Australia!

Hello BP massive,

We are very pleased to announce that we will be releasing A Mountain
Is A Mouth in Australia on February 13th, 2010. Many thanks to our
friend Ghita, who introduced to her friend Steve, who runs a great
little label called Sensory Projects. Luckily for us, Steve loves our
record and offered to do a run for the Australian public.

Many more details to come. Canadians, if you have an Australian
friend, please tell them about our band. We are starting to figure out
how to make the trip happen too, though that seems pretty expensive at
the moment.

Stay tuned for more details, either way.
X O BP

Al

One thousand thank yous to everyone that made this weekend at the Music Gallery so special. We will remember those shows forever. Now it's on to the festive season. You probably won't hear from us for a while but fret not, we will be hard at work in our basement lair, preparing for 2010 .

If you're hurting for something to do, you should just watch this video a thousand times. An instant classic, starring BP's own Steve McKay.

You Can Call Me Hilarious from Lara Mrkoci on Vimeo.

See you in the new year.
XO XO BP

Two Night Stand

We are excited to officially announce our two night stand at the Music Gallery on November 27th and 28th at the Music Gallery. We're all very fond of the space, having spent some serious time there while recording AMIAM, and hope you'll come join us. We hope to have some new things to show you by then.

These shows will be our last for a while because we're going to spend the winter writing and hopefully recording new songs. Unless something to good to be true comes up, this will be Toronto's last chance to see us until the spring. We promise it will be magic. Come!

Back Home

Arrived home last night from what we're calling the best tour we've ever had. It was just so chock-full of amazing moments and weird happenings that we'll remember it for the rest of our lives.

We're inspired to work on new music now more than ever and so, after a few Toronto shows in November (including two special Music Gallery shows at the end of the month), we're planning to retreat for the winter. This will hopefully weild a couple of 7"s, a 12" and a full-length record by this time next year.

That's the plan, anyhow. We're not always so strict about our plans, but take comfort in the fact that this tour and all the beautiful things that came with it lit a raging fire beneath us.

See you in Toronto in November, or else we'll see you next year.
xo xo bp

New Brunny

Nice time had in Sherbrooke. Tasty burgers, appreciative crowd, pretty
town. We witnessed a pretty grizzly car accident but we are trying not
to let it phase us.

Last night in Saint John was a rager. Our host was a totally loveable
drunk guy, the house was the perfect type for a show like that and, oh
yeah, the cops shut us down!

We played a loose and dirty set that was a little too loud for a
Monday but, despite the police presence, we played through to the
bitter end. It was Crabapples as protest song, including a nice little
Shout-style whisper breakdown that erupted into a full-blown gang
chant. It will go down as one of our finest memories.

In PEI tonight for what's shaping up to be a great show, then onto
Halifax tomorrow. More correspondence to come.

Right in the World

I'm staring out of a huge window into the belly of the Ottawa valley.
We are shacked up at the gorgeous home of Adam & Kim in Burnstown, the
site of what we're calling one of our top three favourite shows of all
time. Last night at Neaf was a kind of magic people rarely get to
partake in. An appreciative audience, a delicious meal, a real sense
of artisans and townspeople in love with one another and a pair of
hosts more gracious and generous than people are meant to be.

We had our fair share of fun times in Kingston and Ottawa, to be sure,
but Burnstown is one for the history books.

A million times, thank you.

Spruce up

We'll call it our winter wear. Hope you like the website facelift. Our favourite part is that now you can stream all our releases in the music & merch section. Finally our website allows you to listen to our music. What's a band website for, if not that?

east

snowdrift

Always seems a little quiet around here when we're getting ready for a run of shows but believe me, if you were here at the headquarters, you'd want us to shut up about things already.

We're plotting out our fall and gearing up for a trip to small towns and big cities East of us over the course of October. Montreal up on Wednesday, Toronto Thursday, Guelph on Friday, then getting in the van and heading for Kingston, Ottawa, Sherbrooke, Rothesay, Charlottetown, Halifax, Sackville and Fredericton. At least 3 of those places we've never been to before. I think we're excited to land on the island, most of all.

Actually, what's got us excited is new blood. Steve's gonna be in Mexico with work so Leon is sitting in for the tour and Kari is staying home with her man/Daniela straight hustlin', so we spread our arms out and scooped up Amy Learmouth (aka The Youngest) and Ivy Mairi to help us out. A big sloppy BP welcome will surely come sometime, somewhere on the highway.

