Thrush Hermit Reunion Tour in 2010

Now that I've stopped hyperventilating out of sheer excitement, here are the details.

Thrush Hermit was formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1992 by Joel Plaskett (vocals, guitar), Rob Benvie (vocals, guitar), Ian McGettigan (vocals, bass), and Michael Catano (drums). They split in 1999, with the members working on various projects since then, including Joel Plaskett's solo career, the Joel Plaskett Emergency, Camouflage Nights (consisting of Benvie and McGettigan) and working as producers for various other bands. Plaskett also has his own record label, New Scotland Records.

Current dates:

Fri 03/19/10		Halifax, NS	Paragon Theatre
Sat 03/20/10		Halifax, NS	Paragon Theatre
Wed 03/24/10		Peterborough, ON	The Historic Red Dog
Thu 03/25/10		Ottawa, ON	New Capital Music Hall
Fri 03/26/10		Toronto, ON	Lee's Palace
Sat 03/27/10		Toronto, ON	Lee's Palace

More tour dates, including those on the west coast, will be released soon.

"From The Back of The Film" from Thrush Hermit's Clayton Park

Tulpä to Reunite - Playing Peterborough, Hamilton & Toronto

Toronto 80s icon Tulpä are reuniting starting with a Peterborough Show on Oct. 1. Tulpä was from 1984 - 1987 a Toronto 'indie buzz band' but I'll let the band tell it in text and video:

"During the heydays of TULPÄ from 1984-87, the “Queen Scene” was a baby, still a scoop in the Toronto papers. Multiculturalism was well on its way, but people still thought of Toronto as a quaint WASP banking town. There was some interesting New Music being made and City TV was east of Yonge Street. Clubs were opening up, and artists and musicians had places to play. John Bottomley, Chris Bottomley, Sev Micron and a revolving cast of renegades were making music their way – loud and aggressive yet poignant and nuanced, and playing it in the midst of a crazy multimedia circus in the days when “multimedia” meant cameras, rulers, film, photocopiers and slide projectors. Larry’s Hideaway, Turning Point, The Diamond Club, The El Mocambo, Lee’s Palace, The Cabana Room, The Rivoli – then as now, sometimes the rooms were empty and sometimes you couldn’t move, especially when the likes of Living Colour were in the house. And then as now, independent-minded Canadians had to go abroad for their music to find an audience. Tulpa were known as a highly original band and were finding an audience internationally, including at New York’s seminal underground club CBGB. They signed to the club’s in-house label Off the Board Records, a year after releasing ”Mosaic Fish” in the UK on Midnight Music."

TULPA - 2nd interview on City tv's The New Music - "Initiation Rites" video



Tupla - Life's So Strange



Initiation Rites



Passion



You can see Tulpä in Peterborough on Oct. 1 with the Staveley Project and Andrew McPherson at the Gordon Best Theatre, in Hamilton on Oct. 2 at This Ain't Hollywood and at the Supermarket in Toronto on October 8.

For more information on Tulpä visit the Facebook Event Page, the I Remember Tulpa Facebook Group or myspace.com/tulpamusic.