365 Days. 3 millions hours. That's what's in a year.
Approximately. I mean, we aren't mathematicians.
What have you been up to? Neat!
Us you ask? We've been up to a lot of things. Most of them having nothing to do with finishing SLOW JAMZ sadly. Mark has H1N1, Marshall is writing his thesis, Annalea is looking gorgeous, and Eric is playing video games. Or making video games. I can never remember.
What do we have to show for ourselves after a year of not posting anything? A song. Marshall and Eric (under the moniker Ginger Limbs) contributed a song to the illustrious and completely fantastic Here & Noun Issue #2.
Listen to the song. Buy a copy of Here & Noun Issue #2. And by the time you get back SLOW JAMZ will be finished......almost.
xoxoxoforeverSPHQ
There is a new LIVE video up that was made after our last Edmonton show and even though you can't really hear us singing it still sounds great and we look really really good. First five people to e-mail spreepark@gmail.com correctly identifying the song win a date with Eric.
xoxo
SPHQ
OMG. It's been so long. I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
We have been hiding, and we apologize, but here is an update for all of our favorites.
Mark is in Europe touring with his side-project Woodpigeon, Annalea and "Spreepark-Drummer" Garrett just got married in Italy (HOT!), Eric is holed up in a basement somewhere writing scores for video games and Marshall just started Grad School. So we have all been slightly preoccupied lately.
HOWEVER....
The eagerly-anticipated third album 'Slow Jamz' is one day away from being completely recorded and will then only require mixing and mastering before we can release it to the festering masses (to rave reviews of course). Also in the works, TWO new music videos for songs off of 'Slow Jamz' to be shot in October and November and MERCH. Well, we haven't really discussed that as a group yet but it's about fucking time we started seeing our oh-so-attractive peeps rocking Spreepark shirts around the world. So we'll get on that. Also there are some new band photos up if you haven't seen our latest hairstyles.
Check back soon for more updates on music, side-projects, outfits, deconstructionist literature, disco balls and some great soup recipes.
I love you all.
-SPHQ
Thanks to everyone who came out and danced at the recent shows in Edmonton and Calgary. Limited posters are still available to purchase in case you didn't get one at the shows.
We are heading back to the studio to finish off recording and mixing our upcoming (amazing) third album -- Slow Jamz.
Keep checking back for updates!
Talk to you soon.
SPHQ
p.s. check out a couple of new pics.
The musical was a hit. But sadly it is all over now. The park is asleep again.
However, Spreepark the band is getting together in July to play two LIVE shows in Edmonton and Calgary.
July 3rd - Calgary - @ the Marquee Room (map)
July 4th - Edmonton - all ages @ the Auditorium at Campus Saint-Jean (map)
Both shows are avec the painfully cute Forest City Lovers from Toronto.
See you then.
xoxo
SPHQ
There's a whack of news out there right now surrounding the awesome 'Willkommen in Spreepark' show. Check out the links in our Press section
Also, if you get there today or tomorrow you can grab the cover image - thats right, we were the cover - from www.vueweekly.com
Rehearsals start May 3rd (today!).
Tickets will be on sale next week.
Get ready Edmonton.
xoxo
Join us as SPREEPARK unites Belgians and Tigers, Bayonets and Streams !!!
Die Spreepark Gewerkschaft (the Spreepark Workers Union) will assemble in full force from May 22nd to the 24th at the TransAlta Arts Barns to bring a forsaken amusement park back to life. Among the collective of artists, actors, designers and musicians are six of Edmonton's dearest bands who have joined forces to present three entirely unique musical perspectives on how Berlin's beloved Spreepark is destined to re-emerge. Unite the Spreepark workers!
In other words.....as the musical "Willkommen in Spreepark" nears it's three-day run in May we are kicking things off with a concert featuring the SIX local bands who will be performing the music throughout the performance.
The three-volume soundtrack of all of the band's Spreepark covers will be available at the show. A paypal option will be added here soon after.
Listen to samples here - www.myspace.com/willkommeninspreepark. Or join the Willkommen in Spreepark Facebook Page
XOXO
SPHQ
That's right kids.
Spreepark's recording again.
The new rekkid's going to be called Slow Jamz, and we hope you all have sex to it. Like, totally impure, sweaty teenage-grope kinds of sex.
We're recording this spring in the new spreepark forest complex. There's an upright piano. and we're going to have music sex with it.
