Friday April 18, 2008

Thanks to JPR for this blooper reel featuring the Maybe Smith song Gargoyles from Snowmen & Scientists. In JPR’s own words:

[Colin] and i are blooper fanatics and we also both love pixels. we often send blooper links to each other (virtually send). we love to laugh; especially at things that are virtually unrecognizable due to it being too pixelly.

Love,
Colin

Monday March 10, 2008

Left-to-right: CBC’s Alan Neal (Bandwidth) and Amanda Putz (Fuse), Jenn Grant, Steve Reed (Maybe Smith and Carbon Dating Service bassist), and Maybe Smith.

Well that was a goofy weekend. Maybe Smith performed at the Horseshoe Tavern this past Saturday during Canadian Music Week in Toronto. The show was put on by the fine folks at Chart Magazine and featured about six dozen other bands.

We played first.

What can I say, it was memorable. And apparently we held our own against a band that lit a cowbell on fire between periods of waving a chainsaw around. The closest thing we came to that was Keyboard Player Joey’s moccasins and Bass Player Steve’s conceptual designs for something called a Gun-Sword-Axe. Though we did have an ace up our sleeve in the form of Amanda Putz from CBC Radio 3 who joined us on stage to show off her accomplished sleigh bell skills. Chart posted some photos of the evening’s carnage, and they’ll apparently have video and audio footage of the show sometime in the near future, so keep an eye open.

We had a tricky time maneuvering through the onslaught of snow Toronto was experiencing, lugging our gear around on foot through what felt like a foot of semi-congealed bacon grease. But Toronto was good to us. The nice thing about the Horseshoe is it’s right in the heart of things, and it was easy enough to slide (literally) next door to the Rivoli to check out Jenn Grant and Dog Day, where I also met two of my new favourite people: The Superfantastics.

Speaking of favourite people, I must also say that Said The Whale are one of the nicest and most genuine bands I’ve ever met. It was great to play a show with them.

Thanks to Chart, The Horseshoe and especially SaskMusic for helping make this memorable weekend possible.

Back to recording.

Love,
Colin

Thursday February 21, 2008

Pester your local record store to stock up! The following SHR releases are now distributed across Canada through the fine folks at F.A.B.

• Maybe Smith – Animals & Architects
• Maybe Smith – Second Best Death
• Maybe Smith – Root Hug

And if you’re in Toronto during Canadian Music Week, make sure you come to the Horseshoe on March 8th and say “Hi”. Maybe Smith will be starting off that evening’s Chart-Shoe showcase at 8:30 p.m. sharp!

On an unrelated note, my iPod seems insistent on always playing “One” by Harry Nilsson whenever it’s in shuffle mode. I wonder what it’s trying to tell me.

Love,
Colin