UPDATES
11/12/09: GREAT NEWS! The Cd is coming along well. We even booked a CD Release Party: Three Day Threshold is recording their 6th official album! The CD release party will be Jan 30th at The Paradise as part of RODFEST! Get your tickets ahead of time, it will sell out!
10/31/09: Happy Halloween! Just wanted to let you know that Three Day Threshold is recording their 6th full legnth album entitled "Straight Out Of The Barrel". The album is being recorded at at the legendary Camp Street Studios; formerly known as Fort Apache (Radiohead, Uncle Tupelo, Warren Zevon, Morphine, Treat Her Right, Pixies, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Hole, etc etc)... before that, the studio was originally operated by George Thorogood and Rounder Records. We recorded Uni as well as some other songs from "Against the Grain" here, and we are pumped to come back!
09/15/09: Three Day Threshold's got 4 shows this weekend; Northeastern University Friday evening early, Virgo a Go Go on Friday Night (a huge bash complete with go go dancers and pirates; you should come, its downstairs at Copperfields, right by Fenway Park). Then Saturday we play outdoors at The Union Square Country Fair in Somerville, then Sunday its over to another excellent event, the Allston Village Street Fair, hope you can make it!
09/07/09: John and Kier just got back from Kentucky and, Ouch, our livers hurt, but what an awesome time. THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU JIM BEAM (and of course, Mr. Fred Noe)!!! if you don't know what we are talking about, you may want to read the August 12th update below for more details on what happened!
08/12/09: Thanks to Jim Beam, we have some amazing news. While its no secret that the band likes whiskey; hell, half our songs are about whiskey (and the other half are about the stupid stuff that we end up doing when we've had too much!), but somehow the news of our band travelled all the way down to Clermont, Kentucky to the ears of Fred Noe, Master Distiller and Great Grandson of Jim Beam. By a HUGE stroke of luck, he decided to fly us down there and invite us over to the distillery for a private tour and tasting, as well as to play a few songs at a private bbq at his house. This is going to be amazing!
07/07/09: Residency at Atwoods next month (every Thursday)!
06/05/09: Three Day Threshold is on the cover of The Weekly Dig this week, and there's some pretty good press about the band in there as well. For instance, The Weekly Dig prints that "Kier Byrnes of Three Day Threshold is the de facto godfather of the scene."
Grab yourself a copy, or check out the story online.
Secondly, we have been taking some time off writing some new songs (that I think will be some of our best work yet; including some dabbling in Russian folk music) BUT we have a show at Harpoon Brewery June 6th as part of their Summer Session. So, come on down and enjoy some tasty Harpoon beer and Three Day Threshold with 7,000 of your closest friends. These shows are always a lot of fun.
PS: Look for Kier Byrnes and/or Three Day Threshold on facebook.
05/01/09: Three Day Threshold's Kier Byrnes has been hired to play guitar on Robby Roadsteamers new album and take part in "Quiet Desparation"; A wonderful story about the creative arts scene in Allston Massachusetts.
04/28/09: The awards ceremony for Iguana Music Fund at the Passim Folk Music & Cultural Center (the legendary club where Bob Dylan and Joan Baez got their start) went really well. Three Day Threshold got an award acknowledging the band's musical achievements. Thank you so much Iguana Music Fund and Club Passim! We are very honored and truly grateful.
04/20/09: We got more good news: Some more international travelling to do! Though not as far as Europe or Central America, Three Day Threshold was choosen to be part of North By Northeast Music Festival. Its put on by the same people who do South By South West (SXSW). We are just pumped to head up to Toronto, Canada, to visit the home turf of Michael J Fox, RUSH, Barenaked Ladies and Casey MacKinnon.
03/29/09: Three Day Threshold's Kier Byrnes will once again be a judge at the WBCN High School Battle of the Bands at Harpers Ferry this weekend. Good luck to all the participants and their parents, but most of all good luck to Kier. We hope he makes it through OK; somehow alcohol, school children and rock and roll sounds like a recipe to get arrested.
03/15/09: The Irish Lads (the annual Three Day Threshold and friends Irish Session Jam) is back for St Paddys Day! We have Zac Taylor (from the Drugs) on guitar, Noel Coakley (from Autum Hollow) on pedal steele, Evan Gavry (from Mike MacDonald and the Widowmakers) on mandolin and banjo, Glenn Yoder and Mike McCullagh on guitar (from The Cassavettes), Johnny Ransom (from 3DT and Sam Reid and the Riot Act) on bass Mike McDermott, Jacko Corbett and Brendan Murphy (ex-Girls, Guns and Glory) on bodhran and other various percussion. Also, Three Day Threshold will be playing at Bills Bar on Lansdowne Street for the post-Dropkick Murphys show & afterparty. Everyone with a DKM ticket stub gets in for free!
