2008-11-03 : Special

A few exciting things to note over the next few months.

Forest City Lovers will be helping The Bicycles celebrate the release of their new album Oh No It's Love in Toronto at Lee's Palace on Saturday November 8th. The night is a reprise of their The Last Schmaltz, where The Bicycles will play songs with a bevy of bands Last Waltz style, including the Forest City Lovers and a whole whack of others including Matt Murphy, The Old Soul, Laura Barrett, The Hooded Fang and practically every other band in Toronto.

The D'Urbervilles are going to play their first shows in Toronto since June, when they play two nights at The Tiger Bar in December, entitled Rock 'Em Sock 'Em 1 & 2. Here is a poster :



Also a reminder that the Jenny Omnichord record will be officially coming out in stores on November 18th. Line up in front of your favourite retail outlet now !!!

2008-10-19 : Jenny Omnichord

Out of this Spark is proud to release the new duet album of children’s songs by Jenny Omnichord, Charlotte or Otis : Duets for Children, Their Parents and Other People Too.

Having given birth to her first child on September 19th 2008, Jenny Omnichord is set to release her album of original children’s songs, written and sung with an impressive list of friends and collaborators.Special guests on the record include Andy Magoffin, 2008 Polaris Prize Nominee Shad K, Wax Mannequin, Scott Merritt, Kim Barlow, Jim Guthrie, Great Aunt Ida, Old Man Luedecke, Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers and Andrew Penner of Sun Parlour Players

The record is already available at zunior.com, but the official release date is Tuesday November 18th, 2008.

2008-09-29 : Plugs

Apologies to the Internet, our website was down for a few days. You may have found the ads for spark plugs somewhat confusing for a few days, but everything is back to normal.

The OOTS family is about to hit the road in various directions. Forest City Lovers and The D’Urbervilles will be heading to Pop Montreal this weekend. Timber Timbre will be hitting the road with Great Lake Swimmers in mid October.

The Timber Timbre record is going to be mixed and mastered later this month in preparation for an early winter release. Visit
Radio Free Canuckistan for an interview with Timber Timbre’s Taylor.

Stuart was interviewed for CBC Radio 3 about his thoughts on Toronto, which can be read here.

Kat Burns of Forest City Lovers is organizing this month’s Wombat Wednesdays concert series at the Tranzac. More is available here and here is a poster :

2008-09-18 : Forest City Lovers on Fuse

Forest City Lovers recorded an episode of Fuse for CBC Radio One last month that saw them paired up with the Finest Kind a band featuring FCL's Mika Posen's Father.

The show will air this week on CBC Radio One on Saturday afternoon (September 20th) at 3 pm.

This sadly will be the final episode of FUSE and we are grateful that we got to be a part of it.

More info on Fuse and where and how to tune on their website.

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