At long last...

What's up, Without The Effers? Sorry it's been so long since we last updated, we've been super busy doing boring stuff, which gives us about zero ammunition to drop on this beautiful blog.  A quick summary? We are working on some new music, a website, a photoshoot, a logo, some mascots, a story, manicures, a really cool live show, and Burns' incontinence.  All is going really well except for the last one - I don't think he can be cured.

We played a few shows at the Viper Room, back to back weeks.  I just wanna drop a huge thanks to those guys, Roli, Gord, all the girls who work there and look pretty awesome and also serve well too, and especially everyone who came out! The shows were killer, sound was deadly, audience participation was outstanding, and I didn't get athlete's foot!  A success!

We've got another show coming up August 12 at the Ironwood, it's a benefit for a good cause.  I'll put the details in our tour section.  You should definitely come out and support awesomeness, as well as the music.

I think that's all for now.  Look for our new website to be up by the end of August, and some shows in large quantity around the same time.  If you want to see Adrian nekkid, look for that too.  He really likes to lose his shirt.

As always, you guys ROCK!  Thanks for all the support, we love you and couldn't do any of this without you (or ourselves), so huge gratitude to you and us!  WTF OUT!!!!

Blake

Friday The 13th

We've got another show...TONIGHT! We know, it's really short notice. It came as a surprise to us, too. We've been in contact with a few promoters and venues and one of them contacted us two days ago. They're putting on a Friday the 13th show and it should be siiiiick!! You can follow this link to check out The New Black Centre or more details on our Facebook page .

Just to keep ya'll in the loop, the band has started to practice extra hours and we're making plans for studio recording and a lot more shows. We're still looking for some logo ideas, so keep that in mind.

Thanks to all for your on going support!

Prepared to be dazzled...

We've got some great news. So buckle up. If you happen to be in the car... or wearing a seat belt belt... If not, just listen. Without The Fall will be at The New Black Centre, this Saturday @ 6:00pm. Check out the big event on Facebook! We're super excited to debut some new songs, a new drummer, and Burns on the guitar! 

This is going to be a sick show!!! Don't miss out on this sweet event!!

In other news, Without The Fall needs a logo. If anyone out there has any ideas, or knows someone else who might, let us know!! You can e-mail us at : withoutthefall@gmail.com mmmmkaaayy???

We're also currently trying to get some songs together for the X92.9 radio contest. The dead line is quickly approaching!! Wish us luck and we'll keep you posted! ;)

See you on Saturday!!!

And then there were...still four. But different jobs. And hopefully soon five.

Okay, we had a jam last night, just the guitars.  Adrian, Blake, Burns (Christine was there for managerial duty and moral napping).  it was

AWESOME.

Burns is gonna be our new lead guitarist in six months, when I get demoted to rhythm (if I'm still allowed to be in this band by then).

Anyway, Burns shreds, and has amazing ideas for harmonies and rhythms and whatever, we came up with some sick stuff, and the old stuff sounds way better. Adrian can make the bass play bass stuff now, and it won't sound empty while there's lead playing. So I am effing juiced out of my mind.  This, combined with our (hopefully) new drummer may be exactly what we need to gain another few levels, and become professional musicians.


Anyway, I have to go to bed, but I don't think I'll sleep because this is too RAD.

Laters.

Captain Teabag Jones

Warriors

BATTLE OF THE BANDS. TOMORROW NIGHT.


This will be the third show we've played in under a month that is associated with a battle of the bands competition. (p.s... the title of this post would be my attempt at humor. get it? battle? warriors?... I've been watching too much Xena) This particular battle will be held in the south. 30 Everstone Blvd SW, to be exact. Attend or be all sides equal. Man, I'm on a roll today.


Currently, we've been looking into getting a new drummer so that Burns can pick up a guitar. We've wanted to add another guitar and since the guys know this guy who was a guy from high school that would fit in well with us guy's, we have done our best to recruit said guy. Guy plays drums. *Guy = Bryan Rumsey* Hopefully we'll have him up to speed and playing soon. We're pretty excited to have him on board.


We've still been having acoustic jams to write more music. So, stay tuned. We've got some siiiickk stuff coming your way :)


Over and out.

The Epic Battle

Whoa. Where to begin?

The band has been crazy busy lately! As you may already know, Without The Fall competed in a battle of the bands competion put on by the U of C's "Gig Club". The preliminary night was this past Wednesday and the finals took place on Saturday night. Both shows were held at the Marquee Room in the Uptown theatre. The venue was pretty sick and the sound made it even better. 

