Help us pick the winner!

All of the coloring contest entries are in, now it’s time to vote for the winner.  You, my friends & fans… have the power!  Here’s the key below:

OK, all the coloring contest entries are in. See the "Ernie and the Berts Coloring Contest Entries" album for the entries. Vote on your favorite and we'll close the votes & pick a winner some time next Friday Sept. 23rd! Who should win the custom T-shirt & prize pack?

Need a better view?  Check out the whole album on Facebook: Ernie and the Berts Coloring Contest Entries

Then, vote away!  OK, all the coloring contest entries are in. See the “Ernie and the Berts Coloring Contest Entries” album for the entries. Vote on your favorite and we’ll close the votes & pick a winner some time next Friday Sept. 23rd! Who should win the custom T-shirt & prize pack?

We really appreciate your help, support, and effort… whether it was entering, or just voting.  You crazy kids an creepy adults are the best.

Entries pouring in for the ☆★COLORING CONTEST☆★! Help give us a kickstart!

You’ve read about the coloring contest, and the coloring contest extension, right?

You’ve got a little less than a week to get your entry in!

Bert has been compiling the entries into an album on Facebook, and we’ll enable voting next week.  (Make sure you’ve “Liked” our FB page, so you can vote!)

Ernie and the Berts Coloring Contest Entries (So far…)

If you need a recap of the rules, peep these…

What we have for you now my friends, is a golden opportunity to get some free Ernie and the Berts swag.

What can you win?

• Your Design on a custom T-shirt.  One of the Berts will put your contest entry on to an iron-on transfer on to a T-shirt of your choosing.  You can provide the shirt, or we can… if we can find the size/color you specify within reason.
• A “regular” Ernie and the Berts T-shirt with your choice of blue or purple (and size, of course).
• An Ernie and the Berts guitar pick.
• An Ernie and the Berts key-chain set.  Ernie has been a Shrinky Dink madman lately.  We have some key-chains of the ducky logo, a crazy unicorn logo (also by Zach), and maybe we can convince Ernie to make your contest entry into a key-chain.
• A unibrow or 2.
• We’ll maybe even be all dumb-rock-star and autograph something for you.

What do you need to do to enter?

• Click the logo above (or right-click if you’re savvy), and save the high resolution image to your hard drive.
• Color it in your favorite graphics program… MSPaint, paint.NET, GIMP, Photoshop, PhotoDraw or even with an online editor like the ones built into Photobucket or whatever.

-  or…  -

• Print it & color it… with crayons, markers, colored pencils, pastels, oil paint, watercolor, whatever.  Trace it, recreate it with papier-mâché, make it like a stained glass window, get creative!
• Then, get it to us somehow.  Upload your file to Facebook & tag us, post it in the comments below, email it to ernie@ernieandtheberts.com, take a photo of your creation & tweet it to us… you know how to get a hold of us.  Do it!
• Have it to us by 12:00 noon on Wed. Sept. 14th!  We’ll pick a winner at practice that night, or put it up to a public vote on this blog or Facebook.

What are you waiting for?  GET TO IT!

We’ll keep voting open for a week too.  Ridiculousness & creativity in voting is encouraged & sanctioned by Ernie himself.

Our Facebook friends should pick their favorite video here:  “Ikea” or “Toybox”?

We’ll have some info on more upcoming shows soon, as we get ready to record some of our tasty sonic chops towards the end of the month.

While we’re talking about recording, you can help us put out an album by pledging to our Kickstarter campaign.  What is a kickstarter campaign?  Well, it’s kind of like busking or commissioning art in the digital age.  Basically, you’re pre-paying for your copy of the eventual Ernie and the Berts album.  It’s like an Amazon pre-order for something that doesn’t yet exist.  Your pre-orders help us to fund the creation of an album.  With different levels of donations, you can get different crazy prizes… ranging from a T-shirt to a custom hand-made lyric book, or from a uni-brow & some guitar picks to dinner with the band.  If you’re super crazy, you can sing on the album or get one of Ernie’s Ernie Ball bass guitars… used at live shows & most likely on the recording itself.

