Okay, update. I finished the Argyles' second album Mean Times in late June 2012, and made a thousand copies (most of which are still in my possession). It can be LISTENED TO / PURCHASED HERE, on our bandcamp.
I also made a couple of videos, one for the song "Low Point":
We shot it in Mile End, in an abandoned warehouse. I borrowed the fencing gear from Escrime Mont Royal, but the balloons were expensive. But I'd always wanted to have my own helium tank, so I think it was worth it.
I knew I didn't want to stay another year in Montreal, and everyone else in the band was heading off into the world as well, so I decided we should have a going away tour which would simultaneously get me to Vancouver. I got my friend Martin and his band Alexeimartov into it as well, and on the eve of our departure we shot the footage that eventually became the video for "Blackjacks to Blackout":
The first part was footage of a concert I played at the Green Panther, a vegan restaurant in downtown Montreal that I'd been working at part-time while making the album. We took as many people as we could to our favourite bar, Le Black Jack in St. Henri, after the show, and the ensuing shenanigans are captured for all to see.
Then the next day we were off on our cross-country trek, which went from Montreal to Vancouver with a significant dip into the U.S. to visit Indianapolis. It was a blast and is well documented on Ryan's blog, http://theargylessummertour.blogspot.ca/
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| Here we are at Lake Louise for some reason |
Afterwards, we parted ways, and I sat around in Vancouver wondering what to do with myself. I felt like keeping the Mean Times songs as Argyles songs, so I wrote some new ones just for me.
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