Hello once again! We hope you all had a great Christmas! It's been nice to have some much needed time off, but we are so ready to start recording the next album! We leave for Nashville in less than one week! Chris Sligh will be producing the record and we are all very excited to be working with him. We hope you are excited too! Keep your eyes and ears open for the release date.
In addition, be sure to keep up with the blog over the next few weeks because we will be documenting the recording process, and of course, having way too much fun.
Here are some photos from our concert at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Collins, CO. We had an awesome time and the kids were so much fun!
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
December 30, 2008
Pictures from Redeemer Lutheran
December 23, 2008
December 16, 2008
Case Race
You've got to love trying to make something as boring as tear down as fun as possible. This was our attempt at doing just that.
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
December 8, 2008
Compassion Benefit Concert
Last Friday we played a concert at the Rock House in Littleton, CO. It was a benefit concert for Compassion International, so we were all very excited about the concert in the first place. We were even more excited once we got there because we got to play with a couple of awesome bands that we hope to play with many more times in the future - Ambient You and All at Risk. Plus, everyone at the concert was great and the crowd was rockin' and dancin' the night away.
We just wanted to post a few pictures of the show for all of you who were there. We hope to see all of you again at another concert here in lovely Colorado.
And a quick plug for the other bands - both bands were phenomenal and if any of you get the chance to see All at Risk or Ambient You, make sure to go check them out!
This is us rockin' out with Ambient You at the end of the show. If you didn't guess, we're playing I'm Not Ashamed!
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
December 2, 2008
Tour Reflections
Thanks again to everyone who helped us out on tour and especially to all of you who came to see us. We had a great time and we hope that all of you will keep in touch.
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
November 25, 2008
Home, Sweet Home
WE'RE HOME!!! We are happy to say that we are finally home after a long month on the road, but we do have to say that this month has been amazing. We had an awesome time on tour to Florida and back and we can't wait to see all of you again. Keep in touch Florida, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, and bring us back soon so that we can see your bright shiny faces again.
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
November 18, 2008
Florida Blog #3
Hello again from Florida! Once again, we had a great time this last week and we want to thank everyone who came out to see us. And a very special thank you to the great people who helped bring us here and to everybody who was kind enough to feed us and let us stay in your homes. We are sad to leave, but we are excited to start the trek back home. Please pray for safe travels!
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
November 11, 2008
Florida Blog #2
It's the end of week two on tour and here is what we've been up to.
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
November 4, 2008
Florida Blog #1
Hey everybody! Here is the first blog from our tour. We've had a great time so far and this video should prove that. After watching the video you might think that we don't actually play music, but I promise you that we really do perform concerts and so far they have all been awesome! Thanks to everyone who came out to rock with us!
We'll post a new blog every week with more of our ridiculous antics, so keep up with us!
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
October 28, 2008
Gas, and the Lack Thereof
Today is the first day of our tour! We are extremely excited about being on the road and getting to hang out with all of the crazy cool people we're about to meet. For those of you who are planning to see us while we're on the road, we can't wait to meet you!
And here are a few pictures from our concert last Sunday at Higher Ground Youth Coffee House in Evergreen, CO. We had a blast, and if you were there, we hope you did too!
Please pray for us while we're out on tour this month. And be sure to keep up with the blog because we'll let you know how we're doing and show you some of our goofy shenanigans on the road. We love you all and we hope to see you soon.
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
October 21, 2008
Pictures from Avo's
Hello once again!
This week I wanted to post a few cool photos from our last concert at Avo's in Fort Collins, CO. We had a great time playing some brand new songs!
I apologize for the lack of video this week, but be sure to look for videos from 3Js next week and of course our upcoming tour!
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
October 14, 2008
Coming to 3Js
Hey everyone! Just wanted to remind you about our upcoming concert at 3Js. We always have an awesome time at 3Js and we hope you can make it! Just to prove it, here's a video from the last time we were there.
And don't think that we've forgotten about the rubber band ball! We still plan on making this thing HUGE!!! We need your help - it has grown a bit, but we want everyone at 3Js to bring a few rubber bands and make this things a gargantuan crazy cool bouncy ball!!!
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
October 7, 2008
Weekly Blog Numero Uno
***PLEASE READ THIS FIRST BEFORE YOU LOOK ANYWHERE ELSE**
First off, we want to thank you for checking out our blog. We want you guys to be a part of this thing, so let us know what you want to see! Drop us a comment and let us know how we can make the blog even better.
This week is the first week of our regular weekly blog updates. Every Tuesday you can come and check out the latest blog with videos, pictures and more.
We have been writing like crazy this past month and trying to get as many new songs done as possible. That being said, we want to invite all of you to come out to our next concert at 3Js in Johnstown, CO. We will be debuting a bunch of new songs and we would love for you to hear them! Check out the poster for details.
And of course, a few videos for your viewing pleasure!
And here are a few pictures of us playing recently at Thompson Valley High School in Loveland, CO.
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
September 20, 2008
September 4, 2008
Rubber Band Ball #2
Keep those rubber bands coming! Let's make this thing massive!
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
August 23, 2008
Rubber Band Ball
August 22, 2008
August 16, 2008
August 11, 2008
And the Winner is...
We wanted to let you all know the cool news that we took first place in the band competition at the Gospel Music Association Music in the Rockies in Estes Park, CO. Thank you so much for your support and prayers! We had an awesome time meeting lots of amazing people and learning so much about the Christian music industry. We can't wait to see what's next!
Here we are with Hope Generation, our new UK friends!
And this is us with Janard, quite possibly the coolest dude at Music in the Rockies!
And here we are accepting our first place trophy with Mandisa and Chris Sligh from American Idol!
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
July 29, 2008
July 28, 2008
Total Axxess
July 17, 2008
"Here I Am" Live on 94.7 FM Invasion Radio
This is the only recording of this song that we have, so if you like it, you can do us a huge favor and post it on your own blog, myspace, Facebook, etc. In fact, we encourage you to do that with any of the blogs you enjoy! And keep telling your friends about the blog so they can watch too!
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
July 16, 2008
Official Rough Draft Store
Please visit our brand new online store at http://store.roughdraftband.com! Get all of your merchandise needs and check back for killer new stuff coming right around the corner! Check out our commercial.
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
July 4, 2008
June 27, 2008
June 26, 2008
June 15, 2008
Biker Ralley
Check out these big, bad bikers doing the actions for Friend of God - awesome!!!
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
June 14, 2008
June 11, 2008
Confabulation!!!
After watching this video, you may ask yourself, did Rough Draft even play music when they went to Florida? I would just like to inform you that we did, but we also had an awesome time doing lots of other things and meeting some way awesome people. We love every single one of you!
God Bless,
<>< Andrew
June 10, 2008
June 4, 2008
May 15, 2008
Minnesota Rocks... SERIOUSLY :)
So, we just got back from Mayer, MN., and we wanted to post a little video showing some of the fun we had. Thanks so much Mayer for rockin' out and taking care of us while we were there. You guys rock! We hope everyone who came out had a good time because we had a blast! SERIOUSLY!
God Bless,
<>< Andrew