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Leaving Them Crying For More

After rocking, last Saturday night, for one of the biggest crowds in the history of Lee's Palace, Weeping Tile sold dozens of copies of their latest album Valentino. The crowd was deeply impressed with the show. Not only Tile fans, but people checking them out for the first time left with the new disc in their hands.

Camille Giroux, the band's drummer, is surprised with the number of discs the band sells after a show.

"It's shocking to find out the day after a show that we managed to sell over 100 CD's in about a half an hour, but it happens more often then we ever thought it would," Giroux said. "It's something that we can feel really good about, knowing that our CD's are getting out into the world, and more and more people are listening to us everyday," he added.

Weeping Tile explores various sides of pop and rock, but likes to throw in four or five tracks of country full-stop material that allows lead singer Sarah Harmer's strong, unique voice to shine.

The band pleased the crowd by playing a two hour set rather than one hour.

"We usually play for about 60 minutes when we do a show like this, but sometimes, when we're having a good night, and the mood of the crowd is right, it sometimes leads us to a longer set, but we don't mind. It's easy when you love to perform for people," said Giroux, during a pre-gig interview.

It wasn't enough that they ended their first encore with a spectacular rendition of Sabotage by the Beastie Boys, but the roaring crowd would not let them go and dragged them out for a second encore.

The rest of Weeping Tile are lead guitarist and back-up vocalist Luther Wright, and Sticky, the bassist and back-up singer.

The band is happy that they got started in the Kingston area because of the numerous opportunities available to a new band in that city.

"There's a lot of bands playing in Kingston, and there are a ton of opening bands that are wanted for local shows. There's the university, and a lot of artsy types living in the Kingston area. Having a good musical community, like Kingston, helps when you're trying to get started," said Harmer.

The band has just completed a huge tour in the U.S. that started in Denver and ended in Buffalo. Giroux says they're happy with the turnouts they get when playing in the U.S. "People come to most of our shows. A couple of times we played for the waitress or the bartender, but we sold lots of records and got to play with Blue Rodeo, which was good because they have a good crowd down there," he said.

Weeping Tile has a few more shows to do in the area but plans to let the coming winter pass before they do any serious touring.

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