Thursday, March 17, 2011

C'est What?

Charge of the Light Brigade is playing C'est What next Wednesday, March 23rd. We'll be hitting the stage with Garage Baby for a night of power-pop-punk tomfoolery. Also kick-assery. Doors are at 9pm, Garage Baby's on at 9:30pm, and Charge will hit the stage at 10:30pm. $5 gets ya the best seat in the house, anywhere you can hear us. :)

If you can't make it down, you can still hear the whole thing, live-streamed from C'est What's music site. The live radio feed button is at top right.

See ya there!



Tuesday, March 15, 2011

World's worst blogger

Well, I guess I should accept the title. I'm sure there's scads worse out there. But nevertheless, I hang my head in moderate shame for the dearth of posting.
We've been busy!

We have, actually. Charge of the Light Brigade's full-length album The Defiant Ones is out now, and it's been getting some great reviews. If you haven't seen 'em, here's a few:

Alex Young, Lithium Magazine - "The songs on 'The Defiant Ones' are held together with heartbroken melodies wrapped up in Sneyd’s ravaged vocals that will leave speechless anyone searching for Canada’s next indie rock sensation."

T.O. Snob's Music - "A solid, no excuses rock record."

We're still even picking up reviews for our debut EP:

Trick w/a Knife - "Take me out a razor blade: Charge of the Light Brigade kills it."

We had a great release gig for The Defiant Ones at Mitzi's Sister, playing with our most populous incarnation yet. I hit the stage with Marc on keys, Jason on bass, Owen on drums and two great horn-players, Leland Whitty on sax and Martin Matuszczak on trumpet. The sound was massive. Here's a live video of the title track (the sound is rough, distorted to fuck, but you get the idea.):





Having the lot of us up there giving our all felt sooo good. Got a great response and we can't wait to get out and put the magic on display some more. If you missed Mitzi's, our next gig is at C'est What in Toronto on March 23rd. We'll be back to a leaner band, but it's still gonna be ass-spankin' awesome.

We've got a bonafide music video coming, too, for "Charge!!" That's just a few days away, and it's shaping up to be a fun little slab of in-your-face rockness. Should have a revamped web-site shortly as well.

So there's been no laurel-resting 'round here, leastways no-how. And I'll have more to report to you lusty brigadoons, well before another season has passed by. That's a promise.