Download Baby It's Xmas now!

Well this is it. Christmas Eve. The stockings are hung, our tummy's are filled with holiday baking, and the spiced rum is coursing through our veins like a morphine drip.

Earlier this week we spent an hour rehearsing and recording a little holiday duet written and performed by our beloved friend Julia McDougall (www.juliaandherpiano.com)

It feels a little loose and rough, but so do we after all of the festive "cheer" we've been taking in this week.

Download HERE : www.myspace.com/thelibraryvoices

Wishing all the best to you and yours,
Michael, Carl, Mike, Amanda, Paul, Eoin, Brennan, Karla, & Julia.

Happy Holidays from Library Voices (and NXEW)

Where does the time go?

Has it really been a decade since Magnetic Fields released their masterwork 69 Love Songs.

Despite the fact we're all a little grayer and a little rounder, it still feels like only yesterday we were standing on the doorstep of Y2K. Armed with bottled water and canned goods we braced ourselves for a digital meltdown. Stephen Merritt's prolific triple-album served as our soundtrack, a record so vast and comprehensive that Dave Eggers likened it to David Foster Wallace's sprawling Infinite Jest. Somehow singing along to "I Don't Want To Get Over You" just made it a little easier to swallow the fact that not only had we still not colonized space, we were still light years away from the hover-boards and time travel promised to us 15 years prior by Back To The Future.

As our gift to you, in hopes we can all share some love this holiday season, we would like you have have our rendition of the Magnetic Fields 'Book Of Love'.

Download it here.

Wishing the best to you and yours this holiday season,
Library Voices

CBC RADIO 3 BUCKY AWARD SHORT-LIST

It was announced today that we have been short-listed for a CBC Radio 3 Bucky Award in the category of "Best Live Act"

We'd be flattered if you considered taking a moment out of your day over the next week to vote on our behalf.

http://radio3.cbc.ca/buckyawards/vote

Much Love,
LV

PHOG

Some photos taken by Cristina Naccarato at the always awesome Phog Lounge in Windsor a few weeks back. She also has some great photos of Rah Rah on her blog. http://www.crustina.blogspot.com/
Oh and hey we made the CBC3 Bucky Awards Shortlist. Neato!

Home And Halloween

We are back in Regina. Thanks so much to everyone who helped make it such a wonderful tour, from Victoria to Charlottetown and back to the prairies again. We met so many wonderful people and bands and I can honestly say that every show was wonderful to play, whether it was to packed houses at the Legion in Calgary and the Seahorse Tavern in Halifax or to 20 wonderful people and bar staff in Lethbrigde. We are going to miss In-Flight Safety and Julie Fader so much! We couldn't have asked for more fantastic people to share a tour with.


What did you do for Halloween? We played a rather ridiculous party in Barrie, Ontario at The Mansion. What a night! From what I remember. Our two 'Best Ontario Friends Forever' (BOFFs?) Caitlyn and Matthew were on hand and shared this photo with us. Also, I was bored before our show in Hamilton so I recorded a Vangelis-inspired version of Kundera On The Dance Floor in our hotel bathroom. Yes, the same hotel that had the Hooters attached to it. I've called it the Kundera Caitlyn Mix. Thanks to Mike for help tweaking the keyboards and thanks to Caitlyn and Matthew for the fun times!

Check it out:
Kundera Caitlyn Mix

Montreal At Le Petit Campus

Bucky Award Nominations

It has been over 24 hours and I can still feel the effects of watching Paranormal Activity. If you have an open mind, an inclination towards fear and a yearning for being freaked out I can't recommend this movie enough. After seeing it last night I couldn't sleep for hours and wound up waking up in the bathroom of our hotel in the middle of a sleepwalk. Yikes!

As posted on our facebook, thank you to everyone who has nominated us for the CBC Radio 3 BUCKY AWARDS BEST LIVE ACT. We won a Bucky last year for Best New Band Name and it would rule to get nominated for another one. Just a reminder, to let cbc3 know who you liked seeing live the most (oh and there are also tonnes of other Bucky Award nominations that can be made) you can post on their website:
http://radio3.cbc.ca/

You can also email:
feedback@cbcradio3.com

And you can twitter. I'm not exactly sure how this whole twitter thing works yet. Maybe I'll ask Amanda about it tomorrow.

For the record here were my favorite live acts of the last year:
a.)Woodhands/The Rural Alberta Advantage (I can't choose between them for the life of me!)
b.)Zeus (eeeeggaaaddffffppptttthhh!!)
c.)Rah Rah (oh and hey you can nominate their song "Duet For Emma Lou" for the Most Canadian Song Bucky Award. I'm going to.)
d.)Great Bloomers
e.)Spiral Beach (These kids slay.)

-Carl

PS. We've all been sick at some point during this tour. Here's the aftermath from a recent show:
PPS. We recently shot a music video for Drinking Games in Regina. It should be finished in December.