That's all for now. The new year is shaping up. But as always, we're planning to hide out for a while up front, just to make sure our ducks are lined up.

Basement in QC

Hey All. In QC there was a cavernous basment where we recorded some songs and some free-singing.

Present are : Matt Cully, Neil Haverty, Misha Bower, Andrew Barker, Steve McKay, Daniela Geshundeit, Kari Peddle, Thom Gill, Tamara Hope & Dan Misha Gold

We're getting our stuff together to head out to your town very shortly!

bye

More shows

Just added October dates for Kingston, Sackville and Fredericton. Hopefully something for Ottawa and Quebec City will get firmed up any day now.

We're also probably making our first foray into the US this November. It'll be slow going at first, with just a quick shot up to NY but hopefully it'll be just the first entry in a long list of trips Southward.

Stay tuned!

Eep-Mail

You may have noticed some trouble with the website and myspace over the last few weeks. We just underwent a server change and it went South for a little while there. Back up and running now. In the coming weeks we're gonna give this place a face lift and try to work out some of the bugs. We'd always rather be writing songs than writing code, but we know that sometimes it just has to be done.

Many thanks to our most distinguished friend and roommate Mike Smith of Muskox for offering us some of his web property. And also a big thanks to Cam and Escape Goat for putting up with our backdoor e-shenanigans for the last few years.

Friends in Prince Edward Island, we are happy to announce that we'll be in Charlottetown on Oct 20th. We can't wait to come see you. More shows are coming down the pipe every day and we'll roll out the announcements as they get firmed up.

Also, you should probably know about compilation below. We are happy to be included and to have a new song for you to listen to. Please pick it up and support a good cause (not to mention the amazing music you get to hear in the process... Check out that track list!).

Our contribution is In Parallel, the first fully completed new recording since A Mountain Is A Mouth was released. Click the cover for details.



















TRACK LIST

Disc One

1. Forest City Lovers – Minneapolis
2. Le Pigeon – Freezing Rain
3. Basia Bulat – My Heart Is A Warning
4. The Acorn – Slippery When Wet
5. Canadian Wildlife – Winter’s Moon
6. Double Suicide – Touch The Sun
7. Great Bloomers – Find My Way
8. Lisa Bozikovic – The Letting Go
9. Bellewoods – Kneel On The Apron
10. Kate Rogers – The Same Party
11. Timber Timbre – Water
12. No Kids – All That Heaven Allows
13. Snailhouse – Don’t Go Anywhere
14. Final Fantasy – Red Sun (Demo Version)
15. Sylvie Smith – On Our Own
16. Bruce Peninsula – In Parallel
17. Gentleman Reg – For Trust
18. Evening Hymns – Cedars
19. Kite Hill – Tom Thumbtack
20. The Bellwoods Crew – Staten Island Waltz

Disc Two

1. The Dinghies – The Right Honourable Stephen Harper
2. Bocce – Inspiration Bellwoods
3. Kids On TV - Poison
4. Katie Stelmanis – Believe Me
5. The D’Urbervilles – Magic Arrow
6. Sebastien Grainger – Home Is The Light
7. Violence – Living Off The Land
8. Ohbijou – An Ode To An End
9. Great Lake Swimmers – Send Me A Letter
10. The Low Notes – Glory Glory
11. Snowblink – When Pushed From A High Branch
12. lice - yggdrasil
13. Emma McKenna - Happiness
14. Richard Laviolette – Media Song
15. The Adam Brown – Joy Rider
16. The Phonemes – April, Let’s Send His Colleagues An Email
17. The Rural Alberta Advantage – Rough And Tumble
18. Tusks – New To Old Money
19. Hooded Fang – Highway Steam
20. The Wooden Sky – My Old Ghosts

Humidity

To start, a straight-up 'thanks for coming!' to everybody that wandered around the island and took in that beautiful lightning storm with us yesterday. It was a perfectly imperfect day, don't you think?

Today we've been putting some more shows together. New ones announced in Montreal, Guelph, Peterborough and Halifax and hopefully there'll be many more to come. We're going to try our hands at crossing the border very soon but not before we play a hometown rally at the Horseshoe on October 1st. A scant few more details can be found on the shows page.

Pictures from our tour will hopefully be up here within the week and somewhere down the line, soon enough, 15 minutes of new recorded music will surface. We're currently just debating what form it should take.

