Purple Nightmare
Booking

Come check us out in a town near you.  We're always changing up our set and adding new songs.  If you'd like to invite us to play in your town or you're a band/promoter looking put your band on a bill or put us on with your band click here.  Check out Songkick:  <a href="http://www.songkick.com/artists/3836616" class="songkick-widget" data-theme="light">Tour dates</a>
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Shows!  (past and present)

Previous events

  • Saturday, February 2 7:00 pm
  • Old Dog Tavern
  • Old Dog Tavern: 402 E Kalamazoo Ave, Kalamazoo, MI, USA (MAP)
  • Back to K-zoo.  Wsg The Mushmen and others.
  • ???
  • Saturday, January 19 9:00 pm
  • Carriage House
  • Carriage House: 9033 Columbus Rd, Louisville, OH, USA (MAP)
  • Purple Nightmare going out of state.  Wsg  The Dead Records, The Most Beautiful Losers, JJ Jr., and The Said So.

  • ??
  • Friday, January 18 7:00 pm
  • The Buzzbin
  • Buzzbin: 339 Cleveland NW, Canton, OH, USA (MAP)
  • One of two Ohio shows for the weekend.  Wsg Chris Hatton, The Italian Sound Machine, Dan Miraldi and the Albino Winos, and No Pit Cherries.
  • ???
  • Saturday, August 18, 2012 3:00 pm
  • Dogg Show
  • Dogg Show Ampitheater: 11480 Stanton Rd, Crystal, MI, USA (MAP)
  • Saturday, August 11, 2012 4:00 pm
  • Back to School Fest
  • White's Bar: 2609 State Street, Saginaw, MI, USA (MAP)
  • It's our first time out in a while, and we're playing with some awesome bands.  Michale Graves (former Misfits) will be there!  Also, the Tosspints, Kincaids, Mongrels, and the list goes on.  Click here for more info.

  • (Buy tickets)
  • Saturday, January 28, 2012 7:00 pm
  • Chode's Birthday (observance)
  • Rubbles: 112 W Michigan St, Mt Pleasant, MI, USA (MAP)
  • This show will surely kick some ass.  The Tosspints?!?!  Fuck yeah!  40 Ounces of Spite (we've always wanted to play with them, but not in the Michael Jackson sense...I mean we don't have a Neverland ranch).  Drink special will be Edward 40-hands and the bathrooms are two-holers.
  • 18+
  • Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:00 pm
  • NEW YEAR'S EVE BASH
  • Rubbles: 112 W Michigan St, Mt Pleasant, MI, USA (MAP)
  • What better way to bring in the new year!  You're guaranteed to have a few new ideas for resolutions the day after.  Also, there will be a certain band featuring a song about fornication of the porcine variety, FULL FRONTAL LOODITY!  Should be an awesome show.
  • Saturday, October 29, 2011 10:00 pm
  • Fright Night
  • The Edge: 101 E Center St, Ithaca, MI, USA (MAP)
  • Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:30 pm
  • Mustard Plug/Brad's B-day Bash
  • Rubbles: 112 W Michigan St, Mt Pleasant, MI, USA (MAP)
  • It's pretty awesome to have Mustard Plug come to town for your birthday!  It couldn't be coincidence?!  Also, the Kincaids will be there drinking their fair share.  Last year I woke up in their van with a headache, a crescent wrench, a fanny-pack full of Laffy Taffy, and a stuffed mountain goat.  Clyde's quite the amateur taxidermist.  Anyhow, it's 18 and up so get your tickets in advance, as this one will sell out.  Rubbles' drink special will be drinks served in see-through glasses.  Hell yes!
  • $7 in advance, $10 at door
  • Saturday, July 23, 2011 7:00 pm
  • Dogg Show V
  • Dogg Show Ampitheater: 11480 Stanton Rd, Crystal, MI, USA (MAP)
  • Here it is!  The best show/party of the summer!  It's the fifth annual Dogg Show and we've got the best lineup ever!  Check out the bands:

    The Kincaids - Two vagabond brothers that mix Rock with other unmentionable acts too lewd or vulgar for this site.

    Junk Drawer - Hard rocking genre-twisting metal from Lansing, MI.

    Amendment - Hard Rock band from Ashley, MI.

    Guns 'n Posers - A Tribute Band that knows how to party, if anything else!

    The Most Beautiful Losers - Bar Room Rock from Canton, OH

    Jetpack On! - Indie Rock from Commerce Twp, MI

    Tosspints - Celt-Punk from the Murder City  (Saginaw, MI)

    Purple Nightmare - Click it to be redirected to our homepage.  DER!

    Bands start at 4 PM.  All ages.  BYOB.  No glass.  Camping is included in price, as well as encouraged.  Schultz's Backyard BBQ will be on site dishing out their award winning BBQ at awesome prices.  Don't miss the Rock Show of the century!



