Defending Otis will be playing an acoustic gig this Thursday at Maxwell’s Music House.
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!
To Haiti, With Love - A Benefit Concert
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)
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!
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!
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 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.
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 Theatre was a wicked venue to hold the show. We wanted to have a smaller space and we got out a great group of friends. I would recommend it highly … just make sure you run a sound check well before the show (we had a bit of a problem that we had to work through … sigh).
The set was a real mixed bag of old and brand spanking new songs …
Nothing Left to Say
Never Look Back
Home
Everyone’s a Fascist
Contrived
The Graduate
Rise
Hold On
Lack of Colour (Death Cab cover)
The Man Who Is Greater Than
Last One Standing
Sad Song
It was pretty wild playing a couple tracks that were weeks old along side some that … well … have been around the block a few hundred times. What’s wild is the song that we actually played the best was “Sad Song” … one that is only a couple weeks old. I’m hoping to get the video posted for that one shortly.
Our sights have been set on a show to be held in Kitchener in a couple months time … I won’t give away too many details just yet!
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 shows without a CD or website. Now that we finally have both … I guess no excuses.
On a side note … if you haven’t heard the new Wintersleep album … it’s magical.
Planning for the first show is well on it’s way … we have two great opening acts, and it will be held at the Staircase Theatre.
I think you’ll really enjoy Emily McCullogh and Angus Fraser (Tenth of May) … they’ll both been planning sets for all of the fine people that show up.
Emily will be playing keys and performing some of her original material … if you want to have a listen to her stuff … check her myspace. I was really impressed listening to her stuff … we think you’ll enjoy it.
Our other act, Angus is probably one of my favorite artist. Brilliant song writer that plays with such haunting emotion … we probably should be opening for him, but we’re not only cause it’s our CD release show. I think you should have a listen right now actually … mayten.net.
So if you haven’t responded on the event page … what better time than now? The show is limited seating to 65 people … thought it would be fitting for an acoustic show.
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