http://www.windycityrock.net/2011/01/show-preview-please-thank-yous-island.html

Here's an article previewing the show at Subterranean on Sunday. It will be a great time! (I am actually typing this in retrospection, as the show already happened and I'm manipulating les internets. The lineup is actually reversed---Waterhouse opened and we played last, so don't be mislead by thinking we're gonna play first, but still you better come see Waterhouse cuz they rule! And Nnamdi's in that band.

Our friends The Island Of Misfit Toys

http://www.windycityrock.net/2011/01/show-preview-please-thank-yous-island.html

TPATY On The Radio

Tonight from 10pm-12am CT we will be on the air with Tim Bergslein and his show Stay Free Radio on Radio DePaul, one of the nations best college radio stations. Rekonize.

Click here to stream the broadcast

Our City Alderman Reviewed Us LOL

This makes me want to show up to that festival in Logan Square on Sunday with a generator.

Colón to grade the musicians in his ward as well as those slated to perform this weekend.

Dude gave us a B...We get better grades in school. Guess we should stick to our day jobs.

Why You'd Want To Live Here

Newcity Music has written an article about the underground emo revival in the United States, and specifically Chicago. Lots of our friends make up the main bulk of the article, and we're happy to have our name dropped in there too. We really need a press photo.

The New Emo: It’s back, living underground and thriving in Chicago

http://music.newcity.com/

Joie De Vivre

Grown Ups

Castevet

New Review of Mind Yr P's & Q's

A new review of our album has been posted at Bankrupt On Selling, a new blog by an old friend. Check out the full review here!

 The Please & Thank Yous play with such energy and such emotion that it's hard not to like them. Their sound is much more distinguished.

Huzzah

Sound As Language loves Mind Yr P's & Q's!

The Please & Thank You’s is one of those bands that just completely refreshes you. Everything about the band is done with such energy and abandon that you just have to be impressed. The band’s debut Mind Your P’s & Q’s, is so reckless (in a good way) and overflowing with ideas and influences. At heart, The Please & Thank You’s are a pop/punk band but there are elements of geeky power pop (Weezer) and raw emo (Cap’n Jazz) that really give the band a unique spin.

If you are a fan of older pop/punk bands like Zoinks! and Sicko then Mind Your P’s & Q’swill leave you with a shit-eating grin. Much like those bands, The Please & Thank You’s have a penchant for upping the songwriting ante as well as showing off diverse influences. This is the kind of band that gets you all nostalgic while making you excited for the future as well.

You can get the tape from Ice Age Records and the digital download free from Death To False Hope HERE.

Label: Ice Age/Death To False Hope

The Please And Thank You’s “Speaking Of The Devil”

The Please And Thank You’s “Fucking Honestly”

...And The Review Train Keeps A'Rollin

Today's review of our album Mind Yr P's & Q's is from a site called Guitars, Drums, Tones, and Saxophones. The writer shares our love of Mallrats and also compares us to our favorite band! The whole thing can be found here, but here's some of it:

There’s a pop-punk thing going on here, but it’s not the Ramones-core pop-punk that’s “in” right now; rather, they’re more in the camp of the Lemuria-types, playing music that combines indie rock influences/sensibilities with that of pop-punk. 

The chorus is infectious and, if you’re anything like me, you’ll find yourself singing “I’m all about fucking honestly” in inappropriate places. So high fives to the guys for a really great pop song. Overall, this is a really fun record that shows a young band with a lot of promise. 

Of course you will go to the full article and check out the rest of the website!

Buy The Tape

It's out. Go to Ice Age Records to by your tape!

The album that wouldn't come out is finally here! After over a year in the making and getting pushed back further and further, The Please & Thank Yous' full length is finally out.10 songs of energetic, emotional, catchy-as-fuck punk. Imagine if you took some Weezer and Lifetime and threw it in a slap-chop, then sprinkled some Braid on top. And then it sat around and got high and fucked around on its guitar until it found something cool.

Punknews Is Stoked!!! (The Sequel)

Today Punknews.org posted a loving review (4/5) of our debut album Mind Yr P's & Q's, which came out yesterday. We've really kicked it into high gear: sold about 10 copies of the tape at our release show!

The Full Article Lives Here, but here are some snippits. Obv, you should just go read the whole thing.

"

Their new cassette/digital full-length, Mind Yr P’s & Q’s, shows a rare respect of pop-punk and power-pop musical history that melds a diverse range of influences into a single bright point. You can hear the same careful attention in every minute of this record, which sadly departed bands like the Ergs!, Sicko and J Church were known for without sounding exactly like any of them. 

