New single coming soon!
Yesterday legendary producer Mike Fraser mixed our new single, “Reaction”, and we couldn’t be happier. He works in a beautiful studio in Vancouver called The Warehouse (owned by Bryan Adams), and his past credits cover a wide range of hugely successful artists including Metallica, Bad Religion, ACDC, Whitesnake, Sam Roberts, Rush, Aerosmith, Elvis Costello and many more. It’s really no surprise that the single turned out as great as we could have hoped. The last step in the process, for those of you unfamiliar with how modern music gets made, is called Mastering. It’s the process of getting the song ready for iTunes or CD (that’s how your dad listens to music). Basically a scientist in a laboratory turns knobs on really fancy equipment to do a higher tech version
Studio Log: Day 6-8
Studio update from Dan…Recording an album is a wonderful time. All of us have been having a good old time with Adam Sutherland. Our old friend Al Hannigan came down to set up our guitars and basses. He said that Dan’s bass was the grossest, dirtiest instrument he had ever seen. Dan did bass on days 6, 7 and 8. On the second day we had the opportunity to play V.I.C. fest. Short day in the studio and we played to a wonderful crowd in our own back yard. We’re all really excited for everyone to hear the new songs and we’re starting to work them into the set slowly. It’s going to be a great summer this year. DAN BALL
Canada Day Party!
Acres Of Lions will be over on the mainland this Friday to celebrate Canada Day with our fellow Peak Performers at the Surrey Canada Day party! The event is free to the public and will take place Friday July 1st at the Cloverdale Millennium Amphitheatre located 176 Street & 64th Avenue. Gates open at 10 am with the fireworks lighting up the sky at 10:15 pm. Acres Of Lions is playing from 7:40 – 8 PM sharp, so you’ll want to get there early to be sure that you catch our set. For more information about the celebration, visit the City Of Surrey website.
CHEK TV – Spotlight
Tonight at 7 PM and 10:30PM tune into CHEK TV to watch Acres Of Lions in a spotlight on Victoria bands who have been selected for the Peak Performance Project. Special thanks to Kylie for including us in the feature. Once the video airs we plan to post a link where the piece can be viewed online.
Studio Log: Day 3 – Oh, Flammadiddle!
Another long day at Infinity Studios, with Adam Sutherland and his craft, another long day of percussion, inventing new terms for everything, debauchery, coffee sweats and an unfortunate hockey game in the middle, another bright and lovely day spent inside. Lewis drummed and we joked the whole time about specific phrases that never get played by drummers anymore (ie. the 90’s hip-hop shuffle, the 8-beat random-sounding drum-roll), all the different ways you can write and imitate drums sounds with your mouth and how cymbal shots sound absolutely terrifying without a kick-drum under them. We were also dressed in our finest summer apparel, cut-off shorts and flip-flops, and discussed how as soon as we have to spend 10 hour shifts indoors, in a loud, hot and sweaty room, the weather blesses
Studio Log: Day 2 – Drums
Day two at Infinity Studios and we’re already starting to act like 8 year old kids the first time they learned a curse word. Getting into the studio now requires you to utter obnoxious passwords that would make your grandmother blush. Song lyrics are in the process of being rewritten to the tune of Rodney Dangerfield stand up act. Basically we’re really starting to “bond” with Adam again. Not a whole lot of excitement to report in this edition, other than we successfully laid down drum tracks on four more songs. That brings the song count up to seven, leaving three more songs for Lewis to pound out tomorrow. We’ve been recording lots of video of the whole process, so once we’re done in the studio stay tuned to our
Studio Log: Day 1 – Drums
Three years, 50,000 kms, and 100+ shows later… we’re finally back in the studio to record our sophomore album! It’s been a pretty gloomy spring around Victoria this year, but today mother nature decide to honour our first day in the studio by bringing us the kind of summer weather normally reserved exclusively for TV beer commercials. It’s just a shame that people decided to build recording studios indoors, because today would have been a great day to spend time doing some of the things that inspire songs to be written: like BBQ’ing in the backyard, sipping cold drinks with friends on a downtown patio, or maybe even participating in something called the Good Ol’ Boys Invitational Beer Mile. We’re excited to be working on this album with our friend
Peak Performance Project Top 20!
For the second year in a row Acres Of Lions has been selected by Music BC as one of the Top 20 bands in the province of British Columbia for the 100.5 FM Peak Performance Project! Other Top 20 artists include our new best friends: Ashleigh Eymann, Avairis, Behind Sapphire, Current Swell, David Vertesi, Fields Of Green, Hilary Grist, Jasper Sloan Yip, Lindsay Bryan, Maurice, Redgy Blackout, Rococode, The Belle Game, The Boom Booms, The Matinée, The Never Surprise, The Oh Wells, Treelines, and 41st and Home. To kick off the project we’ll be performing a short set on 100.5 The PEAK stage at the Surrey Canada Day Celebration on July 1st. For more information about the 100.5 FM Peak Performance Project, check out their website: www.peakperformanceproject.com
10th Anniversary Zone Show : Sum 41!
This just in… Acres Of Lions will be performing with Sum 41 for The Zone 91.3 FM‘s 10th Anniversary Zone show later this summer! Here’s the details… SUM 41 with guests Acres of Lions Tuesday August 16th at Club 9One9 Tickets On Sale Friday May 27 at 10 AM. Available at Lyle’s Place, Ditch, The Strathcona Hotel and www.ticketweb.ca. Visit TheZone.fm for more info.
Help Acres Of Lions play Live At Squamish!
We have an opportunity to play at the 2011 Live at Squamish Festival this August along side some amazing bands (Weezer, Metric, etc), and all we need is some votes! If you could take a second to go to the following link and vote for us before May 6th we’d really appreciate it… http://metropresents.strutta.com/entry/165517 Note: if we win we will be giving away 4 free Live at Squamish tickets to some lucky fans on Facebook. Thanks for your support! Tyson, Jeff, Dan, Lewis ACRES OF LIONS
