A few years back NJ and I started a band named Strawman Fallacy with the purpose of annoying as many people as possible. We did quite well for a ragtag group of kids. After several years of lineup changes, spit, silkscreening, basement shows, sneaking over boarders, arguments with shitheads, internet shittalk, injury after injury, and countless hours driving around in a van, we finally wrote this opus.
Like most people in punk we did a small run then let our cd go out of print almost immediately.
Due to the digital revolution we have now made our final masterpiece available for very cheap. The guys at Gorgeous Industries have just digitally re-released Strawman Fallacy's Finale and you can get yourself a digital copy for 5.99.
During the summer some cool dudes from Bite TV decided to do a feature on our little band. This prompted an awkward interview from NJ and I, and a surprisingly casual interview from Tori and Jamie. They filmed us, edited the story together, and sent us a DVD copy of the story. We sat down, watched it, gave each other high-fives, then totally forgot about it.
Yesterday I received an email from one of the cats who put the show together. Our segment is going to air on Bite TV December 1st at 9:25pm. The tv show is called Volume. The first episode can be viewed online here. AUX BETA (scope out part two of Volume and you may see a familiar website). Bite TV is planning on launching a new music channel called AUX and Volume is one of the shows featured on said channel.
I’ve been losing an epic battle with insomnia. I’m awake and bored; it is time for a blog update.
We’re playing a Catholic School, which is perfect since most of the Dance Electric crew still experience intense Catholic-Guilt from years of parental and institutional indoctrination. Every year Our Lady of Mount Carmel Secondary School holds a charity rock show. We had such a wonderful time playing their 2006 show. Hopefully, this show will exceed the fun-factor of the last.
If we get our rears in gear, we should have a special edition t-shirt ready for this show. Remember, blank t-shirts say one thing to the general public: “I listen to Nickleback” or something just as reprehensible. Buy our t-shirts!
Tickets are 10 dollars at the door but you can buy advanced tickets for 8 dollars at Strings Attached in Streetsville. Use the internet sensation Google to get the exact address you lazy assholes.
Here is a flyer and a Facebook event link for all you “computer literate people” (nerds).
Finally, me (this is Theo by the way) and NJ have given up our aspirations of becoming accountants to pursue an additional band. Our new band is called ‘Nations’. Nations features our friends Jay, Scotto, and Ken. You may recognize them from the bands The Smile and Akroid. Unfortunately, they too had to give up their aspirations of becoming accountants to start this band—we may love numbers, but we love rocking a lot more.
Nations' mp3s should be up in a week. In the meantime you can check out The Smile, Akroid, and me and NJ’s old band Strawman Fallacy, on the Gorgeous Industries website.
"Theo napping in our van. Good night sweet prince."
Our infamous van “Death Machine 2.0” has been sold, leaving us vanless. We mourn the loss daily. She was beautiful, as untrustworthy as she may have been. Consequently, we are going to be very selective about our upcoming shows. Until we get our lives together enough to purchase another van, we won’t be playing the bounty of shows that we usually play.
Send pleasantries to this fellow if you see him at one of our shows. We’re leeching off his access to his parents’ van. Sure, he may look like a Rastafarian Jesus, but that’s all the more reason to give him a big hug every time you see him. Thanks Brent, we love you!
Speaking of love, I was surprised today by a message from this cat named Nelson. He used one of our songs in a video he made of him and his friends having a lot more fun than I ever have. This video has thugs taking shots, sexy blonde girls taking hits from bongs, a little kid, white girls flashing gang signs, a water slide, sumo wrestling, and much more.
He used the song “I Don’t Care… I Don’t Care if I live or Die” which is my favourite of the Dance Electric songs (probably due to its striking similarity to every Some Girls song ever written).
Finally, here’s a picture of us when we were on tour with The Arcade Fire.
Welcome to the first of hopefully many Dance Electric blog updates. Here we’ll keep you updated on upcoming shows, merch, tales of woe, and other Dance Electric related things.
