The happily married duo, known as Handsome Furs set out on their little holiday tour of Ontario last night in Ottawa. They were slated to play at Club Saw, but then moved to Mavericks for capacity issues… and after seeing Mavericks, I can’t imagine how small Club Saw must be. We arrived at about 8:15, and met Dan and Alexei outside who were also on their way in after SEVEN HOURS of driving from Montreal, which is normally a two hour drive. Dan jokes about that and Quebec’s inability to cope with large amounts of snow in his always entertaining stage banter.
They have been touring for quite a while now, so there were no new songs played. We were treated to incredible versions of the album songs, as well as the non-album track “Heaven” and their cover of Tom Petty’s “You Got Lucky”. For lack of new songs, Dan said he was adding in some new lyrics, which was a nice bonus. “Snakes on the Ladder” and “Dumb Animals” now have new endings.
My only regret of the night is not bringing a second disc to record Wood Hands, who played an amazing set. Check them out if they play near you. I am, however, proud of my Handsome Furs recording, and here it is:
In another bit of news, congratulations to Felipe from Chile who won our first contest, a signed copy of Buck 65’s latest release, “Situation”. Hopefully, we’ll have another soon.
Have a good holiday season everyone! I’m off to Newfoundland tomorrow to…drink. Ahhh, celebrating the season. Brock will be working on the blog over the holidays from his Montreal headquarters, and I will check in with my Bon Iver post, and hopefully some more goodies.
Personally those lyrics cannot be further from the truth, however, since I have some news concerning Mr. Rollins I thought that it would be fitting. Last week I had a chance to check out the Los Campesinos live at Le National opening for Kevin Drew. Up front I want to say that I didn’t stay for Kevin Drew, frankly my nerves were shot from work, my girlfriend and I were feeling less than 100% and I don’t like Spirit If much. If you want a great review of KD’s show check out False 45ths opinion here. The Los Campesinos have been a great addition to the music of 2007, like I already said months ago here. I heard they stole the show in Toronto the day before, which doesn’t surprise me since they gave the crowd at Le National everything they had with the style and energy of a headlining act. These guys are the personification of fun and changed my sour Montreal winter mood to a more pleasant one. The set list was what I expected mixed with some tracks I haven’t heard including “Frontwards” and “Switching Switches”. My girlfriend was impressed with the guitar players French and how every member of the band was wearing different colour t-shirts (I didn’t notice that). My only complaint is that they never played their cover of Black Flag’s “Police Story” but speaking of Henry Rollins (lead singer of Black Flag for those failing Punk History 101), he’ll be in Montreal March 2nd. I’ve been a fan boy of his since I read “Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag”, He’s a living legend who has some great stories to tell and experiences to share. If you want to buy tickets go here. Enough Rollins man love, heres the good stuff.
Thanks to the folks at Warner Music Canada, we offer you our first contest; a signed copy of Buck 65’s new album, Situation. We thank them and we thank you for reading.
Check out this quote from Mr. 65:
“When writing a song, considerations of hip-hop or street credibility never cross my mind. That being the case, no point of view, emotion, or instrumentation is off-limits for me. If I find an idea, memory, or emotion interesting enough to want to write about it, I just try to turn that into music in as clear and honest a way possible.” – BUCK 65
Download one of the singles from Situation, “Dang” below… It’s a catchy one!
Email me (address in sidebar) with the subject “Buck 65 Contest” for your chance to win a signed copy of Situation. I will accept entries until next Sunday, the 16th of December and I’ll announce the winner in this post on Monday.
Where have we been? Its been a week and no updates! I apologize with all my heart. The weekend was longer than expected and my new Wii has been sucking up most of my free time. My new years resolution in ‘08 will be to make sure something like this will never happen again. You’ll be happy to know that even though we haven’t been updating the site, the camera has still been rolling. Today, I have the MP3’s of the Elvis Perkins show last Thursday, and in the next little while expect some Bon Iver and Stars action with some Los Campesinos! thrown in for good measure. Now that the apology is out of the way on with the show.
Elvis Perkins In Dearland surprised me with all the new material last week at Le Studio Juste Pour Rire. I was expecting mainly 80% Ash Wednesday with a booming rendition of “Doomsday” to close the show. However we got a lot of new material that I enjoyed more then most tracks off Ash Wednesday. “Weeping Pilgrim”, a J.P. Reece cover, was excellent and far superior to the version by Natalie Merchant. “Shampoo”, which is an old song that didn’t make it onto Ash Wednesday, was phenomenal and I pray it will be on the new album next year. The one common theme across the new material is drum. I expect the new Elvis Perkins to be drum heavy, but I don’t think that will be a bad thing. More video from this show will be up over time. The clowns at Dailymotion are giving me a hard time. Enjoy, and happy Friday!
The happily married duo, known as Handsome Furs set out on their little holiday tour of Ontario last night in Ottawa. They were slated to play at Club Saw, but then moved to Mavericks for capacity issues… and after seeing Mavericks, I can’t imagine how small Club Saw must be. We arrived at about 8:15, and met Dan and Alexei outside who were also on their way in after SEVEN HOURS of driving from Montreal, which is normally a two hour drive. Dan jokes about that and Quebec’s inability to cope with large amounts of snow in his always entertaining stage banter.
