Mathias Kom (ukulele, vocals) Jill Staveley (guitar, vocals) Charlie Glasspool (piano) Mike Duguay (synths, glockenspiel) Jenny Gleeson (accordion, bass) Jenny Mitchell (omnichord, tenor banjo) Darcy McCord (cello) Adam DeMarsh (drums) Steve McNabb (trumpet, banjolele) Nick Ferrio (lapsteel, bass) Geordie Gordon (violin, fashion) Dave Hartley (harmonica)
Extra Special Guests:
Kim Barlow (banjo) Alison Corbett (violin) Bucky (didjeridoo)
Research and Development Team:
Leigh Kotsilidis (design and layout) Gabe Foreman (art visionary, ink jockey) Andy Magoffin (engineering, vocals, rat coach)
Auxillary Support Network:
Wyatt Burton (electric guitar) Rob McInnis (saxophone) Johnny Chartrand (violin) J.P. Contois (drums) Ian Osborn (bass) Brian Sanderson (viola, horns) Scott Montgomery (tuba) Jordan Mack (uke) Mary Jane McCallum (vocals) Cameron Welch (vocals) Kelly Davis (flute, vocals) Patrick Walsh (vocals) Alana Farmer (autoharp, vocals) Andrew Sainsbury (banjo) Benj Rowland (jaw harp)
Influences
General Influences: Plastic; cats dressed in doll clothing; models of the human brain; careless whispers and just about anything that I can feel coming in the air tonight (oh lord).
Musical Influences: Hot Buttered Charlie, Jill Staveley, Patrick Walsh, Brian Sanderson, Mike Duguay and most late-90s rap/metal outfits.
WIN A FREE COPY OF OUR NEW ALBUM 'BABY' FROM ZUNIOR!
That's right folks, armed with only your razor sharp intellect and your personal computer you can win yourself a download of our brand new record, thanks to the good people at Canada's best online music store, Zunior. All you have to do is answer the following maddeningly difficult skill testing question:
What is the first name of The Burning Hell's lead singer and ukulele player?
Once you have thoughtfully worked through the equations and formulas and have your answer at the ready, go HERE, and type your answer in the box marked 'Enter Coupon Code'. Make sure you spell your answer correctly and don't forget to capitalize the first letter, since it's all case-sensitive and whatnot. Happy gaming!
As you may have gathered from the contest above, we do indeed have a brand new record, and it's called 'Baby', and we are almost as excited about our Baby as scientist people are when a rare manatee has a baby manatee, or a giant panda has a baby giant panda.
And thanks to people like Paul Watson and the magic of science, you can now buy our new album, as well as two of our older ones, on Zunior in digital form for only $8.88 each!
Seriously, if you were just going to "rip" our music to your personal computer and make "mp3s" for your portable gramophone anyhow, why not just skip a step and buy the mp3s? The Zunior download also includes a full sized pdf of the album artwork. Please make our dreams come true.
Here's what the prowling jackalsof the press have to say:
"The Burning Hell began 2008 celebrating HAPPY BIRTHDAY, their (weewerk) debut of low-key ukelele and banjo-driven baritone ballads that showcased Mathias Kom's wry wit and songwriting strength. Their celebratory circus of a live show, however, is a different beast altogether; constant cross-country touring transformed this Peterborough crew into one of the best live acts in the country."
Exclaim Magazine, Dec. '08, "Artists To Watch in 2009",
"Moments of macabre comedy weave their way in and out of nearly every song on Happy Birthday… the kind of album we'll be throwing on the stereo as the end times draw near and we crowd into our bomb shelters to eat granola bars and have a good laugh over everything that's gone wrong with the world."
"Don't let Mathias Kom's doomy Leonard Cohen baritone or the brooding, skeletal folk arrangements upon which he tends to hang his words fool you – the guy's actually pretty funny. The Burning Hell's latest album, Happy Birthday, is veritably overflowing with black wit and cracked genius."
Burning Hell member Leigh Kotsilidis has made a wonderful stop animation featuring our song 'Dinosaurs'! Making stop animation is hard, and involves clever fingers and more talent than you can shake a stick at. Why would you want to shake a stick at talent, anyway? You can see this fabulous video below.
