Artful Vandelays: Gig on july 1st @Velvet Underground

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you guys had a "wonderful" weekend with G20 protesters. I could probably go on and on about the black bloc protesters. but meh, it has been enough said by tons of Torontonians. But let me say "Don't effin destroy my city!"

Anyhow, let's put the anger aside and talk about the business. Yes, coz business is fun! I have a super exciting news to share today. My friend, Anton's band is playing at Velvet Underground on July 1st.

You know, usually, when friends are playing at the show, most likely you go to a show coz to support friends from the band, right whether or not you like the band? let's to be honest here. you know what i am saying right? However, this band is different. I mean, different! I have a very good feeling about this band!! I am seriously looking forward to see how they are at gigs and listen to more new songs from the new up-coming EP!! I probably have been checking out their my space page more than anyone coz i just love the new songs that the band has posted! yes, that's me increasing the hit on the site lol.

I didn't know that he was in the band till, what,,, ummm, fairly recently.. I checked out the My Space page and seriously, I was shocked and amused by the fact that the band can create such songs that stuck in my ears for a long time. I have actually dig in their music. My favorite songs from the my space is "Dirty Blood" I just love the guitar into. i also love the guitar riff from the "Silent revolutions."

So what I am saying is, come and check out this awesome band, will ya!? The cover costs only 5 bucks and you will get more out of it. Its on Thursday and you only need to struggle one day on Friday and then get to sleep in on the weekend, right? so nothing to lose yo! so shut up or nod up! lol

And yeah, you can see me there for sure coz I would LOVE to write the live review from this gig for sure. so come and say hi to me and let me know what you think about my blog or just catch up with me if you haven't seen me. or tell me in my face how much you hate my blog, too, lol  Deal!?!?!?!?

Here is the My Space site and found a video of "Dirty Blood" (All copy rights go to Artful Vandelays and Anton) See you at the show buddies!!!


http://www.myspace.com/theartfulvandelays

Stuck Tune Syndrome: Favorite Colour

"tell me what,,, tell me what's your favourite colour... tell me your favourite colour.."

If you have hung out with me within the last week or so, you have definitely heard me singing this song. This song just got stuck in my head for what, like 2 weeks now?  I listened to this song at my friend's place and he was singing this song.. Since then, it got stock in my head!!! Very catchy song.  yes,, I am blaming on you, sir!!!

To be honest though, I wasn't a big fan of the Tokyo Police Club when the first album came out. It just sounded like another "indie"band, who is trying to target the teenagers with such catchy songs for big $$. Yeah, we all know how the music industry works eh? so I didn't really dig into their music.

However, they came out with the second album, " Champ" 3 weeks ago with very different outlook. I decided to buy songs from iTune ( Trust me, I am not a digital person usually, I usually like to get the tangible item, with the fancy CD jacket.. umm old school). I can certainly say that this band has stepped out from the category of "indie' bands for teenagers. Their sound as a band is very stronger and songs are definitely playful.

I think this band would be very interesting to keep eyes on as the Toronto-based band is growing up rapidly in terms of their song writing skills and performance. I would love to see them in lives, however, they are coming to Toronto with flaming Lips and Spoon, which means that the pricing for the ticket is insane... umm, still debating though..

I love the song ' favorite colour" and "Boots of Danger (Wait up)" from the new album. very catchy! Both songs are great for jogging by the way, lol I should have a posting about the best 10 songs for jogging eh? who is up for it!

Anyhow, so here is the song :) Let me know if it got stuck in your head too :)

HOT HOT HEAT @ NXNE

so the last posting was about the opening band, Hollerado. After dancing around like a penguin with a good tunes, HOT HOT HEAT hit the stage on time. It was quite interesting to see that they all had to clean the stage and set it up within 20 mins due to the tight schedule of NXNE.

I was able to get the song listing of the show as I was right in front of Steve, the lead singer/keyboard player. I always wanted to see this band in front and I had decided no matter how long i wait, I would be in the front. Luckily, the venue was not busy as I anticipated. ( you still gotta remember that there was a free show of Iggy & the Stooges @ yonge and Dundas square at the same time!

I also found that the atmosphere of the NXNE is very different from normal gigs. Lots of people are there to "listen" to the music, Literally " listen" I mean, lots of people are so into music, so there are to analyze every single details of the band performance.

But I didn't care! I always wanted to see Hot hot heat. so I set myself right in front of the show. Steve was getting drunk as the bar got them about 4-5 tequila shots by the end of the show.

The song listening was very various, not only from the new album ' future breed", but also they played famous tunes, such as ' good night, good night' " Bandage" ' talk to me and dance with me" " middle of nowhere" " running out" and so forth.

I think my favorite was " Good night, good might" I just wish the song was a bit longer. the song itself is about 2 mins, so it is fairly short.  but I love the song so much. very catchy!

They recently substituted the bassist. he was a bit awkward, but just good enough to fill in the spot for the show for now. Drummer was consist ant and very fun to watch.

I videotaped the song" Bandage' I am now trying to set up the Flicker's account. so stay tuned...