…and holy flaming snaketeeth it was rad! Ya’ll came out en masse and made us feel totally awesome by rocking out to us (and the always ferocious Verdant and The Ottersey), cheering your heads off, and buying our SWEET ASS NEW MERCH! Amazing! We got a great response to the new stuff, too, which just makes us wanna write more. I can feel it; this is the beginning of a positive feedback rock-loop that will become asymptotically more potent as we move forward into the FUTURE.

To celebrate this auspicious occasion, new and wonderful things are going to begin to happen. First off, our EPs and T-SHIRTs will be available here on our website for only a few bux and an email. We take paypal and will even ship right to ya if you can’t be bothered to leave the house but still want to sport a cool robot shirt for your cats. Shirts are $10 and Raygunomics is $5 and pics will be up soon.

If it’s tunes you’re after (an rightly so!), there’s always good old music.therunaway5.com, which always has our latest and greatest for listen and download. If you ain’t picky, feel free to download our totally Creative Commons licensed trax for free in heartbreaking 128k. For the more discerning aural palette, $4 gets you the disc in whatever format you think you can handle: v0, v2, FLAC, Apple Lossless, so on/so forth. This ca$h also goes straight to us (minus paypal fees), so don’t be shy. For those of you in the pre-Paypal Cold War era, we’ll be on iTunes just as soon as Steve Jobs can get to it. We imagine he will take his time.

What else? Pretty soon ‘ukesnbots’, our famous gameboy/ukulele bonus disc, will be available on music.therunaway5.com as well. We’re taking our time putting it up so that you folks that picked up a copy at the release can feel extra special for just a little while longer. That’ll also be downloadable for free in ear-fatiguing 128k, but you’ll probably wanna spend the $3 for the good stuff, because you’re a connoisseur of digital media.

Beyond our recent shamelessly capitalistic tendencies, we also have some shows coming up! Check out the sidebar for the full list (over —–> there). Highlights include this Sunday with our dear friends from Concord, CA Go Kart Mozart, and Club Crawl on the 18th where we’re playing the Mountain stage at 9:00pm!

This is getting long and cumbersome so I will wrap up by saying THANK YOU for supporting us this weekend and the last couple years or so, buy our stuff, and SIGN UP FOR THE MAILING LIST!!! We promise to keep the cialis emails to a minimum but we might make an exception if we see a particularly good deal. Thanks again and we’ll be in touch.

.zach

Check out this link!

Here’s the gist: whoever wins the next round (decided by popular vote) gets the opening slot at an upcoming concert featuring Jay-Z, along with radio dearies Third Eye Blind, the Veronicas and Kelly Clarkson.

So if you think we should open this show, follow that link and register some info to be eligible to vote. Then vote! If you want to. Here’s the URL if for some reason you have trouble with that link:

http://azstarnet.upickem.net/engine/Details.aspx?PageType=APPROVED&ContestID=6033&SubmissionID=682765&IncrementNumber=1#SubmissionDisplay

Hey! The Runaway 5 are on Twitter!
twitter.com/therunaway5

Yes, you read that correctly. The Runaway Five are releasing their debut EP, titled “Raygunomics”, on April 4th at Plush! Helping us to celebrate this occasion will be our supercool friends The Ottersey and Verdant, who just so happens to be releasing an incredible EP of their own! It is going to be a night of awesome friends, great music, cheapass drinks, and I swear as God is my witness you will have a good time!

Mark your calendars, ’cause it’s coming up soon. We’ll be in touch with flyers and all manner of other exciting news. We’ve been laying low to get this thing done and we’ve all got a nasty case of cabin fever as a result, so we’ll be playing out a whole bunch very soon, so stay tuned!

Hello all,

We are continuing to push forward and will soon have an EP for your listening pleasure. We have been working with Brad Horton (http://bradhortonart.com/) and are doing the finishing touches on some artwork. Because we are so fond of robots, we will be soon sending our EP off to Kunaki (http://kunaki.com/) to get shiny copies to sell to you at our shows and online.

Stay tuned and we’ll update again soon about the details of our CD Release party!

- sarah

NEW new website!
Well, the Runaway Five had a bit of bad luck on the computer front and were forced to change their domain name. Don’t worry! Everything is still all up and running and we’ve updated the backend and now our new site is the same as the myspace, so all is right with the world. Well, almost: our email addresses changed! So to get a hold of Ian or I, it’s now:

ian@therunaway5.com
and
zach@therunaway5.com

We’ll keep you posted as things get shuffled around and we find things that are broken and fix them. Thanks for your patience. Also, come see us on Thursday with Triple Double and Leila Lopez at Plush! YES!