Hello, it’s November. This is a photo from when it was summer. Now it’s November and there’s no getting around it. On the 18th I’ll be at the Danforth Music Hall singing a handful of songs to a roomful of you. Remember summer? It’s gone now. It’s November. See you soon.
Buy my wares! Adjustments vinyl and CDs (🤷♂️) available for pre-order, and Adjustments Live digital concert film tickets on sale now! Links in stories/bio!
About time I played a live show. Super pumped to announce that I’ll be playing one of my favourite Toronto venues, the Danforth Music Hall, on November 18th. Honestly can’t wait. Only show I’ll play this year. Tickets on sale this Friday. Giddyup 🤠
Some stills from the Adjustments Live concert film we shot a year ago. Only a couple days til I get to play these songs at @thedanforthmusichall Still a handful of tix, and make sure you show up on time to catch @elissamielke, you don’t want to miss her 📸 @jake.sherman
Some stills from the Adjustments Live concert film we shot a year ago. Only a couple days til I get to play these songs at @thedanforthmusichall Still a handful of tix, and make sure you show up on time to catch @elissamielke, you don’t want to miss her 📸 @jake.sherman
Some stills from the Adjustments Live concert film we shot a year ago. Only a couple days til I get to play these songs at @thedanforthmusichall Still a handful of tix, and make sure you show up on time to catch @elissamielke, you don’t want to miss her 📸 @jake.sherman
Some stills from the Adjustments Live concert film we shot a year ago. Only a couple days til I get to play these songs at @thedanforthmusichall Still a handful of tix, and make sure you show up on time to catch @elissamielke, you don’t want to miss her 📸 @jake.sherman
Some stills from the Adjustments Live concert film we shot a year ago. Only a couple days til I get to play these songs at @thedanforthmusichall Still a handful of tix, and make sure you show up on time to catch @elissamielke, you don’t want to miss her 📸 @jake.sherman
Some stills from the Adjustments Live concert film we shot a year ago. Only a couple days til I get to play these songs at @thedanforthmusichall Still a handful of tix, and make sure you show up on time to catch @elissamielke, you don’t want to miss her 📸 @jake.sherman
Some stills from the Adjustments Live concert film we shot a year ago. Only a couple days til I get to play these songs at @thedanforthmusichall Still a handful of tix, and make sure you show up on time to catch @elissamielke, you don’t want to miss her 📸 @jake.sherman
Some stills from the Adjustments Live concert film we shot a year ago. Only a couple days til I get to play these songs at @thedanforthmusichall Still a handful of tix, and make sure you show up on time to catch @elissamielke, you don’t want to miss her 📸 @jake.sherman
Cheers to this kickass band I get to play with tonight at @thedanforthmusichall 🍻
Cheers to this kickass band I get to play with tonight at @thedanforthmusichall 🍻
Cheers to this kickass band I get to play with tonight at @thedanforthmusichall 🍻
Cheers to this kickass band I get to play with tonight at @thedanforthmusichall 🍻
Cheers to this kickass band I get to play with tonight at @thedanforthmusichall 🍻
Cheers to this kickass band I get to play with tonight at @thedanforthmusichall 🍻
This coming Monday, July 18th, is the Adjustments Live world premiere presented by Momenthouse and I couldn’t be more excited. What a phenomenal day it was playing with this ridiculous band, Matthew Bailey, Christine Bougie, Adrian Cook, Devon Henderson, Joshua Van Tassel and Matthew Barber, in front of the Adjustments storefront Cosmo Dean created for the album cover, recorded by Marty Kinack and directed by Norman Wong. Get your tickets, wherever in the world you are, and send in some questions for the live Q&A!
