Fidelity Friends, GIANTS, and BCN news

Two of my buddies (and occasional members of The Big City Nights Band) Brent and Spencer have a new band called Fidelity Friends and their new record titled Twenty-Fifth and Nowhere is available for free download right here: http://fidelityfriends.bandcamp.com/
    Highlights include the Rusty-esque "Intentional Accident", the muscular and insane "Cock Fight", and the country-ish strummer "Those Empty Days". The whole thing is great though and you should get it immediately. I mean it. Go do it now. I co-sang "Sunshine Pie", and "Party Riff" is part of GIANTS' live set.
    Speaking of GIANTS, we're playing a show with Crop Failure, CESSNA, and some other band this Friday at Mark's house in Hamilton. I don't know the address though so I suppose it's pointless to tell you this. For show listings for all of my bands as well as a handy guide to all LGRC releases, go here: http://www.littleghostrecordingco.blogspot.com/
    I wrote nine new songs today and we're making a new record the weekend of June 3rd, either up north at a friends' cottage or in Brampton. We'll have to wait and see. This one will be a mathier, rockier, more punishing affair than anything we've done before, and should hopefully get us onto radio stations nationwide, or at least a few shows here and there. The working title for this one is Hockey Tits. Yeah I know.
 That's the news for now. You're coming to see us play this Saturday night at the Silver Dollar right? RIGHT!? Here's the facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=224428200904589

 Bye for now

May 28 show facebook event

This may be our last show for a little while, so come check it out, eh?

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=224428200904589

Mazes video

Blog Love

Some blog love from France: http://www.the-discoverialist.com/2011/05/missing-saltwater.html
I am humbled and happy.
Here's some blog love for Exile, too: http://goldsoundzblog.com/?tag=big-city-nights

Mercy Among The Children

The new record is done and you can download it for free right here: http://thebigcitynightsband.bandcamp.com/album/mercy-among-the-children

16 songs in under 30 mins, 3 covers (The Jiants, Longwave, and The Rolling Stones). No real drums at all, lots of book hitting and door slamming, though. Summertime music.

Played a cool show @ The Gladstone last night (forgot to mention that one), but none booked for the moment. Cheers.

Spaghetti Songs

It's not the new record, but an EP of old b-sides and funny out takes that don't really fit on the new record. It has eight "songs', including the legendary "Overhead Mic Falls On James" and "Rookie Organ Nite @ The Leaf Game". I'm still working on the new full-length, and with these tunes off of it, it's shaping up to be a killer beach-y summer album.

You can download Spaghetti Songs here: http://soundcloud.com/bicycle-man/sets/spaghetti-songs-2

01. Be Careful With Me

02. Overhead Mic Falls On James (from 2006)

03. 1985

04. Until They Smile

05. Rookie Organ Nite @ The Leaf Game

06. Don't Count Yr Pennies On Xmas (from 2007)

07. Food 

08. Karth Prooks (feat James' first ever BCN guitar solo)

Working away...hiding away

As ever, we have a new record coming out soon. Initially it was supposed to be mostly b-sides with a few acoustic strums thrown in for good measure, but it's now grown into something bigger, weirder, and cooler. Been fucking around with a loop pedal for some songs, a killer cover of the Stones' "Out of Time" with Jamie, that tune with Mark from Crop Failure, and some other goodies. I hope to get Russell and Dave out for a few songs, and maybe Hacker too.
The record will be out in may, only on cassette but w/ a download code. As before, it's called Mercy Among The Children.

 Yahhh