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City: Montreal
State: Quebec
Country: CA
Signup Date: 6/28/2004

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Monday, July 27, 2009 

Category: Music
The Stills will join Metric for a handful of Canadian shows this fall, including two nights at Massey Hall in Toronto.  Here is a complete list of dates:

10/15 - Centre In The Square / Kitchener, ON
10/19 - Ottawa Civic Centre / Ottawa, ON
10/20 - Massey Hall / Toronto, ON
10/21 - Massey Hall / Toronto, ON
10/23 - Centennial Hall / London, ON

For more information visit the tour page
Thursday, July 09, 2009 
So? Happiness? Good Vibery? Sweet Summer Funtimes? Awesome. Awesome.

We really hope everyone is doing great.

As this is being written, Michael Jackson's funeral is going on. So let us all take a moment to say our final goodbyes to him. We thank you for all you've given us.
And us? Well, we're still deep in a thick, swarming haze of music-making and music-capturing that is much like being surrounded by a trillion phosphorescent, luminescent,
psychotropical fireflies, and we're up to our knees in the cooling muck at the edge of this midnight river-stream overhang. If we knew the directions here we'd ask you all
to join us. Sometimes being lost is great. By all means, we'd love to  bask here with any of you who comes to find us.

On a completely 100% different note, I just remembered that you can vote for us for the Verge Music Awards.
It's totally up to the voters to decide who should win for things like Album of The Year and Artist of The Year.
So if you think you'd like to vote for us, or for whoever you dig most, go here and cast your ballot.

XM Canada and Verge are very cool and are bringing the good music to the people, so please check it out.
And now I'm going to make a pot of Oolong Tea and take my clothes off. Ah.

Be well, be happy, be kind to each other.

Lotsa love,

The Stills

PS: Also, the Canadian government is leading an effort to veto the 2-degree limit at this year's G8 Summit in Rome. Scientists the world over have stated that if global warming exceeds 2 degrees centigrade, unfathomable and terrible environmental chain reactions are very highly likely to occur, and then we're all really, really screwed. It's too sad to just sit back and let that happen. Life matters. The world matters. People matter. Please check this site out to vote against Canada's effort to veto the 2-degree limit
Peace out....

Currently listening:
Xm: Live at the Verge
By Various Artists (Collections)
Release date: 2006-10-31
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 
Hi hi hi hi hi.
How you fine people doing today? Smashingly exceptional, terrific and beyond is what we're hoping for you, friends. It's all about the friends you know. The love. But you know that. And we know you know.
We've been up to all sorts of good stuff. All sorts. 
Mostly hanging around Montreal and meeting new people and partying and enjoying the late spring and fresh new summer and staying out way too late/early. Biking around. Hanging out in thunderstorms on Mount-Royal with the pooch and some smokes. It's like a jungle out there, seriously.
This last week has seen us in Toronto for some Arts&Crafts showcase shows and deep hangs with the good people over there. Great Toronto hang, lots of madness coinciding with NXNE, but our friends are great ones and there was always a place to go to with them, with drinks and talking and laughs and sunsheeeine. Vibes. No sunshine at Edgefest though. Mostly sludge and muck and wet kids not caring about a little rain for us and Metric and K-Os and others. Solidarity to everyone who was out in that rain. Much love to them. 
Right now we're doing some writing and getting ready to start recording our next album, which we think will be out early next year, like February. We'll keep you fully awash in news-blasts from the nexus of our music-creational universe, where we can't stop tripping over all the awesome. It's too bright to see anything in here. That's cool though, we got blindfolds, close friends, hallucinogenic trail mix, and the hugest will to channel massive love out to you from here. Like I said, it's awesome.
Be good children. Be good to each other and help each other, know that your worries and fears are not at the truth of your life and soul, they are tiny-nothing lint-particles-in-the-air compared to the HUGE universe of perfection and amazingness at the root of your being.
So dig on that. For real.   
Ciao 
The Stills 

    
  
Wednesday, June 03, 2009 
Tune into Much On Demand this Thursday at 5:25 to see Tim and Dave premiere the new Stills video "I'm With You".
They will also be making an appearance on the Dean Blundell Morning Show on The Edge Friday June 5 to perform "I'm With You" and Being Here" at 8:30 AM.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 

HI all,

The MuchMusic MMVA's "People's Choice Awards" has morphed into the "UR FAVE" awards.  MuchMusic gets the ball rolling by choosing the first four candidates in each of the three categories, but now it’s in the hands of the fans to select the final wildcard nominee. Voting for the wildcard nominees closes on May 19 at 11:59 p.m. ET.



