For the week of November 13th to 19th, David Usher's St. Lawrence River is nominated to be aired 9 times per week on Musique
Plus. Click here to vote.
The following is from the Official Moist Page... a recent e-mail from David Usher to Andrea K.
David did an interview on Wednesday (november 11th) at Musique Plus,
he explained that the footage used was shot by his wife, Sabrina, in their apartment and during his performance at musique Plus. David also mentioned that he did the editing.
David and Sabrina buy/eat green apples.
The video for St. Lawrence River, which primiered November 9th, was edited by David and shot in his apartment by his wife, it also
features clips from his Musique Plus intimate performance.
The video for the third single from Little Songs, "St. Lawrence River", primered this week on musique plus' Interfax.
The Montreal show with David Usher at MusiquePlus was not an 'enligne', it was rather a small intimate and very laid back show with about 80 people attending.. The set was similar to a living
room, with live musicians.
Tonight, Saturday October 17th @ 8:00 p.m. MusiquePlus presents "DAVID USHER Petites Chansons". Rerun Sunday, October 18th @ 4 a.m. & 12 p.m. Lenght: 60 minutes. See www.musiqueplus.com/nouveau/texte/emissions/Concertplus.html.
ChartAttack is having it's 4th Annual Year-End Readers' Poll. You can vote in many categories and win a chance to eceive a
one-year subscription or renewal to
Chart and a nifty grab bag. Go here to vote.
There is a pretty likely possiblity that David Usher will do a club tour in the states to support Little Songs. More info to come.
There might be more canadian apperances such as Holy Joe's in Toronto a couple of weeks ago. And the rumored show tonight in Guelph.
David presented an award for best R+B artist at the 1998
MuchMusic Video Awards. He recorded a
"Speakers Corner segment", with Paul [Wilcox]
The September/October issue of Canadian Musician has 3 articles written by Kevin Young, and pictures of both Moist and Kevin.
There is a pretty likely possiblity that David Usher will do a club tour in the states to support Little Songs. More info to come.
There might be more canadian apperances such as Holy Joe's in Toronto a couple of weeks ago. And the rumored show tonight in Guelph.
(i should have told you this earlier but some reason i thought the show was next friday) David did not perfom, due to an illness in the band. His percussionist got sick and went back to Toronto. Both Kevin and Paul attended the show, and did a few songs with I Mother Earth.
Supposedly David stayed home because he was pissed he couldn't play.
Rumor David's book might be poetry.
David Usher is playing a FREE street concert with I Mother Earth,
The Rheostatics, Jah Cutta, Shades of Culture, The Snitches, Stephen Fearing and more, in Montreal. The Concert is Organized by Concordia Student Union (CSU) as part of their annual streetfest.
The street fesitival will include Concordia
clubs, ethnic food, and their sponsors. Well-known
musicians will also be performing and speaking about the Greening
of Mackay Project (an ongoing student project) at the Free
Concert on Mackay Street (between Maisonneuve and
Sherbrooke)Friday September 18th. David should be playing around 9:30 pm, before IME.
David Usher's solo album, Little Songs, is number 28, in Toronto's alternative radio station's, The Edge, 102 top albums of 1998. See this link.
Cool! magazine has large poster of David Usher. (i'm not sure if it's this month though, sorry!)
David's new single is rumored to be St. Lawrence River.
A studio magazine reported that David Usher was re-mastering his album, Little Songs to add another track for the international
release.
Want to send a MOIST postcard to an Internet friend? well now you can. The EMI Canada site, has created David Usher postcards. They look like this, and you can have them here.
EMI even has a site where you can write to your artist (David Usher/moist) go here to see.
David Usher's Little Songs has reached Gold Status in Canada (50 000 copies).
you can find a videography of David Usher's Videos here.
If you missed the David Usher chat on May the 20th, don't fret, you can read a transcript here.
Jam reports that david usher is writing a book. See the news section to read the article. [David has confirmed that but wishes to keep the subject a secret.]
See the news section for recent articles published about Little Songs.
for the final video for little songs i wanted to make
something that was in tune with the process of the
record, something personal, created with and by
friends. ... we just went ahead, quietly, one
might even say secretly, on our own. i am
fortunate to be surrounded by a group of people
that come from an indy art background and
mind set, ... charge ahead the idea was to do a
behind the scenes video with less flash and fewer
cuts. i wanted to capture the musicians and crew
involved in putting together the live version of
little songs. the video follows the reversals
in toronto, a small show for thirty friends at
holy joes and then finally the show at musique plus
the sink footage (me with guitar) was shot at our
apartment in montreal, sabrina directed it with
assistance of steven and myself.
tony was also helping out [and} musique plus has
been incredibly supportive, we have a common mind
on things i think
if you want to see the video on much music, drop them
an email, im going to send it to them this week.
thanks to Andrea K. @ the Official Moist Page
Andrea K. believes it was shot in Super 8 format (film) since she noticed the camera Sabrina had.
thanks again to Andrea at OMP
thanks to the official moist page
thoughts from Aleta [from the last half]...it was really good. it is basically
of the making of the song, i mean, i thinkit is filmed in dave's apt, and there are shots of dave singing, of him infront of this
giant sound board, of some of the people working, of people sitting on a couch. dave is wearing the same hat as in the en
ligne thing (or a similar one) at the end of the video, you can see kevin in the background just standong around the couch, jeff
is there, but he isn't clear at all.
thanks to both Aleta and Jenn for the info
last updated: October 17th, 1998
The musicians did a run through of the entire album with the exception of mood
song. Last night's musicians were: kevin young, another kevin
on cello, guitarist, byron wong on bass, jeff pearce also played
bass on St. Lawrence river, and a percussionist as well.
It was taped yesterday evening (wednesday sept. 16th) and will be AIRED ON MUSIQUEPLUS OCTOBER 17TH AT 8h00 PM. (either as a ConcertPlus or En Ligne)
David Usher a insufflé un coup de jeune au rock… Il
fait dans le vrai que ce soit avec Moist ou en solo.
1998, l’année de pleine éclosion de David Usher?
Chose sûre, il accumule les compliments… Charisme
évident, interprète vivant et compositeur de grand
talent!
Cette fois-ci il nous offre une prestation intime de
chansons tirées de son album Little Songs en
compagnie de ses fans. Il nous interprète son succès
Jesus was my girl ainsi que F-Train, Million,
St-Lawrence, Baby Skin Tattoo Trickster et Forest
Fire.
For all of you who are pissed off by the fact he's showing up at 19+ venues, sources say he wishes to market a different audience. (read between the lines, older, more mature, people who would/could relate to him better).
updated: October 3rd, 1998
For all of you who are pissed off by the fact he's showing up at 19+ venues, sources say he wishes to market a different audience. (read between the lines, older, more mature, people who would/could relate to him better).
thanks to Aleta for the detailed info, and to an unknown source whose information i made useless. sorry.
thanks to the official moist page and the Concordia student union homepage for most of the info above.
David Usher played a secret show last night in Toronto to support little songs. He was assited by Kevin and a few other little songs contributers. There is a review of the show at Jam! Online.
