We are an independent booking agency located in Birmingham, Alabama, and we book shows at Bottletree and other venues in Birmingham. Our focus is on national touring acts. Regional bands, smaller national touring bands, and local bands interested in booking the Bottletree should write to booking@thebottletree.com.
About our sorry asses:
Secret History Productions was created by Brian Teasley and Leah Hutchinson to do shows independently in the Birmingham area. You can email them at either brian or leah@secrethistoryproductions.com.
ABSOLUTELY TRUE FACTS ABOUT US: Brian Tealsey has played in various bands, including Man or Astro-Man?, The Mono Men, Servotron, The Causey Way, Shannon Wright, The Japancakes, The Vue, Har Mar Superstar, The Polyphonic Spree, and St. Vincent. He has opened shows for the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Cheap Trick, and Brian Wilson. Despite the loss of much sanity, he has played over 2,500 shows in 33 countries, 50 states, and 600 cities. He has seen every way shows can be put on badly. Brian has written for the NME, Flipside, Creative Loafing, Stomp and Stammer, and CMJ monthly. He is also the head writer for Chunklet magazine and has written the vast majority of two music books, "The Overrated Book," and "The Rock Bible." In 2002 at a party in San Francisco, he told Lars Ulrich of Metallica (to his face) that he looks like a gay elf held captive by a pair of bicycle shorts when he plays drums. After performing in 2004 at The Noble Peace Prize awards, he hung out with Tom Cruise and to this day he receives Scientology gifts in the mail. His 2nd biggest claim to fame is that he once peed next to Ice-T backstage at a Pantera concert. His biggest claim to fame is for shutting down the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport for being a suspected terrorist (for just traveling with a strange "pipe bomb-looking microphone") He got out of the predicament and literally off the top 10 most wanted people in America list by using his TIVO for the F.B.I(Polyphonic Spree Drummer Brian Teasley Makes the FBI's Ten Most-Wanted List).
Leah Hutchinson--paraphrased by one booking agent as "an absolute natural in the nefarious underbelly of independent promotion"--teaches college English at various local universities, runs blog site Red Blondhead.com, writes and edits concert reviews for Pitchfork rival Tinymixtapes.com, maintains the Bottletree podcast (though she hates the word "podcast"), and has written articles and book entries for Chunklet Magazine as well as other fine publications that you probably haven't read. She won the Alabama State championship in multi-baton twirling in 1997. She is a professional grammar nerd and will travel great distances to see bands she likes. She has a general distaste for irony, hyperbole and high maintenance bands.
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THE SHOWS LISTED BELOW ARE AT THE BOTTLETREE IN BIRMINGHAM, AL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED!
Hey, just wanted to let you know that we're gonna be rocking at The Nick in Birmingham tonight. We'll bring the rock n' roll, you just gotta bring yourself and maybe all of your friends. Ha. Were playing with Paula Nelson (Willie's daughter) and Connor Christian & Southern Gothic. We're playing last. Hope to see you there.
We'll also be in Gadsden tomorrow night. Tell yo friends.
Hey there – FGC’s cruising through the South later this week, our first time back in the area in over a year! We’ll have our new album, Models and Metrics, with us, so be sure to stop by the merch table to check out the goods!
In the meantime, feel free to visit the dedicated album website at familygrooveco. com/modelsandmetrics for streaming audio, photos, and an inside look on the making of the album.
Hope you're planning HALLOWEEN (10/31) @ THE NICK (2514 10 Ave South)... 10:00pm music start - we'll share the stage with XYZ Affair and Heath Green & The Starmakers. It's our last booked performance in B'ham until next spring ... so please come out and say hello! ~M
