Due to circumstances beyond our control we will not be able to open for Polarity tonight at their East Coast Tour kick off. The concert will still be on at the Hard Luck Bar in Toronto. We will be playing another show soon so we hope to see you then!
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September 2nd we will be heading out Queen West to play at a little bar/eatery called Mitzi’s Sister. We chose this intimate setting because it’s the perfect place to perform those tunes that often get overlooked in our large loud live sets.
Songs like Mercy Please and Baby Steps will be played among others that sometimes get squeezed out much to certain listeners’ dismay.
Details can be found on our shows page.
Hope to see you there!
We have just been offered a show in the Kitchener/Waterloo area. On Saturday July 24th we will be at Maxwell’s Music House with up and coming solo artist Andrew Allen.
We played in Kitchener last fall and it was one of the best shows we can remember. The energy was amazing. If you can get to this show it will be well worth your while!
Doors are at 9:00. Cover $7.00, $5.00 for students.
Full details and links at www.winhara.com/shows.html.
We’ve added a show on Thursday, July 22nd at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern. For this one we’re putting everyone on the guest list! To get your and your friends in for FREE just click here and give us the info.
We go on at 9:00 sharp so you’ll be able to get home and get your beauty sleep before your Friday morning alarm clock goes off!
All the info is at www.winhara.com.
(If the link to the guest list above isn’t working copy the following URL into your address bar or send an e-mail to winhara@winhara.com:
Available now is the newly finished track, Five Alarm!
As with all the songs in the Beta Collection, we are giving it away for free! All you have do to is go to www.winhara.com and click on the link under the ‘Free Downloads’ heading. You can also stream it right away in the music section.
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From 8:00pm to 11:00pm we will be setting up camp at Yonge and Dundas Square to promote our upcoming NXNE showcase (Saturday June 19 at the Bread and Circus. Info here).
On stage at that time will be Sloan, K-Os and Said the Whale. So drop by say hi and grab a t-shirt and cd (only $10 each).
We continue work on our second album, Beta Collection, and have just received the latest mix of our newest addition – an upbeat track called Five Alarm. While ‘road testing’ this song it has received extremely positive feedback, more from the movement of the audience than anything else.
If all goes according to plan, we will be releasing this track for free download via our website sometime next week before our showcase at North by Northeast on Saturday night.
In the meantime we have posted a live version of ‘God Save the Queen,’ recorded at our recent show at C’est What. Listen to it now!
This year we will be part of a showcase at Toronto’s annual NXNE music festival. We will be taking the stage Saturday June 19th at the Bread and Circus with other electro/rock/pop acts including The Clear, Hexes and Ohs, NLX, Airheart and Purrr.
This promises to be an amazing evening (we are equally excited to watch the other acts as we are to play) so don’t miss out. More details to follow…
I was inspired today by the deep and thoughtful preachings of Ke$ha’s song “Dinosaur”
“Dinosaur”
[Chorus:]
D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R
You are a dinosaur
D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R
You are a dinosaur
O-L-D M-A-N
Your just an old man
Hitting on me what?
You need a cat scan
[Verse 1:]
Old man, why are you starrin’ at me, mack on me and my friends?
It’s kinda a creepy
You should be prowling around the Old folk’s home
Come on dude!
Leave us alone
At first we thought that it was kind of ill when
We saw that you were like a billion
And still out tryin’ to make a killin’
Get back to the museum
[Chorus:]
D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R
You are a dinosaur
D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R
You are a dinosaur
O-L-D M-A-N
Your just an old man
Hitting on me what?
You need a cat scan
Hey dinosaur, baby you’re pre-historic
Hey dinosaur, that’s what you are HA
Hey carnivore, you want my meat I know it
Hey dinosaur, that’s what you are HA
Yea, you’re pretty old
[Verse 2:]
Not long til’ your a senior citizen
And you can strut around with that sexy tank of oxygen
Honey your toupee is fallin’ to your left side
Get up and go bro!
Oh wait your fossilized HA!
Then you offered me a martini
Walk away with your hips with in sinking
Then you say, Honey wanna come with me
I’m about to barf seriously
[Chorus:]
D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R
You are a dinosaur
D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R
You are a dinosaur
O-L-D M-A-N
Your just an old man
Hitting on me what?
You need a cat scan
Hey dinosaur
baby, you’re prehistoric
Hey dinosaur
That’s what you are HA!
Hey carnivore
you want my meat, I know it
Hey dinosaur
That’s what you are HA!
Hey dinosaur baby,
you’re prehistoric
Hey dinosaur
That’s what you are HA!
Hey carnivore
you want my meat, I know it
Hey dinosaur
That’s what you are HA!
D-I-N-O-S-A
You are a dinosaur
D-I-N-O-S-A
That’s what you are HA!
D-I-N-O-S-A
You are a dinosaur
D-I-N-O-S-A
That’s what you are HA!
Her album Animal is hilarious…I just hope that’s what she was going for cause…well…wow!
I love music DVD’s. Correction. I love some music DVD’s. I enjoy the interesting content you get that you can’t get at a concert. It seems like bands and artists are so hit and miss when it comes to making a good DVD. It’s easy isn’t it?? Just make it interesting!!!!
I bought the Kings of Leon: Live at the O2 London, England DVD. I loved the last two albums. A lot of people loved the last one. As for the DVD…well it’s ok. I mean it’s just a live show. They don’t do anything crazy. It’s no more advanced or interesting than my Police DVD I bought that is just concert footage from Atlanta way back in 1983 during the Synchronicity Tour. In fact Sting has the upper hand in the stage banter catagory as the Kings lead singer Caleb Followill came off a bit arrogant.
Muse had a DVD included with there album and it was essentially just concert footage. The difference is Muse incorporates robots, giant satellites, confetti and a cover song. They also shot the DVD with more than 3 or 4 cameras! This was also just an accent to the album as it came packaged with it…unlike Kings of Leon.
Some of the best DVD’s I’ve seen have come from Pearl Jam, Coldplay and Keith Urban. These DVD’s had behind the scenes footage and intimate moments that were amazing and it offered a real sense of connection to the artists. It is always great to hear interviews or see bloopers or just nice candid moments. It allows you to really sink your teeth into the product, which is ultimately the artist…not the music.
My favorite DVD is actually a movie and an album. The Last Waltz by The Band is one of the best music moments of all time. It’s also better than most of the DVD’s that come out these days and it was shot 30 years ago. It has live footage, interview footage, candid footage, staged footage and if you watch it enough times you’ll see the bloopers like Neil Young struggling to find the key, Eric Clapton’s guitar strap letting go halfway through a solo and a drunk Van Morrison doing high kicks.
What are some of your favorite music DVD’s????