Fucked Up Presents…Long Winter Volume 5

      So the winter is winding down and with spring around the corner Fucked Up have decided to close it all out with a Volume 5 in their Long Winter series. Bands confirmed to play on the 23rd of March at The Great Hall in Toronto are: The Sadies / Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet / The Skeletones Four / Burning Love / Petra Glynt / Emma McKenna / Andre Ethier / Kool Thing / Elsa / + special guests TBA.

     As with the previous 4 LW happenings it's All Ages & PWYC (Pay What You Can) so end the winter off right and be there.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM 

YACHT CLUB FEAT. PINK & PURPLE "HOT N COLD"

      New Yacht Club single "Hot N Cold" Featuring Amanda Jane Crist and Hilary Anne Crist.

YACHT CLUB FEAT. PINK & PURPLE "HOT N COLD" from Maximum Exposure on Vimeo.

Fucked Up's LONG WINTER Part Three

     I'd be doing the Toronto Arts & Music scene a disservice if I didn't throw a final push behind tomorrow night's third installment of Fucked Up's LONG WINTER series, a night of music, visual art, dance, food, readings and pretty much anything else you can think of. From all of the feedback I've gotten in regards to the first two this will be a night you shouldn't miss…and it's PWYC (Pay What You Can) so if that doesn't get you off the couch and downtown I don't know what will. 

    Some of the musicians performing tomorrow night are Buck 65, Picastro, Moon King, Vag Halen, S.H.I.T., Light Fires Plus "Magic Moments" by Katie Stelmanis (Austra).

    It all starts tomorrow night at 8 @ The Great Hall - 1087 Queen W, Toronto, and as I previously told ya it's PWYC.

If you need more information it can all be found HERE

    I just can't seem to make it down to any of them, maybe part Four (you can't see it but my fingers are crossed)

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Tonight: Fucked Up's Long Winter Vol 1

Tonight at The Great Hall in Toronto Fucked Up presents Long Winter Vol 1: Imposters

Music By

FUCKED UP
DIANA
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
WYRD VISIONS vs. BLACK WALLS
ONNO
CELL MEMORY AND CASTLE IF
PUDU FECK

Readings by Spencer Gordon (author of Cosmo) and Helen Guri (author of Match)

All Ages   Pay What You Can   8:00PM

The Great Hall 1087 Queen St. W.

PERFECT YOUTH: THE BIRTH OF CANADIAN PUNK Toronto Book Launch

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Yacht Club’s Nonnavera Mixtape #1

     Yacht Club's music reminds me of a well-worn BASF I had stuck in my tape player when I was about 17….the keyboards and crafty pop vocals warm you over but don't bore you like so much music seems to do these days. 

   Ben's quoted as saying on his Blog NO GUV NO LUV "I'm going to cool it on new projects for a while and focus on FU and YC"…I for one want to hear more from Ben & Matt's Yacht Club project, I'm really digging it.

Yacht Club are Ben Cook and Matt DeLong.

Below you can listen to the entire 4 track NONNAVERA Mixtape

Favourite Track: Married Romance

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

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2012 Polaris Prize Shortlist

 The 2012 Polaris Prize shortlist was announced today in Toronto, the following is a list of the bands on the list and a video off of each of the nominated albums…I'll let you make up your own mind…I already know who I want to win.....I also now have Oblivion by Grimes stuck in my head....thanks Claire

Drake-"Headlines" from the album Take Care




Handsome Furs - "Serve the People" from the album Sound Kapital




Cadence Weapon – "Conditioning" From the album Hope In Dirt City (Upper Class Recordings)






Cold Specks - "Blank Maps" from the album I Predict A Graceful Expulsion




Kathleen Edwards-"Change The Sheets" from the album Voyageur




Feist - "How Come You Never Go There" from the album Metals




Fucked Up - "The Other Shoe" from the album David Comes To Life




Grimes – "Oblivion" from the album Visions




Japandroids – "The Nights Of Wine and Roses" from the album Celebration Rock





Yamantaka // Sonic Titan- "Hoshi Neko" from the album 
YT//ST…(This album was Limited to 500 copies on white vinyl and 1000 copies on CD) 

If these awards do anything they get some lesser known acts names out there and some really good music that might normally be missed is enjoyed. 

