41st And Home

Vancouver Show This Friday + CMW/Montreal Tour with Facts

41standhome — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:24:22 +0000

Vancouver friends: If you haven’t seen on facebook, we are returning to the stage this Friday at St. James Hall. Joining us will be Facts and Skye Wallace. You can buy tickets in advance at Red Cat and Zulu records, or get them at the door, but if you choose to purchase them from our bandcamp page we’ll throw in a free download of ‘Raised By Wolves’. If you’re interested in what we’ve been up to for the past few months, half of our set will be new material that we haven’t played for anyone…it should be a pretty cool show.

We’re also pleased to announce that we’ll be heading to Toronto with Facts for Canadian Music Week, and will be heading down to Montreal as well. Check the dates below to see when we’ll be in your town (we will send an update when new dates are confirmed).

MARCH 15: St. James Hall (VANCOUVER) w/ Facts and Skye Wallace-7PM
MARCH 19: Annex Live-Indiemachine showcase (TORONTO) w/ J.P. Maurice, Cousin, The Danger Bees and The Benefit of The Free Man-10pm
MARCH 22: Le Cagibi (MONTREAL) w/ Facts, TBA

Interview on Go Vancouver

41standhome — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:37:16 +0000

Thom was interviewed by Paul McClellan for Go Vancouver, a local television show hosted on the Shaw Network. They had a nice chat about our last couple videos, our thoughts on Raised By Wolves and what we’re working on right now. Plus, Thom is sporting a pretty excellent beard. Check it out below.

‘Wilderness Eyes’ video debuts on exclaim!

41standhome — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:00:01 +0000

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

This morning exclaim! debuted a new music video for ‘Wilderness Eyes,’ the second single from our 2011 Raised By Wolves EP. The video was conceived and produced by local director and producer Wayne Robinson (of Thousand Plateaus) who has been making a name for himself through recent entries in VIFF and the World Film Festival. Today we wanted to tell you a little bit about the making of this video, and the team behind it.

First and foremost, we want to acknowledge that this film was created on a miniscule budget by a team of volunteers. The equipment used was mainly borrowed, most of the shooting was done on the directors parents’ property, meals were generously provided by his mother and the 7 person crew donated their time and skills to make it all come together. All we had to do was show up and stand in front of the camera.

The concept was pitched to us by the director Wayne Robinson following a gig at the end of last year. He provided us with a detailed treatment booklet with technical notes and a short essay on the concept of ‘outliving wild origins (in an) urban jungle.’ He followed this up by excitedly describing how he would be using an original super 8 camera, his plans to film a live birth (..plans changed), his idea to have us ‘embody woodland animals’ and a scene involving us chasing a bear projection on a concrete wall. We quietly accepted the possibility that he was mental, but were impressed by his vision and willing attitude.

The shoot ended up being one of the most rewarding experiences that we have had as a band. From the get-go we were treated like absolute royalty by an incredibly professional crew. We were driven to the set on golf carts, given an acting lesson, fed by the wonderful Robinson family and watched as Wayne’s vision came to life. Following our shoot he involved us heavily in the editing process and dropped in often to get our opinions on rough cuts. As a relatively small band it was remarkably validating to see other people devote themselves as much to our music as we did.

We want to take this opportunity to thank Wayne and his crew for their vision and dedication in making this project a reality. The generosity and hospitality shown to us by them-as well as by the Robinson family-went above and beyond anything a group like us could hope to receive. We are looking forward to a continued creative relationship with Wayne and Thousand Plateaus as we work on new material, and are certain that we will continue to see great things from them in the future.

Enjoy the video!

41st and Home

Once again, the video can be seen here.

We are on Instagram

41standhome — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:38:01 +0000

We can’t promise that we won’t fill your feed with cat pics, but at least they’ll look really cool. Come along with us as we write and record new material, and gaze in wonder at the sepia-filtered snapshots of our meals (we’ll try to keep that to a minimum).

If you have a smartphone or other device capable of running the Instagram app you can find us under @41standhome.

See you there!

-Thom

41st and Home’s ‘Gorbachev’ video debuts on Exclaim!

41standhome — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:06:16 +0000

Water balloons, villains, facepaint…..it was war. The music video for ‘Gorbachev’ debuts today on Exclaim! magazine. It follows a rag-tag group of kids (us and some dedicated fans!) engaging in an epic water-fight, leaving few survivors. The video was produced and shot by our friends at Amazing Factory Productions, who have created videos for the likes of Hey Ocean, Said The Whale, We Are The City, and Yukon Blonde.

Exclaim! debuts 41st and Home\’s \’Gorbachev\’ music video

The video was shot in Queen Elizabeth Park, and an open call was made to our fans to join in to be in the video. Spirits were high as the water battle played out; by the end, everyone was soaked, but some Timmy Ho’s hot chocolate warmed everyone up after and was definitely appreciated! Huge thanks to everyone who joined us, to the lovely guys at Amazing Factory for creating such a fun video, and to Exclaim! for debuting it for us!

