wish I could catch you at Sound Sessions but am gonna be on tour in the Azores. Peace - MC
Saw you guys at the SummersDay Revels in Boston last weekend. I tried to describe the band to people who weren’t there, and the English language just isn’t enough. I loved it.
I also baffled people by saying I thought you guys would be a great wedding band. I just got blank stares. Now I see you actually have been a wedding band! This is great! I feel validated!
Loved you at Summer’s Day Revels Boston.
Thanks
Jamie Reveler
You played at my niece’s wedding and fronted the parade from the reception to the after-party at the bar a block over. What a huge blast!! People were coming out to join in the parade, the wedding guests rocked to the sound — you helped make this the best wedding reception ever in the history of weddings!!
Any chance you guys would want to preform in a small town like Fayetteville, WV?
you guys pwned at Summer Revels! Can’t wait to see you again. awesome stuff!
The best reaction was the old lady who stuck her fingers in her ears and ran away. My clapping couldn’t match that
Yo. You guys need more merch. Let me screenprint some shirts for you. Talk to pandrew about it.
Wow, you guys rock! Had the pleasure of hearing you play on the I-195 on-ramp and was hella bummed when the Man shut you down. Can’t wait for your next random street appearance.
MOAR NY SHOWZ!!!???
You people are WOW^(100*689,256+78945^456). Unfortunately I haven’t manage to see you at Serbia when you came, but please come back! You are just WOW!hahahaha
I am looking forwards for your next visit in Europe!
Cheers!haha
HEY! what about the raffle? where are my tickets!!??
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WIN US IN A RAFFLE
Current mood: drunk
That’s right, you can win all 18 of us in a raffle. for a measly two bucks you could do all sorts of things with an 18 piece marching band. Yeah, ther are some rules, but you can check them out and buy raffle tickets at:
whatcheerbrigade.com
So what are you waiting for? What the hell!? You never wanted a marchig band following you around ala black cat/white cat, or underground? Yeah, you know you have.
BRRRRRAIIIIIINNNNNSSSSSSS!!!! come back to pchase.
Brilliant Show Last Night. Cheers!
What Cheer? was possibly the best thing about Saturday’s historic preservation conference in Providence. Certainly the least expected pleasure. I am deeply impressed by the 9AM performance.
Saw you folks today at the RI Preservation Conference… What fun! Where do you find the energy at 9 Am in the morning?!
Show you guys for the first time at the radical purim shin-dig. Absolutely ridiculous!
braaaiins…
i love you.
and all youve left me with is whiplash from my body convulsing in ways thatd make my grandmother proud. come back you ravishing undead creatures.
great music! nice dressing
the best spirit!
we also like this style in the southwest of france!
if moving around, don’t hesitate to visit us in bordeaux.
Musically yours!
Hey! You guys rocked at Union Pool in Williamsburg Bklyn! Made my Sunday night.. So much energy, excitement & wonderful antics!!
Come back and play again!!!
-C
You guys showed up at my dorm at MICA and played in our courtyard. It made my night. Thanks.
Hey, what’s wrong with you dudes? I wanna see you all in Europe pretty soon!!!
F.e. in Austria, that’s the place where i’m hanging around a lot!!!
If you’re interested, contact me!
It would be me an infinite great pleasure!
R4Ph0suN
We would love to have you perform at one of our many musical events in Greenville, South Carolina! We have outdoor musical festivals pretty much all through the Spring, summer and Fall.
ever coming to switzerland? comecome, please, cheer us all up!
I just saw you guys for the first time at Golden Fest. I just want say that you guys brought a great show and a positive energy. Keep it up. Do plan to return to Boston anytime soon?
Pink Puffers love you from Rome!
hey i’m back .. smelly chimp chop
how are you ? merry xmas and stuff to you and what cheer ? keep it real banana peel..
I sent the photos by mail! Please let me now when you get them!
