It's been an exciting couple of weeks here in the land of The Martingales (that would be Edmonton). We celebrated a few firsts. On Thursday May 22, our first album review was published. Yes, Eden Munro from Vue Weekly wrote some kind words about out album, comparing us with Neil Young and spaghetti westerns. You can read it here (scroll down a little to find our album). That very same day, we had our first on-air live radio interview. Tammy from CJSR interviewed us on her show "You're Soaking In It". We talked, and some of our songs were played. It was a fun time for all and we really appreciate Tammy giving us so much time on the air! This was some publicity for the release party the following day (of course, another first). Thank you to all who came and enjoyed our CD release party show. We had quite a lot of fun and hope you did too. We played lots of songs - all the songs from the album and 6 more new ones, along with a few covers thrown in there. We took some video and hope to break onto the youtube scene (which will be another first for us) soon!
That all sounds pretty good, but for us, it got cooler the next week. On Tuesday, May 27 CJSR published their top 30 list for the previous week, and (no doubt thanks to all the songs Tammy played during the interview) we ended up at #3 for the week (just one above Portishead at #4)! As awesome as it is to be played on CJSR, things got more surprising later on in the week, when we found out we had been played (at least twice so far) on CKUA, Alberta's public radio. That's right - we've been heard all over Alberta now!
And lastly, though the band doesn't have any shows scheduled at the moment, Andrew will be doing a solo acoustic show along with Erin Ross and Melissa Majeau, a couple of awesome artists from Calgary and Edmonton. The show will be at the Axis Cafe on Friday, June 27.
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