Joey has always been a musician first, since starting to fiddle with the guitar @ age 17... He used to be obsessed with shredding on the electric guitar in his basement throughout his teens... at 18 years old, he was exposed to his first Indie Showcase in Hamilton @ the X-Club, participating were Hayden, Weeping Tile, hHead and GORP, which opened his eyes to music outside of the mainstream... He went to Fanshawe College for the Music Industry Arts Program, in the fall of 1996, where he was taught the art of recording/producing by many fantastic professors, including celebrated Producer Jack Richardson... After 1st year of MIA, Joey joined Golden Lake Diner (Sonic Unyon)... Golden Lake Diner was 3 out of 4 members from the band Gorp (Sonic Unyon)... GORP parted ways with singer CA Smith, who then in turn created The One Man Band Singing Sensation MAYOR McCA... Joey was only on 1 released song by Golden Lake Diner, and that was for the Sonic Unyon "NOW WE ARE FIVE" CD compilation... Golden Lake Diner played shows with Tristan Psionic, Danko Jones, Sianspheric, The Rheostatics, etc..
GLD broke up in the fall of 1998... Joey created MELODICY after that point, with some demos being made @ Catherine North Studios , in Hamilton, ON ... The band was great, but everyone had other ideas of what they really wanted to be apart of, so they parted ways... After the demise of 2 line-ups, Joey moved to BC for a short time, and then Calgary for 1 year to retreat upon a different music scene... He then recorded a solo album on a 4-track in a small room he rented while in Calgary, where he dedicated the whole album to his previous girlfriend... Before moving back to Ontario, Joey toured the province of BC for 4 months between June-Sept of 2000, playing festivals, and shows all over the province... He found a dog at a show he roadied at as a one off favour to a band called Orchid Highway, and after not finding the owner, the dog jumped in the van and the both of them lived the scooby doo lifestyle, solving mysteries and entertaining people all over BC... After his last show in Cranbrook, BC, where he played the Annual Street Festival, his van was hit on his way back to Calgary, which put him out of work for 1 year... He then reformed Melodicy, with former bassist Sean Thomson, (Ex-GORP) in London, ON... Sean & Joey toured the West Coast as a folk/rock/ electronica duo for 2 months in the summer of 2001... They created 3 albums together, where they produced only 200 copies of each... these CDs were specifically made as Christmas presents that they gave away to friends, family and fans in 1998, 2001 and 2002... Joey was then approached by 3 different musical projects about how to get a tour started, and it got him thinking that he could help musicians everywhere, since he has been booking shows for years with all the people he has ever played with... Spherical Productions was then created to help bands tour and play as many shows as possible, and this all started in the Spring of 2002... Balls Falls, (Coqi Records) were the first band put on tour through Spherical, and after finding success from this venture, Spherical Productions became a full force booking agency... Joey then toured again with Eddie Warren to the East Coast in late summer of 2002, where they played as far as Sydney, NS, and then back to London, ON... As a one-man machine, Joey has booked over 50 tours to date, and 100's of shows throughout Canada, here is a list of the acts SP has represented... In August 2005, Joey toured the West Coast as a 4th time touring parts of Canada since 2000, but this time, with the amazing D Trevlon... This tour happened in the summer of 2005 in support of their new albums... Joey just took a break from exclusively booking any London venues, and started focusing more on building Spherical Productions, as well as his own musical career. In the summer of 2006, Joey toured with one of Canada's best solo performers Wax Mannequin throughout Canada, while doing PR for all of the artists he represents along the way... Joey recently moved back to his hometown of Hamilton, ON, and has started a new band with former Golden Lake Diner singer/songwriter, Graham Peacefull, as well as 4 other talented musicians to form a country boogie/roots act called BLIND MULE. They are planning on releasing their debut album in April 2008, and will be touring in support of this album after it's release all throughout Canada & beyond...
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Hey Joey... wow..sounds really good!!! Only a matter of days til tour huh? Am happy for ya!! Check out my little video.. http://www. youtube. com/user/joanitunes lotsa good wishes your way...peace.. Joani
Joey We Miss You!! Love your new band. Don't forget to come by and have some dinner next time you are in London. P.S. I finally uploaded some tunes to myspace. Check em out. Peace
Hi there Joey Balducchi first of all we'd like to say thanks for being our myspace pal. We wanted to make sure you knew the reason incase we suddenly vanish off of your friends list. The movement we've started for indie artists has grown significantly and consumes all of our time these days. We seldom sign into our myspace account and this is making several people believe that we are ignoring them. We are not ignoring anyone, we wanted everyone to know that. What we're doing has become so busy we just don't have the time for myspace any longer, so in all honesty we are probably going to just close our myspace account.
Many people wanted to use us in the future so if you were one of those people make sure you bookmark the link below so that in the event that we do close our myspace account you won't loose contact with us. I wish you the best of luck in your music career. Thanks again for being our myspace pal.
Two early mixes are now up from our current recording session at Breakglass Studios in Montreal - "Interlude" and "Communist Party". These are early/rough mixes from our forthcoming 2008 release on Pop Echo Records, produced by David Wm. Smith. Check them out and let us know what you think! Also, check us out on Facebook by clicking the image below... READ THE OFFICIAL GOLDEN HANDS BLOG by clicking on the image below... Thanks and hopefully we see you real soon!
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Two venues...Eighteen Bands...One Wristband for ALL ($15/night)! Click on the poster for more info on Windsor's National Indie Music Showcase, The P.A. MUSIC FESTIVAL happening this weekend!
