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Amy Honey
Americana / Country / Indie

I'm gonna get some stuff done around here.



Seaforth, Nova Scotia
Canada

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Member Since1/26/2006
Band Websitehttp://www.myspace.com/amyhunnie
Band Members
Well, just me really... although for Pioneer Woman I got by with a little help from my friends... Carolyn Mark, Tolan McNeil, Gregory "Goose" MacDonald, Hank Pine & Lily Fawn, Scottie Henderson, Keith Rose, Calvin Dick, Diona Davies, Ida Nilson, Sarah Rhude, Colin McKill, Grayson Walker, Jen Deon, and Jonah The Angry Kitten.

Since I moved back to NS I have been working on a new project with my sister, Eva.

InfluencesRick White is my hero. Forever again.

Rick White, Eric's Trip, Elevator, The Unintended, Moonsocket, Mark Gaudet, Purple Knight, Julie Doiron, Tara S'Appart, Orange Glass, Smog, Bill Callahan, Wil Oldham, Palace, Palace Brothers, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Elliot Smith, Slint, Papa M, Aerial M, Pajo, Iron & Wine, M. Ward, Fuck, The Sadies, Kitty Wells, Rose Maddox, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Bob Wills, Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Loretta Lynn, Bobbie Gentry, Dusty Springfield, Hank Williams, Tom Waits, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carolyn Mark, Tolan McNeil, Neko Case, Hank Pine and Lily Fawn, Chet, Himalayan Bear, Ron Sexsmith, Feist, Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, Iris DeMent, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Leadbelly, Ry Cooder, The Replacements, X, Blondie, Joan Jett, Neil Young, The Kinks, Mission Of Burma, Kinski, The Besnard Lakes, Johnny and the Moon, The Gruesomes, Deja VooDoo, The Gore Gore Girls, Sonic Youth, The Breeders, Cibo Matto, Hole, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Babes In Toyland, PJ Harvey, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Slayer, Bad Religion, The Ramones, Agent Orange, Circle Jerks, The Misfits, The Cramps, Tom Petty, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Neutral Milk Hotel, Patsy Cline, Nick Lowe, Jonathan Richman, Chicks On Speed, David Bowie, Peaches, Sixtoo, Buck 65, Hank Williams III, Jon Rae Fletcher, Baby Gramps Trio, The Gossip, Dungen, Yamasuki, The Detroit Cobras, No Means No, The Doers, LCD Soundsytem, Stereo Total, M.I.A., Tocotronic, Erase Errata, Al Tuck, The Fleshtones, The Handsome Family, Wanda Jackson, The Rezillos, X, Excene Cervanka, Junior Major, Xray Specs, BJ Snowden, Edith Piaf, Blossom Dearie, Rosemary Clooney, Nina Simone, Black Mountain, The Pink Mountaintops, Belle and Sebastian, The Soft Boys, Cat Power, You Say Party! We Say Die!, The Organ, Dandi Wind, e.s.l., Calexico, Shout Out Out Out, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Ghost House, Quasi, Fun 100, The Silversun Pickups, The Black Angels, Pequod, All My Friends, The Brigadier, Tom Heinl, Holy Fuck, The Acorn and bazillions more that i'm forgetting to write right now...

CBC, National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, Chunklet, Pitchfork, PopMatters, sceneandheard, Dusted, Bust, N.E.E.T., Venus, The Only, Exclaim, Discorder, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, sometimes the New York Times, Google News, The Smoking Gun, The Onion, The Believer, The Superficial, Flickr, Twitter, various blogs and good old fashioned gossip

Books about living in the woods, books about bears, books about musicians, books about pop culture, books about Montparnasse in the 20's, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, Walt Whitman, James Oliver Curwood, Emily Carr, Willa Cather, Farley Mowat, Wallace Stegner, W. Somerset Maugham, John Steinbeck, Jack London, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Aldous Huxley, Philip K. Dick, Raymond Carver, Kenneth Patchen, Emma Goldman, Djuna Barnes, Myrna Loy, Gertude Stein, Stevie Smith, Vladamir Nabokov, Friederich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer, Cintra Wilson, Julie Doucet, Lynda Barry, Walden, Leaves Of Grass, White Fang, The Incredible Journey, Island Of The Blue Dolphins, Bear, O Pioneers!, Memoirs Of Montparnasse, Please Kill Me, Sonic Cool, Have Not Been The Same, Our Band Could Be Your Life, In The Country Of Country

Sounds Like

AMY HONEY - PIONEER WOMAN CD...