02/13/09: We just had our NH CD Release Party for "Lost in Belgium" up in Franconia, NH. It was a late night and a big old time. We even got pulled around on a sleigh by a Belgian Draft Horse (they are as big as Clydesdales!)
02/05/09: Thanks to all who made it out to our show at The Paradise for Rodfest 7! With 400 tickets sold in advance, the show sold out even earlier than it did last year (9:30pm!)!!! We also ran out of cds, our apologies... We went through 3 1/2 boxes of our new cd "Lost in Belgium" but if you were at Rodfest and werent able to get a cd, let us know!
01/16/09: We are gearing up to headline the Main Room of The Paradise for Rodfest (Saturday, January 31).. Are you? This will be the 9th time we've played the main room of the 'Dise, and everytime we play there, its a guaranteed hell of a time! Hope you can make it! PS: Tune in Sun Jan 25th to hear us on WAAF a little after 10pm!
01/10/09: Well, despite mother nature's every wish against us, we made it back from Europe. Yes, we tasted some of the finest beers on the planet and have some crazy stories to share (bloody tambourines, dead horses and evil roosters). Fortunately, we also have some great news that we can actually share publicly:
The Iguana Music Fund and the Passim Folk Music & Cultural Center (the legendary club where Bob Dylan and Joan Baez got their start) gave Three Day Threshold an award acknowledging the band's musical achievements. What a great thing to come home to and find in the mailbox!
01/05/09: The tours going great. Our largest show (TeutRock) had about 1000 in attendance. There have been some tough times too; Kier barely has a voice, Eric barely has a chin and Johnny has drunk all the beers (again!)!!! But, that being said, things are pretty cool. We're running the same circuit as some guys from Hank 3 (Kinda cool if you are a Hank Williams or Bocephus fan).
01/03/09: YIKES! We just played a Belgian Prison! I must admit, I thought I was gonna feel like Johnny Cash up there but Man! That was nothing like the scene in "Walk the Line". We recorded the set as well as some other tunes. We're gonna listen to them when we get back and maybe post 'em on I-tunes. We'll see. We'll keep you updated!
12/31/08: Happy New Year! Belgium is sweet, Today we are playing a rave at 4am in Goes, Holland. We've seen a lot of old friends and made some new ones. We wish everyone back home a great new year.
12/25/08: Merry Christmas, We're catching a plane to Europe!
11/10/08: Hi, Hope you are coming to the advance listening party at The Monk's Cell/THE PUBLICK HOUSE in Brookline MA on Monday, November 24th for our new CD, "Lost in Belgium". If you want to buy a special advance copy and hear it for yourself, CLICK HERE!!
PS: As a bonus on "Lost in Belgium" (our new cd), there's a song called "Compass" which was written, recorded and debuted in one of the late night jam sessions that took place in the band house. We hope you like it and will come by The Monk's Cell in the Publick House November 24th and enjoy a fine Belgian stew with us! (the directions/details are below)
11/06/08: In the spirit of Velvet Underground's "Live at Max's Kansas City" and The Who's "Live at Leeds", Three Day Threshold has decided to opt out of their "what happens on the road, stays on the road" policy and is releasing a live album featuring 2 sets from their most recent European tour. The songs are dirty and raw; there were no overdubs or second takes here. Instead, there are some forgotten lyrics, wrong notes and of course, a tractor full of hoots and hollerin'. The album was recorded with a simple, yet practical set up; each night we'd set up 2 stereo mics set in some corner of the club and as a result, you get a true feel for the night, complete with inebriated audience members chiming in during the songs, so it's as close to an actual Three Day Threshold show as you can get without having beer spilled on you. Appropriately enough, the CD is called "Lost in Belgium".
Plans to release Three Day Threshold's newest release, "Lost in Belgium" include a listening party NOVEMBER 24th at Boston's only Belgium Ale House, THE MONK'S CELL in The Publick House on 1648 Beacon St., Brookline, MA! CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE MONK'S CELL AND PUBLICK HOUSE!!!
Afterwards, this winter the band heads out to do another tour promoting the CD on the other side of the Atlantic this winter. So far, 12 shows have been booked, including an "inmates-only" show at the Mechelen Prison in Belgium. When (and if) they return, they will be at The Paradise main room Saturday, January 31, 2009.
Details: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24th, 2008
THE MONK'S CELL in The Publick House on 1648 Beacon St., Brookline, MA.
The night starts at 6pm where we take over the bar and the stereo system in the Monks Cell with some fine ale and possibly a DUVEL toast. At 7pm, we will press "play" on "Lost in Belgium" for the first time.
Everyone who shows up gets a special limited edition copy of our new "Lost in Belgium" album to take home. 21+, donations appreciated but not necessary.
