Hey guys!

Great show @ The El Mocambo last night!!! Thanks to everyone that
came out – partied with us – played Foosball with us & showed
their support! Another thanks to The C’Mons, Shark Week & Winter
City for putting on solid, entertaining sets & just being cool
people. I’m sure that we’ll set-up another show together in the
future.

Cheers to Mr. Bryan Fligg for manning it up & singing through our
entire set after a week of having a rough, rough cold. To be honest, I
didn’t hear a single bad note from Bryan. Maybe I was just too
focused on nailing my bass & back-up vocal parts, but he just
sounded like his regular, *sexy* self to me. & no, my opinion is
not biased at all. (wink, wink) A very special thanks to Buckley’s
Cough Syrup which despite it’s “awful” taste, actually
works *very* well. You know, I’m really just hoping that Mr. Frank Buckley
comes along & reads this blog. Dear Mr. Buckley, if you could
please sponsor the Morning Thieves with your fast-acting – foul
tasting cough syrup concoction, I promise that we can make an
excellent new Buckley’s commercial together. The new Buckley’s slogan
will have to be something like… “It tastes like the water that
has been stored for three weeks in your brother’s ten-year-old
basketball shoes…But it works!”

Cheers,

- Mike

FRIDAY APRIL 6th, at The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern……….

KC Roberts & The Live Revolution team up with The Morning Thieves to give you a night of unstoppable original funk and rock music. With Dj Kenny Bounce spinning some deep ass grooves before, between and after… sets, there is no way to prevent yourself from having a silly good night. We dare you to come and not have a smile on your face after ten minutes of music….

So tell everyone you know, spread the word, let’s have a party, let’s dance, let’s drink let’s do this PROPER!!!!

It’s only $10, Doors open at 9:30.

See you at the Shoe!

DJ Kenny Bounce – 9:30
Morning Thieves – 10:00pm
KC Roberts & The Live Revolution – 11:30

WE’VE GOT AN EASTER EGG HUNT PLANNED FOR YOU GUYS SO MAKE SURE TO GET THERE EARLY!!

Chris – He’s one of the most loyal fans to Morning Thieves and above all one of my best friends. “Mike Henderson, I wish you well on your sacred quest to the west”. The Thieves will miss you and im seriously gonna breakdown when you leave today. I will always remember the mornings i woke your ass out off bed at 7 am after my midnight shift and sang tunes in your garage. I think that went on for a year and a half straight  haha. Before this blog gets cheesy on everyone…. All i know is I call dibs on your couch when we play some shows outwest. Mike were gonna miss yah and i hope we can swing by your neck of the woods this summer or fall. By the way, did i mention your the f#cking man for getting a tattoo of my band!!

Were playing Mitzi’s Sister @ 1am Thurs, Mar 22

We can’t wait ’till Wednesday for all the fun to begin! Not only is CMW a great festival to be a part of, its also a great chance to check out up and coming bands you might not have heard of yet, but you should’ve!

We’ve lucked out this year and have a wicked lineup for our Thursday night at Mitzi’s Sister.  We’re playing alongside The Blue Stones, Dangerband, and The Murder Plans. We’ll be tearing it up at 1am to close out the show, so come try out your new dance moves!

Check the Facebook Event HERE

Bryan Here ~ Yesterday I was supposed to hit up the studio all day with our buddy Dale from the band The Soundsmiths. But, we took one step outside to get some fresh air and realized… there was no recording happening with this insane RECORD BREAKING mid March weather.  So, we packed up the acoustics, headed down to the harbor front in Mississauga to enjoy the day while busking to the many people out doing the same. We got a good crowd going and then along came a man and his goat! … yea thats right …. a goat.  And what was a busking fest turned into a petting zoo for the next 25 mins! Haha.

Killer time playing every song we know and pulling in a good dollar from the generous people. Hunger set in after a few hours, so after it was burritos all around!!! ~~

~ Rehearsal  and a show this week at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto
~ Check all the deets on our FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/morningthievesmusic

We just released a new Single, recorded live off the floor at Metalworks Studio in Mississauga.  We had the whole place to ourselves from 12 midnight to about 4 or 5 am so we brought in some lights, camera, coffee, pizza and had a wicked time rocking out in their big studio.  We also killed some time running around the halls jumping on the couches, playing pinball, pool, and wieghing ourselves with our gear to see how heavy it was! My Vox amp is about 63 Pounds btw.  Check out the video! Soon to be released on iTunes. But for now your justw going to have to get one of those nifty youtube MP3 downloaders if you want it on your itunes list.  Check it out!

This was a reply to one of our early album mix blogs. Im still unsure as to whether anything with an ounce of sense is being said…. If someone can understand this, please reply with a full translation!!

“What i do not understood is in truth how you’re no longer actually a lot more well-preferred than you may be now. You are so intelligent. You know thus considerably when it comes to this topic, produced me for my part imagine it from numerous numerous angles. Its like women and men are not involved until it’s something to accomplish with Woman gaga! Your individual stuffs nice. All the time deal with it up!”