The band put a lot of time and effort into practicing before the show. Between crazy school schedules, work, and attempts to maintain social lives, the band was fitting in as many practices as possible....

Hmmm??? Wait a second......

That's it Paige! From the diaphragm! Perfect posture!

Wednesday night's show was killer! Spiderman's Calvary started off the night with an awesome set and Bear Fight followed with an insanely, high energy, performance. The two bands did an amazing job of getting the crowd pumped up to here Without The Fall. As part of the show, we had two volunteers approach the stage, eagar to win some prizes. Each contestant was given a can of SPAM and the object was to see who could eat the most spam before the song ended. To make a processed meat story as short as possible, let's just say the whole place stunk like a SPAMtastic night! Both contenders won demo CD's, t-shirts, and....SPAM :) Dangerman, then swooped in to finish the night with a bang! All in all, an awesome night!!

Saturday night was also amazing. Columbian Necktie got the night going with a mind blowing, death metal, set. Spiderman's Calvary kept the fun times and energy going and Sidewalker's followed with some awesome music! Without The Fall finished the night with a high energy, grin bearing, toe tapping, booty shaking, fist pumping, lip smacking, roof on fire, performance. Also, there was pickle juice involved. Instead of spam, there was two giant jars of pickle juice. Two guys volunteered for this great challenge but wimped out at the moment of truth. Instead, they sent up two girls in there place. It was AWESOME!! These two girls downed these jars of pickle juice. Garlic chunks and all!

Sidewalker's were the victors of the night. However, we did not leave empty handed. These shows were a great opportunity for us to have our music heard and get it tighter than ever. We also made some great contacts and met some amazing people! 

Coming up, Without The Fall is participating in another battle of the bands. It will be on March 4th, 30 Everstone Blvd SW, at 7:00pm. SO, BE THERE!!! :)

Thanks for all the support and to anyone who came out last week!!


p.s...
Blake went to a show in Boise, Idaho. Maybe if we're lucky, he'll share with us his experiance and the epiphanys he had.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
Elvis Presley

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
Jimi Hendrix

Slowly But Surely

Hey guys, it's been a while

We've been hard at work.  We took some time off over the holidays, and it hurt. Our first practice as a full band was BRUTAL.  We all forgot how our songs went.  A couple hours solved everything, but we've definitely realized the value of consistent practice.

As of right now, we have eight songs complete!  We've been writing a LOT, and we're getting excited about the new stuff.  We've decided to take a little twist; we're blending old fifties 'lounge' type jazz with our typical poppy rockmetal.  It's really interesting, but we freakin love it, and think you will too.

Hopefully.

Adrian confessed his undying love for me the other day.  Makes it a little awkward, because we work together and work out together (brings a whole new meaning to all those 'good-games' he keeps giving me), but I think I can handle it. Although the tour this summer will have us living in a van...tight quarters...

Paige is super bust with school, so finding time to jam is tough, but we're still getting two or three shots in a week, which is pretty productive.  Two acoustic jams (that's where the writing happens), and one full band to finalize and solidify everything we've written.  It's going really well.

We need a new drummer!  We kicked burns out for being too hairy (if you've seen burns sans shirt, you'll understand completely). Actually, we didn't.  But we need two guitars, and Burns wants to pick it up. He's been playing for years, so the transition from acoustic to rhythm electric should be easy.  But with Boonie as axeman, we'll need someone to pick up his percooshion.  Do you know anyone?  Adrian and I have a buddy - Bryan Rumsey - who we thought would be a good fit.  Also, Andrew Palmer was a name that came up.  Anybody out there have any suggestions?  We obviously want someone who's pretty decent at the instrument - technically sound, you could say.  As long as they can keep a beat and use two kick pedals at the same time, we're good.  What we're really concerned about is personality.  Most importantly, we want someone who we'll get along with, who will on the same musical page as us, and who isn't super annoying.  Do you know someone like that?  Washboard abs is a plus.  And a nice smile.  Anyway, if you have any ideas, let us know!  Shoot us an email (withoutthefall@gmail.com), send the group a message on FB, send any of us an email, or leave a reply in the comments below (I think we have comments set up...do we?).

Okay, this has been a LONG post, but I'm almost done. Two more things

1) We have a new song on the myspace!  Myspace.com/withoutthefall  Check that crap out, the new one is one of our harder songs, it's a kind of a murder mystery love story.  One of our favorite songs we have, actually.  It's kind of long, but TOTALLY worth it.  Swing over and give it a listen.

