Canadia Beats

We have smiling faces, and we will be selling them to you at Whammy Bar on Thursday 4th February from 4pm. Come join us, Voices on the Sun and Cool Rainbows for a party-time gigsplosion.

Raised by were-rabbits, Canadia, Voices and the Sun and Cool Rainbows are as deadly as they are not dead. They’ve been shunning the sun and bathing in the sound of art critics complaining about the demise of culture to prepare for this night.

Lazerbeasts unite, it’s going to be a sweat night.

Doors at 10, the music asplodes at your face from 11pm. Bring $5 because that will get you in the door. Only your wits will get you out.

Facebook event for Canadia, Voices on the Sun, Cool Rainbows

Tomorrow night Canadia is hitting the Juice Bar in Parnell to support the crap out of Dunedin dudes Julian Temple Band. A few of us have known these cats since they were the JuJu crew, and perhaps even before. They’re from Dunedin, which is where some of us used to be from. Sharing and caring around the country!

So you should be at the Juice Bar by about 9pm to catch Canadia’s first Parnell gig. Will we be run out of the suburb? I just don’t know! Juice Bar is in the Windsor Castle at 144 Parnell Road, Parnell. I think I might get there early and have a picnic dinner down in Fraser Park. Please do not stalk me in a scary way!

Write this down, dudes, today is the day I completed the mastering and the artwork for Beg Steal and Burrow. Now I just need to get it all printed up and paid for and we can exchange high fives. You might’ve seen this picture before, it’s the cover art:

And the track listing:

1. Other Side
2. We’re Leaving
3. I Often Follow
4. Let Me Know
5. Let’s Pretend
6. Augustine

BONUS NEWS: missdenoma has made a teaser video for the EP release party which totes rules:

More has been promised. Now go out and enjoy your Friday nights by reading a book or going to sleep early or something, whatever it is you do when you’re waiting to come see a Canadia gig the next night.

I’ve been ticking away on the mixing of Beg Steal and Burrow quite steadily, shunning the outside world and chewing holes in my cheeks as I try to mix without smoking. I know there’s never a good time to quit, but come on.

I will make it, that I promise. Careful observers will not that another show has been slipped into the schedule. Canadia is opening for Mahoney Harris as she releases an EP with the assistance of Hannah Curwood and Tom Healy on Thursday 8th October. It’s at the Wine Cellar from 8pm, and will be a solo Ashley performance.

And of course the long-awaited Canadia feat. Maggie Williams on being a laptop happens on Saturday 10th at Dogs Bollix, playing on the Inverts‘ release tour. I’ll finally take Maggie on stage with me to bash out some Canadia laptop classics, and (fingers crossed) a couple of new jams from the EP.

Five songs mixed, now. Sleep, work, mix the next. Byes.

I’m bursting with ideas and fruit flavour right now, and I’m also kind of thirsty, which is a real pain because all the good drinks are in the house and I really can’t be bothered leaving the shed.

First things first: I’ve finally got around to booking a Canadia show. That’s right, a Canadia gig. No more jumping on the bill with whoever will have me. It’s time for a real Canadia party. The show is on Friday 23rd October at the Wine Cellar in Auckland, and will also star the fantastic Mr Slackjaw.

It’s also to be the release party for the new Canadia EP. The one I was going to finish in June, but instead will finish in September. The good news is it finally has a name: Beg, Steal and Burrow. There’s nothing like deadline to get me motivated, so this show is my deadline. Hold me to it, you guys.

Hannah JV and I had a bit of a meeting last night, and she’s going to be taking some photos for the cover art. The concept all came together really quickly once I had the name, and I’m pretty excited about it.

Like I said, I’m suddenly bubbling over with ideas, but this’ll do for now. One foot in front of the next, and so on.

Freak out, fellas, we’re flipping back from even to odd and playing another Canadia show! The beats will go down at Bacco Room this Friday 11th September, in support of Sunley’s Apologies album release.

Besides the fact that, hello, this is the third (third!) Canadia gig for 2009, this one’s notable for even more reasons. By my count, three more reasons!(!!) Those reasons are: Blair McPhee, Rachael Botur, and Anji Sami. Yes, all three (3!) of these will be part of the Canadia set on Friday. I’m freaking (3king!) out!

Also on the bill: Hannah Curwood, slumming it once more with me on bass. Also, Sunley. Duh.

UPDATE: I am so sorry, this is in fact the fourth Canadia show for the year. This is so embarrassing.

Yo, people, know this. A fish can’t change his stripes, and I don’t eat fish. Or animals. As such, I am a vegetarian, and me and a bunch of other vegetarians are throwing a little shin-dig this Sunday at the Kings Arms. It’s part of international Meat Out Day, and there will be a vegetarian barbecue as well as performances by vegetarians. I hear tell there will even be Meat Out Pledges. Y’all know how I dig a good pledge.

The gig starts at 12pm this Sunday 22nd March, and runs until 6pm at the Kings Arms Tavern, France Street South, Newton, Auckland (I know I already mentioned this). Also on the bill: New Telepathics, DJ Balkanetic, Zilko, Lisa Crawley and the Conversations, El Gato Negro, Big Music, DJ Nick F, DJ Canvas and DJ WUT.

It’ll cost a tenner, and the proceeds go to SAFE’s Love Pigs campaign.

Meat out.

And I’m resurrecting this website for the sake of announcing a gig tomorrow night. The patented Canadia gig-getting method has come true once again, in the form of someone I know saying “hey, man, wanna play a gig this week?” People know they can count on me, that’s what this is all about. Until that time the Canadia abides.

Tomorrow night, Wednesday 11th February, 2009, is go time, people. From 8pm Canadia, Bear Cat and Darren Hanlon will be shaking out some jams at the Wine Cellar, St Kevins Arcade, in Auckland. You know: the place where Canadia gets called in for gigs without much warning. It’s like a fun lounge, or maybe the living area at a camp site. Or a Scout Lodge.

For those of you following my progress during NaSoAlMo last November, I’ll have an update for you soon. I just have to check in with Holly and see if she found any of the stuff Eunice was working on before she disappeared.

It is important to note that this Thursday 13 November, some time after 10pm at Whammy Bar in Karangahape Road, I and Gestalt Switch will be playing our last show together. And you should come. It’ll be a right old laugh, a good time, and a gig in a bar.

Support is from George & Queen and Sora Shima. Also from drinking beer, or whatever you prefer. See you there, champs.

The irregularly scheduled train that is Canadia busts back onto the tracks in a convoy of Fun and Good Times on Thursday 5th June. Come see Canadia, Kittentank and Yule at the Wine Cellar from 9pm.