Hey everyone!

We are going to be doing two more shows at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre’s Culture Lab – on March 11 and 12.  We will preview alot of the stuff from our our new album, due out March 23.

Seating is limited so please grab tickets early – see you there!

And ps. rest of Canada – we are going from Vancouver all the way to St. John in a month, so we will be seeing you soon…

It’s here!

The first single off our new album, ‘Eccentrically We Love’ (due out March 23) is here! It’s called ‘All this Trouble’. You can download it for free from our myspace: www.myspace.com/canadianfugitives

or from our release page at Killbeat Music:

www.killbeatmusic.com/thefugitives

Cross-Canada tour dates are coming soon! And, hey, check out the new album art. Wow! We love Colin Craig www.thirdfloorleft.com and Evil Patrick www.evilpatrick.ca

Hey everyone!

The Fugitives are playing our next show in Vancouver at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. It will be January 24th in the culture lab. There is extremely limited seating so please grab your tickets in advance. You can get tickets from the cultch here:
http://www.thecultch.com/content/view/251/353/

It will be an awesome, theatrical, intimate show. Hooray! See you there.

1. Montreal: Le Divan Orange. We played with The United Steelworkers of Montreal, and dear lord, the place was PACKED. Big ole’ thrust stage, thrusting into the arms of drunk fans. We felt like Gogol Bordello. We were onstage for 30 seconds, and instantly drenched in sweat. Ah-mazing. Also amazing to note that we have fans in Montreal, because high school students we played for in Vancouver have migrated to Montreal to be college students! 9:00am shows at senior secondary schools are the seeds of screaming choruses in Montreal. We LOVE it.

2. Moosejaw (?), Truck-stop: Adrian, Babs and Steve are released from the car. Adrian and Babs buy big, fake ray bans, in red, and shiny, shiny black. The three then run a race from the gas station to the gas station sign, demonstrating their great hearts, and pitiful fitness. Afterward, they pretend to be airplanes. Knee-kicks! Jumping Jacks! Pretending to be horses! Brendan looks on in embarrassment, unsure if he will have to fight big, beefy truckers, to defend his weirdo band-mates.

3. The Canadian Spoken Word Festival. Oh, come on, how heart-warming to play for all of our friends from poetry across Canada, and to realize that we all have been hanging and traveling and knowing each other for years? Seriously amazing to perform for our community. And to eat 5 or 6 breakfasts a day.

4. Watching “Kissing Jessica Stein” with Elyse in London, Ontario. We took a rare night in after the show. Instead of boozing it up, we cuddled slumber party styles, as a neurotic Jewish girl flitted about with the hottest bisexual woman in the world. “Oooooh, I couldn’t possibly kiss you, it repulses me…oooh, but I want to…no, I don’t want to…I want to…” For chrissakes, have sex with the hot bisexual woman already, you neurotic, neurotic Jessica Stein!

5. Illan from Nanaimo feeding us pre-show at his restaurant, The Hungry Camel. Very possibly the best food of the tour. Hey! And it turns out that there are amazing, fun people to hang out with in Nanaimo, and that you can have great shows, and not go home lonely, and miserable, hating the world because no one came to your show…People came! THANK YOU, Ilan! And then we almost got into not one, but TWO fist-fights! Culture and violence, late night pizza, and cover bands! Nanaimo, we knew you not!

6. Brendan McLeod turning 30 in Midway, British Columbia. Brendan drove Babs through a snow storm on his 30th birthday so that they could perform a couple of high school shows in Grandforks and Midway. They had his birthday dinner at a fast food Greek place, guzzling souvlaki from plastic baskets… At the DQ, the ice-cream girl refused to guess his age, and then presented him his blizzard with a big, campy Happy Birthday song. Not bad.

7. Lydia’s, Saskatoon: By this point we are traveling with Kinnie Starr, who is HA-larious. We all start saying things like “it’s time to shut’er down.” “Ya, giv’er.” “That’s our ‘effin’ guitar, eh?” We play two bar-band sets, going on at midnight, playing ’til 2 am. Our encore is “Sandwiches,” by Fred Penner, which the Saskatoon-ites manage to mosh to. Oh man, but they get’er done in Saskatoon. Best Saskatchewan show, EVER.

8. We DRIVE. We drive from Vancouver to Calgary. Calgary to Brooks, Alberta. Brooks, to Winnipeg. We drive from Winnipeg to Saskatoon. Saskatoon to Edmonton. Edmonton to Canmore. Canmore to Calgary. Calgary to home. By the time it’s over, we rack up 5,300 k. According to mapquest, you could drive from Victoria to Fort St. John in just about that many kilometers (if you take a short-cut through Michigan). Into one, average-sized station wagon, we fit: 2 hard guitar cases, 1 hard banjo case, 2 soft guitar cases, one accordion, 1 merch bin, 6 suitcases, 4 lap-tops, a snack cooler, and 5 people. By the end of the trip, we have discovered that we are invincible and made of light. Or pain. Depending on the giddiness of the moment. Kinnie Starr does hilarious porn impersonations, Adrian does Werner Herzog, and Daniel Day Lewis in “There Will Be Blood.”

