DES ARK

EURO TOUR! SOLO! wanna help? i'll hug you & then try & make you fucking cry. very confusing.

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:33:41 -0400

HEY FOLKS! We’re planning a solo EUROPE tour for September. If you can help us by setting up a show, or if you know where the HUGEST rollercoaster is (& i’m serious now, we only want the hugest. as in hugest), please be in touch with Mika Risiko! sissters@coraille.com

FULL BAND, Y’ALL. see you thursday. #raleigh #tirnanog...

Mon, 07 May 2012 08:19:59 -0400

FULL BAND, Y’ALL. see you thursday. #raleigh #tirnanog (Taken with instagram)

THAT’S HOW IT’S DONE.

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:10:19 -0400

THAT’S HOW IT’S DONE.

:::MINI EURO SOLO TOUR BEGINS TOMORROW::: short & sweet,...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:50:06 -0400

:::MINI EURO SOLO TOUR BEGINS TOMORROW:::
short & sweet, y’all…

04/05 BERLIN GERMANY @ SCHOKOLADEN w/Mika Risiko, Pete the Pirate Squid
04/07 HAMBURG GERMANY @ STRIPS & STORIES
04/08 MARBURG GERMANY @ CAFE TRAUMA w/Mika Risiko, m0ck
04/11 BERLIN GERMANY @ KNOCHENBOX w/Mika Risiko
04/12 PRAGUE CZECH REPUBLIC @ SALÉ

Last show of tour happening now. It’s been awesome,...

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:27:54 -0400

Last show of tour happening now. It’s been awesome, y’all.

SURPRISE BERLIN SHOW! At a fuckin karaoke bar…cuz...

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:45:44 -0400

SURPRISE BERLIN SHOW! At a fuckin karaoke bar…cuz Berliners know how we like to party. Tonight Leipzig, tomorrow Berlin, then euro hangtime/mini solo tour begins. More details sooooon.

Note to self: Always bring your two favorite DJs in tour....

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:45:57 -0400

Note to self: Always bring your two favorite DJs in tour. @noshjee #mikarisiko Ljubljana, SLOVENIA (Taken with instagram)

@desark: We’re keeping a photo tour journal over at...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:56:02 -0400

@desark: We’re keeping a photo tour journal over at Instagram! Search “desark” for full access to one more sloppy stream of ceaseless vanity. We are being at one with the times and whatever!

Welcome to my awesome world of photoshop skills,...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:52:00 -0500

Welcome to my awesome world of photoshop skills, y’all.

FINAL EUROPEAN TOUR DATES ARE UP! All dates are with our bff’s Sissters! PLUS A COUPLE SUPER SURPRISE LAST MINUTE NC SHOWS BEFORE WE LEAVE!

Help us spread the word if you can, I think they say “tweet that shit.”

02.25.12 DURHAM NC @ LA SALAMANDRA w/Maple Stave, Minor Stars
02.26.12 GREENSBORO NC @ 412 N. CEDAR w/Romantic Animal
03.01.12 BERLIN GERMANY @ MARIE-ANTOINETTE w/Sissters
03.02.12 HAMBURG GERMANY @ CENTRO SOCIALE w/Sissters
03.03.12 MARBURG GERMANY @ BETTENHAUS w/Sissters
03.04.12 MÜLHEIM GERMANY @ AZ w/Sissters
03.05.12 UTRECHT NETHERLANDS @ DB’S w/Sissters
03.06.12 AACHEN GERMANY @ AZ w/Sissters
03.07.12 LUXEMBOURG @ DQLIQ w/Sissters
03.08.12 PARIS FRANCE @ LE RIGOLETTO w/Sissters
03.09.12 LE MANS FRANCE @ UNION JACK w/Sissters
03.10.12 ANGERS FRANCE @ LA CONSERVARIE w/Sissters
03.12.12 TOULOUSE FRANCE @ PETIT LONDON w/Sissters
03.13.12 GRENOBLE FRANCE @ LE 102 w/Sissters
03.14.12 LYON FRANCE @ LA TRIPERIE w/Sissters
03.15.12 GENEVA SWITZERLAND @ L’ECURIE w/Sissters
03.16.12 WINTERTHUR SWITZERLAND @ KRAFTFELD w/Sissters
03.17.12 FREIBURG GERMANY @ WHITE RABBIT w/Sissters
03.18.12 STRASBOURG FRANCE @ MUDD CLUB w/Sissters
03.19.12 TRIER GERMANY @ EXHAUS w/Sissters
03.20.12 FRANKFURT GERMANY @ TBA w/Sissters
03.21.12 WÜRZBURG GERMANY @ CAIRO w/Sissters
03.22.12 NÜRNBERG GERMANY @ K4 w/Sissters
03.23.12 MÜNCHEN GERMANY @ KAFE KULT w/Sissters
03.24.12 SALZBURG AUSTRIA @ SHAKESPERE w/Sissters
03.26.12 LJUBLJANA SLOVENIA @ MENZA PRI KORITU w/Sissters
03.27.12 VIENNA AUSTRIA @ SHELTER w/Sissters
03.28.12 BRNO CZECH REPUBLIC @ BORO CLUB w/Sissters
03.29.12 PRAGUE CZECH REPUBLIC @ FINAL CLUB w/Sissters
03.30.12 DRESDEN GERMANY @ AZ CONNI w/Sissters
03.31.12 LEIPZIG GERMANY @ ZORRO w/Sissters, Polite Sleeper

