Mock Defense

We had a great time at Deep Draft Brewery and Taproom on Saturday, July 26th in Gorst (the Bremerton area).  If you haven't had a chance to visit this place, we highly recommend it.  They have great beers that they brew themselves and they have an awesome BBQ restaurant.  They have an open mic night on the first Friday of each month and live music mostly on Saturdays but check out their events calendar for more information.  We will post the setlist on the website if you are interested in that.  And, if you are in the Gig Harbor area on Labor Day weekend, come check us out at Locust Cider on August 30th.

Come and check us out at Slice of Life Pizza in Tacoma.  We are the opening band on a three-band set.  We hope to see you there!

We played the third and final summer show at Locust Cider in Gig Harbor on August 24th.  The first show in June was rainy and cold, the second show in July was really warm, and this time it was closer to “just right”.  It was a nice sunny day and we had a good crowd on hand.  Thanks to everyone who showed up.  Despite a few technical glitches, we had a great time and it was a lot of fun.

We invested in some stage setup enhancements including our new banner as well as more lighting.  One of the things we noticed in watching the videos from July is that the light bars were a good feature but they were difficult to see so we added more and moved them to the back of the stage.  We also thought that the big blank wall behind us just was asking for a banner so we added that as well.  

We also have expanded our setlist.  We played a full 22 song set that filled the two-hour slot and we debuted two new original songs among 10 original songs (plus our band introduction).  It has been a goal of ours to focus on original music and we have dramatically increased our ratio of new to covers.  We plan to record some of our original music in the fall so we hope, at future shows, to be able to play original songs and have recordings available as well.

We are going to use the fall to add more songs and we are working on a recording so we hope to see you at a future show with new music!

Thanks to all of you who came out to see us at Locust Cider in Gig Harbor on July 20th.  This was the first time that all five of us had a chance to play together in a live setting.  In addition to having Matt and the all important bass guitar back in the line-up, we adjusted our sound setup and we were able to capture some video.  We have started posting some of this content and will continue to add more in the coming weeks in the run-up to our last gig of the summer at Locust Cider again on August 24, 2024.  If you are in the area, we hope you can joint us.

Setlists

This is our setlist from July 20th.  We are working on some new music for August so stay tuned for that!

Video

We have started posting some video.  After a number of snafus in recent months (including Ralph forgetting to turn on the cameras in June), we finally were able to capture some good video and we have started uploading it here on the website and on our YouTube channel.

Original Music

While we love to play covers, we are most excited about developing some of our original music.  One of the ideas that we have is to create content pages for each song and not only post the video but also recorded demos, the story behind the songs, and other information.  We created the first of these pages for our song “Tactics”.  

Thanks, as always, for all of your support.  We hope to see the locals here in the South Sound at our gig on August 24th at Locust Cider in Gig Harbor!!

Thanks to all of you who came to Locust Cider on June 29th.  It was a great first run and we are excited for the next show on July 20th which will coincide with Locust's anniversary party.  We hope to see you there.

A very special thanks to the staff at Locust Cider in Gig Harbor for inviting us to play!  They have been really nice to us and we hope that, even if you don't come out to one of our shows, that you will considering stopping by and supporting them.

We have posted a gallery of pictures on the photos page which you can find here: https://mockdefense.com/galleries/1213057/locust-cider-june-29-2024

We played a mix of covers and some original songs that we are working on as a band.  We will be adding new songs and updating some of our original songs for the next show but here was the setlist:

Set A
1. American Girl Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
2. Just What I Needed (The Cars)
3. Rain Kind (Counting Crows)
4. Sexy (Mock Defense)
5. Reflections from the Ether (Mock Defense)
6. Biscuit Wheels (Mock Defense)
7. Information and Belief (Mock Defense)
8. Runnin' Down a Dream (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)

Set B
9. Anon (Mock Defense)
10. Vein (Mock Defense)
11. Wish (Mock Defense)
12. Sain Simon (The Shins)
13. Mess Around (Cage the Elephant)
14. Tactics (Mock Defense)
15. Greedy Soul (Liam Gallagher)
16. The Forecast (Mock Defense)

We hope to see you on July 20th!

We are playing the grand opening of the Locust Cider tap room in Gig Harbor tonight!  If you are interested in coming, let us know.  We'll post pictures and, hopefully, video next week!  Also, if you want to come see us play with our other bands, mark your calendars for April 20th at the Sehmel Park pavilion in Gig Harbor (doors at 5pm, show at 6pm)!

We had a great time on March 9th in Gig Harbor (for technical reasons, we can't say the location but it was in a cool place in Gig Harbor).  We played 20 songs (set list below) and we had a great turn-out that we estimate at well over 50 people!  We hope that, if you are in the Gig Harbor area, that you will come and check us out on April 20th where we will be playing along with Chew the Root, the band that we play in together.

Set List:

1. Wake Up (Mock Defense)
2. Information and Belief (Mock Defense)
3. Hand in My Pocked (Alanis Morissette)
4. A Little Bit Awkward (Alex Forbis)
5. Anon (Alex Forbis)
6. Don't Look Back in Anger (Oasis)
7. Wish (Mock Defense)
8. Extraction (Mock Defense)
9. Orange (Pinegrove)
10. Biscuit Wheels (Alex Forbis)
11. Vein (Alex Forbis)
12. 3AM (Matchbox 20)
13. Distant Regrets (Mock Defense)
14. Reflections from the Ether (Mock Defense)
15. Saint Simon (The Shins)
16. I Said it All (Alex Forbis)
17. Slinging for Everyone (Alex Forbis)
18. Grapevine Fires (Death Cab for Cutie)
19. If I Had a Million Dollars (Barenaked Ladies)
20. Such Great Heights (The Postal Service)

If you are in Gig Harbor and want to come and check us out, we are playing on Saturday, March 9th from 6-8pm.  If you are interested go to the “Shows” page and there is a link to RSVP with the details.  It's technically a private party but it's free and open to the public.

We will be playing some music from the EP called “Obscure Languages” that we are currently recording.  We are hoping to release the EP later in the Spring but, for now, we have posted a few demos on the site if you want to check them out!

I was asked by a friend of a friend if I would play some acoustic instrumental music at the opening of a business in Gig Harbor and I try not to miss opportunities to play live music.  It was a fun night!