--Six Shooter Bullets --

Mar. 2006, Vol. 03, No. 03

it wouldn't pay to argue or to out of joint your nose

Hola! In this issue:

  1. SXSW is insane. straight up.

  2. Justin Rutledge for prez

  3. Halifax me a copy of them thurr Juno awards

  4. Webstore revolution

  5. Telemavision!

  6. Steady tourin'

  7. contestualizing


Awesome dog is awesome... pass it on.

SXSW!

Wow. So Austin knows how to party huh? We are only now beginning to kind of recover from our South By Southwest adventure. The Six Shooter gang got up to all kinds of hijinx over the weekend including:

1. getting all of Austin drunk on tequila at our very own hootenanny
2. eating more Mexican food than most Mexicans (and almost as much BBQ as most Texans)
3. several intense games of "Pass It On"
4. all-night dance parties fueled by energy-malt liquor (what will they think of next, coffee-polar fleece?) which kept us awake until the buffet opened in our hotel!
5. watching a dude dancing with barf all over his back!
6. very narrowly escaped having thousands of bats nesting in our hairdos
7. oh yeah, the shows! Six Shooter artists Luke Doucet, Elliot Brood, Christine Fellows, Shout Out Out Out Out, and Whitey Houston absolutely killed it a crazy variety of venues including outdoor tent thingies, bar patios, the 18th floor of a hotel, and the usual assortment of seedy bars and parties! It was dope!

VOTE JUSTIN!

So Much More Music is taking votes on what all you TV addicts are craving. Basically the way it works is you click on a couple lil' boxes, which starts a cyber chain reaction which, in addition to telling monkeys how many pretzels versus cheesies they should use in their snack food and cream cheese sculpture, tells the lovely music programmers what videos are mad hype and worthy of your viewing. One of the videos in the playlist is our very own Justin Rutledge's "The Suffering Of Pepe O'Malley". Click on the link below, click on the box next to Justin's name, grab some bugles and a tub of cream cheese, sit back and Watch the show. Ya feel me? http://www.muchmoremusic.com/top10/

JUNOS!

This year's edition of the Juno awards will be rocking Halifax this weekend, and we are more excited than Scientologists in a Grammy store... or whatever that expression is. Six Shooter is representing hardcore this year with Luke Doucet being nominated for an award in the "Best Adult Alternative Album" category, and Elliott Brood being nominated in the "Best Roots Group" category. Like what?! Man, we rule. In a totally humble way of course. In true "adult alternative" form, Luke is going to keep his stick on the ice in Juno Cup Hockey (Friday March 31, 7.30pm, Halifax Forum). I think he is the goalie. Four words of warning Luke: puck in the nads. Don't forget the cup buddy.

As usual, if you're gonna throw an awards show, you might as well throw a music festival to go with it. That's cool, we're down for the pound.

Six Shooter artists rock it in Halifax this weekend:

NQ ARBUCKLE HALIFAX, NS: The Seahorse, Fri Mar 31 11pm
LUKE DOUCET HALIFAX, NS: Tribeca, Fir Mar 31 midnight
ELLIOTT BROOD HALIFAX, NS: The Seahorse, Sat Apr 1 1am

SIX SHOOTER RECORDS JUNO INSTORE, Sam the Record Man (1656 Barrington St.), Sat Apr 1, 1-3pm w/ NQ Arbuckle, Elliott Brood, Luke Doucet -- free show with prize giveaways!

WEBSTORE

Hey! Go check out the Six Shooter Records Webstore! Not only can you pick up all of the essential music that we are always blabbing on about, but you can also represent your Six Shooter love with all kinds of rad merch. Our newest item is our wickedly punk-ass messenger bags which are available in subversive black with a left-leaning red logo! Perfect for carrying obscure zines, anti-vivisection pamphlets, and Che Guevara stencils.

WE ON THA TV

Turn up the volume on the ol' boob tube! Luke Doucet's track "Free" aired on Sunday 19th March on Grey's Anatomy. check it: http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysanatomy/music/season2/music21.html

and Normals Welcome Records artists Shout Out Out Out Out and The Floor both recently licensed music for use in a few MTV shows including "Making The Band", and, ahem... "Date My Mom". Yep.

TOUR DATES

LUKE DOUCET
HALIFAX, NS: Tribeca, Fri Mar 31 midnight
HALIFAX, NS: Sam the Record Man, Sat Apr 1, 1-3pm in-store
PITTSBURGH, PA: Garfield Artworks, Apr 4
CLEVELAND, OH: Wilbert's, Apr 5
TORONTO, ON: Original Motercycle Café - The 4th Annual Panty Schmooze, Apr 12
VANCOUVER, BC: VECC, Apr 13 w/ Ridley Bent all ages 8pm
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND: Cabaret Voltaire, May 18 w/ Tift Merritt
NEWCASTLE, UK: Evolution Festival, May 19 w/ Tift Merritt
BEDFORD, UK: The Ent Shed, May 21 w/ Tift Merritt
BRISTOL, UK: St Bonaventures, May 22 w/ Tift Merritt
HAMBURG, GERMANY: Tanzhalle, May 23
BERLIN, GERMANY: Tacheles, May 24


