EL MOCAMBO!

We were supposed to play the Bread and Circus this Saturday Nov. 13th in Toronto with The Inhumanoids and Bella Clava, but something happened to their liquor license and so instead of playing a dry show, we have been surprised that the show has been moved to the El Mocambo. What a blessing in disguise!

How can you have a rock show without a drink? Just wouldn't make any sense now would it?

See you at El Mocambo! And after we plan on drinks at The Bovine!

BUSY BUSY BUSY

We have been really busy lately and kinda have neglected the blog, so here it is:

On September 18th, we FINALLY released our 2nd record entitled "Slammed", produced by Toronto C'mon's Ian Blurton. It's amazing, so you should pick it up!

The album can be purchased at our shows or through Meatlocker Records: www.yogismeatlocker.com

Since our release we played with C'mon at the Dominion Tavern to a sold out and enthusiastic crowd and (re)invented the "Cake Beard".

This Saturday we are playing at the Bread and Circus in Toronto supporting The Inhumanoids for their record release! We hear the venue is small, so get there early to get a spot! Starts at 10pm. It's going to be ear drum destruction at its best!

On November 26th we are playing the Meatlocker's Record with labelmates Bless This Mess, Monobrow, Gilmer Ditch and The Inhumanoids the Meatlocker's Record record label launch at "The Space"in Ottawa. IT'S FREE cause it's a party!

That's it for now. We should be getting some dates in Montreal soon. We'll keep you posted.

Love,
TSW

HOLY SHIT! It's been a while. We're not dead, just busy getting everything ready for our record release in September. Look out from "Slammed" in a stereo near you!

This spring we played Gaga 3, Ottawa's weekend of mayhem. Here's a trailor of the movie for Gaga 2 (2009) that you can purchase from Gaga Records.

That same weekend we played Westfest, where if you were there, had the BEST bathrooms in the city!! (Yogi couldn't get enough of them....ahem!) What a great festival that treats their artists with class and love. Thanks for having us we had a blast!!

Here is a video of us playing one of the songs, Hunted, off our new record.

We also played a White Wires cover HaHa Holiday. We are "metal", therefore forced to be sad as we have signed a deal with Satan, so we changed it up and called it Black Black Holiday.
So more to come. Yogi is touring and settling the west with Ukrainia! but back in a week, so we will be back in the jam room getting ready to unleash the record.

Keep on rockin'!

Love ,

TSW

HOLY SHIT!! Best punk/metal/hard rock band of 2009!!! = Special Band Outing!!

DAMN!!!!

We were shocked but pleasantly tickled to hear that we had won the Best punk/metal/hard rock band of 2009 in the Ottawa Xpress readers' poll.

We are definitely grateful and humbled from this. Thanks to all who voted for us, you are awesome!

So to celebrate we decided to have a band outing! After our jam practice we all headed down to the ol' Maverick's to see our best budz Priestess kill the stage with a killer set and got the chance to see and hear the metal madness of L.A.'s Early Man. We missed most of Trigger Effect but there was drinking, moshing, interlocking of devil horns and lots of top-of-lungs singing! Ottawa truly came out that night and showed their metal colours!

See you all at the Army of Saint Joan cassette release on December 11t at Babylon!

LET'S ROCK!!!

Love,

TSW

SHOWS SHOWS SHOWS!!!!!!!/Record update

We have some shows coming up before the end of the year!

Friday, December 11th at Babylon Nightclub (Bank street), we are playing at the Army of Saint-Joan cassette release along with our producer Ian Blurton's, new project Ian Blurton + Huron=Happy Endings and finally with the awesome Ottawa band Mountanaka.  We play 3rd, but come out and hang out for the whole thing, it's going to rock your socks off!!!

www.armyofsaintjoan.com

www.myspace.com/mountanaka

Sunday December 27th it's BRUISE FEST at Maverick's (Rideau street near the beer store), presented by our favorite Ottawa music store Spaceman Music.  We will be headlining with the help of Daquiri, Alaskan and A Darker Day. 10$  

www.myspace.com/spacemanmusicottawa  

www.myspace.com/daiquiri  

www.myspace.com/alaskanband

www.myspace.com/adarkerdayottawa

Monday December 28th is a holiday if you work for the government, so you have no excuse not to come out and ROCK!!!!

So, if you are wondering what is happening with our record, well Ian Blurton is doing the final mixes, and tweeking it in Toronto, so we should be getting it soon. 

Cheers!

TSW

Stoked!

Goodday!

Our show at Barfly in Montreal was unfortunately cancelled.  We backed out of the show seeing as there were 3 bands, and for such a small venue it was better to only have two.  We figured that since Broken Ohms were coming from a way farther land than us, we let them have the show with the dudes from Dutch Oven.  We hope to destroy the Barfly one day soon!

So... no shows on the horizon yet, so we are totally concentrating on our record.  We got our first mixes two weeks ago so we are listening and taking notes to send it back to our friend and producer Ian Blurton so that he can tweek it and make it more awesome than what it is already!

We also have some well connected friends who are helping us with maybe some label support...and that's all we are saying for now.

We are also excited about Priestess' new record "Prior to the Fire" coming out on October 20th!!  Make sure to go get it, we hear they sing about warewolves....yikes!  It's going to be HEAVY!

STOKED!!!!!

Love,

TSW

updates and love

So after forgetting our password, we are finally in!!

We had our first jamz in about 3 weeks and it was rockin'!!!  JP had his gypsy foot was in full effect, Yogi's amps were functioning, loud and he tried some move that he saw somewhere that was quickly dismissed as "emo" (we love you Yogi!), and Julia was rockin' her new black hair despite the battery in her Fulltone dying. She rectified the situation by just plugging in her BigMuff which did the trick just fine.  We are officially preparing for our shows coming up in the late summer and upcoming fall.

Personal updates!

Julia is finally out of retirement and back in the game = off the couch and working.

JP is still Mr. Moneybags and shaved his hair!

Yogi is working hard on paying off his gear ADD.

We should be playing Montreal this fall, and of course Toronto and Ottawa at the end of August.  Check out our myspace: www.myspace.com/tokyosexwhale1

Finally, we are mourning the loss of our dear cousin Laura (L-Dog) and dear friend Tom (The Muscle) who left us way too young.  You knew how to truly rock out with a kick and extended pointed toe.  We will truly miss you.

If you can't take the rock, go home!

Love,

TSW