1st show w/@noshjee bout to happen (Baton Rouge//Red Star Bar)....

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:39:09 -0500

1st show w/@noshjee bout to happen (Baton Rouge//Red Star Bar). STOKED. (Taken with instagram)

My sister shows #howard her rock collection. “So I...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:41:58 -0500

My sister shows #howard her rock collection. “So I can’t lick it?” “No. Don’t lick that.” #drunk #nerds (Taken with instagram)

Solving the radio-less 15hr road trip crisis (Taken with...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:18:51 -0500

Solving the radio-less 15hr road trip crisis (Taken with instagram)

You can now pick up copies of the new record at Chaz’s...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:22:03 -0500

You can now pick up copies of the new record at Chaz’s Bull City Records (Durham), All Day Records (Carrboro) & CD Alley (Chapel Hill)! You can still order it online from Paramnesia Records, & it we’ll have it with us on our European tour in March. (I’m talking about WXDU V3…live mostly solo acoustic radio thing sometimes featuring johnny ward (pygmylush)…you can read reviews of it here & here.)

Thanks to the Independent Weekly for a nice review of WXDU...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:33:55 -0500

Thanks to the Independent Weekly for a nice review of WXDU V.3!

I’m hoping to have these in local stores by the weekend. That means All Day Records & Chaz’s Bull City Records. Out-of-towners: you can visit Paramnesia Records for online ordering. The artwork is hang-on-your-wall-able. #hangonyrwallable “hang on your wallable” kohlrabi. whatever. i’m fuckin tiiiiiiired.

More about this release here!

TICKETS BOOKED!!!!!!!!!! SO STOKED!!!!!!!!!!!! EURO TOUR...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:07:18 -0500

TICKETS BOOKED!!!!!!!!!! SO STOKED!!!!!!!!!!!! EURO TOUR #6!!!!!!!!!!!! VEGAN CROISSANTS!!!!!!!!!!! SITZGRUPPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it seems we’re still having some trouble booking a Paris show for March 8! if you have any leads, please be in touch!

maybe this is a good time to tell you that it’s probably my fault we can’t get a paris show. i seems i may have walked out of the club mid-set on the last tour. but you know, i was playing solo…people were talking…so i did what i always do—what any reasonable lunatic would do—& i nicely & very politely got up & left. i wanted to make it a REAL solo des ark show, know what i’m sayin? like the kind that communicates how crazy & unstable you have to be to get up on some stage in some country & make noise in front of a bunch of extra good looking strangers. by yourself! you really have to be nuts, i’m telling you.

but for the record, i did invite everyone to follow me outside, where we marched in procession through the starry eyed streets of Paris, until we found ourselves in front of a museum with a bunch of “cool” skateboarders & creepy night loiterers, & i played a completely inaudible set there instead. but the scenery was beautiful. if only you had been there.

then i met some of the kids who were buttering the gnar (is that lame to say? i just looked it up on the internet), sweet teenagers from california who told me all about how they ran away from home and somehow ended up in fucking paris. we totally hugged!

then everybody walked back to the club.

then i got in trouble. it was really intense! but then everybody hugged at the end too, so i dunno.

but also for the record, this is a FULL BAND show. so if you’re talking, it ain’t no thang! we’ll just turn the fuck up! we’re used to getting in trouble for that.

help?

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:09:30 -0500

alright, gentle people of the internet, here are the dates we need help filling. please be in touch if you have a lead, & please feel free to forward widely!

MARCH 3: west/north Germany, or east Netherlands
MARCH 8: Paris
MARCH 11: between Angers and Toulouse
MARCH 24/25: between München & Ljubljana
MARCH 29: Praha

ok oops! here's the real post about our exciting shit!

