Kuroshitsuji – Black Butler

Mega-hit Anime series, “Kuroshitsuji – Black Butler” DVD is now available in the U.S., featuring BECCA’s “I’m ALIVE!” as the ending theme song!

www.funimation.com/blackbutler/

March 24, 2011 at 10:35 pm | Blogroll | No comment

Warped Tour part two!

Warped Tour Blog #2

It feels like 10 years instead of 10 days ago that I wrote my last blog! Warped Tour is a rock and roll summer camp/traveling circus/it’s oooown world.  I suddenly had a moment of disbelief where I realized, “OMG, I’m on Warped Tour!” because I’ve dreamt of being on this tour for years.  I’m so glad I get to be on nearly the entire tour, besides the week where I’m going to Japan for the summer festivals with Bennie Becca.  I realize when the tour is over, I’m going to miss it terribly.

I’m so ill prepared for being here it’s ridiculous.  I have all the wrong clothes, all the wrong shoes…it’s just too hot for anything! Every day I learn something new whether it’s about the music industry, my music personally, myself, or other people.  This experience is something I could try to explain but the description will never do justice.

Every morning I wake up, never feeling like I’ve slept enough, and I rush to get ready.  We have to get up early enough to get a good tent spot. Breakfast is from 7-9 so hopefully there is enough time for that.  Sometimes the bus is located extremely far from where the tents are set up, so getting the tent materials to the venue can take up all the time we have for breakfast.  All the venues are different, so sometimes you’re pushing your tent materials up a gravel road, or down a grassy path, or hopefully on flat pavement.  Doors are usually at 11, so after setting up the tent, my tour manager Kyle and I will try to hit the lines.  We take headphones, an iPod, CDs, and tons of flyers and try to meet as many people as we can.  There are tons and tons of bands doing the same thing, so often times people get really annoyed because they’ve been listening to other bands all morning already.  You also find yourself maneuvering around other bands and their headphones so you can’t get to as many people as you hope.

When doors open is usually around the time I know where I’ll be playing that day.  If I’m lucky, I’ll be on the schedule to play the Ernie Ball stage.  I also try to play as many tents as I can in a day, so we check to see if the KIA, Altec, and Girlz Garage tents have availability for me.  They always try to make time for me to play and I’m so appreciative.  After finding my set times, I put posters up all over the venue with my set time on them. This is a really monotonous process and every other band is doing the same thing so you’re competing for space.

The rest of the day is spent promoting, trying to get people to our tent to listen to the album, and hopefully they will buy the CD or a shirt! My main goal is just to get more people to know who I am, regardless if they have the money to buy anything or not.  The only sort of break we will take in a day is for lunch, whicb is from 12-2, and our food is generally taken back to the tent to be eaten since there are only two of us to watch the tent and promote.  The catering line itself is always massive and takes ages to get through!  But you end up meeting people and having interesting conversations.

We usually take the tent down around 7 or so, grab dinner, and then pass out flyers to the people leaving the venue.  Often times people take your flyer then drop it directly after you give it to them.  It’s frustrating but the most important thing I’ve found with being out here is to not take things personally.  The best part of the day besides playing is the barbeque/bar at night.  The bus calls can range from 10pm-3am so sometimes the parties can get pretty insane.

My favorite place that we’ve been so far on this tour was Canada!  It’s incredible!  The audience seemed to be most responsive to my music and eager to make purchases.  Not to mention we were surrounded by beautiful nature during those two days.  When we left Montreal, there was a fireworks show that we watched from our bus windows.  I also had the best shower that I’ve had yet in Montreal.  Having hot water in a shower and time to enjoy it is really rare on this tour.  So it feels like heaven when you are able to have that!

It’s my last day on Automatic Loveletter’s tour bus and I’m really sad . I love these guys and we’ve become good friends.  It’s also a really clean bus and everybody is respectful of each other’s space and things.  I hear  that’s pretty rare, so we’ll see when I change buses tomorrow how it goes. I’m just really lucky to even be on a bus, because a lot of bands on this tour are traveling in vans.

Everyday is a new experience, and everyday I’m thankful, regardless of thetrials and tribulations of the day.  I’m getting down and dirty with the rest of ‘em :O)

Posting a seperate photo blog as soon as I can charge my camera!

July 27, 2010 at 3:53 pm | Blogroll | 1 comment

Warped Tour

Warped Tour, Week 1

Hi everyone!  Well I’m almost through my first week on Warped Tour.  It’s really been an eye opening experience for me.  It’s definitely a rough tour, and everyone is working their butts off from morning to evening.  I started the tour in Houston, and it was a wet, muddy mess!  It had been storming all day and didn’t stop until late evening.  There were more storms the next day in Dallas, but it’s been pretty clear since then.  Obviously its summer, so mostly every city is boiling hot! I have sunburns everywhere, but I’m happy because it will mostly turn into a tan.  I’m known for being really pale, so it’s a nice break from that.  We had a day off on the fourth in Missouri, then the next day I was able to play on the Ernie Ball stage in St. Louis! The crowd was huge!  A picture is posted below.  It’s just me and my acoustic guitar, so it’s hard to compete with the bands.  But when a new fan buys an album, that’s what makes my day so special.  I’m meeting so many new and amazing people.  I’m on the tour bus now which I’m sharing with Automatic Loveletter. They are the coolest band and we’re having a blast! We found a disco ball buried in a cabinet and had a dance party on the bus, blasting Daft Punk and Miley Cyrus.  This is my first bus tour as well, so it’s a trip!  Tomorrow we go to Canada…I can’t wait!  I’ll be sure to post a video blog here soon.

