Posted February 21, 2012
Alo Alo,
Notre vitrine au Rideau à Québec s’est très bien passée. En fait, ils nous ont donné le Prix Résidence de la Ville de Québec: Coup de cœur unanime du jury!! Un grand merci au jury pour cet opportunité encroyable, surtout dans une si belle salle:
Vous pouvez aussi lire l’announce ici:
Ontario….on arrive!
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Alo alo,
Our showcase at Rideau last week went very well. We were awarded the prize of a Residency in the beautiful Palais Montcalm in Québec City. Apparently we were the unanimous choice by the jury! We’re very grateful for this opportunity. Very excited. You can see a picture of the room above, as well as the press release in the link below it.
Ontario coming up……
Tags: Ontario, Palais Montcalm, Prix Residence Ville de Quebec, Prize, Residency, RIDEAU
Posted February 13, 2012
Salut salut,
Demain on part pour Québec pour notre vitrine officielle Rideau, grace à ROSEQ qui nous a donné un petit prix pour ça octobre passé! On joue à 21h00 au Théatre Petit Champlain. On a bien hâte pour ce show-là. Puis, jeudi et vendredi, on retourne dans le coin de Lac St Jean: Jeudi au Café Clocher, Alma et vendredi Le Sous Bois, Chicoutimi. À la fin du mois, on sera en Ontario. Regardez les dates à coté!
Un petite photo au bord du St Laurent à Morrisburg, Ontario:
Tomorrow we’re in Québec City for our official Rideau Showcase. We’re on at 9pm at Théatre Petit Champlain. Looking forward to this. Thursday we’ll be in Alma at the Café Clocher and Friday we’ll be at the Sous Bois in Chicoutimi. Looking forward to heading up to the region of Lac St Jean again. Never been to Chicoutimi either. At the end of the month we’ll be back in Ontario. Have a look at the dates to the left of this entry!
A small photo taken from the shore of the mighty St Laurence in Morrisburg, Ontario two weekends ago!
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Posted January 28, 2012
Hello Hello friends,
Off shortly to Morrisburg, ON for two nights at the Upper Canada Theatre with Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Café. Being trying to get on this show for a few years, so we’re damn excited to do it.
Our Winnipeg release party back in March, 2011 for June in Sibera was re-aired by the CBC Radio 2 on Canada Live this past week. If you missed it, you can check it out here:
On sera à Québec bientôt pour le RIDEAU, le 13 février! Yebo!
Check out this house among the 1000 islands on the St Lawrence, not far from where we’re going. I hear it’s for sale….
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Tags: Canada Live, CBC, june in siberia, Morrisburg, Quebec City, Radio 2, RIDEAU, Stuart Mclean, Upper Canada Theatre, Vinyl Cafe, Winnipeg
Posted January 18, 2012
Alo Alo les amis,
La Neige. Elle est partout. J’ai fait du ski de fond au bord du chemin de fer hier. C’était magnifique. Tout seul, pas de traffique. J’aime bien Montréal pour ça. A la fin du mois de janiver, on sera à Morrisburg pour deux soirs avec Stuart McLean et le Vinyl Café. On a hâte pour ce show-là. Le deuxième soir sera diffuser sur la radio CBC plus tard pendant l’année.
à bientôt
une photo d’une place qu’on adore:
The mountainous region of Swaziland.
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It’s been a real winter finally. Lots of snow. Cross country skied along the tracks yesterday. Had the tracks all to myself. Lots of show upcoming. The next one will be with Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Café in Morrisburg, ON on Jan 28/29. The show on the 29th will be recorded and aired later in the year.
The photo above is a place we love!
Hopefully see you soon!
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Tags: CBC, cross country skiing, Morrisburg, snow, Stuart Mclean, Vinyl Cafe
Posted November 11, 2011
Hello hello,
We’ve finished the first 12 dates of the tour, now a week off in the mountains. Once again saw the sunrise in Vevey, hung out with the kind folks of Groundation in Zurich after the show, then took their hotel rooms because they left on their tour bus at 2am. Also realized how horrible my German is. We played a show for about 60 students from Bern, aged 7-12 the day after our show at the Turnhalle in Bern…..I tried very meekly a few words in German (….literally…”Look kids I can count to three in German”) to not a hell of a lot of fanfare, deservedly-so. An enjoyable moment nonetheless.
We’ve got a house concert in Neyruz, CH (canton Fribourg) on Nov 19th, then fly to Berlin for some dates with Olivia Pedroli and her band. Looking forward to those immensely. The last time I played Berlin was in a small cafe run by a kind gentlemen that I think had done a few too many tabs of acid in his life…but very kind.
Thanks to everyone who’s come out to the shows: Bern, St Imier, Geneva, Cressier have been some of the real highlights so far. Here are some pictures taken by photographer Marco Zanoni from the show in Bern:
On a une petite pause la semaine prochaine après les derniers 12 concerts. Ce fut un grand plaisir, comme toujours, de venir en Suisse et jouer dans les salles comme L’épicentre à Genève, Turnhalle à Berne, le centre culturelle de St Imier, parmi les autres. On a fini la soirée dans un club avec l’équipe de Groundation à Zurich. Une chouette équipe, puis on a tous pris leurs chambres de l’hôtel parce qu’ils sont partis dans leur bus à 2h00 après notre soirée hip-hop Zurichoise. Un grand merci à Marco Zanoni qui a pris des photos de notre show à Berne que j’ai mis au-dessus.
La suite, un petit house concert à Neyruz, CH (canton Fribourg) le 19 novembre, puis après cela, un vol pour Berlin où je commence trois dates avec Olivia Pedroli en Allemagne. J’ai ben hàte pour ces dates-là!
