I’m in LA at my great friend, Piet Suess’s place. He lives in a converted warehouse/studio space where we shot a crazy video today for the song, Leavin’ Alone (on the new record coming out in September). My day was spent primarily in a bathtub full of milk being pushed around by two women dressed as geishas while a soot-covered madman representing an extension of my self danced in shadows on the wall… no, i’m not going to explain any further, you’ll just have to wait for the video. And we were lucky to have the amazingly talented Brandy Zdan of Twilight Hotel in the video too (she sings on the track). So many thanks to all the cast and crew- it was a long day (i just finished mopping milk off the concrete floor) and everyone worked their asses off. I’m a lucky boy. Stay tuned for the finished product, coming soon.

I’m very gleeful to be playing a show this weekend with Portage & Main and David Vertesi at the Red Room in Vancouver. It’s Saturday, April 16th, starts around 8, and advance tickets are available here:  www.westcoastpop.ca

We rolled back into Toronto late last night, left a cheeky snow-storm behind in Peterborough. Now we begin our little Toronto homestand, playing here 4 times in 5 days.

I was supposed to fly into Montreal from Calgary to start our wee tour but a snowstorm had me re-routed to Toronto. i think this is because God wanted me to talk about sex with Adaline for 4 hours. We drove TO to Montreal the next day and spent a long time on the subject including the woes of reproduction as a musician. We’ve come to an exciting decision! Adaline will freeze her Cadbury’s and i my sardines and when we are geriatric we will create the Adaglynn lovechild for all to behold! We will be holding a competition soon for the chance for one of YOUR grandchildren to parent this frozen pop phenom. More details to come.

As you can see, we have had too much time on our hands. But such is the way with touring anywhere in Canada. Time and space. And time. And space. Then some gas and a bathroom break. Then time. Etc. What about the shows? Well, we’ve only played thrice so far. Montreal was a cosy little show in Le Cagibi with the wonderful Brie Neilson- so classy, such great tunes. We each played a set then stayed up till 4 waiting for the pizza to arrive. The next night we played a few songs at Brie’s “Chix Pickin” night at Grumpy’s bar. Gurn from the United Steel Workers of Montreal was working the bar and bought me beers while Adaline did all the work onstage- I’m not a chick so I can’t play Chix Pickin night. Sexist.

And last night we played for a quiet Tuesday audience in Peterborough- singing on each other’s songs for the first time in a couple years. Took us back to the Prettiest Face in Town days. We were followed by an incredible fusion band of complex percussion and horns called Drumhand. Adaline prides herself on the fact that she got up to dance but really she just swayed drunkenly in the corner. But Drumhand was amazing- check them out live in Toronto sometime if you can (that’s where they’re based).
Onward and upward, my friends. Toronto-ho! And get in your applications for the Parent the Future Adaglynn contest! It will close soon.

A bientot.

Glynn

Okay, I know I said I was putting out my record in the Spring. But I am a dirty liar. I like to lie. But here is the truth- it is coming out in the early Fall. For sure this time. I hate truth but that is it.

To make it up to you, I am playing some solo shows in Eastern Canada and Vancouver and I subjected myself to being filmed while singing for your enjoyment..

April 3rd- Montreal
April 5th- Peterborough
April 6,7,&8th- Toronto
SHOW DETAILS ARE BELOW or HERE .

Also, April 16th in Vancouver at Red Room with David Vertesi and Portage&Main for West Coast Pop: www.westcoastpop.ca

And the wonderful people at Green Couch Sessions recently filmed me singing one of my newer songs, “Bruise”, in front of a naked mermaid mural (which doesn’t quite appear in the video)- that’s HERE .

In other news, we had a splendiferous Fugitives tour of Western Canada this month where we braved standard Canadian weather and temperatures, snowshoed in Manitoban wilderness and got to know our wonderful supporting act a little too well, Tanya Davis .

The Fugitives will be in Eastern Canada in June, and then festivals all of July, including Brandon Folk Fest (where i’m also appearing as a solo act), Hillside Folk Fest and big ol’ Vancouver Folk Fest!