Sit tight. Keep cool. Drink some water. Watch out for fire ants.
xo bp

Island Show next Sunday

Now that the municipal workers' strike is over, plans for Matt's Island Treasure Hunt are back on. On Sunday August 9th, we will all over take Toronto Island for a day of music.

This is the event's third year and the line-up is as good as ever, with sets from some of our favourites... Feuermusik big band, The Silt, Castlemusic, Isla Craig, $100 and many more. We'll do a short acoustic set as Bruce Trail sometime during the day. For all the pertinent details, as they get nailed down, stick close to the Stillepost thread.

Homebodies.

We're home. The basement is littered with gear and we're trying to sleep in and love our loved ones as much as possible. Hillside was a big sloppy finishing move that couldn't have been more awesome. Maybe just a little less rain would have helped but, even that, we wouldn't trade for anything.

Now it's on to the next plan. We're working out the trajectory for an Eastern Canada trip in October and putting together a couple of home town parties too. It's nice to be away from her every now and then but Toronto really is a catch and we'd like to rekindle our romance. Now, if the ferries would just start running again, we'd be in business.

Sept 19th we're at LOLA in London. We're probably playing somewhere close on the 11th and 12th too. October 1st we're at the Shoe in Toronto. More announcements to come, but we need a couple of days to recouperate.

Ontariariario

And so begins our slow descent towards our home turf. Excuse the lack
of updates over the last handful of days but we've been busy living
(driving mostly, actually).

On Monday we linked up with our friend Jon-Rae Fletcher and his
wonderful band in Vancouver. It was sad to say goodbye to our new
friends in Rock Plaza Central but they were statebound. JR and company
welcomed us with open arms and BC showed up in droves to see us.
Biltmore Cabaret was a blast, the ferry to Victoria and subsequent
party at Logan's were pretty special and Kelowna ran a tight ship and
offered up lots of eye candy.

The drive from Kelowna to Lethbridge, hugging but never crossing the
US border, is one of the most beautiful treks you'll ever see in this
country. Any country, for that matter. If you ever have the chance, we
strongly encourage you to see it with your own eyes. The show in
Lethbridge was tough to get through after 12 hours of driving but the
crowd were glad to see us and that's gotta count for something.

Then last night came the thrilling surprise of the tour - Regina. Who
would have thought that this unassuming town would come out with such
force? We've been playing in Ontario for three years and still, we
likely haven't faced a crowd that went so bonkers in all that time. We
are all getting a little tired from all the driving and floor sleeping
but Regina was a paddle to the chest that has us grinning ear to ear
today. Thank you to everyone that made us feel so good on the last day
of the Western leg of this tour.

Now we are on our way through monstrous Ontario again. On Tuesday we
land in Montreal, then QC, then Ottawa and Hillside. Daniela will be
rejoining us after a short detour, and Thom, Leon and Tamara are
coming to join in on the fun.

It'll be nice to be back on familiar ground but we can't help but feel
that it all went by a little too fast. Oh well. There's always next
time.

Old Albertan Crawl

So, it seems that Albertans are some of the kindest and most
hospitable people in Canada. Obviously a thankful nod should be given
to Rob and Fran and Rich and the beautiful people of Saskatoon before
we get to the Albertans but it's hard to think when there's a stack of
Danishes in front of you.

On Thursday, Andrea's family were nice enough to let us loiter on the
hardwood floors and couches of their beautiful suburban Edmonton home.
And last night we were treated like kings in Calgary, with beer and
pizza to greet us at Jules and Eric's cozy cottage house. It really
rejuvinates your van-overloaded mind when people go out of their way
to make you feel comfortable at their home. Thank you. A million times
thank you.

The shows have been great too. Been able to try out each of the new
songs once so far and will keep doing so as the tour progresses. Oh,
and we had a good time performing at the Calgary radio station
yesterday too.

Onto Canmore later today, but not before some much needed R&R. Taking
it easy with coffee and Danishes, showers and laundry. What a life.

Zoski's

In the van and headed for Saskatoon after playing Winnipeg last night.

Yesterday we splurged and got a couple nice rooms with a kitchen and
made a big pasta dinner before we went to play the show. We can't be
doing that every night or we'll come back broke but it was nice to
have a solid shower and sleep before this gargantuan drive today.

Thanks to the nice folks in Winnipeg for coming out on a Tuesday night
to listen intently.

