Download/Listen To “I Don’t Always Know What You’re Saying” @ http://www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=ladyhawk

With a full length and 12″ under their belt, Ladyhawk took up residence in an abandoned farm house behind the shopping mall in the band’s childhood hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, armed only with recording gear, sangria and a piss pot. Two weeks later “Shots” was born.
It is an album filled with the cold creaking and ghostly echoes of the old house in the dead of winter. Like a party for the last house standing in a sea of strip malls and condos, surely near the end of its time. “Shots” is the sound of Ladyhawk getting loose, turning up loud, downing a few
more and howling at the moon. It evokes the devilish sounds of Goats Head Soup guitars, the honey-slides and howling of Neil Young in his darkest hours, and the phantoms that haunted Roky Erickson at the Holiday Inn.

Experts at bottling the misty mountain ghostly blues offered on their self titled debut, it should be clear, this is not classic rock; this is not southern rock. “Shots” is a step forward toward someplace your compass doesn’t point.

Watch The Trailer For The LADYHAWK Documentary “Let Me Be Fictional” @ http://www.letmebefictional.com/ or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbnvPP8HaHo

In Let Me Be Fictional, Vancouver based indie-rock band, Ladyhawk, face their past, uniquely deal with society’s view of what makes a functioning adult and consume vast quantities of sangria during the process of recording their second album Shots.

Ladyhawk are four guys ranging from 25 to 29 years formed as a band in 2003. Although they formed in Vancouver, all four grew up in the same rural city in British Columbia. For their sophomore album, the band decide to return to their hometown of Kelowna and rent an old gutted farmhouse as the site of the recordings. The unique space is an escape from their everyday lives and adds to the atmospheric tone of their songs. Plus, because there is no running water, the band must use a bucket as a urinal.

During the 10 days in Kelowna, they reflect on their past which informs their future, they encounter people they grew up with, they enjoy themselves at a Pride Tiger concert, and they allows themselves the luxury of concentrating on their music.

While returning to Vancouver to complete the record, their touring van, full with instruments, flips over in the snowstorm. They all survive without injury, finish the record in a hurried 2 days, and begin a 6 week tour that ends in a picturesque seaside town.

LADYHAWK Press Quotes:

Pitchfork – “Neither Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sam Cooke, nor Superchunk hedged bets for subtlety’s sake or pursued passivity for passion. On both their sweeping debut and the vinyl-only, six-track follow-up Fight for Anarchy, Ladyhawk (like their Canadian predecessors the Band and
Neil Young) haven’t either.”

Magnet – “Heartfelt blues stomps, Spoon-fed pop and, yes stoned time-lapse psychedelia jut out in their own different directions.”

CMJ – “After one spin of Ladyhawk, listeners will be able to map out the Vancouver quartet’s entire record collection. Hours spent wearing out Dinosaur Jr. vinyl must’ve created these distorted, fuzzy guitars. Their ease with both frenzied jams and ramshackle almostballads is
clearly lifted from The Replacements. And that familiar, passionately nasal voice? It seems Duffy Driediger learned to sing by worshipping at the altar of Bob Mould. Unlike others who wear their influences on their tattered sleeves, Ladyhawk are able to distill the rawk of the past into something modern.”

Vice – “I Like this record so much I’m actually kind of left speechless. Plus their live show is even better.”

LADYHAWK tour-dates

03/18/08 London, ON – Salt Lounge
03/19/08 Hamilton, ON – Casbah
03/20/08 Montreal, PQ – Le Divan Orange
03/21/08 Ottawa, ON – Zaphod Beeblebrox
03/22/08 Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern
03/27/08 Winnipeg, MB – Pyramid Cabaret w/ Black Mountain
03/28/08 Regina, SK – The Distrikt w/ Black Mountain
03/29/08 Saskatoon, SK – Amigo’s w/ Black Mountain
03/31/08 Edmonton, AB – Starlite Room w/ Black Mountain
04/01/08 Calgary, AB – The Warehouse w/ Black Mountain
04/02/08 Kelowna, BC – The Habitat
04/05/08 Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom w/ Black Mountain

Ladyhawk website: http://www.ladyhawkladyhawk.com/

Ladyhawk press alcove featuring album artwork and band photos:
http://www.jagjaguwar.com/press/ladyhawk/ladyhawkpress.php