TONETTA- WALL OF HOPE
POINTS GRAY COUNTDOWN
40 hours left, if you care about your future and the future of your children, make this happen, order this album (along with other willlld perks including the upcoming WET DIRT Cd and my book of The Canadian Romantic) :
http://www.indiegogo.com/PointsGray
http://www.indiegogo.com/PointsGray
Final week for Points Gray
Hello!
We are currently undergoing a campaign to get the Points Gray album by Robert Dayton, Dan Bejar, and Julian Lawrence released. There's just one week left to see if it will/will not happen. And we've added new perks! Twenty dollars gets you the album (vinyl with MP3 downlaod code) for pick up (in Toronto and Vancouver)! Consider it as being like a pre-sale. There's even a foot massage!
If interested, please click on the link below for more info and to pledge and if you could share it with and pass it on to any potentially interested parties that would be truly appreciated.:
http://www.indiegogo.com/PointsGray
You can hear a couple of tracks here as well:
http://pointsgray.bandcamp.com/
This is a moody distinctive album from around the turn of the century that has never gained full, proper release before. It's an album that the three of us are quite proud of and want to find its' audience. With this LP Robert, who is also a visual artist,has designed a brand new cover, it will come with a lyric and art booklet, and it will finally receive quality mastering done by Josh Stevenson who had previously mastered such things as a Destroyer reissue and the second July Fourth Toilet album as well as recording such acts as Sex Church. With liner notes by music writer and archivist Kevin "Sipreano" Howes.
We are currently undergoing a campaign to get the Points Gray album by Robert Dayton, Dan Bejar, and Julian Lawrence released. There's just one week left to see if it will/will not happen. And we've added new perks! Twenty dollars gets you the album (vinyl with MP3 downlaod code) for pick up (in Toronto and Vancouver)! Consider it as being like a pre-sale. There's even a foot massage!
If interested, please click on the link below for more info and to pledge and if you could share it with and pass it on to any potentially interested parties that would be truly appreciated.:
http://www.indiegogo.com/PointsGray
You can hear a couple of tracks here as well:
http://pointsgray.bandcamp.com/
This is a moody distinctive album from around the turn of the century that has never gained full, proper release before. It's an album that the three of us are quite proud of and want to find its' audience. With this LP Robert, who is also a visual artist,has designed a brand new cover, it will come with a lyric and art booklet, and it will finally receive quality mastering done by Josh Stevenson who had previously mastered such things as a Destroyer reissue and the second July Fourth Toilet album as well as recording such acts as Sex Church. With liner notes by music writer and archivist Kevin "Sipreano" Howes.
POINTS GRAY: just ten days left.
The Points Gray campaign has just ten days left and we still got a long way to go to see if it even happens, another song has been uploaded and a new perk has been added where you can get both the album and The Canadian Romantic art book for 50 dollars, limited to five people, feel free to share the informative link to any interested peoples:
http://www.indiegogo.com/PointsGray?a=418514
Tonetta: This is what I do
WET DIRT helped inspire Tonetta's sound on this one (flattering) and this one inspires me to keep going!
New Cinema Sewer
Another Points Gray song is up
Another Points Gray song is up!:
http://pointsgray.bandcamp.com/track/people-hate-you-in-this-town
We are about one third there, feel free to share, 30 bux gets you the limited edition LP with art and lyric booklet:
http://www.indiegogo.com/PointsGray
http://pointsgray.bandcamp.com/track/people-hate-you-in-this-town
We are about one third there, feel free to share, 30 bux gets you the limited edition LP with art and lyric booklet:
http://www.indiegogo.com/PointsGray
Moustache shave
(the anti-climactic ending from The Canadian Romantic Toronto book launch and one man show, photo by Corbin Smith)
The Canadian Romantic in Toronto
An Evening With The Canadian Romantic
Performance and Toronto book launch
Thursday, March 8th, 8 pm
Double Double Land (209 Augusta Toronto), $7
After taking this show to delighted and almost sated crowds in Montreal, Vancouver, and Saskatoon, at last it arrives in Toronto...
This will be a full one man show to make you laugh and swoon and a few surprises.
There will be fondue!
PLUS: ROBERT DAYTON SHAVES HIS MOUSTACHE
This will be a one of a kind evening that combines large amounts of shared laughter with soft music and unsettling feelings of desire…!