Tonight at 9 pm ET, catch ADJUSTMENTS LIVE on @momenthouse! This is the only “live” show I’ll be playing for a while, and I couldn’t be happier to share it with the world. I knew I wouldn’t be touring this record for now, but I needed to play these songs again with the band that helped breathe life into them, I needed to feel like the songs themselves had somewhere to go. Music videos are fine and everything, but I knew I had to do more than that. I wanted to make something that would last, that would stand up in my memory, that would introduce music to a space that had never heard a concert before, that would remember the work of all of the artists who had contributed to the project. I wanted to prove to myself that there was meaning and value to everything that’s been shut down or boarded up. That the experience of a concert could happen even if it couldn’t. I’m so grateful for Norman Wong, for Cosmo Dean and Trevor Wheatley, for Cam Frengopoulos and Christian Tyler, for Marty Kinack and Shady Hanna, for Nic Houghton and Kevin Fitz-Henry, for Sean Russell, and for the entire crew that helped make this thing happen on the day. And most of all to AGC, Barber, Bailey, Bougie, Devo and JVT who crushed it with no rehearsal in a cold Scarborough studio almost exactly a year after we made the record. Madonna said it best, music makes the people come together. ❤️
Never did one of these for Everyday, so… Remember the early days of the pandemic? How fucking weird that was? How our lives just got stripped back to the studs? How it all kind of felt like a total relief and a total collapse at the same time? I would stay up til the birds started singing, not knowing how to differentiate the stages of the day, how to work, how to rest. When I sang this song out loud the first several times, I’d get choked up singing the words “I hope that everybody’s getting by alright.” A lot of people weren’t, for a lot of reasons. Relatively speaking, I was doing fine. I had an incredible roommate, a great place to live, a promising career, really nothing to complain about. But that sprawling unknown, that twisting, unsettling feeling in your gut that it was all gone, that things would never be the same, that your life had been shrunk into some vaccuum packed plastic bag and that no one would ever really know or care because it was happening to them too; that seemed as pervasive as the virus itself. Everyone was struggling to keep up or even give a shit. I live near a park that’s normally filled with the sounds of people out enjoying themselves. Overnight it was empty and silent. I would find myself in the backyard burning cardboard boxes in a small metal basin just to feel like something was happening. Eventually, it became one of the only places we could see our friends or family, distance-huddled around a source of heat and light, back to basics. I started calling it the Fire Escape. It’s on the front cover of the record, in front of the Adjustments store. An invitation to gather around it, take a breath, adjust, start again. Can’t tell you how excited I am to be putting this record into the world in a couple of days.
Adjustments is out now. Says my name on the front of the record, but there are so many brilliant people who contributed to it. I’m so insanely grateful for all of them: Matthew Barber. This guy has produced all three of my records, and this one’s my favourite. I love the way he hears it, I love the way he listens, I love that he knows which path to walk down, when to go further, when to head back. No one I trust more in a studio. What a dream collaborator. This band. Matthew Bailey. Christine Bougie. Adrian Cook. Devon Henderson. Joshua Van Tassel. Insanely talented musicians and brilliant, beautiful people, all of them. To get to explore these songs with this band has been an incredible privilege. Joseph Shabason, Bryden Baird and Drew Jurecka adding depth and soul in isolation. I’m in awe of musicians. The artists. Cosmo Dean designed and built a fucking life size Adjustments store with Trevor Wheatley, and they kept it in their studio until I could shoot the Adjustments Live video in front of it with the full band. Norman Wong shot the cover and directed the live show. Osker and Smug coming through to bless us with some grade A Toronto graffiti. My sister Thea consulting to help us get across the finish line. The technical side. Expertly engineered by Chris Stringer with the assistance of Darren McGill at Union Sound Company in Toronto, beautifully mixed by Marcus Paquin, masterfully mastered by Gavin Lurssen. My manager Sean Russell. What a game changer this guy is. No matter what the problem that needs solving, Sean dives in with a smile. My community, my friends and family, who have supported me and lifted me up when I’ve most needed it, and who have kept my feet on the ground when I’ve needed that too. Lucky to have so many brilliant people in my life. My wife Clare, who has been an unending supply of love and support, and who has helped me make every decision. And finally, all of you who have found and listened to my music and connected with it and told someone about it. You’ve made this whole thing real. Can’t thank you enough.
Minutes Monday
I teamed up with Toronto singer, Noah Reid, to take a look at the history behind the Danforth Music Hall. Head to our YT/OldTorontoseries page to see the extended version and full performance. cc: @olreid Host: @morgancameronross
