Yo!  Check out HDNB when the band performs a kickass set at On The Rocks on Sunday 29 April 2007.  Opening act is Edmonton's awesome My Piracy.  Come down and support your local musicians!     

One thing that really caught my attention was Edmonton experimental act Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys' seven-minute rendition of their track "Heavy Early," which shows the band getting set up and ready to play, then launching into a not-particularly-pop-friendly song. Basically, this would have zero chance of being played on the nation's music station. But, on YouTube, the band can find an audience—maybe even more so than on MySpace.

"It's absolutely the future of video," says Hardy Drew drummer and songwriter David Leigh. "It allows you to sidestep some of the restrictive requirements that MuchMusic has. If you see, at the start and end of the video, there's a lot of bullshit there, which captures what it's like to play in a band. You are waiting while the band tunes, just doing nothing, then you play. Something like that would never air on MuchMusic."