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The Artful Vandelays

EP RELEASE DATE TBA SOON!

About Me


the artful vandelays are a four piece from the east and west sides of suburban Toronto. with influences ranging from muse to bloc party and from billy talent to botch, the artful vandelays assemble a cornucopia of ideas that can only be described as a modest experiment in rock music.
Their upcoming EP, entitled "Four Ring Circus," will be the first to feature vocalist Anton Hyginus, produced by Neil Neucifora and Kevin O'Leary. Also three new songs, and a redone version of Sign Language from their last EP.
Track Listing
1. Pyramid Scheme
2. Phone Lines
3. (Intermission)
4. Cleptomaniac
5. Sign Language
The official release is coming some time...soon. Meanwhile, rough mixes of the four songs on the EP will be posted right here.
This summer the band plans to hit venues around southern Ontario to showcase their new release as well as a few songs that haven't seen the stage as of yet.
For any booking inquiries, please message us directly through MySpace.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/23/2007
Band Members: Anton vox and guitar
Jon guitar and vox
Amanda beats and awesomeness
Kevin bass and dancemoves

Drawing artists Jessica Aydellin Cheung & Colleen MacIsaac
Influences:Radiohead, Russian Circles, Circa Survive, Fugazi, The Strokes, Refused, Foo Fighters, These Arms are Snakes, Travis, RHCP, Billy Talent, Brand New, The Marble Index, DFA 1979, Bloc Party, We Are Scientists, Botch, Oasis, At the Drive in, Muse, Norma Jean, Matthew Good, Alexisonfire
Sounds Like: you tell us


So far....

The Mars Volta
Brand New
The Smiths
Radiohead
Dredg
Alexisonfire

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new spankin' blog

hey everyone, just to update, TAV are far from finished, are in fact YES going to release our EP soon, and there will be a local show in December! (or possibly even November)So stay tuned - because ...
Posted by The Artful Vandelays on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:15:00 PST

The next four months

Hey everyone,First and foremost,  THANK YOU.  To all our friends, old and new, to everyone who has ever seen us play or listened to one of songs, we do not take you for granted and we love y...
Posted by The Artful Vandelays on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:49:00 PST

5 DOLLAR SNEAKY DEE’S SHOW

This SATURDAY, AUGUST 2nd. w/  The Imports, Room 204, The Revelries.Sneaky Dee's$519+Doors 9 pmCome hang out with us. 
Posted by The Artful Vandelays on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:21:00 PST

next week - FREE show

we've got two shows coming up next week, and the one on monday is FREE.  It's at the Drake - there will be bands playing from 8 pm and on and we will be closing the night.  It's gonna be a g...
Posted by The Artful Vandelays on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:28:00 PST

new show

hey everyoneanton is recovering nicely right now, hopefully soon enough he'll be all better and ready to rock out againin the meantime, we've got a new show announcement - July 24th @ the reverb. ...
Posted by The Artful Vandelays on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:57:00 PST

rivoli show cancelled

hey everyone unfortunately we will no longer be playing the rivoli show this wednesday due to some cocky dipshit punching anton in the face over the weekend.  he's taking it easy now a...
Posted by The Artful Vandelays on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:00:00 PST

FREE SHOW

this may be the only free show we ever have, and it's at sound academy next tuesday! It's all ages but the bar will of course be open as well.  no strings attached -  e're going to be playin...
Posted by The Artful Vandelays on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:28:00 PST

WGTS MAGAZINE FEATURE PHOTOS

Hey everyone - Meghan Gribben from WGTS Magazine was nice enough to take some professional photos of us last Friday.  We're all floored by how good they are - go check em out!  The photos ar...
Posted by The Artful Vandelays on Tue, 20 May 2008 09:03:00 PST

NEW VIDEO

Heyyy thanks to everyone who showed up last night - it was a great time!Turns out the promoter from last night hooked us up with some free recording time so it looks like we're gonna get to record som...
Posted by The Artful Vandelays on Sat, 17 May 2008 02:26:00 PST

NEW ROUGH TRACKS - APRIL 22nd

Though the official release is still unknown, our yet-to-be-named EP is moving along nicely.  By April 22nd, that's next Tuesday, we'll have three new rough tracks to listen to, the only one we w...
Posted by The Artful Vandelays on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:40:00 PST