If you haven’t messaged Eug or myself for advance tix, better do so! We only have a handful left. You can email us at info@mysisterocean.com too.
We’ll be shooting a portion of the evening for the upcoming “Can I Buy You a Drink” music video, which will combine live clips with some cool additional visuals we’ve dreamed up. Bring your best pickup lines too for your shot to be in the video!
Doors @ 9pm. 18+. Hope to see you there!
Next weekend, I’ll be in the studio with the Rockstar 101 Songwriting Contest winners, Parachute Penguin. We’ll be tracking their new song, then shooting a video for it in the following weeks.
In addition to that, The Autograph EP will finally be released nationally and online, with an additional 2 songs – including one brand new track called Can I Buy You a Drink which will be the first single.
Tour information to follow, but for now, MSO has confirmed 2 Edmonton shows in May. (Starlite Room May 1st with Lipht and September Stone [Benefit show], and May 23rd at The Urban Lounge [PARTY NIGHT!].
A contest will be announced quite soon as well – keep your eyes peeled!
Sorry for the lack of posts!
If you are a frequenter of this particular URL holdendaniels.wordpress.com, but don’t actually follow me on Twitter, then you’re not getting updated that often. My apologies.
Also, I used to blog thinking that no one I knew was reading it – but now that it gets imported into Facebook and it shows up in feeds, etc, then I’m more reluctant to say what’s on my mind. I guess this blog used to be more of a random thoughts things (with MSO updates of course), but since I can post random thoughts as a status update now, it’s fallen quite behind.
So – let me catch you up.
This year my wife is still on maternity leave until September. I’m supporting the family (wife and 2 daughters) with video and audio work. It’s been a lot of fun and a lot of work. I’m a night owl but my family isn’t, so that means I’m tired a lot.
My Sister Ocean released an EP (locally) on Feb 13th, 2009 at The Urban Lounge. Over 400 people showed up, which made me very happy as we’ve been playing to 100 people (or less) at the Urban Lounge for a decade. It made me think about how success for some bands come easier than others – but due to perseverance, we finally had a good payoff moment. It’s one thing to open for bigger artists and play to their crowd (which is awesome), but it’s another thing to know that a show with your name on the marquee was a successful one. (Now it’s just a matter of duplicating it in more cities around the world!)
We’re releasing a new single soon. Working out some details but we hope to have it out in a few weeks.
I’ve been doing more audio production with singer/songwriters – it lends itself well to the home studio setup. I still like to bring full bands to Powersound. Speaking of that, one of the bands I’ve worked with (Jezibelle) reached #4 at the U of T campus station. I’m happy for ‘em! (They beat my band that reached #9 on that station in October 08).
Our trip to CMW 2009 was awesome. (We won the Canadian Radiostar Songwriting Contest in Edmonton and were flown to Toronto for free to attend CMW 2009. We also won in 2007.) We got to hang out with tons of the up and coming bands in the indie scene as well and meet and greet with some cool industry peeps. One thing about CMW this year that was different for me on a personal level was that in 2007, we were pretty overwhelmed by everything and was just starting to do radio promo and promote Nucularboy. Since then we’ve achieved some minor success and have charted in the Top 40 in some markets, so this time around I really noticed the desperation that many of these bands were exuding, and the lack of originality from almost everybody! At any rate, my business success helped me look at everything from a different angle this time, and Eug and I really got more out of it this time.
We also did a photo shoot with a smokin photog named Brooks Reynolds (I met him last year working on a job together and was hoping the band would get a chance to work with him). http://www.brooksreynolds.com/ I’ve always loved his Ten Second Epic photos, and he also did a cover shoot for Tegan and Sara. His portfolio is outstanding.
Our photos are up on http://www.mysisterocean.com
So – other than that, still just working on band stuff as usual and doing audio/video stuff to pay the bills.