We just stopped for gas and the kind old men hanging around the garage
bullied us into singing for them. Hopefully we can post a video in the
coming days. That's just one of a few strange things to happen to us
so far. More to come, to be sure.

Day One

Sitting in the back row of our big ass desiel van and thought now was
as good a time as any to start our tour blog.

We've already listened to two records all the way through; an old one
from Tony Sherr and a new one from Wilco. That doesn't bode well for
our relatively small CD wallet. A couple of audio books should take a
fair chunk of time to get through, but I have a feeling well be coming
back around to Sherr before the trip is through.

We've got about 9 hours until we hit the Beaver Inn in Wawa, where
we'll be recieved by the conveniently named Bruce family.

More to come. This is just day one.
xo BP

(oh, so you know, these posts are gonna be written on an iPod so the
messages won't go up until the next time we hit a wi-fi signal. If the
date above doesn't correspond with what we're talking about, that's
why!)

Boot Camp

Well, here we go. The all-consuming month of July.

It's Canada Day today so we're taking it (relatively) easy today. Just
doing some laundry and trying to learn a couple covers. Tomorrow and
Friday though, we mean business. We are hellbent on bringing our two
newest songs on the road with us and we seem to be getting close. By
the time the weekend is over, they should be ready to join the pack.

Saturday night, Matt's Goin' Steady dance party celebrates it's fourth
year anniversary at the boat but we're still gonna get him up bright
and early on Sunday morning so we can get to Wawa by dark.

We are still looking for some kind folks that could offer us floors or
couches to sleep on, or at least to suggest a cheap motel, hostel or
dorm room we can inhabit for the night. We have some places already
but we are still scratching our heads about Winnipeg, Saskatoon,
Edmonton, Lethbridge, Regina, Quebec City and maybe Ottawa. Leave a
comment or email us at brucepeninsula@gmail.com

Ok, wish us luck! Check back here for occasional musings from our trip.

xo BP

Lethbridge!

We weren't content with our measly tour dates, so we had to add one more. We'll be in Lethbridge on July 16th at Henotic. If you know anybody who lives there, please tell them to come out and meet us!

So, here's our July officially...

6/20 - Kingston, ON - Skeleton Park Festival
7/7 - Winnipeg, MB - Pyramid Cabaret *
7/8 - Saskatoon, SK - Walker's Nightclub *
7/9 - Edmonton, AB - Brixx Bar *
7/10 - Calgary, AB - Dicken's *
7/11 - Canmore, AB - Canmore Hotel *
7/13 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret **
7/14 - Victoria, BC - Logan's **
7/15 - Kelowna, BC - Habitat **
7/16 - Lethbridge, AB - Henotic
7/17 - Regina, SK - O'Hanlan's
7/21 - Montreal, QC - Il Motore ***
7/22 - Quebec City, QC - Le Cercle
7/23 - Ottawa, ON - Cafe Deckuf
7/24 or 25 or 26 - Guelph, ON - Hillside Festival

Box Social

To the city of Kingston;

Our utmost thanks for the fun day outside yesterday. Rainy as hell but you stuck it out and we'll remember your smiling faces huddled under that tarp.

Also, Neil is totally red-faced this afternoon and wants to say sorry and "oh my god, duh" to the always lovely Annie CLIFFORD. For those who didn't already have a laugh about it, it should be noted that Annie SHAW was nowhere near Kingston yesterday. Brain farts are much louder through a microphone.

Some of us are going to catch the Gertrudes at the Rivoli tonight for the last throes of NXNE. We think you should probably go too because these guys are kings and queens. See you at 9pm.

Otherwise notable.... we're probably going to mainly update this space throughout our tour. Tweets are sort of unfulfilling, so if you want the straightest goods, check on this page throughout July.

We fixed the comments so a new window pops up and we hope you feel free to post back. Some other improvements will hopefully be made to the site in between bag packing and other vacation planning duties.

Ok? Ok.

Healthy Competition

Today we were Long Listed for Polaris. It makes us feel proud and it also makes us feel kind of funny. In the last hour we got one Google Alert that said we were the deserving underdog and another that said we were the most over-rated of the bunch.

Either way, thanks to everyone for their congrats. And big high fives to the other bands on the list, and high tens to our close buddies Timber Timbre and Snailhouse.

As for our vote, if we were allowed to make it, I think most of us feel like Chad VanGaalen's record was the best of the year.

