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Oh yes, there’s been some changes afoot, my friends. The big news is that after more than three years, Kenton has packed
it The western Canadian tour dates are up on the tours page, and these,
Here’s an advanced shout out to our ever suffering “road
crew”, Mark It’s been a tough couple months, what can I say? If you’re
anywhere Best regards,
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| 02/2005 Hello, good people of the internet. Here is what’s up with the Submission Hold band. Three shows
in March... “What Holds Back the Elephant” will be released in Europe any day now on Stonehenge Records <http://www.stonehengerecords.com/>, and if all goes according to plan we’ll be in Europe for a few weeks in the summer. We’re just starting to book a little tour that will take us to Winnipeg and back. This will happen in May, details soonish. Street hockey is better than the NHL anyway. With fondest regards,
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| 12/2004 Hey there. Check it out, Jen's in a book! http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-932360-64-6 And speaking of Jen, when we were on our little West Coast tour, she sliced her finger open whilst making Sam a sandwich at a rest stop. She hit an artery (gush, gush...[that was the sound of squirting blood.]) and got five stitches. We weren't even late for the show! And speaking of tour, it was great to see everyone again and our extra thanks goes out to the following... Jay Sharks for his first ever bout of tour nannying, Mark Vermin for piloting the boat, Amber and Eric, Jess and Alex, Michael and another Eric; for special help in their respective towns. And thanks to everyone who came out to the record release show. Che:Chapter 127 and Mecca Normal in particular. Hurray! Everyone's great! Except for the fucking idiot Texan megalomaniac, of course. But i digress... 
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| 11/2004 Hello and welcome to our new website, brought to you by our friend Matt. Thanks Matt! The new record, our first in four years, is out now on G7 Welcoming Committee Records. It's called "What Holds Back the Elphant". Dig it. We're doing a little tour from November 9th-14th and a record release show in Vancouver on November 26th. There's talk of a European tour in May and Canadian tour in July. Details to come... And speaking of Europe, the new record will soon be released in France by Stonehenge Records. That's all for now, friends. Enjoy the new website, let us know what you think.
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| 09/2004 A little something for you. Our new record will be released on November 9th, courtesy of the fine folks at G7 Welcoming Committee Records. There's 8 or 9 songs and it's called "What Holds Back the Elephant". Our best yet, if you want my non-biased opinion. It'll be released in Europe by the wonderful Stonehenge Records. We're going on a little mini-tour of the west coast from November 9th-14th, dates are up on the tours page. There's a record release show in the works for November 20th in Vancouver. Rumour has it that the venerable Kirsten Elliott will be in town. More info on this as we get things confirmed. Oh, and the Spartacus Books benefit rocked, something like $1500 raised for the collective. By the way, that age restricted bar show that we did, in my humble opinion, was pretty sucky.
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| 04/2004 Hello there. Here’s what’s new with us. Two gigs at the end of April / beginning of May. The April 30th show will be our first ever non-all-ages gig. Hmmm... why is that? An experiment more than anything, we suppose. It seems as though in our attempt to include everyone at our shows, we’ve ironically excluded half our audience. We shall see. DIY purists may now begin hurling abuse. We’re going on a short west coast tour from June 6th-13th. Six shows for Submission Hold and two for The Din. All the dates are up on the “upcoming shows and tours” page. We still haven’t got that new album out yet. Supposedly we should have it recorded either just before the tour or shortly thereafter. The new record won’t be on Ebullition, like the last two were but rather will come out on a different label, closer to home this time. The interview with Andy and some other folks talking about touring with their kids can be found on the “reviews, interviews, etc” page. This interview was originally printed in Maximumrocknroll with a great photo of Sam in the back of the van. Big thanks to Olivia for website doings. Is that all? Yes.