Robert Dayton’s most recent project is his series of videos and performances as the persona of The Canadian Romantic, a melodramatic figure of faded glamour who tries to bridge and explore the gap between Canada and romance with somewhat dubious results. Some key Canadian Romantic videos will be played. The Canadian Romantic himself will be performing live, taking topic suggestions from the crowd for his infamous impromptu candlelight Recitations. Expect glittery Bon Mots aplenty from a man of way too much experience. You will come alive with laughter feeling like you’ve woken up at an undisclosed time with make up smeared across your face.
This also marks the Toronto book launch of The Canadian Romantic, a book by the artist Robert Dayton consisting of tenderly hand-drawn pen-and-ink illustrations and elaborate musings by the artist and his alter ego, published by PITT Projects/Publication Studio, available for sale at the event. Special silk-screened dolls of The Canadian Romantic will also be for sale.
After that will be a curated tour of the forgotten musical Recitation genre, which also includes the notion of famous Ac-tor as Singer: expect the plummy tones of Telly Savalas, Bruno Gerussi, Richard Harris, and a few glorious unknowns! This musical genre has been a key influence on The Canadian Romantic.
Special guest appearance by Chris Locke as The Mailman.
Afterwards Robert Dayton will shave his moustache for the first time since a brief respite before the millennium, he has had his moustache for almost twenty years, it's older than him, he will ask aloud if such things define him while wondering about the effect of shifting cultural meanings.
Robert Dayton is a multidisciplinary entertainer, writer, and artist from British Columbia who resides for the moment in Toronto. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals, the odd book, some zines (he's an old zinester). He is in such curious musical acts as Canned Hamm, July Fourth Toilet (Canada's wildest and most unpredictable band ever), Hallmark, and his current Toronto based rock band WET DIRT, as well as acting in a bunch of stuff.
Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/TheCanadianRomantic
ROBERT DAYTON in CAROUSEL 28 Do you know the work of Robert Dayton?
Nice profile from Carousel Magazine's blog here:
http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/robert-dayton-in-carousel-28/
Mentions Points Gray, my drawings, The Canadian Romantic book (Toronto launch happening Thursday, March 8th, 8 PM, Double Double Land at 209 Augusta)
http://blog.carouselmagazine.ca/robert-dayton-in-carousel-28/
Mentions Points Gray, my drawings, The Canadian Romantic book (Toronto launch happening Thursday, March 8th, 8 PM, Double Double Land at 209 Augusta)
Scout Magazine article
Nice little write-up, comments section proves amusing ("...Dayton is too old to be a hipster"):
http://scoutmagazine.ca/2012/02/26/soundtracking-campaign-underway-for-vinyl-pressings-of-points-gray-recordings/#comments
http://scoutmagazine.ca/2012/02/26/soundtracking-campaign-underway-for-vinyl-pressings-of-points-gray-recordings/#comments
Campaign to get Points Gray album by Robert Dayton, Dan Bejar, and Julian Lawrence released
Soooo I am VERY excited as we are currently undergoing a campaign to get the Points Gray album by Robert Dayton, Dan Bejar, and Julian Lawrence released.
If interested, please click on the link below for more info and to pledge and if you could share it with and pass it on to any potentially interested parties that would be truly appreciated. Thirty dollars gets you the actual album and there are plenty mor eperks:
http://www.indiegogo.com/PointsGray
This is a moody distinctive album from around the turn of the century that has never gained full, proper release before. It's an album that the three of us are quite proud of and want to find its' audience. With this LP Robert, who is also a visual artist,has designed a brand new cover, it will come with a lyric and art booklet, and it will finally receive quality mastering done by Josh Stevenson who had previously mastered such things as a Destroyer reissue and the second July Fourth Toilet album as well as recording such acts as Sex Church. With liner notes by music writer and archivist Kevin "Sipreano" Howes.
If interested, please click on the link below for more info and to pledge and if you could share it with and pass it on to any potentially interested parties that would be truly appreciated. Thirty dollars gets you the actual album and there are plenty mor eperks:
http://www.indiegogo.com/PointsGray
This is a moody distinctive album from around the turn of the century that has never gained full, proper release before. It's an album that the three of us are quite proud of and want to find its' audience. With this LP Robert, who is also a visual artist,has designed a brand new cover, it will come with a lyric and art booklet, and it will finally receive quality mastering done by Josh Stevenson who had previously mastered such things as a Destroyer reissue and the second July Fourth Toilet album as well as recording such acts as Sex Church. With liner notes by music writer and archivist Kevin "Sipreano" Howes.
