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.

Be Mine This Xmas

Hey you can d/l our old Christmas song here: http://thebigcitynightsband.bandcamp.com/album/be-mine-this-xmas

Broken Social Network

We have scored a gig as the house band at Grossman's on Monday nights, and by we, I mean members of The Flying Museum Band, The Big City Nights Band, The Beekeeper's Society, and other random musicians. We will be playing songs by the aforementioned bands, as well as a list of select covers. The name of this live collective is BROKEN SOCIAL NETWORK. Good times. I'll keep y'all updated on this. In other news, since myspace has gone to an even worse hell than it used to be, I've added another "blog" here . That blog won't be a blog in the traditional sense. I'll only have have the two posts up, one for upcoming shows for all LGRC bands, and another for the catalog. Both posts will be updated as things happen, but that's it. I figured it's better than sending people to a myspace that usually doesn't load properly and generally looks like shit.
Here's the facebook event for Broken Social Network's first gig: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=183987161617451

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.