We've moved

I imported all the old posts and created a new blog at the much more trendy/useful Tumblr. On the internet, The Big City Nights Band now lives here: http://thebigcitynightsband.tumblr.com/

Recording soon

In less than a month we'll be heading to Ottawa to record the remaining six songs for the record, which will either be called Yawns Beyond or Dancing Days. Excited. I'll be documenting the rehearsal and recording process for a DVD we'll be releasing this year featuring footage from the sessions, as well as older footage from years ago, including also all of our music videos to date. The DVD will be called Drunk Dreams. Furthermore, I have decided that we WILL have a 7" out by the end of the year, either in partership with a label, or an independent split (a split cuz it'll be easier to finance).
Hopefully some Guelph and Kitchener shows will happen sometime after April.

 That's the news, lose yer blues.

Fools Make The Rules EP

The Big City Nights Band - Fools Make The Rules EP
Running Time: 9:23 Download here: http://soundcloud.com/thebigcitynights/sets/fools-make-the-rules-ep

01 Fools Make The Rules
02 Miss Me Baby (feat. Reena Masrani)
03 Tender Hearts
04 Gorges Gorgeous

Fire Away

Recorded this one today. Needs Ryan but my stuff is done: http://soundcloud.com/thebigcitynights/fire-away

Fools Make The Rules EP

We're assembling a stopgap EP to get things going promotionally for the next full-length record. It'll be called Fools Make The Rules and have the titular song, "Miss Me Baby", band versions of "Phone Went Dead" and "Searching Drifter", and a long instrumental called "Fix Your Airport". It'll be out Jan 1. We're playing a show at the Retired Records house in Hamilton on Jan 6, opening for the Happy Endings (Ian Blurton's new band). Thanks to Mark for hooking that one up. Stoked.

News

Hey ya folks. We will be doing stacks and stacks of recording over the Winter Break, but again, my newfound patience has pushed the release date back. We won't have an LP out this year. It will be out in late Feb or early March, just in time to make it the soundtrack to your spring AND summer. In the meantime, we will be stockpiling songs so that only the best are put out. Still trying to figure out whether it'll be called Yawns Beyond or Dancing Days.

No shows coming up but something might pop up, maybe a New Year's Eve gig or whatever. Who knows. If not, we got stuff coming in the new year. For the rest of 2011 I will be focusing on the Sleep For The Nightlife stuff, with an eye toward maybe also finally completing the GIANTS record.

And, last but not least, like every December, you can download our Christmas song here: http://thebigcitynightsband.bandcamp.com/album/be-mine-this-xmas

Day Divisions

Just assembled a new EP called Day Divisions.

Photo Credit: Russell Holley
Running Time: 5:44
01. Sailing To Denver
02. Phone Went Dead
03. Ferris Wheel

It's trio of extremely lo-fi dirges recorded on a particularly ramshackle set-up. That muddled guitar lick at the very end of "Ferris Wheel" is lifted from "Happy When It Rains" by The Jesus and Mary Chain. Given the song's clipping nature, I feel it was an OK choice. Sonically and lyrically they all seem to play in the same field, so here she is: http://soundcloud.com/bicycle-man/sets/day-divisions-1