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Out of this Spark will be celebrating its second anniversary this January with shows in Toronto and Guelph.

Out of this Spark (OOTS) is an independent record label based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

OOTS is an artist-focused label that works to release fun, exciting and innovative music. Our focus is facilitating the distribution of music to the masses for musicians in a participatory fashion. Out of this Spark focuses on supporting independent music in our community, releasing records of artists from Toronto and the surrounding area.

Our first release was the Friends in Bellwoods compilation in January of 2007, which was a benefit for the Daily Bread Food bank and has
raised over $11,000 for the fight against hunger in Toronto. Out of this Spark also released The D'Urbervilles full length-debut We Are the Hunters in February 2008, Forest City Lovers' Haunting Moon Sinking in March of 2008 and Jenny Omnichord's children album of duets, Charlotte or Otis : Duets for Children, Their Parents and Other
People Too. 2009 will see OOTS release Timber Timbre's self titled album on January 13th.

ANNIVERSARY SHOW DETAILS:

Saturday January 10th – Tranzac Club (Main Hall) – 292 Brunswick Avenue – Toronto ON
with Forest City Lovers, The D'Urbervilles, Timber Timbre and Jenny Omnichord.
$8 with non-perishable food item / $10 without. Doors at 8 PM

Friday January 16th – The Albion Hotel – 49 Norfolk Street – Guelph ON
with The D'Urbervilles, Forest City Lovers, Jenny Omnichord and Timber Timbre
$10. Doors at 9 PM.

Tuesday December 16th

Human Highway (http://www.myspace.com/humanhighway)
The Magic (http://www.myspace.com/themagiclovesyou)

The Tranzac (Main Hall) - 292 Brunswick Avenue - Toronto ON
Doors at 8 PM - $10 in advance / $12 at the Door - Tickets on sale soon

CD Release for Human Highway's Moody Motorcycle.

Human Highway is the new collaboration from two of Canada’s most-loved troubadours: Jim Guthrie and Nick Thorburn. Both Guthrie and Thorburn have been long-time fixtures of Canadian pop music. Jim is best-known for his releases on Three Gut Records, both with Royal City and as a solo artist, whereas Thorburn first gained international exposure with the Unicorns in 2003, and now fronts the super-pop group Islands. Guthrie was also featured on the first Islands record, as well as in the group’s original live line-up.

Out of this Spark presents

Saturday November 15th

Timber Timbre (http://www.myspace.com/timbertimbre)
Evening Hymns (http://www.myspace.com/eveninghymns)
Ryan Driver

Whippersnapper Gallery (587A College Street)
Doors at 8:30 PM - $5

Just a note of this year's Tranzac opens house, which we are helping with :

Tranzac Opens House
Saturday July 19th, 2008

Celebrate another year of music and art at the Tranzac with

Fembots (http://www.myspace.com/fembots)
castlemusic (http://www.myspace.com/jennifercastlemusic)
The Burning Hell (http://www.wearetheburninghell.com)
The Mantler Band (http://www.myspace.com/mantler)
Tusks (http://www.myspace.com/tusksonline)
Josh Thorpe's "You Do" w/Jason Benoit, Allison Cameron, Jennifer Castle, Eric Chenaux, and Marcus Quin (http://www.myspace.com/joshthethorpe)
Great Aunt Ida (http://www.myspace.com/greatauntida)
The Youngest (http://www.myspace.com/youngestyoungest)
Jenny Omnichord (http://www.myspace.com/jennyomnichord)
Griffin and The True Believers (http://www.myspace.com/andthetruebelievers)

DJs Glissandro 70 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissandro_70)

Tranzac – 292 Brunswick Avenue – Toronto ON

Music will be happening in the various rooms and spaces around the Tranzac

Doors are at 8 PM and tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door

Tickets on sale now at Soundscapes, Rotate This and the Tranzac.

The Tranzac is a non-profit member supported community organization with a focus on promoting arts, music and theatre. The TRANZAC (an abbreviation of Toronto Australia New Zealand Club) also works to promote and support Australian and New Zealand culture in Toronto.

Better Reasons Festival

From June 12th -14th the Blocks Blocks Blocks Recording Club, Fuzzy Logic Recordings, Out of this Spark and the Tranzac present the Better Reasons festival, a celebration of music, art and independent culture.

Proceeds from the three day event will be donated to Sketch, a Toronto based organization which creates art making opportunities for young people who live street-involved and homeless or who are considered to be at risk.

