while on the road. having a great trip with the gentlemen in my life. the montreal show went well, and will be broadcast on july 15th on cbc’s the signal. thank heaven for the cbc, and the signal in particular. tomorrow night in toronto, with eric chenaux, don kerr, martin arnold, and of course christof migone! escape escape songs.
a fun time was had by all at our first summer backyard concert last night. onward voyageur, those crazy fits, and luxury pond were pleasing to the ears. and now i’m packing up the small family and heading to montreal and toronto for gigs this week. exciting, exhausting, enigmatic. see you soon, middle of canada!
heyo there from the hot summer on the westcoast. had a lovely set of shows on the islands in the last weeks. lasqueti, island of cookie stands, port alberni, city of salmon, and roberts creek, town of many friends. thanks to all for the hospitality and good audiencing. and the cookies. mmmmm.
in other news, both of the albums (duplex and young saint marie) that were promised for this month are experiencing delays. young saint marie will most likely come out in the fall now, and i think the duplex will be ready in july. we’re all a little relaxed over here these days. but, as a booby prize, theatre replacement is putting out an album of musical theatre songs in early july! titled “Do You Want What I Have Got?”, it contains the craigslist cantata, the songs from yufo, and The Raft of the Medusa. plus, it has cool cover art by my new pal ray fenwick!
oh, and congrats to JC on a successful bid on the doxa camera. i’m chuffed that my project managed to raise such a good price for the festival, and i can’t wait to see how the pictures turned out myself. fingers crossed!
stuff: zooglobble is streaming a song from the new duplex record here. it is a song about evolution, originally from the leaky heaven circus show Bonobo, kind of an interspecies romeo and juliet.
as raff noted below, the doxa auction has started, which features a disposable camera that i filled with pictures such as the one here. which is my own film still from Grey Gardens.
and then lots of other cameras from actual celebrities.
i am going to be on cbc this afternoon on the show The Next Chapter, talking about moomins.
and today is anders’ 8 month birthday! i think he’s getting a tooth. not as his present, just as a natural development. for a present, maybe i’ll give him a usb cable to chew on or something.
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hey team. i’m just here slogging through my taxes, and i realized with a shock that we’ve been charging $20 for the fits record since may. that should’ve been $10. whoops. anyone who bought a fits record through the site in the last year is now entitled to a discount on the new fits record, now in slooow production. hopefully out by the end of this year……if that’s too lame, and you’re really angry, get in touch and i’ll refund you or sing you a little song or something. the fits!
ps this is a picture taken by the everpresently marvellous adam pw smith of the fits at redcat records on record store day. i am singing to patsy about how much i hate her.
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passport photo!
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hey gang. i just updated the shows page, a few more festivals and canadian things going on. we’re also going to do a few backyard shows this year, and i’ll post them as soon as we’ve got them organized. interestingly, there are not a lot of europe/uk shows coming through for the fall…..the economic recession does seem to be having an effect on people’s desire to present esoteric canadians. i’m kind of excited to be having a pure writing time, but i know i promised some gigs so if you have any ideas of interesting places that have real pianos and a sense of daring, do let me know.
hey gang, this just in: i’ll be playing a late night set at the holiday inn in downtown ottawa this saturday, 11pm. free!
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