October 15th, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, Ca

October 15th, 2010 at Jose's Underground in Monterey, California

with Escalator Hill, Big Tree, and Stephen Covell

This show is going to be radical. Our new friends Escalator Hill will be making the trip up north. Local acoustic artist Stephen Covell will be opening. Aaaaaan Bay Area band Big Tree will be playing as well. Should be a very fun night at Jose's!





Setlist for October 15th, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, California
1. The Psychologist Watch
2. These Inevitable Insanities Watch
3. Untitled New Song #1 Watch
4. Seventy-Six Watch
5. Kiss Kiss Watch
6. Untitled New Song #3
7. Autumn in the Evening Watch
8. Ice Factory (Cassino Cover) Watch
9. Halloween

October 1st, 2010 @ The Black Box Cabaret at CSU Monterey Bay, Ca

October 1st, 2010 @ The Black Box Cabaret at CSU Monterey Bay, Ca

with The Berel Alexander Ensemble

Setlist for September 4th, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, California

1. The Psychologist

2. These Inevitable Insanities

3. Untitled New Song #1

4. Seventy-Six

5. Kiss Kiss

6. Untitled New Song #3

7. Autumn in the Evening

8. Halloween

Nick's Blog #023: It's Been Too Long...

Okay I know this website has been lacking in updates lately. But just know that we have been working hard this summer on both ends of The Dreamer and the Sleeper spectrum.

On one side we have begun to write our third album which will be released sometime in the year 2017. We have three songs all done, completely written, ready to be recorded one final time for the album and then we have a HUGE pile of unfinished stuff. We are just taking our time on this one and letting the songs work themselves out. It's been awesome because the first three songs are the first ever D&S songs to be worked out as a full band (as opposed to either Easton or I doing the majority of the writing for a particular song) and I think it really shows in the sound. We've been putting clips of demos up on youtube so if haven't seen them check it out.

We've also been hard at work improving our live show. We've brought our friend Tim in to play some keyboards and it has worked out great. It's allowed us to play songs that, when it was just Easton and I, were impossible to play. Songs like Kiss Kiss and Kid Icarus. Its been awesome finally being able to play those songs that we wrote like 3 or 4 years ago.

I know it's a quick update but I'll try and get on here more often to shoot some info at you guys about the new songs. Thanks for reading and sticking with us through the down time!

July 31, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, Ca

July 31st, 2010 at Jose's Underground in Monterey, California

with Our Heart's Alive, Leeds Avenue, Escalator Hill and We Landed on the Moon!

A really awesome show this weekend at Jose's on Cannery Row. We had the chance to meet and play with two really awesome bands from out of town. Escalator Hill from Southern California was a really cool four piece indie, folkish sounding band. I'm not sure if they have music up yet anywhere on the internet but if you are reading this you should definitely check them out. The other was We Landed on the Moon! all the way from Louisiana. They rocked the shit out of that place. So fun to watch. It was a shame that they didn't get to go on until after 1:00 am and the place had started to clear out because they were fucking awesome. They seem to be making their way across the country pretty well so if you get a chance to check them out, wherever you are, do it!

As for us, we had a camera on for most of the show so everyone, everywhere can check out our set. Check out the youtube links below for each song. Thanks to Annie for the videos!

Setlist for July 31st, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, California

1. The Psychologist Watch

2. Halloween Watch

3. New Untitled Song #1 Watch

4. Mistakes! Watch

5. Seventy-Six

6. Ice Factory (Cassino Cover)

7. These Inevitable Insanities Watch

8. Kiss Kiss Watch

9. New Untitled Song #2 Watch

July 9, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, Ca

Jul 9th, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, California

with Satellite Crush

We've been asked to play with Los Angeles based Satellite Crush as they come through monterey this Friday. Should be a great show! We're super excited to play again!

Check the Facebook Event for all of the details!

2010 Sessions, Volume 4

May 30, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, Ca

May 30, 2010 at Jose's Underground in Monterey, California
with The Constellation Branch, and The Record Winter

Hey everyone! We are playing a show the Sunday night before Memorial Day at Jose's Underground in Monterey. We will be supporting The Constellation Branch from Phoenix, Arizona as their tour comes through town. More solid info on this show to come but generally Jose's is 21+ and there is a small cover (usually 5 bucks). Hope to see everyone there!

Facebook Event


Setlist for May 30th, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, California
1. Seventy-Six
2. The Psychologist
3. Mistakes!
4. Ice Factory (Cassino Cover)
5. Halloween
6. Kiss Kiss
7. New Song #1
8. Jesus (Brand New Cover)
9. These Inevitable Insanities
10. New Song #2

May 7, 2010 @ East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, Ca

May 7th, 2010 at East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, California
with special guest James Meder

Awesome show tonight at East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey! Our new friend James Meder opened up the night and played an awesome set as always. We all really love this guys music and we think everyone should check it out! As for us, we had a great time playing at East Village once again. We had a great crowd and it was great to see all of our friends once again. We'll see everyone at Jose's Underground on May 30th when we open for The Constellation Branch!

