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Yesterday we shot a video for the song Lesson to the Rest of You- it’s a satirical song addressed to Iraqis from an ignorant Western perspective. The video is to be an over-the-top mock-pop video that glorifies greed and opulence. And we went to TOWN! We had a beautiful poolside location, many beautiful young men and women to dance and prance around half-naked and even a pig roasting on a spit. It was quite the day. And I got to live out my nascent Timberlakian dreams and smoke cigars with girls on my arms as I sang to the camera. Nuts to this folksinger shit, man, I’m gonna do my next record with Timbaland! Anyway, the video should be coming out in a few weeks, we’ll keep you posted. A million thanks to the cast and crew, especially Ben Knechtel, our director, and Lyvia Cohen, our producer. And to that poor pig for making the ultimate sacrifice. As Ben was filming the pig rotating and roasting slowly over the coals, he asked, Hey, has anyone ever seen Charlotte’s Web?

Hey all y’all;   I’m currently in dandy young Edmonton at their dandy Fringe Festival (oldest in North America) with The Fugitives. We’re having a blast, playing every day, getting great reviews in all 4 major publications here- except one that said i reminded him of John Mayer- I died a little inside. But other than that life is.. dandy. Like a lion.

The new record has tottered off to Montreal with me producer Matthew Rogers to be mixed by Mr Howard Bilerman and I miss it very much. But it’ll be home soon and better than ever.

What else? I’m shooting a music video at the end of August which is going to be a little controversial, methinks. It’s for a very satirical song inspired by the delightful likes of Toby Keith and Larry the Cable Guy and Bill O’Reilly. Ol’ CR Avery’s gonna be in it, too. More news on that to come. Also, I will be in LA in late September doing some showcasing, and in the UK later in the fall doing a few solo dates and a Fugitives tour. Check back at the website for specifics (soon to be updated). Oh, and i’ve got a show at the Biltmore in Vancouver in a couple weeks- Aug 30th to be exact. Hope to see you Vancouver locals out for that one.

It’s exciting times in Camp Glynn. Life is rich and succulent. I read a fantastic book called The Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges you should check out- it’s dark, but it’s right on the money. It cemented my reasoning for my habit of turning the tabloids around in the grocery store- celebrity culture is a pretty poisonous and distracting thing. Porn for the brain! Yes and here I am trying to make it in the music business. The ironing is delicious!

Ok, that’s enough for now. Love to you all, drink down the rest of your summers and go do something you know you probably shouldn’t but will regret if you don’t.

A.G.

Dudes. It’s me, Adrian. How’s by you? I’ve been getting back into writing new stuff over the last couple weeks and now I’m getting ready to hit the road again with The Fugitives, we’re heading out to do the Winnipeg Fringe Festival with a few stops on the way. (www.fugitives.ca)

My apologies for the delay on my new record- the good news is we have a fantastic mixer on board (Howard Bilerman, who did Arcade Fire’s record, Funeral, among others). The bad news is he isn’t available for a while so the record still has a bit to go before it gets released. But i’ll be making some new videos (non-porn) this summer and putting out a couple new songs in the fall (also non-porn), so stay tuned. Like a guitar, not a radio. Stay in tune. It’s better.

Other than that some new artists I’ve been listening to a lot are Joe Pug and Circlesquare- check em out. And i found an incredible painter named Andrew Salgado who will be supplying some of the artwork for the new record- check him out here (www.andrewsalgado.com).

That’s me for now. I’m going to put on some long underwear to get me through this Vancouver summer.

Love and… love,

AG

Hullo. Do you live in BC? Or Alberta? Or Manitoba? Read on, wily one.

If you live in BC, here’s some chances to see The Fugitives and Adrian Glynn solo:

May 26th- The Fugitives @ The Biltmore in Vancouver (Official CD Release!!!)

http://www.facebook.com/aglynnmcmorran#!/event.php?eid=112756495430621&ref=ts

May 28th- The Fugitives @ Herrman’s Jazz Club, Victoria.

May 30th- The Fugitives @ Joe’s Garage, Courtenay.

June 12th- Adrian Glynn @ The Biltmore (vancouver) for MusicBC with We Are The City and The Left.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=706013766#!/event.php?eid=109295792448145&ref=ts

AND if yo ulive in AB or MB then The Fugitives will be around this summer- they are playing the Winnipeg Fringe Festival in July and the Edmonton Fringe in August, along with some praire/AB dates in between (TBA).

Happy hunting,

www.adrianglynn.com

Greetings, my friends. I am back from my tour with The Fugitives that took us to Charlottetown and back in a small rental car- we averaged 500km a day, didn’t kill each other, swam in the Atlantic, lost a guitar, gained many new friends, drank one or two beers and… didn’t kill each other.
I’m back in the studio figuring out how best to spend my Factor grant (hurrah!) for my solo record- we’re nearly finished tracking then will look to mixing. Stay tuned for a release date for this sucker.

I’ll be basically hiding in my happy prison recording for the next while but we do have the OFFICIAL VANCOUVER CD RELEASE SHOW for the latest Fugitives record, “Eccentrically We Love”- it’ll be May 26th at the Biltmore with special guests The Fits, with Patsy Cline (Veda Hille project). Link is below.

