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1985-1992 Wrote a lot of songs. Took up the bass guitar. Went to school. 1995 Attended Rock School in London, Ontario. Recorded some songs. Decided a proper job with a regular paycheck is "not for me". 1996 Won a songwriting scholarship and a songwriting contest. Used the sweet coin to make an indie album. 1997 Signed a record deal. Made a not-so indie album. Had a big summertime hit in Canada called “Summerlong”. 1998 Ditched the deal/it ditched me and started my own label. Got nominated for a Juno for Best New Artist. Hurray for being new! Opened for Bernard Butler at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC making me the first lass to shred on its stage. 1999 My album”Science Fair” which I recorded for $500 outsold the one that was on the big label. David Bowie invited me to tour in his band. I didn’t say no. 2000 Played SNL, Conan, Glasto, Jools Holland with Bowie and had a blast. Learned a bit about fashion and brilliant songwriting while eating fabulous dinners and traveling first class. 2001 Back to reality. Released an album of cover songs by Fugazi, Def Leppard and The Clash. It got nominated for a Juno Award – same category as Leonard Cohen! Neither of us won. 2002 Made a pop album in L.A. with a chap named Walton Gagel. It got nominated for a Juno for Best Pop Album. 2003 Moved to Montreal. Started work on an album with Nathan Larson who does film music and shreds like a champ on the guitar. Recorded in Sweden. 2004 While making that album in Sweden, I made another album called ”Songs of Love and Death”. I recorded it at home for nothing. Kate McGarrigle played banjo. All the songs were Irish songs (The Undertones, Thin Lizzy, Something Happens, Therapy?). 2005 Toured Ireland (I'm 1/4 Irish) and basically fell in love with the place. 2006 Released ”The Summer of High Hopes”. Bono said in the Nov issue of Q that he wishes he wrote one of the songs from the album. Thank you, Bono Vox! 2007 Performed at the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Began work on a new album with Greg Wells, producer to the stars (Katy Perry, Mika, OneRepublic). Paul Buckmaster arranged strings = I've died and gone to heaven. Made my acting debut in a fab film called One Week starring Josh Jackson. 2008 Hosted CBC radio show “Under The Covers”. Finishing up the new album and finding ways to reduce life story to bullet points.
**** "The Summer of High Hopes is the distilled voice of an original."- Siobhan Long, The Irish Times
"Blackwinged Bird [and] Girls Are Murder have so much going for them in the perfect pop category"-Tony Clayton Lea, The Irish Times
"The Summer of High Hopes is a winning mix of indie-rock, orchestral pop and ballads...stunning..."- Brian Campbell, The Irish News
"the album is stylistically broad, with everything from spiky indie rockers and intimate ballads to more experimental material"-Colm O'Hare, Hotpress
"A new young Canadian voice with an old melancholic soul that is pure-fect."- Richard E. Grant
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I just wanted to drop by and say thanks for the addy.=! your music is awesome and i'm looking to see you in concert again when you open for Bachman-Cummings at the ssec next Tuesday night.
hey, so what´s the word... how was that hamilton show aug 9? crazy insane and 80s as expected?! anyway, just a quick howdy from our last honeymoon stop in barcelona, where i thought knowledge of tagalog could somehow bridge the translation gap here. sadly, i was wrong! hopefully i make it back to toronto in one piece! anyway, glad to see ur feb 09 toronto show. i shall try my darndest to be thurr... adios! // jP.
Hello, Emm! Wishing you and yours a fabulous and productive weekend. I've been enjoying your music greatly and I'm very pleased to be part of your musical world now.
Hello Emm... It's been a very lone time now since I've seen you. I just wanted to say hi and your still my favorite. I miss those day when you would play southern Cali offten but I now you don't really like LA anyhow hope all is well much love Jose do you still remember me? lol..
Hey Emm babe, Thanks for the add! How are you doing? Up to anything new and exciting? Your music is spectacular, keep up the great work!! I can help you with a custom myspace layout, full website design and management, photography, album covers, T-shirt designs, banners, flyers, logos, posters, and much more. The possibilities are not confined within borders or boundaries but yet they are limitless with Brett Bash :-D
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Hi Emm, I love your songwriting as well as your voice - 'Acid' and 'Black Winged Bird' are two songs that I think are especially amazing! Best wishes, Elizabeth
Dear Emm, thanXX for beeing my friend. I'd love to stay in touch with you, candycane :-) Have a nice and sunny weekend. Your new friend from Germany: Uwe
Was sad to miss playing with you at the Festival of Friends in Hamilton this weekend past. Turns out optimism alone will not stop the rain. It was great to meet you, though. Best wishes, "Archibald" Jay
Hey Emm. I played the Spiegel tent just before you about two years ago in dublin. Do you rememeber?
Anyways, I've stuck up some new recordings of songs we did in the album session in Electrical Audio. None of the songs are mastered yet and there are a couple of tweaks here and there to be done but I thought I"d stick em up so you could get a listen before the album is released.
I"m gonna rotate the songs on an as unyet decided basis (weekly, biweekly, triweekly even??) and include songs that didn"t make the final cut. Watch out for them...
The songs up now are There You Stand, This Is How We Play and Home.
