Hey Y'all,

Tickets for our Bush Hall show as part of the Bella Union Party night are on sale, and available here:

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/..user/?region=gb_london&query=..schedule&venue=bushhallvenue&..month=8&day=7&year=109

hope to see you at the show!!
xo
The Acorn

Hey Y'all,

Our spring tours in Europe were nothing short of amazing. In March, we were so very lucky to be supporting the lovely and marvelous folks in Elbow around the UK, as well as playing a couple dates with those bearded troubadours, Fleet Foxes.

May, we hauled ass back across the pond for a full European tour, and were joined by lots of friends including Angela Desveaux, Ohbijou and Snailhouse. We also made new friends over the course of a trio of sold out shows with Eau Claire's favourite sons, Bon Iver.

We just came back from a rejuvenating and incredibly inspiring sojourn in Northern Quebec. We spent 3 weeks writing and recording at the sole cottage on the tranquil Lac Charron, North of Gracefield, Quebec. Our good friend Jarrett Bartlett (recording engineer behind Tin Fist and Glory Hope Mountain) came and documented the fruits of our labours.
Isolated with no phone or internet to suck up our days and only having a few gophers and hummingbirds as company, the time brought us all together, and yielded some of the best music we've written in years; we're pretty darn excited.

In a few weeks, we'll be heading out west to play at the legendary Dawson City Music Festival as well as the Calgary Folk Fest and a one-off in Edmonton with our pals, Belle Orchestre.

After that, we'll be spending the rest of our summer finishing off our new record, and getting ready for a few short fall tours before taking a nice long break before our new record comes out in Late February/Early March of next year.

Lastly, we finally fixed that stupid song-sample feature on our Myspace page, so if you were looking for the full versions of our tunes, they're back up, and we're adding a few lost nuggets from our back catalogue to boot.

Hope to see you in the months to come, and take care,

Rolf

Here we come, America

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We're rather excited to be heading down into the US for our first official tour in support of the American release of Glory Hope Mountain. Hope to see some of y'all animated yankee types along the way.

and ain't that Chris Mills video for Flood pt. 1 just dandy?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m2XREBNiDZE 

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Thu Apr 24	Indianapolis IN	Radio Radio
Fri Apr 25	Chicago IL	Empty Bottle
Sat Apr 26	Minneapolis MN	7th Street Entry
Sun Apr 27	Madison WI	Cafe Montmartre
Tue Apr 29	Nashville TN	Exit/In
Wed Apr 30	Atlanta GA	Drunken Unicorn
Thu May 1	Chapel Hill NC	Nightlight
Fri May 2	Philadelphia PA	Khyber
Sat May 3	Brooklyn NY	Union Hall
Sun May 4	Brooklyn NY	SoundFix
Mon May 5	NYC	Piano's
Tue May 6	New York NY	Mercury Lounge
Wed May 7	Boston MA	Great Scott

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Dear Acornoids

we have news and I'll try to be succinct by implementing bullet style note-making:

- Glory Hope Mountain 'drops' in the US tomorrow March 4th (ohh man)

- We've engaged in minor American foreplay this past week having played shows in Brooklyn, NJ and NYC. Thanks to all who came out and proffered love and attentive ears. Thanks to Union Hall, Maxwell's and Mercury Lounge and the Bowerbirds and Phosphorescent (for spilling beer on our vinyl).

- We have shows coming in Chicago and Denton on our way Down to SXSW. Here be the schedule:

Thu Mar 6 Toronto ON CMW 2008 - Horseshoe (w/ Katie Stelmanis and Plants & Animals)
Sat Mar 8 Chicago IL Shuba's (w/ Grand Archives)
Tue Mar 11 Denton TX Dan's SilverLeaf (w/ Grand Archives)
Wed Mar 12 SXSW Habana Calle 6 - Paper Bag / Upper Class Showcase
Thu Mar 13 SXSW Cedar Door - Fontana Distribution Party
Fri Mar 14 SXSW Lambert's - End of the Road Showcase
Sat Mar 15 SXSW Mohawk - Hot Freaks Showcase
Sat Mar 29 Wakefield, QC Black Sheep Inn (almost sold out)
Sun Mar 30 Wakefield, QC Black Sheep Inn (almost sold out)

More details here: http://theacorn.ca/?q=shows/upcoming

We 're looking forward to spending some quality time with our neighbours in the south.

over n out.

The Acorn

p.s. Here are some awesome reviews, pictures, and things from our NYC party last week:

http://www.prefixmag.com/photos/bowerbirds-mercury-lounge/
http://www.bumpershine.com/2008/02/29/canada-in-the-house-this-weekend-basia-bulat-the-acorn-born-ruffians-cadence-weapon.html
http://chocolatebobka.blogspot.com/2008/03/we-saw-acornphosphorescentbowerbirds.html

So after a solid two weeks of holiday cocooning, I've emerged recharged by sweet times with friends and fam, good food and more movies than a person should watch in a day.

Things haven't been that quiet, as we've been planning our first forays into the US of A in support of the stateside release of GHM on March 4th. We're excited to announce that we'll be working with the nice folks at High Road Touring. Check out their roster...it's kind of ridiculous. Can't wait to open for Yo La Tengo...I've been dreaming about putting the moves on Geogia for so long, and now, it seems I may finally get a chance. That's after I hog-tie Ira.

It looks like we'll be hitting the US in late February (NY, Brooklyn, TBA), and then down to Austin for the annual music booze fest, SXSW.

Earlier today, our jaws dropped when we noticed that we appeared on KEXP's Song of the Day and were also played on NPR's Second Stage. I'm a huge radio nerd, and shows like Second Stage, All Songs Considered and This American Life give me little radio boners. Yum.

My girl cat, Peet, has started going bananas around Midnight. It's as if she's trying to tell me to get ready for a busy-ass 2008. I think I'm reading her right.

She is licking her teets right now...I think that means I should go eat some cereal.

xo.rolf

ps. oh, and here's an interview from the Globe & Mail that includes an audio clip of an interview that 'rolfie' conducted with his moms.  (FYI: this is no longer rolf.  it's the Iron Ch*nk)

Okay, wow! Hey, so we are totally blessed to be on the cover of this month's Exclaim! magazine with a lovely (and very flattering) article by the talented Mr. Michael Barclay.

We were also lucky to have a little piece on the utterly neat-o stereogum.

Then there's the album coming out!! and the tour!! and an upcoming video!!

Happy October!

t'acorn