To help out and potentially get some sweet loot, you go to the site, pledge an amount, and don’t pay until (or unless) our goal is met.

Right now, we’re already more than halfway there!  Ernie and the Berts would like to thank all of our backers so far!

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This project will only be funded if at least $2,000 is pledged by Saturday Oct 15, 11:59pm EDT.

Every amount counts.  Keep ‘em coming!  Get a CD, or get crazy…

Back This Project $1 minimum pledge

Pledge $10 or more

3 Backers • Limited Reward (7 of 10 remaining)

2 Custom Ernie’s Ducky Guitar Picks, and a 3 Pack of Unibrows. Digital Download of Album when it is Available

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

Pledge $25 or more

1 Backer • Limited Reward (14 of 15 remaining)

An Official Ernie and the Berts “Paper Dolls” T Shirt S-XL Purple or Electric Blue Based on Size Availability. CD Copy Of Album when it is Produced, Digital download as soon as it available.

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

Pledge $50 or more

1 Backer • Limited Reward (9 of 10 remaining)

LTD Ernie and the Berts “King Crab Orange” “Paper Dolls” T Shirt. CD Copy Of Album when it is Produced, Digital download as soon as it available.

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

Pledge $100 or more

0 Backers • Limited Reward (2 of 2 remaining)

Set of Ernie’s Used Bass Strings, as used in a live performance with Ernie and the Berts, and on The Record. CD Copy Of Album when it is Produced, Digital download as soon as it available.

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

Pledge $150 or more

1 Backer • Limited Reward (9 of 10 remaining)

You Pick the T Shirt Color! You get the opportunity to choose the next T Shirt color for Ernie and the Berts. Will be the Paper Dolls Design, in Any color you choose. You get to pick a size, and we will have it made for you. CD Copy Of Album when it is Produced, Digital download as soon as it available.

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

Pledge $200 or more

0 Backers • Limited Reward (5 of 5 remaining)

Sing with Ernie! You will get the opportunity to come to the studio and sing backup vocals with Ernie and the Berts while we record our first album. Get special mention in the liner notes, and get a t shirt in any available color and size. CD Copy Of Album when it is Produced, Digital download as soon as it available.

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

Pledge $250 or more

1 Backer • Limited Reward (4 of 5 remaining)

A Book of Lyrics.. Confused about the content of the songs? What is Ernie Saying? I will Hand write a copy of the lyrics to all of the songs that end up on the record, and give it to you for this donation. CD Copy Of Album when it is Produced, Digital download as soon as it available.

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

Pledge $300 or more

0 Backers • Limited Reward (5 of 5 remaining)

Ernie will Dye you some clothes! Ernie is pretty famous for having a unique sense of style, most of this comes from his nasty habit, of buying off of the sale rack, and hand dying his garments. For this pledge level Ernie will get you a pair of Jeans, and Some T Shirts, and Dye them special just food you. It is sometimes hard to predict what the finished product will look like, but its always unique and always fun. You will also receive a T Shirt in any color and size that is available, and a CD Copy Of Album when it is Produced, Digital download as soon as it available.

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

Pledge $400 or more

0 Backers • Limited Reward (4 of 4 remaining)

Lunch or Dinner with Ernie and the Berts! We will take you out to lunch, or Dinner and pay for your meal. You and 1 guest can join Ernie and the Berts for a nice meal at one of our favorite Pittsburgh Eateries. You would have to arrange transit to the restaurant and we would take care of the rest. You will also get a t shirt out of whatever colors are available, and CD Copy Of Album when it is Produced, Digital download as soon as it available.

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

Pledge $500 or more

0 Backers • Limited Reward (5 of 5 remaining)

Do Ernie’s Chores! Learn the value of hard work, You can come to Ernie’s house, and Cut his Grass, Do his dishes, and mop his floors. He will hang out with you all day, while you do his housework. He will also buy you a pizza, or make you a sandwich. And give you a t shirt. You must make all travel arrangements to and from Ernie’s House. CD Copy Of Album when it is Produced, Digital download as soon as it available..

