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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    willbarclay said:

    Hey @HughFreakingDillon
    do you have this mag? Or any interest in it?
    ill mail it to you if you want. 
    Doing some spring cleaning and found it. Thought you might like it. PM me if you want
    yes!!!
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    new album, Peopleskills out Oct 25!!!

    http://headstonesband.com/news-2/new-album-peopleskills-out-october-25/
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  • willbarclay
    willbarclay Ottawa, Canada Posts: 3,298
    Pre-ordered the signed copy
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    willbarclay said:
    Pre-ordered the signed copy
    I don't even know why I bother anymore. I have so much signed stuff from them it's getting stupid. LOL
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  • rylan
    rylan Posts: 230
    Digging the new song!!
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    another new song is up on itunes. called Horses. different from what I'm used to with this band. 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    it sounds like a song that Hugh would have written with Chris Osti for the Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir. Osti still produces them and writes with them, so it's possible. 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    and the new record is OUT. #peopleskills
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    this is slightly disappointing. at least two of the songs are ones that I already have, just reworked from Hugh's solo stuff. weird. 
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  • willbarclay
    willbarclay Ottawa, Canada Posts: 3,298
    Must not have had enough new material to put forth for this album. 
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    they actually did this on their reunion album. during the Q&A on pledgemusic, I had asked Hugh about their first demo, and he said "I'm going to go check it out to see if there's anything we could use! thanks for reminding me!". And they actually put Don't Follow The Leader on Love and Fury. Whether he was just fucking with me and had already planned on using that track, I'll never know, but they do have a tendency to look at older material when doing a new record. 

    and he did the same for his solo record. It was basically just a repackaged album of Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir with a few different tracks. 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    edited November 2019
    I've always wondered about the conditions surrounding Dale's (drummer) departure. he was their second drummer, and was with them for 20+ years. It was noted publicly as a "quitting". he even released his own statement stating it was all his decision. which I thought was legit at the time. But the past 3 years, Hugh hasn't mentioned him once. he even has gone out of his way to plug the first drummer, whom they fired because of addiction issues. Now he refers to the original band as the "fab four". for 20 years he never mentioned the first drummer ONCE. not in interviews, not in print, not on socials, not on stage,nothing. as a response to one of those posts on social media, someone responded with a pic of Dale. Hugh and the band blocked them immediately! WTF. Only the guitarist still follows Dale on social media. 

    either he was fired but allowed to keep his dignity, or hugh is bitter with him for quitting. if it's the latter, man, that's pretty douchey. 

    and after Dale left, they hired a drummer, Lyle "The Executioner". he was on the next record, played a few shows, and then he was gone. totally bizarre. nothing mentioned about him quitting, being fired, nothing. just...gone. 

    what is it with bands and glossing over the departure of drummers? LOL
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    so the headstones, big wreck, tea party, and moist are all touring together sometime this year. that will be some tour. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,652
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    so the headstones, big wreck, tea party, and moist are all touring together sometime this year. that will be some tour. 

    Hope you get a chance to go!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    brianlux said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    so the headstones, big wreck, tea party, and moist are all touring together sometime this year. that will be some tour. 

    Hope you get a chance to go!
    with an all-canadian lineup, this will be an cross canada tour. I gotta be honest, I go see 3 out of 4 of these bands every time they come through. All this means is I will have to pay a hefty price to see them all on the same bill with an abbreviated and greatest hits setlist. It will be fun, but I prefer when bands tour separately. 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    https://www.saintsandsinners2020tour.com/
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  • uninnocent-
    uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    Totally down for this tour. I had to miss the Headstones' annual Christmas so I'm aching to see them again.

    Tea Party and Big Wreck are also great live, but they're not Headstones. I've only seen David Usher solo, so I can't comment on Moist, but I enjoy their studio material.
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,889
    I saw Moist play the old arena in Victoria in the late 90s.  It was a pretty awesome show.  They must of been at the height of their popularity.

    The interesting part for me is most of these bands aren't arena sized bands anymore.  I've seen tea party play a small theatre and a bar in the past few years.   Headstones I've only ever seen at bars.   Moist that Arena show 20+ years ago.  Big Wreck I saw for free twice (commonwealth games in Victoria and grey cup in edmonton).  I think they only play clubs.

    So can four awesome but mostly club bands fill out arenas?  I think I'd like to go if tix aren't insanely expensive.  Not a lot of dead weight in that lineup.  Plus because its four bands, the sets will be shorter, so they'll be tighter with less filler.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    they aren't club bands at all. 3 out of the 4 (can't speak for moist), every time they are here, sell out our 1800 seater. the headstones have even done it on consecutive nights. so this arena tour makes sense. it won't be filled. they'll probably sell half the arena to start (7,000-8,000) and if it does better they'll move the stage back a bit. 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    fuck I hate presales. you can't get row 1-3 unless you pay for "platinum seats". AKA: triple the price. 
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