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ARE YOU GOING TO SEE DIAMOND NIGHTS TOMORROW AT BROOKLYN BOWL?

No? Why not? You don't like watching funny bands who rule and haven't played together in literal ages? Did we mention Cheeseburger are playing? OK, so you're going to sit at home or some bar not enjoying two of the best bands from New York over the past ten years in a goofy bowling alley that looks like it was interior designed by the set dresser for

Rock of Love

? Let us know how that works out for you. The rest of us will be getting tickets

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and thinking about the time Diamond Nights got this letter tattling on them to their label from Minnesota Public Radio. (We know we posted it years ago, but we still can't get over the mental image of someone sincerely typing out the sentence "I know this is rock n' roll, but give me a flippin' break.")

"Dear Jeff, Although, they sounded fantastic and were generally great guys…Diamond Nights caused major havoc at our broadcast last night in Austin. Bringing an entourage of about 10 drunken, drugged out people who had to have hotel security called upon them for riding around on hotel luggage carts drinking boxed wine in our broadcast space. Not only were their groupies drunk…so was the band. It was blatantly obvious on the air as they boasted about drinking from a colostomy bag on the stage as they performed. Now, I know this is rock n' roll but give me a flippin' break. Maybe you should consider assigning them a babysitter next time. We had to dump completely out of the broadcast during the second part of the interview because one of the members of their group in the audience screamed and dropped an f-bomb during the live broadcast. Previous to that they swore during the first part of their performance. Our engineer thankfully dumped out during that and was able to continue. But, the second time we just had to cut out completely. It's a real shame because their performance was fantastic and one that we all looked forward to. We'll be editing the audio we do have from the performance and posting it on our website. But, please reconsider letting these fellas fend for themselves with their media related appearances. They obviously need someone to watch over them. Thanks again for helping to set this up but it was quite a disappointing disaster. Minnesota Public Radio"

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By the way, we just realized if you listen to the

interview

they're talking about, it's the

DJ

who brings up the colostomy bag, not the band. Other than that, pretty spot-on.