Morning Noon Night

One of the first bands I saw this year at Sap­pyFest was The Har­bour­coats, the still-sorta-new-because-they’re-relatively-unknown band led by Bry Webb from the Con­stan­tines. It was a really nice way to kick off the fes­ti­val and def­i­nitely had me hum­ming the songs to myself all week­end. This wasn’t my first time see­ing Bry play­ing away from his reg­u­lar gig — I remem­ber hear­ing at least one of these songs when he did a set at the Three Gut Records 5th anniver­sary party years and years ago at the Tran­zac, and I’ve sub­se­quently seen him play on a few other occa­sions lead­ing up to last Fri­day. Join­ing him this time ’round was Mike Feuer­stack (aka Snail­house) and my old pal Jonas Bon­netta (aka Evening Hymns). The songs were sub­tle and majes­tic, show­cas­ing Bry’s pow­er­ful voice in a whole new way. I’m super excited to hear their forth­com­ing record, too bad no one knows when it’s com­ing out. Maybe I should look into get­ting that Con­stan­tines acoustic EP they put out a few months back to hold me over. Which reminds me: if any­one from Arts & Crafts is read­ing this, can you please press it to 10″ vinyl and send me a copy? What’s with this digital-only foolishness?

Any­way, while watch­ing the video, please try to ignore the crowd chat­ter and shaky cam­era work and just appre­ci­ate the song. Doesn’t it make you want to hold somebody?

I didn’t end up shoot­ing much video while out east. In fact, I brought about eight tapes but only shot 60 min­utes worth of footage. It’s kind of hard to party when you’re car­ry­ing around a bunch of gear, and my main inten­tion at Sap­pyFest was to have a good time (and I ended up hav­ing the time of my life) so it ain’t such a big deal that I only got a cou­ple videos. Here’s $100, who I’ve seen more than any other band this year, play­ing with their newest recruit, my old homie from Oshawa, Jeff Peers. They’re run­ning through a great tune writ­ten by Rick White, who is also sit­ting in with them for this num­ber. I’m pretty stoked ’cause Ian is play­ing the elec­tric gui­tar. It’s all my dreams com­ing true. Enjoy.

After his set at this year’s Sap­pyFest, I said, “Jon-Rae, wanna go play a song for me in the marsh?” and he said, “Sure Colin.” Once we got there, he told me that the marsh was haunted by an old woman with a lantern. He decided upon “Ghost­song” from his album Knows What You Need, which seemed appro­pri­ate. What you can’t see in the video is there were a cou­ple skater kids watch­ing from down the board­walk. Once we were done film­ing, we started walk­ing back to town, and as we passed them they told Jon-Rae how beau­ti­ful his song was. Yeah, it is pretty beautiful.

On the last day of the fes­ti­val in the mid­dle of the after­noon we all packed into the Vogue The­ater to watch Snow­blink. It was about 300 degrees in there — peo­ple were lit­er­ally stick­ing to the seats. Any­way, the band invited a bunch of their friends to come sit on stage and clap and ring bells, and once they all started play­ing it really didn’t mat­ter how hot it was in there. Grab their newest album Long Live… because it’s gorgeous!!

Attack in Black closed out the fes­ti­val for me with this amaz­ing new song. High­light of my summer.

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