Review: City and Colour in Montréal

City and Colour is the solo folk rock side-project from Alexisonfire's guitarist Dallas Green. He was in Montréal last Saturday, here's what Ben and Hugo from Noise Press thought about it.

As Dallas Green hit the stage, the crowd went wild. Green, while being one of the most talented Canadian musician and singer, remains a shy individual we love to stare at. He’s never one to steal the spotlight, even though, everyone gathered in the St. Denis Theatre came to see him, he let the merch guy steal his thunder for the first song of the show. The show went on with Harris, the merch guy who also played the piano with Black Lungs during last year's tour, doing "Bohemian Rhapsody" on an acoustic guitar with the crowd taking care of the singing.

Dallas came on stage and opened with "Forgive me", the first song off his second full-length album, Bring Me Your Love. He also ended the show with the last song of the album, "As Much as I Ever Could".

Dallas kept switching sets from a whole band, to himself alone playing the songs. Supported by Attack in Black for the first part of the show, Dan Romano, guitarist for the Welland, Ontario-based band, accompanied Green for most of the show. Green even played a new song and a cover from Neil Young, "Cowgirl in the Sand". For "Body in a Box", a song that requires both a guitar and an harmonica, he played it alone, for the auditive pleasure of the home crowd that kept yelling sexual innuendos. Alexisonfire's guitarist cleverly responded to one of the "Make me a baby!" yelled by a man with "Physically impossible."

The show seemed too short, but it may be because time stopped for a while on St. Denis Street in Montréal.

More photos from City and Colour in Montréal.
Photos of Attack in Black.

Photo in article by Hugo Royer.

Photos: Attack in Black in Montréal

Photographer Hugo Royer provided us with photos from folk rock band Attack in Black performing live in Montréal at St. Denis Theater on May 23rd, 2009. They opened for City and Colour.

All photos are licensed to Hugo Royer. Some rights reserved.
Used with permission by Noise Press.

AiB Contest: Winners Announced!

The whole team at Noise Press is proud to announce the winners of the Attack in Black Years Contest. Don't forget to check out Years (by One Thousand Fingertips) coming out today, March 10th, 2009.

Ahren Brunow and Nick DeMicco will each receive 2 posters, 3 stickers, 3 flyers, a download card of Attack in Black's previous album and a Dine Alone Records sampler. Simon Légaré, Ryan Maksymic and Charles Cryans will each receive an AiB poster, 2 stickers, 2 flyers and a Dine Alone Records CD.

Winners, your packages are on their way, look for them in the mail! For those who were not as lucky, new contest are coming soon...

PS. Merch staff are feeling generous these days and might include more prizes than what you expect!

Contests Are What We Do, Too!

Here at Noise Press, music is not the only thing we do. We do contests too! To celebrate Attack in Black's upcoming album Years (by One Thousand Fingertips), Noise Press and Dine Alone Curbside (Dine Alone Records' street team) are teaming up for a contest to win some sweet prizes!

Prizes:

2 Years (by One Thousand Fingertips) Complete Packages

• 2 Attack in Black's Years (by One Thousand Fingertips) posters
• 3 Attack in Black's Years (by One Thousand Fingertips) stickers
• 3 Attack in Black's Years (by One Thousand Fingertips) flyers
• Attack in Black's The Curve of the Earth digital album download card
• Dine Alone Records sampler featuring Black Lungs, City and Colour, Moneen, Arkells and, obviously, Attack in Black!
  

3 Years (by One Thousand Fingertips) Packages

• Attack in Black's Years (by One Thousand Fingertips) poster
• 2 Attack in Black's Years (by One Thousand Fingertips) sticker
• 2 Attack in Black's Years (by One Thousand Fingertips) flyers
• Dine Alone Records sampler featuring Black Lungs, City and Colour, Moneen, Arkells and, obviously, Attack in Black!

To win, simply send us a message at attackinblackcontest@noisepress.com and tell us your name, age and where you live (you can also add some comments, it's up to you). As simple as that!

You have until March 9th 11:59PM to send us your entry. Winners will be announced and contacted on March 10th.

Years (by One Thousand Fingertips)

After their 2007 effort The Curve of the Earth, Canadian folk rock four-piece Attack in Black is back with a new album entitled Years (by One Thousand Fingertips) due March 10th, 2009 on Dine Alone Records. It will be available on CD and on a double vinyl record (limited to 1000 pressings). The first single off this new album, "Beasts", is available on the iTunes Store since yesterday, February 24th.

1. Years (by One Thousand Fingertips)
2. Leaving Your Death in a Flowerbed
3. Birmingham
4. The Greater Niagara Circle Route
5. Liberties
6. I Could Turn
7. Beasts
8. Leather Jacket
9. Messenger Bird
10. Seeds
11. Slender Loris
12. I'm a Rock
13. Blood (in the Tracks)
14. Moon of Day
15. Brownness of Her Curls
16. The Surface I Would Travel

"Beasts": The New Single from Attack in Black

"Beasts" is the newest single from Canadian folk rock band Attack in Black on their upcoming album Years (by One Thousand Fingertips) on Dine Alone Records. It's available for download only on the iTunes Store.

For more information:
iTunes Store