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November 12, 2012

Greg — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:47:53 +0000

I’m sitting at a tall round table in a pool hall in Winnipeg’s West Central neighbourhood. There are 15 or so elderly Italian men gambling on various games of chance a few metres from me as I type. It’s 8am on a Saturday morning. I’m impressed people get up this early on the weekend to play cards.

I have some shows coming up. Solo shows, long overdue… I honestly can’t wait to play. Perhaps I will see you there?

September 12, 2011

Greg — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:49:16 +0000

I would like to thank everyone who attended, played, and helped to promote the shows we did in Winnipeg this past weekend. These were very special nights for me that I won’t soon forget.

On another front, I’ll be doing a short tour of Germany at the end of next week and the shows are all but confirmed! See the SHOWS page for details.

August 26, 2011

Greg — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:37 +0000

I haven’t been this excited about a show in a LONG time. To make things that much more exciting there are actually TWO shows! Here’s a link to the details:

Winnipeg’s WECC Sept 9 and 10

The first night is a Friday night so we plan to ROCK from start to finish… absolutely no prisoners, arrive prepared to pogo. The second night will be more thoughtful, romantic, and intense… more for music aficionados who like stories, atmosphere and want to leave a show feeling somehow different than when they arrived. That’s the plan… I think we will succeed.

In the mean time, I did an interview on a Toronto-based internet radio show today that turned into an hour long co-hosting gig… have a listen:

Greg talks about the new record, the new label, the many bands he’s in, the new day job, the city of Winnipeg, etc

August 11, 2011

Greg — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:07:14 +0000

Just got home from out east. I’m feeling a little under the weather since we pulled back into Winnipeg, I guess I burned the candle down a little too far this time around… but it’s the summer time and there are beaches and funny motels and exotic local beers wherever we stopped so I’m not going to chastise myself or act like I didn’t know this would happen. Sick? Sure but was it worth it? Definitely.

Thanks to everyone who came to, promoted, advertised, and took video footage of our shows. I love you people… I also love the folks who organized Sappy Fest and invited us to maybe the best party I’ve been to in 5 years. Great food, great service, great music, great friends everywhere… amazing!

Some folks have been kind enough to post footage from some of our shows, looking through it all I found this document of us going crazy in Trois-Rivieres last October…

July 24, 2011

Greg — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:42:38 +0000

I’m at my brother’s place between Toronto and Ottawa… so nice here, and incredible hot outside today. After over 3000kms of driving and 2 shows in 3 days I feel like laying in the grass in my brother’s back yard more than I feel like driving to Ottawa. That said, I have many good friends in Ottawa and tonight’s show will be fantastic… win win!Couldn’t sleep last night so I made this:

Disintegration Blues Tour 2011

July 17, 2011

Greg — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:13:29 +0000

This week marks the first of what I hope will be many Disintegration Records tours. This time around, we’re celebrating the upcoming release of my new album, with a trip across Eastern Canada. My own band will be sharing the stage with Winnipeg’s Cannon Bros in all of these lovely cities:

July 22nd @ the Division House in Lindsay
July 23 @ the Spill in Peterborough
July 24 @ The Elmdale Tavern in Ottawa
July 29 @ The Capital in Fredricton
July 30 @ Sappy Fest in Sackville
July 31@ The Upstairs in Sydney
Août 2 @ Gambrinus à Trois-Rivières
Août 3 @ Bar à Pitons à Chicoutimi
Août 4 @ Le Cagibi à Montreal
August 5 @ Bread and Circus in Toronto
August 6 @ the Casbah in Hamilton

I promise to bring CDs, vinyl, t-shirts and be ready to rock. See you soon!

June 20, 2011

Greg — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:31:16 +0000

The Disintegration 2011 Tour is updated and can be seen here.

Also, did I mention that my good friend Cam Loeppky and I have started a record label? It’s called Disintegration Records and I made this basic website for it my self. Our first release will be a CD/digital version of my new recording, Disintegration Blues sometime in late August.

June 6, 2011

Greg — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:40:05 +0000

I’m playing shows in New York and Toronto next week! I’ll be in Brooklyn at the Knitting Factory on Tuesday evening, opening for my friends Imaginary Cities – 8pm set time. Then on Thursday I’m in Toronto at the Gladstone Hotel playing a Manitoba Music showcase for NXNE – 10pm set time.

Also, there’s this:

www.disintegration.ca

May 19, 2011

Greg — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:51:18 +0000

I just got asked to play NXNE. It looks like I’ll be performing solo at the Gladstone on June 16th. Unfortunately, they also tell me I’ll be on at around 1am… That’s only midnight Winnipeg time so I promise to take care of business. You should come!

Lots of shows being booked across canada over the summer. Will update them on the shows page asap. In the mean time, I’ve confirmed that the Cannon Bros, one of my favourite bands in the world, will tour east with me in July/August! The world better not end on Saturday like those crazy people in America have been predicting… I at least want to do this tour first.

May 10, 2011

Greg — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:15:46 +0000

So much is going on, I’m not sure where to start… The Assiniboine River is flooding west of Winnipeg and I have friends out there trying to sand bag in the rain. I wish I had a car on days like today.

In music news, have I mentioned that I’m starting a record label? My friend Cam Loeppky, Winnipeg’s finest recording engineer (and long time live-sound man for such notable acts as the Weakerthans and Imaginary Cities) and I are joining forces and will be launching Disintegration Records in a month or so. Our first release will be a CD version of my own album, Disintegration Blues, set to hit stores in early August.

We’ll be touring across Canada at least once this summer, contact me to book shows or see the Shows page for details.