Toronto - The beginning of March in Toronto brings two things - one, the realization by Toronto Maple Leaf fans that their favorite team will not be winning the cup and two, Canadian Music Week. Usually seen as the Eli Manning to Peyton Manning’s North By Northeast, Canadian Music Week plods along every year trying to win that elusive Superbowl and come out of their bigger brothers shadow. Maybe this is the year? I am not sure, however, I am here to tell you about some acts that will be playing this week at the festival. It starts here.

Saturday March 8 - The Pigeon Detectives - Lees Palace, 12:15 am.

What better way to start off writing about Canadian Music Week then to write about a British band. Yep. Don’t forget your roots, Canadians - your ancestors were all English at one point. Well, the non recent immigrant people anyway. The Pigeon Detectives - who are they and why the atrocious band name? Well. I can only answer the former. The Pigeon Detectives are from Leeds and they excel in making excellent - EXCELLENT two minute songs that are catchy as hell. Back when I first got hold of their album ‘Wait For Me’ last summer, I listened to it a hell of a lot. Every song is catchy, and its only half an hour. Thats awesome.

Apparantly, they will have an album out on May 26 called ‘This is An Emergency’. I am wondering how they can release two cds in two years and not have quality suffer, but I guess we’ll see at the show.

Note: Reading about them on wiki, they came up with the name as a joke but it somehow stuck. Lesson to aspiring musicians: dont have joke names for your band.

As stated above: Pigeon Detectives play Lees Palace as party of Canadian Music Week, at 12:15 am. So you will be able to watch the show and still head over to a bar nearby for last call. Most excellent. I’ll be at this show.

 

 The Pigeon Detectives - Im Not Sorry [3:42m]: Play Now