Greg MacPherson

I’m finally getting back on the road! This time next month I’ll be in Atlantic Canada and Quebec trying out new songs in advance of a record I’ll be recording this summer. Lots of new songs… See the ’shows’ page for details and drop by www.myspace.com/macphersonband to hear a new song or two.

I just recorded new music… lots of new music, for a release later this year. Not sure how I will release it but it’s coming. Check myspace.com/macphersonband to hear something new. There are upcoming shows on the shows page as well. See you soon.

Welcome to the latest new and improved greg macpherson website! Derek Hogue, the web-master, has been out on the icy shores of the north Atlantic holed up in his windowless computer bunker intercepting top secret messages from satellites and listening to people’s cellphone conversations looking for new ways of designing top-quality websites for rock musicians. I think he may have outdone himself. See for yourself, there’s information to be absorbed and photos to look at and songs to listen to and a list of upcoming shows to consult, among other things! Not bad eh?

On top of all this website business I have shows coming up and recording plans in the works. It should be an exciting year around here.

Where do I start? I played a benefit show in Toronto this past weekend and there’s a clip of it floating around the internet somewhere… maybe here.

Aside from that Steve Bates is flying in from Montreal in a few weeks for our first and only Winnipeg show of 2007! Wait there’s more: I’ve been writing many new songs, and there are tours in the works which should take me to cities and towns all over the damn place. To start there’s a Greg MacPherson Band tour being booked for this August in eastern Canada! Even more unbelievable, the website upgrade I’ve been promising is finally getting close to completion. I know it seems like years have gone by since I started talking about that… but that’s only because it WAS several years ago. The good news is that Derek’s sober again and he’s locked himself in a Halifax basement with three or four laptops and a desk top computer working at maximum capacity 24 hours a day promising that the site will be finished soon (marginally witty comments like that may slow his productivity though so I should mind my droll sense of humour where old Derek Vandemeer Hogue is concerned or he’s liable to hit the bottle again harder than ever and my lifelong dream of having a new website to replace this older website… the website I had dreamt about so many years previous and which had replaced the original website I had dreamt up to replace my first crazy website - will never be realised.)

Something else that I find incredibly exciting and important is that I’ve decided to add another unreleased track to our myspace profile. Yes that’s right, the response to last month’s posting of ‘Time and Place’ was so huge (millions of you wrote in with encouraging letters and sent parcels stuffed with north american blue jeans) that I’ve posted yet another new recording made during the same session.

I have no big news to report other than the usual stuff: wrote some new tunes, booked some shows, bought a new pair of white pants, ate some fine east Indian food the other day, etc, etc. The new songs are being demo-ed on and off and will be released someday by someone in a format to be decided upon later. The shows are listed on the ‘shows‘ page and you should take particular notice of the fact that I’m doing a Winnipeg show with my four piece band and that in relative terms this is a big deal and somewhat of a rarity. Steve Bates will be joining us all the way from Montreal and we have a new drummer lined up because Derek moved to Halifax and Jord is booked solid with his other band. I’m expecting this to be a landmark show and I’ve told the drummer that he’s not only responsible for ensuring this but that anything short of a once in a lifetime performance and a sold out show will lead directly to his dismissal. His chances are good but you can help him with this by coming to the show and being ready to rock!

Anyone interested in hearing a rough demo of a new song that Derek and I recorded last August in Winnipeg can stop by myspace.com/macphersonband and click on ‘Time and Place’. There’s other stuff there too but don’t browse around myspace too long or you’ll cut into your facebook time.