Looking forward to playing in Sackville, New Brunswick on JULY 30th for SAPPYFEST! Details about the festival HERE
Other artists include Sandro Perri, who appears on our album Continent & Western, and Drip Audio labelmates No More Shapes (Calgary). Oh, and lots of other great artists!
Looking forward to playing the Vancouver International Jazz Festival on Saturday, July 2nd at Venue. Opening the night (at 8pm sharp) is COLIN STETSON, who recently put out a truly remarkable album on Constellation Records.
>>>UPDATE: COLIN WILL ALSO BE PLAYING WITH US FOR PART OF OUR SET>>>>>LOOKING FORWARD TO IT!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Coastal Jazz, the people behind the Jazz Festival, have set up a will-call ticket line for this show, so that you can get your tickets through them directly, not pay any service charges, and just show up at the venue known as Venue and you’ll be on the will-call. The phone number for Coastal is 604 872 5200.
Some more info about the show here
We recently won a JUNO for Instrumental Album of the Year. Here’s a picture of 5/7ths of us in one of the Juno holding cells after receiving the award.
Photo courtesy of CARAS/iPhoto Inc.
Just announced! We’ve been nominated for WON Instrumental Album of the Year for CONTINENT & WESTERN at this year’s JUNOS! This is the most exciting news since we were awarded “Best Continent & Western Album of 2010″, and slpl got to meet Kenny Rogers!
JUST ANNOUNCED: FOND OF TIGERS IS PLEASED TO BE PART OF THE FIRST SIGNALFEST, PUT ON BY CBC’s THE SIGNAL with DRIP AUDIO, FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY OWEN PALLETT (aka Final Fantasy), BRASSTRONAUT, AND EIGHT DIFFERENT DRIP AUDIO ARTISTS! FOND OF TIGERS PLAYS ON SATURDAY, MARCH 5th.
Plenty of great reviews coming in for the new album.Here are a few:
Killed in Cars very in-depth review
Foxy Digitalis “twisted, gifted fun”
Exclaim! “What I Play” Feature “embrace the beast”
Textura review “Fond of Tigers appears hard-wired to be its own unique and challenging self rather than a contrivance more palatable to the masses“
Vancouver Sun ‘both instantly accessible and completely out of this world’
Georgia Straight ‘beautifully sprawling’
NOW Toronto ‘masterful’
Vancouver Province ‘Grade: A’
We’re releasing our third album on September 21, 2010! In addition to the regular seven members, it also features guests Mats Gustafsson and Sandro Perri, and was recorded in an underground chamber made entirely of cork, held together with wombat saliva.
We will be on tour in mid-Eastern Canada from September 15th til 25th.
Sept 15th – Casa Del Popolo – Montreal, QC w/Marathon
Sept 16th – Ebar – Guelph, ON w/Born Ruffians
Sept 17th – FM Lounge – Windsor, ON w/What Seas, What Shores
Sept 18th – LOLA Festival – Main Stage, Victoria Park – London, ON
Sept 21st – Casbah – Hamilton, ON
Sept 24th – The Garrison - Toronto, ON w/Minotaurs
Above photo from our July 3rd, 2010 Commodore show. Photo by Craig Sinclair.
We’ll be playing with the wonderful Deerhoof on Saturday, July 3rd at the Commodore, as part of the 2010 Vancouver International Jazz Fest.
Some info here
We’re really looking forward to playing this festival on Friday, November 20th at the Railway Club in Vancouver. Excellent bands and more over the two days, with proceeds going to The Food Bank and The Downtown Eastside Women’s Shelter (raffle prizes generously donated by Sled Island Music Festival, Red Cat Records, Drip Audio, and more).
Writer Alex Molotkow cobbled together a great feature story out of the convoluted ravings of the group:
“Vancouver septet Fond of Tigers is famously difficult to categorize: to rock fans they sound like free jazz, and to experimental listeners they sound like rock ‘n’ roll. But genre is the least of the band’s concerns. The band members are connected by chemistry, a dynamic approach to playing music, and not by taste—their songs come together intuitively, without prior planning or the mediation of musical conventions. Despite their disavowal of genre, Fond of Tigers are very enthusiastic about experimental music as an approach rather than a label. All are active members of Vancouver’s “creative music” scene, with Lyons and Zubot acting as organizers for a community which often finds itself encroached upon by authorities, according to some reports. Their musical activity has allowed them to make connections with a wide variety of bands playing in multiple styles, and cross-pollination has resulted, much to the band’s delight—call them B.C.’s ambassadors of “creative” music.”
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Well, our last show was certainly an adventure…Thanks to everyone who came out (well, those who came without badges or guns). Read the rest of this entry »
