Seattle's Great SKA Band

Folklife Festival, Memorial Day Weekend Comcast Mural Amphitheater

mrmikef — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:04:52 +0000

Yes it is true. We will be sharing the stage with Skalami, and theDiablotones May 25th at the Folklife festival. Come one come all. This is going to be a great show. Skalami will take the stage at 3:00 and get everyone going. Natalie Wouldn’t will come on board at 3:45 and fire everyone up even more. Then at 4:30ish Diablotones will take it home.

We will be on the Comcast Mural Amphitheater which is the big stage by the fountain. We will also be debuting our new CD “Nick the Beat” it will be available in hard copy at the Folklife music store the whole weekend so pick one up. We are very excited and look forward to seeing all of you there. Please come up after the show and say Hi.

News Flash! you will notice some new faces on stage with us. Sean (Sax player) Rick (trumpet player) and Erik (keys) please welcome them into the Natalie Wouldn’t family.

Cheers.

Our new CD Nick the Beat launched today!

mrmikef — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:49:15 +0000

Yes after all our hard work the new CD is out. Nick The Beat, the 12 song CD just released today on CD Baby. Very soon it will be in 37 different digital distributions and also available at all our shows and in hard copy directly from CD Baby.

This CD is a great mix of real smooth rock steady SKA wrapped up with some great old covers like Free Bird and King of the Road that have been Skaed out Natalie Wouldn’t style. Please check out the new stuff and let us know what you think we love your feedback.

Train Justice coming on the new CD “Nick The Beat!”

mrmikef — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:45:13 +0000

Recently at the SKA fest at Studio Seven we had some great video shot of lots of our songs (thank you Bob). This one song happens to be one of my favorites as well as one of the tracks on our up coming new CD Nick The Beat. I also love this video because some great fans from Oregon made it to the show and got up on stage druing this song and Skanked around a bit. We want to thank those kids and make sure they know we really apperciate thier enthuisam for our music. It keeps us doing what we are doing so thank you.

Natalie Wouldn’t Debut Video for 4 STop

mrmikef — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:00:43 +0000

Ok so Kevin out did himself. (Kevin Crosby) our Bass player IE….. video producer, produced this great little Video for our New CD coming out in about 2 weeks called Nick The Beat. Hope you enjoy the song and the video. The song is called 4STop, you will figure it out.

Cheers.

Natalie Woulnd’t is back in the studio!

mrmikef — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:25:02 +0000

Yes it is true we are back in the Studio recording our next CD. Rick, Mike and Kevin spent the day at the imfamous Egg Studio in Seattle with the one and only Conrad Uno. Known for his role in the amazing Presidents of the United States CD, many of the Young Fresh Fellows albums, the Posies just to name a few.

We recorded 12 tracks of new material that we are very excited about. WE even have a couple of surprises as well. We now just need Shawn our amazing Sax player to get his butt in the studio and some special guest as well and then we will be releasing our new CD by Jan of 09. So keep an eye out and if your not on our list do so by going to www.nataliewouldnt.com and signing up.

Here are a few more photos form our day at the Studio.

Cheers as always.

Finally a new post Geeeeeeezzzzzzzz!

mrmikef — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:59:10 +0000

Yes finally I have awakened form the dead to write a new post on our Natalie Wouldn’t website. So wow it has been awhile. Ok here is what we are up to these days. So after a very fun and alcohol induced tour with the Britts. Second Time Lucky

After they went back to Brighton we all went into detox and are now working our our next CD and hoping to record at Conrad Unos place Egg Studios. Our new CD will be a mix of some older stuff and very new stuff but all with that great Natalie Wouldn’t rock steady feel. So that is all for now Cheers and I promise to do a better job of posting.

Get ready for the England Invasion.

mrmikef — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:30:42 +0000

Ok so if you have been to our website as of late you will notice that June is a slow gig month for us. Why you ask? Well let me first say that musicians need a vacations too. Also we will be hosting a great band from England called 2ndTime lucky. We will have a mini tour going on and so you will really want to get out and see these guys. They are an amazing band. We traveled with them in England last summer and they were very gracious and showed us an amazing time while we were over there so we are retrunning the favor. As you can see on our gig schedule for July on our myspace we are pretty booked the week of the 9th to the 12th. IF you get a chance you want to see these guys I guarnatee it will be a great show.

Folklife Festival 08

mrmikef — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:58:39 +0000

So we did it again, we played at folklife this year. It was fun but for some reason we didn’t get the great grass fountain stage this year so it was a bit melodramatic. The fans however were great and were skanking about as they do. We love our fans and they really do keep us doing what we are doing.

We have to thank Chris, he shot some great video of us and was able to get a feed from the mix and put it all up on youtube for us. Even though the weather wasn’t so great people were there and it was alot of fun. If you didn’t get a chance to go here is a sample of what you missed.

Here is one of your new tunes Temper Temper

El Corazon Show with Natalie Wouldn’t

mrmikef — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:51:43 +0000

Here is a video from Chris that same night of the great Slackers.

First we want to thank Chris for posting this up on You Tube and also thank him for his kind words.

”Great show last night. You gonna work on getting more songs on a cd? Your always playing these cool songs that aren’t on it. Wish they could have started the show a bit sooner being a weekday and all. We had to cut out a little after midnight and didn’t get to see the end of the slackers. Got work and a 60 mile drive back to Roy.
For anyone that wasn’t there here is a little video of a great cover song from yesterday, the sound isn’t too great sorry to say. SKA covers are the best.”
We are coming out with a new CD. We are planning on going into the studio next month and we are very excited, we have of new stuff including this cover King of the Road than will be on the CD.

The show the other night was a lot of fun. I always love seeing Deals Gone Bad, they have such a soulful sound and the Slackers between their banter between the band Members and the ease of their stage presence is just awesome. Diablotones always do a great job and Get down Moses is always sound great. All in all it was a fun show and we will keep everyone posted on the release of our next cd. In the mean time enjoy this video taken by Chris at the El Carazon show this Monday.

Gorman Winery "Rock Show"

mrmikef — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:15:00 +0000

Well what a show this was. This was a 15 set 4 hour show with amazing wines from Chris Gorman like Bulley, and Evil Twin, and great SKA music from Natalie Wouldn’t. The day was amazing with 78 degree weather and lots of wine and lots of really fun and sometimes very drunk people. Give you an idea of how this deal went. Doors opened at 12:00 45 people would rush in while the fog machine ran and the band fired up. As you can see from the photo people were having a great time and they brought their own glasses.

Natalie Wouldn’t would play 3 songs sets. Giving people enough time to get one pour and taste some great wines. When the 3rd song ended people left and then a quick break and the next flood of wine tasters were rushed in. This went on for 4 hours. It was fun and upbeat . Thanks to Chris Groman and all his help it ended up being a great hit.

By the end of the day the Band was tired, the volunteers were tired, and Chris and his wife Kelly, his parents, Sandy and Don were exhausted. WE had fun and really got to experience a great event.