Last week I met up with Here On Out’s Phil Creamer, who creates these cool one-take videos of artists around Montreal playing live. We walked around Plateau on a sunny Tuesday afternoon looking for interesting spots to record. I played “Synchronicity” in the park near Tam Tams, and we found a sketchy alley just off St. Laurent and Duluth with graffiti where I sang “She Could Be”.
It turned out great, and here are the results!
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I though I’d share some lyrics of a song I’ve been working on for a while. I like it when artists give a little preview of what they’ve been working on or post their lyrics, so I thought I’d do the same. Its a song kind of about rolling with life, taking it as it comes. I already have the song itself written and I can’t wait to perform it and record it. I think I started writing it last summer, it’s one of those ones that just kind of poured out onto the page, but I’ve been kind of stuck on the bridge and last verse for a really long time… I guess finish it when I’m feeling it! I’ll break it out on stage one of these days.
Note: you can click on the photo to see it full size.
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Had a great time a couple of weekends ago playing a couple of songs friends, family and family friends in my hometown of Salt Spring Island. It was part of an all-day gathering at our place with golfing, potluch, taco stands, some performances and dancing – we set up kind of an elaborate little stage with hay bales all around for seating!! Good times 
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I spent yesterday in the studio (which I never find not fun….) recording the first episode of the “Paracast”, a new monthly podcast borne out of a drunk conversation with friends, one of whom is an owner of the Paragon Theatre (only the finest indie music venue on Canada’s East Coast). We though it would be a fun idea to take the concept of an old podcast we used to do a couple of years ago, and turn it into something more…. practical. We play songs by the kick ass bands coming through the venue, and banter about them in between.
Anyways… at time of writing it’s not up on the Paragon site yet but check the blog for when it gets posted, it’s pretty hilarious.
Update: the podcast is up on the Paragon website now – you can listen to it here!
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I went to Osheaga last weekend (killer festival this year!!) and was excited to see Fran Healy play on Saturday. He’s the singer of the Scottish band Travis, who I would consider to be one the big influences on my msuic, with the whole lyrically-driven acoustic-guitar-based rock song style. Needless to say I’m a huge fan and I would easily list Fran Healy as one of my musical heroes (is that kind of geeky to say?).
Anyways he played an excellent solo acoustic show and afterwards came off the side of the stage and graciously took the time to stand around and chat with people. I was a bit star-struck but waited around to say hi, shake his hand and get a photo. Big moment. 
And to top it off my awesome friend Vero got the guitar pick he threw into the audience after the set with and gave it to me. Very inspirational day!!!
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