POP Montreal & Save the Children Canada & Montreal City Mission & The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) & Projet Refuge Maison Haidar & Boréale // Vendredi le 25 Novembre avec des performances de: MOHAMAD HAIEK ET ELIZA MOORE REPLAY ERMICHAL ONISHKA MURRAY LIGHTBURN THOMAS HELLMAN NOMADIC MASSIVE NGABO
Check Under The Radar‘s digital October 2011 issue for an interview with Murray. AND get your hands on the print edition to download this month’s sampler featuring “Raise The Dead” a super rare, yet awesomely prog, Gang of Losers b-side. Also, perfect for your HALLOW’EEN PLAYLISTS OooooOOOOOOO!
Hey palz. Benvie here. Outside of, or alongside, my life in the rock universe, I am also a writer of things. These things occasionally include books. My skull-crushing new novel Maintenance will be arriving on bookshelves in a few weeks, courtesy of my good pals at Coach House Books, and there are a few events... read more
From The R3-30 Fun Club: The Dears have this week’s highest debut. We asked Murray of the band about his musical guilty pleasures. We couldn’t fit the whole call into the show, but here you can listen to Murray belting out “Firework” by Katy Perry. Listen to the MP3 after the jump →
Join Lorraine and friends of The Dears at the Toronto launch of “Lost In The Plot,” the story of The Dears, so far. August 6th at Wilson 96, 7PM. Click here for FB event info. More cities/dates coming soon.
As I was writing this piece of fiction, I was in tears. It was meant to me the culmination of a short story, the tender moment that ends it all. But in the meanwhile, that short story (d)evolved into something … Continue reading →
Since my last post, I have been beleaguered (via Facebook) by some armchair psychoanalysis from a hen keeper in West Yorkshire: On one hand, I’m impressed I am able to portray such a complete image of myself through my blog. What … Continue reading →
I spent the latter half of 2011 with my head out of the music industry cloud. I’ve been luxuriating in a stress-free world of science fiction and artificial intelligence. I’ve been reading and writing more than anything else. But then … Continue reading →
Consider picking up a copy of the Winter 2011 edition of Matrix Magazine. A literary mag out of Montreal, this issue was guest edited by Rob Benvie. It includes a piece that I wrote called #DeathToWisdom, which I would describe … Continue reading →
This month I started an online course in Artificial Intelligence. I also recently met, quite randomly at a bar, a gentleman much more technically minded than myself, who is also taking the course. He asked me recently: I’m curious, what’s … Continue reading →
