This is where new band news would go. Not too much news since 2007, I'm afraid.
posted by don, Wednesday, April 30, 2025 11:40 AM
we're playing at the nectar in fremont with cougar and fires to the east. this will be our last 21+ show, as we have sworn off "bar shows." doors at 9, you want to catch the other bands on the bill as well, as they rule.
posted by don, Monday, January 15, 2007 08:42 AM
look, the role playing game theme just wasn't working for me. i feel a new need for us to be more in line with our political values and role playing games are basically just wastes of time. are we wastes of time? is that what we represent? i hope not. so i wasted a few hours be redesigning the website. again. i hope you like it. be sure to get a non-microsoft browser so it looks decent.
edited by don, Wednesday, December 27, 2006 1:43 PM
i got bored. i'm a nerd. therefore, new website design. based on 1/2 the band's favorite or second favorite rpg which is loosely based on the lord of the rings trilogy. if you find spelling errors or 404 errors, please let us know. be sure to check out the videos page, too. enjoy the site!
posted by don, Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:25 PM
bummed out that you missed our last show and weren't able to pick up our new CD EP? no problem, we'll ship one to you! just visit this page, click the "buy now" button, and send us $6. read more on that page to find out why this will never make us rich so you don't have to worry about us selling out.
edited by don, Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:23 PM
special thanks to all those that showed up at el corazon last night. it was a fun show with a great line up. stalin's war was awesome and made me miss santa cruz a bit. fall from grace showed us how to work a crowd. and kane hodder melted our face off with rock power. plus, all the bands were really nice.
we're headed south tonight for a couple shows out of town and some camping adventures. i can't imagine a more positive feeling to leave with. see you out there.
posted by don, Friday, August 11, 2006 10:05 AM
that's right, the writing, recording, mixing, and mastering process is complete. the cd's are being duplicated now and should get back to us by 8-10-06 for us to assemble and then sell. each cd cost us about $4.08 to produce. we'll sell them locally for $5 and ship them for $6. look for a fancy online purchasing system soon.
cd's will first be available at our 8-10 show at el corazon with kane hodder, fall from grace and stalin's war. that show will rule. see you there!
posted by don, Tuesday, August 1, 2006 9:40 AM
remember when the capitol hill block party was just a bunch of folks having a party in the street and everyone could show up for free? oh, those halcyon days are not quite gone yet! check out our show page for a free, all-ages capitol hill block party of our own. see you there!
posted by don, Friday, June 30, 2006 10:15 PM
recording an ep: soon.
playing some shows: probably soon.
touring: this summer fo' sho'
new songs: two so far.
website re-design: maybe.
myspace: still rockin'.
george w. bush: still a bastard.
united states: room to improve.
say hi!
edited by don, Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:51 PM
... we must do something. If you're in Seattle, gather at 2nd and Marion (The Federal Building) and at least participate in a march. visit answerseattle.org for more information. i'll bring our back issues of slingshot anarchist newspaper to hand out. see you there.
posted by don, Friday, March 10, 2006 7:02 PM
Hey kids! We're hoping to go on tour this summer. Check out our myspace page and see if you can help us fill some dates. The plan is late July, playing all ages venues, and heading south to san diego and back. Perhaps we'll even make a new recording by then...
posted by don, Tuesday, March 7, 2006 6:17 PM
Hello folks. If you're looking to see the exempli kids in action on the live stage, I would suggest visiting us at El Corazon for an early all-ages show. We'd love to see you there!
posted by don, Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:04 PM
Hello all. We've got some super shows coming up. Check out the show on December 10th at The LAB. We're playing with Woke Up Falling, The Four Colour Process and You May Die in the Desert. A great lineup, in my opinion.
Also, we're playing a benefit for The Forgotten Children's Fund in Olympia. If you're in the area, you have no excuse not to show up. Or maybe you do. But I'll scold you anyhow.
posted by don, Sunday, December 4, 2005 10:31 PM
Our CD is available at your local Sonic Boom Records for only $2.99. It will be at listening stations for the month of September. Go out and get a copy. Or order one online! Thank you!!
posted by don, Sunday, September 4, 2005 11:34 PM
We are playing an awesome show at Ground Zero on the 18th of November at 8PM. Joules, You May Die in the Desert, and Bird Show of North America. These are all bands you should check out, if I do say so myself. Ground Zero is at 257 100th NE in Bellevue. All-ages!!
posted by don, Thursday, November 11, 2005 8:13 AM
let it be known that we are playing at the paradox. august 6th, 8PM, $6. come out and support the best all-ages venue in town. we're playing with boss tweeter, hollis brown, november trials. this will be good.