... 

TPATY understand that it isn't the grand sweeping gestures of say, Angels & Airwaves, that make great records; it's the little things that on the surface don’t make a large impression, but if removed would devoid the recording of all its charm.

" 

Read more: http://www.punknews.org/review/9031#ixzz0floBgq2t

TPATY Reviewed & Interviewed by Reviewsic

The Chicago-based, always-on-top-of-all-things-indie weblog Reviewsic has written a flattering review of our album, and we did a little interview too! Here's a little snippit. Should you want to read the whole thing (and you should), here's the full article.

Raucous, rowdy, and riot inducing, Chicago Punx The Please and Thank You’s deliver a perfect blend of 90’s emo, garage rock, and inevitably, punk. With a style that stems and flows from such cited influences as Braid and NOFX, The Please and Thank Yous make music meant to be moved around to, something TPATY fans have definitely taken note of over the years.... (continue to the full article)

And for those of you who've never been to Reviewsic.com before, bookmark the site. They do a weekly roundup of shows around town, and they're always talking to or about great bands (La Dispute, Joie De Vivre, Pianos Become The Teeth, and more!)

Fuck Yeah!

Here's a vid of us performing a new song on our weekend tour last weekend, during the Super Bowl. We thought The Who were totally weak, so we tried to make up for it.

If you want to see more from our set, or other bands that I've "filmed", go to my YouTube channel. I record video of some of the bands I go to see and try to put up as many as I can on there.

Also, here's a another write up about us from the internuts, written by Alex Stewart over at Sock Monkey Sound:

Unlike Geronimo, TPATY don’t have any clue about what the fuck they’re doing. That is what’s great about them. They’re hopelessly shambolic in all of the right ways. Classic, cartoonish pop punk. Nice. 

I think that's the second review that equates us to shambles. Fuck yeah! 

Punk News Is Stoked!!!

So here's some actual news involving our record!

• Punknews will be streaming our album the week before its release
• We are releasing the album digitally via Death To False Hope Records on February 15th
• We will be playing on Feb 15th at Ronny's in Logan Square (Chicago) with Imadethismistake (RI), Johnny Bodacious & The Bad Attitudes, and Everything Is Ruined. It will be our record release show, but it will also be other things, like an awesome night (despite being a Monday and 21+)
• All Ages Radio out in Naperville had us on the number one spot on their countdown Friday night, which has us stoked. They live on the internet here, and there is also an archive of the show: http://www.wonc.org/ and it's 89.1fm in the western suburbs of Chicago

Also

• One of the first reviews of our debut album has surfaced on the blog Can You See The Sunset From The South Side? (Lifetime reference, yes!!!).  Some of my favorite parts of the review include but are not limited to:

"I’m a sucker for gritty pop punk, and while this isn’t gritty in a gruff way, it borders on being lo-fi and ramshackle so, yeah, I pretty much love it."

"It’s almost as if The Please & Thank Yous would be perfect as an indie prom dance band."

The entire review can be read here:

canyouseethesunset.com | tpaty - mind yr p's & q's

More to come!

Woah, Bro

that last post is even more meaningful to me now, because tonight at ian's party, mikey erg! played guitar for the dopamines. it was stokeful. i grabbed his thigh.

in other news, we got written up in the Reader. they called our lyrics "wishy-washy" ... can that be used as a compliment, or did we just get dissed hard on the internuts? either way i'm fucking stoked we got mentioned on such an incredible bill.

"

The Please & Thank-Yous sound like Weezer Lite, but in a good way. Their simple, dreamy guitar melodies, wishy-washy lyrics, and emotionally charged background vocals make for perfect bop-your-head-to-it pop punk. (Playing the Gasthaus at 10:10 PM.)

"

the whole shebang:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2009/12/30/youre-invited-to-ians-party

Someone noticed us (score)

Direct link to teh review:
http://performermag.blogspot.com/2009/11/live-review-manque-sweet-talk-please.html?showComment=1258051833849#c8162532368612712882


And some vids of this show taken by our friend Wade:

Modern Goth

The Please and Thank You's #3 from Wade Rodgers on Vimeo.

Ligeia

The Please and Thank You's #2 from Wade Rodgers on Vimeo.

Bollywood Ending

The Please and Thank You's # 1 from Wade Rodgers on Vimeo.




