december 28 2005:

final fantasy's new 7" release 'young canadian mothers' is now 
available for pre-order. we pressed 500 copies of this release - so 
act fast...once again here are the details:

FINAL FANTASY: Young Canadian Mothers 7" [EGR007]
Release/shipping date: Jan 11/06

1. This Is The Dream Of Emma & Cam
2. The Sea

3. Spell For A Weak Heart
4. Peach, Plum, Pear

*Both tracks 1 and 2 are entirely new recordings of songs off of 
"Has A Good Home"

**Pressing limited to 500 copies**
  
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october 1 2005:

lots of upcoming events this month. the final fantasy record will 
finally see the light of day. sing that yell that spell are playing a 
number of shows - no they didn't break up. neil is recording with 
mr. mike carman and should have a couple of releases coming up 
in the near future. our friend louis knox barlow is in toronto. also a 
new egr sampler is in the works. grab your favorite sweater and 
enjoy the changing seasons.
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august 8 2005:

wow. that was one hell of a week. despite some scheduling 
problems early on, the egr fest ended up running pretty smoothly. 
our appologies to those eager to see jana hunter, the vermicious
knid and jon rae. they couldn't play for valid reasons. thanks a 
heap to brian borcherdt and sandro perri for coming through in a 
pinch. 

thanks especially to all the bands that played (ken reaume, brian
borcherdt, neil haverty. sandro perri, purple hill, n!fty, final fantasy, 
the wooden stars, bell orchestre, oh bijou & loitering heroes), to 
kevin parnell for lending us his backyard for the BBQ, to shawn,
chris and amy and anybody else involved in making sure the 
venues were booked, to anybody who helped work the door or
merch tables, to the concrete arts. and most importantly, thanks
to everyone who came out and enjoyed some music over the last
few days. how could we ask for a better birthday party?

so, it's sort of like a new year for us now. we're trying to get our
shit together a little more and hopefully some big things will happen
for the label in the next few months. first up, the final fantasy 7".

we spent a little time last week at al p's MSTRKRFT studio 
listening to some of the early mixes and have to tell you that owen
has been cooking up some pretty amazing versions of some of our
favourite songs. owen is off to tour with arcade fire for the next 
couple of months but we'll be working on the 45 while he's gone. 
no official word on the release date but trust us, its coming soon.

purple hill's owen marchildon just left for a western canadian tour
with from fiction. if you see the name listed in your local weeklies,
make sure you go see them. from fiction are one of our favourite
bands and we promise you won't be dissapointed. 

there are new escape goat t-shirts courtesy of mike carman. we 
will post photos once we screen a second run. thanks to everyone
that picked one up over the last few days. 

we'll hopefully add some content to this website over the course of 
the next month. if you need more information than you can find 
here, just email us and ask. 

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july 16 2005:

the details for the 'with friends like these III' have finally started
to sort themselves out. we're sure things will change slightly before
August but figured you might want to know about these shows...


wednesday, august third @ the rivoli
jana hunter, ken reaume & neil haverty

thursday, august fourth @ sneaky dee's
the vermicious knid, purple Hill & awesome

friday, august fifth @ the elmo
the wooden stars, bell orchestre & final fantasy

saturday, august sixth @ location tbc
an acoustic potluck and bbq with performers tba


our thanks to the concrete arts, rms concerts, tim ford, andrew
mccormack and a handful of others for their help in putting this all 
together. all ticket information and posters and the like are still to 
be worked out but we promise to be reasonable. check back for 
details. 

the final fantasy 7" is coming along at a decent pace. we're doing
our best to get it out as soon as possible, though earlier reports of 
a july release may be unfounded. information to come.

samir khan and jeremy gara from weights & measures made a 
really great record called attic salt with their other band kepler.
they will have a release party on july 23rd at the boat in toronto 
(jeremy has arcade fire duties to tend to so he won't be there)
and we think you should go. if you don't, you should hunt down
a  copy of attic salt via troubleman. you won't be sorry.

one last thing.... our friends at the ford plant in brantford have 
put together an absolutely amazing string os shows in mid-august.
if you've never been to this little diamond of a venue, this is the 
perfect opportunity. go here for details and directions. 

that's all for now but things are always brewing. come out to the
festival. we promise you'll have a good time.


