The Dreamer and the Sleeper Lyrics

Autumn in the Evening1. Across the Water
2. The Psychologist
3. These Inevitable Insanities
4. Mistakes!
5. Astronauts
6. The Break and the Wake
7. The Civil War
8. Halloween
9. Rules in a Knife Fight
10. Summer Ends Some Things
11. The Beginning and the End

Fireworks1. This Glorious Pain
2. Daffodil
3. Seventy-Six
4. Ashes Ashes
5. Highs and Lows
6. Kiss Kiss
7. Hush Hush
8. You Know About Me
9. Marksmen
10. The Rain Song
11. Villains
12. Kid Icarus


Oh, is for Overture EP

1. The Upside
2. A Tin Man Me
3. Waltz #1
4. Leaving the Hospital; I'm Going Home
5. Oh, Adrienne

Nick's Blog #021: Movement Creeping

Movement Creeping... yup, I'm still milking that line for all it's worth. :)

Anyways, a very, VERY quick update on last weeks new demo recordings and the writing of new songs. On Monday Easton and I got together and we collaborated on a new song idea I had. It's a really cool 3/4, waltz rhythm swells and sinks with loads of smooth synth. It is unlike anything we've ever recorded but we have yet to record acoustic guitars or vocals so I am thinking these will bring the signature (if you can all it that...) D&S sound. The lyrics are slowly coming together for that song over the last couple of days. And when I say slowly I mean slowly. I've been tweaking a word here or there, but for the most part this song only has one verse written. I plan on hitting the pen and paper over the next couple of days though and getting more of this song's lyrics written so I can finish up the demo. Because of the lack of lyrical content this song doesn't even really have a working title yet, we've just been calling it Demo #2.

Also a few weeks back we recorded a demo of one of Easton's new songs that I am really loving. This one we have a pretty good demo of worked out and will probably begin working on it as a full band for shows sometime this week. I am super excited about this one and can't wait for everyone to hear it!

Until next time...

Nick's Blog #020: A Much Needed Update!

Hello everyone! I have been meaning to come on here and post for weeks but life has proven to be a bit busy lately. Here is a (very) quick update from the D&S camp. By the way I am testing out a new iPhone app right now, writing this from bed at 2 in the morning so please excuse me if my spelling and grammar is a bit off!

First on the update list: we recently played our very first show as a full band. It was a great show and a really awesome experience! I had forgotten how fun it was to play with a band on stage. The energy I felt durring the first few seconds of The Psychologist, which was the first song we played, was incredible. Not to knock on the acoustic shows we have been playin for the past 6 or 7 months, but it really is a way different experience for us to play as a full band and is in my opinion so much more fun. The future of our live shows is really sort of unknown at this point. For now it looks like we will keep playing local (Northern California-ish) shows until we can figure out how to get past some of our hurdles of playing for a wider audience. So the live show as a full band was a small step for us towards a bigger goal... Were just not quite sure what that goal is yet.

As for new D&S material: Were about nine months after the release of our last album Autumn in the Evening. Just as we did after the release of Fireworks we took a few months to relax and have now begun writting a bunch of new tunes. I'd say we have been writing (in a realatively relaxed fasion) for about a month now. These writing sessions have been far different from anything we have ever done. In the past none of us lived in the same cities durring the time we were writting songs. So the majority of any particular song was written by either Easton or myself. It's still somewhat the same now but we are all living in the same city now which is allowing us to sit down with each other way more than ever before and work on songs together. In the past if I was stuck on a particular song or a part of a song, I either waited until something new came to me (which was sometimes months) or the song simply never was finished, which sadly was the case most of the time. Now I have simply been able to sit down with Easton and Ray and we can usually come up with somehing rather quick. Even if we change it later, at least the song can be played and has a chance to develop and grow, somthing that a lot of my songs in the last were not ever given the chance to do.

One more quick note on theses new songs: we still aren't completely sure how we will be releasing these so we are holding off on announcing any new albums or eps or anything of that sort. But we should have some news for you in the next couple of months.

I hope everyone is well in D&S land. I hope we have not lost all of our readers in our couple of month absence from dreamofsleeping. Hit me up with a comment and let me know you are all still out there!

- Nick

February 27, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, Ca

February 27th, 2010 at Jose's Underground Lounge in Monterey, Ca

with Commissure, Tokyo Raid, James Meder & The Trees

Great show tonight at Jose's Underground in Monterey! It was our first show as a full band and it was SO much fun to rock out again! Huge thanks to everyone who came out and sang along! It was an incredible night!

Setlist for February 27th, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, California

1. The Psychologist

2. Mistakes!

3. Seventy-Six

4. Ice Factory (Cassino Cover)

5. Across the Water

6. These Inevitable Insanities

7. Jesus (Brand New Cover)

8. Halloween

February 12, 2010 @ East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, Ca

February 12th, 2010 at East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, Ca

Another awesome show at East Village in Monterey! We have great video of a lot of the songs at this show. Check out the links below!

Setlist for February 12, 2010 @ East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, Ca

1. Across the Water (Full Video)

2. The Psychologist

3. Mistakes!

4. Keep the Customers Satisfied (Simon & Garfunkel) (Full Video)

5. Ice Factory (Cassino)

6. Summer Ends Some Things

7. These Inevitable Insanities

8. Coney Island (Good Old War)

9. Jesus (Brand New)

10. Halloween

January 16, 2010 @ East Village Coffee Lounge

January 16th, 2010 at East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, Ca

with Amanda Holmes

Watch the Online Stream of the entire show here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-dreamer-and-the-sleeper Use the Password: 'aite'

We had such a great time at the show tonight. This was the third or fourth time we have played at East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey and every time we have gotten such a great turn out and awesome support from everyone! Tonight was our first ever show with our new friend Anthony playing percussion. Having him play with us really added a lot to the songs and we think it is the best our live show has ever sounded. Very soon we will be playing live shows with him on a full on drum kit! Should be fun! Above is a link to watch the recording of the show taken through our then 'live' online stream of the show. Below is a high quality video of us playing a cover the song Ice Factory by one of our favorite bands in the world: Cassino. Also a video of us playing the song Benson Hedges by the band Fun.

Setlist for January 16, 2010 @ East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, Ca

Set #1:

1. Across the Water

2. The Psychologist

3. Mistakes!

4. Halloween

5. Summer Ends Some Things

6. Untitled Unreleased Song

Set#2

1. Ice Factory - (Cassino Cover)

2. Coney Island - (Good Old War)

3. Benson Hedges - (Fun. Cover)

4. Barlights - (Fun. Cover)

5. Dog Problems - (The Format Cover)

6. Collie Man - (Slightly Stoopid Cover)

7. Ray Junior - Boss DJ (Sublime Cover)

Summer Ends Some Things Acoustic Video

Here is a video we took while hanging out on Christmas night. We decided to play a few songs so we took some video for you guys to check out. Here is an acoustic version of our song Summer Ends Some Things off of our newest album Autumn in the Evening. Hope you like it!