à bientôto
M
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Tags: Berne, Generiq, geneva, Groundation, l'epicentre, Le Locle, Le Lux, Marco Zanoni, Olivia Pedroli, Raphael Pedroli, St Imier, Turnhalle, Zurich
Posted November 2, 2011
Three shows into our fall tour in Europe, and it’s a tough call between eating supper and playing music as to which is the most satisfying. Honestly, we have been feasting like kings and queens – last night’s foie gras salad followed by fresh pasta and chicken on a sauce generously drizzled with truffle oil will not soon leave my memory collection of most favourite meals.
It all started in Geneva at L’Épicentre – a beautiful artist centre, intimate, slightly off the beaten path, and with a truly superb team working with the best equipment, attentive and generous audience included. We will gladly return to play there again the second we are invited. Then followed the Cressier festival Seul-en-Scène.
Finally our secret show last night at Bar King in Neuchâtel where we pulled out all the stops, and played almost our entire repertoire for very good friends and strangers alike. You know it’s a good night when Yesterday’s Halo inspires a dance solo!
As usual, we’ll leave you with a picture or two… and hopefully we’ll see some of you tonight in Bern at the Progr/Bee-flat!
K
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Tags: bar king, bern, cressier, Europe, food, geneva, l'epicentre, mark berube, neuchatel, seul en scène, supper, switzerland, tour, yesterday's halo
Posted October 25, 2011
Hello all,
My favourite part about getting ready for a tour is making a checklist. It’s all conceptual you see – no actual limits of physical space are faced, no tetris games with toothpaste, quarter-inch, cds and undergarments.
However, one always finds oneself suspecting that the suitcase you used last time shrunk, and wondering exactly how many pairs of underwear you really need after all. And sacrificing a sweater and two pairs of socks to take the hiking boots so that the day off in Neuchatel can be spent in the nearby mountains.
We’re off to Switzerland tomorrow to begin a serveral weeks-long tour of Switzerland, Germany and France! Almost all packed up, and almost everything checked off.
Two things are certain:
1. Something will be forgotten
2. We’re going to have one hell of a good time!
For our tour dates, shift your eyes over to the left a couple of centimeters. And if you’re going to be in the area for any of those shows – don’t be a stranger! We’d love to see you.
It’s crazy, because it seems like only days ago we came back from our last tour… Oh wait! It WAS only days ago. Two, in fact.
We had a short and very sweet gander over to the West very recently. Starting in Winnipeg, at a great venue we are beginning to know well – The West End Cultural Centre – it was off to a good start right off. We were lucky to have the lovely Jenny Berkel open the night with her friendly and charming group.
Then it was a long day of travel, a Showcase performance for the Arts Touring Alliance of Alberta, followed by the best kind of dessert – a satisfying set at the Haven Social Club in Edmonton.
Last, and most definitely not least was our night at the Palomino in Calgary. The opening band – native Calgarians Reuben Bullock – played far too short a set in our opinion. So inventive and captivating!
The folks at the Palomino get a special mention in this post for their generous nature (especially where whiskey is concerned) and their truly zany and amazing staff. We’re already looking forward to our next visit to Calgary!
We’ll leave you with this photo of Tonio and Kristina putting Winnipeg’s vintage shops to the test.
Jet lag – here we come!
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Tags: alberta, ATAA, Calgary, Edmonton, france, germany, haven social club, june in siberia, mark berube, palomino, switzerland, tonio morin, tour checklist, WECC, west end cultural centre, Winnipeg
Posted October 17, 2011
Yebo… un grand merci à tout l’équipe de ROSEQ à Rimouski la semaine passée. On a reçu un prix pour une vitrine à RIDEAU en février, 2012. Woohoo!
Big thanks to the folks at ROSEQ in Rimouski last week. We won a prize that gives us an official showcase at RIDEQU in Québec City in February, 2012.
We’re off on Wednesday to Winnipeg for a string of 3 shows out West. See the dates and info to your left!
We’ll also be playing the ATAA showcase in Edmonton on Friday, Oct 21rst, then our show there later that night.
Puis, le 25 octobre, on part pour l’Europe de nouveau. Toutes les dates sont à votre gauche.
Then off to Europe again for a tour. Excited to say the least. We’ll be posting more pictures, shot blogs, and maybe the odd tour video.
AND FOR YOU
Another video by Matias Meyer for HELLO:
à bientôt
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Tags: ATAA, Calgary, Edmonton, Europe, Hello, Jenny Berkel, Judea Kelly, june in siberia, matias meyer, Prix, Prize, RIDEAU, Rimouski, ROSEQ, The Haven Social Club, The Palomino Room, WECC, Winnipeg
Posted October 7, 2011
Grace à notre ami Matias Meyer de Mexique, nous avons un nouveau clip, une interpretation ou ‘variation’ de la chanson. Vous pouvez le voir ici:
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Thanks to our friend Matias Meyer from Mexico, a film maker, we have a new video for our song Let Me Go. It’s more a visual treatment or interpretation of the song using old archived footage of his that he’s been shooting over the last 15 years. Here it is:
Il y en aura une autre aussi pour Hello que je vais mettre bientôt!
Il y en aura une autre aussi pour Hello que je vais mettre bientôt!
Another one for Hello coming soon!
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Tags: hotel2tango, june in siberia, let me go, mark berube, matias meyer, montreal, video
Posted September 23, 2011
A video of our song Yebo Mama, live at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, June 23rd, 2011.
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Tags: 2011, festival, festival international de jazz de montreal, jazz, june in siberia, mark berube, montreal, tailored to fit, what the river gave the boat, yebo mama
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