http://defendingotis.com Love, Lies and Fireflies Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:38:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To Haiti, With Love - A Benefit Concert Here are the deets ... El Mocambo - 464 Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 2G8 @ 8pm The Second Otis show in as many months.  We're super pumped to play this gig ... it's been over a year since we've played the BIG CITY last.  ... http://defendingotis.com/see-us-live/feb-21st-2010-el-mocambo-toronto-on 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 ... http://defendingotis.com/see-us-live/jan-8th-2010-maxwells-music-house-waterloo-on We'll be playing a fundraising show for the Sick Kids Foundation ... 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! http://defendingotis.com/see-us-live/sunday-dec-7th-the-boat-toronto-on That's right ... it hasn't been that long since the last one. 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 ... http://defendingotis.com/blog/starting-new-album Defending Otis will be gracing one of the biggest events of the year.  This is an exclusive show at an undisclosed location ... who names their party after themselves, really?  Hmmm. This will be the break out show for some new additions to the group ... should be exciting! http://defendingotis.com/see-us-live/saturday-aug-23rd-chez-tessmer-iv So since the last show, we've been taking a bit of a break ... Our Hamilton show was fun, but took a lot out of us ... I sound like I'm 70 years old. Right now we're working on a couple things ... We're sending out our music to college radio ... http://defendingotis.com/blog/on-a-college-radio-station-near-you So yeah, I'm going to try not and make this blog into Cheese-fest 2008 ... but I want to thank everyone who has supported us through the purchase of our debut official release, "Love, Lies & Fireflies". It's pretty nerve racking to make something like this and hope that some how ... http://defendingotis.com/blog/holy-people-are-actually-buying-it We had our last show taped for some live footage ... unfortunately we had some technical issues so I'm pretty sure that only a couple songs will be up for viewing. We've also been looking out for indie film makers to help us with some creative images ... it would be ... http://defendingotis.com/blog/video-to-be-posted-soon Wanted to thank everyone who made it out to the show! It really means a lot to have people come out and support you like that ... especially with all the prep the artists put into their sets.  I have to say ... Emily and Angus were amazing ... !!! The Staircase ... http://defendingotis.com/blog/thanks-for-coming We're finally at the point where we're ready to play real shows ... if you have a band or know of a band that would be interested in playing/sharing shows ... drop me a line. We wound up taking almost three years off because it kind of doesn't make sense playing ... http://defendingotis.com/blog/show-swap