Alright, our part is done. It was cool. Thanks to those who came out to the show at Broken City. Go have fun at the rest of the festival. Check www.sledisland.com for tickets and schedule details.
Our next gig in Cowtown if July 11 at the Hi Fi. That's Stampede Week. Ghostkeeper is opening. We like them much. You should, too. See our gig listings for the link. We've got some other exciting shows in Calgary this summer to make up for our lack of local performances. On August 15, we play a rare all-ages gig. It's part of the CJSW summer concert series at Olympic Plaza. ALL AGES are welcome and it's free.
One week later, we'll be doing a momentous collaboration with Eugene Chadbourne, legendary undergournd roots and experimental musician. That's right. The author of "They Can Make It Rain Bombs" and the AMGC will play together for two nights at the Ironwood Stage and Grill, August 20 and 21. More details will be posted in a week or two.
In other news, we send out a big thanks to the United Steelworkers of Montreal for setting up our show at La Divan Orange in Montreal this June. They kicked monumental butt on their home turf. Check them out when you can.
Speaking of the eastern provinces, thanks to those who came out to the Ontario and Quebec shows. A few of you told us you had been waiting years to see us. We apologize. It won't be so long a wait next time.
Sorry for these short, Hemmingway-eque sentences. We're down to business; no rhino hunting, though. At some point we'll return to better prose. And we'll stop apologizing.
Video, a Big Sell-Out
With much aplomb and excitement, we present the video "Empire State Express"! Enjoy. No animals were harmed.
Yes, Ten Thousand is now available in the said European countries. This means you - Germans, Dutch, and French humans - can walk right into a CD shop and buy it rather than order it by mail. Do it today! Tres bien! Tres bien!
Guitar Solos? Yes!
Bob made a guest appearance on the new Cripple Creek Fairies CD War Amps. They're old friends, they invited him to pick up his electric guitar again and he obliged for two songs. Hear him match six string wits with Jackson Phibes of Calgary horror rockers Forbidden Dimension on "Cold Hard Ground".
www.youtube.com/user/AgnosticMGC
Yeah, we're slack about touring. Schedules create problems that prevent us from doing it more often. Apologies to those who ask us when we're going to play their cities. Fans have posted some our performances on Youtube. This kind of floors us. It's a small consolation, but if you want to see us playing live we've collected the fan footage in one place, the Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir Youtube Channel. There, you'll find excerpts from small clubs in London and Belfast as well as snippets from big festivals in England and Scotland, including footage we edited from our performance at the Big Chill Festival. That's the biggest show we've played to date; I mean, 10,000-people-in-the-audience big. Our newest contribution is a rare, long-lost, self-produced, video for St. Hubert, the title track of our first CD. Warning, it's cheeky.
Another BBC Recording Session 2008
We did it again. Mark Lamarr had us back for another session and interview. The conversation was bizarre. The music was fast. It aired September 6, 2008. Missed it? Sorry. Look at the archives on the God's Jukebox web site for consolation. It sounded really good, too. Props to the engineers.
Photo of the Month
Nothing makes Vlad happier than rubbing shoulders with celebrities. I mean, literally rubbing shoulders with them. He always asks first so they won't feel uncomfortable about it. He's a big fan of CKUA radio. Imagine his excitement when Baba of Baba's Grooves came out to our last show in Edmonton. Could Vlad resist a photo op? Absolutely not. Actually, we were all pretty chuffed he came out to our show. If you haven't heard it, check out his show at www.ckua.org.
Blog of the Month
If you're a fan of celebrity hijinx, you may have paid attention to Billy Bob Thornton's Man Who Wasn't There routine on CBC Radio One's Q. We stumbled upon the NXEW blog's response to Thornton's putdown of Canada and were thrilled to see they included the AMGC as a response to his comments. Read it here and check out some other Canadian music.
Photo of the Month Submissions
Sick of the same damn pictures on this web site? Got a picture of us that isn't incriminating? Send it to us. We'll post it and give you credit. You can feel good about making the site just a bit more entertaining for other visitors. Some fans have already posted Agnostic MGC photos at www.flikr.com. If you think we ought to post your flikr pic here, let us know. If you e-mail us a photo please make it as web ready as possible, that is, at least, under 50 kb and 450 by 330 pixels.
Same goes for Blog of the Month. Dig?
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