November 9, 2009

Live Review: Manque // Sweet Talk // Please and Thank Yous // Slingshot Dakota // Cloud Mouth

The Please and Thank Yous

Summer Camp // Chicago, IL // Tuesday, Oct. 13

Summer Camp probably hosts the largest volume to venue size ratio in the history of venues. Save the opener, everyone who played this show played mind-blowingly loudly in the most intimate space I've ever been in. The stage was on the same level as the audience space and bands were free to set up their equipment and interact with the crowd however they liked. It was like I was incubating in the opposite of a sensory deprivation chamber. A recommended experience for sure.

Manqué opened the set intimately by drawing the crowd around her and embarking on a string of simple and intensely personal songs. Sounding a bit like Hannah Jones of the Ghost Mice doing '90s slowcore, Manqué played completely without amplification or pretense with the attitude of someone sharing songs for a group of close friends. Her lyrical melancholia ranged from the sweet-and-silly, i.e. "I think your heart's in the wrong place / maybe somewhere between your spleen and kidneys," to the straight-up heartbreaking: "Please don't break our suicide pact, because if I have to do it alone, I'm not going to be happy." The sincerity was at once disarming and endearing.

Sweet Talk

Next to take the stage was Sweet Talk, a two-piece who delivered a driving performance. The amplification absolutely overpowered the small space in which they played. The heavily fuzzed guitar vibrated at such a frequency as to make it feel
like there were little worms made of steel wool copulating in my eardrum. It was loud as loud gets and ear-bleedingly good. The band's singer-guitarist slung himself over the mic screaming, while the drummer played fast and shoeless behind.

The Please and Thank Yous infused their set with hints of old-school punk. Without letting up on the loud, they had a more nonchalant vibe in contrast to Sweet Talk's utmost urgency. Their song structure owed a good deal to '70s punk roots, which their singer/guitarist silently acknowledged by wearing a Ramones shirt.

Slingshot Dakota

Setting up the room so that they were centered and the audience had to cluster around them in a circle, Slingshot Dakota gave a full-length foreword to their performance,
fraternizing with the crowd by discussing their evening at the Chicago Diner, their awesome waiter Don and the giant peanut butter shakes. With just a drumkit and a heavily distorted keyboard (never has that much fuzz been laid over a synth), they went on to deliver some of the most awesome electropunk I've ever had the luck of hearing. Carly Comando sang over her keyboard while Tom Patterson pounded out pantsless beats (he had on bike shorts) and sang backup across from her. The two (who are also a couple – hooray rock love!) tended to look right at each other while performing song after electrifying song. The music just kept exploding out from these guys – you'd be hard-pressed to find a two-piece deliver a more energetic set.

Reverting to the stage, Cloud Mouth rounded out the night with a solid set. Their sound bordered on the art-punk and avant-garde as they navigated some unusual song structures, but they never veered into the pretentious. The distinct and varied guitar riffs and basslines, as well as the proximity of their guitarist to their bassist, made it feel almost like there was a duel going on, but I couldn't tell you who won. It was a pretty close match. I felt like I was in the presence of a sound too big for the venue, a sound meant to echo in long halls, but at the same time, Summer Camp's tightness provides an intimacy that you don't get anywhere else. There's something about watching bands play a few feet away, especially when those bands are filling the space with sound that makes just about everybody's head explode from awesomeness overload.

-Sasha Geffen

Article in the Chicago Tribune? Backed...

the best part is that they liken "hey usa" to "america, fuck yeah," which is our 'get pumped' jam, we play it on the way to shows, and sing it when we take breaks during practice. they nailed us.

written by andy downing:

The Please & Thank Yous

Despite the polite name, the Please & Thank Yous are far from goody two-shoes. Just check the local quartet's "The Blow Reilly Factor" (streaming at myspace.com/tpaty), where frontman Geoffrey Schott delivers a hilarious screed that could've earned the crew a mention on the Fox News commentator's "Pinheads and Patriots" segment (sample lyric: "I couldn't even get through the introduction of your book").

Further evidence of the group's offbeat sense of humor can be found by glancing at its MySpace site (Jeremy Upton's contributions are listed as "guitar, aimless banter, stage presence"). But the jokes would mean little if the music didn't work. Fortunately, it does, particularly on the Smoking-Popes-meets-Randy-Newman crunch of "Hey U.S.A.," a clean-cut cousin to "Team America: World Police's" unprintable theme song.