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

Fucked Up "ONNO"

Here's a video tease of the B-Side for Fucked Up's Latest Chinese Zodiac Materpiece "Year of the Tiger"...it's called "ONNO" and it's courtesy of Fucked Up Bass Player Sandy Miranda....the track on the EP is 22:06 minutes long, this is just 3:50 minutes long...but you get the idea.


Video and music produced by Fucked Up.
Shot and edited by Sandy Miranda.
Music edited by Mike Haliechuk.

Fucked Up "ONNO" from Sandy Miranda on Vimeo.

Stream Fucked Up's "Year of the Tiger" Single

 

 

Fucked Up's GG Allin Tribute Song to Finally See the Light of Day

       Today Fucked Up's Damian Abraham Tweeted that he had did vocals for their long overdue GG Allin tribute track that is to be included on the 7" titled RATED GG. The 7" is also rumored to include "Cleaned Up" GG Allin tracks from BEN GIBBARD, TED LEO, MOUNTAIN GOATS, and TY SEGALL. This was/is supposed to be a benefit single for New Jersey freeform radio station WFMU home of the great Tom Scharpling…now this was last March so I don't know exactly how that all worked out…I just hope that the general public (us) get a chance to get our hands on a copy.

       

Also in his Tweet was a sweet little tidbit about him doing vocals for a Melvins Split …..now from what I have been able to find out about this is The Melvins instead of a normal 12" vinyl release of the Melvins "Sugar Daddy" LP, there is going to be 13 - 12" 45rpm records, each record will be favorites of the Melvins past/future*/present…..so Fucked Up are included in that. 

No release date for either has been confirmed

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

2011……The Music

    I was originally going to write this huge diatribe about how this year really sucked for me…I lost my job, my marriage fell apart you know the whole drill, it was to have 0% musical content, then I thought no one's gonna want to hear me bitch about my problems, and truth be told I have my son who's an amazing little guy right by my side so it can't be all that bad…. onto the music

   So this is the time of year when every Blog/Magazine/Website puts out there year end lists…you know the lists that try to make you feel uncool for not listening to the bands that they like …well here's some inside info..most of the writers have never listened to the records all the way through, they just put them on the list to look as cool as everyone else around them…or to get on the guest list the next time "that band" comes through town.

       I thought I'd take a different route and not put mine in any particular order, this is just a list of records that came out this past year that I really dug , I also won't bore you with long write ups about them, I'll just make it short and sweet….so here we go

David's Town- 11 Original Hits From Byrdesdale Spa, UK! (Fucked Up)

     As most of you already know David's Town was a RSD (Record Store Day) release from our good friends Fucked Up. But if you bought it originally hoping to groove out to my man Damian's planet smashing vocals you was sadly mistaken. The record was all over the place from DIY to post-punk to power pop…to be perfectly honest I have actually listened to this record more than DCTL….it's just such a good fucking record…and I have to say Damm you Ben Cook for the line "Do you wanna go for a curry with me?"  I start singing that line out of nowhere some days….you knows that's a sign of a good song.

D-Sisive – Run With The Creeps

    When Run…the first track on Run With The Creeps drops you get this strange feeling that Derek Christoff has to do this…this being create, just listen to the lyrics and the beats as they're spread across the landscape of the record, it's DIY, it's PUNK, it's HIP-HOP, it's POETRY…it's beautiful Man….Thanks for giving us one of the best releases in many years.

Wilco-The Whole Love

  This was a record that I could (and still can) put on and let play…nothing to dangerous or adventurous just a great Pop/Rock record, and that's very hard to find with the stuff we have to wade through these days.

Fucked Up-David Comes To Life

No explanation needed…Thank You Damian, Ben, Jonah, Josh, Sandy and Mike

Bjork- Biophilia

   With Bjork you have to be in a certain groove to enjoy her music, it's not a day at the beach soundtrack, or something you throw on while the in-laws are over for dinner….but when the right time strikes Biophilia is one of her best recordings in a very long time.

The Rucksack Willies-Letter to Anne

Roots music with a shot of bluegrass and a female singer that can take on the best of them and win hands down every time best describes Toronto's The Rucksack Willies debut album Letter to Anne.

