The Books Elusive make Dany Sloan's (of Stranded in Stereo) Top Five Favorite and Most Memorable Performances of NXNE 2008!  

For the full Top 5: http://www.strandedinstereo.com/events_nxne08recap.shtml

Section on our NXNE Performance:

"The Books Elusive: Every so often I hear a band that reaffirms my love for music and right now, these guys are it. Their set at NXNE was everything you could want from a young band – raw, original, energetic and absolutely insular. Lead singer/guitarist Lynne Dubuc has a voice that most might compare to Karen O, but that comparison doesn't really do it justice, while drummer Damon de Szegheo is much like The Muppets' Animal in human form. He assaults his drumkit like there's no tomorrow without missing a beat, and at this particular show, if you didn't see the passion in his eyes, you saw it in the broken drum sticks that littered the venue's floor. "

Check us out Wednesday August 20th at The Drake Underground !!

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As the anticipation grows for our first North by Northeast concert reviews are popping up on the net! Check out this review and an mp3 download of our single 'conspiracy' below!:

NxNE PREVIEW from EXITFARE

"Things in the office of Exitfare continue to buzz along at a rapid pace. The music is good and plentiful, but life is quite busy. It seems as though we are out of town every weekend -- I'll be in Toronto this weekend for NXNE, plus we'll be heaving our stacks of CDs and laptops to a new apartment soon, but more on that later. You only care about the music, right? I don't blame you."

"When I first heard The Books Elusive (just last week, I might add), my first thought was "Oh, fierce indie rock two piece! Just like Blood Red Shoes!" Umm, not so fast. The Toronto-based TBE are less math rock and more garage rock, bringing to mind Patti Smith and the Arctic Monkeys. One thing that does connect these two bands are a fiercely DIY spirit, a need to do things on their own and to get their hands dirty all for the love of rock n' roll."

"Perform is out now on the band's own Overdue Records. You can catch them at this year's NXNE on Thursday, June 12th at Holy Joe's -- they go on at 8 pm."

See the original here:

http://exitfare.blogspot.com/2008/06/nxne-2k8-preview-books-elusive.html

Thanks to Jason Schneider for the article on The Books Elusive in this week’s night life section of Kitchener’s ’The Record’.

Read the article here!

http://news.therecord.com/arts/NightLife/article/334784

Just for the Record though, I have to clear up something that got lost in translation.

In the article is says: "I started out in Peterborough 10 years ago working with Three Days Grace and other people, so we know how important that is, as well as how much you have to persevere.’’

What was actually communicated in the interview but didn’t come through in the article is that I grew up in a really musically potent community in Peterborough where a lot of great musicians came from including Serena Ryder, Thousand Foot Krutch, Money Money, OE of The birthday Massacre Hawk Nelson & Three Days Grace. We all played shows together as well as did some recordings. I just don’t want it to sound like I ’worked’ with 3DG as a producer, which isn’t true. I did have the fortunate chance to have members of the band behind the mics on other friends recording projects. They are great guys and I want to make sure, for their sakes as well as ours, history isn’t misrepresented.

Damon
The books Elusive

Whoa. Thanks to Trevor Weeks, we got some killer photos from our show at The Ford Plant in Brantford.

See them all here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23725816@N07/sets/72157604434326355/show/

Also take the chance to check out the rest of the photos on Trevor’s Page at:
http://www.myspace.com/trevorweeks

Good times.

Hi Everyone,
Check out this little write up on our song "Conspiracy" from back in November!

"The Books Elusive - Conspiracy

The Books Elusive have just one song on their MySpace -- this one. My first impression is that something about the vocalist reminds me of Tegan and Sara. I don’t know why, just something about the intonation. They’re a fair bit more balls-out than that group, though, and I get the feeling they might put on a pretty blistering live show. Also, this song has a very good chorus. That’s my second impression."

See the full write-up at: www.twowaymonologues.com/track-fu/140/

Review of The Books Elusive at The Ford Plant 3.28.08

"The Books Elusive is just a lady with a guitar and a guy with some drums. I just assumed that they were going to play pleasant indie rock or something. I jokingly remarked to Matt, "...and it turns out they’re a noise band!"

"At that moment, the drummer slammed onto his tom and snare, and the room was saturated in noisy rock and roll. The drummer, Damon de Szegheo, tore a whole in the Ford Plant with his blistering beats. I still can’t believe fast he was. Damon would do these sweet poses in between beats that would last about a second or two, but it made him look so much cooler."

"Then we have the guitarist, Lynne Dubuc. She had a sexy, dark, guitar hanging from her neck that she attacked with her pick. She had this dirty, fat, grimy tone that gave the songs a edge."

"What made me truly enjoy their set, besides the name-taking ass-kicking drumming, was Lynne’s voice. She has this strange way of getting the words out of her mouth. Her voice is really different, it really makes the songs interesting. I love she just growled the words sometimes. Nothings more punk than awesome growly singing! Okay, maybe there is, but I like growly singing."

"The songs themselves would not nearly be as good if they weren’t played by the Books Elusive. Sometimes I found that they verged on the mainstream, but Damon’s pounding drumming and Lynne’s singing kept it too scary, and too rocking, for Abercrombie and Fitch. Which is good, I wouldn’t want a bunch of excellent musicians such as these to get crushed by the music machine, and it seemed that they didn’t either."

"They had a few technical problems. Lynne’s guitar, from 1962 no less, at one point became horribly out of tune. Thankfully this happened between songs so we were treated to witty banter. Damon told us a story about getting to the Ford Plant before Tim got there. A sign was left on the door that said "No bands showed up yet, go to the Rodeo." Damon said "So we though, ’That’s cryptic’, and headed to the Rodeo" It ended up with Damon in the bathroom at the Rodeo, and he saw that a tile was missing. Apparently, where the tile is missing someone carved "Who ever took this tile, bring it back, fucker". Finally, Lynne got the guitar tuned and the show was back on track."

"Overall, despite the first guy, it was a rocking night. It was too bad that Kevin had to leave after the Torcus finished, but such is life. When we got into the car at the end of the night, beeping had stopped. I guess, the cat-burglar had left and was having a good night with all those stolen goods. Well I mean, it’s a good night when you impress the sexy indie chicks with the Beethoven you played at a recital that night. Hehe."

"We left that night with the memories of indie lobster’s cut hair, Colonel’s chickeny Snacker, and a giant Cassie. The memory that was clearest in my mind was something that Lynne Dubuc said when she was tuning her 46 year old guitar. "On the count of three everyone say: ’Train wreck!’" Train wreck? Hardly."

Review by Lucas Thurston

Read the full blog here!
http://www.tricowinc.aihamsmayhem.com/labels/rock.html

Here's a link for some pictures from our last show with The Superstitions, Ruby Coast, & The Winks..scroll through them to get to us!

http://www.twowaymonologues.com/gallery/the-winks/

Thanks again to Two Way Monologues!

Hi Everyone!
We're still working on getting a website off the ground...but in the meantime we have set up a blog page that you can connect to through - www.thebookselusive.com! Check there for updates on what we're up to!

Thanks,
Lynne & Damon