What we're really looking forward to is our tour. Please come out to one of the shows! We're gonna be chiseled old people by the time all that driving is over with. The dates, in case you haven't seen 'em, are here...

6/20 - Kingston, ON - Skeleton Park Festival
7/7 - Winnipeg, MB - Pyramid Cabaret *
7/8 - Saskatoon, SK - Walker's Nightclub *
7/9 - Edmonton, AB - Brixx Bar *
7/10 - Calgary, AB - Dicken's *
7/11 - Canmore, AB - Canmore Hotel *
7/13 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret **
7/14 - Victoria, BC - Logan's **
7/15 - Kelowna, BC - Habitat **
7/17 - Regina, SK - O'Hanlan's
7/21 - Montreal, QC - Il Motore ***
7/22 - Quebec City, QC - Le Cercle
7/23 - Ottawa, ON - Cafe Deckuf
7/24 - Guelph, ON - Hillside Festival

* with Rock Plaza Central
** with Jon-Rae Fletcher
*** with My People Sleeping & Snowblink

Beacons, Self-Help,

Hey friends. Some new BP family-related projects to tell you about.

Casey's band ohbijou are releasing album number two tomorrow and we think some serious shit is about to go down for them. We can't think of a more deserving bunch of people. What we've heard of Beacons is absolutely beautiful and everyone involved should be proud of the top-notch fidelity and spot-on playing. It's really lovely music and that's something we all need more of. Visit their myspace for all the pertinent details.

Secondly, we have Self-Help, which was recently released by our bro Thom Gill. It's ultra-smooth and sexy and features some serious guitar work and that trademark slithering coo from the man in the blue pants. We can't find a picture of it. You should just message Thom at myspace and get yourself a copy.

oh, and...

Katie Stelmanis has a new 7" out on Vice / Loog and also Isla Craig is holding her CD release this Saturday at St. Andrew-By-The-Lake on the island. Both of those recordings are off-the-chain too.

Got all that?

Devour the Mountains

Not every day of July is officially stitched up just yet but you can't say we aren't trying. An official announcement for the Western Canada dates below will likely go out tomorrow or the next day, but we figure this is as good a place as any for a scoop.

6/20 - Kingston, ON - Skeleton Park Festival
7/7 - Winnipeg, MB - Pyramid Cabaret *
7/8 - Saskatoon, SK - Walker's Nightclub *
7/9 - Edmonton, AB - Brixx Bar *
7/10 - Calgary, AB - Dicken's *
7/11 - Canmore, AB - Canmore Hotel *
7/13 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret **
7/14 - Victoria, BC - Logan's **
7/15 - Kelowna, BC - Habitat **
7/21 - Montreal, PQ - Il Motore
7/23 - Ottawa, ON - Cafe Deckuf
7/24 - Guelph, ON - Hillside Festival

* with Rock Plaza Central
* with Jon-Rae Fletcher

We couldn't be more excited. We're caught up with a delightfully nervous and mysterious energy. Can't wait to see the towns and cities that litter our country and to meet some of our national brethren.

If you are a friendly type and we've had some kind of effect on you in the last year or two, maybe you should get in touch. At least, we'd love to hear about your favourite place to eat in town or your favourite record store. At most, we'd be ever-grateful to crash on your floor. Please don't hesitate to send us an email if you have some insight on your city that we might not have. brucepeninsula@gmail.com

More dates are coming together and there will surely be more news to come on this in the coming month. Please stay tuned.

xo BP

Scarborough

Going to the lake to reunite.

Going to suburbs to get down to it.

Going to have news about the West shortly.

Go go BP

The Line

We picked a great time to induct Tamara Lindeman as an occasional choir member, didn't we? She starts singing with us just as her own band, the Weather Station, release their beautiful debut.

Tamara and the rest of her band will be playing shows all around this summer and we think you should go see them. Just listening to The Line now and can tell you its a real raw nerve. Why don't you find out for yourself by buying the mp3s or at least listening to the Weather Station at myspace.

In other BP side project news... Andrew is putting the very final touches on his new record Man of Leisure / Man of War. It's release is imminent... Steve recently joined forces with Fuzzy Logic Records for a limited re-release of his Whistle EP and, presumably, some new recordings will be birthed by the newlyweds sometime soon... Casey's new ohbijou record Beacons is just moments from release... Mike, Isla and Katie have new ones coming soon too. Busy year for all the random affiliates of BP, huh?

