Totally AMAZING remix of “Boy I Was Wrong”

Okay the last few days have been totally amazing. Why?

Because we posted our newest Vid-Song-Of-The-Week (“Boy I Was Wrong”) and got almost 3000 hits in two days thanks to Rene Engstrom posting it on her web comic (www.anderslovesmaria.reneengstrom.com… go there now).  Then we were the SIXTH most viewed youtube musician channel in Canada for the day and 40th most-viewed for the WEEK!

Then, we FINALLY had a successful day busking in the ubahns (metros) here in Berlin. Made 95 euros after playing for 90 minutes (maybe 10 songs… do the math). Finally making some moolah in this “poor but sexy” city.

Partied with JP, Linda, Matt, Beatrix, Xboxx, Aislinn and gang … another all-nighter (no, I won’t go into detail). Aislinn came over and laid down tracks for our new song “Rainbow Tears”… and I’m loving how it sounds. The ending is so EPIC!

Then, Jens Lindhal sent me a totally AMAZING remix of “BIWW” tonight… and Mike from Bike said he wants to do a remix. All in all, a pretty successful and fulfilling few days. I also had delicious croissants and huge custard-filled donuts with Beatrix and Xboxx this morning before Xboxx and I busked (again) on the Ubahn on the way home after our night of revelry.

Then tonight I watched a touching bio of Michael Landon and had chocolate ice cream with my roomie, Anna and it was deLISH!

There are other things which are negative… things that are bugging me… issues, things i have to fix etc… but why get into those now? I want to focus on this amazing stuff.

Jens Lendhal did it again…

He remixed Toby-Wan Kenobi a few weeks ago and now he totally surprised me with this:

http://trike.bandcamp.com/track/boy-i-was-wrong-jens-lendhal-remix

BE HIS FRIEND on myspace:  myspace.com/Jenslindahl

BTW, if anyone wants to do a remix of this Friday’s song EARLY, I have put the files up:

http://trike.bandcamp.com/album/friday-songs-files-for-remixing

Boy I Was Wrong (our 5th Song/Video-A-Week)

REMIX FILES ARE UP ON OUR BANDCAMP SITE IF YOU WANT TO REMIX!  http://trike.bandcamp.com/album/friday-songs-files-for-remixing

Download the song for free:

http://trike.bandcamp.com/track/boy-i-was-wrong

The song was mixed/ produced by Claus Kruse aka Plastic Noise Experience… he blew me away with this… and we couldn’t have made the video without Laurent Gontier’s photography.  Incredible.

And please leave a comment below telling us what you think.  AND, if you have a youtube channel, FIND US on youtube and be our friends.
This is the 5th song/video in our song-a-week project.  The link to the Facebook event is:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=238071333443 … join… then tell your friends to join

OH and I know that song was quite serious… here is a song to lighten your minds.  I discovered it on youtube and it moved me.

Til next friday… xo

Oh and remember to join our Facebook fan page: link is on the side.

(And if you like what we’re doing, please donate to us by clicking on the “donate” button on the side, if you like.  We will make you your own personalized “thank you” video if you donate over  20 and your own song if you donate over 50.  We also do songs for boyfriends, birthdays and such… drop us a line)

Chronicles of a Busking Duo Part III: Xboxx’s FIRST VLOG EVERRR

Xboxx did a vlog today.  It’s great and charming… I’m actually posting this because we have to go busking to earn our daily bread but I’m procrastinating… and because it’s good, of course.

Watch, comment etc etc…

ps.  do me a favour.  post this link on your facebook wall for the world to see… it’s this week’s video: “lovin the lovey love”:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc4aYdlv2fw)

we have quite a sad one coming up on friday… get your handkerchiefs ready!!!

Book Trike?

We’ve begun the tedious task of self-booking our third European tour, for this Spring/Summer.
For all my musician-friends out there, I’m sure you’ll agree that it can be pretty tough.
On average, one in 10 bookers write me back, and finding all those email addresses can be difficult, especially if you appeal to a more underground audience. (Places that would love us, might not have websites).

