this is an...

unnecessary blog update.

-kevin.

You had the most ridiculously intense face!

Winter is finally here. There's actually snow on the ground and its cold outside. Aside from snow, the cold, and people bitching about the snow and cold, December also brings the joyous final exams, which Todd and Matt have been really busy with for the past little while. As a result, all things Cope will be going at a snails pace until the new year. 

As far as the EP goes... i'll only be repeating myself. I'm not going to mention it anymore until its actually out and ready sell. Its done, we need to package it, if you read this blog, you'll be the first to know.

Currently, we've been writing for our 12" collaboration with St. Gilles that Just Say No! records is putting out. We've all been pretty excited about the music that has miraculously been, and continues to be coming out from writing jams. The songs are far more technical and far better written then the songs we've been playing for the past year and we're looking forward to playing these new songs as soon as possible.

Speaking of Just Say No!, you should check out the JSN! blog. I'll be making little Cope updates from time to time on there so look out for those.

That's all i can really think of right now.

Take care,

-Durell

Oh Messy Life

I got asked to do vocals in a pop punk band featuring the kids from this machine is... . Here is the result. Also, because i'm lazy, i'm just going to post OML updates on here rather than make a whole new blog.

Enjoy the tuneskis.

-Durell

I Dread The Winter Even More Now

I just wanted to throw this picture on here because we, as well as the dudes in Hominid (sans Sam) look like we're sane and not completely disgusting individuals. This picture was taken outside Home Sweet Home when Hominid and ourselves played there this past summer with Punch. 

Also, FINALLY, the ep is finally mixed and now we just have to figure out the packaging, which will be totally DIY and homemade because we are cheap, cheap, assholes. Also because we like adding a personal touch on what we do. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the ep will be available at our next show, whenever that should be.

That's it.

-Durell

Photos from HallO)))ween

Our good friend Travis Logan took some fantastic looking photos of our halloween cover set as Sunn O))). Here are a couple of my favorites.







You can check out the rest of the photos here.


See you guys on Sunday at the Black Ships show.


-Durell

"I guess people in back seats are more prone to jump out the window..."I'm in the back? Fuck this!""

I'm being really lazy with updating this things, but at the same time, not much has been going on. 

We played the halloween cover show last night as Sunn O))) and i would have to say that it went pretty well. We got a lot of positive feedback and a lot of "it was creepy" comments, which i think were the best compliments as it was a halloween show and that was our ultimate goal. Thank you to everyone who played with us and everyone who came out on halloween, considering i'm sure that there were many other festivities taking place last night.

In upcoming show news, we have two shows in the month of November. One with a terrific band, on November 9th, known as Black Ships, hailing from Montreal, and with our good friends Gift Eaters. The other, the next day on November 10th, with Drown Out, hailing from BC. We hope to have at least one new song from the St. Gilles split ready to play for these shows, so come out and wreck some shit with us.

For months, MONTHS, i have been saying "the ep is almost done".... It's almost done, all we have to do is master it. You have to understand, we are perfectionists, the mixing process was a long and tedious one, and many thanks goes out to Steve and his much appreciated patience.

Here are the posters for the two November shows.

Ca c'est tous.

-Durell

...We'll just stay inside, and play Donkey Kong

I did an interview with Taylor of Just Say No! records. Here it is, enjoy!

We have two new songs written for the 12" collab with St. Gilles. We are incredibly excited about these new songs and hope you will be too when we play them in November with Black Ships. More info on that as soon as possible.

Final mixing on the Ep is in progress. It will be available soon.... hopefully.

-Durell "poo-ass" smith.

EDIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are the very noisy live tracks we did on our radio interview for cjsr.

i feel its a more accurate representation of what we sound like...not that our recordings dont represent what we sound like..... but they just dont have that loud feel to them.. these are almost too loud.... also, its not that i'm trying to represent... i know people can get hurt or even killed should they feel the need to prove themselves or "reprazent" in situations.........just download these.

or better yet come to a show.

http://rapidshare.com/files/150805773/Live_Tracks.zip.html

also

this is our summer tour demo.