All concerts are at the Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto in the Main Hall. Admission is Pay What You Can. The Tranzac will also be exhibiting art work by the youth from SKETCH.

Thursday June 12th Out of this Spark presents

Forest City Lovers
The Magic
Evening Hymns

Doors at 8 PM

Friday June 13th Fuzzy Logic Recordings presents

Lily Frost
Prairie Cat (backed by The Bicycles)
Scraps from Boil Street: Puppet Shorts by Juliann Wilding and Henry Fletcher
Peter Project

Doors at 8 PM

Saturday June 14th Blocks Blocks Blocks presents

Kids on TV
Nif-D
The Phonemes
Tradition
Matias Rozenberg

Doors at 5 PM
There is a BBQ feast that begins at 5.

A quick heads up for some concerts we are putting on or quasi involved in.

We have a few CD release shows for The D’Urbervilles and Forest City Lovers coming up next week. Both The D’Urbervilles’ We Are The Hunters and Forest City Lovers’ Haunting Moon Sinking have come out on our Out of this Spark record label.

Furthermore we will be welcoming Geoff Berner back to Toronto on Saturday March 22nd and he will be performing with our good friends The Phonemes. Then in April we are excited to present the debut of kite hill along side the royal city’s own Tin at the Tranzac.

Here are the details:

Thursday March 13th
The D’Urbervilles & Forest City Lovers Dual CD Release
Bookshelf Ebar – 41 Quebec Street – Guelph ON
Doors at 9:30 PM – All Ages / Licensed

Friday March 14th
The D’Urbervilles & Forest City Lovers Dual CD Release
Tranzac (Main Hall) – 292 Brunswick Avenue – Toronto ON
Doors at 8 PM – D’Urbervilles 9:15 pm – Forest City Lovers 10:15 pm
(for real get their early it will be busy)
$7 advance / $8 at the door - Advance tickets at Soundscapes and Rotate This

Saturday March 22nd
Geoff Berner & The Phonemes
Tranzac (Main Hall) – 292 Brunswick Avenue – Toronto ON
Doors at 9 PM - $10 at the door

Friday April 25th
kite hill & Tin
Tranzac (Front Room) – 292 Brunswick Avenue – Toronto ON
10:30 PM - $5 / Pay What You Can

416519 : Toronto Meets Guelph

Out of this Spark presents four Monday nights of music with Toronto musicians sharing the stage with artists from Guelph in the Tranzac’s Tiki Room.

Monday February 4th

Matias (http://www.myspace.com/_matias_)
Chris Yang (http://www.myspace.com/chrisyangchrisyang)

Monday February 11th

Kat Burns (http://www.myspace.com/forestcitylovers)
The Magic (http://www.myspace.com/themagiclovesyou)

Monday February 18th

Kaeru (http://www.myspace.com/restandrun)
Mandibles

Monday February 25th

Nina Nielsen (http://www.myspace.com/ninanielsen)
Jessy Bell-Smith (http://www.myspace.com/jessybellsmith)

All shows at 9 PM – Tranzac Club – Tiki Room – 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto ON
$5 at the Door

Hello undertonelings,

Just a quick note that we are working on a series of intimate shows at the Tranzac in February where we have people from Toronto perform along side some of our favourite performers from Guelph, more details will emerge in the next or so.

Things are still quiet on the undertones front, but I want to pass along some info for the Tranzac's New Year Eve celebration that I am helping to put together. If you happened to attend the Tranzac's Opens House this past July, New Year's Eve will operate in a similar fashion with music and events happening in the Tranzac's different rooms throughout the evening.

Tickets are on sale now at Rotate This, Soundscapes and the Tranzac and they are only $10 in advance, that is less than $1 a performer (0.77 cents to be exact). Get them soon !!

Details :

Tranzac New Year's Eve – December 31st 2007

Celebrate New Year’s Eve with the Tranzac. Music and other things will be happening in The Main Hall, the Southern Cross Lounge and the Tiki Room and perhaps a few other locationary surprises !!! More details to come !!!

