"i'd lay my head on the railroad tracks"

February 6th

Calgary, Alberta:

THE CITY STREETS w/

EAMON McGRATH & THE WILD DOGS

@ The Palomino

See you down south.

Love,

The Wild Dogs.

"look out mama there's a white boat comin up the river"

Booking a tour is like a game of Battleship. So far we've got two hits in Guelph and Windsor. May 9 we play the Attic at 14 Northumberland which is one of the best venues I've ever played. May 10 we play the Phog Lounge again, those guys are fucking nice dudes. Windsor is a party town too. Last time I was there I hit hash blades until about 5 a.m. Here's to another night around a stove and another trip around the continent.

Love,

The Wild Dogs.

"mindless drifter on the road"

Friday, February 13th

THE WILD DOGS

w/ Dropping Out

& Gold Rush

....and maybe one more.

@ NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE

We've got a few surprises for this show. See you there.

Love,

The Wild Dogs.

"i don't believe in an interventionist god"

This is the face of a man who has undertaken the rigorous task of booking another tour. We're heading out again in May, again with the City Streets and it's going to be another chaotic whirlwind around North America. I've just got to finish a term of school--also known as "rehab"--before I flood my system again with the "joys" of living below the poverty line.

See you tonight at the Likwid Lounge. We're playing some new stuff.

Hang in there Mutt.




Love,
The Wild Dogs.

"red soaked cloud at my blood shot eye"

Edmonton's SEE Magazine had some pretty nice words to say about us in their year-end recap list. Check it out online here.

"To the surprise of pretty much no one, this hometown kid just couldn’t sit still for long. Between tours and releasing records at an alarming rate of speed last year, everyone’s favourite E returned home to blow the roof off Wunderbar."

- Fawnda Mithrush

"Everyone around Edmonton knows this prolific young musician, and his name is gaining recognition elsewhere. With his albums in constant rotation at CJSR, there’s no excuse for having not heard him. But if you haven’t, do yourself a favour and check him out."

- Mike Deane

Thanks for the good year guys. Take it easy and good luck in 2009.

Love,

The Wild Dogs.

"everywhere i go i take a little piece of you"

Easily one of the best live sets I saw in 2008, the Italian Husbands--featuring my good friends Jake Hardy a.k.a. Holzkopf and Trevor Rutley of Gold Rush--tore the roof of the Wunderbar with an improvised Soft Cell cover. The beat is heavier than all hell and Jake's vocals escalate into madness. This sounds like the best death ever. The place had a lump in its throat and choked on the noise. Jake has since moved to Vancouver and this was one of his last Edmonton shows. Download the track here.

Check out the Italian Husbands website at belgravianblues.blogspot.com

The Italian Husbands - "Memorabilia"

Live at the Wunderbar, October 2008

Love,

The Wild Dogs.

"when i was seventeen it was a very good year"

Eamon McGrath and the Wild Dogs- Here She Comes

Here's one from the archives: I just dug up this video of us playing what must be our third show, but it's the first show as the Wild Dogs as they are now. It's definitely Frank's first show with the band. Even though this was probably two years ago we all look fourteen years old and I don't think we all really knew the songs yet. It looks like I've still got my baby fat. Nobody had any idea who the fuck we were. Mark wasn't even in the band, the drummer here is Corin Roddick who left after two more shows or something. This was from a show with Slow Down, Molasses from Saskatoon, who came up to us afterwards and said we reminded them of the Black Lips. Frankie and I were slamming Olympia in the back alley before the show and we played with a post-rock band who booked us thinking it was going to be a folk set because I had only played acoustic shows in Edmonton up until that point.

Love,

The Wild Dogs.