I’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 in jan/feb and got the bug. Moved down April 1st to dig in for a while – going on 4 months now. Been writing more material towards the next record. Playing some showcases and doing a couple of radio interviews here and there. Favorite venue: The Basement – did a couple of shows there. One on the East side at MadDonna’s another great venue and a couple of things for the Billy Block Show. Dan has been coming down to gig with me and we have had the honor of playing with Bryn Davies – upright bass – check her out on youtube. We did one gig with the awesome Megan McCormick as well. Check out the video.
THE NEW RECORD
It’s is on it’s way – honest, I just decided to dig in a little deeper first – hence Nashville. I recorded 11 songs but I am not feeling the cohesiveness yet so still looking. Will keep you in the loop. I am thinking about the UK as well for a while. It’s got to feel right.
THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER
War Child Video: Check it out spread the word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lTcxwyUSuA
THE LIAM TITCOMB WAR CHILD TOUR
Coast to Coast Busking Tour generated… over $50,000
All proceeds went to War Child Canada.
We did it! Free concerts across the country and YOUR DONATIONS brought in over $50,000. We are so grateful.
Check out the Liam Titcomb Blog BELOW for the full story with videos and blogs start to finish.
http://www.liamtitcomb.com/warchild CAN WE MAKE THIS JUMP Down??
BORROWED TUNES
I 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. A lot of great people took part in the project headed up by Mike Roth.
MAILING LIST & KEEPING IN TOUCH
Sorry, 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. :-)
TO GO BACK IN TIME… Look up. Either click on “OLDER” or move the button TO THE LEFT towards page 1…there you go!
HANGING OUT IN NASHVILLE, TN. I’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.
THE NEW RECORD It’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.
THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER War Child Video: Check it out spread the word.
THE LIAM TITCOMB WAR CHILD TOUR Coast to Coast Busking Tour generated… over $50,000
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”
BORROWED TUNES I 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
MAILING LIST & KEEPING IN TOUCH Sorry, 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. :-)
That’s all. Just amazed again. There are 5 pages of Tour stored in the archives if you have interest in starting at the beginning. Because we started immediately into the NEW record process when we arrived in Toronto – I didn’t even take time to digest it.
2 highs back to back.
Life is good.
Ok, I know, I still have the Hugh’s Room final show to post. Then there were a couple of other dates I did with War Child as the focus with the Peel Region School Board – 4800 high school and junior high school kids one day and 1700 the next. A remarkable thing happened on the second day that I am going to get to… as soon as I can edit the video footage.
Then there was the gig at York U…
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.
And here it is, the final province of the tour… British Columbia.
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.
Believe me, I’m very aware of how late these last few posts are… Buuut, they finally coming! We’ll just pretend that I’m still on the road, shall we?
Alberta, the wild west. We had a very moving, busy couple of days in Alberta. Started it all off in Edmonton with a CBC radio morning show. If you’re gonna get an early start on the day, might as well do it right, eh? One of the lovely CBC peeps, Chris Martin, booked our noon hour busk for us across the street from them in Churchill Square. Thank you Chris! We had a lovely show in the square, packed up as fast as possible and zipped to CKUA for another live interview. This time with the fantastic Monica Miller. CKUA is probably the best independent radio station in the country, check it out HERE. After that, we had enough time to grab a quick nap and then it was time for a sound check at The Haven Social Club. The old man, Dan and I played a really fun show there and eventually collapsed into bed. Post late night pizza snack, of course…
The next morning we were off to Red Deer to play at the Michener Centre. It’s an incredible facility for the developmentally delayed. They have a little over 300 people of all ages living there. One hundred of them showed up for our show and treated us with rapt and enthusiastic attention. We’ve never played to a more appreciative audience. A seriously mind blowing experience. They also raised more than 300 dollars for the cause, which was seriously moving to say the least. Later on, we played a show at the local music club ‘The Vat’. It’s owned by Terry, a great music lover and a good man. Thanks for hosting us Terry! After the show, we drove into Calgary and grabbed a few winks before our next big day.
Calgary started with some early morning Breakfast TV. A couple of other interviews for the station and eventually we scooted down to 17th to set up our noon hour busk. There was a lovely crowd for the whole show. Some constructions workers even ate their lunch while they watched. Very lovely day. But we weren’t finished yet, we still had to play two sets at a private party on the patio of the ‘Melrose Cafe’. They threw a great party with food and wine, auctioned off a BBQ and gave ALL the money to War Child!! A perfect finale to 3 of the craziest days on the tour if you ask me…
Anyway, here’s the video of course…
-Liam
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