STEEL TRAIN’S CHRISTMAS VACATION ANNOUNCED; ON SALE TOMORROW AT NOON EST

We will be returning to Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ, on December 29th and 30th for a very special two-night engagement at our home away from home.

We have something special in store for these performances, as the band will be revisiting many chestnuts in our catalog.  On December 29th, we will be performing songs from Trampoline and our new yet to be released record. On this night we will be debuting many new songs that we’ve been working on all year.

How do we follow that up on December 30th, you ask?  Evan (aka Clark Griswold, aka Santa Claus) and his elves, Jack, Daniel, Justin, and Jon, are currently putting together a list of their favorite tracks, both naughty and nice.  The songs on this list will include Steel Train material from For You My Dear, Twilight Tales, Trampoline, 1969, unreleased b sides and demos and about 10 of our favorite covers.  We will then ask you, the fans, to vote for your favorite songs from the selections offered.  The band will pick the 15 most popular choices and craft a setlist from that material. We’ve never done anything like this before, so this will definatly be a magical night.

We will send the ballot out to our mailing list first, so if you haven’t yet signed up, get to it. We will then put the ballot up on our site for a limited time.” (via Steel Train mailing list)

This is definitely a must for Steel Train fans in New Jersey, but get your tickets fast because Maxwell’s a very small venue and will definitely sell out!

The show on the 29th will be awesome because of all the new material they will be performing. Who doesn’t like to see a band performing songs for the first time? To be the first crowd to hear a song is a pretty exciting thing. And then there’s the show on the 30th. This is the show that I just so happen to get tickets for and I cannot explain how excited I am for it.

I recieved the email a week or so ago with the list of songs to choose from. What’s really great about this, is that they have the song “Story in a Dream” on there. When Steel Train performed at Rowan there was a very small number of people there for it. Throughout the whole set people all over the room were yelling out, “Play Story in a Dream!!” They laughed it off and said it had been a while since anyone requested that song, and then never played it! I figured I would never get the chance to hear it live. I’m really hoping that December 30th will be the day it finally happens.