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Proof of Ghosts

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

About Me

The ground is dry and there is no rain in sight. The city's heat is like a blanket and there's nowhere to go except the malls and the bars. Fuck the malls. For that matter, fuck the bars.

Toronto via Oshawa's Suck My Disc Collective disbanded. AD 2003, the city seemed a little less like home. Cheap pints and shitty jobs painted their dust colours over a dry and lonesome summer. Then the Lights went Out, and on a crowded bar patio by candlelight with the humid haunted black skyline against a still blacker sky we sang, we sang, then we all took off our clothes and we swam, we swam...

Do you sing? What is your favorite song? Does it pull sad and sweet on the strings of your soul? Do you feel the vast aching chasm between each of us? We are not alone, we sing our bridges, we sing light into the dark, our distances seem less dire when we sing together, so don't despair, sing with us and know that we are not alone...

Proof of Ghosts is going to take you home down country roads. Proof of Ghosts is pure pop perfection. Proof of Ghosts is going to tear your crying heart from your throat. Proof of Ghosts is going to sing you to sleep and Proof of Ghosts is going to chase the Devil back through the forest and out to sea.

Some very kind words from CBC Radio 3's Craig Norris

Our self titled CD "Proof of Ghosts" is available on WeeWerk records (weewerk 017)

This is a link to a great blog about the Toronto music scene by a girl from Austin, TX named Emily

to contact the band, please email us at [email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/4/2006
Band Website: soundclick.com/proofofghosts
Band Members: Steve Heyerdahl - voice/ guitar/ banjo/ piano/ drums/ music/ lyrics
Mike Hawko - bass/ voice/ acoustic guitar
Mike Duffield - drums/ atmosphere/ vibes/ voice
Martin Crawford - electric and lap steel guitars
Julia Baird - voice/ tamborine/ keyboard/ typewriter/ etc...

and a rotating cast of friends
Record Label: (weewerk)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

CD Release Date, March 4th

Agonizing months of mixing, remixing, shows with now these members, now those, uncertainty on every front, and now the record is finished.  To be released on Compact Disc by (weewerk) records (ww...
Posted by Proof of Ghosts on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:17:00 PST

Oh, the weather outside is frightful...

I've been awake for weeks, it feels like, trying to compile ideas and images for the CD's artwork, getting in touch with bookers, mixing and working 9 shifts a week.  It's snowing today.
Posted by Proof of Ghosts on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:51:00 PST

What’s next...

Pretty excited to be talking to Phil from WeeWerk about putting out some music in the near future; I don;t think i could think of a lable that would be a better fit for Proof of Ghosts... They have an...
Posted by Proof of Ghosts on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:57:00 PST

the FUTURE

Proof of Ghosts is now working with the Trevor Coleman Agency, towards an unknown end, but a desireable one is to be hoped for... look for:  New photos! coming soon, a mastered CD! coming soon......
Posted by Proof of Ghosts on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:14:00 PST

next...

so now, now that the CD is finished, the 3 song EP is available at most shows, what's next...?  well, for one thing, Proof of Ghosts will be auditioning a brass section.  i know, it's been d...
Posted by Proof of Ghosts on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:50:00 PST

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So tonight, the Tiger Bar, then Saturday in the park.  The summer breeze is cool through my window and i think i'm going to have a coffee somewhere and then burn some CDs for tonight...
Posted by Proof of Ghosts on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:55:00 PST

Vice Magazine sampler

It's out, i saw it, listened to it, and i'm very happy that our song Genevieve has a home there at track 8. That's like, half way through the tracks. We're pretty much in the anchor position, you know...
Posted by Proof of Ghosts on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:09:00 PST

proof of spring?

where are you, my old toronto, full of unexplored alleys, winding trails through the parks and beside the streams, under bridges where the ragged people go? spring drinking on the shores of the island...
Posted by Proof of Ghosts on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:36:00 PST

Where to play next...

It was pretty amazing, unexpectingly getting the chance to open for Do Make Say Think in Washington D.C. And the respomce was good, makes me think the time is ripe to tke ourselves on the road.Next s...
Posted by Proof of Ghosts on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:40:00 PST

home tomorrow...

i can't wait to see everybody, to get together the band, maybe record some new jams...also i need to change the look of this myspace page......
Posted by Proof of Ghosts on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:19:00 PST