Soundtrack to Jane Doe
I really like how they've used our song, Smoke and Choke in the intro of this short film, Jane Doe , by Katrin Bowen. MRH Listen to the full song on Spotify now
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Smoke and Choke #8 on Best of 2013
We are very pleased to announce that our video for Smoke and Choke is #8 on the Totallyfuzzy.net site's Best of 2013 year end list. It's with no small amount of pride that we join the likes of Katy Perry, Arctic Monkeys, Lorde and Die Antwoord and actually finished ahead of One Direction! We have to say another big thank you to our video's creator/director/editor/visionary Stefan Sigerson for his excellent work! Check out the list. there are a lot of good songs to be found (beneath our own we're proud to add!) ----- if you haven't seen the video yet you can watch it on Totallyfuzzy.net or the Boutique Empire Youtube channel. Here's to a brilliant 2014! All the best to you, and thanks for reading! Mark
Smoke and Choke passes 10K views!
In the excitement of the past couple weeks with our live shows at the Rio Theatre and VALT2013 we almost missed our video Smoke and Choke passing 10 000 views on a music blog site called Totally Fuzzy last week. It's an interesting landmark, ten thousand views, and makes us wonder who is watching our clips, and from where! You may enjoy all the videos they've collected on the site, click here for check it out . In the mean time, if you haven't seen the Stefan Sigerson directed video yet, please watch it in high definition via the Boutique Empire Youtube channel.
We Are Local - tottalyfuzzy.net - Common Courtesy Sampler
We got a lovely mention in the We Are Local blog today, and it occurred to me that we have been busy this June indeed! Thanks to We Are Local for the connection! Check out their page, it leads to countless good ideas and people in our wet and wonderful city. Also wanted to mention that we have had our new Smoke and Choke video hosted on another site called totallyfuzzy.net where it's already surpassed 2200 views in only a week! Brilliant. Don't know how we were found or added but it's a cool site with a lot of excellent videos from loads of cool bands: have a look. (if you are the person who added us, please send us a shout! ) We'll be releasing a song on the upcoming Common Courtesy compilation this Thursday night. There's a showcase featuring our friends Sex With Strangers, Phoenix Thunderbird, and several other local artists and the whole thing is for a great cause: Kids Up Front. Come down to the Portside Pub this thursday for a...
Our new Smoke and Choke video!
a Flash Action Films production Smoke and Choke the video by S.J. Sigerson Directed by Stefan J Sigerson Edited by S.J. Sigerson and Marc Godfrey. We want to express our gratitude to Stefan and Marc for this amazing video. They have created a completely dystopian future world beset by megalomaniacal super computers, helicopters, blimps and stealth bombers (which I don't remember flying but apparently we did!) Out best video yet!! Cheers to Flash Action Films!
Promo clip for Smoke and Choke - debuts June 11th-2013
Massive thanks to Stefan Sigerson for cutting together this outrageous promotional clip for our new Smoke and Choke video. The video shall debut June 11th, 2013, but this clip is so entertaining we think the wait is well worth it! Enjoy!
Great Night @A Change of Frequency
Just wanted to leave a note stating how much fun we had at the "A Change of Frequency" festival on the weekend. Both nights were good but Saturday was especially enjoyable for us! A positive, life-affirming event that brought together several generations of music lovers in a lovely venue all for a good cause (Canadian Mental Health Association). Minna Simko did a brilliant job organizing the event and I think everyone involved had a great time! The Columbia Theatre proved to be a viable theatre to hold such a show and I wouldn't be surprised if it became an important live music venue, just as Todd Simko always dreamed it could! ChukFoto photography We performed a short set (there were eight bands each night) that contained two new songs and two favorites from the Crumbling Hearts ep . Debuting for the very first time was the song written specifically in Todd's memory, Brotherhood as well as our new song Hardly Spoken (which we shared last week). After...
Video Release Party - May 30th Media Club
We shall be celebrating the completion of our Smoke and Choke video with a show at the Media Club Thursday May30th, 2013. Director (editor, producer...) Stefan Sigerson is nearing completion of his dystopia evoking piece and we are keen to share it. The live show will also feature entirely new material from our forth coming full length. We're taking the tested and proven route of performing the songs live before we commit to putting them on tape (hard drive). Joining on the evening shall be a showcase set from the beautifully voiced Badgerchild , guitar virtuoso Marc Wild performing a prepared guitar composition, and Blank Cinema to close the night with their brand of progressive angular rock. Thursday May 30th 2013 Media Club Tickets $8 Doors at 8:30 Badgerchild 9PM Marc Wild 9:30 Combine the Victorious 10PM Blank Cinema 11PM Facebook Event link Robert Edmonds poster design. Smoke and Choke by Combine the Victorious
NEW! Smoke and Choke - Hairy Debbie Remix
The secretive west coast remix magician Wonderbro has just given us a fantastic new reworking of our track Smoke and Choke. Taking it in a totally new direction, the track has shed it's soviet disco skin for something quite a bit more fun and dazzling! Have a listen, share it, download it, pass it around! Big thanks to Wonderbro for this exemplary work!! Enjoy!
