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"Dressed in blue and playing high-energy folk rock that's perfect for a house party, The Blue Party is possibly the 'funnest' band on Earth." - Arts Council of New Orleans

"The Blue Party blends sounds as if they were making a jambalaya out of good times. With equal parts rock, folk and dance, they stir up a musical dish that really suits their home of New Orleans." - wellthatscool.com (Tuscaloosa, AL)

"Underneath the hyperactive, road tested party antics of this six-piece lies a level of sheer musical virtuosity not found in many groups stomping around town" - Barryfest.com (New Orleans, LA)

"The Blue Party ushered in the evening with a set of springy, sunny early 20s anthems. Uniting soul- searching travelogues (“Honduras”) and hip party chorales (“Homeless”), they showed why they are quickly becoming favorites with the campus crowd – plus, it’s kind of hard not to get behind a band with a bouzouki." - Groovescapes.com (New Orleans, LA)

"The Blue Party got the crowd in such a happy, dancing mood that a visit from Starkville Police with an order to turn the volume down did not even phase the energy level in the backyard...this party was one for Starkville's history books" - The Mississippi State Reflector (Starkville, MS)

"They effortlessly mix musical styles to create a sound that is all their own." - The Vignette (Kansas City, MO)

"The Blue Party first played in Hays in September 2010. When The Blue Party returned to Hays in April, the band drew on Wednesday night and had the crowd singing their lyrics." - The Hays Daily News (Hays, KS)

"As soon as the first chord was struck, a dance party broke out. With the members dancing with audience members and everyone having an awesome time to their up-tempo tunes, you couldn’t help but watch this band play and crack a smile." - Music Makers (Starkville, MS)

"With their fun, yet heartfelt lyrics and sound, the Blue Party will make sure everyone who listens to them will have a great time." - Scout66

Tonight is our last show in our 10-day tour with The Revivalists.  We’ll be playing in Pensacola, and we hear that The Revivalists have quite the fan base out there.

While brief, this has been our first real tour with another band, and it has been years in the making.  Two years ago, we released a six-song EP at a house party in New Orleans.  Despite the fact that they had already been a band for over a year, The Revivalists were kind enough to open the party.  From then on, we played together many times in Nola and always talked about how we were going to tour together once we each had enough strong, out-of-town markets.  We were in Starkville and Hattiesburg the last two nights.  Thursday night, The Blue Party headlined Starkville; Friday night, The Revivalists headlined Hattiesburg.  Both shows were packed.  It finally looks like the last two years of touring have started to have a real impact.  Additionally, there is talk about making the “Blue Revival Tour” a yearly tradition, occurring every January.  There is no doubt in my mind that each tour will subsequently get longer as each band continues to add markets to its repertoire.

I have learned a ton about music and what it takes to play music from spending the last 10-days with The Revivalists.  I’m stoked to see what happens next January.

- Reid

…I’ve also learned how much I hate Smirnoff Ice

At Egan’s in Tuscaloosa this past Monday, the song “Homeless” was not written into the setlist nor played at the show.  It was a first in Blue Party history.

Around 3:30 in the morning on Saturday (Friday night), The Revivalists’ drummer, Andrew Campanelli, showed downtown Birmingham why he is Scrabble king.  Using the marquee letters from our respective bands and the letters from the opening band, he constructed this very inappropriate piece of word art.

Impressive huh?

Man it feels so good to be back in the groove. So many weeks of a collective funk. Apathy. Languor. One part pent up emotions, two parts misused time, garnished with low energy. The neurasthenia (it’s my word of the day) experienced when creative souls lay idle can’t be put into words. We (let “we” mean “I”) begrudgingly spent all too much time focusing on things that, in retrospect, we shouldn’t have. Some within our control, some far beyond our grasp, but all much less important and ultimately less fun than playing music.

We love to play music. That’s why we do this whole thing. We deeply love music as it kneads the dough that founds the golden-brown, buttery, flakey apple pie crust known as this life we live. The audible experiences we gain nightly by creating art together not only give us a deeper understanding of each other, but they undoubtedly improve our quality of life. We see the world through the filter of creativity. We see past race sex and creed, past status, and past bias because of the binding power of music. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Too often in this short off-period have we been all-too concerned with who to contact, where we can get our money from, keeping all receipts, making spreadsheets, what to do in certain towns, how to expand markets new and old, how people will respond, and, of course, how we can monetize it all. What we forgot in the wake of the Blue Party Business Yacht was the music.

The underlying theme of everything is the love of the game. With the two shows over the last weekend, and the three in two nights this weekend we have a new energy about us that feels so spiritually refreshing. We feel this positive outlook will carry us through this whole tour (which won’t be hard considering we co-headline the entire thing with the Revivalists) and the rest of this long upcoming year. It’s the kind of feeling you get when you bring out all your summer clothes as soon as the first great day of spring happens, which is to say, it’s very, very nice.

There’s a certain prostratic-like imbalance that engulfs an artist if there isn’t a consistent outlet. It’s hard to describe, as is the spiritual enlightenment you experience when you realize that you get to do what you love for a living. A wise man once said, “Do what you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life,” and we’re all glad that for us, that means music again.

- T.

We’re going on a 10-day tour with The Revivalists.  They’ve successfully “iced” the last two times we’ve played gigs out of town together.  Revenge will be sweet.

Check the Blue Parties page for details.

Welcome to Blue Party 2.0 gang.  We will be tending to this website with great care moving forward.  For all those interested in the blogging days that were Blue Party 1.0, check out our old tumblr complete with posts from our wee college days.  Now, we’re starving musicians that have to take ourselves mildly seriously.  The post below is the last post from our old site.