You can also follow me on Twitter. http://twitter.com/holdendaniels
In this edition:
1. MSO is charting
2. EP Release Party – Feb 13th
3. The Rockstar 101 Songwriting Contest
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1. My Sister Ocean is climbing up the national rock chart for the
first time in their history…
The latest single “Let’s Drink To Us” is getting some spins across
the country and we need your help getting some more!
Whatever Canadian city you live in, your local station has the song.
Email them, call them, or do whatever you can to let them know you
want to hear it!
If for some bizarre reason they don’t have it, tell us. But we know
they do…
Help the band get to the Top 40 in your town!
These cities in particular have shown lots of love to MSO in the last
few weeks/months:
Barrie, ON (MSO charted in Top 40)
Regina, SK (MSO currently charting in Top 40 – #38 . )
Moncton, NB (MSO charted in Top 40)
Winnipeg, MB (MSO charted in Top 40)
Edmonton, AB (MSO was featured recently on Farm Fresh on Sonic FM -
and Light Rotation on CJSR)
Toronto, ON (MSO peaked @ #9 at U of T)
Trois Rivieres, QC (Light rotation)
Lethbridge, AB (Light Rotation)
Please help MSO climb the national rock chart by spreading the word!
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2. EP RELEASE PARTY
Yes, friends… 6 new tracks from MSO will be released on February
13th.
The release party will be at The Urban Lounge in Edmonton.
Supporting MSO will be:
PORTAL
FENIX FOUNDATION
FLATLINED (from Ontario)
There will be plenty of giveaways and loads of great fun. Tell your
friends!
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3. The Rockstar 101 Songwriting Contest
Head to http://www.oddballproductions.ca
Click on the Rockstar 101 link.
Holden is a judge and producer in this killer contest that will see
one lucky Edmonton band win a free single and music video!
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Happy New Year… Hope your 2009 is enjoyable and rocktastic.
Thanks again for the continued support! Get those requests happening!
2 new music videos and a contest for your perusal…
New My Sister Ocean video:
New Jezibelle video:
The Rockstar 101 Songwriting Contest
Facebook Links for each vid:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1020020755266
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1019907392432
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1019869631488
For more information about The Rockstar 101 Songwriting Contest, check out: www.oddballproductions.ca
So, I’m locked out of my account for some unknown reason…
The funny thing is, my account still works on my iPhone – but it works in a weird way. I can see all activity but no one can see me. Like, I can write a wall post, and you’ll get the email (if you have the preference set), but it won’t show up on your wall… No one can see my status, etc… It’s funny/annoying.
Anyway – if you have any tips for how I can get enabled, let me know. I’ve emailed the usual channels (info, appeals, disabled @ facebook.com), but no response yet…
QUITE annoying with a video release party coming up and all the photos, videos I’ve posted…
Anyway – if they don’t enable me, I’ll just create another account. What a bunch of lame-o’s.
Mixed a new My Sister Ocean song for the next release…
Directed a music video for Edmonton band Jezibelle.
It was a short week (thanks to Thanksgiving). Didn’t fully finish mixing the new tune but it’s 95% there. The video shoot went well and now I’ll be editing the video. Watching the footage tonight from the shoot and thinking it’s gonna be a great video. Can’t wait to have it edited and ready to hit the general public. It’s a great song and I’m happy to have been part of both the recording of the song and now the making of the video.
Up this week: gonna be doing some more recording for the next release and editing the Jezibelle video. Definitely gotta try to sleep this week – I find when I edit music videos or record songs I can go for 24 hours straight or more (which ultimately results in 2 days of lethargy). So, this week I will try to pace myself.
I had a chance to see the 1st cut of the video for Let’s Drink to Us and I’m happy to say that it’s pretty good!
This being the first time I didn’t direct, I wasn’t sure what I’d think of the edit. But now I’m just excited to get the video out into the masses…
Keep posted…
Oh, also, My Sister Ocean has a special appearance in January at the Dow Centennial Center in Ft. Saskatchewan, joining Cara Albo for her special show on the 24th.