It has gotten easier, and performing is the best way to get more contacts, especially if you tell the audience you’re looking for shows, but I still dread spending hours and hours emailing places and getting few responses.

Vincent, our label manager, suggested I start looking for booking agencies.

Do any of you know of any Booking Agencies, or have any venue ideas for us?

Until then, I’ll keep sifting through the internet, looking for venue-contacts.

And I would like to return the favour for all those musicians who are booking their Euro-tours, by saying that you can look at our myspace page (http://www.myspace.com/trikefangroup) scroll down and we have listed almost all the venues we’ve performed at, so if you wanna play at smaller, undergrounder venues, there’s a good couple hundred of them there, in Europe and Canada.

Here’s the letter I’ve been sending to bookers, if you have any feedback, I’d be happy to hear it:

Hello,

My name is Xania and I play with the electro-disco-trash band TRIKE from Canada (now residing in Europe).

We are interested in performing at your venue, and think we would fit in perfectly.

We focus a lot of energy into our live performances by including circus/burlesque flavoured theatrics like tap-dancing, costume-changes and live spankings.

After self-releasing three albums, winning $20,000 on Canadian television/radio competition ‘The Gong Show’, landing a Yamaha Equipment Sponsorship, and having our ‘The New Album’ reach number 6 on Canadian radio, we were signed to Belgian record-labelCheap Satanism Records. We are now anticipating our first studio-album-release, ‘Trike and the Vikings’ and are currently booking a European tour for this Spring/Summer. One song from the album, entitled ‘Mushy’ will be featured in an upcoming Tic Tac commercial.

We’ve independently booked and performed over 200 shows in Europe and Canada in the last two years (including the EXIT festival in Serbia, and a show with Publicist who is part of your roster), and we take music and performance very seriously. We also design posters and promote shows online ourselves by collecting emails after each show, sending off newsletters, and we have over 1100 fans on our facebook page.

Here is a clip of us playing live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXu4fFDjOeA

Here are our most popular music video:
‘Let’s Jog!’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Htzj7fCwU

and here is a recent music video, uploaded last week, Salty Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lme7TH9pSDs

Here is our website, where we constantly blog and vlog:
www.trikeaband.com

Looking forward to hearing back from you,
love,
Xania

EXCLUSIVE! New, First remix of “Lovin The Lovey Love”!

Plastic Noise Experience remixed LtLL.  Watch it here:

And listen to it here:

http://trike.bandcamp.com/album/friday-songs-remixes

DON’T FORGET!  Only 5 more days to get the FREE download of LtLL!  Then it costs a bit… (but it’s worth it!)

AND, if you want to remix any of our SONG-A-WEEK songs, click here for files:

http://trike.bandcamp.com/album/friday-songs-files-for-remixing

And we’re broke, so if you want to buy one of our EXCLUSIVE puppet/CDs, go to our Merch page.

Lots of love

Stevie

ps. Please share our LtLL music video with all your friends!

Which Song Title Best Describes You?

Lovin The Lovey Love (Our 4th Song/Video-A-Week)

So I was joking around with my friend Björn when I first arrived in Berlin to live and I said (regarding a couple smooching in public) “Wow, they’re really lovin the lovey love”.  I proceeded to tell him I was going to make a song with that title.  He shook his head and stared at the ground in embarassment.

Then I posted that phrase on Facebook to see what people thought of the title.  Several people liked it.  At first it was “Lovin the lovey love and hatin the hatey hate” but that was a bit over-the-top.

So Xboxx and I chose to tackle this one as our song for this week, and we set the video at a E-party… everyone drops E and feels the love.

Feel the love

Enjoy.  Please leave your comments below.  Comments make us so happy we jizz.

And for ONE WEEK you can download it for free:  http://trike.bandcamp.com/album/friday-songs

I hope you love “Lovin the Lovey Love”.

