Old Thumb Records

09/05/2021

We’ve found some of the places you can hear the Hi-Fives “Welcome To My Mind” in the fabulous game and made a little video of them!

08/27/2021

You should really play the excellent game Psychonauts 2. It’s getting GREAT reviews…Also, it has at least one (and possibly two?) songs by The Hi-Fives in it!

https://www.doublefine.com/games/psychonauts-2

Razputin Aquato, trained acrobat and powerful young psychic, has realized his life long dream of joining the international psychic espionage organization known as the Psychonauts!

07/02/2021

5% MORE THAN MAY!!! So, like, this is ONLY for Spotify, so *actually* with Apple and Bandcamp and, and…stuff, Judy & the Loadies probably has more like 52 monthly listeners… AND WE PROBABLY KNOW EACH ONE OF YOU PERSONALLY haha! Thank you!

05/03/2021

1% MORE THAN MARCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
♪(´ε｀ )

05/02/2021

“Over six hundred varieties present a challenge to collectors of fence wire: a popular, fast growing hobby.”

On a US tour in 1993 (in the Ne’er-do-Wells), we stopped at the Barbed Wire Museum in Kansas.

https://goo.gl/maps/Z9pwBWEKsabRV35F9

Also enjoy an out-the-van-window photo of a sculpture atop a tower Carbon County, Wyoming on Interstate 70... (https://www.loc.gov/item/2017688073/)

04/12/2021

32 years ago today (May 12, 1990), Brent's TV played a show with beloved Arcata pals Shark Fe**sh at the Red Barn in Santa Barbara.

More images at
https://www.oldthumbrecords.com/brents-tv-images

04/06/2021

April 6, 1999.
An amazing looking opening band, Duotang and The Hi-Fives played a show at Fitzcarraldo, in Genoa Italy, after a tour of the city center by Andrea Carraro, who arranged the show.

More images at
https://www.oldthumbrecords.com/the-hi-fives-images

04/05/2021

April 5, 1999. The day after a show at Mumble Rumble in Salerno, the van ran out of gas on the way to Genoa right next to Pompeii, so we walked along the highway and took a look!

More images at
https://www.oldthumbrecords.com/the-hi-fives-images

04/03/2021

April 3, 1999. After a ferry ride to Sicily, we played at the Cantari Culturali della Zisa, in Palermo. It was a pretty huge show for us, and though the crowd may have never really heard of us (or Duotang) before, they really, REALLY, wanted to dance, stage dive and have fun. It was epic. Also in Palermo we took a tour of a very Lookout! friendly shop called Recordsucker.

More images at
https://www.oldthumbrecords.com/the-hi-fives-images

04/02/2021

40% more than February 👀

03/29/2021

Late March, 1999. The Hi-Fives and Duotang arrived in Basel, Switzerland, at the venue for the show: a long running restaurant/club/collective called Restaurant Hirscheneck. We arrived early and met the locals, one of whom decided to take us on a little tour across the river and up to the top of Basel Minster cathedral.

More images of this at:
https://www.oldthumbrecords.com/the-hi-fives-images

03/27/2021

22 years ago exactly!
In 1999, from late March through much of April, The Hi-Fives went on a tour through Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Spain, double-billed with a band we’d never met, or heard of before, called Duotang. They were from Canada though, so we were optimistic.

March 26, 1999, we played a show (and spent the night) at a place called Lint Fabriek in the town of Kontich, Belgium. These people were really ready to dance, drink, and party...

More images at
https://www.oldthumbrecords.com/the-hi-fives-images