Tweet

We like to consider ourselves reluctant but saavy when it comes to computer trends. We waited for months before we ended up on Myspace. We actively ran from Facebook but were eventually drawn in.

Well, it's happened again. With much humming and hawing, BP have joined the Twitter generation. It seems a little silly to us but we know a lot of you guys like to check it on your phone when you're on the bus and shit, so we figured it couldn't hurt to join.

We'll try to ramble on it regularly.

http://www.twitter.com/bruce_peninsula
@bruce_peninsula

9pm on a Sunday



6am on a Friday

West coast in July

The dates aren't officially locked in yet, but we can tell you now that we're going out to Vancouver and back in July with our friends in Rock Plaza Central. We'll also do a bunch of things around Ontario in the later portion of the month, but we can't really talk about that stuff yet. We're excited to play a bunch of shows in a row and to see the other side of this beautiful country of ours.

Also, we're trying really hard to get the vinyl version of AMIAM done for then. So far things haven't fallen perfectly into place but we're trying! More news on that soon.

Oh, and if you're in Toronto tonight, Misha, Matt, Neil and Andrew are playing an acoustic set in a little boat in a sandbox in the park at Bellwoods and Dundas. Our friends Rolf from the Acorn and John from the D'urbervilles will also play sets of their own. Come find us around 8pm.

Spring

The last shackles of winter seem to be coming off. Still a little brisk here but the weather has started to allude to some enjoyable nights ahead.

We are lining up our ducks for the summer and, from the outside, it might look like we are hiding out again. Actually, we will be trying to finish up some new jams, putting the final pieces on the 12 inch and getting a solid set in order for when things really start heating up.

We havent yet decided our exact course but we are planning to explore our country a little in July. We will go further than our band has ever gone and spend a lot more time with one another than people reasonably should. More details on that as soon as we have them.

Torontonians, we hope to see you on Saturday. It will be the last for a few months, at least.

Loo, Lee's & King's Town

Lots of people asking about advance tickets for these three shows in March. We'll do our best to run down what we know about those shows here.

--> Waterloo on March 15th w/ Timber Timbre & Hinindar



That's what the Grist Mill looks like. It's damn charming but it's not that big. We hear the capacity is about 70 or 80. We also know that there are no advanced tickets for entry into this magical place. Lots of people have emailed us about this show worried that they won't get in. We don't know what to say about that, really, except come early! Doors are at 8pm.

The Grist Mill is located just to the North of the building at 25 Caroline St North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 2Y5. It's at the South East corner of Waterloo Park (to the immediate North of the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery).


---> Kingston on March 20th w/ Entire Cities & The Gertrudes



Everything you need to know about the Kingston show can be found at the Apple Crisp Fest site here. The show is FREE and it's at a church. Not Dublin St. United as originally planned, but rather at a place called The Next Church, which can be found at 89 Colborne Street. Check the map here.








---> Toronto on March 28th w/ Sister Suvi and Takka Takka

It's funny to be playing a 70-person venue at the start of the month and a 620-person venue at the end. We need everyone in Toronto to come to this! It'll be our last show in town until the summertime. It's also Sister Suvi's CD release party and the first time we'll get to see Takka Takka. It'll be a good time, so please come out. Tickets are $8 and available now at the usual places (Rotate, Soundscapes or even Ticketmaster).

Lots are planned for the days following March but there's not much we can announce just yet. April and May are looking a little low-key but the summer will bring on a storm for Bruce Peninsula. We're very much looking forward to it.

Camera Music

Here are three videos shot by Scott Cudmore for AUX`s Camera Music. A little rough around the edges but a genuine look into a dismantled show night with Bruce Peninsula.

Part I - Peterborough in White



Part II - Banjara Bellies



Part III - Crammed Kitchen

CEE-BEE-CEE / PO-CO HALL

We'll be playing a couple songs on Q on CBC Radio 1 on Friday, Feb 7th. Sometime between 10am and noon. Steve is coming in from Lindsay, Daniela from Fort Eerie and Misha from London. We have to be there at 7:30 am, so I guess its coffee coffee coffee.

We've always wondered what the CBC building looked like inside. Just one more random place we get to explore because we have a new record.

