Are you there, Seattle? It's us, H Is for Hellgate.

If you read this blog regularly at all, you may recall that I mentioned an awesome tour video that Jon was putting together. Well my friend, today we're going to treat you to Part One of the Total Hellgate February Tour Experience. Check out the video below.

We're playing our first show since returning from tour tomorrow (Saturday, 2/28) at the Comet Tavern. We'll share with you all the wisdom and insight we gained from enduring such a strenuous trail, for example:

- one should pay attention to their DayQuil dosage

- if one's glasses fly off of one's face in a moment of rock and are subsequently stepped on, one should learn that they will continue to fly off of one's face and to stop rocking so goddamned much

- being sick on tour is like being punched in the face on Christmas
- be prepared to cop a squat anywhere at any time
- when an audience member offers to buy the band drinks, insist that the drinks be delivered via a bottle purchased from the bar and passed around for the remainder of the night
- assume everyone in Reno is an undercover cop and act accordingly

Anyway, the show tomorrow is an early one - doors are at 5:00 PM and the show will wrap up by 8:30, so really it's more like a dinner performance. Wear a sport jacket and bring a date (optional).

The Stranger said some nice things about the band for the show:

(Comet, 5 pm) H Is for Hellgate—the Seattle poppy-post-punk outfit powered by singer-songwriter- guitarist Jamie Henkensiefken—are gaining national attention for their new record, Come for the Peaks, Stay for the Valleys. But the track that most caught my attention is "Tina Fey," an as-yet-unreleased track I found on the band's MySpace page. Over a sprightlier-than-normal pop-punk riff (one of the band's key traits is their way with slower, heavier tempos), Henkensiefken lays out her deep personal love for the woman who's become America's Sweetheart. "Why did you marry some guy from the SNL band? I think we could have worked it out. If you wanna hook up with a real musician who won't knock you up..." The cute is kept in check by the creepy—the song ends with our frantic-with-desire frontwoman cozying up to her amazingly lifelike Tina Fey Real Doll. DAVID SCHMADER

And now, our featured performance.