I’m curating a Toronto film series called “(the truth about) food, fuel & free enterprise”. Over the next four Wednesdays, starting March 21, i will be showing four of my favourite documentaries from the last couple of years. All these films are saddening, enraging, and frustrating but most of them are also quite inspiring. My hope is that we can start a discussion afterward and channel all that frustration and anger into constructive thinking. What can we as a community do to change things? How do we best take action? Please join us at Tinto or host your own screenings in your community. For more details please visit tinto.ca or our myspace page.
Let’s put the public good back in public hands. Peace and blessings
/Johan
Our friend Chad Nunn shot this video for us as a school project. Many thanks to the crew and the dancers who stayed up all night to make it happen. Check it out.
We are once again joining forces with our Nigerian friend Ikwunga The Afrobeat Poet, this time to record an album together, starting with a two-night session on March 9 and 10 at the beautiful and intimate Trane Studio in Toronto. We hope you can join us for this very special occasion. After all, this is your chance to make it onto our next album. Please note that there are only 120 tickets available for each night. More info here.
We are proud to announce that “The Edge” has been nominated for a JUNO for World Music Album of the Year. The 2007 JUNO Awards will be hosted by Nelly Furtado in Saskatoon April 1. Keep your fingers crossed for us!
We’ve decided to start posting all Mr. Sum Sum related events for those who are interested in checking out what the extended Something Something family members are up to when they are not playing sweaty dance music. Go to the ‘tour’ page and scroll down to have a look.
John finally developed the 16 rolls of good old-fashioned film that he shot during the months we spent on the road this summer. He also took some pictures at the videoshoot for “Sound the Alarm”. If you want to see tanned and healthy-looking summer versions of our current winter-selves go have a look in ‘The Archive’ under ‘photos’. Peace and blessings
/Johan
2006 was a very exciting year for us. Jonathan Rothman from BlogTO asked me to write down my personal Top Ten Mr. Sum Sum highlights of the past year, which was a nearly impossible task as so many amazing things happened, but click here if you want to know what I wrote. This past summer we did our longest tour yet: two months of straight touring from coast to coast, playing for amazing crowds in magical and (for a bunch of Torontonians) remote places. We also had the great pleasure of welcoming Derek Andrews on board to manage the ever-growing Mr. Something Something operation. We made numerous radio & television appearances and were featured in magazines and newspapers all across the country. And we were asked to play a number of big festivals across the country next summer.
Many thanks and much love to all of you who supported us during the past year.
Thanks for coming out to clubs and festivals and fundraisers across Canada, thanks for dancing and singing, thanks for taking our music home with you and spreading the word. You make it possible for us to do what we love.
Happy New Year to all of you!
We would especially like to thank all the people who, with open arms, invited us into their homes. Thanks also to all the lovely folks at CBC Radio One and the community radio stations across Canada who kept playing our music, to Derek Andrews for believing in us and working his magic, to Paul Crawford for doing us countless favours, to Chad Nunn and his camera crew, and to the man who left us a $500 tip one night in Wells, BC.
See you in 2007. Peace and blessings
/Johan
PS. 2006 was also the year that Todd Porter left the band after two years. Todd, thanks for all the great memories, and best of luck with all your future endeavours, musical and otherwise.
Who do seeds belong to? Does the apple seed belong to the apple or does it belong to a transnational conglomerate?
Agribusiness corporations like Monsanto have patented genetically engineered suicide seeds that become sterile after the first harvest, which means that famers have to buy new seed from the patent holders every season. Don’t let the corporate vultures claim ownership to something that doesn’t belong to any of us. Please support the ban on Terminator Seeds in Canada.
What can you do? You can email your Member of Parliament before December 7 and tell him or her to support a ban on Terminator Seeds in Canada. It won’t take much effort. You’ll find all the information you need here, including email addresses, and a sample letter in case you don’t know what to write. It’s that simple.
Let’s make sure the public good stays in public hands.
Over the next couple days, you may notice the site acting a bit funny. Please bear with us as we prepare for the launch of our new site. We also took this opportunity to switch hosts to a carbon neutral one. More details on this later.
Hello friends,
