07/07/2010
Summer Updates
Hope everyone is enjoying the summer! There is lot's of good news in the world of The Waxbills. First and foremost, THANK YOU! Thanks to everyone for the continuous support and thanks to all who voted for us on InDiscover. Your votes kept us in the top five and as a result we were chosen to move on to the next round along with 21 other acts. This means we will be performing at The Oaks Garden Theatre in Niagara Falls on Wednesday, August 4th at 8 PM. We hope everyone can make it out to support us and help us land the opening slot on New Years Eve on the main stage at the Falls.
We would also like to invite anyone who can make it out to see us perform live at Lift-Off fest this Thursday, July 8th in Cornwall Ontario. We will be playing the main stage alongside Canadian rockers Our Lady Peace. The weather is supposed to be spectacular so come on out!!
We are pleased to announce that on the following night, Friday, July 9th we will be playing The Hideout in Toronto, sharing the stage with our good friends and amazing bands
The Roxwells (2010 RockSearch winners) and
Vanity Theft (A killer 4 piece all female band from Dayton Ohio). The show starts at 10:30 PM. See you there!
We have also recently been hitting the jam room hard and coming up with plenty of new material that we are excited to start playing live. It's looking like we are nearly ready to get back in the studio and start recording our next album. We will keep you posted!
See you at our next show!
Cheers,
Nathan, Brandon & Johnny
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05/22/2010
Home From Tour
Greetings everyone,
This past month has been a busy one for the band as we just returned from our 2010 Spring Tour across Western Canada. We would like to thank everyone we met along the way for their attendance and support in making it an extremely successful and enjoyable trip.
This Sunday May 23 we are playing the Grand Bend Motorplex in Grand Bend Ontario with The Trews as part of this years Victoria Day Long Weekend. Tickets for the show can be purchased
here. Hopefully we will have some sunny weather and see some familiar faces in the crowd.
For those of you in the Toronto area, on Friday May 28 we will be playing a short set at 102.1 The Edge Studio as part of the Smirnoff Concert Series. We start at 9:50pm and will be playing for twenty minutes. We'd like to extend an invite to anyone who can make it down.
We are also a part of the YouDiscover 2010 Competition. Unfortunately these types of competitions are popularity contests, so we're going to need your votes to win! You can cast your vote for us
here once a day, every day.
As you may already know, we were invited to play the
2010 Niagara Music Awards being held Tuesday June 15 at the Welland Regional Exhibition in Welland Ontario. As well as performing at the awards ceremony, we are nominated for Best Rock Group and Album Of The Year. Also, don’t forget to vote for The Waxbills
here for this years peoples choice award.
Lastly, we are excited to be a part of this year’s Kinsmen Cornwall Lift-Off Festival at Lamoureux Park in Cornwall ON. We are playing the opening day of the festival on Thursday July 8 with Our Lady Peace. Tickets for the festival are available
here.
That's the great news for now folks. Plenty more to come, as always.
Enjoy the Long Weekend.
Cheers,
The Waxbills
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04/22/2010
2010 Spring Tour
With the good weather finally breaking we are officially announcing our 2010 Canadian Spring Tour. Check out our tour section to see when we will be playing a city near you. Following the tour we are also scheduled to play the 2010 Niagara Music Awards ceremony on June 15th.
Thanks for all the continued support and we will see you on the road!
Stayed tuned for some raw footage from the 2009 Fall Tour.
Cheers
The Waxbills
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02/22/2010
Canadian Music Week
Be sure to catch us at Canadian Music Week 2010 in Toronto. We will be playing The Underground Garage on King West, Thursday March 11 at 10:45PM. See you there!!
The Waxbills
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02/04/2010
A Couple of Updates
First off: Toronto radio station Edge 102 has chosen The Waxbills and 2 other bands to compete in this months indie showdown. Feel free to vote for us at edge.ca/music/indieonline/home (You have to sign up for the inside edge in order to vote) The winner will play edge's indie club studio on Saturday Feruary 20th. Help us out and Spread the word!!
Secondly, we've wrapped up shooting the video for "Empty Arms Again" and it's looking like it's gonna be a good one. We should have something for everyone to see before the months end. Thanks to Kevin Davidson, Darryl Gautreau, Adam Warriner, Jody Gillis, Jessica Jessome, and the Brotherloose Films crew for all their hard work.
Also, we've added some new show dates for February & March, including Wednesday February 10th in Buffalo, NY as part of the Blue Light Border Cross Concert Series. Check out the event page here. Our set time is 8PM at the Croc bar on Chippewa St.
Another Canadian tour TBA very soon!
The Waxbills
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01/11/2010
Happy New Year Everyone!
2010 is looking bright in the world of The Waxbills. We are currently in pre-production for our 1st official music video for the song "Empty Arms Again" off of our 1st album. We are pretty stoked to be working with film expert ordinaire Kevin Davidson of Brotherloose FILMS as well as long time friend and creative adviser Darryl Gautreau, who will be debuting his directing skills for the project. You can expect several more videos out of us within the next year. Ideally we'd like to make a video for every song. Who knows? We just might!
