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Three Gut updates on the Constantines, Cuff The Duke, Oneida, Royal City

Posted by adam on Friday, April 15, 2005 at 12:02 AM (EDT)

Toronto's Three Gut Records has recently posted a batch of updates on their roster.

The Constantines recently completed four shows in Toronto with the Weakerthans as part of the Rolling Tundra Revue tour. Guests at the Toronto shows included Brutal Knights, C'Mon, Republic of Safety, Bicyles, Ford Pier, Shawn Hewitt, The Silt and Andre Ethier (of the Deadly Snakes). The band leaves soon for the west coast portion of the dates, after which they'll take May and June off to focus on their upcoming record. US dates are scheduled for July followed by another Canadian tour in August with Oakley Hall. The band's third full length is due in early October on Three Gut in Canada and Sub Pop in the US.

Oshawa's Cuff The Duke are gearing up to release their follow up to 2002's Life Stories For Minimum Wage. The album will be released via Hayden's new Universal distributed imprint Hardwood Records later this year.

Oneida's new record The Wedding arrives on May 3rd. The record is being released in the US by Jagjaguwar and in Europe on Rough Trade. Three Gut's version of the release has a new CD face designed by resident artist Tyler Clark Burke. You can download the song "August Morning Haze" now.

Aaron Riches, Jim Guthrie and Simon Osborne are working on a Royal City b-sides album. The record, titled I Will Always Sing These Songs, is due later this year.

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Shindo (adam) (April 15, 2005)

At the end of the Royal Tundra show I saw In Toronto, the Weakerthans called the Constantines back out on to stage, everyone grabbed an instrument, and the 12-or-so people played a really awesome cover of "End of the line" by the Traveling Wilburys. Both bands played a handful of new songs at the show and all sounded really good. Ditto for Cuff The Duke. The last time I saw them their new material was really fun. I can't wait for that record. -adam

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Someone (April 15, 2005)

Are you familiar with Three Gut's roster? If so, is there anything I should be getting? -Chinatown

Shindo (adam) (April 15, 2005)

I really love Cuff The Duke so if you're partial to really fun quirky alt-country-no-wave-I'm-really-bad-at-describing-them-punk that should make you happy. Both Royal City and Jim Guthrie (who's in Royal City but is also has solo releases) are interesting but I find that they're an acquired taste to people I've talked to. Sea Snakes play some really nice spacey indie stuff. Of course the Cons, but you know that... I find the Three Guy stuff usually has a nice earthy quality to it. So if you're into anything along the Weakerthans / FemBots / Greg MacPherson axis then there's probably something of interest for you there. -adam

hungryjoe (April 15, 2005)

I'm a big fan of Royal City. Their first album At Rush Hour the Cars is really quiet and warm-sounding. I read someone describe it as "bedroom-rock anthems". The next 2 albums Alone at the Micorphone, and Little Heart's Ease are heavily influenced by On the Beach-era Neil Young, with the former's name being taken from a lyric to the same album ("I went to the radio interview/But I ended up alone at the microphone"). Little Heart's Ease is probably the better of the two. The best current comparison to make is Songs:Ohia / Magnolia Electric Co....also huge Neil fans. Speaking of Neil...here's to a swift recovery.

UberShep (April 15, 2005)

how many members did the weakerthans have?

Shindo (adam) (April 15, 2005)

Six. Their normal lineup plus the two FemBots. -adam

UberShep (April 15, 2005)

Who was missing in that three-person promo pic?

Shindo (adam) (April 15, 2005)

I'm assuming the new bass player and the two FemBots wern't in that pic. -adam

hungryjoe (April 15, 2005)

Awesome. I'm hoping for some real tomfoolery at these shows...especially at the end of the tour...maybe they'll have some fun stuff ironed out. On a related note, any idea when the fine folks at Three Gut sent out that concert-winning package? Should I be concerned that it hasn't arrived yet?

Shindo (adam) (April 15, 2005)

I woundn't be concerned, but shoot me an email anyways and I'll check up on it. The tour t-shirt's pretty awesome. -adam

Jet (April 15, 2005)

I was lucky to catch both the Friday and Saturday night shows and I just had the widest grin the entire encore. Is there a cooler person in rock and roll than the Cons' Will Kidman? When he came out to sing on Benediction or when he sang and played guitar during the encore gettogether, well shit. I just love the guy.

Someone (April 15, 2005)

Can't wait for the new cons album, their new stuff has been soudning really good. Any word on when and if the weakerthans are recording?

hungryjoe (April 15, 2005)

Someone help me out here. Broken Social Scene has a really cool family tree on their website showing all their past & present members, and other bands they've played in. It basically makes up a huge chunk of the Toronto indie music scene. I've been trying to connect it to other prominent Canadian artists. I can already connect it to the godspeed-centred scene in montreal via Valley of the Gians and A Silver Mt. Zion, but there's gotta be more. If we can get the Sadies in there somewhere, we've got a line to the New Pornographers (they're Neko's backing band on tour). A prize to whomever can get the Weakerthans or the Constantines in there. A few leads are the FemBots, as Adam already mentioned, and Gentleman Reg, who sometimes sings for Do Make Say Think (actually, the only one who's ever sang for them - one song),

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Medley (April 15, 2005)

Cuff The Duke representin' the Shwa.

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Someone (April 15, 2005)

North Carolina!

StevePantalones (April 15, 2005)

Is that Saddam Husseim in the picture?

SteveJonesTheRealBones (April 15, 2005)

no, its your momma - jones the bones - stevejones8770@yahoo.com

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