Hugs

Stephen

PS:  I JUST put the FREE download up on the bandcamp site AND files for remixing.  If you want to make a remix, please do… we’ll give you credit!

http://trike.bandcamp.com/album/friday-songs-files-for-remixing

Yet ANOTHER remix of TOBY-WAN KENOBI

I don’t know why, but people love remixing this one…

Take a listen… this one is pretty SWEEEEET.  It’s by a young chap named Jens Lindahl.

http://trike.bandcamp.com/track/toby-wan-kenobi-jens-lindahl-remix

His myspace is here:  myspace.com/Jenslindahl

Find him, add him, listen to him, love him…

Trike Needs A Third Member

We need a new member.  Somebody who can play guitar, possibly keyboards, sing and wants to tour with us in April.  If you’re interested, please leave a comment below.  We need somebody who is serious.  We have a record label and are constantly working on new material.  Please don’t contact us if music is only a hobby.

Bear in mind that we are residing in Europe.  You would have to be willing to relocate to Europe, at least while we tour, which is a few months out of every year.

If you can drive, that’s a plus.  We’re touring in April.

We’re headin’ to the top, baby.

Thanks

Love Stephen

The Spanking Song (our Third SONG-A-WEEK song)

Our THIRD video/song installment in the SONG-A-WEEK project.  This is called “The Spanking Machine”.  We wrote, recorded and filmed it in a couple of hours after setting another song aside.  Xania and I had been working on it, but it was quite serious and needed a lot of work.  I said “Let’s do something rather ridiculous”… and this came about.

Download the song here:  http://trike.bandcamp.com/album/friday-songs

If you want to download the other two SONG-A-WEEK songs and you’ve missed the chance to get them for free, it’s only 2 euros for the album… you can find them at the same link.

I will post files for remixing later today.

Here’s the video.  PLEASE post it on your wall, tell your friends, email etc… how the hell else are we supposed to get famous?  Geez… BUT, most of all, enjoy it.  I admit, it has moments of immaturity and Xania was really questioning whether to do this one, but I like it and I hope you too.

AND DON’T FORGET to join our FACEBOOK (“crack”book, more like it) EVENT:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=238071333443

Leave your comments below.

THE SPANKING MACHINE

I’ve got a hand

You’ve got a pair of buttocks

Put them together

Let’s cause a little ruckous

Slappity slap

Wackity wack

Spankity spank

Wankity wank

Now I got spanked when I was a boy

My buttocks turned pink

Then I ate bok choi… bok choi?  bok choi.  bok choi?

Now I got spanked when I was a boy

From Florida to Illi Illinois

I was a healthy young kid but I didn’t cause trouble

But when I caused trouble

I got it back double

When I mooned your mom

I meant no harm

I know she liked astronomy

But Numbers Deutoronomy

Told me where it’s at

Hey say, you gotta get slapped

On the backside

God said so (repeat)

God: “I said so

I like to call it the rod of correction… yo”

(Xania) That sounds scary

(chorus)

The spanking machine

Sure it sounds mean

But it’s not, it’s serene

And it’s all about love

I’m spanking

You’re thanking me for spanking you

You cut me loose and I refuse

To choose to stop until you give me props

Another ass is dropped

A leather hand is cocked

And ready

Keep it steady

Armaggedon

Getting red in the backside

Checkin the facts I

Never look back my

Whip’s gonna crack

my lips gonna smack

like a jack hammer

your skin st-st-stammers

I’m enamoured with your sins

They’re the links

to the kinky within

And I think that the spanks are about to begin

(Chorus)

Butt Break!

God: “I spanked Jesus too, sometimes… when he got out of hand… yeah”

Your buttocks are bountiful

Your skin is so smooth, let’s start a butt-kissing booth

Your buttocks are bOOtyful

Two moons and a black hole

Like an intergalactic butthole

Your buttocks are bountiful

Don’t wanna slap the hole

Just wanna slap those cheeks

Your buttocks are bOOtyful

Don’t wanna slap the hole

Cause the hole really reeks
(chorus)

ALSO, I just put a lot of LIVE videos onto a new page on our site, called “Live Videos”.  Check it out.  There’s tons of stuff there you probably haven’t seen.