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

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0 Backers • Limited Reward (2 of 2 remaining)

Ernie and the Berts Private Concert! You can have Ernie and the Berts Come to you anywhere in the greater Pittsburgh Area, and Entertain you with an afternoon of Music and comedy. After this is confirmed, we will contact you to discuss availability. But we will play all of our original music, and let you request some cover songs. You will also get a tshirt and CD Copy Of Album when it is Produced, Digital download as soon as it available.

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

Pledge $1,000 or more

0 Backers • Limited Reward (2 of 2 remaining)

Ernie Will Write a song about You! Send me some information, and i will write a silly song about you. We will play it live and Will record it on the record. I will give you partial credit for songwriting when it is registered with BMI, so should it ever become a hit, you would make some of the profit. Also a t shirt in any color that is available, and CD Copy Of Album when it is Produced, Digital download as soon as it available..

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

Pledge $2,500 or more

0 Backers • Limited Reward (1 of 1 remaining)

Ernie’s Bass Guitar. Ernie will gift to one lucky person a Bass Guitar from his personal collection. This will not be a low end guitar. (SBMM Ray 34ca, Mint Green) Ernie and the Berts will Sign the Guitar ,and one day when we are famous, you will have a collectable to rival anyones collection. You will also receive a t shirt in any color that is available, and CD Copy Of Album when it is Produced, Digital download as soon as it available.

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

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Ernie and the Berts “Putting the B.S. back into P.B.S. since 2010″ Formed by 3 lonely puppets in 2010, Ernie and the Berts try not to take themselves too seriously. Recently described as the “funniest band they’ve ever seen” (Hopeless Otis, NYC) Ernie and the Berts have a charisma and and attitude that will make you come back for more.

Get those contest entries in, and start funding us so you can get a CD in your hands!

EXTENDING THE ☆★☆★ COLORING CONTEST! ☆★☆★ !

Same rules, new date. Two weeks from tomorrow.

That’s Wed. Sept. 14th, 2011 by 12:00 noon.

Keep ‘em coming!

Make Ernie proud, and show of your art skills (or lack thereof). We told you that new merchandise was coming soon, right?  Well, we didn't lie.  Like we said, Ernie has commissioned Zach of Undercover Saints/Schweitz Design fame to put together a killer design for us.  Zach does not disappoint! Check out the design: Commonwealth Press is taking care of making the shirts.  Ernie ordered some blue & some purple… and instead of the design bein … Read More

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Get your new Ernie and the Berts T-Shirts!

We had some cool rubber ducky shirts, but those are all gone.  Now, we have some new T-shirts for sale:

Ernie and the Berts - 2011 Paper Doll T-Shirts

The concept was by our very own Ernie, the design was executed by Zach Schweitzer (of Undercover Saints fame) and it was printed by the best in the ‘Burgh: Commonwealth Press!

All your friends will be jealous of this T-shirt.

As, you can see the shirts were printed on high-quality bewitchingly brilliant blue and a profoundly pulchritudinous purple (the color of kings, they say).  They were printed with a crazy process that takes the color out of the shirt… instead of ink on the shirt.  The CWPress site says this…

discharge printing is a method that actually removes (or discharges) the dye of the garment where your artwork lies. the result is a print with NO hand whatsoever (you cannot feel the print at all).  the concept / result could be explained as a type of “bleaching” but without any harm to the fabric being discharged. because discharge removes the dye and relies on the natural color of the garment underneath, this process can offer slightly different results for each print.

Nuts, huh?  This fine apparel is available to you for only twelve American dollars.  Sizes range from S to XXL, but they’re already going fast!  Drop Ernie an email to get a shirt!

The best way to get one would be to come to the show at Gooski’s (on Sat. Sept. 27th) and pick one up for only $12!

Or, if you’re feeling lucky…  Enter the coloring contest to win a new shirt, a custom shirt, and a bunch of other crazy goodies!  We’re up to two entries so far, and several inquiries.

