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Violet Lab

The Official Violet Lab MySpace Page

About Me

Welcome to the official MySpace page for Canadian recording artist Violet Lab

Violet Lab is a lifetime of music captured on tape in various states of undress.

Life is a series of still frames and the music and pictures captured here are the storybook of our experiences and existance. To be able to share it with all the fans and friends of Violet Lab via MySpace is pleasure.

Violet Lab is currently in the studio recording tracks for an new full length album expected to be released in the fall of 2007

Check back often for blog updates of the recording progress, exclusive opportunities to listen to pre-release material, concert listings and more.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/30/2006
Band Website: violetlab.com
Band Members: Barry:

Performance, Songwriting, Engineering, Production


Influences: Major influences include:
Love & Rockets, The Clash, U2, Rose Chronicles, Daniel Lanois, Pink Floyd, The Cure, The Beatles, Cocteau Twins, Cottage Industry, Jane's Addition, James, Led Zeppelin, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Peter Gabriel, The Pogues, R.E.M., and many others...
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Sitting at the end of the bar...

...the sushi bar that is.Just finished two half rolls of sushi that Meaghan has made me and I'm listening to some loungy blues stuff on the house system and thought I'd settle into a blog and update y...
Posted by Violet Lab on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:12:00 PST

Keeping the glass completely full

Well it's been an interesting journey the last little while.  Managed to get a lot of performing, snowboarding, recording, writing, and living in the last 6 weeks or so.Have some promising rough ...
Posted by Violet Lab on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:14:00 PST

Another New Year

More dreams and hopes.  Hellos and goodbyes.Those around me left intact and in good health.  A shift of of perspective.  Lessons learned.B
Posted by Violet Lab on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:48:00 PST

The year of the long playing record

I sometimes wonder why you can't choose multiple catagories for blogs on here hence the choice of "life" for most of mine.The world I live it is never black and white. It just doesn't work that way fo...
Posted by Violet Lab on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:56:00 PST

Greater things

BecomingA different seamSplit all the sameA different songA tongue I have not heardThe mystery still dividesNever questioned greater things'Till I heard the songOne I could not singFrom lips divineWet...
Posted by Violet Lab on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:45:00 PST

The weight

Oh yah.  I am definately still alive.It's times like these when you feel the weight of the world on your chest. When you can't quite breath right and the room feels smaller than it was.It's times...
Posted by Violet Lab on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:54:00 PST

New "Field Of Grey" Mix Available!

After another half a day working away at it with new assistant engineer Julie Pearo, there is another mix of "Field of Grey" available for those of you on MySpace to listen too.I think we really manag...
Posted by Violet Lab on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:39:00 PST

Can you hear me calling out your name?

Most days I almost feel like I am practically allergic to negativity.  When I see things such as people on MySpace and their "Likes" list is full of what they hate, for example,  I usually r...
Posted by Violet Lab on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:00:00 PST

Wave Babies lying on the sand

What a great weekend.DJ'ing in the sun.  I don't DJ much these days but I love taking gigs like Canada Day where I can step outside the often narrow boundaries of DJ'ing and just blast whatever I...
Posted by Violet Lab on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:10:00 PST

Forgiveness

I had totally forgotten about what this kid did a few years ago until I read this article:Youth avoids jail in rock-dropping deathI always wonder how good is a person to say what Mr. Stanley's sons di...
Posted by Violet Lab on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:47:00 PST