We’ll also be hitting Vancouver Island for a couple dates at the end of May, check the site for details- www.fugitives.ca

AND Fugitives track All This Trouble has been added to rotation on Vancouver’s Shore FM 104.3- Request it, please! Right here: onair@shore104.com

Peas,

AG

Some of you may have heard about this, but we received our new full-length Fugitives CDs “Eccentrically We Love” back from the plant last week and inside about 25% of them was the new Sade CD, Soldier of Love. Very annoying. Especially since we left for national tour the next day (i’m in the ‘Peg as I write this). However, we were able to make the best of the situation: check out who picked up the story!…

http://exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=142&csid2=844&fid1=45486

http://www.straight.com/article-300620/vancouver/vancouver-band-fugitives-gets-mixed-sade

http://communities.canada.com/THEPROVINCE/blogs/hearcandy/archive/2010/03/30/sade-vs-the-fugitives.aspx

http://cs.voir.ca/blogs/music_news/archive/tags/Sade/default.aspx
http://www.daylife.com/article/0eOn80FaMf7Mq?q=Sade

Adrian’s other project, roots ensemble “The Fugitives”, have big news! Our brand-new full-length album hits the world today!

Buy the physical copy here from 604 records:

http://www.604records.com/store/product/product/the-fugitives

Preorder it on Itunes here:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/eccentrically-we-love/id362143025

It’s called Eccentrically We Love, and we are so so so excited about it. We recorded it this past December, right after our seven-week Canadian tour. We came home, locked ourselves in North Vancouver’s Neighbourhood studios, and spent a month of recording. After 1,536 hours in each other’s company (yes, we were counting), we decided that we still like each other!  Even better news is that we realized our different musical backgrounds actually bring us together and make stuff better! More than any of our previous work, this album is the result of co-writing, co-editing and co-performance. Collaboration! Yeah!

As you might have guessed from the album title, all the songs are about love and affection, in one way or another. But never fear! We haven’t gone sappy. Eccentrically We Love chronicles the beautiful itchiness of being close. It’s about getting irritated,  angered and distraught, and the exhilarating necessity of feeling this way.

We were very lucky to work with some amazing people on this. Leo-Award winning producer\composer Matthew Rogers co-produced, Veda Hille guided and inspired,  Jesse Zubot slayed on violin and Rod Murray did delicious things with his trombone.

We are stoked to hear what you think about it all. The album’s available through 604 records, on i-tunes, and at live shows. Drop us a line through this site, or come talk to us when we’re near. Chances are we’re coming to you soon. Show dates are up on our calendar. Send yourself! Send your friends! As always, we will be disastrously enthused to see you.

Hearts and Exclamation Points!!!

The Fugitives

Let the new record commence! Day three now. Yesterday we were in the warehouse-like space of Ogre Studios laying down some percussion.  We had the lads of the Fringe Percussion Ensemble bring in all their toys into a dimly lit room and hit things, stomp and clap for a few hours. At one point I was conducting and had Martin playing a suitcase with his foot while clanging a bread-dish and mixing bowl together, Danny was hitting clay pots with a drum-stick, Brian had a small stack of metal sheets he was shaking while Jonathan just repeatedly dropped a bucket full of stuff on the ground. I felt like a mad-hatter conductor cueing these things. At one point we just recorded them all making ambient noise with whatever they could put their hands on in there and it was a cacophonous clatter, some real beautiful noise. This is a great way to start a record, it bodes well.

I hit the road with The Fugitives (www.fugitives.ca) next month, all the way to Charlottetown and back. We’re selling the brand new Eccentrically We Love record on which we also hit some things, though not as many things. But there is baritone guitar and Zubot’s violin playing. It is a very good record, methinks.

That’s it for now, back to work editing this madness together.

Salutations!  A quick update from the Book of Glynn. A teaching if you will. Like.. solo Vancouver and Kelowna shows this week as well as Fugitives news. Read on!…

-FEB 27TH- Adrian’s first Vancouver solo show in a while is THIS Saturday, Feb 27th with special guests Henry&TheNightcrawlers and Ben Rogers. EARLY SHOW- Starts at 8pm sharp and ends by 11ish @ St James Hall, 3214 W. 10th Ave. $12. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=291072536212&ref=ts

-FEB 26TH- Adrian opens for Wooden Sky at The Habitat in Kelowna. 8pm.

-MARCH- Adrian disappears to record the new record!!!

-MARCH 11TH/12TH -Adrian’s other project, roots/spoken word ensemble The Fugitives, play 2 intimate shows at East Vancouver’s The Cultch March 11th and March 12th. Tix:http://www.thecultch.com/content/view/251/353/

-APRIL -And if you live elsewhere in Canada, watch for The Fugitives in your hometown in the month of April as they travel all the way to Fredericton and back! In a small car! Check the site for details: www.fugitives.ca

Check out www.adrianglynn.com for blog updates and other activity. We loves you!

~Book of Glynn, 12:14

*Spoiler alert*

Just watched “Crazy Heart”. Somehow, I’m not as moved as I thought I would be. Sort of a Disney version of The Wrestler. Golden grit. A story with shallow valleys and modest peaks.  And it’s hard not to be cynical- another story of an alcoholic but this one with every shining opportunity in life blown. No, I don’t feel sorry that he’s out on the road playing bowling alleys night after night- that’s just the road. A million others would kill for the shot he had. And I don’t even get much of a chance to feel bad for him anyway because before long a connected friend has a record company offering him a $95, 000 advance. This is not the luck of the average addict. On any given day I could walk a few blocks and find someone else who needs several drinks just to function normally, just to converse or work or walk around. But put a guitar in the loser’s hands and you have a bit of romance, you have a bit of good old-fashioned country hard luck. But most hard luck stories don’t end with a jaunt in rehab, a fat royalty cheque backstage and a sunset. This is just Hollywood alcoholism. Golden grit. Another crack at scratching the surface of the tough life courtesy of the shining American stars with just enough toilet bowl hugging to make it all seem real. It doesn’t really cut it when you think about it. It may be a wonderful performance and a subtle and believable portrayal of an alcoholic. But it doesn’t really cut it. It’s all still just an escape. A cliche. I’d rather be moved. There’s enough cliches in the goddamn country songs anyway.