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:25:23 -0500

hey everybody!
we’ve got some news!

we are not pregnant.

but we’d like to be…know anyone good?

jk. anyway, we’re leaving for another europe tour soon & we’re fuckin pumped!!! i just dropped an apple core in my bra. cold. we’ve got only a few holes left to fill on this tour…i lost the email that tells me which ones those are…i’ll find that soon because we’d love some help from y’all if you know anybody! all shows will be with the magnificent Sissters from Berlin!

in the meantime, we’d like to formally invite you for a round of FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!s as we welcome DRUMMER NUMBER NINE (let’s say “9 to 12”…i’m losing count over here) into des ark, Mister James-Roman Joshua Nee. i call him “m’lady,” but if that makes you wanna hurl, you can call him Josh Nee. josh currently plays in Thou, who we love. this is just super rad, because he loves to dance. i think? i actually barely know the dude, but i’m pretty sure he loves to dance.

for the record, this does not mean goodbye to Johnny Ward (pygmylush); we are looking forward to writing and recording with johnny in the conundrum of future space & time, but he’s been off surfing in hawaii (no lie, we thought we’d never see his ass again). he’s back, but has other commitments with pygmylush at this time! which means: go see pygmylush!

here’s what i know about josh, either from talking to him or snooping him on the internet (creepy, i know. please don’t judge):
-he plays in thou
-he has a cat named “Dude” (me too! i can’t believe this)
-he is an aries
-he DJs an 80’s night in baton rouge. i went to it. it was good.
-he doesn’t bring “No Surrender” (from born in the USA) to 80’s night. that part about him…ehh…not so cool.
-he seems excited about my idea to power chug a half gallon of euro coffee then go play dress up at H&M
-he loves to go on tour
-he eats meat but also enjoys eating vegan
-i bet his favorite food is pizza, since he’s late to mid 20’s/in a punk band
-he wants to play music all of the time
-he’s very nice and easy to communicate with
-he has a lot of tattoos
-he seems to like to wear a baseball cap
-according to youtube, he knows how to play at least one black sabbath song
-this man is not scared of fun.

& that concludes our profile of josh nee.

i’ve updated the tour section & will keep it updated as things keep happening. there will likely be a brief 1-2 week solo europe tour to follow, so if you’d like to help with any of that, please be in touch with our pal Mika, who is setting up these awesome shows.

also, one more thing: we don’t hate drummers, but drummers just keep having babies or getting real jobs or buying houses and shit like that. i would say “…or buying houses and shit like that…not my problem!” but, it kind of *is* my problem. know what i mean?

EURO TOUR WITH SISSTERS!:
03.01.12 BERLIN GERMANY @ MARIA-ANTOINETTE w/Sissters
03.02.12 HAMBURG GERMANY @ CENTRO SOCIALE w/Sissters
03.04.12 MÜLHEIM GERMANY @ AZ w/Sissters
03.05.12 UTRECHT NETHERLANDS @ TBA w/Sissters
03.06.12 AACHEN GERMANY @ AZ w/Sissters
03.07.12 LUXEMBOURG @ DQLIQ w/Sissters
03.09.12 LE MANS FRANCE @ TBA w/Sissters
03.10.12 ANGERS FRANCE @ LA CONSERVARIE w/Sissters
03.12.12 TOULOUSE FRANCE @ PETIT LONDON w/Sissters
03.13.12 GRENOBLE FRANCE @ TBA w/Sissters
03.14.12 LYON FRANCE @ LA TRIPERIE w/Sissters
03.15.12 GENEVA SWITZERLAND @ L’ECURIE w/Sissters
03.16.12 WINTERTHUR SWITZERLAND @ KRAFTFELD w/Sissters
03.17.12 FREIBURG GERMANY @ WHITE RABBIT w/Sissters
03.18.12 STRASBOURG FRANCE @ MUDD CLUB w/Sissters
03.19.12 TRIER GERMANY @ EXHAUS w/Sissters
03.20.12 FRANKFURT GERMANY @ TBA w/Sissters
03.21.12 WÜRZBURG GERMANY @ CAIRO w/Sissters
03.22.12 NÜRNBERG GERMANY @ K4 w/Sissters
03.23.12 MÜNCHEN GERMANY @ KAFE KULT w/Sissters
03.26.12 LJUBLJANA SLOVENIA @ MENZA PRI KORITU w/Sissters
03.27.12 VIENNA AUSTRIA @ SHELTER w/Sissters
03.28.12 BRNO CZECH REPUBLIC @ BORO CLUB w/Sissters
03.30.12 DRESDEN GERMANY @ AZ CONNI w/Sissters
03.31.12 LEIPZIG GERMANY @ TBA w/Sissters

it’s real (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:08:41 -0500

it’s real (Taken with instagram)

friends getting yr new record in the mail when yr staying...

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:19:01 -0500

friends getting yr new record in the mail when yr staying w/them! super cool! @robotcaptain (Taken with Instagram at Treme)

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Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:05:21 -0500