Kurt Vile-Smoke Ring for My Halo

     This record is the real deal, no phoney bologna for Kurt, he tells stories like he's talking to a good friend he just ran into on the street. If you like your music folksy with a blues tint then Smoke Ring for My Halo is your bag.

Bon Iver-Bon Iver

     I was going to start by saying that you would have to be deaf not to get the beauty and intimacy of Justin Vernon's voice on Bon Iver's S/T record …but even a deaf person could feel this……get it, put it on, and lose yourself.

           Those are the ones that really stuck with me and some part's of them moved me enough to be added into the Playlist that continuously changes in my head.

What do you have for me 2012?

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

Fucked Up's David Comes to Life Album of the Year

         It's been quite the year for Fucked Up, besides touring the world over they have also received every accolade under the sun for their Punk Rock Opera Masterpiece David Comes to Life...now comes the news that in SPIN Magazines Year End Best of Issue David Comes to Life has been named Album of the Year.....I still can't believe that, and to top everything off Damian is on the cover!!

So, Congratulations to Sandy, Damian, Ben, Josh, Jonah and Mike and everyone else tied to the band....what a mind blowing accomplishment


Here's the latest video from David Comes to Life "Turn the Season" directed by Scott Cudmore.

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

 

Fucked Up and Sloan play Toronto Benefit shows

    Toronto's The Great Hall plays host to a couple of benefit shows on the 20^th and 21^st of this month. On the 20^th Toronto's own Fucked Up will play all 78 minutes of their critically acclaimed punk rock opera David Comes To Life as a benefit concert for the COUNTERfit's drug user's memorial project and The Barriere Lake Legal Defense Fund. The Sadies, PS I Love You and Quest for Fire are also on the bill that night…Do not miss this killer show.

  Then the following night Fucked Up present (They are NOT playing that night) a second benefit concert featuring Sloan, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Ohbijou and Bonjay. Sloan have announced they are going to be playing the full One Chord to Another record, now that is one show you will not want to miss (I saw Sloan this summer and they are as good if not even better than when they started 20 years ago). 

Tickets are $20 for both evenings and are now on sale at Fucked Up's webstore. Both shows take place at The Great Hall (1087 Queen Street West) and are all ages events with doors opening at 7 p.m. Tickets are also available at Rotate This (801 Queen St. W.) and Soundscapes (572 College St.) in Toronto.    

  At the shows you will be able to pick up a split 7" of Fucked Up and Sloan. Fucked Up cover "Jingle Bells" and Sloan cover the Christmas classic "12 Days of Christmas"…Sloan's version is already available here 

There will also be an After Party...here is the flyer with all of the info:

Below are descriptions of the two charities that will benefit from these two shows:

COUNTERfit's drug user's memorial project was established to acknowledge the high number of drug user deaths due to the drug war. The project will create a permanent outdoor monument to remember and celebrate the lives of drug users who have died in our community. It also aims to strengthen our resolve to end the drug war and the devastating impacts on our friends and family members.

The Barriere Lake Legal Defense Fund was set up to support The Algonquins of Barriere Lake, a small First Nations community in Quebec. They have been forced into a costly legal battle with Canada to protect their land rights. The community has been fighting for years to ensure Canada and Quebec honour their Trilateral Agreement, a landmark resource co-management agreement signed in 1991. The governments are determined to quash the agreement and are now trying to seize sensitive community documents supporting the fight for the Trilateral Agreement. These documents include research on traditional land use & occupancy, wildlife habitat studies, and land claims research.

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

Is Fucked Up Over? The Waiting Game Begins

    

This is from Damian's Twitter account:

Hey everyone: I'M NOT QUITTING FUCKED UP.
web • 11/7/11 2:21 PM

   So according to an interview Melody Lau did with Damian Abraham of Fucked Up on Spinner  the band is taking a long break after  they finish up the gigs that round out this year (They do have a "Bruise Cruise Festival" in the Bahamas in Feb though) …Damian is quoted in the article saying 

  "I can't tour anymore," Abraham says. "I don't want to take that away from them, so I would love to find a way to basically make it into a constantly evolving thing where sometimes F---ed Up can go on tour and other times, it's another band involved with us."

