Canadia Beats

I had a chat to Silke on 95bFM’s Freak the Sheep on Wednesday night, and even played a couple of songs. You can listen to the podcast now.

Just in time for our Best Friends Reunion a short film about Vibracamp has appeared online. Check Canadia out in its natural environment: inside wearing sunglasses on a bright sunny day or eating cheap noodles.

Good timing, Sean Wallace and Vibracorp!

Vibracamp: The Movie from Eyeball Moving Image on Vimeo.

Lucky old Canadia got picked to open the Friday night show for Auckland’s new musical comedy, None Tree Hill. It’s a show about a band’s first gig going wrong wrong wrong.

From the Facebook event:

From the leafy suburb of Devoport, ‘NTH’ as they are affectionately called by lead singer Jason Beaumont, are pumped and rehearsing around the clock Fridays and Saturdays from 5-6:30 at Devonport Anglican Church in preparation for their… debut show at legendary establishment, The Wine Cellar.

With up to four different chords in every song and lyrics that sound as if “a human heart grew arms and learnt to use a pen”, NoneTreeHill urge you to catch them while they are still so inexpensive and/or together.

It’s at the Wine Cellar tonight from 8pm. Adult $16, Conc $13, Group $13. You can make a booking by emailing nonetreehilllive@gmail.com.

Available now for you the Canadia fan, live tracks from our trip to Freak the Sheep on 95bFM with Silke:

Recorded live in the bFM studio on Wednesday 19 January 2011.

We headed out into the Kaimai Ranges for New Year’s Eve and played a show in a youth camp hall for about 100 people who were cut off from the outside world and partying for four nights. It was pretty damn amazing.

There is now a CD compilation available bringing together some of the music from the artist that made Vibracamp so amazing. The CD includes Stress Cadet, The Wicks, Yule, Shy Lion, Let Me Go Drone, forEVERMAYNG, Gomez Bustamente, Graveyard Love and Scarlett Lashes. Click through to find out more about getting your hands on one.

Our track is called ‘Is It Love?’ Check it out:

UPDATE:

Track Listing:
The Wicks – Tertius
Yule – Tenderkill
Canadia – Is it love?
Graveyard Love – Existential Pose
Strobe Victim – Like Lott
Scarlett Lashes – Stay at home man
forEVERMAYNG – Junglephant (vibremix)
Stress Cadet – Build a hole
Shy Lion – I know U know
Let Me Go Drone – Bilateral Amputee

I admit that this is pretty late to count as news, but last November we recorded a track at Little Monster studio for the A Very Little Christmas compilation. Which got released. Ages ago. Like, in time for Christmas.

Look, I was really busy in Decemeber, and I forgot to mention it. Don’t worry, I’ll make it up to you. We’re still good. We’re still good? Good.

Listen to our song, ‘Apparently It’s Christmas,’ here:

Then go download the whole album for free. It features Bannerman, Hold Dear, The Crawley Christmas Singers, The Gladeyes, Dear Time’s Waste, Glass Owls, Bear Cat, Alaska, Cool Rainbows, Chelsea Jade & James Duncan, The Bayonets, Timothy Blackman, Luckless, Tono & the Finance Company, Great North, Jocee Tuck and Artisan Guns.

As part of our fierce promotional junket for the School of Rock gig we’re hitting the 95bFM studio this evening. Tune yourself in at 4:45pm to hear us talk about our feelings and play a song for you all.

Monday is obviously the new Excite Day.

Oh hey it’s Friday, who feels like listening to a new song?

This jam is called ‘Jesus, Can I Ride Your Train?‘ and came about during the first month of my attempt to write 800 songs in seven years. It turns out sometimes a song about Jesus, or addressed to Jesus, just come to you.

Just FYI, I’m currently about 40 days behind where I need to be to achieve this goal.

If you’d like to see Canadia play at Auckland’s Big Day Out in January, then you can vote for us on the bFM website. If enough people do that, and then the judges like it, then we could be hitting the stage as the gates open. This is great, cause it means we’ll be done in time to catch Andrew WK. Enjoy your voting!

I just wanted to quickly announce that I’ll be opening for Ben Cragg tonight at the Wine Cellar. Doors are open from 8pm, and good times are highly likely.