22 FEBRUARY @ LONDON MUSIC CLUB, LONDON- ALL AGES -
7.30pm – doors
8.00pm – Bryce Jardine, London local who is releasing his new cd very soon!
8.45pm – Sam Allen, hometown favourite.
10.00pm – Forest City Lovers, who are very very excited to be back in London.
$10 in advance at the venue or [click] / $12 at the door.
23 FEBRUARY @ VAN GOGH’S EAR, GUELPH
8.30pm – doors
9.45pm – The Cry Break - a heartbreakingly beautiful new band of Guelph alumni
10.30pm – Forest City Lovers, who are also very excited to come to Guelph!
$10 in advance at the venue / $12 at the door.
25 FEBRUARY @ THE TRANZAC, TORONTO
Out of this Spark (our label) 5th Anniversary
Lots of music in every room of the building, all night!
Featuring Forest City Lovers, Snowblink, The Meek, Jenny Omnichord, Richard Laviolette
$15 advance/door, available at Soundscapes, Rotate This
Capacity for all the shows is limited so buy your tickets in advance if you can! We wanna see you! xoxoxo
Before we took of on tour I stopped by the Exclaim office in Toronto and played some songs. Here is an a guitar version of Keep the Kids Inside and a “more sultry and smooth” (their words) version of Tell Me, Cancer. You can also download the mp3s of these by visiting the original site [click and click].
Hi friends! I want to take a minute to tell you about a great organisation we’re involved with called Not Far From the Tree [link]. We’ll be donating some money from our merch sales to help them out. They work locally to put Toronto’s fruit to good use by having volunteers picking and sharing the bounty with the food banks.
From their website: When a homeowner can’t keep up with the abundant harvest produced by their tree, they let us know and we mobilise our volunteers to pick the bounty. The harvest is split three ways: 1/3 is offered to the tree owner, 1/3 is shared among the volunteers, and 1/3 is delivered by bicycle to be donated to food banks, shelters, and community kitchens in the neighbourhood so that we’re putting this existing source of fresh fruit to good use. It’s a win-win-win situation!
From us: We have friends that volunteer for this org. They have a blast picking and it’s really amazing how it helps foster the neighbourhood community. The food bank gets fresh, ripe fruits to dispense to those who need it and the people that help out get something too. Pretty neat eh?
This month we will donate $1 to NFFTT for each t-shirt, tote bag or cd that we sell on our tour [dates] or through our online store [link]. And, as a bonus, we’ll donate another $0.50 if you take a photo of you with your swag and tag it on our Facebook page. Easy enough, eh? Go tell your friends.
We are excited to spread the word about NFFTT and hope that it will encourage groups to start in other cities. We’ll see you on the road!
You may or may not know that I have a strong predilection for a good stop motion film; ones that are really old are even better. This beautiful selection of rolling and jumping clay comes from the film ‘Gumbasia’ (1955) by the very talented Art Clokey. You know Gumby and Pokey? Yep, same guy. He actually just died last year and it’s worth reading a bit about his life if you’re interested [click].
We have some new arrangements, new merch and lots of energy and we’d love to share with you. Please spread the word that we’re heading your way!
Hey dear friends! Autumn is my favourite season and to celebrate we’re going to be doing a quick jaunt out West before it gets too chilly. If you live in Western Canada, please keep an eye out for us!
November Dates:
5/ London, ON – APK Live
15/ Thunder Bay, ON – The Apollo
16/Winnipeg, MB – The Lo Pub
17/ Saskatoon, SK – The Fez
18/ Calgary, AB – The Palomino
19/ Edmonton, AB – The Black Dog
21/ Kelowna, BC – The Bean Scene
23/ Vancouver, BC – Railway Club
25/ Edmonton, AB – The Haven
26/ Regina, SK – The Exchange
29/ Sudbury, ON – Fromagerie Elgin
And if you didn’t catch it when Exclaim magazine premiered it earlier this week, we have a new video out. The parts that have Kat in it were filmed on the darkened streets of Oshawa Ontario. We’d like to thank everyone for not complaining about all the fireworks goin’ down in the park…
Greetings from Oakland, California. I’m in the Bay area for a few weeks to get some major writing done, check out the sea lions and play a few shows. If you are around please come out and say hello, slam down a high five or just tell me where the best taco truck is in LA.
September:
4 – Outdoor picnic show at Mosswood Park Amphitheatre, Oakland. Details/RSVP
5 – School Night at Bardot, Hollywood. Details/RSVP: itsaschoolnight.com 9 – Hotel Cafe, 1623 N. Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles. Early show 7pm. Details: Special show, no advance tickets, just at the door! MAP
17 – Isla Vista Festival, Santa Monica. Details/RSVP
Thursday 16 June:
3pm @ Analogue Gallery – Free BBQ and performance
9pm @ The Music Gallery – Official Out of this Spark showcase. W/ Snowblink and Evening Hymns
Saturday 18 June:
4pm @ Trinity Bellwoods Park – Free show put on by Live in Bellwoods
We’re happy to announce we’ll be playing RIVER AND SKY music festival on 15th July near Sudbury ON and WOLFE ISLAND music festival on 6th August near Kingston ON! Come out and hang with us in the summmmmmer!
It’s nice to be home. Thank you to all the lovely people I met along the way, and for being such beautiful attentive audiences. It was such a treat to play stripped down versions of FCL songs and to try out a few new ones. I did some video sessions whilst in Halifax, but I will post those later.
Instead, here is the Blogotheque Take Away show that Claire and I did. I’m a huge fan of the work that these guys do, they seem to capture great musical moments with a lot of my favourite bands. We were honoured to be included. We filmed it in our friend Dave’s backyard in Austin, Texas while he was out. I hope he didn’t mind…
We did a session with the Kiyanna Project while we were in Austin. They were very lovely people and were able to coax a story out of me about what went into “If I Were A Tree”. It’s rare that I tell the stories behind my songs; I really like people to apply their own meaning to my words and use them in their own moments. But if you were curious, listen on dear grasshopper…