2) We have a show!  U of C Gig Club (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31930893364) is hosting a battle of the bands , to which we have been invited!  We'll be playing February 16th at 8:00 PM at the Marquee Room (http://www.theuptown.com/).  This is a pretty big event, there will eight bands paying over two nights, then the finalists duke it out head-to-head in an octagon cage-match of musical annihilation. Winner plays bermuda shorts day and gets some radio time or something like that.  It's gonna be a serious deal, so MAKE SURE YOU CHECK IT OUT!  We're debuting some new material that will blow your faces off.

Alright, I think that about does it for the longest post of the year.  In summary:

1) FIND US A DRUMMER!

2) LISTEN TO THE NEW MUSIC (www.myspace.com/withoutthefall)!

3) COME TO THE BOTB FEB 16!

4) Keep on rockin', chowders.

Blake out

BIRTHDAYS

This is what happens when you have a birthday and are in a band called Without the Fall.

-Paige

IT"S TOO LOUD!!

     Well fellow followers, here's an update as to what's been going on lately, and pictures to help you feel like you were really there....

Ok, so this is Paige. Not the ghost of Christmas past. We were trying to figure out how to do vocal recording without other sound interference. Just incase you were wondering, this didn't work. Paige could barely breathe.

One night, we went up into the dusty rafters of the studio and practised for

the New Black Centre gig.



Remember that polka-dotted blanket that we set up for Paige to stare at?! Oh, also Blake got some new glasses. Classy, eh? 

Burns, hard at work.

This table was un petite dusty. 

Blake, enjoying the accomplished table dusting.

I don't know what to say... Things get a little crazy... :)

Family picture. How precious.

    As you can see, we've been having alot of fun! But along with all this fun, there's been alot of hard work. Blake recently moved and has set up a jam space in his basement. The band (minus Burns due to business) got together Saturday to write. It was relatively successful. Morning jams can be quiet slow when everyone is still trying to wake up.

    We also completed recording some vocals last week for some more songs that we're stoked to show everyone. If you loved our first two demos, ba-ba-ba-ba-baby you just ain't seen na-na-nothing yet! These new songs are sure to hit your fancy bone.... Fancy bone? Where is ones fancy bone located?

    Hope you're all having a killer new year! Stickin' to those resolutions... enjoying the weather... and all that jazz...

Happy New Year

Greetings children

The new year is upon us.  Having finally recovered from a food coma/hangover, we're ready to get things rolling!  This year has some big things in store for the band:

For those of you who have heard the songs we've made for our demo, don't get too comfortable yet; we have two more on the way.  We're hitting the studio tomorrow (Wednesday the 5th) night to finish the vocal tracks on "Clover" and "Earthquake." A couple hours of mixing and mastering later, and we'll have two new tracks up on myspace for you. For everyone who hasn't heard the demo yet...

http://www.myspace.com/withoutthefall

secondly, with this demo out of the way, we'll have two things on our minds: writing, and shows.

We'll be spending as much time as possible writing new material to melt your faces and blow your ear drums.  We've all been practicing, and an immediate increase in skill has been noticed.  We've been listening to a lot of new music too, so be ready to hear some stuff that is a little different than what you're used to. Don't worry, everything will have that WTF flare.

There are two battle of the bands coming up for us, one in Feb and one in March, so be on the lookout for those, they should be deadly.  Also, now that we have sone tangible (hearable?) songs, we're gonna start shooting demos off to every venue we can think of (if you know of any venues we should play at, or have any connections, let us know! withoutthefall@gmail.com). Our goal is to be playing a show every weekend somewhere in mid-southern alberta, and then take at least a couple weeks to tour Canada this coming summer.  We're freakin excited

Anyway, that's the update for now.  Thanks so much for all the support, everything you guys have done; we wouldn't be here without you.  Feel free to comment and make fun of us, or ship us an email anytime

Rock on kids

Blake

fa la la la la THE DEMO'S DONE!

   Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention. I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. I need all of you, to stop what you're doing and listen...

   TWO DEMO TRACKS ARE NOW OFFICIALLY COMPLETE!! So, it's not horrifying. It's rather exciting. The band put alot of time and effort into these two tracks. We had a dead line to enter a battle of the bands contest, so there was a lot of pressure near the end to put together what we had. Everyone worked really hard to perfect each of their areas of expertise. Blake, then spent countless hours in his home studio mixing it all. Stress aside, it was alot of fun trying to figure out how to record these tracks to make them sound best. Case and point, we ended up sticking Paige in a closet that we picked a dead mouse out of. Not to worry, however, cause Blake bought a polka dotted blanket for sound proofing, and stuck it directly infront of her for something fun to look at! :)
CHECK OUT THESE DEMO TRACKS ON OUR MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/withoutthefall
We've got more songs that we're dying to show you guys. We're hoping to put together a full CD in the near future so keep a look out for that!