Carousel Magazine
I have some of my Fantasy Beard drawings printed in the latest issue of Carousel Magazine, a gorgeous multi-media arts mag that I love to smell (dense ink) and hold:
http://www.carouselmagazine.ca/current.html
http://www.carouselmagazine.ca/current.html
Poem that I read the other night:
We'll have to turn it on for you
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
The Parktown Hotel
Room 206
Pool across the hall
The lifeguard lifts the lid
She leaves me be
Jacuzzi time
The gusts go high
A force controlled by her
Warm jets too strong to tickle
solitudes
In my hot pepper print speedo
No fluids flow from me
Just smooth
mechanical bursts
timed and spraying
over the sides
Through the window
Snowy landscape
45 below
Reminder
So long ago
Not so long ago
Our passion in a hot tub
Until things went sideways
When what was entangled
Were my allergies and isolation
Things went sideways
We started having sex sideways
Because it was 'easier'
I just made amends
Addendum
The sex was mostly good, wasn't it?
(silence)
There was passion
The jacuzzi reminds me
There was sideways
The jacuzzi reminds me
Noted, amended
Regrets
The force of the gusts and the jets
Never forget
We'll have to turn it on for you
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
The Parktown Hotel
Room 206
Pool across the hall
The lifeguard lifts the lid
She leaves me be
Jacuzzi time
The gusts go high
A force controlled by her
Warm jets too strong to tickle
solitudes
In my hot pepper print speedo
No fluids flow from me
Just smooth
mechanical bursts
timed and spraying
over the sides
Through the window
Snowy landscape
45 below
Reminder
So long ago
Not so long ago
Our passion in a hot tub
Until things went sideways
When what was entangled
Were my allergies and isolation
Things went sideways
We started having sex sideways
Because it was 'easier'
I just made amends
Addendum
The sex was mostly good, wasn't it?
(silence)
There was passion
The jacuzzi reminds me
There was sideways
The jacuzzi reminds me
Noted, amended
Regrets
The force of the gusts and the jets
Never forget
karaoke/scaretactics/pivot
I have returned from shows in Vancouver and Saskatoon, more will be discussed soon enough...
My second article on karaoke for the AC club TO is up now:
http://www.avclub.com/toronto/articles/sweet-daddy-siki-at-the-duke-of-york-inn,68079/
The latest episode of Scare Tactics may be the craziest one yet, 'career killer'?, skip to clip 3:
http://www.muchmusic.com/tv/scaretactics/
And I will be doing a reading from my new book:
Pivot Readings at the Press Club
Featuring Robert Dayton, Andrew Faulkner, and Andrew McEwan
Wednesday, January 25
The Press Club
850 Dundas Street West
8 PM
PWYC
My second article on karaoke for the AC club TO is up now:
http://www.avclub.com/toronto/articles/sweet-daddy-siki-at-the-duke-of-york-inn,68079/
The latest episode of Scare Tactics may be the craziest one yet, 'career killer'?, skip to clip 3:
http://www.muchmusic.com/tv/scaretactics/
And I will be doing a reading from my new book:
Pivot Readings at the Press Club
Featuring Robert Dayton, Andrew Faulkner, and Andrew McEwan
Wednesday, January 25
The Press Club
850 Dundas Street West
8 PM
PWYC
Hey vancouver!
JULY FOURTH TOILET AT THE WALDORF THURS NITE
The Canadian Romantic one man show dinner and book launch Friday nite! jan 13th...
Nice article here:
http://www.vancourier.com/entertainment/Dayton+dons+robe+bares+soul+Canadian+Romantic/5978609/story.html
JULY FOURTH TOILET AT THE WALDORF THURS NITE
The Canadian Romantic one man show dinner and book launch Friday nite! jan 13th...
Nice article here:
http://www.vancourier.com/entertainment/Dayton+dons+robe+bares+soul+Canadian+Romantic/5978609/story.html
I will be on the Nardwuar show tomorrow (Friday January 6th) at 4PM Pacific time discussing The Canadian Romantic, July Fourth Toilet, playing some music, and much more:
http://www.citr.ca/index.php/listen/
http://www.citr.ca/index.php/listen/
An Evening With the Canadian Romantic: Vancouver, Friday the 13th of January
Not only will this be a full evening with dinner, it's also a book launch for The Canadian Romantic, a full pen-and-ink art book!