ELLIOTT BROOD
HALIFAX, NS: Sam the Record Man, Sat Apr 1, 1-3pm in-store
HALIFAX, NS: The Seahorse, Sat Apr 1, 1am
FREDERICTON, NB: Cellar, Apr 4
SACKVILLE, NB: George's Roadhouse, Apr 5
CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI: Baba's, Apr 6
SAINT JOHN, NB: Elwoods, Apr 7
QUEBEC, PQ: Kashmir, Apr 8
PETERBOROUGH, ON: The Montreal House, Apr 20
AMSTERDAM, NL: 747 Live Radio, Apr. 24 (afternoon)
AMSTERDAM, NL: Maloe Melo, Apr. 24 (afternoon)
AMSTERDAM, NL: VPRO Club 3voor12 Live Radio, Apr. 26
KILKENNY, IRELAND: Rhythm & Roots, Apr. 28-29
BERGEN, NORWAY: Bergen Music Festival, May 2
LONDON, UK: What's Cookin' @ Sheepwalk, May 3
TILBURG, NL: 013, May 4
NIJMEGEN, NL: Merleyn, May 5
GRONINGEN, NL: Rhythm & Blues Night, May 6
ROTTERDAM, NL: Rotown, May 7
MALORCA, SPAIN: Teatre Lloseta, May 11
VALENCIA, SPAIN: El Loco, May 13
MADRID, SPAIN: Moby Dick, May 15
FAMILACAO, PORTUGAL: Casa Das Artes, May 16
VIGO, SPAIN: Club Vademacum, May 17
SANTONA, SPAIN: Club Tropicana, May 18


NQ ARBUCKLE
HALIFAX, NS: The Seahorse, Fri Mar 31, 11pm
HALIFAX, NS: Sam the Record Man, Sat. April 1, 1-3pm instore
COMO, ITALY: Ultimo Caffè, Apr 6
MANDELLO DEL LARIO, ITALY: Buscadero Cafè Apr 7
PAVIO, ITALY: Spazio Musica, Apr 8
OSNAGO, ITALY: Locomotiva, Apr 9
MILAN, ITALY: Nidaba Theatre, Apr 10
BERGAMO, ITALY: Daragi, Apr 11
WATERFORD, ON: Old Town Hall - Benefit for Camp Trillium, May 27


SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT
CALGARY, AB: MacEwan Student Centre - Bermuda Shorts Day, Apr 13
EDMONTON, AB: University of Alberta, Apr 28


WHITEY HOUSTON
EDMONTON, AB: New City 9th Birthday, May 3 & 5 w/ Detroit Cobras, The Subatomics


JUSTIN RUTLEDGE
TORONTO, ON: Original Motercycle Café - The 4th Annual Panty Schmooze, Apr 12
KINGSTON, ON: The Grad Club, Apr. 19 w/ Shuyler Jansen and Dave Bidini
TORONTO, ON: The Rivoli, Apr. 20 & 21 w/ Shuyler Jansen
PETERBOROUGH, ON: Cinema 379, Apr. 22
OTTAWA, ON: Westfest, Jun 10
OTTAWA, ON: Blacksheep Inn, Jun 23


VALERY GORE
KINGSTON, ON: Elixir, Apr 6 w/ Josh Ritter
MONTREAL, PQ: Cabaret, Apr 7 w/ Josh Ritter
TORONTO, ON: Mod Club, Apr 8 w/ Josh Ritter
WAKEFIELD, PQ: Black sheep Inn, Apr 10 w/ Josh Ritter


DAVE BIDINI of the RHEOSTATICS
SHANGHAI, CHINA: Oriental Art Centre, Apr 28
SUZHOU, CHINA: Suzhou Amusement Park, Apr 29
HANGZHOU, CHINA: World Leisure Expo Park, Apr 30
NANJING, CHINA: Xuanwu Lake Park, May 1
NANTONG, CHINA: Binjiang Park, May 2
CHANGSHA, CHINA: Nanjiao Park, May 4
GUIYANG, CHINA: People's Plaza, May 6
KUNMING, CHINA: World Expo Park, May 7


CONTEST

Spearhead the Six Shooter revolution! Give us a list of five essential items that you wouldn't dare leave out of your messenger bag while heading to the Official Six Shooter Peaceful Protest Against Shitty Music (O.S.S.P.P.A.S.M). The most revolutionarily hilarious list wins one of said messenger bags. word?


Beauty on... pass it on,
Six Shooterers

Title track: "Charmed, I'm sure", track 3 of Ford Pier's "Pier-ic Victory".

Six Shooter Records
Box 98038, 970 Queen St. E.
Toronto, ON M4M 1J0
416-465-2459
http://www.sixshooterrecords.com

Life is too short to listen to shitty music.