Upcoming shows

I recorded a new song today with my good friend Mark from Crop Failure. We co-wrote it and both wrote our own lyrics. It's really weird and cool and I dig it. Kind of a dirge. Anyway, it'll be on the new record. I finished another separate tune for it today, so progress is being made. Incidentally, Mark plays in another band called Cessna, whom GIANTS should be doing some shows with in the coming months. I'm going to be doing a solo set opening (NOT me and an acoustic guitar, I'll be playing electric and singing along to backing tracks on my iPod...diggit) for Crop Failure @ a loft called The Animal House in Montreal February 12th. I'm excited.

Here's all the upcoming shows:

February 5 The Big City Nights Band @ The Youth Action Centre, Welland
February 12 The Big City Nights (solo set) @ The Animal House, Montreal
February 24 The Big City Nights Band @ Tiger Bar, Toronto 



That's the news. Lose yer blues.

Mercy Among The Children

Disregard my last post. Ground control has deemed it necessary to leave our not famed fifth record floating in space forever, alone and remote, unless a discovered-at-the-age-of-thirty-six miracle should happen to us a la the great GBV, and people actually go digging for our older stuff. There will be no sequel to Deep Space Bistro. The next record will instead be a slight one, 13 or 14 songs, kind of a continuation of the first half of Gimme Gardens, but with a bit more thought put into it. I'll be doing most of the drums for it, as I have acquired a taste - as well as a reasonable level of competence - for that particular instrument. Another reason for this is the crippling anxiety that has let me unable to leave the city because it involves getting on a bus where inevitably a strange panic engulfs me and I feel as if I'm trying to outrun an invisible force which has somehow got ahold of my heartbeat.
The new record will be called Mercy Among The Children and it should be done by March. After that we'll make our epic Exile On Queen St up at a cottage somewhere away from the distractions of the city, namely bars and...well, just bars I guess. Lotta bars down here. Saw one the other week there on Dufferin and Eglinton called Second Beer. You don't go to a bar called Second Beer for your first drink, know what I mean?
Anyway, keep an eye out for Mercy Among The Children. Our apologies to David Adam Richards.

Oh Sing

Work has begun on a sequel to Deep Space Bistro, which will be unimaginatively and hilariously titled Into The Bistro: Deep Space Bistro Pt II. Along with this there will be a mammoth new record sometime this year called Exile On Queen St which will be really epic.

A few shows

We got a friendly shout out here from Marc @ Gold Soundz. Thanks Marc. Plans are being hatched to begin recording the next record this February. We also have three shows coming up:

February 5 @ The Youth Action Centre, Welland
February 24 @ Tiger Bar, Toronto
March 12 @ Tracks, Brampton

My other band GIANTS is playing Marcello's tomorrow, and we'll be making an EP fairly soon. The Broken Social Network thing is dead for now.

 That's the news, lose yer blues.