Post by Tidyman on Aug 25, 2006 22:49:06 GMT -5
Let's slowly piece together the Canadian tour, shall we? This concert was just announced in London's local paper: Danko Jones with The Trews, Bobnoxious and Marble Index as part of a new 3-day festival. Check it out:
Metric headlines downtown concert
Fri, August 25, 2006
By LONDON FREE PRESS STAFF
Canadian rock bands Metric, Danko Jones and local hero Bobnoxious will be rocking downtown London in September.
London radio station FM96 announced some details Friday of a new, three-day outdoor fest to run Sept. 14-16 on a temporary concert site.
FM96 Rocks 1 is seen as the first in a series of rock fests for the station and its partners. The 19-and-up event is set for a parking lot site at King and Clarence streets also used by Bluesfest in the summer.
Metric headlines with Yellowcard, Wintersleep and the Reason also on the bill on Sept. 14.
On Sept. 15, Canadian rockers the Trews headline. Danko Jones, London’s Bobnoxious - whose new indie album Rockaholics is just out - and the Marble Index are also on the bill.
Performers for the third night, Sept. 16, are still to be announced, organizers said. Other details, including the time for gates opening at the site, are also to be announced.
Internet sites had already revealed U.S. rock band Yellowcard and the Trews were coming.
Metric’s singer and keyboardist Emily Haines will release a solo album - Knives Don’t Have Your Back - just before Metric plays the outdoor fest. It was written and recorded in Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, and New York over four years.
“Everywhere I’ve lived while working with Metric, I’ve written songs on the piano and played them for no one,” she says. ““On the advice of a friend, I decided I'd better start recording them before they were forgotten.”
Some material was written while Haines was studying electroacoustics in Montreal. Others tracks were recorded in Toronto more than three years ago, shortly after the death in early 2003 of Haines’s father, Paul Haines, a Canadian poet and writer. Metric’s James Shaw is among the musicians on the Haines disc.
Metric’s 2005 CD Live It Out (Last Gang/Universal), is on the shortlist for the inaugural Polaris Prize. The Polaris honours albums released by a Canadian artist between June 1, 2005 and May 31, 2006. Its $20,000 purse is the richest prize for a full-length album in the country. The Polaris winner is to be announced at Toronto on Sept. 18.
Tickets for the Metric and Trews’ shows are $29.96 each. Tickets for the Sept. 16 bill are $9.60. Three-day passes are $49.96. Public sale begins Monday via fm96.com.
Metric headlines downtown concert
Fri, August 25, 2006
By LONDON FREE PRESS STAFF
Canadian rock bands Metric, Danko Jones and local hero Bobnoxious will be rocking downtown London in September.
London radio station FM96 announced some details Friday of a new, three-day outdoor fest to run Sept. 14-16 on a temporary concert site.
FM96 Rocks 1 is seen as the first in a series of rock fests for the station and its partners. The 19-and-up event is set for a parking lot site at King and Clarence streets also used by Bluesfest in the summer.
Metric headlines with Yellowcard, Wintersleep and the Reason also on the bill on Sept. 14.
On Sept. 15, Canadian rockers the Trews headline. Danko Jones, London’s Bobnoxious - whose new indie album Rockaholics is just out - and the Marble Index are also on the bill.
Performers for the third night, Sept. 16, are still to be announced, organizers said. Other details, including the time for gates opening at the site, are also to be announced.
Internet sites had already revealed U.S. rock band Yellowcard and the Trews were coming.
Metric’s singer and keyboardist Emily Haines will release a solo album - Knives Don’t Have Your Back - just before Metric plays the outdoor fest. It was written and recorded in Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, and New York over four years.
“Everywhere I’ve lived while working with Metric, I’ve written songs on the piano and played them for no one,” she says. ““On the advice of a friend, I decided I'd better start recording them before they were forgotten.”
Some material was written while Haines was studying electroacoustics in Montreal. Others tracks were recorded in Toronto more than three years ago, shortly after the death in early 2003 of Haines’s father, Paul Haines, a Canadian poet and writer. Metric’s James Shaw is among the musicians on the Haines disc.
Metric’s 2005 CD Live It Out (Last Gang/Universal), is on the shortlist for the inaugural Polaris Prize. The Polaris honours albums released by a Canadian artist between June 1, 2005 and May 31, 2006. Its $20,000 purse is the richest prize for a full-length album in the country. The Polaris winner is to be announced at Toronto on Sept. 18.
Tickets for the Metric and Trews’ shows are $29.96 each. Tickets for the Sept. 16 bill are $9.60. Three-day passes are $49.96. Public sale begins Monday via fm96.com.