edited by don, Friday, July 29, 2005 1:53 PM
hello all. our recording is completed. the downloads page is updated. the demo page is updated. the releases page will be updated soon. thanks for stopping by, leave us a comment on the new songs.
posted by don, Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:15 AM
hey, show up to our show this saturday! it will be on a huge outdoor stage with a bunch of cool bands and will help to fight breast cancer. check out the live page or here for more information. The show starts at 6:30 PM. See you there!
posted by don, Wednesday, June Wed, 9 PM
If I may direct your attention to our "Live" page, we have an all-ages show coming up. As promised.
posted by morgan, Tuesday, April 9, 9 PM
Thanks to everyone who made our house show a success. I'm glad we had enough pasta for everybody (although maybe not enough plates), and I'm glad so many people could make it. Mostly I wanted to thank Woke Up Falling, who came all the way here for the sole purpose of rocking our socks off. We were all blown away. We're seriously considering having it be a regular deal, having house shows more frequently. We're also talking about having it be all-ages, or at least sometimes, but that means that we can't have any alcohol. That's fine with us, but some bands/fans might have a preference. If we get an overwhelming amount of feedback one way or another, we'll go with it. So, write in and let us know: all ages shows, or shows with alcohol but no kids?
posted by morgan, Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:41 PM
Ok, I have to apologize to everyone that I invited to our show who is under 21. We talked about it, and came to the conclusion that we don't really have enough control over substance use here. So, while none of us drink or use drugs, it is conceivable that someone might come by and happen to have something on them, and the police might happen to break up our show and discover a controlled or illegal substance on the premises. In the unlikely case this occurs, and there are minors present, it would be very bad for Don, who is a public school teacher, and he could lose his job. So, the bottom line is, we can't have any minors over for our show. I'm really sorry I told some younger people to come by, because we have to have a 21+ age limit. We're trying to get an all-ages show in April, and if we can manage it, we'll post the information here as soon as it's official.
posted by morgan, Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:27 PM
it's time we did something to make this scene better. we're having a show at our house. putting our money where our mouth is. check the live page for more information. see you saturday the 26th.
edited by don, Monday, March 21, 2005 5:56 PM
thank you to all of the people that showed up for our last two shows. the blue moon show was very fun and we loved playing with juhu beach. special thanks to those bands and people that showed up to the rendezvous show and allowed me to break even on promotion costs. finally, thanks to all our new friends on myspace. if you haven't signed up to be our friend, that is the place to do it.
posted by don, Monday, December 27, 2004 11:37 AM
Just so that _everybody_ knows, we've got some shows coming up listed on the "live shows" page. Of course. Also, we're in the process of re-vamping our studio. That means turning it into a vampire. Again. We'll be putting some new songs up when we get it all set up, and when Kawabata gets back from jolly old UK. And when we're not playing shows. So, the end of the month, or early January, maybe.
edited by morgan, Friday, December 3, 9:00 PM
in an attempt to spread the exempli gratia word, i've signed us up at purevolume.com and myspace.com. they may be a source for more mp3s in the future if our space or bandwidth ever runs out. check us out at http://www.purevolume.com/exempligratia or http://www.myspace.com/exempligratia. on myspace.com, you can be our friend. click here. .
edited by don, Tuesday, July 27, 2004 3:24 PM
there is now a new demo at demo.exempli.com. it contains four songs: "even bikers need espresso," "the math song," "freeze you rebel scum," and "kill the whale." upon request, a cd copy can be sent to you for one dollar plus shipping. just contact us. there are also two new songs ("if you don't help me, i'll be dead by tonight" and "minus the clown shoes") on the downloads page. enjoy.
posted by don, Saturday, June Sat, 9 PM
Ok, you've seen the lyrics for the new songs; now we've finally got them recorded. Hopefully, posting some news may spur us to actually put the new songs on the site. So, coming soon? I guess?
posted by morgan, Saturday, May Sat, 9 PM
well i'm bored, alright? i had some time to kill so i converted a bunch of our recordings to mp3 and posted them here for your listening pleasure. please feel free to comment. thanks.
edited by don, Tuesday, March 9, 2004 5:45 PM
Ok, hey, I finally got a job. And go figure, it was the competition to my old job. Yes, Sonic Boom Records, Capitol Hill location. Orpheum used to be my base of operations, and since they closed down last summer, I've been a bit less reachable. However, now you can hang out with me any Tuesday, Saturday, or Sunday, at 514 15th Street East, Seattle. You know, like, if you want to talk about music, or pick up our latest demo, or buy used records, or bring me pizza. Or say hi. Hi!