Vote for THE STILLS "Being Here" for "Favourite Canadian Video" HERE


Thursday, April 02, 2009 

We are blown away at having won 2 Juno Awards this past weekend!
(For those of you who might not know, the Junos are Canada's music
awards. Like the English have the Brit Awards, and The Grammys happen
in the U.S. of A). The categories we won for were 'Best New Group Of
The Year' (even though we've been around for 6 years and three albums),
and 'Alternative Album Of The Year' for Oceans Will Rise.
It is a
beautiful and humbling honor for us; it's the first time any of us has
been awarded anything for making music in our lives. Thank you most of
all to every single person who has ever come to our shows, loved and
supported us, followed our winding path, and stuck by us through the
highs, lows, mids, and all the crazy stuff in between. Please know we
love you back so, so much, and share this with you. You are the reason
we make music. We are going to keep making music that is true and
honest and filled with craziness and great love, for you and for us and
for the whole world.
Let us simply say that the whole Junos weekend
was just a whole packet of madness from start to finish, dear
compatriots. Our Down Under tour with Kings Of Leon - which was
the best tour any of us had ever been on thanks to the amazing people
of Oz and New Zealand (and their wine) and the incredible awesomeness
of the KOL guys and their crew - came to a close, and we flew from
Auckland back to Sydney and then all the way to Vancouver in 25 hours
of travel. Wow.
The next day we woke up all deranged and jetlagged
and giddy, and had drinks with our friends at a private reception Juno
dinner and won 2 awards! Wow. Then Sam Roberts and the boys won a Juno too! Wow.
The
next day, we do the whole red-carpet hoopla thing, which, of course,
we've also never done before, when lo-and-behold, who's a-standin' over
there with his hands in his pockets but good ol' Elvis Costello!
We had to physically restrain Oliver who was practically out of his
head with excitement. We all were! We took some pictures with him and
chatted, and he was really nice. We're pretty big fans of his music.
That's why we were so damn excited. Wow. THEN, we got to play to over 3
million people on a live national telecast of the Junos televised
portion. I think you can find it on You Tube (tv sound always sucks)
Then Sammy won AGAIN for Artist of The Year!! Wow.
Then it was parties and drinking and regaling and all that good stuff we all love.
In
the end, though, the feeling that lasts after all is said and done, and
now that we're back home, is one that is pretty humbling. We feel so
lucky to be able to make music as a living at all, let alone win things
for doing it.
We wish upon everyone the same joy and happiness we
get to feel from doing this. We hope you all find the great, beautiful
things in life you want, with hope, and friends, and inspiration to
guide you there!

All Our Love To You,
The Stills
   
PS: We'd also like to thank God..............frey Jones.





Currently listening:
My Aim Is True (2cd)
By Elvis Costello
Release date: 2001-08-28
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 

Category: Music
Greetings Good Folk,

Like thieves in the night shall we soon be stealing through the towns of your world, O friends of the Canadian West. Hungry ghosts, hungry for your souls, hungry for your love. Like a band of thieves in the night.

Whatever we take will be returned back to you better than it was before, all impurities and defilements removed. This is our promise. We know when you operate in the limbos of the underworld, all you have is your word and some sharp cutlery at your side. They glint in the moonlight on warm May nights.  

