LATEST NEWS
March 2023
Liquid Sound Company and Herd of Instinct collaborate on a new release "Cosmic Worlds" released on Vistari Records.
Available on Bandcamp.
September 2022
November 2020
Herd of Instinct will play a virtual show for the ProgStock Festival
virtual series. Proceeds from the show will go to help support
The Bob Moog Foundation's educational and archival efforts.
The show is Saturday, November 21 @ 5:00 pm Central Time.
Tickets are available at: https://www.stageit.com/progstock
October 2020
The most radical Herd of Instinct release so far, “Unravel”, is a journey through the life span of the band. The album consists of unreleased tracks from previous albums, improvisations, and newly recorded material.
Now available on HOI's BandCamp site.
October 2019
Incantation will be released October 31, 2019
Our new album Incantation will be released October 31, 2019 on Firepool Records!
Bandcamp
https://herdofinstinct.bandcamp.com/album/incantation
July 27, 2019
Live at Division Brewing
506 E Main St, Arlington, TX 76010
7:30 PM
https://www.facebook.com/events/680348609066893/
Herd of Instinct 7:30-8:30
Michael Harris 9:00-10:00
The Aaron Clift Experiment 10:30-11:30
May 2019
May 4, 2019
Live at the East Main Arts Festival
601 E Main St, Arlington, TX 76010-1231
12 PM
https://www.facebook.com/events/2270101896564930/
March 2019
March 16, 2019
Live at The Prophet Bar
2548 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75226
Herd of Instinct performs at 10:00
https://www.facebook.com/events/374702303343359/
October 2018
December 7, 2018
Live at O'Rileys
8989 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75243
Herd of Instinct 8:30
Cassandra's Curse 9:45
The Glen Young Experiment 11:00
Scarlet Theatre 12:00
https://www.facebook.com/events/2225898014355287/
January 26, 2019
506 E Main St, Arlington, TX 76010
Herd of Instinct
September 2018
September 8, 2018
Division Brewing
506 E Main St, Arlington, TX 76010
The lineup will be Herd of Instinct, Blood Jet Poetry, and Stem Afternoon.
Artwork for the new release Hallow. An ambient remix album of Herd of Instinct music that will be available on only on Bandcamp.
April 28, 2018
Division Brewing
506 E Main St, Arlington, TX 76010
The lineup will be HOI and CIK (Mark Kitchens and William Irvin from Stone Machine Electric)
Show begins at 8:00 p.m.
May 5, 2018
HOI will play the East Main Arts Festival in Arlington, TX on the Division Brewing stage at 12:30 p.m.
506 E Main St, Arlington, TX 76010
February 2018
March 31, 2018
Division Brewery/Growl
506 E Main St, Arlington, TX 76010
The 31st show will take place in the Growl behind Division Brewing.
509 E Abram St, Arlington, TX 76010
We'll be playing with Dubba Hotep vs. Ugly Spirit (members of Mora Collective)!
HOI - 8:00 pm
DBvsUS - 9:30 pm
April 28, 2018
Division Brewery
506 E Main St, Arlington, TX 76010
June 2017
Mini Tour of Austin Texas
One Night Two Shows
June 17, 2017
Kick Butt Coffee & Booze 8:00 p.m.
5775 Airport Blvd, Austin, TX 78752
also performing The Aaron Clift Experiment
and Crocodile.
and the 2nd show.
Nomad Bar 12:00 a.m.
1213 Corona Dr, Austin, TX 78723
May 6, 2017
East Main Street Arts Festival Arlington
Division Brewery Stage. 3:30 p.m.
506 E Main St, Arlington, TX 76010
The new Herd of Instinct album Drone Priest is close to being finished. The new material features four special guests.
Gayle Ellett (Djam Karet)
Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson)
Marco Machera (EchoTest)
Bill Bachman (Spoke of Shadows)
Mike McGary, Rick Read, Bob Fisher, and Ross Young also participated in the recording.
Drone Priest, the new album, is available on CDBaby and the Firepool Records store!
The cover for Drone Priest created by Angel Stephens!
Previous Shows:
October 13, 2017
Division Brewery
506 E Main St, Arlington, TX 76010
November 17, 2017
1834 E Oltorf St,
Austin, TX 78741
8:00 pm
November 17, 2017
711 1/2 Red River St
Austin, TX 78701
11:00 pm
December 16, 2017
4621 El Campo
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
7:00 pm
January 23, 2018
Prophet Bar
2548 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75226
Opening for Marbin
Video for "Fragments of a Portrait" from the upcoming album Drone Priest
November 2016
Herd of Instinct and Blood Jet Poetry will be returning to Division Brewing on Saturday, November 12.
506 E. Main Street Arlington, TX 76010
Show begins at 7:30.
Saturday, October 8th Show
HOI will be playing Cosmic Crow Collective/Division Brewery.
506 E. Main Street Arlington, TX 76010
Show begins at 7:30.
Opening the performance will be the debut of Mark's new improv/electronic band Blood Jet Poetry.
Terry Horn and Mark will be providing visuals.
September 2016
Show at Diamond Jim's Saloon. Saturday, September 24 at 12 midnight.
An interview with Exposé Online about Herd of Instinct to promote VoyagerFest. Thanks to Jon Davis!
HOI will perform at the VoyagerFest in Austin September 17 - 18.
We will be performing September 17 at 6:30 in the ballroom at Spider House.
Show in Austin announced with The Aaron Clift Experiment
June 2016
May 2016
We've been busy rehearsing for upcoming shows.
HOI was recently featured on the Gagliarchives Progressive Radio Show!
We're currently in the Top 20.
March 2016
February 2016
December 2015
Drone Priest Fuzz o)))
October 2015
Manifestation Pt.2 Video
A track from the upcoming CD featuring Gayle Ellett on mellotron and Bill Bachman on drums!
August 2015 update
Mark plays on the new Hands cd "Caviar Bobsled". The band formed in the 1970's and is currently an octect!
The new HOI CD is almost complete.
The band has tracked 11 pieces that feature Gayle Ellett (Djam Karet and Fernwood) on keyboards and guitar, Bob Fisher on sax and flute, and Stephen Page on violin.
Mark practicing a new HOI piece. Warning - It's kind of sloppy!
Mark composed the music for the new IOS game Unpossible by Acceleroto.
HOI Interviews
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