1/2 YEAR UPDATE

New/s :

-The gallery show I was in was a total success! "VACANT STARES" at Galerie SAW Gallery in Ottawa, ON ruled so hard. All the photographers involved were total sweethearts and supremely talented. Pregnancy Scares, METZ, and the Men played the opening party on June 13th, as part of the Ottawa Explosion weekend. Special thanx to Paul Galipeau, Luke Nuclear and the Hanlons. SO FUN!

There are 4 prints still available from the show, email ivy@ivylovell.com for details.
←My wall in Vacant Stares

-Coming next month: "TIME OUT" 2012. New work from The League showing at Pure Prime Laboratory (140 Hepbourne St, my new house) with a BBQ and day show style party. 1 band TBA! More detail real soon, I promise...

- Backup singing with the wonderful Jess Nicolette in The Sphinxs! Comes a time...

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Here's photos from recently.

←Melissa's Bowlerama BDAY
←Cody, Melissa, Aminda

↑WONDERLAND w/ Meg, Mark, Jess
←OBN III's
←↓ FOUR CORNERS
←YOUNG MOTHER
← Burning Love LP Release!
↓↓↓ NXNE
←Dusted @ Noisey BBQ + Brandon
←Smith Westerns @ Noisey BBQ
← MEAN JEANS!!

←METZ for my 27th year on earth.
← Yonge/Dundas crowd for Flaming Lips
←ELL V GORE

↓↓↓JEFF the Brotherhood!


← Uncle Bad Touch + Get Well attractions

XOXO

BURNING LOVE-THE DIRTBOMBS-ERICA + IVY

Burning Love @ the Velvet Underground. This was their last show for awhile!

The Dirtombs @ The Horseshoe.

"Party Store" is weird and sounds weird live, but in the end it's the Dirtbombs, so what the fuck ever, correct?

The ever wonderful Erica Beyea (owner and teacher at Fine Oak Art School) and I spent a night at my parents cottage in the Kawarthas. Summer Bliss.

XO

TORONTO THAW THAW'D TORONTO

Toronto is a great city. The bands in it are great and the friends too. Telephone Explosion is a damned great label, and they put on the most fun festival to date. Every band that matters played over 3 days at 3 different venues. It was like a punch to the feeble throat of CMW. It was truly a weekend of all weekends.

Welcome to spring in the city, boys and girls.

Oh yeah, check out this EYE WEEKLY article about the festival that Rich Trapunski wrote. They don't like to "do" photo credits, but those are mine if you couldn't tell. Except the last one of METZ, that's David Waldman's.

NIGHT

ONE ====================================================ONE

WRONGBAR

↓QUEST FOR FIRE just got back from Europe! Congrats dudes.


← DELORO; heavy and deadly
← Kate, Matty, Brian +Jon
←BURNING LOVE for fuck sakes

←↑ SUN RA RA ra ra ra raaaa

↑ ELL V GORE may just be the next best band

NIGHT

TWO ================================================= TWO

DUFFY'S

↓ HUNDOS ($100) covered some old country jams

←CHRIS SWIMMS e'eryone.
←ANAGRAM rip the flesh off ya




... ←TEENANGER are super fun, aren't teens anymore.

←↓ LITTLE GIRLS gaze on


↑ YOUNG MOTHER, a very Toronto band. That is a good thing.

NIGHT

THREE=============================================THREE

SILVER DOLLAR

↓METZ ♥ ♥ ♥






← Jon + Alex; bros
↓ BISHOP MOROCCO dance to your death

← ACTUAL WATER actually rule.



←↑ TROPICS sound like 3 bands in one

↑i like RITUALS a whole literal ton.

XOXO