Radio and Video

Hi all.
To those of you wondering when they are going to start hearing tracks from the album on radio or see a video, this is what I can tell you;
The first single, "Give Me Your Love", was serviced to radio stations last week, nation wide.
Now, if we're lucky, stations will pick it up and start playing it immediately. Now the other option is that they will "feature" it. If you hear it, I strongly suggest that you call or email your station and tell them how much you love it!!!!
Even if you don't hear it, may I suggest that you request it anyways?
As for the video, if you've been keeping up with the blog entries, you'll know that we are awaiting an edit of the video that we can all be happy with. I won't be surprised if that's this week sometime and we start to see the video on our TV sets by next week...

Hockey

I've joined a rec. hockey league. This is the first time I've been involved in organized sport since I was about 9 or 10. Needless to say, when I first started this year, I could hardly stand up. That was before I put my skates on...
Now, I'm out on the community rinks twice a week in addition to my Sunday rec league games.
I'm obsessed. I've always loved watching hockey, but now, all I want to do is play. That is, until I fall on my face or knee or elbow or.....
But I did score my first goal last Sunday. And it was a beauty too. Backhanded, caught my own rebound and backhanded it in. The best part was that I actually meant to do what I did!
So now I've signed up with a team to play at the Exclaim Cup.
The Exclaim Cup is held annually in Toronto and features teams from Canada's music, media and hipster elite.
Naturally I had to be involved.
Apparently it's a lot of fun and I have to say it'll be pretty cool to be playing against the likes of Jim Cuddy and Sam Roberts. Maybe I'll ask if I can open for them, as I'm stripping them of the puck and their dignity...

Winter - Thunder Jowls

Things have been strange lately.
I am known as a complainer, I'll admit. But this winter has just about done me in.
I'm trying to decide whether this particular winter is actually worse than the previous ones, or if its simply my state of mind thats making me notice the cold and dark more acutely.
I know for certain that one of the catalysts for my disdain would be the shooting of th e video for Gimme Your Love. We shot it in the middle of a freak winter blizzard. I feel like I haven't really been able to thaw my bones from that one.
Is it true that if you get really cold or frostbite, then you are more susceptible to it? If so, I've answered my own question.
Speaking of the video, I've received a couple of edits of it to proof over.
Let's just start off by saying that I am not an actor. I can barely hold it together during a Christmas, family portrait.
So needless to say, when the camera is rolling and I'm supposed to sing "Give me your love" to a lovely waitress, I am smiling like an idiot.
Any shot in the edits of this video where I am required to do anything but play guitar and sing are truly painful to watch. It looks like one of those subliminal toothpaste commercials where everyone in the world, regardless of what they're doing, be that playing tennis or shopping for fruit, naturally has a huge grin from ear to ear, exposing their white smile. It's kinda like that except I look even more ridiculous.
Now, if that weren't enough, those of you who know me can say that I'm a pretty skinny guy.
Lean, slim, whatever. Well, somehow I manage to have taken the 10 pounds that the camera adds and placed it all on my neck. Ten pounds, just jiggling around.
So between the infinite smiling and the thunder jowls, my video resembles what you'd see if you gave a fat kid a bulk-o-rama bag of M&M's and told him there was more when he wanted it. As long as he sang, "Give me your love".
Let's hope they can fix it with the third edit huh?

CBC - Key of A

Hey Alberta!
Tune in to CBC Radio 1 this Saturday at 5pm to hear my interview on The Key of A.
I promise there will be no nudity! But you wouldn't know either way would you???