while we were in vancouver for the RW and Co show, we rehearsed in the hotel and worked on acoustic versions. this is a clip of an idea for an acoustic version of brilliant. just so ive said it, i have no idea if this is anything like what we will record, but i like the riff and the simplicity of it.

its 5 am and im getting ready to go to the airport, headed to toronto. last nights acoustic show went really well. we had practiced in the hotel room before the show to refresh and added life of bees at the last minute. and low and behold i did not skip it when it came up in the set list and was probably my favorite moment of the night.

the car is waiting, time to move

so im at the airport and getting ready to board the plane. im listening to Azure Ray, Sleep and its really perfect. the time here has been amazing, i hope i can always stay in the moment and embrace new things as much as im loving this. im holding my breathe waiting to be in montreal again. i feel like there is a whole world of creative ideas coming. it really is like “standing at the top looking down”, here comes the free fall.

im meeting jon and kev in vancouver for the acoustic show, then toronto to rehearse for the tour, beachfest and then home (montreal)!

so thank you for all the suggestions, many were songs i have been wanting to do for awhile and some i hadnt thought of at all. ive sent a list for the guys to try and refresh on and ill add songs as we get closer to rehearsals. if you have more ideas keep them coming, under the same post. the show this tuesday in vancouver is the first acoustic set i think ive ever really done, maybe the second?? im excited because i think it could be a thread, the beginning of something. in my mind i see an online acoustic record, followed by a more “rockin” one right after. we’ll see how it actually happens. by the way alot of the more full on record is already written and demoed. dont ask me how it happened, kev and jon came down for a week and we got so much done. its going to be a busy winter in montreal!

also, i was thinking of letting some people come into soundcheck during the october tour, just let you watch the process, would that be of interest?? if so ill run some kind of contest here. (remember, leave your comments here, at www.davidusher.com/blog )

So the time has come to start thinking about the coming fall tour. Packing is done (almost) and its back to music! There are so many songs to choose from, and i would love to get some ideas of what you would like to hear.

There are three catagories

1 David Usher songs

2 Moist songs (im only going to do one or two)

3 Covers (any genre is fine, remember madonnas Music and michael jackson)

Finally, i need all your ideas to be in one place where i can sort them, so leave them as comments under this heading but at my blog site only, www.davidusher.com/blog (it gets to confusing otherwise)

Thanks and have fun!

Here is a list of all the solo record songs:

Little Songs
Trickster
St. Lawrence
River
Jesus Was My Girl
Unholy, Dirty and Beautiful
Forestfire
Babyskin Tattoo
F Train
Million
Final Thoughts and the Last Day on Earth
Mood Song

Strange Birds
The Music
Brilliant
Ugly Is Beautiful
So Far Down
Spotlight On
Science
White Flag
Happy Endings
Life Of Bees
Blue
Some People Say

Morning Orbit
How Are You?
Too close to the Sun
Black Black Heart
Alone in the Universe
Butterfly
Joy in Small Places
A Day in the Life
My Way Out
Blinded
Fast Car
Closer

Hallucinations
Hallucinations
I’m Coming Down
Numb
Time Of Our Lives
Devil By My Side
Message Home
In This Light
Surfacing
Tomorrow Comes
Tidal
Fearless
If You Tolerate This

If God Had Curves
Long Goodbye
Love Will Save The Day
Souring
See You Fall
Everything Is All Right By Me Now
Hope (Tell Everyone)
Hey Kids
Faithless
Going Home
The Wolves
Soldiering

A high res version of the new video for ugly is beautiful is posted at www.davidusher.com/blog , in the sidebar. Its the second of 3 parts. The final section is being shot in toronto in sept., the incredible Margaret directing again. When we have all 3 sections we are going to cut them into a short film. I think its going to be a very interesting process watching how cutting the footage from all 3 together, with voice over and new music will change the visuals we got. Development of arc and story out of something that is, in raw form, pretty abstract. But thats the fun of process. For the next part of the story our protagonist travels underwater, thats going to make for a very wet video shoot day. Margaret was asking me yesterday how long i thought i could hold my breathe for. “well im not sure, i havent tried lately…” Its time to get in the tub.

Packing is always a bit easier in your mind than in the real world. Ive started shooting video of some of ‘my new york” but just havent had a sec to upload it. I will start over the next few days, promise. Also all the tour dates are being announce, i think today! ill send out an email etc.

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just got back to new york from montreal, its strange being here and knowing that ill be leaving this place that i love so soon.

i have 2 weeks here and then its off to vancouver, toronto and then finally montreal.

i think the way im going to deal with this is wander around a bit with a video camera and show you all the neighbourhood, the east village is really an amazing place, its less gritty than it 10 years ago but still really artistic and interesting and rich with all kinds of people, from all kinds of places, ill start shooting and posting in the next few days. just need to get my feet back under me first.

this is the first recording of part of the song when it hurts, its in total demo form and raw raw raw, everything about it will probably change but, if im going to start to show you to process of songs, then as hard as it is for me to let things out unfinished…

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anyways, recorded direct to my laptop mic on garageband, the way all songs start, with vocal and guitar

well i just started a new flickr group for anything david usher related

feel free to take photos at the shows and upload them here, just please include  the  tag “david usher” in in quotes

have fun

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http://www.flickr.com/groups/officialdavidusher