Hi mates ! I just discovered you on http://www.brasscast.com. What a surprise for such a formal podcast, but i enjoyed the sound and the interview. We’ve got a lot of brass bands like yours in France, but you do have a ‘je ne sais quoi’ which makes you very special. And i’m very glad you went to Guca this year because that’s the best trip i would advise to any brass band. I went there 2 years ago with my band ! Did they stick banknotes on your forehead to order a tune ? Did you attend the duel-like final competitions in the stadium ? Well, congratulations for going there ! I look forward to seeing you back in Europe asap !
Hello from GREECE .I am the photografer Vrettakos Alexander who sent you the photos from Guca.I can sent you for free the original photos.Please let me now your adress.I engoy your music very much!!!
you guys killed honkfest, in a good way of course. amazing performances both days…inspiring, fun, full of passion, heart & whiskey - all the things music should be made up of. i will see you again on halloween…i’m looking forward to having my ears blasted out & being berated by the chimp.
speaking of the chimp, i would like to have chop chop’s babies. i know, i know…get in line….
come back to boston soon, you lovely people
I tore the muscles around my ribcage dancing to y’all at HONK! The only way that I can heal is if you come down to Philly and play at Puppet Uprising. Til then, I will lay on the floor, twitching.
hey What Cheer?
I attended both sat and sun of the Honk festival and you guys were just insanely awesome. i’m so glad i got to see you 2-3 times, and the parade march! what an amazing weekend. hope you had fun in boston. come back again soon!
My fiance and I saw you play recently at PPAC before the Pilobolis show, and we were blown away! You guys are amazing! I would have been happy watching you guys all night and skipping the show.
I have to say that out of all the weddings i’ve been to in mylife u guys really made this one amazing. I’ve never danced so hard and for so long before but it was absolutely the greatest thing ever. Im sure you havent done too many jewsish weddings but i was throughtly impressed!! My friends and i plan on seeing your concerts in providence now and cant wait to dance to your music again!
love to watch you soon
I saw u I listen your nice music and I took some good photos from u at Guca. Take a look here. http://www.photofolio.gr/main.php?g2_view=core%3AShowItem&g2_itemId=69&g2_page=4 and use them free.
Hi, remember the Bulgarian woman that kissed you all at Sziget before you went to Gucha? I absolutely LOOOOOVE you guys!Come in Bulgaria, please please!!!
Koma
Thanks for a great afternoon of raucous music. I love your style. Looking forward to September 29th.
Incredible live jam in the middle of the sziget’s mud! “what cheer?” is the true way of music!
avanti cosi’!!
hi band and band’s fans! do you all know about hypnotic? if not, you should check them out. they’re a big brass band (like you) but there are only about 9 of them (unlike you) that plays ridiculously great music (which isn’t quite like yours, but is equally great in a different way). so here you go. listen to baliky bone and enjoy!
http://www.myspace.com/hypnoticbusiness
Guys,i just want to say…SEE YOU NEXT YEAR IN GUCA,AGAIN(hope you’ll come)…Greetings for best foreigner orchestra(to all members)
I saw you at sziget festival and you were the second best band that heard after Cassius.
Your style is really well done and I felt directly driving in Hell by your impressive music.
god save THE WHAT CHEER BRIGADE
And mail me when you come in France
I saw you in Gucha and it was love at first sight, you’re absolutely amazing:) Greetings from Poland
agnieszka mirahina
ran into on sziget as well, and was hooked and bought your cd.
love the subtle constellation references.
keep up the good work, i hope to be able to see you once more someday.
ran into you guy’s at the Sziget festival the first day you played, ended up watching all three shows TOOOOOO good to miss. keep up the good work. hope you like the pick.
…saw you at Sziget and West Balkans
you are absolutely amazing
Ahoy!! Been there too on the sziget festival. For me you are the real pied pipers! I´m shure that everyone who´s been there will know what i mean. just crazy. YOU KICK ASS!!
Saw you guys at Sziget on the first day…..set my week right up so it did!! Everything else felt like a bonus! You guys really do rock a whole bunch..especially the crazymonkeydrummerboy of course!!
Come play in the UK!
