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from the studio...
The band is debating the album title, it seems they've come up with a few good suggestions.
they have 11 songs starting, after a few more, they'll fine tune.

David Usher is nominated at the Junos, in the category best male vocalist.
The Juno Awards will be held on March 7, 1999 at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario
See this site for more information, http://www.juno-awards.ca/

Tuesday, February 23rd 1999

I'm sorry for the long wait .. but i've come back - momentarly.

Well for those of you who don't know, the band (Jeff) has been dabbling in HTML, the end product is their very own site, www.moist.ca.
For the time being the studio updates are quite interesting and you might like to take a look (www.moist.ca/studio.html).

The Cruel Intention soundtrack thing won't happen.

The band has recorded 8-9 songs, the album should be out in May/June (to support a probable June/July concert tour). Notice all the undefined and undefinate terms?

Monday, February 8th 1999

The band is still in the studio writing their 3rd album. No set release date.

The Official Moist Page has put up a birthday card for Mr. Paul Wilcox who will be turning 29 on February 13th. Click here to sign/view.

If underground has been/is chosen for the upcoming movie "Cruel Intentions", it will be used in a funeral scene.
thanks to trickster

Friday, February 5th 1999

If some of you are interested in knowing (seeing) what Morin Heights looks like, take a peak at the web page, by clicking the logo.

Sunday, January 17th 1999

Something new has arrived from the creaters of the Pants to moist fans. A little e-mail service provider... see this link for more information.

Monday, January 11th 1999

a little later on in the evening...
Found this from Jam! Music, written by Karen bliss.
Moist starts work on third LP
After recording one song with David Leonard to submit to a movie soundtrack, Montreal rock band Moist has decided to record its next album with the producer of Barenaked Ladies' Stunt and Wide Mouth Mason's forthcoming album.

"He's got a large body of work and he's pretty versatile which is what we're after for our record coming up," says drummer Paul Wilcox. "He's not just a rock guy. He's not just a country guy. He's not pigeonholed to one kind of music. He's all over the place, from Prince to Shawn Colvin."

The Nashville-based Leonard flew up to Quebec December 8 to 10 to produce Moist's song "Underground" in Morin Heights. The track is being considered for an American film Wilcox believes is called "Cruel Intentions or Cruel Inventions, something like that," he says. "I don't know anything about it."

Wilcox says, if the song is accepted, it will play over a funeral scene and the final credits but that the title isn't an intentional tie-in. "The song was written by the band. It's a song we had, but we just changed the intro around, but apart from that the song was already done.

Underground, which will most likely appear on Moist's next album, employs a big string section arranged and conducted by Montreal's Robbie Finkel. Actually, admits Wilcox, "It's a string quartet but they played four or five different pieces down on it, so in some places we have like 20 sets of strings on it."

While singer David Usher, guitarist Mark Makoway and bassist Jeff Pearce stayed behind, Wilcox and keyboardist Kevin Young joined Leonard for the mixing process in Nashville at Starstruck Studios. "He mixed it and we just listened and said, 'Hey, cool'," says Wilcox.

Moist is tentatively scheduled to begin work on its third album with Leonard the last week of January, but are still deciding on the studio which will definitely be in Montreal. "We want to stay close to home," says Wilcox.

The band has enough material for the album but want to do some more songwriting right down to the wire. "We want to keep working right up until we go into the studio and while we're in the studio as well," says Wilcox.

As for the direction of the music, he says, "It's going to be pretty diverse, but we're not going to reinvent the band by any stretch."

Underground is being considered for "Cruel Intentions"' Soundtrack. The movie is a modern adaptation of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" set in a wealthy Connecticut town. The follwing is a summary by J.J. Neal.
Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar play bickering step-siblings who, together, quietly control much of the social lives of the students in an affluent NY prep school. Phillippe's Sebastian sees himself as a kind of Don Juan, who always gets his woman, while Gellar's Katherine would rather enact revenge on ex-flames and corrupt incoming freshmen. One day, Katherine and Sebastian, driven by a mutual lust for each other and a love of messing with innocent young people's lives, hatch a nefarious plan, and place a kind of bet. Sebastian is to woo and bed the daughter of the new headmaster (Reece Witherspoon, playing a very adamant virgin with plans to only "wait until marriage"), and if he is able to accomplish this seemingly impossible task, he can have his way with Gellar - the one woman whom he KNOWS he can not have. If he is unable to seduce the ice queen, however, Katherine gets his classic Porsche.
Written and Directed by Roger Kumble it stars Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, Christine Baranski, Joshua Jackson, Swoosie Kurtz and Sean Patrick Thomas.
The movie also known as Cruel Inventions (working title) is completed (filmed in New York, L.A. and Toronto) and should be in released in theaters March 5th in the U.S.A. and April 30th in Iceland.
See this link for more information.

As the band heads to Morin Heights this week, the album is still unamed.
thanks to the OMP .

Saturday, January 9th 1999

Toronto radio station the Edge 102 reports that Moist has finished recording a song called "underground" with producer David Leonard. It's said to have lots of strings and a downbeat kind of tune. Moist will working with this producer on the rest of the album which they will be recording at the end of the month.
thanks linda!

MuchMusic's RapidFax reports that MOIST IS BACK AT WORK January 4, 1999 Rapid Fax
MOIST is tentatively scheduled to begin work on its third album the last week of January and the band has decided to work with DAVID LEONARD - the producer of BARENAKED LADIES' "Stunt" album. Moist recently recorded a song called "Underground" - a track being considered for an American movie soundtrack - with the Nashville-based Leonard in Morin Heights, Quebec.

St. Lawrence River is airing on MuchMusic.

Thursday, January 7th 1999

Kevin Young contributed (or more specifically is quoted) in an article appearing in the November/December 1998 Vol. XX No.6 issue of Canadian Musician, titled Building Your Team. This issue is still available in stores.

Saturday, January 2nd 1999

The first update of the last year of the century won't be too exciting - sorry.

You'll find an old article from Studio Morin Heights'April '97 Issue of The Sound Barrier (their newsletter), here. Chances are you've never read it before.
thank you Jenn

David Usher's Little Songs is number 48 in this years, Top 102 album of 1998 by Toronto radio station The Edge. View the complete list here.
thanks to linda for the info

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