And that is the hard candy shell dissolved to reveal the nutshell surrounding the contents of what i’ve been doing which is in the nutshell and please pass the M&Ms, no the peanut ones, thank you.

Current Favourite Songs: I’d Rather Dance With You by Kings of Convenience. Penelope by Pinback.  When You’re Gone by Portage&Main. And everything by Bruce Springsteen.

Current Favourite Book: Kerouac: A Biography by Ann Charters.

I love you! (also not a lie)

Glynn

Green Couch Sessions is a very cool Vancouver institution making great live videos for local artists. I did mine a couple weeks back in the snow in front of a mural of a naked mermaid or something. Check it out here:

Green Couch Session- Adrian Glynn, \”Bruise\”

To read ramblings, thoughts and stories (as well as see photos and videos) of Adrian’s recent travels in Morocco, go here:

www.adrianglynn.tumblr.com

Happy February, it’s sideways raining again, at least in my hometown.

There a few things to tell you.
1. I like you as more than a friend.
2. A new song off my upcoming full-length, Bruise, called “Seven or Eight Days” was featured at the top of the Syfy network’s show Being Human recently in Episode 104. The song is now avail. on Itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/seven-or-eight-days-single/id420545168
3. I think we should get serious.
4. Lots of people in Europe that didn’t know me from Adam thought i was a douchebag after watching my video for “A Lesson to the Rest of You”. That was the point! But just to be safe, we now have a subtitled version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-87QgNsXfQ
5. Did you wear that just for me? Like subconsciously?
6. I started a new blog site where over the next couple weeks I will be posting stories, ramblings and pictures of my travels in Morocco last December. Go here to see episode 1: www.adrianglynn.tumblr.com
7. TOUR! We’re hitting W. Canada with The Fugitives March 2-14th! Dates here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=163803137005661
And I’ll be doing solo shows with Adaline in Ontario/Quebec April 1-14, dates to be posted shortly.
8. Let’s stop lying to ourselves and just give in to our alligator hearts!!

Thanks for reading. Tell your friends. I don’t know, tell em something. Tell em to read the Grapes of Wrath- wow, that book is timeless and so relevant right now. It pretty much describes big business evil in its infancy. And go listen to “American Skin” by Springsteen. That’s my new favourite song.
And sext me. I’m waiting.

~aG

The new song, “Seven or Eight Days” which featured on the Syfy network show, Being Human last Monday (episode 104) is now available on Itunes. Here is the link:

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/seven-or-eight-days-single/id420545168

The song is the first release from the upcoming full-length release, Bruise, due out Spring 2011.

Yeah, it’s the hallmark of Hallmark holidays but here’s a little ditty for you all anyways. A lil Whitney Houston in the  morning..

Happy V.D. from Glynn

Here are the lyrics to 7 or 8 days which aired on NBC’s Being Human on Monday night..

7 or 8 Days

She gone 7, 7 or 8 days

She gone where I don’t even know

Clock like a steam-drill, tearin up the wall

The dog’s in the cellar again

I changed my shirt from a white one to a red

But that was back…I don’t remember when

I’m learnin all the rules that I used to think the fools followed

Back when life was livin for the heart

I’m stumbling to the fridge to find that beer I know I hid, and laughin,

“Ain’t love just like fumbling in the dark”

she gone 7, 7or 8 days

she gone where I don’t even know

at dusk the kids are playing, saying, “Mama, let us stay out”

they still believe that they’ll outrun the sun

the dog’s under the porch-light, sleeping with his one eye open

hopin for some leftover from lunch

when the street-light has begun

and the mothers take their sons

and stow them safe and warm away behind the door

I’m cryin in my plate and I’m trying not to hate the way

the dirt makes faces on the kitchen floor

she gone 7, 7 or 8 days,

she gone where I don’t even know

Lord, take the heart of a woman

And show me where it says that love is blind

Because it watches when you’re sleeping, till you’re snoring

Then she’s creeping down the hallway and away into the night

she gone 7, 7 or 8 days,

she gone where I don’t even know