PLB LIVE HISTORY
Mar 4
Right now because of COVID-19, we are hosting and live streaming Quarantine shows in our home studio and rehearsal space in San Francisco. Sometimes, we work with our promoters/booking agency Afton Shows to get them set up!
Before that. Patrick Lew Band rarely toured outside of NorCal and only occasionally played live. We weren't really much of a live band during most of our music career. But it wasn't until the mid-to-late 2010s where we actually began playing more shows outside our rehearsal space at the local dive bars and all here in the Bay. We also have toured internationally in our homeland Japan back in August 2019 for a few low-key gigs.
We usually perform with just Patrick onstage using his guitar, voice and backing tracks through his laptop connected to the venue's sound system through an AUX cable. Madeline is there with us in spirit for sure! The musical arrangements and tech setup is very different and more streamlined as a live band compared to our more intricate studio recordings and production.
LIVE CONCERT TIMELINE:
May 25 2023 Edge Studios in San Francisco, CA
Dec 01 2022 "Metaverse" in San Francisco, CA / Tokyo, Japan
Aug 27 2022 Lewnatic HQ in San Francisco, CA
May 20 2022 YMCA 4th & Mission in San Francisco, CA
May 01 2022 Lewnatic HQ in San Francisco, CA
Feb 20 2022 DNA Lounge in San Francisco, CA
Aug 05 2020 Lewnatic HQ in San Francisco, CA
Jul 26, 2020 Lewnatic HQ in San Francisco, CA
Mar 26, 2020 Lewnatic HQ in San Francisco, CA
Mar 22, 2020 Lewnatic HQ in San Francisco, CA
Dec 15 2019 DNA Lounge in San Francisco, CA
Nov 03 2019 DNA Lounge in San Francisco, CA
Aug 22, 2019 ESP Guitar Shop / Akihabara Street Corner, Tokyo, Japan
Aug 20, 2019 Shibuya Street Corner, Tokyo, Japan
Oct 08, 2017 Brick & Mortar in San Francisco, CA
Aug 06, 2017 Brick & Mortar in San Francisco, CA (CANCELED)
Jul 30, 2016 Best Buy in Colma, CA
May 10, 2016 Lewnatic HQ in San Francisco, CA
Jan 11, 2016 Lewnatic HQ in San Francisco, CA
Oct 28, 2015 Music Touch at Shops At Tanforan in San Bruno, CA
Aug 14, 2015 Cafe International in San Francisco, CA
Sep 13, 2013 Mama Art Cafe in San Francisco, CA [billed as The Steel Lions]
Feb 04, 2012 Dolores Park in San Francisco, CA
Aug 05, 2011 Chichibu Park in Antioch, CA
Jun 25, 2011 3700 Pieta Ct in Antioch, CA
Jun 12, 2011 Barnes & Nobles in Antioch, CA
Jun 04, 2011 3700 Pieta Ct in Antioch, CA
Feb 09, 2011 California State University, East Bay in Hayward, CA
Aug 30 2010 University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, CA (CANCELED)
May 10, 2010 3700 Pieta Ct in Antioch, CA
Sep 01, 2009 California State University, East Bay in Hayward, CA
Oct 10, 2007 City College of San Francisco in San Francisco, CA
Aug 11, 2007 Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA
Aug 10, 2007 Bazaar Cafe in San Francisco, CA
May 25, 2007 San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA
May 02, 2007 City College of San Francisco in San Francisco, CA
Apr 13, 2007 Glen Park Recreational Center in San Francisco, CA
Mar 25, 2007 City College of San Francisco in San Francisco, CA
May 08, 2006 Vibo Music in San Francisco, CA
Feb 04, 2006 Skyline College in San Bruno, CA
Feb 13, 2005 Balboa High School in San Francisco, CA
Sep 12, 2004 Promisedland Inc in San Francisco, CA
May 27, 2004 Raoul Wallenberg High School in San Francisco, CA
May 04, 2004 Raoul Wallenberg High School in San Francisco, CA
Jun 16, 2003 Ocean Beach in San Francisco, CA
Dec 08, 2002 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
Jun 30, 2001 Pier 30/32 in San Francisco, CA
Patrick Lew Band's Third Run
Jul 19, 2019
I'm currently at Phase 3 of my indie music career with Patrick Lew Band.
This is now basically an "Anything Goes" run as an active band in punk rock music. And this could very well be my last hurrah with PLB. I will be now recording every new album and playing every show like it could be my very last.
No one knows when we officially die and leave Planet Earth. While I'm only in my mid 30's right now. I feel that I still got it in me at this stage of my life and music career. I'm cutting some of my best HEEL promos and monologues right now via Facebook Live! I just became a Hall of Fame inductee at age 34 at my alma mater. I'm literally at my "indie" peak as we speak!
However, most of my talents and work has drifted to other band(s) and vanity related ventures (ex. Lunatic Damage).
Since 2017 ended and 2018 kicked into gear, Patrick Lew Band went from full-time status in the local music scene to more a part-time or sporadic role. It's like when Nintendo begins phasing out the 8-bit NES and focuses more on SNES and N64. Just an analogy! While still active, Patrick Lew Band is a part-time solo project and I only go back to it whenever I feel like I'm ready to showcase new music or a new major event. I really don't have to do PLB full-time anymore to please everybody and be fully contractually obligated to do so in the business. I have this band I'm doing guitar for, I'm playing guitar under this new alias as a solo artist (B or C material), I now work a full-time traditional day job as a chocolatier and I'm 100% content with doing that and where I work.