9/30/08: Hi, I'm sorry we haven't written in a while we've been very busy. We have already done over 60 shows this year!!!! Good news is... our new CD "Lost in Belgium" will be out soon! Check back in the next month for more details!
8/23/08: WOW! WHAT A SHOW! Three Day Threshold just played in front of 15,000 up in NH with Grammy Nominated Country artists, Montgomery Gentry at the Meadowbrook Pavilion in Gilford, NH. Tonite we are headlining our buddies Autumn Hollow's CD release Party at a new club called Church. Should be a good time, swing by if you are around Fenway Park!
7/19/08: GOOD NEWS! THREE DAY THRESHOLD made it back safely from our tour for the US troops stationed overseas in bases in Honduras. No one got shot, kidnapped or got malaria, so we're calling it a success (though Kier did get bitten by German Sheppard attack dog - no joke, there are pics up on our facebook and myspace pages if you want to see more)
6/23/08: The summer's been really good to us so far. We played 4 back to back shows at The Chicken Box in Nantucket, then island hopped over to headline The Block Island Music Festival. Things have been good and we've met some really nice people but the biggest news is that we got a call from The Pentagon and have been invited to tour U.S. military outposts in Honduras as part of their Independence Day/4th of July celebrations. We leave at the end of June and have had our Typoid and Hep shots as well as gotten our malaria and cipro pills (to cure dysentry and Anthrax). One of the bases the band will be performing at, we have been informed, recently had their status upgraded from "high" to "critical." The band is in good spirits though and is looking forward to firing some machine guns, riding in some helicopters and of course, taking care of the troops.
3/17/08: HAPPY ST. PADDY'S DAY! Wow, Europe was intense! We sold a ton of cds, met a ton of great people and drank some AMAZING Belgium beers! We did ten shows and a ton of recording too (there's a rumor of a Three Day Threshold "Live from Belgium" CD in the works). We posted some of our tour blog on our myspace page, if you want to check it out click Here! Well, we have to go play a few more shows on our mini tour of St. Paddy's Day Festivals (5 shows in 3 states in five days!)... pray our livers can hold out for another week of hard Irish drinkin'. Wish us luck and drop us a line on our myspace page!
2/07/08: We were able to raise $18,000 with our sold out show at The Paradise Main Room Jan 18th. We want to say thanks to all our friends and family who were able to make it happen. We'll be heading out to tour Europe in a little bit. It will be our 4th time over, but our first time in Belgium and The Netherlands.
1/03/08: Stay on the look out for Three Day Threshold. We just did several cable access shows; Sonic Lobotomy (Danvers, Sommerville) and Bandwidth TV (Cambridge). I'm sure things will start popping up on youtube soon too.
12/20/07: Thank you MTV for playing such songs as "Narrow it Down" and "I Must Admit" off of our album on MTV's Real World; Sydney.
10/26/07: We are very honored to receive a nomination for a Boston Music Award for "Best Americana Act". Thank you to everybody who supported us.
10/1/07 and 9/1/07: We're on the cover of the September issue of the Noise and the October issue of The Performer... All we can say is F' YEAH! We played some great shows and festivals too this month all over New England; The Allston Street Fair, The Urban Country Fair in Somerville's Union Square, Nantucket, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
Check it out!!
8/9/07: We hope to have some new live songs from our on air performances on WBCN, WAAF and WMBR posted soon in the discography section of this site. As for now, all of "Against the Grain" is posted up there as well as our other two albums and some unreleased tracks and instrumentals.
7/9/07: We've added a ton of PICTURES to our myspace site from the cd release party as well as other shows. We'll have more end up by the week. Check 'em out. If you have nay pictures from a show including crowd shots, send em on in! We'll try and get 'em posted!
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7/03/07: Thanks to everybody who came out to our "Against the Grain" cd release parties that took place across New England, especially the big show in BOSTON. Special thanks goes out to Somerville's own Redbones BBQ, Rockstar Energy Drink, Nantucket's Cisco Brewery (Triple 8 Vodka and Whales Tale Ale) for hooking things up. Hope you enjoyed the music, the burlesque dancers, got a meal and some bevs, rode the mechanical bull and had a in general rockin' time.
5/10/07: We've added a ton of BONUS MATERIAL to the web site: rare and out of print songs (as well as some songs that were never released publicly at all) to the 3DT Discography section. Give 'em a listen!
Three Day Threshold has just been signed by HI N DRY Records; a label run by members of low rock legends, Morphine, and has released their 3rd full length album, "Against the Grain" to much critical acclaim. For more info on the HI-N-DRY label check out www.hi-n-dry.com
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To purchase a copy of Three Day Threshold's latest release, "Lost in Belgium" which features 2 sets of live material Three Day Threshold recorded on their last European tour, CLICK HERE!!
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Peace, Love, Whiskey, Three Day Threshold.
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