See the Event on Facebook

Setlist for May 7th, 2010 @ East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, California
1. Halloween
2. These Inevitable Insanities
3. Mistakes!
4. Across the Water
5. Ice Factory (Cassino Cover)
6. Kiss Kiss
7. Untitled New Song #1
8. Jesus (Brand New Cover)
9. The Psychologist
10. Autumn in the Evening
11. Seventy-Six

Coming Soon to the Merch Store

The Dreamer and the Sleeper Poster Series, Second Edition
Only 10 months late...

Astronauts

2010 Sessions, Volume 3

Nick's Blog #022: A Very Quick Update

Hello everyone! Here is a very quick update on what's currently going on with The Dreamer and the Sleeper.

We are still busy recording demos of new songs. As we thought it is going slow. We are really taking some time with these demos. Getting to know them as a band and building on them from there. The demo featured in both Volume 1 and 3 of the 2010 session videos is an older song of mine that I wrote way back when we were writing Autumn in the Evening. In fact until now it was called "Autumn in the Evening". Not sure if that is going to change or if we'll release it under that title but for now we are calling it Demo C :). I am really excited to how the demo is shaping up. We've had the first half of the song pretty much mapped out for a year or two now but I was never sure how the second half would turn out. It is a pretty cool song with an acoustic-y feel to the first half and a much more ambient sounding second half.

We also have the demo that was featured in the 2010 sessions video volume 1. This is one of Easton's songs. People who have heard it all seem to love it so I am pretty excited about this one as well. The demo we did of this song (what you hear in the video) literally took us about an hour to throw together. Since then we've been making some slight tweaks to it, mostly just stuff we come up with while rehearsing to play it live. But for the most part this song feels like it's been pretty much fully written for a while now.

We have a third demo which is also a song written for Autumn in the Evening (Easton's song this time). This song has taken an entirely new shape in the new demo we have started. All that is left really is just the general vocal melody. It has a much different sound to it which is always exciting for us to hear!

That is all for now. I'll come back on and talk about some of the other new songs once we get them demoed!

- Nick

2010 Sessions, Volume 2

2010 Sessions, Volume 1

April 3, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, Ca

April 3rd, 2010 at Jose's Underground Lounge in Monterey, Ca

with 1 less than 12

We had such an awesome time playing at Jose's last night. We played some songs that we have never played live before and everything went great! To all of our friends who came out and danced and sang along, you guys are awesome! We got some pretty decent video from a few different people so we'll try and get some up on youtube for all of the folks outside of California! (We haven't forgot about you guys!)


Setlist for April 3rd, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, California

1. The Psychologist (Video)

2. Mistakes! (Video)

3. These Inevitable Insanities (Video)

4. Jesus (Brand New Cover) (Video)

5. Kiss Kiss (Video)

6. Across the Water

7. Untitled New Song

8. Ice Factory (Cassino Cover) (Video)

9. Halloween (Video)

10. Ashes Ashes

11. Seventy-Six

Hot Topic In-Store This Thursday

Hey everyone! Just a quick heads up on an in-store performance we have this Thursday at Hot Topic in Salinas, Ca. Show starts at 7:00 and will be a half hour acoustic set. It should be really fun so if you are in the area stop by and say hello!

The Dreamer and the Sleeper Lyrics

Autumn in the Evening1. Across the Water
2. The Psychologist
3. These Inevitable Insanities
4. Mistakes!
5. Astronauts
6. The Break and the Wake
7. The Civil War
8. Halloween
9. Rules in a Knife Fight
10. Summer Ends Some Things
11. The Beginning and the End

Fireworks1. This Glorious Pain
2. Daffodil
3. Seventy-Six
4. Ashes Ashes
5. Highs and Lows
6. Kiss Kiss
7. Hush Hush
8. You Know About Me
9. Marksmen
10. The Rain Song
11. Villains
12. Kid Icarus


Oh, is for Overture EP

1. The Upside
2. A Tin Man Me
3. Waltz #1
4. Leaving the Hospital; I'm Going Home
5. Oh, Adrienne

Nick's Blog #021: Movement Creeping

Movement Creeping... yup, I'm still milking that line for all it's worth. :)

Anyways, a very, VERY quick update on last weeks new demo recordings and the writing of new songs. On Monday Easton and I got together and we collaborated on a new song idea I had. It's a really cool 3/4, waltz rhythm swells and sinks with loads of smooth synth. It is unlike anything we've ever recorded but we have yet to record acoustic guitars or vocals so I am thinking these will bring the signature (if you can all it that...) D&S sound. The lyrics are slowly coming together for that song over the last couple of days. And when I say slowly I mean slowly. I've been tweaking a word here or there, but for the most part this song only has one verse written. I plan on hitting the pen and paper over the next couple of days though and getting more of this song's lyrics written so I can finish up the demo. Because of the lack of lyrical content this song doesn't even really have a working title yet, we've just been calling it Demo #2.

