Treasury Library Canada / Old Blighty / A List!

Amazing how fast time goes! Since last we wrote here, we’ve been busy. My Mom always told me it’s best to list things to keep track of them, so here we go:

01.
We self-released a new album entitled Treasury Library Canada that we’re selling at shows and through this here website. The reviews have been swell. There’s only 1,000, and just 4 days since releasing it we’ve already sold over 300 of them. Get ’em quick! Click here! Or check it out soon on zunior.com, where you’ll also get an exclusive bonus disc’s worth of remixes and a other things.

02.
We finished all of the tracking for another album that we’re going to have done up and ready for early 2009. Mixing finishes in the next couple of weeks. The record’s called Die Stadt Muzikanten and it’s based at least in part on the Bremen folk tale of the same name (but different spelling). We just like the way it looks as two separate words better.

03.
We played a show at Sled Island 2008 with Kris Ellestad and Grizzly Bear. Holy cripes. This week Grizzly Bear’s touring with Radiohead. Weird.

04.
The phone rang and a voice on the other side said, “I’m with Calexico. They’re hoping you’ll do some shows with them,” and so we did. Toronto’s MOD Club and Montreal’s Le National Theatre were both lovely, and at the latter show WP came out and helped out on an epic cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Going to Acapulco’. Here’s a shot from the back of the venue.

05.
We played at the Calgary Folk Festival alongside our new friends Julie Doiron, Calexico, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, and Basia Bulat. It was also time to bring out some new songs, so we unveiled ‘Thumbtacks & Glue’, which we’re pretty excited about. Here’s one of the best songs of the year, no doubt (‘In The Night’ by Basia Bulat from her album ‘Oh, My Darling’):

Woodpigeon will also be at the Regina Folk Fest 8-10 August, 2008!

06.
Songbook UK’s also bringing with it a new online EP single for Chorus of Wolves, released 06 October 2008.

01. chorus of wolves
02. matty john chyzyk
03. camera-man
04. oberkampf [from the Houndstooth EP]

07.
Songbook UK will be released in the UK on 29 September and in Continental Europe shortly afterwards. We’ll be celebrating the release with a UK tour and a few dates in Germany and Sweden too. So far those dates (with more to come) are:

06 September 2008 – THE LUMINAIRE, London, UK
07 September 2008 – ARTS CENTRE, Colchester, UK
08 September 2008 – THE CAPTAIN’S REST, Glasgow, Scotland w/ Eagleowl
10 September 2008 – TRIPOD, Dublin, Ireland w/ Calexico
11 September 2008 – QUEEN’S HALL, Edinburgh, Scotland w/ Calexico
12 September 2008 – ACADEMY, Oxford, UK w/ Calexico
13 September 2008 – LEADMILL, Sheffield, UK w/ Calexico
14 September 2008 – THE END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL, Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset, UK
16 September 2008 – THE LAMP, Hull, UK
17 September 2008 – THE JUNCTION, York, UK
18 September 2008 – CUMBERLAND ARMS, Newcastle, UK
19 September 2008 – THE BODEGA, Nottingham, UK
24 September 2008 – SCHLACHTHOF, Wiesbaden, Germany w/ Gravenhurst
25 September 2008 – SCHOKOLADEN, Berlin, Germany w/ Ghostmice
04 October 2008 – ABENDSEGLER, Feldberg, Germany
08.
Soon, soon, soon, another new EP. It’s entitled Balladeer, and it’s pretty different. Yes yes. Part of our annual series of free download-only records. And by annual, we mean we’re going to do one every year. At least. Some of the things sure to be on it: ‘I Want To See You Again’ (which we’ve been playing at the past few shows), ‘Music Belongs To Those Who Make It’, ‘The Two Amelias’, and ‘I Am Your Balladeer’. Maybe a couple more too.

09.
Spreepark’s finishing up the recording of another record entitled Slow Jamz. All the songs are dirty. We’ll be sure to tell you when that one’s done and ready too. Another 8 songs recorded up at Vasa Park, a tiny Swedish settlement in Northern Alberta. There’s even an actual Swedish telephone booth there, and we recorded in the main room of the dance hall underneath posters of King Carl Gustav & family. Some of the songs: ‘Vasa Park Lullabye’, ‘The Fall of the Berlin Wall’, and ‘To My Left, The West, And To The Right, You, Beautiful You, Oh So Far Away In The East’. You can still get both We’re Reinventing Music and The Gaysian Invasion albums for free from spreeparktheband.com.

10.
I’m sure I’m forgetting something, but that’s more than enough for now.

xox,
W.P.