"hang down your head for sorrow"

Our tour in July with the City Streets is shaping up, here's what's booked so far:

WHISKEY BURNOUT BASEMENTS 2008

July 3 - O'Hanlons - Regina, SK

July 4 - Billy House - Minot, ND

July 5 - Baba Louie's - De Pere, WI

July 6 - Nottingham Coop - Madison, WI

July 9 - The Boat - Toronto, ON

July 11 - Centre St Ambroise - Montreal, QB

July 12 - The Townhouse - Sudbury, ON

July 14 - Reptile Palace - Oshkosh, WI

July 16 - Terminal Bar - Minneapolis, MN

More dates to be added as they come. Here is the album we'll be supporting in July, soon to be out on Champion City:

Eamon McGrath - "Wild Dogs" (Champion City Records, 2008)

An album full of love songs and frozen desperation, torn between noise and industry; folk music that claws its way to the surface from the belly of the world. 300 copies, silkscreened covers, art by Lando Speers. Copies can be found at the merch booths across Canada.

Love. The Wild Dogs.

"the eye you lost in the crusades"

In Toronto an awesome guy named Matt Chaloux introduced himself and took some amazing photos of the set I played. He's an incredible photographer. The band for this set backing me wasn't the normal lineup of the Wild Dogs: the drummer is Jeremy Finkelstein and the bass player is Chris Mullen, two Toronto musicians who learned the songs while I was on a plane flying east and who had one practice with me for an hour the day before the show. It was loud as hell and they're some of the best musicians I've ever met. 

Out east soundguys are fine with not mixing you and pegging the PA to the red so the vocals are a distorted wall of sludge and bars and promoters don't complain to people about how loud you are the day after you play there, especially when the bar is packed, you're encouraging people to buy their fucking booze, and you're lining the wallet of somebody whose job it is to find a way to weasel himself into paying you as little as he can. Toronto is awesome, and music doesn't piss anybody off there. Go figure. It just goes to show that there are people out there putting on shows who still understand rock and roll. In Edmonton, his name is Cecil Frena and he runs Push-Pins. Email him for shows, this guy is the shit and will probably book you in a heartbeat.

Thank you Matt for the photos, thanks to Jeremy for not only putting on the show but also playing at it, and thanks to Chris for the same. Check out the rest of the photos from the set here, and look at the rest of Matt's photos, he's the shit.

Love. The Wild Dogs.

"i want a range life if i could settle down"

We're playing at the Black Dog on May 18, it's part of some Sleeman's festival or something. All day insanity, on a Sunday. We play at 6:45 pm. Hopefully you can get Monday off and drink yourself into the new week.

Also here's a mix of some of our favourite songs to play on the road.

The Wild Dogs - Road Show Mixtape 05/11/2008

01 Gram Parsons - Return of the Grievous Angel

02 Eric's Trip - Anytime You Want

03 The Germs - Lexicon Devil

04 Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna

05 The Clean - Anything Could Happen

06 Charged GBH - Sick Boy

07 Paul Westerberg - It's A Wonderful Lie

08 Guided By Voices - King and Caroline

09 Blind Willie Johnson - Lord I Just Can't Keep From Crying

10 Hot Snakes - Our Work Fills the Pews

11 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band -  Moonlight on Vermont

12 Nina Nastasia & Jim White - I've Been Out Walking

Download this sucka here.

Love. The Wild Dogs.

"someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else"

Eamon McGrath - Pink Film - Sweet Dreams Motel Tour Edition CDR

Twenty special edition copies of Eamon McGrath’s Pink Film, reproduced and packaged on the highway between Regina and Winnipeg. Drawn on the steering wheel of a ’99 Pontiac Sunfire. Complete with rolling papers and a spent match. Art that moves at 110 km/h! Some copies are still around. Email the Wild Dogs if you want one, and Cassettes Records will send one your way.

eamon_mcgrath[at]yahoo.ca

www.myspace.com/eamonmcgrath

cassettesrecords.googlepages.com

www.myspace.com/cassettesrecords

That was a crazy tour. 11 whirlwind days from one end of Canada to the other. Thanks to Jeremy, Peter, Kira, Mary and the CHRY folks in Toronto. Thanks to Con in Montreal. Thanks to Johnny and Gerrard in Winnipeg, but Jones, you can kiss my ass. Thanks to Meagan and Phil and the dudes at CFCR in Saskatoon.

Heading out again on the road in July with the City Streets. It'll be nice to see some of these faces again.

Love. The Wild Dogs.

"once i had mountains in the palm of my hand"

This is a beautiful city.