For those who don’t know, Gold Guns Girls is a song by the Canadian band Metric off their most recent release “Fantasies”.  Over the last year or so GGG has frequented our set list on many occasions from our most important gigs, to smaller open mics sets, and has always been a crowd pleaser!  But like any band, our set list has evolved and we unfortunately find ourselves playing it much less than we once did. So, to secure its place in the hearts of our fans, and of course ourselves, we decided to take it to the studio and record our own version.  We have performed the song as a full out rock band, but also on acoustic sets, so for the recording we put our two styles together and produced a very unique version of this straight ahead rock tune.  With a creative self-made video of us performing the song live in studio, we’re pretty happy with how it turned out, and are confident you’ll all enjoy it too!     So please, take a listen. Check out the video on YouTube!  Comment and share with your friends!  Thanks

 

We’ve been invited to play an industry showcase series tomorrow called Local Music Is Sexy with two amazing bands from Mississauga, The Soundsmiths and Down By Riverside. Feldman Booking Agency, A&R, and Canadian Music Reps will all be out in full force!! . The show is at Alley Catz (yonge&eglinton) and starts at 10pm sharp (just enough time to predrink).  Anyways come show some love for the local music scene and hangout with us on your Thursday night!

http://www.facebook.com/events/328620763823418/

So much coming up this week! We just played a webcast called Parkdale Live on Wednesday. Not to worry if you missed it we will have videos up shortly for everyone to see! Also we are playing this Sunday at Clinton’s Tavern for a Toronto Independent Music Awards showcase. Our song Wrongside won the competition to be featured in their 2012 promo video which you can watch here:

Last but definitely not least we are playing a huge show on December 8th at The Supermarket!! Featuring Joel Martin, The Pigott Brothers, Mike Celia, Selyne Maia and more. Here’s a link to the event page for all the details. Also remember to wear your best christmas sweater to either of these shows!
http://www.facebook.com/events/157487417680629/

BOYS & GIRLS TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT We are throwing our PARTY at the Piston for the release of our first EP “Wrongside” and you are ALL invited. Its going to fill up quick, so make sure to get their EARLY. Doors are at 8:30p. Cover is $10. Tonight, the EP is only $5 a pop. So raid your couches and scrounge your parents dresser drawers for that extra pocket change, ‘cuz you’re not going to want to leave the party empty handed! Featuring Performances By: Kai, The Danger Bees…..

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Here are all the details via FB:

http://www.facebook.com/morningthievesmusic#!/event.php?eid=244350328943121

Hey Guys and Gals.  With the Wrongside EP release just under a week away, we want to give you a sneak peak of how great the album has turned out.  So we are releasing our title track “Wrongside” to get the party started a little early.  It will soon be available for download on itunes and bandcamp, but for now, here is the link to our the youtube video/slideshow.  Hope to see you all out on October 6th at the Piston!

So many new updates to tell you about!! After a great summer of playing shows and finishing up the E.P. we’ve set a date for the release! We’ll be hosting the party at The Piston (Ossington/Bloor) on Thursday October 6th with our good friends The Danger Bees and Kai. Feel free to check out the event and opening bands by clicking this delicious link below! (To do so you must click more)

It was a late start for me again, but Tim had been working on our track Sweet Silhouette for pretty much the whole day before I arrived. He’s got a lot to do before my production and mixing input is actually of any use, like organizing tracks, warming up the gear and getting levels in the ball park. This being our most vocal track, with three and four part harmonies recorded up to four times each, we decided that was a good place to start. This was BY FAR our hardest track to lay down as a band. The arrangement alone went through so many changes over the last few months of preproduction that we had to let it really digest as its new form before hitting record. That being said it has turned out to be one of our more interesting tracks on the EP, with a vibe-y old school vinyl intro, full Queen inspired harmonies and a bridge that really brings it home. At about 3am, after a late night Timmies run (continue reading…)

I showed up to the mixing session late at about 10pm last night after an evening shift at Long & MxQuade. When I arrived our song “Words In These Notes” was pumping through the moniters like it was already an album cut. After retracking some tambourine and making some final adjustments, we had it polished at about 2 or 3am. This morning (at the crack of noon) we pushed the faders up on our next track Holding On, cleaning up vocal tracks over a couple grande Starbucks coffees. Luckily for me, the tedious task of going over every track with a fine tooth comb has been passed over to our mixing engineer and good friend Tim Oxford at his studio in Richmond Hill. We just fired up a fresh pot, and are in for a whole evening of staring at a computer screen, taking breaks for California sandwiches and (surprisingly good)late night cheese shredder salads. Were taking a break for tomorrow, but will be back at it for a full day on Thursday, finishing on Friday right before Tim takes off for an Arkells gig. Yeehaw -Bryan

Working on a new website. In the mean time check us out at http://www.myspace.com/morningthievesmusic.