If you’ve attended our last show there, you’ll remember how cool the venue was!

Here’s the deets …

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

w/ Shawn Clarke and Sara Ciantar

19+, $5, Doors Open @ 8:30pm

More details visit the F-Book event page!

Want to hear some NEW TRACKS … !?

“Lost Travellers” was launched in January 2011 and is available for download on iTunes …

NOTHING LEFT TO SAY

SAD SONG

THE EVERYBODY STEPS

THE GRADUATE

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THE NAME …

So initially we leaked the new album title to be “White Rabbits”.  It’s a great name … cool sounding, lots of intrigue, also the name of a great Jefferson Airplane song.  I’m pretty sure the suggestion was followed by thumbs up and high fives …

Right around the same time when we were starting the Album, a Canadian band began to break … Their name?  White Rabbits.  If that wasn’t enough, it also appeared that they stole our love for excessive amounts of drumming.  At least we enjoyed their music so the loss of a name wasn’t THAT painful.

Fast forward about one or two years … Band friend, Allison Choppick was hard at work coming up with a visual concept for the album.  Allison is an artist out of Toronto, who’s just loaded with mad art skills.  After giving the album a few listens she sent me a txt reading, “Lost Travellers”.  It was a pretty eerie experience because it dawned on me that that was the exact theme I was lyrically writing about.  It was an epic Dr. Phil moment …

Lost Travellers has been in the works for over 2 years.  This project took hundreds of musician/mixing hours and we’re extremely happy to share it with you!

To preview and buy … Search us on iTunes!

Want to thank everyone who made it out to this show!

It was Otis’ massive comeback show … the first featuring our NEW line-up!

We also performed six songs off the new album!

Set List:

Hold On
Last One Standing
Sad Song (NEW)
Better Life (NEW)
Contrived
The Graduate (NEW)
Never Look Back
The Everybody Steps (NEW)
Nothing Left To Say (NEW)
Complete (NEW)

Here’s some pics

IMPORTANT - We’ll be playing a short acoustic set at 12:30pm SHARP …

Best part of all … cover is only $5!

The Boat
158 Augusta Ave.
Toronto ON
12:30pm (afternoon) SHARP!

What a lot of people don’t know, is that “Love, Lies and Fireflies” was actually recorded over a couple years.  BTW … if you don’t own it yet … you’re totally missing out!  After completing it, we immediately started to work on new material … you know, instead of playing shows.

Interesting fact:  Did you know that Barack Obama owns a copy?  He doesn’t, I’m just hoping people Googling him will accidently click here.  I’m sorry. 

So yes, about this new album “White Rabbits” it’s going to feature an allstar cast of artists.  Dan, Brad, Angus … LEE TESSMER!  Cause you know HE brings the goods.  It will also be our first full length … very nice.

On a side note, feel free to post your thoughts, we paid the extra 3 trillion dollars so you could. 

I love you all,

Mike

This will be the break out show for some new additions to the group … should be exciting!

Right now we’re working on a couple things … We’re sending out our music to college radio stations all across this fine country, and we’re in the midst of preparing a new set for our upcoming Kitchener show.  We may also be playing a couple shows with friend of the band, Emma Acott … we’ll keep you posted on that.

I don’t know if it’s because things have been pretty stressful cause I’ve been writting a ton of new material.  We’ve slotted September to start working on our next album “White Rabbits” … Lee and I are pretty excited about this one, because we’ve learned a lot working on “Love, Lies and Fireflies”.  With this CD you’ll hear some of the new songs we’ve been featuring at past live shows.  Songs that really capture where that band is at right now … more upbeat with a dash of emo … sigh.  ALSO we’ll be working with former bandmate Brad Weber again, and cause of that … it’s sure to win a Juno.  Brad will be recording/producing this badboy for your listening pleasure.