Hi,

New Big Blue X song, Prepare For War (live recording), download it for free, it you like it forward this email to all your friends. And we have a gig scheduled for August 8th (details below).

It took a few weeks to write Prepare For War, it's one of our favorite songs to play, it's got a lot of melody. Initially we had about 3 songs worth of lyrics, Brian tossed most of them out and added some new ideas.

As you may know, we've been talking like idiots about recording - it's been a slow climb, the best we could do right now is to release a live recording straight off the mixing board. Prepare For War is from a gig we did in early June in a small pub in Toronto, it's a FREE download so don't be shy.

The mix is super rough but for now this should give you a good idea of where we're at - I did some mastering magic to even it out. The goal is to still get some better studio recordings.

We've got a gig scheduled for August 8th, Toronto (Dundas & 427) - it's an all ages gig, we go on at 2:30pm.

Date:
Sunday, August 8, 2010
2:00pm - 10:00pm

Location:
The Rockpile an ALL AGES venue
5555a Dundas Street West (427&Dundas)
Etobicoke, ON

- Cheers, Carl

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Prepare For War: It took a while to get this written, initially I had about 3 songs worth of lyrics. Brian tossed most of them in the trash and added some of his own ideas. As you may know, we've been talking like idiots about recording - we'll it's been a slow climb, and the best we could do right now is release a live recording straight off the mixing board. The Prepare For War is from a gig we did in early June in a small pub in Toronto, it's a FREE download so don't be shy.

The mix is super rough but for now this should give you a real good idea of where we're at - I did some mastering majic to even it out. The goal is to still get some better studio recordings. Hopefully the next song we release will be one of our sunnier sides, to balance out things.

In the meantime we've been messing around with some cover songs, a couple of Beatles songs here and there, The Rooster by Alice in Chains.

- Cheers, Carl

We're working on a new song "War Song" - jammed with a drummer last week, it gave us a different perspective on our songs after playing acoustically for so long, although the main focus is still getting back into the studio to release more songs acoustically.

Hi,

Big Blue X is playing live @ West7 Nightclub & Lounge on Friday Feb. 26 - going on at 9pm.

The club is on the edge of Georgetown/Brampton (Ont, Canada). We're adding 2 or 3 cover songs into the mix, including a little Bob Marley. We've developed loads since releasing Escapism nine months ago, we actually sound like we know what we're doing now :-)  Gig details and a status update are below:

When: Feb 26, 2010 9:00 PM

Where:
West7 Nightclub & Lounge
530 Guelph Street
Norval, Ontario L0P 1K0
Canada

Directions: www.west7entertainment.com/West_7/Contact_Us.html

• Songs & Studio Update: Brian 1/2 turned his garage into a sound proofed rehearsal room and bought a piano, which we use as a beer table. We're heading back into the studio in the spring to finish "One Step (Closer to the Sun)". Then we're going to work on a 4-6 song EP. We've also got another new song on the go, "The Ocean (is My Woman)" which we'll be playing live from now on. 
   
• More Gigs: We're going to start doing 2 sets, with a 50/50 split of our own songs and some covers, so we can play around the pubs. 
   
• You can still download the "Escapism Generation Waste" single for FREE.  If you're a Torrent junky you can find the MP3, FLAC and the 16bit WAV files on most Torrent sites. For anyone that feels compelled to pay for it you can visit iTunes or Amazon:

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 What a night thanks to the crowd that stuck around and made us feel at home. Thanks, until next time. 

I've added a seperate page with my top 10 lists. Songs, music videos. Below is a sample, my musical tastes vary a lot, these songs are a blast from the past. Brian's working on some of his own top 10 lists. Visit Carl's Top 10 List.

Hi,

A few updates from Big Blue X...

• Video: Check out our video slide-show for Escapism Generation Waste, it will give you a good idea of what the song is all about. We also posted some video clips of us in the studio and live.
  
   

   

• Live Show, June 17: I realize most people on this list are not local to Toronto, but if you are in the area and looking for something to do we are playing this Wed. June 17 at The Central. Details and a Map are here.
   
• We are doing an interview with an internet radio station on Fri. Aug. 7th at 1pm (EST). If you have any questions for the interview send an email to bj@1radio.org Here's the shows page: www.TheBrooksJeffersonShow.ca
  
  
• Radio station WMIR 100.9 FM in New York started playing Escapism Generation Waste.
   
• To hear Big Blue X on the radio in Toronto and the rest of Canada send an email to alan@exploremusic.com requesting he start playing Big Blue X - This is Alan Cross the producer of "The Ongoing History of New Music" which gets syndicated to pretty much every Rock radio station in Canada.
   
• Indie 104, iRadio LA (internet radio) is playing Escapism Request Big Blue X here.  
   
• Photos: New band pictures posted here.
   
• We changed the band name to "Big Blue X" because of a conflict with another band called "Big Blue".

Songs & Studio Update: We've been hashing out a lot of ideas in the studio and rehearsing for our live show, but haven't had a chance to finish up a final song for our 2nd single release... hang in there we're close as we've got about 3 songs almost completed just awaiting some final tweeks in the studio. And Brian's come up with the perfect rehearsal food, shrimp with hot peppers and beer, cooks in 10 mins so we can get back to practicing.


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We've been hashing out a lot of ideas in the studio and rehearsing for our live show, but haven't had a chance to finish up a final song for our 2nd single release... hang in there we're close as we've got about 3 songs almost completed just awaiting some final tweeks in the studio. And Brian's come up with the perfect rehearsal food, shrimp with hot peppers and beer, cooks in 10 mins so we can get back to practicing.

 Just uploaded the final master of Escapism Generation Waste, get it while you can.

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