What's In Store for the Invasion...

Friends,

With the new CI disc finally out and our momentous CD release party behind us, I figured I'd fill you in on a few of the things CI will be up to in the next few months.

RADIO APPEARANCES
I'm excited to say the we'll be appearing on Philly radio not once but twice this April. First, we'll be playing a few songs live on the air on 104.5 as part of their Friday Live at Five series. We'll be playing "My Swashbuckling Days are Over" and our cover of the Pixies' "Wave of Mutilation" on the air on Friday, April 5th at 5pm sharp. You can listen online by clicking HERE, or you can listen on your iPhone or Blackberry by downloading the new iheartradio app.

And on Easter Sunday we will be taping a live session for our good friends at XPN! We're pulling out all the stops for the session, so expect some tunes from Three Cheers as well as some surprises, including one we've never played before! We'll have details about when the session will air very soon.

SHOWS and MORE SHOWS!
At the end of March we're taking part in a little something we've come to dub the "Canadian Invasion / Golden Bloom Weekend Swap"! We'll be swapping gigs--and spit perhaps?--with our pal Shawn Fogel and his fine band of brothers, Golden Bloom. On Friday, March 27th you can catch both bands at Matchless Bar in Brooklyn for a free show that starts at 8pm. Then on Sunday, March 29th both bands will be in Philly at the M Room for a gig sponsored by one of our favorite Philly music blogs, Bag of Songs (and in the interest of full-disclosure, we love Tom from Bag of Songs).

MARCH MADNESS (no brackets required!)
CI is excited to be a part of West Chester University Radio's March Madness Battle of the Bands! What this means is that CI is pitted against 15 other bands in a bracket style showdown in which YOU, by casting votes online, can determine the winner! CI will face their first opponent on Thursday, March 26th. Support the guys and get us to the next round by stopping by the West Chester University Radio website and voting for Canadian Invasion on March 26th. CLICK HERE TO VOTE...

And if you live in the listening radius of WCUR, listen for CI on the hour every hour on the 26th!

GET UR CI T-SHIRT!
The new Canadian Invasion t-shirts have finally arrived! Take a look for yourself:



You can have your very own for only $15 by clicking below...

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MORE UPDATES COMING!
And finally, keep checking in on us! We hope to have news very soon about some more gigs in the DC and Boston Metro ares, some more news about stores where you can pick up Three Cheers, and yet another music video for the album!

Until then, thanks so much for your support!

-Andy Canadian
www.canadianinvasion.org

The Aftermath...

Tonight was awesome. It's three in the morning, I was vert recently dancing to Biz Markee, and so many of you ventured out to support us at the World Cafe.

I got to hang with my video soulmate, Melinda the Martian, we covered the Pixies, some of my old band mates were in the house...and I got to share the stage with 4 of the best guys in the world.

Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome

Tonight is the Night!

Friends,

Tonight is the night we celebrate the release of our new album Three Cheers for the Invisible Hand, which comes to you after three long years of turmoil, tumult, and now, some semblance of triumph.

If you've followed the band for a bit, you surely know how long this record has been in the works and how humbled we are to be able to share it with you and the world.

Before I get all gushy, I am going to make a few promises to all of you who have given us so much:

1. We are going to try our hardest not to take three years between every record! Our next one, believe it or not, is well on it's way to being completely written, so hopefully, we'll be doing this CD release thing again sometime before 2012 (which is good, because apparently that's when the world is supposed to end, or at least that's what the TV tells me).

2. We're going to get to more of those places that we've never been able to get to in the past. Boston, watch out: we're on our way. Chapel Hill: hide your daughters! And, with some luck, the list will go on and on...

3. We are going to do more to build up our community of fans, friends, and talented individuals. In the past three years we've had the pleasure of working with video makers, poster artists, producers, and many others. We have some big ideas about how we can build a CI community where you can share in the joy we get from being around all these creative folks. And hopefully, you'll be able to share your talents as well.

Ok, thats it for promises, but to us we're over the moon that we can even consider these things. Thanks as always for helping us to pursue this crazy dream.

Yours,

Andy Canadian

6 days and counting...

Three years in the making, I'm proud to say we're only 6 days away from the CD Release Party for Canadian Invasion's new disc, Three Cheers for the Invisible Hand. We've come a long way in the three years since our last record, Songs for the Atco Ghost, and we have had the pleasure of making quite a few new friends along the way.

From Derek at The Fire who hosted our last CD release party, to Brian McTear who helmed our new album and taught us how to be a real band, to Jim Moran at Transit of Venus who's taken a chance putting out our record, to Melinda the Martian who started as a friend of a friend and ended up our graphic designer/video director soul mate, to the countless others who have contributed something--time, money, a shoulder to cry on--to help us pursue this insane dream.

So in 6 days when we celebrate at the World Cafe, we hope the show is not just a celebration of our record, but a celebration of all the folks who have played some role in us being here today.

Yours,

Andy Canadian

Andy Canadian in SPIN Magazine!

Friends,

Run out to your local newsstand--do those things still exist? I hope so!--and pick up the March copy of SPIN Magazine. This month's issue not only has the very cool Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the cover, but a few pages in you can be entertained by a quote from yours truly about why we're called Canadian Invasion!

Let me just say in advance that I apologize to the entire nation of Canada. You can check out the SPIN website HERE.

Yours,

Andy Canadian