We have a new video! It’s a documentary look at our dysfunctional band! Enjoy the hilarity.

- Kieran

P.S. I hope no one thinks this video is too serious

So you’re all probably confused, or in awe of this awesome new layout and look we have going on here.

It’s pretty simple. The last site didn’t feel like our band. It was close, but it was too bright and as silly as our band is, the music we play is a little more serious and we wanted to reflect that, while holding on to a little bit of  a cartoon feeling. So with the help of Obox Design and a little elbow grease, this site is taking the shape we want it to.

There are some minor tweaks that will be going on. But enjoy how easy it is to search by category, custom fonts, easy reading, cute exploding planes and aliens, how nicely videos show up, and coming hopefully very soon, our videos will be in a nice slider pane at the top right that you can just scroll through and then watch in HD. It’ll be sweet. A couple of fixes still need to happen as well (enjoy the glitched Lightbox effect in our photo gallery, it’s hilarious!), but hey, we’re doing a great deal of this ourselves with design help from a wonderful team. They work hard for us little guys, even though their clientele usually have much larger pocketbooks

So enjoy the new site!

And for a slightly shameless plug: check out my Tumblr blog (it’s going live in the next couple of days) @ kieranmoolchan.com to get little insights into the world of a track athlete. It’s not a full blog, but a micro blog. Little snippets of things on the net and pictures/audio/video I put up. There will be something for everyone (actually, that’s not true, but if you like hearing about track, some charities and world issues or alt/rock/pop/hardcore/post-hardcore music, then there will be something for you.)
Peace,

Kieran

Hello everyone, it’s l’il Berga here – it has been too long!

First off, I’d just like to cordially thank all of you who came out to our last show with Living With Lions and Brighter Brightest, it was a blast! You guys are great fans. Thanks of course to the aforementioned bands – as well as Common Lives and Take Me To The Pilot – for sharing the stage with us and being awesome, and Circle Productions for having us play in the first place.

So things have settled down here just a little bit on the DI front since last weekend, as band members are recovering from sickness or traveling to far off lands to watch sports. But keep checking the site to make sure you don’t miss any info on our future plans – that includes shows, new music, videos, the whole shabang.

As a little bonus for you, I decided that I would love to post the lyrics to our oldest song online so you can see the amount of hard work that was put into it. I love explaining how this song was written at every show, and we even had the slideshow for you that one time to prove ourselves – but this will probably be easier seen than explained. Just know that this was a school project for grade 10 geography. Hope you enjoy!

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Our band is constantly evolving our song writing process. At the moment, a lot of the music we have written has been written by pairs of us and not quite as a cohesive unit. Two people will come up with the meat of a song, and then the others just kind of fill things in. I have to say that it can be easier this way, but it’s definitely less diplomatic. It kind of works for us though, and we love the sharing that goes on, because there will be two of us coming to the group saying: “Check out what we made! How can you guys make it not suck…” That’s usually how things are prefaced. We have a very high standard that we think that our work should measure up to, and we never think that we have attained it. It’s probably good that we think that way though, because it pushes us to constantly improve our songs (although at a certain point I guess we’ll have to leave things alone or we’ll never finish a song). Now that we finally have a regular practice space again, we know that our joint song writing will evolve into something wonderful!

On a more personal note, a lot of what I write (which I then take to the boys so they can make it not suck), comes from long improvisational sessions at the piano. I mess around for a great deal of time, then I try to remember the cooler parts of what I played and start forming them into songs, adding lyrics, and splicing things together. I don’t know quite enough theory to pound out a song on paper (actually, there is no possible way for me to write our songs out in musical notation, I leave things like that up to Bergman and Doerksen, and Yuri, he’s learning too.), so I just rely on memory. But lately I have been recording pieces of my little improv times at the ivories, so that I don’t forget things.

Here are a couple of those sessions. (I apologize for their length, they are eight and ten minutes long). I recorded them without any breaks or cuts. Enjoy!

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Don’t forget to come to our November 21 show with Living With Lions, Brighter Brightest, Common Lives and Take Me to the Pilot!

- Kieran

It’s upon us!

In two weeks, on November21, 2009, we will be opening for Living with Lions (from Vancouver) and Brighter Brightest (from Toronto), and helping support Winnipeg bands Common Lives and Take Me to the Pilot!

The show will be at the Ellice Theater, which is on 587 Ellice Ave, and is all ages.

Tickets are only $8 in advance! You can pick them up from any band member from any band or at Mixtape.

Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 730pm.

Confirm your presence on Facebook and get your tickets. Email us or message us on Facebook for tickets.

We’ll most likely be on first, so get there at 7pm! Let’s pack this house and show the out of towners how awesome a Winnipeg crowd can be!

See you there!

- DI

PS: There is a map on our Shows page.