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Saturday, Smarch 2nd @ Silvie's
1902 W. Irving Park Rd., Chicago
a block east of the Irving/Damen/Lincoln intersection
a half block west of the Irving Park Brown Line stop
8pm, Goons probably on at 9, $5 cover?, 21 & over

Previous shows

4-20-12 @ Ye Olde Town Inn in Mt. Prospect

4-15-12 @ Fizz in Chicago - fundraiser for New Millennium Theatre

1-25-12 @ Ye Olde Town Inn in Mt. Prospect - Poochie's 40th bday bash.

8-13-11 @ JoZoara in Murfreezeboro, TN. Monty & Kodos (on keyboard) as they sing the new album...as a duo.

5-28-11 @ Finn McCool's - Poochie on drums as we opened for the awesome Flaming Dames. Couldn't stick around for them though, Homer had to do behind the scene stuff for Cubicle: The Office Space Musical immediately afterward. What a night!

5-??-10 @ Nerds At Heart event at Holiday Club - Goons did three songs on acoustic for the Nerds At Heart dating site.

4-10-10 @ Harry Caray's - part of NEXT YEAR IS HERE, hosted by The Heckler and Rick Telander (whose band, the Del Crustaceans, followed us). Also, Improv Olypic did a short set before we took the stage. POOCHIE filled in on drums. Then he had to go, his planet needed him...

3-26-10 @ Hotti Biscotti - Kodos' "last show" (for now?). One last quickly thrown together gig to celebrate our awesome (almost) four years with Kodos.

3-6-10 @ Murphy's Bleachers - Homer's bday party. Lots of new songs.

2-3-10 @ Reggie's - opened for Live Band Karaoke, blew our voices out singing with Live Band Karaoke. Played a lot of new material, and also Krusty's first show as official band member.

11-14-09 @ Red Line Tap - Krusty on guitar again.

10-31-09 @ Buena Park, courtesy of National Pastime Theatre. We rocked out doors with Mike (no Goons name given, sorry!) as kids passed by, trick or treating. It was pretty wild.

10-2-09 @ Underground Lounge. Krusty on guitar.

8-19-09 @ Mutiny w/ The Shunts & Ungrateful Punks. Krusty filled in on guitar. Lots of fun at this show!

7-15-9 @ Reggie's - the 18 & over stage! Yay!

5-2-09 @ G-Mart Comics as part as Free Comic Book Day

3-27-09 @ Hot Topic (HIP, Norridge) - semi-"acoustic" set where we still managed to run wild. A good time was had by all as Homer tried to convince some toddlers that Mastodon was better than the Jonas Bros. We were sadly Otto-less for this show, but Paul from The Help Desk filled in nicely.

3-15-09 @ Reggie's 21 & over stage (Chicago) - Part of a St. Patty's day party. Rocked hard.

3-5-09 @ Cobra Lounge (Chicago) - played (and butchered) Sea Shanty for the first time. Monty, Homer, Otto and Kodos were mysteriously replaced with Cobra Commander, Destro, Zartan & the Baroness.

2-7-09 @ Gasthaus (Elgin) - with our new friends in Incesticide (a Nirvana tribute)

1-30-09 @ Murphy's Bleachers (Chicago) - played with The Family Band from Texas Chainsaw Musical - played Diggin' The Grave for the first time.

12-31-08 @ Silvie's (Chicago) - last minute gig starring Life Like Fire (Kang's band), celebrating 2 years of Hired Goons!

12-13-08 @ Fantasy Lounge (Chicago) - with Four Letter Words, first time we played BYOBB & The Truth About Carl.

10-31-08 @ Gallery Cabaret (Chicago) - Rocking out Venture Bros. (Monarch) style, and Monty proposes to Maggie! (She said yes.)

10-30-08 @ Quenchers (Chicago) - A Misfits Vs. Ramones setup with several rowdy drunk bands. Goons kicked a lot of ass and showed them all how it's done.

9-25-08 @ Hottie Biscotti (Chicago) - Rocked out hard to a crowd of...well, it was small, but hey, we got to meet supergoonie Adam R. who got us the Gallery show the next month and has been righteously seeing us at almost every gig. He's awesome like that.

8-9-08 @ Mix (Chicago) - our CD release show. Almost a disaster; the original club cancelled a few days prior, and Homer almost lost the use of his right hand a few weeks prior. We pulled this one out of our hat and had a full house and rocked it down. Oh, and Otto had gout, so we gave him a hard time about it.

7-18-08 @ Brauer House (Hillside) - Okay, see the shirts we're wearing on the album cover? Monty bought those for the band, and then whoever made them stopped making them. They had our Marvel Comics names on the back (mine was Norman, Monty as Parker, Kodos as Jean, Otto as Logan) and they were really cool. Well, Otto wore it that night, was boiling during the show and took the shirt off. He realized a few days later that he left the shirt there...and so when he was about to head out to pick it up, he found out the place burned down! We were all bummed. But it was a good gig and the people there liked us. Oh well.

3-17-08 @ Reggie's Music Joint (Chicago) - Rockin' St. Patty's day, mere hours after finishing the mix for Everything's Coming Up Milhouse.

2-27-08 @ Tonic Room (Chicago) - We piled on loads of new material this night, getting ready for the studio!

11-18-07 @ The Spot (Chicago) - home of the Flaming Dames. Played Stupid Sexy Flanders for the first time I think.

10-27-07 @ Silvie's (Chicago) - We rocked out as Ghostbusters. Kang's band also played this night.

7-26-07 @ Silvie's (Chicago) - The beginning of a hopefully long relationship with this club. The night before the Simpsons Movie too!

6-9-07 @ McCauliff's (Racine) - Cruised up to Wisconsin to rock out hard. Loads of fun.

5-10-07 @ The Mutiny (Chicago) - Lots of good friends stuck around for us as we waited and waited for the band before us to play their last song...oh wait, one more song...okay, one more song...okay, now get off the stage please. And then we had FIFTEEN MINUTES TO PLAY. And Monty said to Homer, "oh, I can't talk right now" as we took the stage! But we still rocked it out.

4-7-07 @ Penny Road Pub (South Barrington) - our first club gig, we had to learn about an hour's worth of material within a week. Also, first time we played original material (I Like Revenging, Milhouse, Use The Forks, The Homer).

12-31-06 @ Kodos & Kang's house - first gig! Otto joined Hired Goons the day before! Lots of fun, surprisingly very few mistakes, lots of good times with good friends!