Participants:

The Phonemes (http://www.myspace.com/thephonemes)
By Divine Right (http://www.myspace.com/bydivineright)
Drumheller (http://www.myspace.com/nickfraser)
Vigilante Justice
Laura Barrett (http://www.myspace.com/laurabarrett)
Gentleman Reg (http://www.gentlemanreg.com)
Rural Alberta Advantage (http://www.theraa.com)
Forest City Lovers (http://www.playthetriangle.com)
Alex Lukashevsky (http://www.myspace.com/alukashevsky)
DJ Glissandro 70 (http://sandroperri.com/?page_id=24)
DJ Steve Kado (http://www.myspace.com/theblankket)
No Face No Problem (http://www.myspace.com/nofacenoproblem)
The Bilge Rats

Doors at 8 PM – Tickets $10 in advance / $12 at the door Advance Tickets on sale at Rotate This, Soundscapes, and the Tranzac Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto – www.tranzac.org

We have been busily preparing for the late summer / early autumn concert season and we have exciting things planned. First off on August 2nd a CD release for the debut Luyas CD at Sneaky Dee's. The Luyas features Pietro from Torngat, Jessie from SS Cardiacs and Stef the drummer from Bell Orchestre. Joining them that evening will be The Blankket (the solo project of Steve Kado), Huckleberry Friends and Katie Stelmanis. Then after that on Sunday August 12th we have a beautiful show at the Tranzac with Casey Mecija (of Ohbijou), One Hundred Dollars (Ian of Jon-Rae and the River and Simone) and Chris Yang (of Burnt Oak Records). Then we have September. September will feature the CD release for Torngat at the Music Gallery with Timber Timbre and Double Suicide (Sandro Perri and Ryan Driver). We close up the month with a show featuring the Toronto return of our western friends Geoff Berner and Carolyn Mark at the Tranzac.

A reminder of this week's Track and Field festival launch / fundraiser at the Tranzac on Thursday night. A note that Friday Morning's Regret is now called The Wooden Sky, write that one down.

Also we are taking thing a little quiet over the next couple of months as we enjoy summer leisure time, but before we settle into a summer hibernation we are helping organize the Tranzac Opens House event. Tickets are one sale now at Soundscapes, Rotate This and the front bar at the Tranzac.

A reminder of this week’s FemBots and Nathan Lawr and the Minotaurs show at the beautiful Music Gallery on Friday night.

The FemBots have been busy working on an album recorded with junkstruments made by Toronto artist Iner Souster. Check out http://junkstruments.blogspot.com for some amazing photos of the instruments and the process.

Meanwhile Nathan has just finished a new album that will be entitled "A Sea of Tiny Lights".

Both groups have some special things planned for the night.

Advance tickets are now on sale at Rotate This and Soundscapes. There are also going to be some tickets at the door, but the Music Gallery is smallish so come early if you are unable to grab a ticket.

In the next week or so we should be announcing some pretty exciting concerts so prepare yourself for the excitement, you don’t want to be caught by surprise.

We should have mentioned this some time ago but Stuart is going to be DJ'n Wavelength on Sunday night before, between and after the bands. Performing that evening will be Bruce Peninsula ( www.myspace.com/brucepeninsula) and Eritrean singer + krar player Daniel Nebiat(www.myspace.com/danielnebiatmusic). Expect old r&b, soul, reggae, with smattering of late 80's/early 90's hip-hop.

Tickets are also now on sale at Rotate This and Soundscapes for the FemBots / Nathan Lawr and the Minotaurs show at the Music Gallery. While you are picking up tickets for that show you should also grab tickets to the Torngat / SS Cardiacs show.

Also mark June 30th on your calendar as we are organizing the evening entertainment for the Tranzac open house and it is crazy exciting.

If you are looking for something to do this St. Patrick’s Day, a reminder that we you can stop by the Tranzac on Saturday night to hear the music of our friends from New York City Urban Barnyard, with Toronto’s Matias and Guelph Chris Yang. The show will be PWYC and starts around 10pm.

Tickets for the Toronto Torngat / SS Cardiacs show are now on sale at Rotate This and Soundscapes.

Also we are excited to announce a new show. We will be welcoming the FemBots and Nathan Lawr and the Minotaurs to the Toronto’s beautiful Music Gallery on Friday April 20th. Tickets for the show will be going sale by Thursday at Rotate and Soundscapes, grab them quick The Music Gallery is relatively small.

Also we are on myspace, we should be friends :

http://www.myspace.com/undertonesguelph

Tickets are now on sale for the Toronto Geoff Berner / Bob Wiseman show at Soundscapes ( 572 College Street )

Hello all,

It is has been while since we added news to the site, but just a quick reminder that we have a whole bunch of shows coming up in Toronto and Guelph in the new year, please check the concerts page for full details.

Have a good holidays.

Our first show in Toronto is quickly approaching, details are in the concert section of the website.

Exciting things are on the horizon, and they will be revealed in the next month or so.

We have some exciting shows and things planned for the new year.

Look out 2007 we are coming at you like a kick to the throat.