The Heligoats are on tour this Winter/Spring 2010 with the latest full-length, “Goodness Gracious,” now available on Greyday Records. The CD packages were hand printed and assembled by Bison Bookbinding and Letterpress in Bellingham, Washington and look marvelous! You can order one by clicking GOODS to your left, or by coming to see a show. The first half of the tour is posted on the SHOWS page. Stay tuned for regular show updates and contact us if you’d like us to swing through your parts. We will be spending February and March crossing the U.S. and then again in May and June. Stay tuned for cool tour news and information on another new record this Summer.

For now, be our friend on Facebook if you aren’t already. We will be regularly updating from the road.

Tell NPR you’d like to see The Heligoats on their SXSW stage in Austin, TX this year by posting on this blog.

Listen to “Goodness Gracious” streaming @ www.absolutepunk.net for the first week of it’s release, starting January 26th.

Dig on a recent Daytrotter Session

Thank you for your support.

Hello dear friends of the Heligoats! It has been exactly one year (to the day!) since the release of The End of All Purpose EP. We were able to venture around the U.S. a few times with it this past year. NPR and Idolator had a few nice things to say about it, we made a video and we were thrilled to be a part of Clem Snide’s Spring/Summer 09 touring. Thank you to everyone who came out to the shows and bought the record. If you would like to attain a copy, just click right here.

We are excited to announce that the follow-up full length is sated for January 26th, 2010. It is called “Goodness Gracious” and it was recorded between tours this year in Chicago, IL. Erik Rasmussen was the lord of the board, John Ludwig provided some added sparkle and Andrew Chavez ran the entire project through his laboratory. I was able to convince the Chicago band, Ulysses S. Grant, to be my backing band for the record, and the entire project was a tremendous effort from everyone. Hence, Goodness Gracious. We’re very excited to have the record coming out with Portland, OR’s Greyday Records again and to spend the better part of the new year touring around with it. Full band shows will start early in the new year and take us in every direction on the map. Please let us know if we should arrange to happen through your parts, as shows are already being set up!

The Heligoats will also be pressing more of the “Seeds EP” if you were not able to get one of the first run. New shirts and posters will be added to the STORE in the coming weeks too.

In the meantime, stay tuned to the website, myspace, and/or facebook page for regular updates and winter survival tips. You can find Chris currently playing a November residence at the Green Frog in Bellingham, WA with The Librarians. Ulysses S. Grant are playing around Chicago and we will be combining forces again in a couple months.

Thank you for your support. More soon!

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Hello friends. This is a website for the Heligoats, the solo project of a fellow named Chris. The big news of the hour is that The Heligoats are currently on tour supporting the magnificent Clem Snide. The Spring tour should be all kinds of fun, and now that we’ve got our own little house in the web, we can keep you updated along the way. See the shows page for all the dates. Stay tuned to this new website as we will be starting to regularly update it with cool stuff.

We’d like to say right away that this snazzy oasis would not have been born without the assistance of the brave and wildly inspiring Diona, Joe, Ralph and Jon. So, thank you to them, and thank you to you for stopping by.

It has been a busy year for me, with a lengthy tour this past Fall in support of The End of All Purpose – the colossally produced Heligoats full-on, full band 6 song EP Released by Greyday Records Oct. 28th 08, as well as sporadic shows to all corners of the country and simultaneously getting a new record started.

2009 started off with a bang, and has a lot more to offer. West coast dates with Clem Snide have just been posted. Summer plans are being set and they include finishing some songs I’m recording and having them posted and out this year.

Some new audio, video and items will be posted in the weeks to come.
Thanks for stopping by, keep in touch!