David Jones from the upcoming album Stars Blue Wheel
Video Premiere: Carlo What Do You Dream
New video animated by Carlo Spidla, the very Carlo from the song and one of my dearest pals, is premiering today on Spill Magazine. Edited by another of my dearest pals, Duff Smith, a true raw doggy. Featuring animated appearances by Pat Bass Latreille, Michael Feuerstack, Pietro Amato, Jeffrey Malecki, and invisibly, Stef Schneider. Also, the glorious, shabby town of Montreal is all over it.
Also, check it out, this song made it on Said the Gramophone’s best songs of 2017.
SHABBYTOWN out May 12
Sainte Cécile| Spotify | iTunes | Apple | Bandcamp
JAMES IRWIN’S 3rd album, SHABBYTOWN is a record about a particular Montreal.
SHABBYTOWN Tour Dates:
May 19 Montreal @ Bar le Ritz PDB w/ Alexia Avina + Cedric Noel
May 20 Ottawa @ Bar Robo w/ Beth and Soft Life
May 23 Peterborough @ Garnet w/ Carodiaro & Ben Rough
May 26 Toronto @ Burdock w/ L Con & EONS
May 28 Hamilton @ This Ain’t Hollywood w/ Delta Days
June 3, London @East Village Arts Collective w/Dan Edmonds & Jenny Berkel
SHABBYTOWN was tracked live off the floor over four days in Spring 2015. The band was ¾ of The Luyas – Pietro Amato, Stefan Schneider, Michael Feurstack—and Pat Bass Latreille. Patrick Gregoire (Pat Jordache) engineered and mixed. Maya Kuroki, Maica Armata (Carodiaro), and Lisa Conway (L Con, Del Bel) added guest vocals. Adam Kinner added sax.
Track List
First of May
Carlo What Do You Dream
Pink Noise
Shabbytown
Natural Feeling
Blonde Tobacco
Swarms
Sweet Light (For Katherine)
New Video by Hannah Fleet
This is the 3rd, and last, beauty video by Montreal director Hannah Fleet from the Unreal album. This one, for the song A Wave is a Wild Thing is premiering on Exclaim this week.
Check out the other vidEOS by Hannah for Did You Hear Who Shot Sam, and Sahra, and for Everything Passed Me By by Derrick Belcham HERE.
Unreal Now Out On Sainte Cécile
So happy to say Unreal is now out on Sainte Cécile, a digital wing of Montreal label Dare to Care Records.
You can buy Unreal on iTunes and buy/stream it on all the other web whatevers. You can also still buy the CD via bandcamp.
Un gros merci à Eli et Gabrielle et tout l’équipe à Sainte Cécile.
Sean Michaels’s Globe & Mail Sendup
I moved to Toronto. Oops. Before I left Montreal we had a send off show with all these guys at Snack and Blues and Sean Michaels wrote this amazing sendup in the Globe & Mail.
New Video for Did You Hear Who Shot Sam? by Hannah Fleet
This awesome video by Montreal artist Hannah Fleet was premiered here by Italian site Indie-Eye.
James Irwin – Did You Hear Who Shot Sam from Hannah Fleet on Vimeo.
Spring Tour Dates!
Playing some festivals and going to Europe this spring! Are you in one of these places? More summer tour dates coming…
May 7 – Toronto, Ontario | CMW Showcase @ Cadillac Lounge
Europe Tour May 2015
May 14 – Paris, France @ Le Pop In (W/ The Still Tide)
May 15 – Brest, France @ Cube à Ressort
May 19 – Bordeaux, France @ TBA (W/ Galen Hartley)
May 20 – Montpelier, France @ Atelier –1 (W/ Galen Hartley)
May 21 – Lyon, France @ Kraspek Myzik (W/ Beauty Camp)
May 22 – Dijon, France @ House Show
May 23 – Brescia, Italy @ Home General Store (everywheregigs.com)
May 24 – Padua, Italy @ “En plein air”, Anfiteatro del Venda
May 26 – Pordenone, Italy @ Amici di Bambi
May 28 – Grenoble, France @ Bauhaus Bar (W/ Beauty Camp)
May 30 – Nancy, France @ Off Kultur / Home Sweet Home Session
May 31 – Paris, France @ House Show
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June 19 – Toronto, Ontario | NXNE @ Handlebar (W/ Pat Jordache, L.A Foster, Inside Touch)
July 8 – Montreal, Quebec @ Casa del Popolo (W/ Bertrand Belin)
New Videos
Sahra
(from Unreal, directed by Hannah Fleet, 2015)
Everything Passed Me By
(from Unreal, directed by Derrick Belcham, 2014)
New Album Unreal Premieres
New Album Unreal premiering now on Exclaim.ca in its entirety NOW.
Kinda pretty super psyched for album launches in Montreal and Toronto Jan 22/23
Interview up on Cult Montreal here.
Goes up on iTunes tomorrow. You can buy it Digital or on CD at Bandcamp NOW
I sleep now….