  • $10 (Buy tickets)
  • Friday, May 27, 2011 8:00 pm
  • Club Rox Highland Festival Party
  • Club Rox: 7900 N Alger Rd, Alma, MI, USA (MAP)
  • What an excellent way to kick off a Memorial Day Weekend!  Sharing the stage with the Kincaids and The Dirty Americans is a true honor.  As if you need any other reason to come out, IT'S A BOONE'S FARM PARTY.  We'll see you all there with fists full of 'Farm'.   WARNING:  Do not drink the stuff from the back of the Kincaids van.  Poone's Farm is not a classier version of Boone's Farm.   The labels have clearly been doctored, as given away by the crayon smudges.

  • $5
  • 18+
  • Saturday, April 23, 2011 9:00 pm
  • Ghost Town Saloon
  • Ghost Town Saloon: 6422 Pingree Road, Elwell, MI, 'merica (MAP)
  • Purple Nightmare with very special guests, The Kincaids
  • $2
  • 21+
  • Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:00 pm
  • Benefit for Ron Clark
  • Rubbles: 112 W Michigan St, Mt Pleasant, MI, USA (MAP)
  • $5
  • Thursday, March 3, 2011 6:30 pm
  • Apparitional Tour featuring Blitzkid!
  • The Modern Exchange: 12219 Dix-Toledo Highway, Southgate, MI, USA (MAP)
  • Making Thursday a kickass day is easy.  Just put on some adult undergarments, drink three energy drinks, drive to Southgate, and take in an awesome show featuring four bands:  Purple Nightmare (us, duh), Koffin Kats, The Loving Dead and BLITZKID (the touring, headlining act).  Simple, really.
  • $8 in advance, $10 at door
  • Saturday, February 5, 2011 9:00 pm
  • Mustard Plug at Rubbles
  • Rubbles: 112 W Michigan St, Mt Pleasant, MI, USA (MAP)
  • MUSTARD PLUG!  This maybe the best show in February, unless Eddie Money comes to town.  Tickets are being pre-sold for $10.  This one is sure to sellout.  Unlike most Purple Nightmare shows, you may want to show up early (us too).  We've got a couple of new tunes to throw in.  Also, Jason Alarm will perform.  I have to carry a tube of lip balm in my pocket to hide the excitement.
  • 18+
  • Saturday, January 15, 2011 9:30 pm
  • The Rise of Chode Celebration
  • Rubbles: 112 W Michigan St, Mt Pleasant, MI, USA (MAP)
  • We will celebrate the birth of Chode.  Special guests Guns 'n Posers will be there as well.  Hopefully Axl doesn't flake, but in order to be a true tribute band he just might.  It's going to be an awesome night! 

  • $5
  • 18+
  • Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:00 pm
  • The Biggest/Drunkest Party Night of the Year! w/Zak Engeland
  • Rubbles: 112 W Michigan St, Mt Pleasant, MI, USA (MAP)
  • What better time of year?  We're looking forward to seeing all of our friends that are home for the holidays.  This show will be featuring the comedic stylings of Zak Engeland, and he's funnier than a one-legged cat trying to bury a turd on a frozen pond.  Check him out at www.funnyordie.com/zakengeland. Let's drink  all night and nurse the hangover with the best meal of the year!  We'll be doing a 'special' set, so don't miss it!

  • $5
  • 18+
  • Saturday, November 20, 2010 9:30 pm
  • The Most Beautiful Losers come to town
  • Rubbles: 112 W Michigan St, Mt Pleasant, MI, USA (MAP)
  • The Most Beautiful Losers from Canton, OH are coming to town.  It's always fun to get in a drinking contest with an out-of-town band.  It's not competitive.  It's like a youth exhibition soccer game where there is no score-keeping, and you take pride in knowing that your little booger-eater is the best.  It's going to be a great show!  Check out www.themostbeautifullosers.com.
  • $5
  • 18+
  • Saturday, October 16, 2010 9:00 pm
  • Whites Bar w/The Tosspints
  • White's Bar: 2609 State Strees, Saginaw, MI, USA (MAP)
  • Hell yes!  Purple Nightmare is coming back to White's Bar to jam with one of our genuinely favorite bands, THE TOSSPINTS!  It's always a good time to rock with these guys.  And it's like a Christmas morning the next day...you never know what's going to turn up in your toilet.  Last year I got an electric corn cob.  Chode got a replica of himself, but two inches taller.

  • 18+
  • Friday, October 15, 2010 8:00 pm
  • Just us at Justice
  • Justice Records: 617 N. Mission Rd, Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA (MAP)
  • First time in a long time that the boys have played a show that doesn't serve alcohol.  All ages too.  Grab your date, a Taco Bell $2 meal, and you've just set yourself a new record in the cost-to-kickassness ratio.  However, the band will not be providing orgasms.

  • $2