More importantly though, we'd like to let everyone know how entirely thrilled we were by the party on Sunday night. Thank you to all of our friends and family members and neighbours and co-workers (and to all the friendly strangers) for coming out to celebrate A Mountain Is A Mouth with us this weekend (on Oscar night, no less).

To anybody that lended a hand to make it run smoothly and to those that gave us a pat on the back after we played, you made all our work over the past couple years worth it in just one night.

We'll remember that one forever.

Vid-ee-oh

Below is a Youtube clip of Shanty Song and a short interview for a series called Soundcheck, made by a couple guys named Colin Medley and Brad Frenette for the National Post. We popped down to the Distillery District to film it before our soundcheck at the Horseshoe a couple weeks back.

Soon we'll post the stuff we recorded for Scott Cudmore's Camera Music, which is considerably more raw but cool because it gave a chance to get over the dissapointment of the cancelled Peterborough show snow day.

What we've noticed is that these videos are always strange for us to watch. Maybe a 4x4 embedded video player just doesn't do enough to properly portray the way we sound, or maybe it's just that we're sheepish about seeing ourselves on screen because we're normal self-concious human beings.

Either way, a few people have been asking to tape our shows lately and our answer to that will always be yes. We like to get a chance to see them before they end up in one of those little 4x4 screens but generally we feel that, like a leaking record, there's little we can (should?) do to stop it.

Hope you enjoy this and the other things that surface. And feel free to let us know what it looks like from outside the BP bubble. Cause we have no idea.

Public chatter

So, we've been very lucky to get a boatload of press lately, mostly good. Our former fourteen-year-old selves are freaking out about the coverage in Globe & Mail and Pitchfork and the like but the adult us are most flattered with a review on a blog called Obscure Sound. It landed in our Google Alert inbox a couple days ago and, reading through it, we couldn't help but be touched by the time that Mike Mineo has clearly spent with our record and the thoughtful things he had to say in response.

We're well aware that press is just about angles and snappy copy, but every so often something like this comes along and proves that people are truly listening and that music journalism doesn't have to be all superlatives and regurgitated press releases.

Head over to the press section to read Mike's review or hit the direct link here.

Thanks to everyone who has written about us recently. Thanks especially to Mike for proving that, sometimes, you'll find more insight in the small corners of the internet than you will in a traditionally-circulated, supposedly authoritative newspaper.

Dearest Peterborough

We are so sorry we had to turn around on Wednesday. We drove for two hours in the snowy stopped traffic and only got as far as Don Mills and Eglington. We estimate it would have taken 6 hours all in to get to Peterborough. Considering it normally takes about 1.5, you can understand our predicament. Still, we were very upset. We were really looking forward to the show. A make-up date will be announced shortly.

Hopefully folks in London and Toronto and Guelph will come and make us feel better about missing our first show back. Tonight we're at Grooves and Call The Office, Saturday at the Horseshoe and Sunday at Vinyl. It would be nice to see you if you can make it!

Also, we have had lots of good (and bad) press come at us this week. Take a trip over to the Press section of this site to read them. Also, Tuesday is the big release day (but check your local shop because a little birdy told us that some stores have started selling it early).

xo BP

Friends, at home and abroad

A Mountain Is A Mouth will finally see a physical release in Canada this coming Tuesday, February 3rd. We're thrilled that the day is finally upon us. If you live where we live, please come out to a show in February or seek out our record in stores. If you don't find it at your favourite record shop, please tell your friendly clerk that maybe their store should order our record from Outside Distribution.

As for folks outside of Canada, you can order the double deliver (CD+MP3) here, but we realize that it's a bit pricey when you factor in the extra postage. We ask that you please just be patient with us and know that we're working on it.

We're actively trying to find new friends in other countries that could help AMIAM spread it's wings, but it's going to take a little time. Please email us if you have any suggestions for labels or distro companies that might be a good fit.

brucepeninsula@gmail.com

xoxo and thanks for all the love. BP.

two thousand nine

A couple of nice bloggers have included our record in their best of 2008 lists. We are obviously honoured to be included in lists like that but we want to stress that A Mountain Is A Mouth is a 2009 release. The official release date has always been February 3rd.

We chose to release it online in December because putting it out ourselves allows us that freedom and we were sick of waiting... but we won't consider it "out" until we're actually holding copies in our hands.

So, many thanks for the write ups but also sorry to any bands that may have been robbed of a spot on these lists because of our impatience and disregard for traditional release schedules.

xoxo
bp