LITTLE SCREAM

MAD DECENT

Gillian — Sat, 11 May 2013 16:25:34 +0000

Tambourine Death Bed is an amazing name for an amazing album. I fell in love with the new Michael Feuerstack record while putting vocals on it last year, and I’m glad everyone can hear it now because I’ve been really impatient about wanting to share it. Mike’s a true songwriter, and it’s a relief to sing someone else’s words without the neurosis that accompanies singing my own. His record just came out this week, you can hear it courtesy of !Exclaim here, and if you’re any sort of a decent person, you’ll buy it here.

And I know you are. You’re a mad decent person. I can FEEL it.

MENALON + LITTLE SCREAM = YOU

Gillian — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:24:54 +0000

Last September I met some great people filming a remake of Cannons for an MTV/BOOOOOM.com series called “Made of Imagination”. I’ve formed a new project with 2 of them – Lodewijk Vos and Joseph Murray, aka Menalon. We have our first show this Saturday *January 19th in Toronto at the TEDx-OCAD after party. It will be all new tunes played in an all new way and I’m more excited about it than anything else that’s happened this whole year, I swur.

Here is a the video of our first collaboration together, when we were just like a baby crawling towards a mcdonald’s playland.

ALL TOMRWS PARTIES DEBUT

Gillian — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:21:51 +0000

In December I went to All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in the UK to perform in the official debut of a project I am very proud to be a part of – Richard Reed Parry’s song series “Quiet River of Dust”. I play an assortment of keyboards and sing a variety of background vocals. Richard once described it as ‘nature worshiping, blade runner folk from old England’, I’d say it’s all that, and then some. We’ll be working on recording it this spring, along with the new Little Scream album.

REAL LATE SHOUT OUT

Gillian — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:10:52 +0000

This one goes out to Producciones Coconut, aka the most wonderful goddamn people you could ever meet. In November they hosted me (n Marcus), Holly Miranda, and Lisa Hannigan band where we played a series of beautiful theaters in Spain. In Vigo I dared Holly 1€ to sing a Tool cover song at a Purificación Garcia in-store appearance and I’d never seen the eff bomb dropped so many times in front of children. Here’s a little travel video she made of our adventures.

Your Radio on City of Music

Gillian — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:31:41 +0000

While we were on tour with Beirut in July, we stopped in a field off of a highway near Minneapolis to shoot Your Radio with Dan Huiting for Pitchfork TV’s City of Music.

It’s our pleasure to share it with you here today. Enjoy!

words for Jason

Gillian — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:19:39 +0000

As a teenager, Rachel’s was a group that influenced me a lot. When I had the opportunity to meet Jason Noble last year, I felt honored to be able to connect with a part of something that had resonated so deeply with me. He turned me onto some of the other musical projects he’d been involved with (Shipping News, Shannon Wright), and I was thrilled to be able to share my music with him as well. He listened to what I gave him so thoughtfully and perceptively, and he came back to me with questions – about the nature of darkness, tragic characters, and Elgar. It was a small but meaningful exchange, and he put an excerpt of it into a column he was starting in Louisville. That support and attention meant so much to me. Jason died last week after a 3 year battle with cancer. The night I found out we listened to Systems/Layers again and again, picking up echoes of his spirit in melodies, and imagining his own words echoing back to him:

You will be safe
You will be asleep
Someone will have their hand
running through your hair
The world is full of images
Some of them will be transparent
Ghosts
that only catch on video frames

You will be cared for
You won’t freeze

Too many casualties to keep track of
Someone will keep track of them
You will be safe in the dark
You will be warm at night
with the windows open
You will be loved
You are remembered

If you knew Jason’s work, I hope you too have had the time to reflect on and revisit it. If you weren’t familiar with him, I hope you consider taking some time to discover some of the beautiful things he helped birth into this world. Thank you Jason. I hope wherever you are there is music.

AND GOD CREATED MAKE-UP

Gillian — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:53:53 +0000

Dear Reader,
I am writing from somewhere in the middle of Wisconsin, where the “Stale Cow Chip Toss” is real, and we have just passed a sign that proves it. We have just finished up tour with a great little band called Beirut that started in Montreal and ended out west at the Calgary Folk Festival. Highlights of this trip included our first show in a mall (West Edmonton) and my first mechanical bull ride (Calgary). Adam and I are gunning the 42 hr drive home (now in hour 32). I’ve had about half a dozen diet cokes (from the Bierut rider, thanks guys for sharing those warm beers and soft cookies!) and we’ve uploaded lots of Coast to Coast. Over the last few hours I’ve learned that Fidel Castro has seen the body of a dead alien and that most houses are probably haunted, but that it’s nothing to worry about. Phew!

A few days before we left for tour we shot a video for Cannons, co-directed by Ian and Anisa Cameron. Anisa grew up in Las Vegas, where both of her parents were show people. Every morning when her mother would return home from work, she and her little brother would each get to remove one of their mother’s false eyelashes. I relate this story not only because it is a beautiful image, but to underscore the fact that Anisa’s make-up secrets run deep. She dolled me up to look like a smokin’ hot asylum escapee from a silent film for the shoot, which suits me just fine.

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Edmonton, and Calgary. We’ll be playing Wolfe Island Festival next week, and shortly after that I’ll be playing my first solo show in an awfully long time at the Shigawake Music Festival in the beautiful Gaspésies. If you’ve never been there before, you should come join me and all the other artists who will be camping out for the festival. You won’t regret it! Unless you hate music, amazingness, and nature.

Yours Faithfully,
LS

Hitting the Road

Gillian — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:51:18 +0000

The band and I are getting ready to head out on the road for a few summer dates. We’re excited to be starting with two shows at home in Montreal supporting Beirut at Metropolis, then we hit the road with them to Toronto, Minneapolis, Winnipeg and Edmonton. We’ll also be joining Beirut and many others for the wonderful Calgary Folk Festival before heading back home and hitting the studio to start recording the new album. If you are in the Kingston area, we’ll also be playing the magical Wolfe Island Festival on August 11. Looking forward to seeing you out there!

Monday, July 16 Metropolis – Montreal, QC tickets
Tuesday, July 17 Metropolis – Montreal, QC tickets
Thursday, July 19 Sound Academy – Toronto, ON tickets
Saturday, July 21 The Cabooze – Minneapolis, MN tickets
Monday, July 23 The Burton Cummings Theatre – Winnipeg, MB tickets
Wednesday, July 25 Edmonton Event Centre – Edmonton, AB tickets
Saturday, July 28 Calgary Folk Fest – Calgary, AB tickets
Saturday, August 11 Wolfe Island Music Festival – Kingston, ON tickets

Tour dates with Beirut this summer

Gillian — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:28:02 +0000

Monday, July 16 — Metropolis, Montreal, QC
Tuesday, July 17 — Metropolis, Montreal, QC
Thursday, July 19 — The Sound Academy, Toronto, ON
Saturday, July 21 — The Cabooze, Minneapolis, MN
Monday, July 23 — The Burton Cummings Theater, Winnipeg, MB
Wednesday, July 25 — Edmonton Event Centre, Edmonton, AB

Chartattack Noisemakers interview and performance

Gillian — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:02:28 +0000

We are featured on the new episode of Noisemakers this week at Sonic Boom record store in Toronto, with an interview and performance of “Your Radio” with the Arcade Fire’s Richard Parry on drums/vocals and Marcus Paquin on guitar/vocals. Click here to watch