   We're looking forward to 2011! Wow.. 2011... that was weird to even type out... Anyway, it should be a year of much rocking out. Stay tuned, cause Without The Fall has got some big plans that will blow your minds!!

Thanks for your continued support! We wish you a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!

Mixing is Suck

So here I am, sitting in my room, trying to mix the two songs we'll have on the demo.  This is no easy task. Who ever thought of mixing, anyway? Cruel and unusual punishment, that's what this is.  Freak.  Getting volumes just perfect, balancing bass so it sounds great in the realm it's supposed to, making crappy guitar parts sound less like crappy.  Add on top of it my complete lack of knowledge about mixing, and my extremely insensitive musical ear, you've got a recipe for SOMEONE DO THIS FOR ME!!!

Gotta get back to work!

Blake

The Demo is near

Greetings, fellow homo sapiens (and anyone else who may be reading). 


I'm sitting at work (don't tell me boss) with nothing to do, listening to the stuff we've been recording, and let me tell you, it sounds AWFUL!


Okay, just a joke. It's not that bad.  I actually kind of like. A lot. I friggin' love it!  I've been learning a few things here and there about recording and mixing (thanks, Google), and the songs are really seeing the fruits of my websurfing. 


The demo is going to be four songs long, and gets progressively harder and more aggressive. We've finished drum tracks on three of them, and (hopefully) will finish the fourth tonight.  Then it's just guitars, bass, and vocals.  The vocals will be tricky, but I'm hoping that we get everything done by the end of next week. Oh wow, how nice that would be!


As soon as the demo's out, we'll be sending to every venue we can possibly think of (mostly in southern alberta, but we wanna hit the road and get touring next summer, so we'll be shipping them all over the country and into the northwestern US), so hopefully we'll have some shows spring up because of it!  We'll also post the demo here, on facebook, and myspace, as well as some live video on youtube (that should be going up pretty quick).  


Oh, and the Tshirts are great!  We've sold 16, and are nearly broken even! If you want a sweet WTF T-shirt, drop me an email or a FB message or a phone call or a text or a snail mail letter or a postcard or a sticky note on my bedroom wall or a comment to this post or if you yell really loud i may hear it too.  


That's it for today.  Thanks for keeping up with us, I promise we'll have some music and some more shows for you real soon!


Blake




PS, The show on Friday at the New Black was wicked.  Thanks again to everyone who showed up, who helped out in anyway, who bought a shirt, who yelled "hey" in that one song, or who even thought about coming!

Typing on an iPhone is not what I'd call efficient

I'm sitting on a toilet right now. A toilet in raymond.

Was that relevant? Necessary, even? Nope. But I wanted to tell you anyway.

We've been recording all week, and it's coming along slowly but surely. It's not an easy process, even though it's just a crappy demo and we don't mind a few mistakes. I guess we're all perfectionists and have a tough time accepting the crap of a crappy recording.

The toughest part of the whole process is vocals! How the freak does one record vocals that sound any good? Anyone out there have any secrets for BEGINNING recorders? We could use some help.

Oh, I almost forgot! I brought a copy of one of our songs down to Raymon with me, and played it on my parents theatre system. We threw some 808 blasts in there, and it sounds AWESOME! it's like a T-Rex tromping around Jurassic park, eating lawyers and flipping cars. Freakin wicked!

Well, that's about it for now! CNt wait to see you at the show on Friday, Its gonna be rad!

Blake

Getting PUMPED!

     Ok, it's about that time. The moment you've all been waiting for.... THAT'S RIGHT!! We've got a show booked! We'll be playing at the New Black Centre on November the 19th. Be there, or you shall surely be square.
     This new jam space has been sweet for full band practices. However, we're still trying to find a more permanent place to reside.  We've been working really hard on perfecting the new songs we've come up with. We've hit a couple of minor bumps in the road. One of which was somehow discovering a dark, ominous, black hole in music. It's a good thing we all get along so well now, because if we found this black hole earlier in the life of the band, it would have turned us all against one another! lol Not really, but it's a touchy subject for sure. It's a debate of where to come in with lyrics on what part of the measure. We have recorded both ways of playing it, and if you would like to give us your feedback, come find my phone and I'll play it for you.
     We're also hoping to record verrrryyy soon. Thursday, being a holiday, we might actually get the chance to spend some serious time on this!
     So mark the 19th on your calenders, day timers, phones, diaries, hands, faces... where ever you'll look so you won't forget! We'll see ya'll then!