Nuz and Gem.
the first note in german
Ich habe Euch auf dem Sziget-Festival in Budapest 2x gesehen und wir konnten uns das nicht beschreiben wir Ihr die Leute so annimiert habt! Euro Performance zur Misik ist einfach genial und jeder müsste einmal “What Cheer?” gesehen haben! Ich hoffe das es Euch noch lange gibt und wünsche Euch sehr viel Erfolg und gutes Gelingen!!! Machte weiter so. Ps: würdet Ihr nach Österreich/Austria kommen für einen Gig?
Liebe Grüße Christian
Saw you in Guca, your energy and music you played blow us all. Hope you’ll come again in Serbia.
Pozdrav!
Funny that i should come all the way from Baltimore, MD to Hunagry to discover you . . . i did take an interactive panoramic photo of you guys, so enjoy:
http://www.sziget2007.com/Panoramas/p2_articleid/25
cheers,
andras
If you come back to Berlin after Guca (if you survive it!), let us know!
Soline (I saw you last Saturday at Lovelite)
juchuu, that was funny and loud in the pudel club! thanks for this great show.
we had the absolute pleasure of your warm up show on saturday at White Trash - my god, I don’t know if it was the 4 glasses of prosecco or the overall effects of a dirty weekend in Berlin, but you were AMAZING and you have to come to the UK to perform
bisous
xxx
You guys rock! Just droped by at the ACUD in Berlin. Hope to see a longer show of you
some time soon!
cheers
Evil and Evelyn
evilandevelyn.blogger.de
Just saw you at Tacheles, you are really great!!!!!!!
Berlin loves you, greetings, Xarah
I was falling asleep in my friends apartment, alone (yes at 9pm) and heard this amazing music coming through my window. so i put my shoes on and followed the glorious sound to Tachelles. am now back, listening to your cd. U guys rock!
Comrades,
Congratulations on your “Best of Rhode Island” win - how deserving!
Also, thanks for your dexterous performance at the Belanger/Vierra wedding on June 30th; the music transformed the occasion into a festival!
Wishing you safety and success overseas,
Diane Hogan
What a great night Yesterday! I’m trying to come to Guca next week! You are the best!
Hugs,
E.E.
DAMNIT id love to see u guys in the golden pudel but i cant come! its gonna be ridiculous!!
I also saw you guys at Jakes on Sunday. Crazy! What a great time.
I saw you guys play Jake’s last night opening for Okkervil River.Though i have seen you on quite a few occasions, this night took the cake. i have never seen a room full of people so happy and shaking their booties. Thanks!
My good friend dragged me out into the rain drenched woods with the promise that I would leave smiling and happy no matter how low I may be after seeing a bunch of half crazed loons in marching band. Who knew she’d be right.
Oh What Cheer! I loves ya! Especially that sexy burly sousaphone player. Though I believe he just shaved his head. Eh, there’s always the other 17 of you!
I am officially What Cheer? Brigades new biggest fan!
Cheers!
SSMFJ LOVES YOU!!!!
Peace people
We love you
YOU GUYS WERE AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for playing at our birthday party!!
The birthday boy has thanked me every day since you guys came for ‘giving him the ruckus’ for his birthday. He loved it. His best friend and his wife who came out from LA were awestruck– very, very, impressed– and kept going on and on about how each and every one of you had such character, etc, etc. And some unknown woman told me that she had ‘hostess envy’ because the band was so cool!!
We all loved loved loved loved loved loved it.
I can’t tell you how many people were so astonished and kept coming up to me asking where you guys came from, who you were, etc, etc.
You guys are the best. I wish I could kiss each and every one of you.
You were SMOKING!!!
hey! I’m excited to see you guys at rubulad this weekend! I live in ri and have seen you guys a lot but go to school in brooklyn now. convenient? yes! I’ll take lots of pictures, rubulad parties are amazing!
Yo ya’lll..I saw you play today at the benefit in Providence. You really really really made my day. Big brass band and marching band music is my favorite shit.
I was supposed to journey with my best friend to visit my other best friend in New Orleans for Mardi Gras last week and they canceled our flight so we never made it down.
Thanks for the fucking cheer today. I felt like it was my make-up mardi gras.
I’m in a queer dance troupe. Ya’ll ever think about adding a step and dance squad to your brigade?