Bring us your problems and pains at the affixed times and locations below and be transformed like you have never been transformed before. Come get robbed the right way:  

May 8 // Vancouver, BC - The Commodore Ballroom
May 9 // Victoria, BC - Sugar Nightclub
May 11 // Calgary, AB - MacEwan Ballroom
May 12 // Edmonton, AB - The Starlite Room
May 14 // Saskatoon, SK - Louis' Pub
May 15 // Regina, SK - The Drink
May 16 // Winnipeg, MB - Garrick Centre at The Marlborough

Poof!
The Stills

Thursday, February 05, 2009 
Greeting and Salutations!
We hope you are all doing well; happy and finding the right roads through a world of oft-perplexing questions.
As for ourselves, we have seen many of the answering-signposts out there recently. You have to be in the right frame of mind to actually see them of course, but we have been helped along by intuition and the solid guidance of friends. The signs are there, and they will lead you right, yes they will friends.
We have just completed an amazing tour with some of these great friends, the Sam Roberts Band, through Canada. We are so grateful to have met so many kind and generous people throughout our native country. You are driving us on with your encouragement and enthusiasm. We hope to see you all again in May on our cross-Canadian tour!
Before this however, we find ourselves in the midst of preparing for our first ever trip Down Under, with our regal friends, the Kings Of Leon. I think this will prove to be quite the wild adventure, and we will do our best to maintain our composure on the flight over, what with the wine and the libations and the screaming babies and such, as well as the fact that we often find it difficult to repress our deeper pirate natures. For we are pirates inside.
We are considering a side-trip to the Antarctic as well, but are having trouble arranging venues, and are finding promoters to be rather uncommunicative. Though they ARE penguins. And we are pirates. After all.
Finally, we are honored to have found ourselves nominated for two Junos this past week, Canada's music award, in the categories for Best New Group, and Alternative Album of The Year. We feel very lucky about it. There are great Canadian bands up for awards in both those categories, with whom rubbing shoulders is quite sweet. I think it would have been nice to have seen Wolf Parade and The Dears in there too. Both their new albums are amazing, and we love them.
Anyways.
We will try and be a little more on time with our future transmissions to you. Something to do with umm.. laziness, I think. Ahem.
Pictures and videos and rumors and drinks are all on the way!
We bid you all loving good-days-to-you, and keep watching for the signposts.
Be well our friends.
Tim
Currently listening:
Missiles
Release date: 2008-10-21
Thursday, December 18, 2008 
The Stills come to you this holiday season with great news-gifts of our future activities!
While in Holland, we were visited during the drunken night-time by an entirely inebriated Sinterklaas, the Turkish Patron Saint of Children, who, having just arrived by steamboat from Spain upon his white stallion (with several of his sooty-black lipstick-laden slave-elves), wonderfully celebrated with us our upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand with Kings Of Leon!
Yes, mad times were had between us, and Oliver even fell into a mucky canal while stoned, and frightened many street children away.
We told him about how through March we would be joining our Kingly friends for what will be our first ever trip Down Under, and asked him if he would be able to come join us for a drink or some smoke on any of these dates:

03/08/09 Perth Rock-It Festival
03/11/09 North Adelaide Memorial Drive Complex
03/13/09 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
03/14/09 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
03/16/09 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre
03/18/09 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre
03/19/09 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre
03/21/09 Sydney Acer Arena
03/22/09 Newcastle Newcastle Entertainment Centre
03/25/09 Auckland Vector Arena
03/27/09 Wellington TSB Bank Arena
03/29/09 Christchurch Westpac Arena

Sadly, Sinterklaas Patron Saint Of Children answered he would not be able to attend any of these shows, due to his yearlong devotion to gift-giving and being the weirdest and most specific holiday figure of all time. Which is likely for the best.

We, on the other hand, are absolutely thrilled, and cannot wait to meet all good people in these countries. Joined with Kings Of Leon, we are going to have smashing and momentous times, as always. Let us begin preparing our minds now for the celebration then.

Until that time, people of all denominations, enjoy a wonderful Judeo-Christian Holiday period, be good to your friends and families, and most importantly, to yourselves. Don't go falling into canals while stoned on Moroccan hash at 4am, because you could bang your head and never wake up.

Big Love To You All,
The Stills

PS: Our Holiday gift to you all is our new video for the song "Don't Talk Down", directed by Chris Mills, featuring Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene, Lucifer, and an Amish Wolfman from rural Pennsylvania, in some intense scenes of violence and Hellish war. Check it out.
Currently listening:
Moroccan Gypsies
Release date: 2002-01-01
Thursday, October 23, 2008 
The Stills continue to tell their stories from the Kings of Leon tour. Follow the adventures here.