Friday, November 7, 2008

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

Saturday, November 1, 2008

"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


Thursday, October 2, 2008

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

Thursday, September 4, 2008

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

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

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

Monday, August 25, 2008

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

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

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