On Canada Day we will be hoping over to Dartmouth for Halifax/Dartmouth’s annual Canada Day celebration, headlining a FREE show! Come down to Alderney Landing to celebrate Canada’s 145th birthday with us, as well as Tim Chaisson & Morning Fold, Town Heroes, Soho Ghetto and more. Check out the tour dates page for more info.
On Sunday, June 17 we will be performing at Canada’s largest free music festival, the Sound of Music Festival in Burlington, ON. Yes, it’s free admission and all ages so if you’re in the area be sure to come down and check it out! We’ll be headlining the mainstage, visit the Sound of Music Festival website to see who else will be performing throughout the festival, as well as what time and where.
I write this as MM’s newly finished fourth LP plays out in my Vancouver abode.
It seems like this one concocted itself. Not a bad thing at all. It’s nice to be surprised by having done a thing instead of interpreting the doing while being done. “Oh look I’m dressed. Isn’t that nice. I can just leave now”.
After all, there is a distinct brand of practical anguish when putting your pants on and knowing full well of it, especially when cut from the indie-rock-skinny-pant cloth. Each limb can really suffer through its passage of pant leg….
And why don’t we call a pant leg a pant? There is a pair of shoes with a left shoe and a right. But not a pair of pants with a right pant and a left. Why do we wear a shirt and not a pair of shirts? If anything a shirt is more plural than a pair of pants. Two arms and one torso does a shirt accommodate… and sometimes a neck. Or is the neck part of the torso? I believe so. But garb nomenclature is surely beside the point.
The point is, life is peculiar and often painstaking, just like making records, or putting on pants, or writing blogs, but sometimes we finish these epochal chapters without realizing it, and this is a good conclusive sensation, one that endorses the virtuous mantra of “carpe diem” and one that I strive for in all feats mundane and/or wondrous.
So now, as the last song fades to the album’s finish and I marvel at how quickly these 14 songs came and went, I’m reminded that this earthly sentence is an opportunity to live and not merely exist… and that making records should be fun.
Namaste,
We’ll be heading back out to Ottawa this summer for a performance at H.O.P.E. Volleyball Summerfest on Saturday, July 14. The festival, which combines recreational volleyball with live entertainment, is celebrating it’s 30th Anniversary this year. Each year, more than 25,000 players and spectators flock to Mooney’s Bay Beach for the greatest summer party in the region. These participants have helped HOPE donate over $3.5 million in support of more than 110 local charities. Check the tour date listings for more info on the event.
On June 30 we will be paying a visit to the lovely city of Saint John, NB to perform at this year’s Canada Day Countdown! Come join us as we countdown to Canada’s 145th birthday at Market Square Boardwalk, it’s a free show and all ages! Joining us in this year’s lineup will be Hawksley Workman, Tim Chaisson, Three Sheet feat. Atlantic Cirque, Christina Martin and more. Check out the tour dates page for more info.
On the evening of Friday, April 6, you can tune into George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight and catch our performance with Sweeney Todd frontman Nick Gilder, where we rocked our own rendition of Nick’s 1975 Juno Award winning smash “Roxy Roller”.
Strombo airs on CBC at 11:05pm in your local time zone (11:35pm in St. John’s, 1:05am in Iqaluit). Be sure to tune in!
We’re pleased to share that we are among the many fine acts to be performing 2012′s Live at Squamish festival! Among the line up in addition to ourselves will be The Tragically Hip, City And Colour, Chromeo, Lights, The Airborne Toxic Event, Kathleen Edwards, The Sheepdogs, Wintersleep and many more. Check out the tour dates page for more info and how to get passes to the festival. Our exact performance date and time are still to be announced, so keep checking back over the coming weeks to find out when we hit the stage.
UPDATE: CONTEST IS OVER, ALL PINS HAVE BEEN GIVEN AWAY. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!
In celebration of our Juno nominations for Best New Artist and Video of The Year, the folks at the music streaming service Music Unlimited, which has recently become available in Canada, have given us 100 PIN codes for free accounts to give away to you all! So we thought we’d do a little contest…
No brain teasers this time, just a test to see who can rock the keyboard/touchscreen the fastest: The first 100 of you lovely folks to e-mail us at mothermothermayihaveapin@gmail.com with “Pin Me” in the subject line will be awarded one of the access codes to sign up for the service for a 60 day free trial (and they don’t require credit card info from you, bonus!). If you are among the first 100 to enter with the correct subject line we’ll reach back out with a code and instructions.
After you submit your entry e-mail, you’ll receive a confirmation e-mail from us to let you know that we’ve received your entry (please check your junk mail/spam filter if you don’t get one before trying again). Best of luck to all who enter!
We’ve got something for you! (look down)
Since new Mother Mother music isn’t coming out for awhile, and we love and adore you, we thought we’d arrange for you to get a musical tid bit from our Eureka days.
Get a Free Download of Had it All, a stripped down acoustic romp about letting the good things get away.
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-MM
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