Dan Deacon is currently on the road behind his excellent Bromst (one of my favorite records out so far this year), toting a 13-person ensemble along for the ride. Deacon is crossing the country in a re-purposed school bus that he has rigged to run on vegetable oil. But fueling up has become a problem, so much so that Deacon is offering two free tickets to anyone who brings five gallons of clean vegetable oil to one of his shows. To do so, all you have to do is email a Geoff at oil@whamcity.com. Here's Deacon's full release, with instructions on how to filter the oil:

hello,

the school tour bus the 20 of us are riding in runs on veggie oil. we need help gathering that oil to fuel our bus. if anyone can bring at least 5 gallons of waste veggie oil to one of the shows we will put you on the guest list. it is easily found behind almost all restaurants.

if the oil looks dark and full of crud we can't use it. the lighter the color and the less viscous the better. if you can bring us CLEAN and filtered oil we can put you + 1 on the list.

an easy way to filter the oil would be to stretch a tight sheet or t-shirt over a bucket and pour the oil into the bucket through the sheet to get all the gunk out. a slower way, but better way, would be to tie one of the pant legs of jeans into a tight knot and hang that over a bucket and pour the oil into the jeans, and clean oil will slowly pass into the bucket.

to arrange the grease for list swap you can call geoff at 862-266-6130. call or text him. he is our oil master. the more oil the better. we have enough storage for 100 gallons of oil. if you can get us 30 gallons we'll cook you dinner on the bus (we have a little kitchen and many great cooks).

please repost this to anywhere you think it might help. thanks you!

dan deacon

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