Also, thanks to Brian Mitolo, aka guythehood, and Paul Watson from Zunior TV for filming us all the time, even when we are sleeping. Below you can witness with your very own eyes, or with borrowed or rented eyes, a set at the Gordon Best Theatre in Peterborough, Paul Watson capturing the first song of our set at Sappyfest this summer, and an infomercial, which is very, very informative - all through the magic of motion pictures! Check out some of guythehood's other films on Youtube!
Live at the Gordon Best Theatre, November 2008:
"I Love The Things That People Make", live at Sappyfest 2008:
"Dinosaurs", stop animation by Leigh Kotsilidis:
And finally, the famous Burning Hell infomercial, by guythehood:
Paleozoic Era, Cambrian Period: Early ancestor of The Burning Hell first walks on land. Significant Fossil: "OPUS" (cassette only, limited edition. sold out forever.)
Paleozoic Era, Silurian Period: Though primitive, The Burning Hell shows signs of dim intellect: gathers twigs and grubs in forest, records first 'studio' album. Significant Fossil: "Here Comes Evil!" (out of stock.)
Paleozoic Era, Carboniferous Period: Vestigal tail disappears, and The Burning Hell begins to compete for scarce food and territory with other local bands. Significant Fossil: "Tortured Lost Souls Burning Forever" (a cult classic in some areas of west-central Peterborough and the Federated States of Micronesia.)
Mesozoic Era, Jurassic Period: Also known as 'The Great Migration', this period sees The Burning Hell cross the Atlantic; brain evolves; skin becomes translucent. Significant Fossil: "When Animals Attack" (available only at Starbuck's, Wal-Mart and Winners during the 2004 Holiday Season)
Mesozoic Era, Cretaceous Period: First live birth signifies that The Burning Hell has evolved from reptile to mammal, though other signs of progress are nil. Significant Fossil: "Tick Tock".
Cenozoic Era, Paleocene Epoch: The Burning Hell gets serious, discovers fire, senses the creeping inevitability of death. Significant Fossil: "Happy Birthday".
Cenozoic Era, Oligocene Epoch-Miocene Epoch: The Burning Hell finds religion, listens to REM's 'Out Of Time', loses religion. Significant Fossil: "Baby".
Hope this finds you well & in a beautiful place surrounded by awesome people that love you completely for who you really are... Much love!!
We, being the South African rock band PARKLANE, currently going huge in Canada, have put all our new tracks up on our page & would love it if you had a listen & exposed yourself to our aural love.. Would dig some feedback too if you have the time nudge-nudge wink-wink. If you would like to get to know the band-members, Ryan, Daniel, Damo & I (Darin) have written up some bio's & thrown them up on our page..
We have also set ourselves up on iLike & would be super stoked if you hit the link below to give us a boost on that platform too:
And if you would like to join our official Facebook group and get more personal updates about shows & the unusual band banter, please click here:
you guys played such a wonderful rain tent balloon snuggle yesterday.. warmed us all with your burning hells, thanks so much down by the wiver... see u along -b
Everyone has worked ones more to fill president Washington's pockets and no one stops believing in the politician that takes care of his tongue to clean the death meat of his teeth. And then they tell, you serve me, don't trust anyone, surrender, come to our temple, give me your savings, and all you think of his how to get them of your backs And you say, and you say: Shake Up, Shake Up... Clap Mitchet
Hi , thank you for the
friendship, it's a pleasure having you among my friends. My best compliments for
your music. I wish you great success in all your pursue. Greetings from Italy.
Federico Martello
Sorry we missed you when you came through in the fall! We were all out working harvest in rural Saskatchewan! However, I'll see you this summer at Sappyfest!
Just a reminder to listen to THE BURNING HELL 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.
Hey - thanks for calling in on my radio show. I love the new CD. Great lyrics. I want your band and my band to make babies together. In a non-creepy way, if that's alright with you.
Excellent! Excellent shows while you out St john's way. I took the liberty of posting this incredibly fuzzy, badly recorded, hand-held video of the Saturday show. I also wrote about you and the new album in my blog These Stones are meant for throwing. Keep up the awesomeness and don't be long coming back. Cheers! ..
