A New Festival For Your Calendar: Canary Island (Peterborough)

The very first Canary Island music festival kicks off tomorrow and downtown Peterborough, Ontario will be flooded with amazing music. The bands and artists playing the first Canary Island Fest. include Jill Staveley, Weird Weather, Forest City Lovers, Wax Mannequin, Gravity Wave, Peter Project, Mathias Kom, Laura Barrett, Skeletones Four, the Wooden Sky, Charley Glasspool, Jenny Omnichord, Evening Hymns, Shotgun Jimmie, and the D'Urbervilles. The full schedule is below and the Facebook Event Page is here.

schedule:

wednesday, june 3rd:

the gordon best theatre
9:00 p.m.

. jill staveley
. drew smith (of the bicycles)
. flotilla
. culture reject

$10
all ages
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thursday, june 4th:

bluestreak records
7:00 p.m.

. weird weather
. kat burns & the forest city lovers

$5
all ages
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the spill coffee bar
9:00 p.m.

esther vincent's new photo exhibit opening

. sean conway
. the kettle black
. wax mannequin

$5
all ages
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the saphire lounge
10:00 p.m.

. dj who
. gravity wave
. peter project

$5
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friday, june 5th:

the spill coffee bar
8:00 p.m.

. marie-josee houle
. mathias kom
. j.j. ipsen
. laura barret

$10
all ages

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the montreal house tavern
10:00 p.m.

. j.d. mccallen
. the skeletones four
. the wooden sky

$10
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saturday, june 6th:

the sunrise cafe
11 a.m.

. mean mr. jarvis
. charles glasspool

$5 (includes free french-toast breakfast!)
all ages
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the spill coffee bar
2:00 p.m.

. jenny omnichord
. patrick walsh

$5
all ages
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the gordon best theatre
9:00 p.m.

. evening hymns
. knock knock ginger
. shotgun jimmie
. the d'urbervilles

as hosted by the great and magnificent orbax!
$15
all ages

Upcoming Shows

I get alot of invites to shows, many of which I can't make, some of which aren't even in the right province or region of the country. But I'll pass them along anyway because maybe you can go. Most of these will link to Facebook events.

Peterborough, June 4: Weird Weather and Forest City Lovers at Bluestreet Records in Peterborough, Ontario June 4.

Toronto, June 10: PWYC Weds w/ Sparkling White, Fat City & Cobra at Rancho Relaxo.

Jenn Grant - Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg June 23-27 w/ Dan Mangan

Sadie May Crash/The North/Casey Desmond @ NXNE Showcase Toronto, June 19 @ Club 279 (Hard Rock Cafe)

Montreal, June 15 @ Le Divan Orange: The Hoof and The Heel + Kara Keith + On Bodies June 15th @ Le Divan Orange

Peterborough: Weird Weather / Forest City Lovers Instore Thursday

I don't live in Peterborough and cannot see myself being in Peterborough on Thursday, but if I were in Peterborogh I would be going to Bluestreak Records (444 George St. North) at 4 pm for an instore performance featureing Weird Weather AND Forest City Lovers (Facebook Event here) - if you haven't heard them already you can hear Weird Weather on NxEW Mixtape Podcasts 4 and 6 and you can read a bit about them here as well. The Forest City Lovers, while we love them, haven't been on the podcast yet because they haven't loved us back yet (generally we get an email or something from the people on the podcast saying it's ok before we play them.) But if, for some reason, you're not familiar - the Forest City Lovers sound like this:

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

Exclaim reviews Weird Weather's 'Surface of the Moon'

CBC Radio 3 on Cadence Weapon: Edmonton's new Poet Laureate

Pete Nema has some great shots of Amos the Transparent at the Horseshoe.

I (Heart) Music has a look at Pink Mountaintops.

Herohill on Josh Martinez - World Famous Sex Buffet.

HistoryJen on her current crop of favorite bands.

the Forest City Lovers are home from Europe and have this lovely video that someone shot of them in Italy:

You Should Know: Weird Weather

I mentioned when I wrote about Jill Stavely that one of the things that makes the Burning Hell so good is all of the talented people that stand behind Mathias Kom on stage. In addition to Staveley, regular appearances by various Barmitzvah Brothers and others who I'm sure I'll tell you about soon enough, there is Weird Weather.

Out of Weird Weather's four members I know that Nick Farrio and Mike Duguay have both played with the Burning Hell. The other two (Jay Sinnerton and Lindsay Fitzsimmons) have not, to the best of my knowledge, been in the band but they will be eventually unless they cut and run now.

The backstory on Weird Weather reads

"Nick Ferrio started Weird Weather when he was a coffee delivery boy, carrying heavy carafes of coffee through hail, sleet and snow to Peterborough’s downtown businesses. Filling the time between entry into a shop and an exit with a slightly lighter thermos were those conversations that fill the gaps in every awkward interaction, pregnant pause and tentative approach; gaps and spaces that Ferrio’s songs endeavour to bridge in ways other than “Weird weather we’ve been having.”

Enlisting two other veterans of the coffee delivery and local music scenes: drummer, organist and fellow Burning Hell member Mike Twinkle-fingers Duguay and guitarist Jay Swinnerton, Ferrio took his haunting songs to local audiences showcasing sweet harmonies and a stark, yet powerful, band that offer a driving darkness to the material. Between academics, work and their other creative projects, the band has kept close to home for most of their tenure but have enjoyed shows with bands they admire and share an affinity with, such as $100, FemBots and Timber Timbre."

Weird Weather's first CD "Surface of the Moon" will officially be born tomorrow night in Peterborough (you can grab it on Zunior now though.) After Peterborough they head out to Toronto and then east through Ontario, Quebec, PEI, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (scroll to the bottom for tour dates.)

Listen for Weird Weather on future episodes of the Mixtape Podcast. They'll sound alot like this:

Weird Weather - Give Up the Ghost


Oh...and here's some video from all of their first set together at the Sadlier House in Peterborough:


and here are those Tour Dates

29 Apr Gordon Best Theatre - CD Release Peterborough, Ontario
30 Apr The Tranzac Club - w/ The Weather Station CD Release! Toronto,
1 May The Artel - w/ The Weather Station Kingston, Ontario
2 May AvantGarde Bar - w/ the Weather Station Ottawa, Ontario
3 May Le Divan Orange Montreal, Quebec
6 May Ampersand Charlottetown, Prince Edward
7 May Wilser’s RoomFredricton, New Brunswick
8 May Gus’ Pub Halifax, Nova Scotia
9 May The Khyber Halifax, Nova Scotia
10 May Strut’s Gallery - w/ Construction and Destruction Sackville, New Brunswick

You Should Know: Dog is Blue

Paul Watson, general manager at Zunior and blogger at the possibly defunct Wolves, Hawks and Kites and the Toronto Music Blog Collective is also Dog is Blue and has just released his first album, "...Makes Ghost Noises" which he calls "basically a half-hour bout of homemade ghost-folk".

You can download a couple of Paul's tracks at dogisblue.com. One of them is

Grandma (from "Makes Ghost Noises")



Then there's Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (Dylan cover, not on the album).



If you like what you hear you can grab the album at Zunior and you can catch Dog is Blue

April 8, 2009 - The Ampersand, Charlottetown, PEI with Weird Weather, Jenny Omnichord and The Burning Hell!

April 9, 2009 - The Radio Station, Sackville, NB with Jenny Omnichord

June 27 - The Tranzac, Toronto, ON - The Zunior.com 5th Anniversary Extravaganza