Back from our roadtrip.

We're back from our wild weekend w. Ultra Thin in Toronto. Friends, indoor fireworks, confetti, vomit, consciousness expansion, guitar pedals on vocals, tim hortins, conservative American AM radio, family tree, magick, cheeze & I lost my hat! I'm still trying to recover.

NEXT ROAD TRIP:

TORONTO!

R.S.V.P: FACEBOOK

TVC 15

I haven't posted since the show last week with Aids Wolf and U.S Girls. It was a fun show although all of our gear was destroyed either before our after our set. Before our set a reverb head + amp channel+ bass guitar mysteriously broke, and then loading out a bass head was dropped and cracked. My shirt was torn a bit too. So now we are in the process of putting everything back together. We are going to put a new plug with grounding on the reverb head and we took apart my bass and replaced the input jack.


We have been working to upgrade our home recording studio for our next few releases. We are going to make a jump from recording on cassettes to recording on reels. So that's exciting and besides playing in Toronto at the end of the month with Ultra Thin we are basically taking this month to figure that out.

We are also going to work on a new set of largely new material to debut in Montreal so we might take a month off from playing live. We just confirmed that we are going to be opening for NO MEANS NO at Salla Rossa on June 25th for the Suoni il Popolo festival. Last year's festival began the day I moved here and I got to see Sun City Girls, Excepter and many other great shows. It is an excellent festival. This year Magik Markers, Jay Reatard, Mika Miko, Michael Gira (of SWANS!), Six Organs of Admittance and Chris Corsano! This plus warm weather will make June in Montreal the best month of the year. As for playing with No Means No, in high school I was in a band in Halifax when they came to town. I pretty much emailed the promoter of the show every day to try to get added to the bill (I was so annoying ha ha). I wasn't even old enough to go see them and I ended up having to sneak in. So anyway, being asked to open for them 5 years later is really cool. Keep your dreams!

FRIDAY NIGHT AT IL MOTORE

188 people confirmed on Facebook. This will be our last show in Montreal til late May before we leave on our mini-tour. We are going to take April to do recordings for some of the upcoming releases we have planned and also just work on new material.

Shub and I just watched this video:


The 'Free All Psychic Centers' special edition CDRs won't be ready for Friday but we will have them for our show in Toronto at the end of the month. I will probably post a preview of the artwork when Nicholas sends them our way. We love his artwork and are really happy to get to release something on his new label.

Oh it's confirmed we are playing with Nicholas' band Cosmetics & also Tyvek (Detroit) at the Obey Convention Vol. III in Halifax this year. Tyvek are exceptional live and on record. Definitely one of the best sets of last years Pop Montreal festival. Check them out for yourself!

WEST COAST VACATION

There was some confusion about when we going to play last night and we ended up going on before the time the posters advertised the show was to start. Sorry to anyone who missed the set who attempted to catch it. I am finishing up my portfolio tonight to apply to Concordia this Fall. The image above is from a video I am working on the soundtrack is 2 minutes of the Grand Trine track SATURN the last track on 'Free All Psychic Centers'. So I will post it here eventually. Tomorrow I am headed to VANCOUVER, BC for the week. The tape officially sold out last night and I am going to help DISCO FIZZ print covers and assemble the Special Edition CDR version. It will be in reverse order with expanded artwork. I will also check out the COSMETICS re-debut.

I have red McGill sweat pants that I wear around the house.

http://mcgilldaily.com/article/18073-where-weird-punk-blooms

Here's an article my friend just sent me from the McGill Daily about Grand Trine (Dead Wife + Black Feelings too)
"the singer vaguely resembled Emile Hirsch...except high."

There is also a HILARIOUS artist's rendition of us:


It's my birthday today, I will celebrate by going to see DEAD WIFE @ Squalor House in St. Henri. Tomorrow we are playing at DIVAN ORANGE w/ Slim Twig, Creeping Nobodies, Red Mass. We are play at 9:45pm and our set will be on the floor!

160 people confirmed. RVSP.

RED EXPOSURE

BLURBED IN THE MIRROR:

http://www.montrealmirror.com/2009/021209/rex.html

"You really should do yourself a favour and show up early to check out Grand Trine, and get yer grubby mitts on their new cassette-only release, Free All Psychic Centers. Their lo-fi blast perfectly merges the driving psych of Chrome and Helios Creed with the epic panorama of Simply Saucer. Freak out!" - Johnson Cummins, Punkusraucous Rex, The Montreal Mirror










We love both of those bands.

Also there is an interview with Black Feelings about their Ancient Spirit Overdrone performance. They will have 13 extra members including Shub from Grand Trine & members of Aids Wolf (past & present), Wax Attic, Thundrah and more. They are doing a dress rehearsal tonight should be HUGE. If you want to RSVP to the event do so here.

We just got word we are going to be doing a split in the near future with Ottawa's HOLY COBRAS. Another tape. This one is for Bruised Tongue Records. They are a fresh new label from Ottawa run by some Fucked Corpses. This idea is brand new and I probably shouldn't even be posting about it - but enthusiasm has taken over. Check out their label & buy their previous releases in the meantime.

Oh I'm going to be writing for Thee Outernet blog soon. It's brand new and has contributors all over the world from band's such as Arab on Radar/Made In Mexico, Country Teasers/TheRebel, Aids Wolf, Ultra Thin plus the dude who runs Gilgongo Records and many more. Should take shape and be pretty cool in a hurry.