Want a sneak preview?
Ok. Here's some titles:
01. Slow Jamz!
02. thE sprEEpArk nAtIOnAl AnthEm
03. ...with a marching band in my pants
04. TO MY LEFT, THE WEST, AND TO THE RIGHT, YOU, BEAUTIFUL YOU, oh SO FAR AWAY IN THE EAST
Bet you can't wait.
Keep checking back for more updates and remember download the first two albums for FREE if you haven't already. They're in the LISTEN section.
Werd.
SPHQ.
Happy New Year to you all!!! Hope your NYE was as good as ours was! If it was, you probably need to replace a few items around the house, or your friends house, or the hotel, or whatever. If so, boy have we got the thing for you! POSTERS !
We have just a few posters left from our CD Release show, and we want you to have them!
Screenprinted poster » 18 x 24in » CAD $12.00 » Awesome!
28 November 2007Hand Made, Limited Edition Double-CD Jackets Available!! 26 November 2007Spreepark Comes Out...with a Double-Disc-Debut-CD !!!
That´s right! Debut Release! Two Albums! At Once!
"We're Reinventing Music" and "The Gaysian Invasion" are officially released and available to anyone and everyone as of right now. The best part? Both albums are available in their entirety for FREE through this very website. Go to the ´Listen´ section and download as few or as many of the songs as you want. You can pick just your favorite or download all 16. FOR FREE. FOR EVER. Tell your friends. Tell your grandparents. Tell the guy sleeping at the back of your bus in the morning.
Custom Designed, three-fold CD Jackets with artwork by Erin Ignacio are also available. They cost $5 and can be obtained very soon through this website and a PayPal account and will also be in select record stores very soon. They come with ridiculously beautiful artwork and Blank CD's waiting to be filled up with the two Spreepark Albums you are, or will soon be, downloading for FREE.
Legend has it that "the four core members of Spreepark - three boys and a girl, so they wouldn't be compared with gender-symmetrical decadent capitalists ABBA - grew up idealistic in a culture of cultivated paranoia, but with a deep love for Western pop culture."
The legend of Spreepark has been brilliantly revealed in the latest edition of Edmonton's Vue Weekly. For the grandiose experience of reading the complete write up, click here!
Members of Spreepark met up with Michelle de Man from BeatRoute magazine for an interview which is featured in the November issue of the magazine. Read the article here!
October 19, 2007Advance Tickets on Sale Now!Advance tickets are on sale now for $11 at listen records, blackbyrd music, and megatunes.
September 18, 2007Spreepark Live. Nov. 26thSee Spreepark live on November 26th at McDougall United Church in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
w/ The Wet Secrets and Knots
All ages. $11 in advance.
Book the night off.
And the next day probably.
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For all of you who are eagerly awaiting our Double Disc Debut LP, the second half of the LP is recorded! Geniuses are currently mixing and mastering it for release. Expect it to be available mid-August along with one - if not two! - big CD release parties!
Plus, check out some new 'making of' videos.
Check the video for 'Cinnamon Kiss', directed by our friends at the Haritoshian Film Ministry. Before you get into your fancypants record label chit-chat mode, just remember it's not like this is a single or anything. When it comes to Spreepark, every song's a single, yo.
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Check it, yo. Our new website's hot, but even hotter still is our new records. "Records?!?" you ask? "As in plural? Like, more than one?" Aye, chump. Aye. Check this shizzle:
RECORD THE FIRST: WE'RE REINVENTING MUSIC
01. spreepark jetzt! (030-533-350)
02. cinnamon kiss
03. shut up up up up up (and die)
04. theme d'olympique / absolument!
05. omg! wtf? bbq! bff!
06. a trampoline i am not
07. hotel spreepark
08. we're reinventing music
RECORD THE SECOND: THE GAYSIAN INVASION
01. return of la force
02. die spreepark falle
03. what don't eat you whole...
04. the matterhorn reminisces
05. there's nothing you can say now
06. ghosts live in my cupboards and scare the children
07. roller coaster love song
08. the gaysian invasion
Limited edition CDs available, and the rest is hitting the iTunes
soon. You can avoid human contact altogether, if you like.
Randoms...
listen records
blackbyrd music
megatunes
I like fedora's!
This is a funny george washington cartoon! He'll save the children... but not the British children!
Toronto artist Nicholas Di Genova