I hope to catch you around banging and blowing into shit in the street soon!!
Hearing you play Erdelezi made my new years. Awesome, many thanks!
It is Tuesday and I’m still hung-over. You guys are great! I had lots of fun tagging along New Years Eve but I’m paying for it now. Keep it up and I hope to see you all out again soon. Do you ever play on the Cape? If so let me know so I can show some support.
Rock it and sock it!
So just thought I’d let you all know, my cousin and I were having a horrible New Years Eve until we ran into you guys outside and then watched you at AS220. You’re amazing. Thank you.
We saw you at the Honk Festival and you were great! My daughter is only 1 1/2 years old and she is STILL talking about the “monkey drummer.” (Her picture is in your photobook… she’s the one who followed the band around the corner after the set). She pretends to be the monkey drummer and marches around with an imaginary drum. I don’t think it is an overstatement to say that What Cheer? was the highlight of her life. Let us know when you’re playing so we can come see you again.
saw you at honkfest in somerville: awesome; you make me proud to be a Providence native….
all of you are freakin’ hot. saw you in somerville. won’t forget you any time soon. awesome awesome
my daughter and i really enjoyed the honkfest and
chop chop and the whole lot of you really pulled
out all the stops.; thanks for a great time.in our
neighborhood.
Oh my! I bring out such feelings in you. I had no idea.
You better run monkey, I’m hot on your tail. As soon as I catch you you’re going to be chained to the organgrinder again you little furry turd. Back to the travelling freak show with you!
I saw you guys at the as220 last week. Awesome! Wanna play my 30th birthday party?
We love you love you love you. Let’s make bad little marching band babies and hope they don’t grow up like the Extra Action Band.
saw you guys at foo fest and last night at AS220, you rock and I love you. keep playing, you should come to NY
Hey guys-
I had a great time as your flag boy at Providence Sound Session! Keep on rockin’ it!
Peace from Budapest!
SARDINIA!!! i stayed in a little seasid village not too far from Olbia once, for week. It was beautiful. All the little birdies hanging out o the wild wheat shafts that bllomed.
As for writng is our own guestbook…why the heck not! Not many others are. C’mon, give me guff for it to my little chimpy face.
“fly” from sardinia to providence…eheh maya knows
chimpo ~~~ hahah made myself laugh
you smell bad ………………………
I miss you all so much!
I probably haven’t danced since the last time I saw you play, and I probably haven’t gotten laid either. I don’t remember. But I love you!
See you in August, for the bicycle carnival!
love,
Larkin
CHIMP GET YO’ FINGAS out o’ yo’ mouth!
Oh, no, you’re signing your own guestbook!
Well, I KNOW you will soon be widely recgnized for your blissful and musical ways.
How about this, I dub you responsible for starting a carnaval tradition in Providence.
Saw you guys play at Foo Fest, then followed you guys up the street to Mojos, twas a shit load of fun. Hopefully I’ll catch you guys on the 22nd.
“fly” where?
amazing!
can’t wait to fly there…
I’ve heard of breakin’ ankles, but burstin’ lungs? That’s the realness!
saw you play at building 16, really incredible.
ahoy. you motes who are lookin’ but ain’twritintg.
Anyway.l..i am drunk and signing our own guest book. look at me! Oh the fauxpas! look at mne writint fauxpas drunk!
Anyway. Hey…what cheer mamalukes…fill in your damned profiles so I can laugh laugh laugh.
I really hope my mom isn’t the next one to leave a comment.
Chimpily yours.
Chop Chop.
I’ve never had the chance to see you guys play, but I just listened to the poorly recorded live sample from a net cafe here in Xining, Qinghai, China… it rocked! My I mention that I am in no small way responsible for Chris Erway’s super-sino-specs? Wheeeee!
Rockin’ time at the cemetery this afternoon, and a big thanks to Paul for helping us out during the parade earlier.
And pencil in the HONK festival, a brass band blow out we’re putting together in Davis Square, Somerville on September 30….multiple outdoor performances and an evening gig at Johnny D’s. We’ll be in touch.
Maury
Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society
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