<3alwayz

Your sunburnt-mosquito-bitten Becca

July 12, 2010 at 2:19 pm | Blogroll | No comment

Becca goes acoustic.

Hello everyone!

I’ve been putting an LA based band together for upcoming tours and it’s been keeping me pretty occupied.  I wanted to do something special for you guys so you’ll know I’m always thinking of you and I can’t wait to tour soon!  By the end of the week, I’ll be posting an acoustic version of “I’m Alive” and I’ll post it to my Facebook page, Myspace, YouTube, and blog.  So make sure
you check my pages soon for the video!  Hope you all had a great  Memorial Day weekend.

<3alwayz
Becca

June 2, 2010 at 8:42 pm | Blogroll | 3 comments

Becca’s 21st Birthday on Radio Saves Lives

Date:
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Time:
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Location:

http://www.latalkradio.com/Player_flash4.shtml

TURN ON, TUNE IN. LIVE.

Becca will be on Radio Saves Lives on her 21st birthday!

Join the listening party as she plays tracks off her new CD “ALIVE!”, as
well as some of her favorites from other artists.

More details on how you can listen on your iphone, etc here.

http://www.latalkradio.com/live.shtml

May 3, 2010 at 2:14 pm | Blogroll | 1 comment

Room To Read

I am very enthusiastic about a charity that Bennie Becca has just began supporting called Room To Read. This charity helps millions of children in developing countries get a better education that would not have these opportunities otherwise. It especially encourages gender equality within the education system. Room to Read has a presence in Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka, Laos, South Africa, Zambia, Bangladesh, and expanding rapidly. It builds schools, establishes libraries and stocks them with books in the local languages, helps publish high-quality children’s books written from local writers and illustrators, and provides long term support for girls to complete their secondary education. A better education can help build a better world :O) I am so happy to have found this charity to support! There are lots of ways for you to get involved too, so check out the website at www.roomtoread.org. May we never take education for granted!

<3alwayz
Becca

April 11, 2010 at 3:39 pm | Blogroll | 2 comments

I popped my cherry…blossom tree party!

Okay, so that’s a little innapropriate of a quote, but it’s funny. I had my first “ohanami” experience, where you go under the cherry blossom trees and drink and eat and socialize. It’s so cool. There are all these people that come together in the parks, and it’s a huge event. Bennie K and I went after our Bennie Becca rehearsal. It’s only my second day in Tokyo on this trip, and I’m SO happy that I was able to do ohanami. If I lived in Japan, I swear I would do it all the time in Spring! It’s such a lovely tradition. Luckily it was a warm night too. We didn’t have a blanket to sit on, so we had to sit on the very corner of a stranger’s tarp. It was kind of hilarious. It was actually one of the most peaceful and enjoyable
experiences I’ve ever had. I’m really big on traditions.

Tomorrow is our Bennie Becca show and the release of our album!! I CAN’T WAIT! It’s going to be streaming live on ustream.tv at 10:00pm Japanese time. Check us out!

April 6, 2010 at 7:06 pm | Blogroll | 3 comments

Come play a game…

Hey guys and gals!

How well do you think you know me?  How would you like to win prizes for testing that knowledge?  Sign up for my contest and you could win a show from yours truly in your hometown or at your school!  Details are in the video.  Good luck!!!

<3alwayz
Becca

March 31, 2010 at 3:44 pm | Blogroll | 10 comments

US Tour #1 Highlights

Well…that was fun!  Survived my first van tour, woooot.  I visited some
awesome highschools and middleschools, then ended at SXSW.  I really enjoyed
meeting the students and gaining new fans.  Now that I’m off the tour, I’m
anxious to get out on the road again!  Good thing I’m going to rock it out
in Japan next week for the Bennie Becca show… :O)

Here is the band on the tour bus, attempting a rehearsal for our shows at
SXSW.  We weren’t able to have any rehearsals before our shows, so we had to
strip it down acoustically and do our best.  I was so nervous that we
wouldn’t be able to pull it off, but we did!

Here Billy (tour manager), Matt, and I, in front of our last show of the tour in Houston.  Good times.

March 26, 2010 at 2:48 pm | Blogroll | No comment

Becca hits Austin, TX for SXSW!

Announcement of my SXSW shows!!

MARCH 18th:

2:30pm @ Antone’s
10:30pm @ Rusty Spurs

See you there :O)

March 16, 2010 at 4:24 pm | Blogroll | 1 comment

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