3 unfinished songs with fancy packaging sold to people in Saskatchewan/Alberta and BC so we could pay for gas on our summer tour. enjoy?...

http://rapidshare.com/files/150807916/tour_demo.rar.html

a-a-a-a-also ...new songs soon.

Totally, Total, Totally

This is what has/is happening in the Cope camp of doom and despair.

On Tuesday September 16th, we will be doing an on air performance and interview on the radio show "Bringin' It Down" on CJSR radio. If you want to hear us make humongous asses of ourselves, you can tune in at 88.5 FM or online at http://www.cjsr.com.

On Friday October 31st, we are very excited to be playing the xtruex Halloween show! The entire show will consist of bands covering other bands. For example, we will be donning the grimm robes of Sunn O))). More info and a complete bands list will be made available soon.

We are currently in the works of putting together a weekend tour with our friends in Gift Eaters. More on that soon.

The ep... is almost done. We had to take a break from mixing due to tour and people being out of town, but we're back at it and hopefully it will be done soon.

That's it for now.

-Durell

I love home sweet home. Seriously... Lana and Sonki are super rad! Seriously...

We, as well as our friends in Hominid, will be featured in a video zine made by the wonderful people that live and put shows on at a Calgary house named "Home sweet home". Here's the official word from Home sweet home.

"BASEMENTS ARE THE ONLY WAY

that's the name of our video zine with footage from all the homesweethome shows this summer. it will be available at the LEPER show Oct 2.

it will include at least a couple songs from,

DEAD DOGS
THE MOTHERFUCKERS
MIND CONTROL
MODERN PROBLEMS
THE THROWAWAYS
WASTOIDS
DIE YOUNG
OSK
MUDLARK
ENDLESS BLOCKADE
PUNCH
STARVATION CAGE
ANS
EPIDEMIC
HARDCHARGER
MADCOWBOYS
HOMINID
COPE
HATS OFF GENTLEMEN
SHARAR
SNAKE MOUNTAIN
COLD DEAD HANDS
and maybe some proof that the notorious gabber rave DID happen."

That's it.

-Durell

What's in the box?!?

This video was filmed on our home turf in Edmonton before we headed out on our Western Canadian dates. It was shot by Lindsay from rotbottyrot(check 'em out here if you haven't), and gives a pretty accurate middle ground of what the rest of tour shaped up to be.
Nothing was broken on account of this show taking place in Kevin's basement, and that's our excuse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9PVKmB9Gww

-Todd

Home

We've been home from tour for about a week now, just relaxing and getting our shit back together.

Tour was great! We had a fantastic time. We would like to thank everyone who helped us out in anyway by putting on shows, letting us sleep on their floor, came to the shows, or just hung out and talked. Thank you very much.

Ceremony unfortunately did not make across the border, so the show that we were suppose to play in Calgary tonight was cancelled. Hopefully, we will get another chance to play Calgary before the end of the year.

We are very excited and pleased to announce that we have been signed to Just Say No! Records! They will be putting out our collaboration with St. Gilles. As far as this project is going, we have starting the initial writing process and will be hopefully recording by the end of the year.

We are playing a show this Friday with Mind Control from Winnipeg. Here is the poster.

That's it.

-Durell

From the road

Hey everyone,

So far tour has been awesome! Thank you to everyone who came out to our shows in Saskatoon, Regina, and Calgary. Right now, we are on our way to Vancouver to play and hang out. I'm using a cell phone to post this, so it's really frustrating and I'll post more shit when I have actual internet access.

Other than that, we got invited to play with Ceremony in Calgary on August 12th and we are more than excited to be playing this show. I'll post more info as soon as I have some to post.

Kev has been working on a extensive tour journal, so when we get back, I'll transcribe the whole thing so you can read all about our misadventures and understand our stupid inside jokes.

That's it.

-Durell

What is this? The bro pride march '08? - "Yep, we're all getting raped"

This will probably be the last post for awhile, as we are leaving for our summer tour with Hominid on Thursday! Check out this awesome poster that Mr. Andrew Benson designed for us.

Also, be sure to come check us out tomorrow night in St. Albert with Shipwreck! Check out the poster i posted a couple of posts down for the low down.

