Saturday, March 13, 2010

Our Lady Peace

Our Lady Peace will be in town this coming week. They've got two shows lined up (March 15th and 16th) at Centennial Hall in London, Ontario. March 17th, OLP will be playing a special acoustic Live X at the Spitfire & Firkin Pub in Windsor at noon (19 and over welcome, get there early space is limited!). March 18th OLP heads to Detroit to play the Fillmore.

If you're a fan of OLP, click here to read an interesting interview with Raine Maida. Maida talks about how the band almost broke up during the recording of Healthy in Paranoid Times. Here's an excerpt from the Jam Music article:

“It turned out to be a disaster,” L.A.-based vocalist Raine Maida admits. “The label wanted us to make Gravity part two and it just wasn’t working because that’s not how we work.”

Paired with proven hit-maker Bob Rock, 2005’s politically-charged “Healthy in Paranoid Times” was a sales disappointment that almost led to the band breaking up.

“There were a couple of times where I walked out of the studio,” the 40-year-old says. “I felt I couldn’t work with Bob anymore because he was being manipulated by the record company. The label kept saying, ‘We don’t hear a single,’ and we all felt pressured.

Read the entire article here.