Come check out this neat show on Wednesday night.

And here’s the facebook event!

hey hey hey Friends!

Just a quick “hello” to let you know,
that,
Andrew James (of The Whipping Wind) has
REMIXED
the A Horse And His Boy song “HOME” into a
dance party!

The song is available for your listening
PLEASURE
on the A Horse And His Boy myspace page.

I just can’t stop listening!

I’ll also take this oppourtunity to thank everyone for coming out
to our show last weekend! It was FANTASTIC,
we had a great time and got to debut some new material!
new material
(AMAZING camera & editing by Sean Stanley and AMAZING sound by Tim Glasgow)

love,
-Sam.

Hey, I (paterson) am starting a blog separate from Open House. There’s a lot going on in London and I’m going to try and let y’all know about as much as I can and hopefully review a lot of it. If there’s something amazing going on in London (concert, art show, pie eating contest, etc) let me know and maybe I’ll post about it.  It’s called Monday through Monday and you can check it out here.

I just want to draw (ha, get it?) your attention to the lovely and talented Kyle Mowat. I was just checking out his blog and I just think you should all take a look. You might recognize his style because here at open house we take every opportunity we can to get Kyle to make us posters and the like. For instance, the Woodhands show poster is a Kyle original. He also drew the background image of the A Horse and His Boy Album (that album won CHRW album of the year!). Below are a couple of my fav’s from his blog, but be sure to check out the rest of them.

We’re so excited for A Horse and His Boy! They’ve won the 3rd annual, CHRW Local Album of the Year for 2009. We’re so proud of those boys. This brings the covetted Album of the Year title back home to Open House for the second year in a row! Our folkie-favourites, Olenka and the Autumn Lovers won last year for their self-titled, debut, full-length release. Thanks for your non-stop support CHRW, and just wait till you hear the albums we’ve got in store for you in 2010.

Don’t forget they’re playing at Call the Office next Saturday(Feb 6)!!! Join the Facebook Event.

We’ve got a lot of amazing shows coming up this month. The first three are within a week of eachother!

Feb 5: 

Alternative Venue Series #2 

The Wooden Sky

Olenka and the Autumn Lovers

@ the Outback Shack (Fanshawe College)

This show is FREE! and 19+ unless you have a fanshawe ID then it’s all ages

 9:30pm

Facebook Event

Feb 6

A Horse and His Boy

Say Domino

Single Mothers

@ Call the Office

$5

Facebook Event

Feb 12:

Album Recording Fundraising Show

Olenka and the Autumn Lovers

Woodpigeon

Katie Stelmanis

@ Aeolian Hall

$13/$15

Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm sharp

Facebook Event

We really hope you can make it to one or two… or all three!!!

Oh doesn’t that sound romantic? Well it is. We have fallen in love with Alanna Gurr. It’s official. We haven’t set a date yet, but it really is meant to be. She’s a great little folkie-singer who lives right here in London. She recently recorded and posted some songs on her myspace. I highly encourage you to check them out. Also, between you, me, and the wall, Open House is planning to release those songs plus more in a nice little EP for your listening pleasure.

The reason I’ve decided to tell you all about Alanna right now is because her little handmade EP of 4 songs she recently recorded was reviewed at CHRW and we’re really excited about it! Here’s the link OR the full review is after the jump!

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CHRW has finally announced their Top 10 Local Albums of 2009!
The list was chosen from “a group of local music journalists and broadcasters” who voted on their ‘top 5′ from a
list of 43 local albums which qualified. These ten albums are now competing to win “Local Album of the Year”… winning this honour not only lands you with some bragging rights and sweet press padding, but also $500 and “an oppourtunity to play a live session at CHRW studios”. (I’d also like to note that last years winner–Olenka & The Autumn Lovers–got to play at the CHRW benefit show at Aeolian Hall… but this is not listed as a prize). Although the CHRW website still says that the winner will be announced on the 15th of January… please trust me that the winner will be announced on Friday January 29th on Michael Brown and Alanna Mager’s show ‘Cross Hairs’ (3:30-6:00pm) on CHRW 94.9FM.
It’s a pretty awesome and diverse list, I must say, I must and we’re very happy that 3 of the following are ‘Oh! bands’, including two albums released by Oh!… …enjoy…

THE TOP TEN ALBUMS ARE:

Bill Durst – The Great Willy Mammoth

Baptized in Blood – Gutterbound

A Horse and His Boy – A Horse and His Boy

Sam Allen – Landscapes

Awkward Paws – Awkward Paws (…couldn’t find the cover image for this… Awkward Paws is too sneaky…)

Bryan Pole – Work Ethic (this is the image used on their Facebook fan page for the album… not the actual cover…)

The Joys – Unfold

The Riderless – Auction

Staylefish – Colour by Numbers

Light of the East Ensemble – Beyond Our Shores

Hello people!

Tonight there is a cool show going on at Call the Office.  Click HERE to see the Facebook event.

this is the poster

I hope you all had an amazing and delicious holiday season. It’s time to get back to work, back to school, and most importantly.. back to concert going!

We’ve got a couple big ones that we’re very happy that we can finally tell you about. As always, you can see all of our upcoming shows here on the website or for a truly, up to the minute, updated list go to our facebook page.

The Wooden Sky

First things first, we’ve got The Wooden Sky back again. They’ll be playing at the Outback Shack at Fanshawe College on February 5th with Olenka and the Autumn Lovers opening. We’re both planning to rock your socks (and winter boots) off.

We’re very happy indeed to announce that Olenka and the Autumn Lovers will be playing at Aeolian Hall on February 12th. Not only do you get to see the beloved and amazing autumn lovers, but we are so fortunate to have Woodpigeon from Calgary and Katie Stelmanis of Toronto opening. More details TBA.

Woodhands

In March we will be trying out a brand new venue. We will be putting on Woodhands at Moon Over Marin on March 5th. Local indie-electro, favourites A Horse and His Boy will be opening. More details TBA.

Looking for some oh!-withdrawal-relief sooner than that? Well you’re in luck, the Whipping Wind will be opening for Nightwood and Modern Boys Modern Girls at Call the Office on January 16th.