"Amy Honey is an artist and music represents only one brilliant note in her creative range. Photography is another; her photographs are bold in their use of contrast, just like her music. Finding beauty between the stark and sublime images, sounds and influences she fits together like Lego, Honey builds metal on melancholy. Recklessly soulful, the prowess of this pioneer woman is undeniable. From bands Clover Honey to the Nervous Breakdown to her second solo record following 2003's self-titled release, this is the land of Amy Honey. She has palate endowed with wide musical taste and a gift for aesthetic transcendence, style and grace. Her pop sensitivity is as keen as her ability to rock is hard and her love of tradition is true. The Victoria/Vancouver artist can't help but kick hipster ass and make it better."
Exclaim! Magazine July 2007

"Honey has a tendency to write oddball pop pastiches of trashy country tunes, documenting the colourful characters who populate her urban hinterland with the warped humour of that brash regular who goads you to make it to last call at your local. She's strongest when she reins things in, though, and there are affecting themes of Canuck survivalism, isolation, the inevitability of death and heartbreak. Lily My Deer's derelict mother and the beat-driven ode to Lost In The Barrens author Farley Mowat showcase Honey at her best."
Now Magazine, June 2007

"Exploring themes of urban psychosis, alienation, reckless abandon, Canadiana and death, Amy has created an album that strides the fine line between Henry David Thoreau and The Handsome Family."
Andrew Pearson

"Listening to this in my car the past couple of days... it is really earthy and edgy all at the same time makes me wanna sell all my shit and head to the woods."
Rock N' Roll Pimp via Mog.com

"Amy has the true spirit of a pioneer in both her music and approach to life. No frills, yet full of the beauty, joy and heartache that are so easily hidden by all the glitzy trappings of modern day life. She sings of the things close to her heart, and after listening to Pioneer Woman I feel like I know her in a way I know very few people. She opens up her soul to those of us that take the time to sit a spell and listen to what she has to say."
Anne Murphy @ Subter.com

AMY HONEY - S/T CD...

"Amy Honey's first solo disc is as homey and inviting as a thrift shop from which none of the good stuff has been taken yet."
The Globe and Mail

"Honey, formerly of alt-rockers Clover Honey, is a clever charmer with an endearingly laid-back vocal delivery and a knack for genre fusion and neat hooks, and this self-titled disc is a thrilling hayride of gentle country twang, punk rock punchiness and witty lyrical twists that doesn't stop till you're drinkin' whiskey long after sunset."
Now Magazine (Toronto)

"Honeys debut is one of those difficult to pigeonhole efforts that defies even the most jaded music fans attempts to slap a label on it. She can belt out an upbeat country song one minute, a metal track the next followed by a synth pop tune - often in the course of one song."
Sceneandheard.ca

"Damn, girl, your voice is sweeter than a moonlit drunk on my front porch!"
J. McLaughlin

AMY HONEY LIVE...

"Was she funny or off her meds? By the time she kicked out the hilarious “Sabbath!”, she had won everyone over. If you’re at all curious about what Tony Iommi would sound like if he had grown up in the Ozarks, catch Honey’s next show and request this song."
The Georgia Straight

Record LabelRed Cat Records/ Self Righteous Records
Type of LabelIndie


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Oct 23 2009 7:00P
Pac Flav (House Show) w/ The Rough Sea, Fairy Boy and Mogli Halifax, Nova Scotia
Oct 31 2009 8:00P
Nightmare in Adventureland (House Party/Show) w/ Dave Lang & Rodney DeCroo Seaforth, Nova Scotia

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   About Amy Honey

Amy Honey is a Canadian singer/songwriter. Born and raised in the wilds of rural Nova Scotia (West Chezzetcook, to be specific), she moved to Vancouver in 1996, spent 12 years kickin' it in the big city and now resides once again in the wilds of NS... Seaforth to be specific.