Also a few weeks back we recorded a demo of one of Easton's new songs that I am really loving. This one we have a pretty good demo of worked out and will probably begin working on it as a full band for shows sometime this week. I am super excited about this one and can't wait for everyone to hear it!

Until next time...

Nick's Blog #020: A Much Needed Update!

Hello everyone! I have been meaning to come on here and post for weeks but life has proven to be a bit busy lately. Here is a (very) quick update from the D&S camp. By the way I am testing out a new iPhone app right now, writing this from bed at 2 in the morning so please excuse me if my spelling and grammar is a bit off!

First on the update list: we recently played our very first show as a full band. It was a great show and a really awesome experience! I had forgotten how fun it was to play with a band on stage. The energy I felt durring the first few seconds of The Psychologist, which was the first song we played, was incredible. Not to knock on the acoustic shows we have been playin for the past 6 or 7 months, but it really is a way different experience for us to play as a full band and is in my opinion so much more fun. The future of our live shows is really sort of unknown at this point. For now it looks like we will keep playing local (Northern California-ish) shows until we can figure out how to get past some of our hurdles of playing for a wider audience. So the live show as a full band was a small step for us towards a bigger goal... Were just not quite sure what that goal is yet.

As for new D&S material: Were about nine months after the release of our last album Autumn in the Evening. Just as we did after the release of Fireworks we took a few months to relax and have now begun writting a bunch of new tunes. I'd say we have been writing (in a realatively relaxed fasion) for about a month now. These writing sessions have been far different from anything we have ever done. In the past none of us lived in the same cities durring the time we were writting songs. So the majority of any particular song was written by either Easton or myself. It's still somewhat the same now but we are all living in the same city now which is allowing us to sit down with each other way more than ever before and work on songs together. In the past if I was stuck on a particular song or a part of a song, I either waited until something new came to me (which was sometimes months) or the song simply never was finished, which sadly was the case most of the time. Now I have simply been able to sit down with Easton and Ray and we can usually come up with somehing rather quick. Even if we change it later, at least the song can be played and has a chance to develop and grow, somthing that a lot of my songs in the last were not ever given the chance to do.

One more quick note on theses new songs: we still aren't completely sure how we will be releasing these so we are holding off on announcing any new albums or eps or anything of that sort. But we should have some news for you in the next couple of months.

I hope everyone is well in D&S land. I hope we have not lost all of our readers in our couple of month absence from dreamofsleeping. Hit me up with a comment and let me know you are all still out there!

- Nick

February 27, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, Ca

February 27th, 2010 at Jose's Underground Lounge in Monterey, Ca

with Commissure, Tokyo Raid, James Meder & The Trees

Great show tonight at Jose's Underground in Monterey! It was our first show as a full band and it was SO much fun to rock out again! Huge thanks to everyone who came out and sang along! It was an incredible night!

Setlist for February 27th, 2010 @ Jose's Underground in Monterey, California

1. The Psychologist

2. Mistakes!

3. Seventy-Six

4. Ice Factory (Cassino Cover)

5. Across the Water

6. These Inevitable Insanities

7. Jesus (Brand New Cover)

8. Halloween

February 12, 2010 @ East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, Ca

February 12th, 2010 at East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, Ca

Another awesome show at East Village in Monterey! We have great video of a lot of the songs at this show. Check out the links below!

Setlist for February 12, 2010 @ East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, Ca

1. Across the Water (Full Video)

2. The Psychologist

3. Mistakes!

4. Keep the Customers Satisfied (Simon & Garfunkel) (Full Video)

5. Ice Factory (Cassino)

6. Summer Ends Some Things

7. These Inevitable Insanities

8. Coney Island (Good Old War)

9. Jesus (Brand New)

10. Halloween

January 16, 2010 @ East Village Coffee Lounge

January 16th, 2010 at East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, Ca

with Amanda Holmes

Watch the Online Stream of the entire show here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-dreamer-and-the-sleeper Use the Password: 'aite'

We had such a great time at the show tonight. This was the third or fourth time we have played at East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey and every time we have gotten such a great turn out and awesome support from everyone! Tonight was our first ever show with our new friend Anthony playing percussion. Having him play with us really added a lot to the songs and we think it is the best our live show has ever sounded. Very soon we will be playing live shows with him on a full on drum kit! Should be fun! Above is a link to watch the recording of the show taken through our then 'live' online stream of the show. Below is a high quality video of us playing a cover the song Ice Factory by one of our favorite bands in the world: Cassino. Also a video of us playing the song Benson Hedges by the band Fun.

Setlist for January 16, 2010 @ East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, Ca

Set #1:

1. Across the Water

2. The Psychologist

3. Mistakes!

4. Halloween

5. Summer Ends Some Things

6. Untitled Unreleased Song

Set#2

1. Ice Factory - (Cassino Cover)

2. Coney Island - (Good Old War)

3. Benson Hedges - (Fun. Cover)

4. Barlights - (Fun. Cover)

5. Dog Problems - (The Format Cover)

6. Collie Man - (Slightly Stoopid Cover)

7. Ray Junior - Boss DJ (Sublime Cover)