Kevy Wevy's Entry

Sam Sinster's Contest Entry

Get ‘em in by 12:00 noon on Wed. August 31st!  We’ll pick a winner at practice that night, or put it up to a public vote on this blog or Facebook.

☆★☆★ COLORING CONTEST! ☆★☆★

Make Ernie proud, and show of your art skills (or lack thereof).

We told you that new merchandise was coming soon, right?  Well, we didn’t lie.  Like we said, Ernie has commissioned Zach of Undercover Saints/Schweitz Design fame to put together a killer design for us.  Zach does not disappoint!

Check out the design:

Ernie and the Berts 2011 "paper dolls" logo by Zach Schwietzer.

Commonwealth Press is taking care of making the shirts.  Ernie ordered some blue & some purple… and instead of the design being inked on, it’s being bleached out.  More on the shirts & how to get them once we have ‘em.  For now, on to the contest…

What we have for you now my friends, is a golden opportunity to get some free Ernie and the Berts swag.

What can you win?

• Your Design on a custom T-shirt.  One of the Berts will put your contest entry on to an iron-on transfer on to a T-shirt of your choosing.  You can provide the shirt, or we can… if we can find the size/color you specify within reason.
• A “regular” Ernie and the Berts T-shirt with your choice of blue or purple (and size, of course).
• An Ernie and the Berts guitar pick.
• An Ernie and the Berts key-chain set.  Ernie has been a Shrinky Dink madman lately.  We have some key-chains of the ducky logo, a crazy unicorn logo (also by Zach), and maybe we can convince Ernie to make your contest entry into a key-chain.
• A unibrow or 2.
• We’ll maybe even be all dumb-rock-star and autograph something for you.

What do you need to do to enter?

• Click the logo above (or right-click if you’re savvy), and save the high resolution image to your hard drive.
• Color it in your favorite graphics program… MSPaint, paint.NET, GIMP, Photoshop, PhotoDraw or even with an online editor like the ones built into Photobucket or whatever.

-  or…  -

• Print it & color it… with crayons, markers, colored pencils, pastels, oil paint, watercolor, whatever.  Trace it, recreate it with papier-mâché, make it like a stained glass window, get creative!
• Then, get it to us somehow.  Upload your file to Facebook & tag us, post it in the comments below, email it to ernie@ernieandtheberts.com, take a photo of your creation & tweet it to us… you know how to get a hold of us.  Do it!
• Have it to us by 12:00 noon on Wed. August 31st!  We’ll pick a winner at practice that night, or put it up to a public vote on this blog or Facebook.

What are you waiting for?  GET TO IT!

♫♪ Show us (and everyone else) your photos! ♫♪

So, are we ugly  …or do you just not want the prizes?  Well, we know we’re ugly, but we’re also entertaining & still remarkably photogenic.  Ernie makes love to a camera like no other.  We’ve seen cameras at shows.  We’ve seen pictures.  We know they exist.  The Hang Lows are in.  We want in too!

Submit one to this contest, and we’ll love you long time:  OnlyInPgh |
PHOTO CONTEST RAFFLE: Pittsburgh Music Scene

Here’s the deal:

As we all know, Pittsburgh is full of great local music and some awesome venues…but what are your favorites?  Send a pic of your favorite to submit@onlyinpgh.com and you’ll be entered into the contest!  Winners will be drawn on the Friday before the show, and the first drawing will be on Friday, July 29th @ noon.  Some special things to keep in mind for this contest:

• You may submit one photo per week, but every submission must be of a different band/show. Each submission will count as entry in the raffle, meaning that the more pics you submit, the more likely it is you’ll win!
• All pics must have been taken during 2011 — as cool as it is that you were at Bob Marley’s last show in 1980, pictures of it won’t count for the contest 
• Positive comments on your pic will be considered additional entries for you in the contest. Negative comments will probably be deleted (let’s be real–there are plenty of outlets for being negative…onlyinpgh strives to be 100% positive 
• If you don’t win, your entries carry on to the next drawing!

