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Many of have been watching the tour dates page closely, hoping that the empty dates before and after the February 23rd show in Pennsylvania are going to be filled with shows in New York, New Jersey, and/or New England. Unfortunately, we don’t have any news for you. You’re going to have to keep watching.

While CC Management has confirmed that the band has several pitches for potential shows north of PA, nothing has materialized yet…and there’s no guarantee that something will. So should you buy your tickets for the New Holland, PA show this week and start making travel plans? I don’t think you need to yet. Keep an eye out on the tour dates page (also on our sidebar here) and watch your email. You should be getting something from CC next week regarding the tour.

And if a show does get booked in New Haven, Boston, Albany, or Newark, we’ll let you know here. That would be wicked cool.

i was browsing through the Caedmon’s Flickr account and came across this picture, which made me laugh. No, not at Cliff without a hat. There is nothing wrong with Cliff’s head, and if there was, why would i laugh at that? That would be rude. And besides, Cliff is a stud. (So save the “Cliff needs to put a hat on” jokes for some other time)

What i was laughing at was Andy’s expression. He looks so unamused with David Dobson, the photographer. That Andy O is such a rock star! And while we’re here, Derek and the rest of the band don’t look very thrilled either…

What’s that? You didn’t know there was a Caedmon’s Flickr account?

Well now you do…

INO asked us to pass along this link, and so we gladly do…

There’s a site on the interwebs called iLike, and on it you can do stuff involving music and interaction and stuff. It’s like MySpace meets your CD collection, only your CDs kick the snot out of myspace and leave it bleeding in the boys bathroom.

All that to say that we have no idea what iLike is, but if you’re interested click on through and see which Caedmon’s songs their users have deemed the best.

bryan

Here’s the skinny:

1. Guild Rooms will be open after the show for 20 minutes in a room to be decided.
2. The location of the room will be announced before the show.
3. Bring your Guild card to come hang out.

Hey folks, Bryan here. How are you? Good? That’s great. Me too. Let’s talk about Grey’s Anatomy, since it airs TONIGHT and I know you have questions.

Question: Why are you making such a big deal about Caedmon’s being on Grey’s?

Answer: Because it’s an Emmy Award winning show that has been ranked in the top 10 in viewers since its inception. And because the Caedmon’s song that will be featured on the show tonight, “10,000 Angels”, will be playing during the last 5 minutes of the show. When was the last time you heard the same song playing on a tv show for that long of a time?

Question: Is Caedmon’s getting such huge national exposure because they are bribing executives at ABC?

Answer: Of course not. And even if they did, it wouldn’t matter. Putting together a TV show takes the effort and creative genius of a lot of people. Even if you were an executive producer on the show who happened to be a Caedmon’s Call fan, you couldn’t just stick their music into the show because you liked them. If it wasn’t any good, you’d get laughed right out of the cutting room. (there is an actual cutting room, right?).

The song is a great one, and that’s why it’s being used in such an important moment. Congrats to Derek and Sandra for writing it, and congrats to the whole band for a great performance on it.

Question: Important moment? Really?

Answer: Sure. It’s the season finale. And with the writer’s strike ongoing, who knows when we’ll see new episodes of the show. Heck, right now there’s something on the front page of Yahoo! about the show’s finale tonight. So yeah, it is kindof a big deal.

Question: What do you want me to do about it?

Answer: Well, you can post about it on your blog or your favorite message board, if you like. Let people know that the song was featured, and let them know that they can go here and buy the song if they don’t have one of the limited pre-releases.

Question: Do you have any resources I can use to make my blog post look dope?

Answer: Of course. If you go here, you can get some nice visuals just for the occasion. Like so:

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Question: What time and channel is it on?

Answer: What do i look like, TV Guide? It’s on TONIGHT on ABC at 9pm.

Question: By the way, does Caedmon’s Call have a Facebook?

Answer: They do now.

Question: Are we done here?

Answer: Yup. Enjoy the show!

Just a reminder to everyone: after a couple of slips, “10,000 Angels” will be on Grey’s Anatomy’s season-ending episode this Thursday night, January 10th. Didn’t buy it on iTunes yet? INO Records has an MP3 of “10,000 Angels” that will be available for the next few days.

Update, Thursday: Derek told me last night that it’s at the very end of the show.

Later update: Sandra is giving away her demo MP3. She played it last night, too, and I should have a good recording of it. :)