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june 28 2005:

owen and leon are currently putting the finishing touches on the upcoming final fantasy seven inch “young canadian mothers”. the record has been slotted for a july release. owen has posted some information (including the tracklisting) on his website.

the long awaited snailhouse/neil haverty seven inch is slowly moving towards completion. good things take time...

work continues on the third annual egr summer event. this year we have joined forces with the toronto arts collective ‘concrete arts’ in organizing a weeklong event (july 30-aug 7). The line up and venues will be posted very shortly.

ryan stanley has two shows coming up in july. he’ll be in waterloo @ the grad house on july 7 th w/ oh bijou and then hamilton @ the casbah lounge on july 13 th w/ ben caplan.

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may 29th 2005:

we have finally got some of the weights and measures footage out of the vault. here's a clip of w&m's last show on august 14 of 2004. enjoy.
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may 17th 2005:

after a few hold ups and some issues with manufacturing, the purple
hill CD is finally done. it turned out great and we will celebrate it
sometime soon with an official release party. but you can get it from bluehouse now if you want it. escape goat mike also made
owen some very awesome t-shirts. it should be up on bluehouse
shortly but for now, email us if you want one. also, read a
little interview with mr. marchildon here. we've also posted an mp3
from his record here.

read a newish review of ryan stanley's record here and a newish
interview with neil haverty here. owen pallett has spent a while on the road with stuart mclean, playing songs for all kinds of new people. he is apparently close to finishing up the final fantasy 7" and we will hopefully put it out berfore mid-summer. we heard some early mixes and think it's gonna be awesome. oh, and if you haven't seen it yet, owen's website is completely strange. we've started thinking about this year's egr weekend, check back
closer to summer for information. we're trying to get our act together with a bunch of things. hopefully news will be a little more frequent than it has been. we're gonna try to keep on this website stuff and finally get all the pages up to date and a little more in depth. give us a little time though.

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february 10th 2005:

first off we’d like to congratulate Jeremy Gara and Owen Pallet ontheir successful tour with The Arcade Fire and their astounding performance on Late Night with Conan O’Brian.

Owen Marchildron is in the process of putting the finishing touches on his Purple Hill record. we hope to have the finished product ready very soon. In the meantime, Owen is off to Chicago to record with From Fiction at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio Studio. we wish them the best and know that the collaboration of Albini and From Fiction will result in an amazing record.

also a reminder that this weekend is Wavelength 250! there will be shows thursday through sunday. all of the lineups are stellar and the cover change is - as always - very reasonable. the escape goat crew will be DJing friday’s show at Lee’s Palace. if you’re there, please make sure to say hello. for more info click here.

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december 22nd 2004: 

thank you to the small ford plant crew for treating us nice and 
coming in from the cold. ryan and neil will both be back soon.
let's hope christmas activities are over and done with by then.
for those who want to 'take home the magic', ryan's carol is here. 

for the brantfordian that was asking about downloadbles, neil 
posted some old mp3s. a couple of comp releases (that you 
might have already heard cause this isn't the first time 
we've pimped them out) and an unreleased track he 
recorded for his grandma's 90th birthday bash. 
you can find them here.  

neil will play at the casbah in  hamilton on the 21st. the 
line-up isn't fully confirmed but one thing is clear -- 
the motherfucking wooden stars are reforming. 
word is they're also playing in toronto on the 20th 
(horseshoe) and a london show is also in the works. 
this is great news, people.

merry whatever.  have fun with your family. there might 
be some new stuff here on boxing day. depends how much 
goes down on the j-man's birthday.  

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december 19th 2004:

 in the spirit of the holiday season, ryan was posted a new 
recording - it can be found here.

rumour has it that the purple hill record is in the final stages of 
mastering. the release date is looking like early 2005. 
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december 11th 2004: 

the brantford release party for ryan's record has been slotted for
december 18th. meanwhile, there are still pre-release copies of his
cd available online and now at soundscapes in toronto. 
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november 26th 2004:

ryan's record is now available online at the blue house dot org.
we're in the middle of organizing a batch of release shows for
'let's start our own parade' - we should have some dates asap.

owen has almost completed the purple hill record. the mixing
has apparently gone well and we're planning to have the record
ready for release very soon.

sing that yell that spell has cancelled their canadian tour.  
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october 27th 2004:

some rather large updates posted today.
more to come...