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| 08/2003 As you may already know this website has a new simpler address, it's www.submissionhold.org and we have a new mailing address as well...P.O. Box 21533-1424 Commercial Dr., Vancouver, B.C., V5L 5G2, Canada. Thanks goes out to Jim at www.nomediakings.org and our pal Morag for help re-vamping the site. We'll be on the east coast of the U.S. from September 13th-October 4th. Check the Tour Dates page for details. This will be Sam Danger's third time on the road with us and he'll have just turned two! Check out the interview with Andy and some other folks in the September issue of Maximumrocknroll, it's all about touring with your kids. Maybe we can get it up on the never before used Interviews page? Hopefully the re-press of the "Eat More Garlic" CD will be ready for tour. This is a collection of our first two demo tapes and it was origionally released in Argentina as a benefit for the Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist prisoners support group. This time the proceeds of the disc will go to Chain Reaction, a community group in Washington D.C. that teaches inner city kids about bicycle mechanics and sustainable transportation. The CD will be released by the D.C. label Amor y Lucha. We've got a pile of new songs ready and hopefully we'll be able to get them recorded some time before the end of the year. Lately it's been almost impossible to get us all in the same place at the same time for more than a couple days at a time. Andy brought back to life, with the help of Stephe, his long, lost side project Bus Graveyard. Bus Graveyard, like the Din, is improvised music and noise but with prose/spoken word/readings. We are taking our pretentiousness to a whole new level. If you missed it, we played our 10th anniversary show on July 1st,2003. Our friends 1905, from Washington, DC were on the bill and Jen made birthday cake. That's all for now. If you're in the eastern U.S., come say hi and bring Sam a birthday present. Big thanks go out to Brian, Morag and Jim for their recent efforts to help the Hold. George Bush, what a fucking moron.
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| 08/02 This update is on the eve our our European tour. European dates are on the Upcoming Shows page. A more reliable list of dates can also be found at www.tcwtga.org the site of The Company With The Golden Arm. The west coast tour was a blast. RIP Antiproduct. A thousand thanks to everyone who set up shows, housed and fed us. Hopefully we wil see you again soon.
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| 04/02 2001 was a year of big changes for the Hold. The biggest of those changes came on Sept 1st when Jen and Andy's son, Samwise Danger Thorpe was born. He came into the world at the end of a dark and stormy night in Jen and Andy's living room. The birth was attended by two midwives and our friend Jill. All are happy and healthy. Incidentally, Sam's first gig was opening for Fugazi while Jen was eight and a half months pregnant. The next change came when Phil, drummer for Submission Hold since 1995, decided to move on. There was no bad blood or mean feelings, Phil just felt like focusing on things other than musicÉ he even sold his drums! Good luck Phil, we miss you indeed. Now we faced the daunting task of finding a replacement for Phil. Could it be done? Apparently so, because within a week we had a new drummer named Kenton. Kenton, a drummer in the burgeoning, young jazz improv scene here in Vancouver, has insinuated himself nicely into our lives as well as the band. Where we go with Kenton should prove to be an interesting next chapter in the life of the band. All of the changes kind of put us on hold for a while and a few recording projects got put on the back burner, but we're going full steam ahead once again. We will record some new material in July, after Sam's and Kenton's first Submission Hold tour. Hopefully that split with Kochise will see the light of day sometime soon. As mentioned above we will tour this coming June down south to San Diego and back through uncharted territory for us, it will be our first time through Idaho and Montana. Our friends, Antiproduct will be with us once again for the tour as well as some select dates with the Californian band Please Inform the Captain This is a Hijack. After a short spell back home we will leave for Europe in August. This will be our third Euro tour and will focus mostly on Scandinavia. There is some loose talk of Australia next spring. Joining the tours for a couple of gigs as well as playing some recent local shows, is The Din. The Din is the new free-improv project made of subholders Stephe, Andy, and Kenton along with a fourth revolving member. The Din had it's debut when long-time Sub Hold collaborator Kirsten Elliot was in town from the U.K. and the two groups played a farewell to a long standing communal home on E. 2nd Ave. Kirsten will also be joining us for our Scandinavian tour. The Din goes Nordic? Who knowsÉ So, all's well and back on track for Submission Hold. Except for Jen's broken arm that is. Yes, Jen fell down and broke her arm (while holding little Sam, yikes!! Don't worry. Sam got no injuries, just a rude awakening.) Apparently she should be good as new by the time we hit the road. We're looking forward to seeing all our old friends and making new ones this summer, so come and say hi, meet Sam, shake yer booty and smash the old social order! Regards, the Hold Jen, Andy, Stephe, Kenton & Sam P.S.Thanks to Morag for the website help!
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