Success

Thanks to everyone who made it out to our show at the Renaissance on Friday… we’d actually been dreading it a little bit, since we moved house on the same day! But in fact, the move went smoothly, and the evening turned out to be one of our best acoustic shows yet.

We hadn’t heard Floxy Blu in quite a while, and Friday she kept everyone spellbound with her soaring voice, unaccompanied (except by the audience, on “Hallelujah"). Thanks and best of luck to her in her new job Stateside!

And there were other really cool surprises: a couple of friends we used to jam with back in high school showed up unannounced to catch the show. Neither lives in Toronto, and we hadn’t seen either of them in years. Kyle even joined us on harmonica for “Gold Thieves”.

(Hmmm. Now we’re tempted to dig around in our vaults to see if we’ve got a snippet of Flickershow: The Acton Years for you all to hear...)

Welcome Natalie Claire!

Flickershow welcomes its newest star today… that’s right, our man Clark is a dad!

A big big welcome to Natalie Claire Allore, born at 12:44pm. Congratulations, Clark and Michelle!

Music on the street

We’ll be playing twice this weekend at the second annual Danforth Music Festival, one near Main, one near Coxwell. We’ll be joining our friends, Some of the Parts, for an afternoon set.

And next weekend, Julian and Eli will be doing a set at the Renaissance as part of the Scotia Entertainment Acoustic Showcase.

Hope to see you all there!

A double feature, and a new look

Flickershow is old-timey slang for “movie” - hence the term flick. So it’s about time we had some movies to show. Presenting our brand new Videos page, featuring the brand new video for “Invincible”!

To mark the occasion, we’ve also given the web site a major retooling. The silent-movie schtick is no more (though we may eventually put up an archived version of it, just for kicks).

Videos and thank yous

The video launch for “Invincible” was a smash. Thanks to Archery and Jess Graham for their marvelous tunes. We’ll have the “Invincible” video up on the web soon!

And thank you as well to everyone who tuned in to the Studio 2 special on TVO, and who voted for us in the viewer poll!

Ah, the magic of editing. We looked so calm and collected and on top of our game on that stage in Parry Sound. You didn’t see the five minutes of us blathering and blanking out in the pre-interview, or the conversation with Steve Paikin, which went something like…

SP: So, what made you decide to enter the contest?
Eli: Well, our parents told us about it. They’re big Studio 2 fans and…
SP: And what about you guys? Big fans?
Eli: Uh...! Well. We don’t have a television, actually. Because, um, we’re… starving artists and, er, we can’t afford…
SP: You’re only digging yourself in deeper, you know.
Eli: (hangs head contritely)