Beaver Man

This year has been insanely productive for The Big City Nights Band. We did our first tour (with mixed results), put out four full length records, and made a couple of fun videos, which was lovely, but after intense periods of productivity there usually follows a long highway of lazy days and delicious inactivity. Ryan (pictured above) works nights in various towns across Ontario, and James (also pictured above) starts work at 4 AM. I work 230-11PM usually. I also go to school full-time and live in a different city than my aforementioned bros. So we're taking some time off. We were supposed to play @ Rancho Relaxo Jan 1 but my other project GIANTS will be doing that show instead, as well as a show @ Marcello's in Streetsville Jan 7th, before disbanding forever.
GIANTS will be spending the rest of this month making our debut EP.
A billion things are happening in 2011, including the completion of Brampton Comes Alive!, a full-length record that Russell and I have been working on for almost a year now, a record from The AM Gems, which is Omri Horowitz's badass name, a film called Sudbury '96 that Russell and I and Stefan and a shitload of other people are working on, and a really huge project called Broken Social Network which will involve at least fifteen musicians and a cottage and a lot of tape. Sleep For The Nightlife is also working on our follow up to Human People, and I'll be trying to get some schoolwork done during all of this.
The Big City Nights will return in March with our annual Tracks show and hopefully make a record in the summer.

London After Midnight

A shrouded traveler clomps inside (door slams)
the ghost of England, he is.
And with tea breath and blood-red eyes,
he's clearly seen chalk-white cliffs I'll never see
and clearly tells me so
Tells me so in the land of no midnight pints
bombproof garbage cans
and a tube way below (dontcha know)
under the towers of London and the Tower of London
under the language of the surface bugs
beneath the buzz and toil of butchers
and smiling wrinkled vaginas.
The shrouded traveler says he works on a ship
way out to sea (dontcha know) way out
beyond the curve of the Earth. He says
a ghostship is waiting
to take him to his new home.

Gimme Gardens

The new record is done. It's called Gimme Gardens and you can download it here. It's our fourth full-length of the year. Whew. It's been a busy one. Here's the songs:

01 No Cabana
02 Lasagna Sunrise
03 Tiebreakin
04 Longers & Goners
05 Hurts To Wait
06 Ever Say Ever
07 My Time & Me
08 Watching My Baby Get Ready (Greg Cartwright)
09 Feel It
10 Encyclopedia Man
11 Shower of Stories
12 Softly Growing Old
13 Bad Enough For A Raincoat
14 Of Facts and Friendship
15 Lost Polaroids
16 Wild Hope
17 Baseball Orphans
18 Oh Sing
19 Hokum
20 I Hope

Movember rock show and a new record by years end

Like the title of this post suggests, we are playing a Movember charity event:

November 27th @ Brampton Rugby Club (South of Steeles on Kennedy Rd)

We are also beginning tracking for a new record tomorrow and Sunday, and hope to take a huge chunk out of it. I'd like to do this one quickly. There's no reason why it shouldn't be out by the end of the year, as the songs are written.

In other news I've started a new project called GIANTS with Spencer from Reverse Mount Rushmore, Brent from the Deadly Hopefuls, and James from The Big City Nights Band. We'll be recording an EP this December, then playing two shows in January, then breaking up forever. The dates are:

January 7th @ Marcello's, Streetsville
January 8th @ Rancho Relaxo, Toronto

 Looookout!

 As you've probably guessed, I'm no longer burnt out. It never lasts long.

Extended hiatus

For some reason I am really burnt out on this project right now, which means an extended hiatus from recording and playing will be happening. I'm gonna take some time to play with some new projects and try to write different stuff. We'll be back in March with our annual Tracks show.

Under The Overpass

Our seventh record has been mastered and is available for free download here
We hope you like it. Our entire discography is now available on bandcamp (excluding the EPs which, as a rule, we peddle only as physical items in very limited quantities). So check it out.

Finished

Last night I finished vocals on the last two songs and mixed the record. It is now in the capable hands of Ryan Mills, who is mastering it as I type this. It should be up and available for free download before next week. There are fifteen songs. Here's the details:

The Big City Nights Band - Under The Overpass LP

1. As Near As Now
2. Round and Around
3. Watching The Waves
4. Under The Overpass
5. Hardly Harm
6. Go Yell It On The Mountain
7. Make Up Your Mind
8. Chinese Highway
9. Amber Girls
10. Shitty Business
11. Under The Overpass
12. My Old Cell
13. Hardly Harm
14. Don't Laugh At Me
15. Over The Underpass

The record will be available in physical form soon enough. There won't be a release show for it until December, by which time we plan to have our fourth, and final, LP of the year out. Adding further to this glut, two EPs of songs leftover from both the Might Minutes and Under The Overpass sessions will be available online next month.

 That's the news.