we just found out that we’re a part of absolutepunk’s Absolute 100 this year – look!

thanks to eda and everyone at absolutepunk.net for their continued support.

we’ve begun booking shows for the fall.  there’s one happening in Toronto, at The Rivoli, on November 6th, for instance.  we’ll let you know the details as soon as we have them sorted out.

as for all of the lovely emails we’ve been getting from all over the world (we never imagined that we’d reach so many people through Chloe), we couldn’t be happier to have such warm and eloquent fans.  thank you for all of your kind words.

we’re tremendously excited to be playing at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto this Saturday night (June 5th).  come early so that you don’t miss Pink Moth and Fjord Rowboat – set times are Pink Moth 10:00 pm, Fjord Rowboat 11:00 pm, Raised By Swans 12:00 am.  $8.00 at the door.

see you soon.

love,

us.

here’s the facebook event link:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=324390291749

we’d love to see you at The Black Sheep Inn tomorrow night (Tuesday the 11th) as well.  you can buy advance tickets here.

it’s going to be a pretty special show.  we’re excited to have Bronze Leaf sharing the night with us.

we’re two days into our Canadian tour and having an amazing time thus far.  the weekend’s going to be good, we’re at Gus’ Pub in Halifax tomorrow night (Friday, May 7th) and The Capital in Fredericton on Saturday, May 8th.

tonight three of us are staying in the tiny town of St. Leonard, New Brunswick, where a truck filled with 12 million bees once overturned back in 2008.  it was too misty and dark to continue on to Fredericton, which is where Andy and Alex are (we think/hope); we were in serious danger of colliding with a moose.  or worse, a swarm of phantom bees.

advance tickets for our extra-special show at the Black Sheep Inn on Tuesday, May 11th (with Pink Moth and Bronze Leaf) are available here.

try not to miss us when we’re in your city – this is a really special tour for us for too many reasons to list, and we’d love to have you share it with us.   apologies in advance if we happen to be coming to you on a weeknight, but we promise to make it worth your while.  take the next day off work.  tell your friends across the country to come see us when we’re in their city, tell your ex-friends, tell your future friends, tell your friends’ pets.  this has been a long time coming, and we’ve put the whole thing together all by ourselves.  so seeing each and every one of you will be a wonderful thing indeed.

we’ll be updating you all as we go.

see you soon.

love,

raised by swans.

on that note, you are all cordially invited to join us for the month of May as we head across the country.  we’ve made room in the van.

thanks again for being there, it was a perfect night.

love,

us.

still working on restoring our poor ravaged website, which as you can see is still a bit sparse – we hope to have it back to full strength very soon.

in the meantime, please visit us on myspace for additional information.

our store is not back up yet; to buy no ghostless place or codes and secret longing, visit either maplemusic.com or indiepool.com.  both albums are also available on iTunes.

and finally, come to Call The Office tonight – Saturday, May 1st.  it’s our last local show before we head into the Great Unknown.  come have a drink with us.

Fjord Rowboat and Pink Moth are opening.

(side note:  apologies for the grim and not-very-friendly-sounding ‘Age Restrictions:  No Minors’ that comes up for each of our shows on this site, it seems to be a default setting in WordPress.)

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have we told you how excited we are to be coming across Canada in a little less than two weeks?

we have?

oh. okay.

make sure to check back frequently for information on how to buy advance tickets for certain shows.

love,

us.

interview with NXEW

interview with The Ambitious C

particularly long interview with The Parallel Universe

Bronze Leaf will be joining us for this show, it’s going to be a really special night.

the Black Sheep Inn is only half an hour from Ottawa, in Wakefield, QC.  hope to see you there on the 11th.

if you see any blank dates on our calendar and we don’t seem to be playing in your city let us know and we’ll do our best to get to you.

sorry, Saskatoon, about the 14th – the whole city seems to be booked that night.  that makes us sad.  a Friday in Saskatoon with nowhere to play. sigh.

pre-tour shows: we’re at The Phog Lounge in Windsor this Friday, the 16th.  and The Casbah in Hamilton on the following Saturday, the 24th.  and then our tour kickoff show happens in London, at Call The Office, on Saturday, May 1st.  come see us off.  break champagne bottles on our heads.  or maybe on our van.  the van’s a better idea.

we’ll be posting ticket purchase information very soon in case anyone wants to buy in advance.

it’s going to be a wonderful month, we hope you can join us for a night (or two, or three) to hear us and Pink Moth play some songs.

love,

raised by swans.

here is the Facebook event listing for the Orangeville show.

check back often.  get in touch with us if you have venue recommendations or want us to come through your city.  we’re putting it all together ourselves so we’ll listen.

if you live in Toronto, don’t miss our show next Thursday (March 4th) at The Garrison – it looks like it will be our last show in TO before the tour.

and be sure to stay to see/hear Alun, not that you wouldn’t. he’s great.

more live shows to come; still in the midst of confirming shows for the May cross-Canada tour. check back often.

Chloe is coming out in Canada and the US on March 26th.  it will be released in some parts of Europe previous to that, not sure of the exact release date.

we’re in the midst of booking shows around Ontario for February, March, and April, and also across Canada for our tour coming up in May.  Pink Moth will be accompanying us.  check back often for updates.

listen and leave a comment if you can: cbc radio 3 ‘track of the day’

the lyrics for no ghostless place are posted; codes and secret longing soon to follow.  apologies for taking so long to make them available, and to all who have asked for the lyrics to codes and secret longing starting back in 2005 when that album first came out.  it’s not that we don’t take your requests very seriously.  it’s just that lyrics should always be kind of shadowy and open to interpretation.  also, we can be horribly lazy.

just promise us this:  if you like the words you have in your head, don’t feel the need to read the actual lyrics to check your accuracy.  keep the words you have if they feel right.

codes and secret longing is now available on iTunes (and very soon, Amazon, Puretracks, and about twenty other global digital retailers).  within the next couple of weeks no ghostless place will appear as well; we’ll let you know.

more shows coming very soon.  and tour dates as well.  we’re finally coming across Canada.  and then overseas, hopefully, if you’ll have us.

be seeing you.

and now, after stripping it of its black and green paint and unloading most of its cargo, we’re nudging it back out again.  this time, though, we’re going to hold on to it, with really long ropes.

our new album, no ghostless place, is finished.

we also have two big shows coming up, and some music posted.  and a whole lot of white space to get lost in.

more soon.

love,

raised by swans.