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New music, new pictures, new everything!! Coming soooooon….

-L

-Liam

P.S. They’re both serious hams…

If you guys ever post some cool video on YouTube from one of my shows, feel free to contact me and let me know!! Love this stuff…

-L

TO GO BACK IN TIME… Look up. Either click on “OLDER” or move the button TO THE LEFT towards page 1…there you go! viagra news

viagra newsI’ve been coming down here a few times a year since 2004. I love it for the creativity. Was down to write for a couple of weeks at the end of January and got the bug. Came down April 1st to dig in for a while – been going back and forth for 4 months now. Writing towards the next record. Playing some showcases and doing a couple of radio interviews here and there. Dan came down a couple of times to play with me and we had the honor of playing with Bryn Davies (upright bass) and Megan McCormick (guitar) – check these girls out on youtube. Killer.

viagra newsIt’s on it’s way – I just decided to dig in a little deeper first – hence Nashville. I recorded 11 songs but I am not feeling the cohesiveness yet. Will keep you in the loop. I am thinking about the UK as well for a while. It’s got to feel right.

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All proceeds went to War Child Canada. Check out the archives for the full story – what a ride… with videos and pics start to finish. Here’s a clip from the homecoming show encore at Hugh’s Room. “Give Peace A Chance”

viagra newsI am part of the new Neil Young compilation “Borrowed Tunes” that was just released  I covered “Bandit” a song I absolutely love. Artists include: Ron Sexsmith, Chantel Kreviazuk, Raine Maida, Bare Naked Ladies,  Dala, etc. Headed up by Mike Roth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMPuuV85aro

viagra newsSorry, we had a glitch with the mailing list when we switched to this site. To stay in touch you must sign upagain – not complicated… TOP LEFT – thanks so much. Will let you know when the new record is ready. You will NOT be inundated with email.  :-)

BUT! Since I’ve arrived back in Toronto I have been writing grants, planning, setting up, renting space, finding the right musicians and finishing up the writing for the new record. Yeah, a little side tracked. Sorry.

We have been recording since the first of November. I’m pretty thrilled. The plan was to keep you all informed daily while we were in the studio but as usual – the days are too full and the focus is the music so I will have to give you all the overview soon.

BC was beautiful from beginning to end. Starting with lovely Golden where the weather couldn’t decide whether it wanted to rain or not but held out until our busk was finished… To sunny Victoria where my 12 year old friend Sarah surprised me by showing up and delivering over $300 she had raised for the tour by selling homemade earrings and bracelets all summer!

Nat Jay joined us in Kelowna and played the rest of the gigs with us. Added a nice new dimension to our newly founded habitual touring ways.

My family clan took over in Vancouver at The Mill when both sides of my west coast relatives showed up and my cousin Kevin played bass on a couple tunes too! Very funny to look out at 50 percent family in between the strangers.

All in all, BC was a bitter sweet wrap up to an incredible journey. We were tired and ready to go home but at the same time, very sad to stop. Once you work that hard for 2 months doing good work, there’s a certain part of you that just doesn’t want to stop!

I would like to thank every person that listened, every person that threw in money, every person that fed us or put us up, every person that gave us a hug, every person that just said thank you, all the media, the musicians, the friends, the family and EVERYONE else who made this epic fundraiser possible AND an incredible success. In the end, once we had arrived home and played our homecoming gig at Hugh’s Room… Together (including you and you and you), we raised a little over $50,000 for War Child Canada. An INCREDIBLE feat. War Child was beside themselves and very grateful. Here’s some examples of the kinds of things $50,000 can do… It can build TWO schools… It can build THREE youth centres…. It can even give THIRTY mothers (of children affected by war) a micro loan to start their own personal business to support themselves and make their children’s lives better. All of that because a couple thousand people across this great country decided to be generous. To stand up and throw whatever they could afford into a white bucket. Amazing. Thank you.

We did it.

-Liam