: WAAAAR!

The enduring army!

Another music video for the 2011 EP Raised By Wolves is currently in the works as well – produced by Persona Productions – and will be revealed later this summer. Keep your eyes and ears peeled friends.

Enjoy the video! All our love,

41st and Home

Wilderness Eyes Video Shoot

41standhome — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:53:40 +0000

We recently shot a video for Wilderness Eyes with the lovely folks at Persona Productions who approached us last fall with the original concept. It’s not going to come out for a little while, but you should expect to see ridiculous camera angles, animal projections and George getting in touch with his inner moose, so we’re sure you’ll enjoy it.

We spent one full day and night shooting in Langley, came home for a few hours rest and wrapped filming in downtown Vancouver. In that time we were treated like absolute royalty by the crew, who all volunteered their time to make this possible. We paid a grand total of $250 to help cover the cost of gear rentals, the rest was borrowed or donated. These guys (and girl) were absolute professionals, and made standing around in t-shirts in 0 degree weather more than tolerable.

Thanks to Wayne Robinson and the Persona crew for working hard and putting up with our whining when we were cold and tired, Wayne’s parents for feeding us and letting us film at their place and Wayne’s Aunt and Grandma who never met us but sent over a bunch of food anyway.

Once again, I apologize for yelling ‘Cunt’ in front of Wayne’s mom.

PICS (click to enlarge)

We make friends wherever we go.

Our intrepid (and ruggedly handsome) director Wayne.

Sej in makeup

Rock star moment: being driven around the set in a golf cart.

Patrick and George experiencing hospitality at the Robinson Household.

George in his natural element.

Its hard to tell from the picture, but that raccoon is about 25×15 feet and was projected against the side of the Molson Brewery…amazingly, we were able to keep this up for several hours (including ten minutes of bloodcurdling screaming from yours truly) with no interference.

Playing Catch Up

41standhome — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:21:45 +0000

Friends and family,

It’s been awhile. How are you doing?

We’re sorry to keep you in the dark for so long. The truth is, we’ve only just started picking things up again. Being in the Peak Performance Project last year was (once again) an incredible experience, but we burnt ourselves out by the end. Participating in it requires you to give 100% of your thinking and spare time to planning and promotion, and when 4/5 of the band members are full time University students with packed schedules it takes a lot out of you. September to October saw a lot of sleepless nights, skipped classes, catch-up work, re-scheduled midterms and all the other glamorous activities that come with being student rock stars. By the end of 2011 we were tired and had to divert our attention to not failing out of school.

The time off was exactly what we all needed-time to ease into a new (our in the case of Garth and I, last) semester, relax and time to remember why we started a band in the first place: to have fun. While the PPP gave us some incredible knowledge and set us in the right direction, it was really easy (for me at least) to forget that we were a bunch of kids who liked jamming together. When you spend all your time booking shows, calling promoters, analyzing finances and self-promoting, the creative side of yourself can take a backseat. I realized that since releasing Raised By Wolves, with the exception of our Vancouver song for the PPP, I hadn’t written anything for the band in months. It got to the point where I started wondering if I even could write 41st and Home songs anymore. I took all my gear home from the garage and started making weird guitar loops and envisioned starting a new project. Sejal wanted to spend a few months off learning new playing styles. Patrick dove headfirst into his amazing electronic project Noble Oak. George recorded and mixed a forthcoming EP for our friends at Young Pacific. Like a high school grad class we all kind of drifted apart and did our own thing. Then we started to really miss each other.

That brings us to now. For the past month or so we’ve been getting together to focus on writing new music. Lots of new music. There are so many different ideas floating around that we haven’t really made sense of them yet. Also, our jamming has significantly improved. We’re taking a lot more time to focus on the dynamics between each instrument and giving each other room to be heard, which is something that the Peak judges said we needed to work on. We sound more like a band now. Its an exciting time to be in a small garage somewhere off of 41st avenue.

We don’t have a timeline for when we’re going to put a new album or EP or whatever out. The plan thus far is to keep writing and to see what we come up with; ideally we’d want to have about 20 new songs ready to go before we think about recording the best ones. All I know is that the new material will be different from what you’ve heard from us and I think you’ll like it.

In other news:

a) VIDEOS: We have two videos from Raised by Wolves that will be released in due course. Gorbachev, shot by Amazing Factory last fall, looks rad and we’d like to once again thank everyone who got wet during its production (if you weren’t there you’ll see what we mean soon). Secondly, we just wrapped shooting the video for Wilderness Eyes with the incredible team at Persona Productions. We’ll be putting up some photos from the shoot soon; it was a crazy, wonderful experience and I think the video is going to be fantastic.

b) George and myself are going to be gone this summer. George leaves April 6th to work as a stagehand for Princess Cruises until the fall; he’ll be travelling through the Caribbean, across the Atlantic ocean, hanging out in Iceland and Norway and making all of us jealous. In his absence we’ll have some friends filling in for him during any shows, but his presence (and bass face) will be sorely missed. I, on the other hand, will be periodically working as a Geologist during the summer, heading up to the Yukon, Nunavut and other uncharted territories in the search for gold, diamonds and glory. I’ll be back to write and play shows fairly often and will probably be sporting a superb bush beard. The upside of all of this is that we plan on spending a good chunk of our hard earned money on new recording equipment, with the hopes of eventually starting our own proper studio.