In 1998, she joined the Vancouver ladyrockin' band, Clover Honey, and together they won CiTR's 1999 Shindig battle of the bands competition, put out their critically acclaimed Go Horse Go album and toured the length and breadth of Canada several times. Asses were kicked, names were taken, and Amy's reputation as an entertaining live performer was born.

With the demise of Clover Honey, earlier this century, Amy decided it was time to step out on her own and start calling the tunes herself. In May 2002, she and Mandrew founded Red Cat Records (a CD store and label), and soon thereafter, she put our her self-titled album. Recorded by Scott Henderson (Atlas Strategic / Nomeansno) at SOS Studios, it featured the additional talents of such musical luminaries as Carolyn Mark, Keith Rose (Hard Rock Miners / Royal Grand Prix) and Garth Johnson (Carolyn Mark & Her Roommates / Beach Mutants). This album saw Amy stepping away somewhat (but not entirely) from her Lady Rockin' persona and, instead, exploring the Canadian Roots music themes that she grew up with. The Folkpop homage to her misspent youth, Dirtbikin', received high rotation on CBC radio, and the album was a hit on the Canadian college radio charts.

After much touring... and having appeared on stage with the likes of Howe Gelb, Feist and Mr. Airplane Man, in 2007 Amy released her second album, Pioneer Woman on Self Righteous Records. Recorded by Tolan McNeil (Frog Eyes / Destroyer) at Lucky Mouse Studios, this time she once again brought along good pal Carolyn Mark, in addition to teeing up the multi-talented Gregory Macdonald (Sloan / Peppersands), Diona Davis (Po' Girl / ESL) and Cal Dick (Neckbeard / Fracas). Delving further into the Country/Folk Noir vibe that infects many artists who live in B.C.'s deep dark rainforest, Pioneer Woman was once again a critic's favourite, and became a staple on CBC and college radio. Old Reliable Death was selected by CBC Radio 3 as the ideal track to put a stamp on the end of 2007 on New Years Eve, and Pioneer Woman made the top 10 list of albums on CiTR radio.

Amy moved back to Nova Scotia in June 2008 and is now residing with Mandrew in an old house by the sea. She recently acquired an old piano and a wine kit. Stay tuned for word on the new album. -Andrew Pearson (October 2008)

Buy Pioneer Woman online at www.zunior.com
OR!
Ask your friendly local indie record store to order it through Scratch Distribution

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The Rough Sea

The Rough Sea



Oct 23 2009 8:02 PM

Hey Amy!!! Thanks for adding us! That's awesome that you are playing that show, it is going to be soooo good, shit I'm excited!

XOXO
the rough sea
Mogli

Mogli



Oct 10 2009 7:50 PM

It was super cool meeting you too. I didn't know there was anything cool happening were I ran away from. Wanna play a house show on the 23rd?
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Oct 10 2009 7:50 PM

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True Margrit

True Margrit



Oct 10 2009 7:49 PM




Thanks for the add! The big announcement:

The new True Margrit CD - The Juggler's Progress - is now available for pre-order, along with t-shirts and artwork, photo and drumheads, as we get ready for our monthlong tour of the Great Northwest! Check it out here: http://bit.ly/7Cu8J

Look for us in Washington, Oregon and California between October 15 and November 15, when our tour wraps up with the big show at San Francisco's best rock club, Bottom of the Hill! For the complete show schedule, check here: http://bit.ly/1UgGqQ
Mogli

Mogli



Oct 10 2009 7:49 PM

You are so cool. Wanna play a house show on ghe 23rd?
United Steel Workers of Montreal

United Steel Workers of Montreal



Oct 8 2009 2:56 PM

Just ran a Halifax show, so we just have Frederickton and Sysney, but I would imagine we will be out there early in 2010.
  Love Gern
United Steel Workers of Montreal

United Steel Workers of Montreal



Sep 29 2009 7:34 PM

USWM’s Fallout Tour 2009!

