Friday 18 December 2015

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Horn Section

I had an opportunity recently to perform with Beatles tribute band The Fab Fourever for a special show featuring a 6-piece horn section. Fun music with fun costumes to boot!


Wednesday 2 December 2015

Fan Footage of Los Furios

Some video from my most recent performance with Los Furios.




Wow.These guys really shook it up. Vancouver's Los Furios
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Tuesday 29 September 2015

New Video from No Island

Check out No Island's take on an iconic song by The Guess Who, featuring yours truly on bass clarinet.


Sunday 9 August 2015

New Live Photos from No Island

Some new shots from a show I played recently at the Max Cameron Theatre in Powell River, BC.
Check out the rest of them here.





Tuesday 21 April 2015

BETTER DAYS now available!

My band No Island's new album is finally available for sale worldwide!
Check it out at http://music.no-island.com


Wednesday 1 April 2015

One Of These Nights

Woke up to some great news today, No Island won 2nd place in LG 104.3's VanCOVER competition with our rendition of The Eagles' "One Of These Nights". Check it out!

Friday 27 March 2015

Saturday 28 February 2015

Better Days ahead

This spring is shaping up to be a super exciting one with two big album releases!

Los Furios is dropping a new album on April 17, and No Island's long-awaited Better Days that we've been hard at work on for nearly a year will be released on April 21 with a Vancouver CD release show on April 25. 

For a sneak peek, check out http://music.noisland.com


Monday 2 February 2015

2014 in Review

Continuing my annual tradition of waiting for a month before reviewing the previous year, here is my round-up 2014's personal and professional highlights:

  • Performing with Field Study. When I was in University, my first introduction to Vancouver's local indie music scene was Parlour Steps. I attended a number of their shows as I fell in love with the world of live music. I wanted to start my own band, and I made it a goal of mine to one day open for Parlour Steps. By the time No Island had started to come into its own, Parlour Steps had sadly disbanded, but I reached out to their former frontman Caleb Stull and was able to arrange a show with his new project Field Study at the same venue I had gone to see him play at many times before.
  • Opening for The Toasters and The Mad Caddies with Los Furios.
  • The coldest winter tour EVER with No Island. Lessons about the Coquihalla were reenforced.
  • Beginning my association with Lightbulb Vaporizer.
  • Beginning work on a new Los Furios album.
  • Another fantastic summer tour with No Island.
  • And the one thing that dominated 2014: Successfully crowd-funding and recording No Island's first full-length studio album "Better Days". This has been such a massive undertaking, and it's exciting to know that the finish line is now so close.