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Young cinematographers live footage captures UpTones live show in full skanking mayhem

Jake The Skank has outdone himself. What a remarkable video of The UpTones rocking the Oakland Metro last month. Dodging skanking jubilant merrimakers, climbing rafters, and sneaking into the dark corners of the venue, Jake and his crew caught a brilliant moment in UpTones history. The sound quality is surprisingly good, and the editing is top notch. Clearly the work of a Skanking Fool.

Here is Skanking Fool from the show, and you can view all the clips here.

The UPTONES Live!! @ Bottom Of The Hill June 1

Trombone Heroine Makes The Uptones Proud!

Jeanne Geiger has been on a roll.
She recently joined living legend Dave Brubeck for his tour de force performance at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco. There’s a cool pic of this ensemble on Jeanne’s myspace page.

Our ska trombone star is as smart as she is beautiful. She’s poised to receive her Masters degree in Music Composition at Cal State East Bay. Jeanne’s Masters thesis, an innovative original big band composition called Reactance was a smash at the CSEB Jazz Ensemble’s final concert, with guest trumpet master Ingrid Jensen blazing on the lead. Check out an mp3 of this hot performance.

If that wasn’t enough, with Jeanne on the T-Bone, the Cal State East Bay Jazz Ensemble, and the CSEB Jazz Combo, both won 1st place at the prestigious Reno Jazz Festival last weekend.

Jeanne makes The Uptones truly Two-Tone. On behalf of the whole UpTones family, congrats to Jeanne, and we look forward to more jaw dropping trombone solos.

- Skanking Fool

Oakland Metro - Saturday, May 5!

The UpTones are bidding farewell to Minus Vince. A fine ska band goes on extended vacation. May 5 is their last show. Come on out and wish them good luck

- Skanking Fool

The UpTones SET LIST for Thursday, April 19, Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco CA, global positioning coordinates 1964 stat 1 channel 420 satellite 007 for triangulation 69 degrees W/SW.

PICK IT UP
RADIATION BOY
NOT FROM HERE
BOOK OF RULES
GHOST TOWN
SKANKING FOOL
RIDICULOUS
I DON’T KNOW EMILIE
BAD MEN OF BODIE
BONNIE AND CLYDE
RED HAIRED GIRL
MONKEY MAN
FORTUNATE SON
TOO MUCH PRESSURE

encore possibilities:
RUDE BOY
GET OUT OF MY WAY

Skank to that, you foolz.

- Skanking Fool

Cafe Du Nord - Thursday, April 19!

SKA-go-GO Dance Party
The UpTones
plus The Upbeat, The Devil-Ettes, The Soul Captives, DJ Carlos (From Kaleidescope)
08:00 PM, $15.00, Ages: 21+
Cafe Du Nord
2170 Market Street
San Francisco, Skalifornia

Another killer video from our show with The English Beat:

Thanks all who came down to the Catalyst

It was awesome playing with the English Beat. We missed you if you weren’t there, thanks for skanking it up with us if you were! Here’s a video on youtube of Bad Men Of Bodie and Jeanne blowin a badass bone solo from Friday’s show. Thanks to whomever’s cell phone captured this!

At the Catalyst, Friday, February 9

We were wrong, the official first show of 2007 is really in Santa Cruz at the world famous Catalyst Niteclub with the English Beat.

2/9/2007
1011 Pacific Ave.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831-423-1338
21+ show
Doors 8:00, Show 9:00 PM
For advance tickets: click here!

First Uptones show of the amazing year, ‘007

Bring your skanking shoes.