| News Well, folks, the Internet is making it easier and easier to get Michael Munnik Music. Finally, music is for sale via CD Baby but right here on this website. Click on the music page to get a look. It's also available in an even snazzier music store on Facebook - and if you're not already part of the community there, feel free to like it and join in. But the Facebook site is super-deluxe, with pictures, video, and a chance to listen to a sampling of songs, in their entirety.  I Am with the Hunters is available in retail stores in Ottawa. Check out fine independent record shops as well as the Ottawa Folklore Centre - ask for it by name. As well, the CD is available online at CD Baby. Order the physical CD, shipped right to your door, or get mp3s. And it's at iTunes, as well, for the purely portably motivated. My first CD, Long Shadows in the Afternoon, is also available in these places. For more information on the songs, the records, and how to buy them, check out the music page. Finally, this year's digital 45 from me and Nanaimo's Ira Pelletier, “Harvest Dance/Old Rowboat” can be found on iTunes! You can search me, Ira Pelletier, or me and Ira Pelletier at the iTunes store and you'll find them there for a ridiculously cheap 99 cents a pop. |
Notes The community lives on all over the Web. You can hear music and read my infrequent blog at MySpace, chat on Facebook, or link my music to other Canadian bands and musicians on Radio 3. I have a video on YouTube - a performance of "On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken" from a show at The Branch in Kemptville, shot by my good friend and musical collaborator Peter Rombeek. Check it out on the music page. *
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New (academic) year, new community. I've moved with my family from Holloway in London now to Edinburgh, Scotland. Kind of completes the circle, as Katie and I lived not far from here when we were first married. It is work and study that draws us, but I hope to make it a good musical home. Sessions galore, and my bouzouki is now on the same side of the Atlantic as me, so I have high hopes. Watch here for gigs, sessions, or open mic appearances. Meanwhile, cheers to Tony and everyone at North Nineteen for making last year so excellent, musically and gastronomically. Not only are they CAMRA and therefore committed to excellent ales, but the owner digs Neil Finn and plays his tunes well. If you're in north London, go go go. And a sign of my increasing celebrity stock, a true son of Etobicoke has released a Webcam cover of one of my tunes, on the ukulele. Hip hip to the Somber Star.
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Even dormant projects live on. My old band, Siobhan, has awakened to digital music possibilities. Despite being officially defunct for six years and not playing a note together since August 2008, we've released all three records online, reminding me what a blast and a cacophony the Irish punk was. You can get the tunes at CD Baby or any of the online stores they supply. From the original EP McGravy's Iron Liver, to the classic full-length The Patron Saints of Debauchery (featuring my song, "I Got Drunk in Europe", written for the band before I joined), and finally the powerful studio sound of Welfare State, recorded once I was in the lineup. The physical CD are either sold out or propping up furniture in the accordion-player's rec room, but this brings Siobhan to a new, er, generation. For those Michael Munnik fans who remember Beardo in a tux, or possibly no shirt at all, it's a worthwhile romp.  |