There’s a rumor around that our new shirts are being made soon by Commonwealth Press.  Maybe we can convince Ernie to give one to whoever submits a photo of us to this contest.  I bet we could convince him quite easily to give you a killer keychain.

Here are the prizes still available…

• Friday, August 12th @ Noon: Two tickets to Justin Townes Earle (Show on 8/18)
• Friday, August 26th @ Noon: Two tickets to Badfish – A Tribute to Sublime (Show on 8/27)

Don’t make one of the Burts submit our own photo.

At any rate, even if you don’t submit us… submit your favorite local band or venue.  Pittsburgh’s got a bunch of musical stuff going on, get the word out!  OnlyInPgh is a cool site, we’d like to see more local scene stuff featured there!

New merch coming soon! Also: Contest hijacking?

We have a cool new T-shirt design coming to torsos near you.  Maybe we’ll tease it before we share it.  Maybe we’ll ask what colors you want.  Maybe we won’t.  We’ll most definitely have it at shows once they’re in our hands.

Ernie has commissioned Zach of Undercover Saints/Schweitz Design fame to put together a killer design for us!

Maybe Joel will put the new logo on himself too.  Maybe someone else will be crazy enough to do it, or crazy enough to let Joel put it on them.

Maybe the fake Chinese Ikea will sell bootlegged copies.  (“11 Furniture, 11 Furniture, they’ve got a ball room!”)  I hear we’re huge over there, either that… or no one there has heard of us.  I forget which one I heard.

We’re working on new songs too.  Maybe one day we’ll have a proper demo.  We promise that the proper demo will be as improper as possible.

We’d like to take the time to tell you about a contest at Only In Pgh.  It’s a Pittsburgh Music Scene raffle, where you can possibly win tickets to upcoming concert events.  Basically, they want you to submit photos of your favorite band & venues as entries into their raffle.  What Ernie wants you to do is to submit photos of your favorite local band… us!  We’ve played at plenty of cool places around town… The Fallout Shelter, The Bloomfield Bridge Tavern, The 31st Street Pub,  The Smiling Moose, Howler’s, The Altar Bar, Excuses, etc.  So, dig up your photos and enter the contest!  If you win, you don’t even have to take Ernie (or a Bert).

OK, you can submit pics of your other favorite local bands too.  Get some exposure for killer bands like The Undercover Saints, The Hang Lows, Dethlehem, Reel-A-Peel, The Scratch N’ Sniffs, The Sablowskis, and all the other people we know & have played with.  Yinz support ‘burgh music!

Until then, try to misbehave so we don’t look so bad.  We’ll see you on the 14th, keep checking the show calendar for more insanity.

World’s First Ernie and the Berts Tattoo

We believe that we can say without a doubt that this is the world’s first Ernie and the Berts tattoo.  Perhaps this will be the world’s only and or last Ernie and the Berts tattoo… but it’s still pretty badass for a duck with a bow on its’ head.

Ernie and the Berts: The Tattoo!

Joel Fatal of Never Outgunned Tattoos is not only the tattooee, but the tattooer.   That’s right, he did it on himself.   Joel is a longtime friend of Bert, and probably ought to be checked out by a mental health professional.  As of yet, we really only have one recorded original song, and he hasn’t seen us live.

Ernie and the Berts - logo by Zach Schweitzer

The design itself is the work of Zach Schweitzer of Undercover Saints fame, and Schweitz Design, commissioned early on by Ernie and also featured on our stupendously awesome  punk rock T-shirts.  (Which are still available for only $12 by the way… in case you want a less permanent way to sport an Ernie and the Berts logo!)

So if you want an Ernie and the Berts tattoo, you know where to go to get it, and if you want a band logo designed, you know where to get that too.  See how many things you’ve learned today?

Don’t forget to rock out with us on Thursday at the Altar Bar… get a hold of one of us for tickets.  Also, try your hand at writing a bio for us.