I've been doing Patrick Lew Band for well almost 20 years. It's always going to be around. I'm not going anywhere. It's just more part-time and occasional these days considering the current stage of life where I'm at! I'm focused on a lot of different areas as a musician and artist. It doesn't always mean TOURING. I'm making my mark most of the time without having to leave my home studio Promisedland and the digital age in our hands!
So any gig or any album or any EP I do now with Patrick Lew Band could be my last day on Earth. All I know is, I'm gonna keep it going until I'm dead and buried 6 feet under and when the BBW lady sings on my grave. I also am aware, I won't be on top forever. So one of my missions now in the future is to "put over" young talent and shine light on the new kids in the scene.
Quantity of Patrick Lew's Music
Jul 10, 2019
Shocking Confession: I've written, recorded and composed at least 300 songs in my lifetime. And I'm only 34 years old. And not all of them were just with Patrick Lew Band! A portion of those 300 songs I've created or co-written were with TheVerse, Band of Asians, Crazy Loser in a Box and The Steel Lions. The rest were definitely Patrick Lew Band.
A lot of people don't give me enough props for sticking out for that long or what I do despite my accomplishments. But it is what it is!
Would you rather only listen to Gangnam Style on repeat or would you rater listen to some strange yet real rock shit like PLB? Lol.
I've crammed a 45 or 50 year music career in barely 20 years in terms of quantity when it comes to recorded music.
300 songs released and made at age 34 is A LOT for an underground rock/metal musician. Maybe not just A LOT but more like HELLA.
And yet, most people still don't give me the mad props. Longevity and my accomplishments since day one. But it's all on them I suppose?
I dunno how I was able to create or co-write almost 300 songs in almost 20 years since starting out. One of my friends in the local metal scene started in 2007, and they don't even have anywhere close to 300 songs under their name. Not knocking my friends, of course. They cool and they my homies. I'm just astounded and impressed by how many tracks I've came up with in less than 20 years.
I'm 34 years old and most rock stars don't even reach 300 songs until they're like 70. I dunno?
Two Decades of Decadence
Jun 16, 2019
Mood: accomplished
Patrick Lew Band - Adrenalize Singer-Songwriter, Internet Pariah, Guitarist and Asian-American Actor.
"WHO ARE WE?"
San Francisco’s very own Patrick Lew Band are the first and only Asian-American grunge and punk rock band in the world. They offer hard-hitting beats, anthemic hard rock ready hooks and a chaotic, unpredictable yet bewildering live show thou shalt not miss (Watch their “Brick & Mortar” concert video on YouTube) with socially conscious and introspective lyrics. PLB always likes to offer something special and new and fresh to the table by tinkering in their home studio crafting punk-fused arena rock anthems or sentimental slow jams. And putting it out there on social-media and the digital age! The music is a perfect marriage and fusion of 70’s and 80’s traditional American and British classic hard rock and melodic metal with the grit, angst and anger of the Seattle grunge sound (ex. Nirvana, Pearl Jam) and contemporary hard-edged punk rock from the 90’s. Frontman Patrick Lew likes to call it: “Jump, Rattle and Roll.”
They’ve been featured on 107.7 THE BONE. Which is a Bay Area FM hard rock radio station. The PLB/Steel Lions has also been featured on a past issue of Recording Magazine and IndieRockCafe.com. They have also made a televised appearance for 24 HR K-POP in the San Francisco Bay Area’s over-the-air TV market promoting their love for Smart TV’s at San Francisco’s historic Chinatown with their endorsement with Antennas Direct. They can also be easily found online: “If you’re near your computer or phone. Just Google “Patrick Lew Band.” In July 2016, the Patrick Lew Band won an Akademia Music Award for Best Experimental Rock song for their single “Game Changer.”
Aside from music, members of the band has also delved into other creative avenues. Frontman Patrick Lew has acted in community theater and has filmed an uncredited cameo on the Emmy Award winning Amazon TV series Man in the High Castle. And also done social activism and charitable causes as well. Alongside writing a lot of the band biographies in regards to PLB and Steel Lions under a pseudonym. Bassist and DJ Madeline Lew has done semi-professional photography, amateur modeling and JAV videos on Pornhub.
While predominantly a home recording band, the PLB has also toured sporadically all over the San Francisco Bay Area. While seen live and onstage by relatively very few people, the band puts on one helluva rock and roll show at any dive bar or punk rock venue. Exploding in punk rock chaos and rocking their guitars out on that stage like it were themselves playing at a Coliseum.
Active as an indie-level rock band for almost two decades, the band has experienced many ups and downs since their formation in San Francisco, CA back in 2001. From revolving lineup changes, personal tragedies and hardships and a critical backlash in the indie music scene over invalid reasons. But not going down without a fight, Patrick Lew Band maintains authenticity and finds his own success and recognition on his own terms. Staying true to himself, never conforming to please antiquated mindsets from society, the dating world and even the music business. This has made him sort of a pariah online and in indie music, but also what benefitted his music and his band in the long run. With stellar results in the end!
Whether it’s rocking at the bingo hall in the Excelsior, being the “Jump, Rattle and Roll” show with every new post on Instagram or Facebook or just in the studio trying to make some good rock and roll music before it’s ready to go live on social-media, Spotify and Apple Music. It’s abundantly clear that Patrick Lew Band infectious and brash brand of rock and roll will leave you all wanting some more. Their mission is to make it bigger, better and badder as an Asian-American in music!
