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part 1: jamie and erin like music.one day erin moved in with jamie.then one day jamie said, let's play some music.then another day erin said let's play some music again.and jamie said, let's record it too.now we're a real band.
part 2:jamie and erin rocked out, won some money, made some friends, started record label (or at least talked alot about it), decided that "I'm in a band" is a good excuse for all your mistakes and shortcomings (erin decided anyway), joined other bands, drank some beer (not TOO much), worked low-paying jobs, thought about making solo records and learning new instruments but didn't have much time to do it, got tired and irritable, decided you can't do EVERYTHING you want to do all at the same time and pay your rent too, decided to take a break from old phoebe for a year because life is long and phoebe is a resiliant individual, said "i love you jamie" and "i love you too erin," played a few more shows with renewed enthusiasm and varying levels of competence, made t-shirts, invited their friends on stage to sing "baby, I love you" and "ahah-ah-ah-ah-ah," and now phoebe is sleeping while jamie and erin continue to rock hard, but responsibly.
part 3:then amogst other things like erin making a solo kill the buddha record and going on tour across canada with the phrenologists, and jamie thinking about making a solo jamie anderson record but not quite getting around to it what with moving to montreal and everything, erin and jamie made a new record! it's called i'll take you where i go, after the song that is the most collaborative of all old phoebe's songs: jamie wrote the guitar part and the chorus, and then erin wrote lyrics to it, kind of fucking jamie's song up in the process and it was the first time erin and jamie couldn't agree on something (besides who is better, feist or emily haines?) and then they broke up and got their own apartments, but then erin said, hey what if we tried that song again? hmm?
well it worked out, and jamie and erin had a wonderful time recording the record all by themselves again, but this time at the chrome horse studio at the & loan gallery (instead of in their living room) and quinn helped them make it sound a little less hard on the ears than the first record. also, they spent a whole month working on it, not just five days, and used a real piano, and real guitars (same guitars actually), and a bike you can actually ride.
then they played a show at the cambie, which was pretty okay, and then they played a show in montreal, which was so fun! old phoebe got to travel! maybe she will get to travel more one day.
you can get both old phoebe records at fascinating rhythm and clifford's wake in nanaimo!
part 4: now erin and jamie both live in montreal. I wonder what will happen next?
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    Music:

    Member Since: 05/12/2005
    Band Members: Erin O'Brien & Jamie Anderson
    Influences: Arcade Fire, Flaming Lips, Beck, Cat Power, Wolf Parade, Frog Eyes, The White Stripes, Bright Eyes, Pixies, Regina Spektor, Modest Mouse, The Unicorns, BARR
    Sounds Like: lo-fi folk pop
    Record Label: Shack Records
    Type of Label: Indie

    My Blog

    were going to play a show!

    dudes, I can't even recognize myspace anymore, it's getting so facebookified I can't find anything. so we haven't been very myspacey lately, but jamie's been playing the occasional mindblowing solo se...
    Posted by on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:09:00 GMT

    Sit Down! Listen Up!

    Loves!Hello everyone, friends and lovers.  This is Jamie... Erin and I have something to formally announce to you all.  Together, we have decided to put Old Phoebe on hiatus.. just to give h...
    Posted by on Mon, 21 May 2007 19:42:00 GMT

    We Won the Battle of the Bands!

    This was posted by Andrew on the GotPop? Battle of the Bands Page today: 2006 Battle of the Bands Winner! and the winner is................OLD PHOEBE!!! Congratulations are in order! All the bands p...
    Posted by on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:49:00 GMT

    whaaaaat!!??.... that's what we said!

    This is a strange but happy pattern, as we have once again TIED with another band in the battle down at the cambie. so thank you for voting for us if you did, and make sure you come down next w...
    Posted by on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:27:00 GMT

    we can win without me, but not without you

    last weekend I was SICK, so sick, and couldn't even lift my head from the pillow to play the battle of the bands at the cambie. lucky for me, I'm in a band with JAMie who can go it alone and fight fir...
    Posted by on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:24:00 GMT

    New Music Canada > Old Phoebe

    Hey Ya'll.. have you tried googling us? its pretty dope. aaannyshit.. we are now on the ever mighty New Music Canada.Com you can check it out by going to www.newmusiccanada.com and then searching for ...
    Posted by on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:38:00 GMT

    you think you're lovely!

    check out pictures from our may 20th show at the cambie, and the party before and after. lots of pictures of the bike's mine. we LOVE those guys. www.may20.photosite.com
    Posted by on Sun, 28 May 2006 22:51:00 GMT

    OLD PHOEBE CAR CRASH!!!

    just hours ago, old phoebe was driving half of themselves to work, when they were struck from behind with incredible force. both surviving members recovering steadily, with minor head and back trauma....
    Posted by on Mon, 22 May 2006 21:45:00 GMT

    OH MY GAWD!!! you guys are great

    hey er'ebody.. i want to say how floored erin and i are at all this positive feedback we are getting from everybody. thank you so much everyone for coming to our myspace and saying overwhelmingly nice...
    Posted by on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:54:00 GMT

    Our record is finished!

    We finished our record today (!!!!) and we will be pressing them (burning them one by one on our home computer) tonight and tomorrow so they will be ready for your consumption at the Cyber C...
    Posted by on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:31:00 GMT