Forest City Lovers

Wow. To say we’ve had an exciting couple weeks would be an understatement. Our tour with Geoff Berner and his band (Diona Davies and Wayne Adams on violin and percussion, respectively) went really well! They are such nice folks and we got on really well. We wish them the best of luck with the rest of their tour and I’m sure I’m not the only one that wishes we were still travellin’ onwards…

Until we meet again we shall all have Klezmer music ringing in our ears and the sweet glow of whiskey on our breath. You should all check out Geoff’s new album called Klezmer Mongrels - it rocks. And if you can catch him in your town – which with the next two months of touring you probably can – you should!

In a random occurrence, Tony the Pony reappeared in Montreal! You may or may not remember that our wonderful plush pile of fluff tour mascot was forgotten in Kamloops BC in late 2007. We tried our best to get him back but to no avail… and assumed he was as gone as gas money. Low and behold – a year and a half later he reappeared mysteriously in Montreal at our show!! It blew our minds. We have no idea how he got there or who dropped him off. I tried to find out but the mystery delivery girl was nowhere to be found. If you KNOW who it was please email us, I’d like to send them a thank you token of our love.

It’s been so nice to see new faces (and familiar faces) in all the cities we visit. Thanks to YOU for coming out and supporting us. We really appreciate it. We get super excited when the crowds are good and it’s awesome that they keep getting bigger every time we return to play your city again.  We’d like to extend a large high five to all the venues that were so nice to us, the hotels that kept us sleeping well, the ever lovely Astro van, Mika’s parents for putting up with us and to Sam Posen for taking the awesome photos of us with our engineering jackets on. YAH!

In other Forest City Lovers news:

- you can now get band updates by following us at our Twitter page
- we are recording in the next couple weeks both an XM Radio session and new track for an upcoming release that we’re super psyched about!
- we are coming to Europe in May
- we are  coming to the Eastern US in August
- we are excited about some super awesome festivals this summer…..stay tuned!!!

xoxxo
FCL

congrats to Ken Chang with his ubiquitous winning word.

Want to win a t-shirt and 2 tickets to the Toronto show on Friday, Feburary 6? 

Email us  the best word you have in your vocabulary  - along with your name, shirt size –  to

forestcitylovers (at ) gmail (dot) com

deadline: Friday Feburary 6  at noon EST.

Good luck!

Hi Internet land friends. I hope you are all doing well, wherever you are. Today was such a beautiful day here in Toronto. The sun finally caressed my face and boy…it felt very lovely.

We are excited for our little tour coming up with Geoff Berner. We are finally going to London Ontario as a band. And we’re going back to Wakefield, which is such a beautiful place. The last time we were there was also in February I believe and the snow was wild and wicked. 

Our album has also been repressed and that means the hand glued ones you may have are now collector items. That’s exciting isn’t it. We touched them and glued them. We’re excited to not do that again.

ON TO THE RADIO:

For everyone that listens to radio, real or online, you are in for a treat. This Friday February 6 you can hear us talk-talk-talking on the radio not once but TWICE.

10 am EST - Kat hangs out and talks with Vish Khanna on CBC RADIO 3 (listen online at www.cbcradio3.com) about the upcoming Geoff Berner tour, books and some suprises I’m sure.

12 – 2 pm EST - Kat and Kyle hang out with Chris from Electric Boogaloo (http://podcast.thecatseye.ca/) and talk about everything from sandwiches to the Super Bowl. Hilarity ensues..

Also this week Kat spoke to The Charlatan in Ottawa,The Singing Lamb in Toronto and ANDY magazine in Hamilton. Keep your eyes peeled for those articles…

much love!
xo
FCL