This is sick

Okay, I don't have a ton to write about right now, but I'm totally in the mood, and had to put something down.

We had a deadly practice on Saturday (Christine put up the documentaritative pictures).  The songs are coming along really nicely.  We've got five complete, two in the works, and a few more that will come into being as soon as the other two are finished. We're all really excited about them, and we hope you are too.

We're currently in the market for a kick-A jam space; somewhere we can use any time of the day or night without getting on anyones nerves.  Do you know a place? Let us know!

Not much else to write here, except for the fact that I (and I think I can speak for everyone else in the band) am CRAZY excited. The band seems to be taking off, making some great progress. Thank you to everyone for your support, we really couldn't be doing any of this without you!  Keep reading the blogs, coming to our shows, asking for recordings (We're working on that, but keep putting the pressure on), finding us shows, anything you can to help us get moving would be GREATLY appreciated.  Thanks again

Blake

PS I'm eating hardboiled eggs at 1:35 AM.  They're delicious.

Saturday Jam.... or was it jelly?

     Check it out! The location for our full, electric jam was in a sweet shop that we were able to utilize for the day.

The sound at the beginning was a little off because the space was so big, but we got nice and friendly (as we usually do) and squished the set back a bit, making it a pretty sweet place to let the creative juices flow.

I had alot of fun taking some pics!! I'm just that creepy groupie that comes to all the jams and sits on the side, contributing a joke or a comment or some feedback every once and a while. ;) I was just using a PS moblie app so dont judge... I am in no way a skilled photographist.

Meet Kobe. This is our mascot/ replacement-if-anyone-sucks/ Paige's dog. We love him. He's an important member of the band.

Over and out.
Christine

Reminissions

Did I spell that right?


I just got home from the dance that made our halloween show an impossibility.  Adrian, Christine and I drove home from the dance together, totally bummed that we couldn't play today.  The halloween atmosphere is the perfect venue for some deadly hardpopmetalrock music. 
    That being said, we've been writing like crazy, and I think (hope?) that everyone will really like what we've been coming up with. We all like it a lot. Some of it is not what any of us would expect; we've been playing with some jazz and swing music.  Should be great though.
    Christine is correct, Prechorus Jones is driving me mad. I'm sure you'll see why soon (hopefully mid November, we may or may not have a gig with The Rocket House). 
    Well, I've got to be up in five hours, so I'm gonna hit the sack. We've got a jam sesh tomorrow, polish up some songs so we suck a little bit less for the next gig.


Goodnight!


Blake

Any ideas?

Also, Danny Roy is a wizard.
Let me explain.
He expressed to us that the font we had on our blog was amateur and went ahead creating some different font ideas for the band and posted them on his Facebook page. Check them out and give us some feed back! We'd love to hear any other ideas you guys might have for the band as well! Post it on our blog, our FB page, or even our FB group.
Thanks!

Weekend Wonders

      Guess who had a birthday?!! Paige!! She is so old now! She jumped decades. No longer in her teens... in her 20's!! Whoa... We had a jam on the day of her birth (Saturday). Morning practices can be tough, but since we were celebrating the success of Paige not dying for 20 years, we brought fruit, cinnamon buns, and ice cream cake which made things bareable. We planned a jam session at the stake centre so we could do a full set practice, but disaster struck when Burns got called into work. So, instead we decided to jam at Paiges house and just do an acoustic practice and put some lyrics to a song we've been working on.
     Which brings us to Prechorus Jones. He's this CRAZY guy that we've been writing a song about. Turns out, he's also driving US crazy. We worked on this song for the majority of the day, having fits of laughter, brain farts, talking about non-sence, and coming to no conclusion. Prechorus will slowly drive us all mad. I'm sure of it.
     Blake is still regurgitaing a ton of music. As posted earlier, he's not sleeping. Just laying down tracks on garage band. He'll then bring the music to practices and Burns, Adrian, and Paige will come up with some sick lyrics and melody. This process seems to be working really well, and they should be ready to record some demos so we can send them out to some venues and get playing more shows!
Continue to stay tuned for more, WITHOUT THE FALL.
That's all for now folks!