Presented by UNIT/PITT at the Dunlevy Snack Bar, 433 Dunlevy Ave., Vancouver BC on Friday, January 13 2012 | Tickets ($25, performance plus dinner; $40, performance plus dinner plus book) on sale in advance, available online at http://www.publicationstudio.biz/events/canadian-romantic .
This will be a one of a kind evening that combines large amounts of shared laughter with soft music and unsettling feelings of desire…!
Robert’s most recent project is his series of videos and performances as the persona of The Canadian Romantic, a melodramatic figure of faded glamour who tries to bridge and explore the gap between Canada and romance with somewhat dubious results. Some key Canadian Romantic videos will be played. The Canadian Romantic himself will be performing live, taking topic suggestions from the crowd for his infamous impromptu candlelight Recitations. Expect glittery Bon Mots aplenty from a man of way too much experience. You will come alive with laughter feeling like you’ve woken up at an undisclosed time with make up smeared across your face.
After that will be a curated tour of the forgotten musical Recitation genre, which also includes the notion of famous Ac-tor as Singer: expect the plummy tones of Telly Savalas, Bruno Gerussi, Richard Harris, and a few glorious unknowns! This musical genre has been a key influence on The Canadian Romantic.
Presented by UNIT/PITT at the Dunlevy Snack Bar, 433 Dunlevy Ave., Vancouver BC on Friday, January 13 2012 | Tickets ($25, performance plus dinner; $40, performance plus dinner plus book) on sale in advance, available online at http://www.publicationstudio.biz/events/canadian-romantic .
This will be a one of a kind evening that combines large amounts of shared laughter with soft music and unsettling feelings of desire…!
Robert’s most recent project is his series of videos and performances as the persona of The Canadian Romantic, a melodramatic figure of faded glamour who tries to bridge and explore the gap between Canada and romance with somewhat dubious results. Some key Canadian Romantic videos will be played. The Canadian Romantic himself will be performing live, taking topic suggestions from the crowd for his infamous impromptu candlelight Recitations. Expect glittery Bon Mots aplenty from a man of way too much experience. You will come alive with laughter feeling like you’ve woken up at an undisclosed time with make up smeared across your face.
After that will be a curated tour of the forgotten musical Recitation genre, which also includes the notion of famous Ac-tor as Singer: expect the plummy tones of Telly Savalas, Bruno Gerussi, Richard Harris, and a few glorious unknowns! This musical genre has been a key influence on The Canadian Romantic.
I am in the Christmas "Gifts By artists" group show selling my dolls, currently up at Art Metropole, Toronto.
Two of my posters are in the PIN UP art show opening Thursday 15 December at 7pm at Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art (1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto). Posters are available in limited editions of 5 at $75 each. Only 3 of each poster are available for purchase online - 2 posters are reserved for sale at the opening: all sales support Mercer Union’s exhibitions and public programs.
Running alongside the new works selected for PIN UP, Mercer Union will feature a special exhibition of Toronto gig posters drawn from guest curator Michael Parke-Taylor’s extensive collection. This show provides a rare opportunity to peak into the former AGO Curator of Modern Art’s personal archive of paste-up print design. The selection offers an eclectic index of posters for famous and not-so-famous musical acts who have performed in Toronto over the last fifteen years.
As well here is a sneak peek of the upcoming book of The Canadian Romantic book:
Two of my posters are in the PIN UP art show opening Thursday 15 December at 7pm at Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art (1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto). Posters are available in limited editions of 5 at $75 each. Only 3 of each poster are available for purchase online - 2 posters are reserved for sale at the opening: all sales support Mercer Union’s exhibitions and public programs.
Running alongside the new works selected for PIN UP, Mercer Union will feature a special exhibition of Toronto gig posters drawn from guest curator Michael Parke-Taylor’s extensive collection. This show provides a rare opportunity to peak into the former AGO Curator of Modern Art’s personal archive of paste-up print design. The selection offers an eclectic index of posters for famous and not-so-famous musical acts who have performed in Toronto over the last fifteen years.
As well here is a sneak peek of the upcoming book of The Canadian Romantic book: