My band SECOND HAND STEREO has a show coming up at Cafe Campus Wed June 5th, 2013. We’re pretty excited about it because it’ll be a celebration of us signing a record deal with Florida based label MELODIC REVOLUTION RECORDS. We’re pretty excited about this and it’ll open a lot of doors for us. The label is great with some pretty awesome bands on there. More info will come!!!

Currently working really hard on a few albums that are aiming to be released this spring. In the last few weeks, I started tracking a new album with Daniel Iorio. Songs are sounding great. The Alec McElcheran Trio album is in the final stages and will be a killer album. I’m also working hard with Carolyn-Fe Blues Collective on the follow up to our award winning album. The tunes and sound are a huge leap from the last album. Looking forward to getting this out to the fans!!

On another fantastic note, The Carolyn Fe Blues Collective are now sponsored by

We’re very excited and are really looking forward to working with this great company!!

As for the tours … going to be working with the big tribute to Abba from the UK called Generation ABBA. They’re coming to Canada for a short Quebec tour. Looking forward to those gigs. Also, been working hard on the brand new show for Eclipse, The Pink Floyd Story. We’re working hard on a never seen before show. The tour will bring us all over Quebec next fall and there are some preparations for some dates overseas! Looking forward to it!!!!

Here is a video that was shot last year at the Pavillion De La Jeunesse arena in Quebec City. It was our show celebrating the 40th anniversay of Pink Floyd playing for the first time in Quebec. We played the same venu on the exact same date 40 years later. It was an incredible show. Here’s some of the highlights of the show!

I’ll be Toronto bound this month. The Carolyn-Fe Blues Collective was chosen to perform a showcase at the Blues Summit 6. It’ll be an exciting weekend checking out Blues Bands from all over Canada and meeting industry people. It’s basically the Canadian Music Week for Blues artists. If you’re in the Toronto area the weekend of Jan 18-19, please come by and check us out!

www.torontobluessociety.com/blues-summit-6

In the preproduction phase for a new project that is set to begin in early 2013!! In the design and technical phase now and working on the sponsorship details. Very exciting. I can’t give too much away except for the name and website of the project. It’ll be called Soundcheck MTL. 

It’s been a while since I’ve updated my site. This past summer has been insane for me. I don’t think I’ve been this busy my whole career. With my studio work, producing shows and live gigs, I haven’t had much time to do anything. Things are slowing down a little. I’m currently in the process of writing and producing the next Carolyn-Fe album. I’m also releasing a new album with a new original band called Second Hand Stereo. Check out the link on the side to hear songs from the upcoming album.

Eclipse is currently working on a whole new production which I’m pretty excited about. It’s going to be a show that has never been done before (at least to my knowledge). I can’t wait. The show will be ready and out playing around the spring of 2013.

I’ve also started up a tribute to Van Halen called Unchained. We did our first show a few weeks back. I uploaded a video of that show in my video page. Go check it out. Lots of great shows coming up with that band with some tour plans. 2013 is going to be a great year!!!

So I won the award for Blues and Associated Styles album of the year for the album “Original Sin” by the Carolyn Fe Blues Collective at the 2012 LYS BLUES AWARDS. Pretty excited about this. Definitely an honor to receive this from lenetblues! We’re currently working on a follow up to that album.

On the studio side, it’s shaping up to be a busy summer. Just finished producing a Russian Rock album and currently working on a pop rock record and a blues album.

By summers end I will be hearding back to Belgium. The beginning of November will be the return of Eclipse to Brussels. One date is booked and we are working on a few more. Pretty excited.

So I’m up for a LYS award for Blues and Associated Album of the Year for an album I co-wrote, co-produced and played on! Pretty stoked. And I also played 2 tracks on another album that is nominated. The award show is Sunday April 22nd. I’m looking forward to it. Would be nice to win, but all the acts are great. I’ll keep everyone posted on the outcome!