Patrick Napper: News

I hope to see you there!

I'm very excited to announce that our Depeche Mode tribute band Black Celebration will be performing at the Crocodile Cafe on Saturday, June 16th! This is our first show in over a year with this group and we are pulling out all the stops with video projections and additional visuals by Marcell Marias and a DJ set by DJ Coldheart of Black Monday fame. I hope to see you there! Advance tix should be available soon at the Crocodile's website.

Lushy will be performing Friday, APRIL 6th, in the North end at Darrell's with Natalie Wouldn't and The Rat City Brass. I hope you can make it!

St. Paddy's falls on a Saturday this year and it should be one hell of a crazy night. Wear something green and get your butt down to the High Dive!

We will be invading West Seattle on Saturday Feb. 11th at the Skylark. I hope you can make it and invite all your West side crew!

Come celebrate the holidays (or celebrate that they are almost over) with Lushy! We will be busting out all of our Christmas songs as well as all the usual favorites. Friday, December 23rd. Hope to see you there!

Once again 80's Invasion will be playing "Indulgence", EMP's New Year's Eve bash. This is always a lot of fun!

Still Falling will be playing several Love & Rockets and Tones On Tail favorites at the Sunset Tavern's "Black Monday" Halloween party! Halloween falls on a Monday so dawn your most ghoulish costume and come enjoy some of Seattle's spookiest bands as they re-imagine songs from Daniel Ash, David J., Peter Murphy and Kevin Haskins. I hope to see you there!

Lushy will be playing Vito's this Saturday night for their Halloween costume crawl. I hope you can make it!

Hey we will be heading down to Portland for their big Halloween party, Boogie Nights VIII Heaven and Hell at the Melody Ballroom!

I hope to see you there!

It's been a while since we've played the High Dive and we are looking forward to this Saturday's show! Great stage, great sound, room to dance! We have added a few more tunes to the repertoire and it will be a full night of 80's favorites starting at 9:30 PM. I hope to see you there!!

80's Invasion

Saturday, September 3rd

The High Dive

513 N 36th St # G

9 PM/$10

Based on the overwhelming success of our show at Vito's last Friday we have been asked to start a regular residency on the last Friday of every month. Come see us on Friday, September 30th and any last Friday for the foreseeable future, with the exception of October. We will be playing Vito's Halloween party on Saturday, Oct. 29th. More details to come.

Yes the rumors are true. Good friend, musical collaborator and all around amazing guitarist Dudley Taft is picking up and moving to the East Coast. Sat. August 6th will be a huge send-off party at the Hwy. 99 Blues Club featuring many of the musicians he has played with over the years. I will be sitting in for a few tunes on trumpet and vocals. Come out and help support Dudley on his new journey!

After bringing the house down at the Sunset Tavern some months ago for their Echo & The Bunnymen tribute night, Still Falling, aka Happy Death Men, have been asked to perform at the popular "London Loves" night at the LoFi Performance Gallery for their Echo tribute on Thursday, Aug. 25th. We will be performing quite a large set of Bunnymen tunes culled from all of their albums. I hope to see you there for this rare performance!

After a long hiatus Lushy began rehearsing about a month ago for an upcoming show. We have a new stripped down line-up which includes yours truly on guitar, trumpet and assorted noise-makers as well as new addition Shane Peck on the skins! Andy and Annabella have been busy writing some fresh new material that is super fun to play and I think you are going to enjoy! We will kick things off with a show at the newly re-modeled Vito's restaurant and lounge on Saturday, Aug. 19th. We hope to turn this into a monthly event so please come help us make this a huge success! Proprietor extraordinaire Greg Lundgren has done an amazing job of keeping the original vibe of the historic First Hill bar while making some much needed updates! If you haven't been yet this is a perfect excuse to come down. Make sure you check out the "Cougar Room" in back.....just ask.

I hope you can join us for a great kick-off to the Summer! The roof top deck will be open so come check out this unique venue right in downtown.

Hello friends,

You'll have 2 excellent chances to have an eighties dance party with us and all your friends in March. Friday March 4th and Saturday March 19th. Here are the details, I hope to see you at one of these!

Hey folks, make sure and come out to West Seattle this Saturday night! Still Falling will be headlining a great night. We go on at 11, hope to see you there!

I'm excited that Lushy will be back in action in November with a benefit show at the Triple Door! Lynval Golding of the Specials will be joining us for several songs and there will be many burlesque performances throughout the evening. It's all for a great cause, Treehouse, so come out and enjoy!

My first gig singing with 80's Invasion for Prom Night Of The Living Dead at Neumo's was a fantastic night and I had tons of fun performing. Huge props to Jennifer Popochock for the amazing job she did on my Zombie make-up! And many thanks to my wife Rebecca for putting my Zombie prom outfit together! The crowd was amazing and I received many compliments for the band. I look forward to performing with them again! Our next show is Wednesday, November 24th (the night before Thanksgiving) at the High Dive. If you are in town for the holiday come on down! http://www.eightiesinvasion.com/index.html

I had lots of fun sitting in with Dudley at the King Cat Theater for his show opening for the legendary soul singer Curtis Salgato. I even had the chance to write some horn charts for a couple songs!