Damnably presents Julie Doiron (Jagjaguwar)

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Damnably is proud to present Julie Doiron/Construction and Destruction/Former Utopia plus guests and the Silver Rocket Dj's.

Julie Doiron
http://www.myspace.com/juliedoiron

Julie Doiron started playing guitar (later switching to bass) in seminal art grunge act Eric’s Trip at age eighteen in 1990, then, shortly before the band’s break-up in 1996, she released a solo album under the name Broken Girl. Now, nine solo albums later, Julie has proved herself to be one of Canada’s most impressive recording artists, blessed with an iconic voice, guitar and songwriting style all her own. She has also collaborated with The Tragically Hip, Wooden Stars, Herman Düne, Okkervil River, and Phil Elverum AKA Mount Eerie, but to be honest she is much much more interesting and better than all these put together.

Julie Dorion is also pure DIY and started her own label ‘Sappy Records‘ back in 1990 and then her very own annual Sappy Festival in 2006.

Her new album I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day (Jagjaguwar) has garnered radio play on both BBC Radio 2 and 6 and is one of the albums of the year so far.

Julie will be playing as a 2 piece with Dick Morello on drums-possibly swopping around for a few of the songs they also play together as Calm down it’s monday

“Doiron, once of Eric’s Trip, has produced an album of boundless optimism for the post-Bush age” Uncut

“she enunciates with a child’s relish, tonguing vowels as though they’re glazed in jam. her voice apple blossom rich, the melody capacious” Plan B

“Yet it’s a blissful record from a contented soul.” Subba-Culture

“tender and utterly unaffected singing that chimes with the deceptively direct lyrics. Short sour-sweet and a near perfect album for spring” Tourdates.co.uk

Construction & Destruction.
http://www.myspace.com/davidtrenaman
Partners Colleen Collins and David Trenaman live in and work out of an old house by the sea in the rural wilds of Port Greville, Nova Scotia, where they record most of their work in a studio they call, affectionately, The Quarantine. Here, spurred by the creative breeding ground they inhabit at the feet of the ancient Cobequid Mountains and the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean's highest tides, the ragged and open northern geography elicits musical explorations of inner geographies. Their third album, video et taceo, due for release in September 2009.

Construction & Destruction have played the Pop Montreal, the Halifax Pop Explosion, and Sappyfest and with Julie Doiron, Dog Day, and Eric's Trip.

"Power tools after dark." - Sappyfest

"Sparse, unkempt and challenging." - Wolves, Hawks and Kites

"Lo-fi gold that can be grouped with the greats." - The Coast

Former Utopia

www.myspace.com/formerutopia

Radio 6/Resonance FM featured East London born, X-Lazarus Clamp bassist is a genre defying intelligent edgy song smith that producing the kind of mortally sad, black humoured alt. folk that reminiscent of Lambchop, Mountain Goats and on occasion Shellac. He has gigged with Chris Brokaw, The Thalia Zedek band, Swell, Mick Turner (Dirty Three) P.W Long, David Grubbs and backed Damo Suzuki

“like (smog) on holiday in shellac” Drowned in Sound

Damnably just released a 3 track split 7’ featuring Former Utopia, Michael L. Clamp & The Philanthropists ( plus 2 bonus tracks on a CD) available below.

Damnably is almost 3 years old and we frequently got gig of the week in Time Out, The Independent, and were even voted Club of the week in The Guardian! plus airplay and plugs on XFM/Radio One and Radio 6 from John Kennedy, Laura Laverne, Huw Stephens, Rob Da bank, Steve Lamacq and Tom Robinson.

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