My friend Eddie Young in Fredericton reached out last year asking if Rob and I could play his festival this summer. We love festivals, we love Fredericton, and we love Eddie so we said yes. We’re playing Living Roots Festival on June 8 and we built a tour around it, with help from a few of our closest friends. There is love and empathy in this world, justice and hope too if you seek it out.
March 30th 2024
Growing up largely on the east coast of Canada, my father and brothers were big Montreal Canadiens fans. Hockey is an incredible sport to watch and to play but there’s a lot wrong with the NHL so I don’t talk much publicly about being a hockey fan. That said, I follow the Canadiens closely and I find myself enjoying what is written and said about the team even more than I do watching the games. Two of my favourite sports journalists are Arpon Basu and Marc Antoine Godin, formerly of Le Support Athlétique and now of the Basu and Godin Notebook. On a recent episode of the latter, they mentioned needing some theme music for one of their segments, I hurried something together for them, and to my delight they are using it. These are quality human beings, if you enjoy sports-journalism I recommend their podcast and their writing.
March 12th 2024
Dark times in the world. I have found this podcast useful over the past few months. I also find it useful to play music. Stand by for show announcements – late April in Hamilton and Guelph, Ontario, and a week of shows in Quebec, New Brunswick, and possibly elsewhere in early June. In the meantime, life and justice are precious – stay informed and stay safe everyone.
February 18th 2024
I have some solo shows coming up in Ontario, including this one on Saturday, February 24 at the Broom Factory in Kingston. See you soon.
January 6th 2024
NEW – GM Band (the Gardiner brothers, Michel Germain and Steve Bates) At the Good Will Social Club January 27 – 2pm doors 3pm us
February 16th 2023
GM Band featured on Argyle Studio’s first episode of In the Attic
February 13th 2023
Been too long. The world feels different. Time to make music. New recordings and shows coming soon.
July 16th 2019
I’m playing a couple of solo shows in PEI and New Brunswick at the beginning of August, see the ‘Shows’ page for details.
January 27th 2019
Figure Walking has recorded and mixed a new album. Vertical/Horizontal will be released in late summer 2019 on Disintegration Records. Stay tuned for tour details.
April 14th 2017
I started a new music project with my good friend Rob Gardiner. Our band is called Figure Walking and we play all new music. We have a debut record coming out April 28, 2017 on Disintegration Records in North America and Marathon of Dope in Europe. Figure Walking’s live dates can be found here.