We have a 3 song demo available! We're only making a limited amount of these, and they are only being sold at the Shipwreck show tomorrow and on our tour with Hominid. Get one while you can! $5!

That's it for now. I am both excited and terrified for tour.

Take care,

-Durell

Arabian Nights

Hey guys,

We finally have a video posted from our show with ANS and High Jinks, and for those who weren't there, it was FUCKING awesome!

You can swing over to our youtube and check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i24GJLkloKo

-Matt Out

If it starts playing "have you ever seen the rain" just as it starts to rain, i'm going to cry

Punch is fucking awesome! There is no way around it. They put on a fantastic show in Edmonton and Calgary this past weekend and we are so thankful to have been able to play those shows with them.

Our first out of town trip and show as a band was fantastic. We packed the van with the help of our friends in Hominid (who also played punch weekend), and St. Gilles himself. It was a good opportunity to see how things would work on tour. Needless to say, we will be uncomfortable, but it will all be worth it.

And, as always, it wouldn't be a Cope trip (previous times it was when Kevin and myself toured with Punch Out! and Leave it Behind) unless there was some really fucked up weather. And sure enough, we got bombarded with heavy rain and hail just as we were leaving Calgary.

Here are some great photos taken by Bryan Kulba from the Edmonton Punch show.

More can be seen at Byran's flickr or our myspace.

Take care,

-Durell

Shipwreck!

We just got added to a show with Shipwreck on Tuesday July 22nd! On top of that, it's in St. Albert, and there hasn't been a good show here in a very long time, which means attendance is mandatory.

Here is the poster.

Take care,

-Durell

That xenu is a galactic asshole

First off, a huge thank you to Rotbottyrot (for Eddie Shorts as well), Thrashtic Fibrosis, High Jinks, ANS for coming all the way to Edmonton from Texas, and Ryan from Hominid for putting on the show, which took place this past Sunday. If you missed it, well fuck, you missed a great show.

There are photos that were taken at the show by our friend Travis Logan, and a video of our set. Once i have said photos and video, i will post them here.

As far as recording goes, the actual recording is done, now its just the mixing that needs to be complete. Everything is sounding awesome so far!

This weekend, we and our friends in hominid, get to play with San Francisco's Punch in Edmonton and Calgary. The almighty Gift Eaters and always rad BYK have also been added to the Edmonton Show! Check them out!

End Transmission,

-Durell

Recording is done!

Recording is all done! We finished vocals today at Mr. Laughton's house and everything sounds so rad already. All we have to do now is piece everything together and we're all good to go.

And speaking of good to go, this release will only be available on CD format. I know i said vinyl as well but we just don't have the funds for releasing both formats right now. Instead, we will be getting some shirts made up for tour, so look out for that. Once i have the official designs that we decide to use (one for a black shirt and one for a white), i'll post them on here. As far as getting vinyl out, we already have another project that we will begin working on after we're done tour. A collaboration with St. Gilles for a "planned" vinyl format only release.

That's it for right now.

Take care,
-Durell

Recording update and Punch weekend. Sorry... i don't have any inside jokes to use as a title.

So, we are done almost done recording. I know i said that i'd have pictures or videos and what not, but we got lazy. We do, however, only have vocals left to record and then we are done! I know that recording is kind of a must if you're actually trying to get somewhere other than playing shows in a garage (though basement shows will always be a blast!), but i really can't stand recording. Both Calvin and Steve have been working hard and i am grateful but i find the whole process so stressful, and if you've been around me in stressful situations, you'll know that's not the best place for me. Though, through all of this, we are going to have some really great sounding tracks to share so its all worth it.

Anyways, Punch, hailing from San Francisco, will be playing some shows in Edmonton and Calgary on July 12th and 13th respectively, and we are lucky to be playing both shows with our good friends in Hominid. Here are the posters for both shows. Be there!

Take care,

-Durell

I'm trying to do CSI... ... frozen.

Well, we've been hard at work recording and have finished drums and guitar, the two most stress full instruments in my opinion. Everything is sounding so fucking awesome. A huge thanks to Calvin and Steve for their time and effort and for having to deal with my shitty temper when playing the same damn song for the 11Th time. Bass and vocals are next, then we may have some rough, unmixed stuff to throw on myspace, and then eventually the finished product available on cd and vinyl.



