A great Canadian Music Fest!
Before we fly back to our homes in the west, we just want to thank everyone for an excellent week! First, a big thank you to the good people at Audioblood Media for their support and all the wonderful things they have done for us so far. Thy played a big part in our wonderful and busy schedule this week and we are so very excited to be working with them this year. We had the privilege of playing some great gigs at The Dakota Tavern and the Pledge Music Loft 406 party this weekend, some sweaty rock’n’roll, good beverages and friendships were exchanged, and we are going to be leaving this beautiful city with smiles on our faces! Also, we just want to say how much we appreciate everyone
Canadian Music Week is upon us!
Recap on the last few days here in The Big Smoke, things are going swimmingly as we approach Day 4! Yesterday was our first big day at the festival and it was a whirlwind as expected, a frenzy of artists and friends alike in the lobby of a fancy hotel, relationships built on years of trust, opportunities and bloody good times shared by all in the name of art, music and film. The wisdom passed on is worth the years taken off of our lives by the caffeine, chemicals and appetite suppressants taken to survive the event. It’s a true gem of the Canadian industry. Okay, recap: We hit the CBC Music Lounge first thing, which was amazing to participate in and showcase some of our new songs to a
2013 is off to a great start!
Well hello there again, friends! Here’s a picture of Dan as a zombie for a cheap laugh: We hope everyone’s initial 2 months of the new year have been just wonderful. It’s been awhile since the last blog entry, I know… we’ve been planning like there is no tomorrow and we finally thought it was time to share some of them with you! First things first! We trust you have been listening to our new single “Bright Lights?” If so, we absolutely WANT to know what YOU think of it… it’s been out for almost a month now, and we would love to hear your thoughts! For those of you who haven’t heard it, get on it below and comment away: You may also here it on our FACEBOOK if
A very incredible 2012!
“When the world ends this year and it’s not all fire and brimstone and raining blood like they say it’s going to be, I want to be buried with a telephone for safe measure and my tombstone to read ‘Here lies Dan Ball. F***k you, Tyson.” – Dan’s brief thoughts on the afterlife and the apocalypse Well, Christmas came and went and we survived the apocalypse! What an incredible thing! We hope that everyone out there had a wonderful holiday season at the end of 2012, and we would just like to continue our well wishes and say a very Happy New Year to you all, friends, fans and family! Let’s make this the best damn 2013 it can be! Aside from the great start to the new year, which
Rattlebox North Studios!
“My lunch was so unsatisfying. I feel like a fucking rabbit. I need all the burgers and fries.” – Brian, after his second green salad of the day Guys, we really want you to hear these mixes! It’s really so unfortunate that we can’t show you how this project is sounding so far! We are very excited and continue to be very happy and grateful for every day that we get to spend in Rattlebox North Studios with our friend Brian Moncarz, in whose ears we trust. He’s a great man with a passion for great sounding things, teaching, gear-hording and salads. Why just yesterday we helped him out with a feisty battle on eBay for a deal on a rather expensive old guitar amplifier while waiting for a track
Album 3 continues!
Tyson, through the talk-back mic: “Why doesn’t Martin just come in here and play piano on this part? He could nail it in seconds.” Martin, to the rest of us in the control room: “Why does he think I can play piano? I’ve never played piano in my life.” Excellent week! We just spent the last 4 days at Revolution Recording getting drum sounds and tracking drums and piano for the new record, and guys, we have to tell you, it is sounding incredible! In no other room could you get these fat tones and natural reverb and we honestly spent the entire time in awe of the quality of the studio and equipment, and results of our experimentation so far. Shane has been an absolute champion and he managed
Pre-Production Complete!
Dan: “Uggh, I feel like I got hit by a bus.” Shane and Jeff in unison: “Really?? Cause you don’t look like it.” – asshole humor Pre-production for Album 3 is complete! We spent a spectacular, romantic getaway, holiday week and weekend with The Brian Moncarz at The Sound rehearsal rooms in Concord last weekend, eating lots of bananas and healthy cylindrical shaped objects while staring into each others eyes, realizing the importance of breakfast, waking at dawn and how a good rehearsal space is hard to find – a big thanks to Scott at The Sound for hooking us up at his beautiful studio and being lovely – and we have successfully narrowed our upcoming 2013 release down to 10 hot, brand new tracks. It was a lot of
Two Weeks In London!
“Hey! We’re gonna play a gig! Please, bring your chili to the front of the stage and mosh!” – The Social Club starting their set, following their chili cook-off to pay the bands We survived 2 weeks in London! First of all, we would just like to say thank you to everyone who had part in bringing us to the United Kingdom, to the fine folks at Alcopop Records and Fierce Panda Records for believing in us enough to release our albums in their country, to all members of the press who we had the pleasure of working with while in London for taking such interest in our music and stories, and of course, to all of our wonderful fans in the UK for coming out to our handful of
Goodnight, Canada (Pt.2)
“It certainly is a good day to own a moustache, fellas. Hell, maybe even the whole month.” – Shane Deyotte. The Man. The Mystery. The Legend. Saturday, Nov 3 We drive into the United States of America! Most of us sleep through Fargo, North Dakota, unfortunately. It is a massive bummer. We usually never miss Pancake’s House on through this way, so most of us wake up a little sad, but mostly groggy. You know what the quick fix for that grumpiness is, right? AMERICAN JUNK FOOD. From Monster Energy Beer to Funions and Extreme Fajita Doritos, you won’t be disappointed with your choice. What you WILL be disappointed in is the weight you gain from 36 hours of driving and the ridiculous amount of diarrhea fuel you put into
Goodnight, Canada (Pt.1)
“Come one, come all! Experience the creatures and critters that live within this man’s beard, or the beard that calls this man’s face a home!” Here’s a few excerpts from the Canadian portion of our winter tour thus far. Lots of driving, pretty treacherous roads, coffee sweats, road-trip games, to be expected this time of year. But the shows have been excellent this time around, and it is so nice to see all of our friends across the provinces again! OCTOBER The last leg of our Canadian tour brought us up North to Prince George, where we performed not 1, but 3 shows in the span of 2 days! We may be old guys now, on the verge of washing up and a little distant from what’s popular with the
