Friday 29th May 2009

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Sir Clement will fuck your shit up (LIVE SHOWS)

Hey you! Come see Hank songwriter and all-round toff Cab Williamson and Hank drummer/Famous Comedian Lex Vaughn in their new "outfit": Sir Clement, supporting the fabulous and sincere MEN from Brooklyn, NY at these dates:

Saturday 20th June Some gallery in Montreal (not with MEN)

Sunday 21st June Babylon, Ottawa

Monday 22nd June Grad Club, Kingston

Tuesday 23rd June Starlight, Waterloo

 

HANK

Rare appearances even though we have lots of spanking new LPs to sell. Montreal's pop genius The World Provider also stars.

Thursday 25th June, Zoobizarre, Montreal

Thursday 9th July, The Boat, Toronto

New Hank LP 'The Luck of the Singers' is finally available FOR REALS!

Blocks Recording Club of Toronto has released from its cage The Third Hank LP The Luck of the Singers on vinyl and digital download. Four years in the making, produced by Jesse Laine and CW, with artwork by Tara Azzopardi, and featuring 14 sparkling pop gems ranging in style and subject matter, from Burt Lancaster to dead goldfish via hermetic paranoia - you must buy this! Soon-to-be-available at stores across Canada and on itunes Now available at zunior. LP comes with free download card and extensive sleeve notes by Bentley Arthur.

Here is the track listing:

1. The Sun Shines At Your Door, 2. Distraction, 3. (I Don't Want to Get Sucked into the) Family Business, 4. Exclusive Plot, 5. Mountain Wood Collection, 6. Rumours Dogged Us, 7. I Let Her Join My Secret Society, 8. Blame (parts 1 & 2), 9. You Deserve Better, 10. People Look Up, 11. Never Have Another Boy in my Life, 12. Smokejumper, 13. My Black Year (My Black Bottle of Beer), 14. Threw Me.

LP exclusives here and on myspace and facebook.

Look - here's a nice review.

To coincide with this momentous event. Weeping Truckers have made available for free download 'Can You Cry?', a collection of Hank rarities and demos and outtakes and other ephemera. A very special, extremely limited CDR is available for purchase (look to your right).

Rare copies of first 2 Hank LPs discovered!

In the midst of a spot of spring cleaning we have come upon a handful of CDs of the long out-of-print highly acclaimed 2nd Hank LP How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, complete with unique Paige Gratland-designed covers, as well as the 2nd edition First Hank LP Ackrill/Venning '91 with three different covers (only 100 made). Email us if you are interested in owning these lovely items of ephemera and historical dance music.

New Hank video featuring anguished dolls

Taken from the Bleedin' New LP The Luck of the Singers, 'You Deserve Better' features lead from Magali and this video was directed by J.C. Singer. See it here.

Benevolent Rich People Continue to Die Off

We throw a dart through the air. Where will it land?

 

 

Southern Charles - Dubcrooner

New Cab Williamson project Southern Charles will be battling for survival in the urban landscape of unknown musical acts. But he just laughs in the face of rejection and apathy anyway. Weeping Truckers are set to release the debut LP by SC entitled Living Between Peacocks and Bones in 2009. Download the first 10 singles right here. And here is a BRAND NEW Southern Charles tune which is called 'Playah' for some reason. What is he saying? What are you hearing? Southern would love to know: southerncharles(at)weepingtruckers.com

NashVash Chooses You!

Weeping Truckers is proud to present the 2nd release by Austrian wunderkind NashVash, following up last year's reworking of Andrew Turner's ode to the cabbie Hey Taximan!. This new offering is entitled I Choose You and, in NV's own words, is "the gap between memory and dream". We liken it to the early morning wonder of a dew-filled meadow as your sweetheart strokes your hair; however, a friend of ours called it "abstract prettiness" which sounds just fine to us too. Download it now and may your heart flutter with joy. NashVash will be releasing his first LP Make me babababa through Weeping Truckers in 2009.

Cab Williamson prepares dictaphone compilation

Over the last few years, Hank frontman Cab Williamson has recorded hundreds of hours of dictaphone recordings: sketches, improvisations, personal musings and ansamachine messages. These initmate analogue excerpts are now in the process of being handpicked for the upcoming Cab Williamson presents 'Dictabeat, volume 1', soon to be available via mail order. Here at WT we are contemplating the idea of putting many recordings online so that you, the listener, can handpick your own track-listing. But we haven't reached any conclusions yet. We admire your patience.

 

 

Anyone here from myspace?

Thanks for coming here and leaving that putrid tank of Murdoch tat.

 

 

I'VE GOT A QUESTION FOR YOU

BRAND NEW Hank song entitled 'Four Questions - Longer' is available as a high quality mp3 right here!

CHECK THIS OUT

If YOU would like to book Hank at your local venue or are an honest and scrupulous concert promoter, please email us: hank(at)weepingtruckers.com

Hank Facebook fan page now online

Look, pictures and intricate details of when things were updated.

Hey! How could you possibly be content in your life if you have not yet become a fan of Hank via our generic-looking Facebook fan page? Come join! Updates, songs, photos, etc. Much like here, really, except on some soon-to-be-disregarded-by-the-populace social networking site. Hazzah!

Brilliant new way for pop musicians to earn a living "occurring sometime in the future or maybe never"

Great news from the world government: we are all one and have the potential to achieve amazing things together.