Oct 04: Montreal @ The Gamiq Awards, Club Soda Oct 07: Toronto ON @ Younge and Dundas Square 12;30 (Noon) OCt 08 Cobourg ON @ we are working on it Oct 10:Fredricton NB @ The Capital Oct 11: Sydney NS @ Sydney Marine Terminal Oct 15: Peterbourgh ON @ The Red Dog Oct 16: Kingston ON @ The Living Room Oct 17: Ottawa ON @ OCFF Oct 21: London ON @ London Music Club w/The Fugitives Oct 22: Toronto ON @ The Rivoli w/The Fugitives Oct 23: Wakefield QC @ The Black Sheep w/The Fugitives Oct 24: Montreal QC @ Divane Orange w/The Fugitives  Oct 31: Montreal QC @ Grumpy's Bar 8th Annual Bash up on Bishop

This Great White North

This Great White North



Jun 1 2009 12:59 PM

Just a reminder to listen to AMY HONEY on THIS GREAT WHITE NORTH. It's an ALL CANADIAN music show FRIDAYS 4:30-6pm CST on 91.7 KOOP FM in Austin, Texas. You can listen online at www.KOOP.org.

Cheers!
Doug The Canuck
Son Hawk

Son Hawk



Apr 30 2009 9:56 PM

Amy, just wanted to let you know I'm moving back to the North American continent this summer. Hope to see you if and when you'll venture out west.
Brad Leaton

Brad Leaton



Mar 10 2009 5:57 PM

Hey there,

Wanted to mention that I enjoyed your set opening for Geoff Berner at Gus' Pub.

-b
anchorless...

anchorless...



Feb 18 2009 3:51 AM

cant wait to see your face! xo
alejandra ribera

alejandra ribera



Feb 7 2009 7:30 PM

hi amy,

great to meet you at IDOW. hope you're having a good weekend. look forward to catching you play again next time i'm out east.
xo
alejandra
Pick a Piper

Pick a Piper



Feb 2 2009 7:28 AM

hey amy... thanks so much for the kind words!
listening to "old reliable death" right now and really enjoying it :)
The Art Of Noise

Muhammad Ammar



Jan 30 2009 2:23 PM

nice to meet you too...
Lindsay Ferguson

Lindsay Ferguson



Jan 29 2009 10:18 PM

well aren't you a darling...
i would be chuffed to see you 2 at my show.... big kiss (an i am glad you made it home okay!!!)
Brine

Brine



Jan 22 2009 1:21 AM

Thanx!
best.
/Brine
Mobile Wash Unit

Mobile Wash Unit



Jan 8 2009 8:36 PM

Thanks for the kind comment. Sorry for the delay, but I've been putting the final touches on the debut record. It's up now on itunes and amazon (amiestreet, rhapsody, etc.) There are 2 sides: Sink and Fall. "Sink" is more pop and electronic; "Fall" is more punk and country. We appreciate all your support.
Have a happy MWU year
Mr. Hooper

Mr. Hooper



Nov 30 2008 10:51 PM

Howdy!

New Paintings


darmuzz

darmuzz



Nov 20 2008 10:59 PM

Amy, you're in Seaforth! Hope you're gigging soon! (er, if that's what you want!)
The Undecidable

The Undecidable



Sep 11 2008 4:43 AM

Wake up Amy. It's time to go to school.
Covalent Bond

Covalent Bond



Sep 16 2008 12:56 PM

Great Stuff.

All the best!
B3LL

B3LL



Sep 22 2008 9:06 AM

You too I love your music.

Amber

Amber



Sep 27 2008 4:14 AM

hey, I am now rocking out the patch I got from you on the knee of my old jeans. just thought I would let you know it was put to good use.
Rob

Rob



Aug 23 2008 2:35 AM

Thanx Amy......

Dinner was Friggin' Amazing ;)

Sooooo honored to have you as a Great Friend....I guess we really bonded when we all watched POTP together...Just goes to show you that good things can happen when you think they can't....You and Andrew are really "good folks" and I Really appreciate your friendship...

Take Care, Live Well, and Enjoy Life.....

Rob :)
Slanted Baby

Slanted Baby



Aug 21 2008 6:30 AM

Oats in an onion's eye.
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