We are also pleased to announce that we will be playing 2 shows on January 23rd in one of our favourite towns, Sarnia ON. The 1st show will be at The Industry Theatre supporting our friends The Trews. This is an acoustic show and is sold out so we hope if you are reading this and are in Sarnia, that you are a ticket holder already. Directlly following our performance we will be migrating over to Paddy Flaherty's to kick it up with an electric set around 10PM. Hope you can make it out!!
Stay tuned and check back soon, more news to come
The Waxbills
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12/11/2009
Home From The Tour
Howdy Friends!
We wrapped up our West Coast tour back home in Niagara Falls on Friday Nov. 13th, and I must say what a great crowd to come home to. Thanks to "The Half Ton Knights" for kicking off the show and thanks to everyone who picked up an album. The tour went great. We met so many great people and played alot of great shows across this vast nation. We are already looking forward to doing it all again as soon as Spring 2010.
In the meantime we will hanging close to Niagara/Toronto and doing shows around this area. We will be playing a quite intimate show this New Years Eve at a small classy pub called Stanleys Lounge. Hope to see you there!
Also, our new album has become available for purchase online, so be sure to pick up a copy here if you havent already done so.
Thanks, and 'til next time,
The Waxbills
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09/30/2009
Hard To Lose - Toronto CD Release
Join us for our official Toronto CD release party of "Hard To Lose" on Thursday October 15th at The Hideout. 484 Queen St. West. Doors open at 9:30 p.m.
Also check out our latest performance and interview on Toro Magazine
Cheers,
The Waxbills
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09/16/2009
Interview on Y108
Hey Guys!
Tune into Hamilton's Y108 tonight (Wednesday September 16) at 11:30pm to hear an exclusive interview and song from The Waxbills.
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09/15/2009
Tour Updates
Just wanted to let everyone know about a few updates to the page.
We recently confirmed two shows in Banff, Alberta at the Rose & Crown as a part of our 2009 Fall Tour. Check the live dates for details. Also, you can now request The Waxbills on your local radio station, we've added links to our contact page that will link you directly to their request pages. We recently took some new photos with our friends at Brother Loose Films, so check the photo page shortly for some new content.
Cheers,
The Waxbills
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09/03/2009
New Site
Hey Everyone,
Welcome to the revamped home for thewaxbills.com. With the new site comes a new album, new content & new features that will help us to keep in touch with everyone. Everything takes time and is created ourselves, so not everything will be up and running immediately. We will have the site fully functional as soon as possible though.
In the meantime have a listen to LOVE SONG, the first single off our new record.
We're also excited to announce our Fall 2009 Tour which begins in October and takes us across Western Canada. Check out the live dates for complete show listings. We can't wait to get on the road an play the new material for everyone.
Cheers,
The Waxbills
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08/30/2009
News On The Waxbills Homefront
How's it going everyone.
We are stoked to tell you all about some new great developments in the world of The Waxbills. 1st of all we will be announcing our national tour by next week and will also be posting our newest single for all to hear. I think you're gonna dig this one!!
That being said the record is nearly done and and we can't wait to get you guys copies. The record will be called "Hard To Lose" and consists of 11 tracks, some new and some that have been kicking around for a while that we've been playing live but were never recorded until now. There will be a handfull of new vids to check out soon as well. Brotherloose FILMS will be joining us on our tour to document the whole thing, so you can expect a dvd on the band in the near future as well!!! Also we just finished doing a live performance on TOROMAGAZINE which we will be posting soon along with our appearance on Niagara's best online series "MOC talk".
Looking forward to seeing everyone and as always we appreciate all the support everyone is giving us!
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07/21/2009
Album Updates
Thanks for stopping in!
We are currently wrapping up the recording of the second album "Hard To Lose" and are thrilled with the way it is coming along. We feel it sounds even better than the last one. We will soon have more info on the exact release date and will also be announcing our Canadian tour in the near future as well. Stay tuned for more info and some sneak peaks at the new material. Also we are in production for some new vids that will also be posted soon.
Thanks for visiting and be sure to come again as we are always updating!!
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06/25/2009
S.C.E.N.E. Confirmed
Just confirmed that The Waxbills will be playing Patrick Sheehans [101 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines] at 11:15PM as a part of S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival.
Also on the bill that night are The Blackflies so it's sure to be a hell of a night.
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05/28/2009
Upcoming Local Shows
A month from today The Waxbills will be playing S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival in downtown St. Catharines. Check back soon for the venue and time. In the meantime, you can get ticket information here.
Also, Old Downtown Niagara Falls is hosting the 2nd annual Springlicious celebration next weekend. The Waxbills will be on stage Friday, June 5th at 7:15PM. Admission is free all weekend.
See you there,
The Waxbills
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