He goes on to say

"I have no idea how it's all going to work out," Abraham says. "I know we're going to take this long break and hopefully we can think about it and figure it out a little more.

Damian speaks about the effect of touring on himself

   "I can be weirdly lonely even though you're surrounded by these five other people," Abraham adds. "But we've been together now 10 years and there's not a lot left to talk about.

"It messes with your head after a while, and I think that's why we need this break. Me especially though, I'm the one losing it the most by far."

      After reading the Spinner article, what I take away from it is Damian is a guy who loves his son and wife more than anything, and if you know anything of the bands touring schedule they just don't play a few shows across the province or a some shows in the U.S., in the last year they have been all over the world and personally speaking I don't know how he does it, I can barely be away from my son for a few days but not seeing him for weeks at a time, that must be torture. 

    But this is also a guy who understands that him picking up and leaving does not only affect him but the other  five members of the band, it all comes back to Damian being one of the nicest guys in music today (Sorry D, you must be sick of reading that by now). 

   So the speculation begins now…is this the end of Fucked Up? Well in numerous interviews over the years Damian has said how far can a band with the name Fucked Up really go? I guess we will soon find out.

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

***Below is a video for "Running On Nothing" from the record David Comes To Life..it was put together by Sandy Miranda***

Fucked Up "Running on Nothing" from Sandy Miranda on Vimeo.

Live recording of Fucked Up at The Mod Club - Toronto - October the 11th 2011

    Most of you already know by now Fucked Up played a killer set this past Tuesday night at The Mod Club in Toronto, besides taking a few good shots I also brought my small digital recorder that I would normally use for interviews, but tonight I decided to record their complete set....so without further ado...for the unlucky few that did not make it to the show...here is Fucked Up LIVE 
     

**click on the link below**

FUCKED UP LIVE 

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

 

Set List
No.1 Queen Of Hearts
No.2 Black Albino Bones
No.3 Remember My Name
No.4 David Comes To Life
No.5 Under My Nose
No.6 I Hate Summer
No.7 The Other Shoe
No.8 A Slanted Tone
No.9 Turn The Season
No.10 Running On Nothing
No.11 The Recursive Girl
No.12 Police
No.13 Son The Father
No.14 Baiting The Public
No.15 Two Snakes

Fucked Up with C'Mon, Biblical, Actual Water @ Mod Club - Oct.11

    Toronto's Favorite *Band FUCKED UP are returning home after crisscrossing the globe it seems like many times this year. They are set to play Toronto's Mod Club on October the 11th, now this means there will be no Toronto Halloween show this year so if you have not seen them perform songs from their latest opus David Comes To Life get out and get your tickets now. Advance tickets are $17.00 (plus SC) you can pick them up at Rotate This and Soundscapes , you can also get then online at TicketWeb.

     Other bands that have been added to the bill are C'Mon, Biblical, Actual Water and Wyrd Visions.

       Last week a video got released from Fucked Up's David's Town Record Store Day release called "Do You Feed? (The Curry song)" by the fictional band Animal Man. Here is the video...Ben and Sandy look like they are having alot of fun in it...now if we could just convince Sandy to perform it live and also convince Mike to let them do it.

 * Most writers will add a label to Fucked Up...Hardcore, Punk, Experimental Hardcore..etc, but I know them just as a Band.


Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

 

Fucked Up Release Video for “The Other Shoe”

       Years ago Much Music would have dedicated a half hour of programing when a video of this magnitude was released,  they did it for Michael, they did it for Madonna…well this is 2011 and Much Music would rather cram new Degrassi and Teen Wolf episodes down its viewers throats (excluding The Wedge) than play actual videos…so we are just going to take it to the streets and by “the streets” I mean Blogs, Facebook ,Twitter all of the usually places for getting stuff out to you in this day and age and announce that Fucked Up have released a video for “The Other Shoe” . 

     Fucked Up continues to try and explain the narrative behind “David Comes to Life” with a video that introduces us to David, Veronica and Octavio , this video was directed by Toronto-based writer and director Matt Eastman. 

  Without further ado “The Other Shoe”

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS