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The Blankket

THE GREY WAVE IS REAL

About Me

This is a solo-band about feelings of fear, shame and personal abjection. It is also about my personal dislike for dogs and other loud/leaky animals. My aversion to the fantastic especially when compared to the stunning excess of the normal and the real is also a really heavy issue.I'm also in all these other bands: The Barcelona Pavilion, Man Shit, Internet, Lenin i Shumov, Jon-Rae and the River, Ninja High School, No President, America Is Motherfucker, "We Shit Indie-Rock" and I used to be in Germans.BRING BATTERY POWERED RADIOS TO ALL FUTURE CONCERTS!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/24/2005
Band Website: theblankket.com/
Band Members: Steve. That's it.
Influences: Sizzla, Bruce Springsteen, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Devo, Orange Juice, Beat Happening, Dan Graham, Early Tony Oursler, Alvin Lucier, Hans Haacke, Hall & Oates, Neil Diamond, Yello, Conflict
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Blocks Recording Club of Toronto
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

I FUCKED UP.

So, I was supposed to play a show this afternoon in Guelph at the Kazoo festival. I should, probably, be in Guelph right now actually. However, I am physically in Toronto. For a bunch of reasons, I wa...
Posted by The Blankket on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:00:00 PST

I WILL GO TO EUROPE THIS SUMMER!!!

Hey,So this summer I intend to go to europe, see documenta and play some shows.If you live in europe: HOW ABOUT PUTTING ON A SHOW FOR ME!I will be totally hitting finland and stuff so if you're in any...
Posted by The Blankket on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:03:00 PST

So I never check myspace...

...because seriously: Rupert Murdoch doesn't need our help. Seriously.but anyway, yeah, I finally played a good show that went well and that I liked.It was in Brantford with Think About Life, TIm For...
Posted by The Blankket on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:37:00 PST

STILL CAMERA FILM FEST!!!

So my friend Jon McCurley organised this film festival with me.... featuring only films shot on still cameras or camera phones. Screening time will be 7pm on Jan 20th at Lucky Dragon Chinese Resta...
Posted by The Blankket on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:30:00 PST

We will carry my amp together in small pieces!

Hey, so I pushed back the date for the Pile of Garbage show again because I had yet another brilliant idea about it. What you have to do is bring AS MANY BATTERY POWERED RADIOS AS YOU OWN AND CAN ...
Posted by The Blankket on Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:39:00 PST

You can read about how I love Alvin Lucier on the Internet!

So, months ago I wrote this little piece praising Alvin Lucier. Now, months later it has finally appeared in it's home at Greatest Band of All Time. Thanks to Zac Pennington and all those nice Portl...
Posted by The Blankket on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

So I set a date...

I'm going to finish my Bruce Springsteen covers record in late July and release it in August. The release show will happen in a pile of garbage on spadina.
Posted by The Blankket on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST