7/26/24 "WHY ARE YOU HERE?" PT 1.

“Why are you here?!”

The last few nights of tour, we've been doing a “T-shirt giveaway, contest, Q&A, whathave you”, and this was the first question lobbed our way, while Andy rocked a 2-beat, as I bent over the stage with the microphone in hand, and my Jazzmaster teetering precariously from my guitar strap.

Looking out on the horizon of faceless people, par can lights blinding stinging eyes from the never ending stage sweat; this innocent question kind of hit us as a doozy. Let me explain.

All I have ever wanted to be was a musician; well, at least since I was twelve. Before that, I wanted to the third baseman for the Boston Red Sox, but that seemed to be a little more unattainable to me, so I picked the other career that seemed “easier”. (Stupid, stupid boy…

Chad GosselinJuly 26, 2024Comment

7/17/24 MODERN TRAUMA SUMMER TOUR

Hey, hey, hey friends, it's the return of The Big Lonesome Tour Blog! (Remember these?)

I don’t even know where to begin on this one… Feels like the last several times I have tried to promote our work, a global event happens; in early 2020, we released Payphones and Ashtrays; this time I write to you with a heavy heart for the people of Palestine and Ukraine, and less than three days from an attempted assassination attempt on Trump, and a little over two weeks since we watched Biden’s clear and obvious decline on (inter)national television.

Chad GosselinJuly 17, 2024Comment

3/18/24 I ALWAYS RAN

Its funny how we change, and struggle with things that came so easy before. I woke up today, quarter past nine, after four weeks of battling a head cold; the northeast, late-winter kind that fills chest, nose, and throat with congestion; and reflected on my old morning routine when I was writing Payphones and Ashtrays.

I was living in what I named my “divorced-dad” apartment; the kind where babies cry through cardboard walls, and voices can be heard as clearly as younger brothers rolling marbles in childhood homes. I would start each day at 4 AM, lace up my running sneakers, and blur through my five mile ritual of gliding over pavement, grassy fields, and fresh crosswalks through the receding night.

Chad GosselinMarch 18, 2024 Comment

1/22/24 THIS FEELS REALLY, REALLY FAMILIAR

I feel like I've been in this exact spot before.... do you know what I mean? I'm definitely older, and this certainly is a different place. But I can't shake this feeling. I had plans this morning to announce our first annual Valentine's/Palentine's Day Show next month at DUSK in Providence, but the inevitable has happened to my (new?) town – the very same thing I was escaping in Boston in the first place – DUSK has come to an unceremonious and abrupt close. Wait.... maybe I have been here before.

Chad GosselinJanuary 22, 2024Comment

12/11/23 Somehow, we haven't spoken since Covid...

12/11/23 Somehow, we haven't spoken like this since before Covid...

It can't really be the end of 2023, can it? I can't believe I haven't written one of these since 2019, and you likely haven't read one of these since 2019. Do you remember who you where (or why you where)? I'm not really sure how to start, because we've all been through so much and experienced so many different things since 2019. I'm certainly not the same, and I know the band isn’t really the same.

Chad GosselinDecember 8, 2023Comment

3/2/19 THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE ASTERISK

3/2/19 iNTRODUCING DREAMCOAST COLLECTIVE

Friends! Its here. I am beyond stoked to announce our top secret new project. (Check out our previous few blogs involving asterisks and innuendo). We have made many a friend over the last few years through nearly constant touring. Many of us have worked closely together, texting at all hours, helping each other book tours and just generally be supportive and friends with another.

So here it is folks… without further ramblin…. here is Dreamcoast Collective.

Chad GosselinMarch 2, 2019 Comment

1/15/19 THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE ASTERISK

How do you do this again? That’s a doodle I did of my mom’s dog. She’s a rescue. Does not like men. One bit. I think I got the proportions wrong.

What in the hell happened?!! I have not stopped for a moment since we got out of the van last. (Dan, I promise to get to the asterisk in a moment)* …

Chad GosselinJanuary 15, 2019 Comment

10/4/18 FALL TOUR 2018 - PART 1

I had a lot of anxiety before getting in the van this time ...

Luke and I had every intention of pumping out an album and having a lazy new england summer (our first real break in a few years dash of constant touring, promoting, booking, scheming, rehearsing, writing). The plan was to spend days on the beaches, and nights in the studio, with a real world tangible result of a new record, wrapped and ready to go…..

Chad GosselinOctober 4, 2018Comment

8/9/18 THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN

Nothing ever stays the same – or maybe it does but I don't. I feel like I am in unknown waters, and its hard to trust my internal sense of direction. Will I float here? Will they find me? Will I find my way back home?

Jesus christ do I miss the road. Luke and I decided to park the van in the northeast this summer, with the idea of plowing through a record…

Chad GosselinAugust 9, 2018Comment

6/11/18 MY OPTOMETRIST DIED

That’s the letter I got in the mail about five years ago now.

“Mr. Gosselin -

We regret to inform you Dr. sdjhkjshkjdhsd has passed. You have been assigned Dr. euyriuewryiue.

Please contact us immediately to schedule your next appointment.

Chad GosselinJune 11, 2018Comment