Also, here is the poster for our show with Snic, Rotbottyrot, and G.W. Peaks on June 30Th. Yeah, i know, no minors, but if you are of age its free. I mean, its fucking Snic. Why would you pass that up?



Take care,

-Durell

Live Performances. Please Attend.

We're playing some great shows at the end of June and beginning of July.
Here is the poster for our show with ANS on July 6TH.

Also, we are playing our first 18+ show with Rotbottyrot on June 30Th. I'll post show info as soon as i can get it

And finally, we are heading into the studio on Friday. I'm very excited to get some good quality recordings done. When we have something to show, perhaps some unmastered material, I'll upload it on our myspace. You can also expect updates, pictures, etc etc to be posted on here as well.

That's it for now, take care,
-Durell

The rhythm is in my blood maaan!

First off, a big thanks to Electro Quarterstaff for coming down to play, Nate for putting on the show, and everyone who came. EQ was fucking nuts!

The Calgary Ruiner/Braindead show is a no go, but they will be playing Edmonton on the 28Th. Though we are not playing, come hang out with us anyways and support some bands on the road.

We are heading into the studio on June 13Th to start recording our first record. Depending on how long it turns out to be, it will either be a 10" or 12" record. It will also be available on CD, but not until we get the records, as we would like to release everything at the same time. We'll throw some tracks on myspace when we get them done to show exactly what to expect, and to replace the crappy demos we have up currently.

Are next booked show is July 6Th with A.N.S (from Texas), High Jinks, Thrashtic Fibrosis, and Tarantuja. The show is happening at Avonmore Hall (7902 73 Ave) and it starts at 8. I don't know how much it costs yet, but it'll probably be something between $8 to $10. Also, there should be a poster soon with all the show info.

That's it,

-Durell

Good news and bad news

So, bad news first. Not really connected to us, but its a little sad. Cursed, one of Canada's greatest hardcore bands, have kicked the bucket. Broken up after they had everything robbed on their last day of tour in Europe.
This is a bummer because we really looked up to Cursed as inspiration for this band. The initial idea i had with Matt was to start a heavy band similar to sounding like Cursed.
Regardless, they were a band and they put out some fucking amazing music. If you haven't heard of Cursed, you should probably crawl out from under the rock you've been living under. Listen to some of their music here.

Good news! Taylor, the super rad guy who runs Just Say No! Records/Distro, got ours and Hominid's tour dates and myspace addresses printed in the next issue of Profane Existence Magazine! Thank you so much Taylor!

Also, Begrime Exemious, featuring ex Cope drummer Orphy, has been added to the Electro Quarterstaff show. Get ready for some brutally heavy metal. Fuck yes!

Thats it for now. We're going to go see Indy 4 tonight. It better be good...

-Durell

Cope blog. So i can blog about stuff you don't bloggin care about

Welcome to the Cope news blog. I figured with shows, recording, merch, and tours coming up, posting myspace bulletins and such will get shitty. So now with this, i can easily tell you about shows coming up, like on June 1st for example with Electro Quarterstaff.

Like i said, we have a bunch of stuff coming up. We begin the recording process with Mr. Steve Laughton of High Jinks for a CDEP/7". Also with that we will probably be making some merch so we don't starve on tour.

So, as it is, this is what is happening in the next coming months:

6/1 Edmonton, AB w/ Electro Quarterstaff
6/28 Calgary, AB w/ Ruiner
7/12 Edmonton, AB w/ Punch
7/13 Calgary, AB w/ Punch
7/24 Edmonton, AB w/ Hominid
7/25 Saskatoon, SK w/ Hominid
7/26 Regina, SK w/ Hominid
7/27 Calgary, AB w/ Hominid
7/28 Lethbridge, AB w/ Hominid
7/29 Vernon, BC w/ Hominid
7/31 Vancouver, BC w/ Hominid
8/3 Chilliwack, BC w/ Hominid

All show information including venues, additional bands, and times can be found in our shows section on our myspace. Also, as soon as i have more updates, i will post them here.

"Damn! SSSSSSSSSNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEE!"

-Durell