A couple years ago now we covered Precious by Depeche Mode on battery powered instruments, shot a video and posted it on YouTube. Since then it’s been, by far, our most popular video, climbing to over 3000 hits (I know, I know, not Beiber numbers but what can you do). It’s also been re-posted and discussed in a couple Depeche Mode fan forums.

So we thought we’d follow it up.

We decided to cover Joy Division‘s haunting tune Love Will Tear Us Apart. We found a cool location (climbed into an archway under a bridge by Mount Pleasant), set up our un-plugged instruments (yes, Steve is supplying the air for the Hohner Melodica keyboard) and went to work. We did it in one take – mainly because Kent couldn’t feel his hands by mid song – got some shots of the surroundings and headed home to warm up.

We sincerely hope you like it!

We hit the Queen and Spadina neighborhood last night armed with acoustics, glockenspiels and electronic gadgets to busk for the NXNE concert goers.

Before we had even settled in to play a tune, a traveling minstrel struck up a conversation and told us he had been playing the streets since 1984.  He thought it would be a good night if the rain held off.  He played us a song about skinny-dipping in Halifax and in exchange we played him ‘Science’ which is not about skinny dipping or Halifax at all.

At times we had a crowd cheering for us and sometimes we were playing to each other and curious passers-by.  But all in all it was a great night.  Plus we sold CDs which was completely unexpected.  We were mainly out to promote our upcoming show at the Mod Club (event details).

Perhaps this was the highlight:

An excited young gentlemen raved, “These guys are better than Lady Ga-Ga… and they’re free… and they’re all mine!!!  (We had set up next to a MMVA party hosted by Lady Ga-Ga which makes it a little less random).

Hugh snapped this shot while taking an all-natural iced tea break.