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In the space of one week in 2006, Mikel Jollett was diagnosed with a genetic autoimmune disease, his mother was diagnosed with cancer, he and his longtime girlfriend split, and he quit a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit cold turkey.
After a month of moping around his apartment, Jollett, who until then had been working on a novel, decided to pursue his career as a musician. So he pulled himself together and set out to create the Airborne Toxic Event.
“I was in a haze, feeling knocked down, and one day, I decided to start playing my guitar,” Jollett says. “And I realized that music is all I want to do.” Over the course of several months, Jollett, 35, recruited the group’s other four members through friends of friends, meeting keyboardist Anna Bulbrook at a taco stand after a night of bar-hopping.
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Good evening,
Our friends Dia and Sylvia have been kind enough to put together a Conan O’Brien viewing party tonight on the fancy new TV at Spaceland. we hear they will even be stopping the pool table for a few minutes. the party is free with a password.
we miss you, we love you, we put blackberries in our champagne and drink more than we should.
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Good day–
We’re thrilled to announce our first-ever full U.S. tour beginning September 1st in Cleveland, OH.
This includes 20 or so dates with Scottish juggernauts the Fratellis .
We fully expect it to be an adventure and hope we can meet you in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Des Moines, and other sunny glens along the American interstate. Dates and locations are posted below. We’ll be announcing additional ones shortly.
Spin.com named us Artist of the Day today. That was very nice of them.
We’re playing Late Night with Conan O’Brien this Friday . Hope you can watch.
Right now, we’re on the 95 South, having just crossed the Delaware River (much like George Washington did back in the day, only with guitar amps). The tour so far has been amazing and ridiculous. We’ve had a few firsts this tour, including an encounter with a bear, a ping pong tournament with M83, and a helicopter ride into the Pemberton Festival, against our better judgment. The show was fantastic, the people were lovely, Canada rocks and rolls...
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