Oh, hi! Here’s a video of If I Were A Tree (available on sweet green vinyl here) that we recorded with XM in Austin, TX. Christian is hiding off camera, but I think he played the glock quite beautifully. This was a nice, intimate recording session and a big thank you to the patient crowd for their quietness as we recorded (I sing quietly, I’m sorry!).
In other news, I will be travelling to Europe in May to represent our fine band at a couple festival dates in and around the UK. If you’d like to say hello, keep an eye on our show dates for when/where things are happening.
We have returned, weary and dizzy, from our fantastic week in Austin, Texas. It was such a vibrant, exciting place for the time we were there. People streaming out of bars at all hours of the day and night, high on life and stuffed with Lone Star and breakfast tacos. I think I ate more burritos and tacos in the last seven days than I have my whole life. That’s including my brief Taco Bell obsession in grade ten…
River runs through it.
The weather was so sunny and cheerful, up until Saturday, and it was a nice respite from the grey Toronto that we’d left. We spent the week relaxing and hanging out with new and old friends and playing/watching music. We went on a lovely SOCAN boat cruise around the lake and thus, saw Austin from a few different angles. Christian even got a great new haircut in the artist village!
Kyle on the boat.
Combined I think we saw about 50 (or more?!) bands play, and very few of those were from Canada. It was a nice chance to see bands that might not come through Toronto any time soon. My personal favourites were Fool’s Gold (Ethiopian-style you-can’t-stop-dancing), Local Natives (definitely live up to the hype) and Wye Oak.
Big thanks to XM Radio and Six Shooter Records for having us at their amazing Six Shooter House to record a session (you can listen to that here, it’s airing a few more times) and to our hosts Dave and Graeme, amazingly warm ex-pats that showed us a great time. And thank you to SXSW for all the hospitality, amazing food and drinks and lovely Artist Village where we could chill out in the sun. ( All that said, we did have to drive through a snowstorm in Texas and bitter cold winds in Arkansas and Kentucky on the way home. It seemed like the storm was travelling roughly 120km/hr on the same highway as us. Such is life.)
Snow...in Texas?
A big hello to our new friends from near and far and we hope we see y’all again soon!
We’ve posted a couple shows in NY state in April, tell your friends!
Here is a video of an interview with Explore Music that I recently did. Like the plaid? Very Canadian…
The wind is blowing spring into the city. The trees are dancing in the rain. Our record is like the buds on the trees – just waiting a few more weeks to come to be, full of life and ready for another year. I’m excited, are you? We’ve put a lot of thought and energy into this new sonic selection and I hope the wait will be worth it. Tracking finally finishes up this weekend, with some lovely friends laying down some guest vocal tracks. We’ll be mixing and a ‘mashing when we get back from Texas. Yee-haw! Looks like our record will be out in July on Out of This Spark and we’ll be touring Canada and some US June/July/August. Plans are in the works. We’re also going to be playing New York in April, keep an eye out.
Oh ya, speaking of Texas, are you going to be at SXSW? We are and here is where you can find us (other than stuffing our faces with burritos…)
March 20 – 2pm we’ll be playing an acoustic XM radio session and doing an interview at the Six Shooter House.
March 20 – 1am we’ll be playing our showcase at the Ale House (310 E 6th St) with the lovely Venice is Sinking up before us.
We’ll be out and about doing other fun and unannounced things throughout the week, so say hello if you see us!
We just finished up doing the Canadian Music Week (Fest?) thing and it was pretty fun. Here is some press from the last couple days, and check out a couple videos below, compliments of NXEW.