That’s it for now. We promise to start posting regularly again, and want to thank all of you for being the best fans and friends that any band could ask for.

As usual: Drink tea, pet cats, and recycle.

-Thom

Peak Performance Project Voting Season is Officially Open

41standhome — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:44:35 +0000

Loves!

It’s that time of year when every band in the PPP top 20 infiltrates your twitter timeline, facebook newsfeed, friendster or nexopia page (you probably had that one coming) to ask for your vote. You can understand why, $100,500 dollars is a huge amount of money, and your votes are a big part of the judging panels final consideration. On the other hand, besides doing a favour to your friends, what are you getting out of it?

We realize this has traditionally been a bit of a one-way street, so we’d like to change gears and show what we can give YOU if we are lucky enough to make the top 3. Over at our new facebook event page we will be offering prize giveaways as a reward for getting friends to vote, as well as delivering a new CAMPAIGN PROMISE everyday. We think this should be taken as seriously as a political campaign, so we’re going to treat it like one. The promises we’ve made so far:

October 7th: If chosen for the top 3, we will perform our ridiculous Wilderness Eyes rap remix (that you can see by clicking anywhere on this giant link) at the Commodore.

October 8th: Thom solemnly swears to light a guitar on fire during the Commodore set.

We’re going to keep rolling out the promises, so check back everyday to see what we’re up to next. You might even win some stuff. Have fun, and remember: VOTE

..and maybe make this your profile pic on your social media outlet of choice.

We love you all.

-41st and Home

We’re partnering with O.W.L.! Our fundraiser EP is out today!

41standhome — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:34:17 +0000

We’re very pleased to announce that we will be supporting the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (O.W.L), beginning with todays release of our Wilderness Eyes Remix EP. You can stream it below, or purchase it by donation with 100% of the proceeds going towards supporting the organization.

O.W.L. Remix Collection by 41st and Home
O.W.L. is based out of Delta, and they do absolutely amazing work. They are run almost entirely by volunteers (last year they clocked 10,000 volunteer hours) and they supplement their annual operating budget of $400,000 almost entirely by public donations. Basically, they rely on the support of animal lovers like me and you to provide care for injured birds of prey, operate their facility and educate the public about these animals. We had the opportunity to tour the facility, meet some of the birds (including Sarah, a barn owl who was hit by a car) and see all the work that goes into rescue and rehabilitation. Injuries range from head trauma, broken wings, electrocution, poisoning, bullet wounds and others with major surgeries performed by volunteer veterinarians. We’ll be posting a video from our site tour in the next few days where you can see some of the birds, get a behind the scenes look at their medical centre and hear an acoustic performance from us as we hang out with a barn owl.

If we haven’t made it clear enough yet, we’re really excited to be working with these guys and letting the public know about what they do. Thom has already signed up to become a volunteer, and you can join him by visiting http://www.owlcanada.ca. All you need is a recent tetanus shot and to be 13 years or older. As well, at our Peak Performance Project showcase this thursday (tickets available here) we will be selling O.W.L. Merchandise like T-shirts and plush animals. A portion of the proceeds from our own merchandise (yes, we still have some Snorebachev’s) will also go to O.W.L.

More announcements to come soon. Pet cats, drink tea and care for feathered friends,

-41st and Home

Shot At The Dark

41standhome — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:55:27 +0000

Back in July, we spent a very pleasant couple of days in Calgary while on tour. During our time there we were fortunate enough to meet up with Brock Mitchell, a videographer and blogger for Calgary is Awesome and the creator of the Shot At The Dark video series. We’re huge fans of his work, and were absolutely thrilled to be able to work with him.
The video below was shot inside an abandoned house/crack den that we broke into. It was shot quickly, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the neighbours. Thom still swears that he saw a dead cat in the basement, and Patrick found a crack pipe in one of the rooms. Random quote were scrawled all over the walls and appliances…in short, it looked sketchy and awesome. We filled the room with candles and got to work. Thanks so much to Brock for involving us in his project, you should check out his work with Lifetime Collective. But first, the video:

Song: ‘Gorbachev’ from Raised By Wolves, available on Bandcamp/iTunes

41st And Home

Vancouver Show This Friday + CMW/Montreal Tour with Facts

Related show

Interview on Go Vancouver

‘Wilderness Eyes’ video debuts on exclaim!

We are on Instagram

41st and Home’s ‘Gorbachev’ video debuts on Exclaim!

Wilderness Eyes Video Shoot

Playing Catch Up

Peak Performance Project Voting Season is Officially Open

We’re partnering with O.W.L.! Our fundraiser EP is out today!

Shot At The Dark