John Lucas

A belated Happy New Year! And yes, I realize everything I do with this blog is belated. Nonetheless, this is actually new news! Well, newish. The debut EP by my band, the Starling Effect, came out last year, but it took us a while to get it everywhere. And by “everywhere”, I mean Spotify, iTunes, et cetera. Hell, it’s even on Napster! Which is apparently still a thing! Who knew?

Click here to stream the songs from the service of your choice.

Oh, and we have a non-EP track coming out as well. The Starling Effect’s version of “Old Man Kensey” was originally released as part of a tribute compilation put together by The Blog That Celebrates Itself. We are re-releasing it as a single, and although it isn’t out yet, you can click here to get notified when it becomes available.

If you live in Vancouver (or plan to be here in early February), please consider coming to see the Starling Effect play at the Roxy. It will mean a lot to us, and this will probably be a really good show to catch us at, because it will be the first time we’ve ever played at a venue where everything is properly miked and mixed.

Here’s a clip from our last show, which was at the Princeton, a venue that doesn’t mike anything but the vocals and that, in fact, doesn’t even have a sound person at all. And you can tell! The sound isn’t great, but the spirit is there. (Although the sound of my guitar, sadly, is not.)

That video was captured by Allan MacInnis, of the peerless Alienated in Vancouver blog, who also wrote this very nice piece about us for the Georgia Straight.