music video for IRRESISTIBLE out now!! made with love by our friends, from our first lil tour of our first two shows WINTERRUPTION in Edmonton and THE CURE in our hometown of Regina. ✌️
find it on our YT via our 🔗🌳
SONGS TO CRY TO EP out next week 🧧❤️
Edited by Rob Scott White.
Winterruption footage by Arlo Maverick & Natalie Meyer.
The Cure footage by Rob Scott White.
Digicam footage by Merv & Ling.
I have used my new friend machine learning to figure out the consensus 5 orgcore releases. Has time been kind? Have I even heard these records? We will also introduce the org-i-fier. A scale made up of key factors such as:
How throaty are the vocals?
How obscure are the song titles?
The most interesting punknews.org comment in the album review
We feed the thirsty machine the data and here are the results in no particular order.
Read the full article at the link in our bio or core.org
#OrgCore #punkrock #5best
So a while ago, through some ridiculous circumstances, I got the chance to open for David Sedaris. I had seven minutes to read the funniest/best thing I had in the archives. I even hopped on a plane to America for it.
That day happened to be the first snowstorm of the year. I had to cancel — and yeah, I was bummed. I remember buying dog food at Walmart at the exact time I was supposed to be onstage. As the French say: I was very depress. I figured I’d had one shot and blown it.
Months later, I emailed him on a whim to ask if I could try again — or if he even remembered me. He told me he was doing some Alberta dates and gave me two options. I picked Calgary.
I’d lived there when I was 18, right when I started devouring all things Sedaris. He was the comic voice I’d been searching for, and I didn’t know it until I heard him on iTunes Radio (I’m very old, sorry). I much of my time walking to work and back listening to his books on my MP3 player (again: old).
This time, I wrote something new — more personal, less “dumb make-’em-ups.” And honestly, I’m glad I missed the first one. I probably would’ve bombed. But thanks to a bunch of dumb little coincidences and big ones too, I got to have David Sedaris introduce me onstage in the city where, years earlier, I sat on a break from my job at Subway thinking: I should try writing something funny.
One last thing: David Sedaris is the nicest person I’ve ever met. He made sure I sound checked, got the same treatment he did, and went out of his way to let me hand out my promo stuff. Onstage, he was incredibly generous and said kind things he didn’t have to say.
If you ever get a chance to see David live, go. He’s an incredible writer and performer. 1)Me immediately after having not bombed, in fact in the glow of doing really well.
2)A funny clip of me on stage
3/4)The Bella theatre
5)The thing I read
6/7)Compare and contrast my dressing room and the subway I worked at
7/8)Some Calgary POV shots
9)best seat in the house (also it was sold out so there was nowhere else to go) More writing stuff coming in the future. Thanks for reading this long thing everyone.
Some news on the writing front: I’ll be opening for David Sedaris on his tour stop in Yakima Washington on Nov 20th. I fixed their poster to amend that. I’ll be reading some of my funny stuff out loud. They asked me what I wanted on my rider and I told them “almonds and two cans of Diet Coke” because frankly I’m on stage for 10 minutes and if you need more than that for 10 minutes of work you might be an asshole. I’m a huge David Sedaris nerd and have been since I was 17 so this is pretty cool for me and I thought I’d post about it. Anywho, keep punchin’