posted by morgan, Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:59 AM
thank you to everyone that came to the show at second ave. pizza. we appreciate the turnout and hope you all had fun. i know i did. we hope to see you again at the next show.
posted by don, Monday, November 24, 2003 9:50 PM
Universal Music Group is going to bring down the wholesale prices of their cds. Check here for my little rant about it
posted by ian, Thursday, September Thu, 9 PM
Regretably, it's true. It's estimated that Orpheum Records will be closing its doors by the end of the month, possibly as early as the 15th of June. But I wanted to give something back to all our customers who have been so awesome over the years, so Exempli Gratia will be playing a free show on Sunday, June 15th, at approximately 7:30 pm. We'll have free refreshments and tons of super-cheap cd's. Come help us go out in style! And if you've never checked out the totally awesome record store where I've worked for the last four great years, this is your last chance. Orpheum is located at 618 Broadway E. in Seattle.
posted by morgan, Thursday, June Thu, 9 PM
What's shaking kids? We played another show last night, this time at the Central Saloon in Pioneer Square. This was our first show at a bar, so that was kinda funny. Crowd was minimal but enjoyable, and the soundguy was awesome. I think we played the shortest set of all the bands, but thats ok. In any case thanks to those that put this show together, hopefully we'll have some all ages shows this summer. ok, that's all, bye for now...
edited by ian, Monday, June Mon, 9 PM
thanks to everyone that showed up at the 2AP show. the show was completely awesome in my opinion. special thanks to alicia and chunk for running and setting up the whole thing. we hope they achieved their donation goals. keep up the good work kids.
posted by don, Thursday, April Thu, 9 PM
april 7th! 6pm! 2nd avenue pizza! why am i yelling?! go to the show!
edited by don, Wednesday, April 2, 2003 12:53 AM
As many of you know the US has started its attack on Iraq. For me personally, it is the manner in which the US is pushing this war that troubles me. Through propoganda (like CNN) and fear (the roundup of 100's of US citizens of Arab decent) our government is waging war on a nation that has been subject to embargo and violence for over a decade. In my opinion this is a war against any who would stand up to the biggest bully on the block, namely the United States. We follow those laws we agree with, and break those we disagree with. We act in defiance of the United Nations Security Council and alienate and attack all those who would oppose us. Please visit Not in our Name for some very important information and facts, including how YOU can get involved with letting our government know that our Cowboy President does NOT represent America. (end of rant) -Ian
edited by ian, Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:02 PM
So it has been a little while since this has been updated, so here is what we have been up to in the past month: We have set out recording most of the rest of our songs. We have been writing some new songs, two of which are getting close to being complete. Hopefully in the next week there will be some new mp3's available for download. Thats all for now.
posted by ian, Saturday, February 8, 2003 5:41 PM
thanks to everyone that showed up on the 4th at ground zero. we appreciated all the support for our first show. we hope to see you all again at the next one.
if you didn't pick up some free stuff, let us know and we can get some to you. for example, if you missed the cd, just download the songs from here.
thanks again.
posted by don, Monday, January 6, 2003 7:01 PM
we've added the song lyrics to the site now. click on "music" to get there.
we've also fixed the [kill the whale] download. thanks for the tip.
be sure to come to the show on saturday. look for a poster around your neighborhood soon. or just click on "live" to get the low down. see you saturday.
posted by don, Tuesday, December 31, 2002 3:11 PM
we have added some pictures for you to enjoy or ridicule. take a peek at the gentlemen behind the scenes. or in front of the scenes. or whatever. more pictures and some song lyrics on the way.
posted by don, Monday, December 30, 2002 2:06 AM
So today we added some graphics, wonderful cartoons of us done be Margaret A. Trotter. They look great, so thank you M! We also uploaded two mp3's for you to check out. You can find them here. These are the first two songs realeased by the band in any shape or form, recorded in our studio in one afternoon. Please feel free to pass these around, copy, distribute, upload, etc. Share it, burn it, put it on a mix tape. Thanks for listening.
edited by ian, Sunday, December 22, 2002 11:43 PM
We've worked hard on the site and hope you enjoy it. If you can't find the information you're looking for, feel free to contact us. We'll add it to the site.
Special thanks to Rhia for doing most of the web design, and ImageLink USA for cheap hosting.
edited by don, Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:34 AM