9. We come home. We release our EP at the Biltmore. 300 people join us. Oh dear, we love you Vancouver.

10. Dylan Ballentyine ROCKS our new t-shirts. The Fugitives realize a months long dream, and have team t-shirts made. Fans can pick between supporting: Team Accordion, Team Banjo, Team Triangle-Thing, and Team Straight White Male with a Guitar. They are really cool, and we like the opportunity to compete and talk smack about each other. Obviously, Team Accordion is the best. Obviously.

Epilogue: December 7th finds us in the studio for a month making our next album, due out in March. We are delirious with the coolness of the people who will be playing with us on it: Veda Hille, Kinnie Starr, Jesse Zubot, Skye Brooks, endless gangs…And, Lordy, we are excited to work with Matthew Rogers for an entire month. Guys. Steve Charles is playing the banjo on “City of Rain” right now, and it is wicked. We are excited about the surprises we have in store for you. We are a little bit kooky. We are little bit lotta tired. We are very happy. See you soon, and Merry Holidays.

Hearts!

The Fugitives

Hey everyone!

Wowsers, thanks for an amazing Canada wide tour in support of the EP! We had a great time this fall and really feel like we’ve played our best shows as a band ever!

We are so psyched that we only took a one day break after tour before heading back into the studio. We’re there right now with producer/engineer/cookie eater extraordinaire Matthew Rogers. Skye Brooks is in right now laying down drums to start us off and he’s killing it.! We have some amazing guests in on the full length, including Kinnie Starr and Veda Hille.

We will try to post some video updates. Until then, track us on twitter and facebook. We are uber excited to finish up this album and play it for you guys. See you soon!

This is crazy- someone started a movement against our beloved member Adrian called GLYNN IS SIN! Holy sh##.!!
However, it is also amazing. And i think we all need to join it. Yes? Yes!—–
HERE’S WHAT WE GONNA DO, IN 3 STEPS:

1. If you’re on Facebook, JOIN THE ‘GLYNN IS SIN’ GROUP: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=186223442582

2. Copy this link to the INSANE VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qNNANaJc7U , or download it here: http://motionformusic.com/604/glynn/Glynn-is-sin-preview.mov

3. You can start now, but on TUESDAY AFTERNOON between 2-6pm PST we’re gonna SPREAD THE ANTI-GLYNN MOVEMENT EVERYWHERE!!!
This means link the video, embed the video, spread anti-glynn slogans and do this ESPECIALLY ON THE PEAK FANPAGE (below), but also on the ADRIAN GLYNN FANPAGE and even your own Facebook/Twitter. As many times as you can in one afternoon!

Peak Fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/#/thepeak?ref=ts
Glynn Fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/#/adrianglynn?ref=ts

SO THAT’S THIS TUESDAY, 2-6PM PST, SPREAD THE VIDEO, SPREAD THE SLOGANS, BRING DOWN GLYNN,
LET’S MAKE THEM TALK ABOUT IT ON THE AIR!!!

GLYNN IS SIN! MAKE LOVE, NOT GLYNN! BETTER DEAD THAN GLYNN! GLYNN IS EATING OUR CHILDREN! TAKE ONE ON THE GLYNN! GLYNN MUST BE STOPPED! GLYNN SHOT JFK! GLYNN SHOT REAGAN! GLYNN THOUGHT ABOUT SHOOTING BUSH! IT’S THE END OF THE GLYNN AS WE KNOW IT! STOP GLYNN-BAL WARMING! GLYNN STOLE CHRISTMAS! GLYNN IS SLOW DEATH!!!

watch?v=6qNNANaJc7U

Hey Vancouver Movie Fans!

The Fugitives will be doing special pre-screening performances at 5th Avenue Cinemas on Nov. 10th and 11th to promote our upcoming EP launch (Dec.5th @ The Biltmore). We will be performing live before the 7:20 pm and 9:25 pm screenings of “The Men Who Stare at Goats” on Tues, Nov 10. On Wednesday, Nov. 11 we will put on our intellectual, romantic comedy hats, and perform ahead of the 7:00 pm and 9:15 pm screenings of “An Education”. Read about the movies at: www.festivalcinemas.ca,

Guys! These pre-screening shows are always a fun social experiment (ie. initial audience confusion), and an excuse to go see great movies, while supporting your wonderful, local, and independent theatre chain. It is also a chance to catch the music video for “Breaking Promises” on the big screen. Yes! Our video will be showing before movies at all Festival movie theatres for the month of November. So, buy your tickets and show up early for some extra show! It will be rad, and we will eat popcorn. SO much popcorn.

So many thanks to Festival Cinemas for this!

See you at the movies,

The Fugitives

Some of you have heard, but our newest member, Adrian Glynn, is involved in BC’s big Peak Performance Project and is trying to win 150Grand in music grant money!

Part of the competition is simple online voting, and Adrian needs your help- he’s all alone against six-piece bands of computer geniuses! It’ll take 10 seconds. Just go here &http://www.peakperformanceproject.com/?page_id=111 vote Adrian Glynn Then do it on a different computer. Then tell your friends! (Okay, so maybe 2 minutes). Voting is open until November 30th.

Help Glynn Win!!

Thanks, pretties.