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wednesday september 24, 2008
royally sparked cd release party
sparks music, our label is releasing a compilation entitled, "royally sparked" on tuesday october 7th and are putting on a show to celebrate. myself and a few other bands appearing on this record will be performing live at the el mocambo that evening. doors are at 8:30pm, live music begins at 9:00pm.
Cover is only $5.00 or you can get in for free with by making a food donation to the Daily Food Bank at the venue.
cheers
bp
thursday august 7, 2008
illuminaqua festival & bell border jam
we'll be playing the illuminaqua festival with ron sexsmith on friday august 22. admission is free and it all takes place at merritt park in welland, on.
this festival is a little different in the sense that concert is set on a floating stage and pods of fire will be illuminating the old welland canal. for more information and directions, click here.
we are also playing the bell border jam in my hometown of sault ste. marie on sunday august 17 at 3pm. Get more info and directions here.
cheers
bp
tuesday july 29, 2008
the kentucky hill music festival this saturday august 2nd
this is year two of the fabulously unofficial kentucky hill music festival. last year's fest (then called "the concert for rosie") was an enormous success and featured the debut of the priddle concern and a blistering closing set by the legendary don vail (yes i play in don vail, so i can say whatever i want about them). this year's version features numerous acts, mostly from dunnville and hamilton, with the priddle concern and don vail again topping the bill. i'm happy to say efforts to make this year's KHMF an official, above-board event have failed, and it remains a "party" with bands and no admission--just a "donation" of ten dollars. food and drinks will be for sale.
this is an awesome chance to go to a small scale and extremely non-corporate outdoor festival in a beautiful setting. camping is encouraged. swimming is nearby. this remains the gig i look forward too all year, and is worth the "donation" if only for the ridiculously eclectic set of underrehearsed covers that will be don vail's encore. you know when people sarcastically ask for skynrd? well... enough said.
i'll be around there all day, please say hi
you can get directions here and rsvp for this event on Facebook.
cheers
bp
saturday june 28, 2008
there is no show at the silver dollar this evening
i have been done in by semantics and the power of suggestion. have you ever had an incorrect notion enter your head and then been surprised by how stubbornly it tried to hold on in the face of the contradictory truth?
phil klygo sent me a note on my facebook wall last saturday. asking me to play on his weewerk show, july 26th. before mentioning the date he asked if i " might be avail/interested in capping this sat. nite." he then could have said capping this "bill", or capping this "show", but he said THIS SAT. NITE.
reading this, i thought to myself, he's talking about "this saturday night". let's see, i have a don vail show this thursday the 26, so this saturday night must be the 28th. he's had a cancellation and needs a band short notice.
the very next line of the email said "SAT july 26th = (weewerk) presents @ the silver dollar"
here's where the cruel hand of semantics enters the scene. when i read THIS SAT. NITE i decided then and there that the show was sat. june 28th. so when i saw the next line, it wasn't too hard to see june instead of july (first two letters are the same) and 28 instead of 26 (bottom of 6 and 8 identical on my facefook font). remember, i wasn't reading to find out the date of the show (i had already falsely worked out the date when i read "THIS SAT. NITE") i was reading this line to CONFIRM that the show was june 28.
it is interesting to note (interesting to me, the idiot who posted an incorrect date on his myspace page) that june and july are the two months closest to each other in spelling. that is to say, if this had happened a month later, it's doubtful that after assuming the date was in july i would not have noticed that it said august. similarly, if the correct date was, say the 19th, i probably wouldn't have looked at that number and thought, yes, that is the number 28.
i certainly can't blame phil for this. he never intended to be misleading, and ACTUALLY HAD THE CORRECT DATE ON THE EMAIL, which i conveniently misread.
all this being a long-winded apology for anyone inconvenienced by my unforgivable posting of an incorrect show date. the priddle concern will close the show, SAT. JULY 26th.
if you're there and you came tonight, come talk to me and i'll try and make it up to you.
once more to recap:
I AM AN IDIOT
THERE IS NO PRIDDLE CONCERN SHOW SAT. JUNE 28
THERE IS A PRIDDLE CONCERN SHOW SAT. JULY 26
it's at the silver dollar, it's a (weewerk) presents show, also featuring charlotte cornfield, h-burns and krista hartman.
i would love to see you there
cheers
bp
thursday june 25, 2008
short notice priddle concern show
i have been asked by phil klygo to close his weewerk presents show this saturday june 28 at the silver dollar.
the line-up is:
charlotte cornfield 9:15
h-burns 10:15
krista hartman 11:15
the priddle concern 12:15
doors at 9, tickets only $8 at the door
i also just taped a radio show for iceberg 85, where i play ten of my favourite canadian songs. it should air in july or august on iceberg 85 on sirius.
cheers
bp
monday june 9, 2008
live music from NXNE
we're playing the reverb (651 queen st. w) this friday june 13 as part of NXNE and the entire evening will be broadcast SIRIUS channel 94, home of CBC Radio 3 across north america.
if you do not live in the toronto area or can't make it out, tune into SIRIUS (channel 94) as of 9pm when we kick off the broadcast! however, should you be attending NXNE, it would be great to see you in the audience.
following our live performance, stick around for more great music from great lake swimmers @ 10:00 p.m, laura barrett @ 11:00 p.m, the meligrove band @ 12:00 a.m and justin rutledge at 1:00 a.m.
wednesday may 7, 2008
live performace/in-store @ soundscapes
on saturday may 10th i'll play a handful of songs at Soundscapes, located at 572 college street, probably my favourite record store in toronto. that starts at five.
tuesday may 6, 2008
cd release @ the horseshoe tavern
so today is the release of my record. it's been a long time coming. some of the songs were written as early as 1996, but most of them in 2003 or 2004. recording them was done by early 2006. i suppose in a lot of ways this is the record i've been wanting to make my whole life. i guess that's putting a lot of pressure on these poor songs, but i think they just may be up to the task. we'll be on stage at 10pm. hope you can make it to hear the new songs.
stream the new album now
If you'd like to sample the record, I've set up a page here where you can stream all the tracks in their entirety.
