ANIMAL NATION DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING.

New Music Video - Somebody I Used To Know

2011-10-02T21:35:00.000-07:00

Hello friends.

This is the first music video for our recently released album "Tall Man 2: Every Day In The Life".

I spent the better part of my summer creating this video.
I shot, directed, starred in, and edited it all myself. It took 7 months, which included 3 months of pre-prep that I spent gaining 30 LBS, to get up to my initial goal weight of 200 LBS.

Watch it here.

After reaching 200 LBS I shot once a week over a 4 month period, losing roughly 5 LBS each week, until I reached my final goal weight of 140 LBS.
I wanted to see if I could make each scene transition into the next without any notice of physical change, but to have a huge change in appearance from the start of the video to the end.

This video was absolute hell to make. Gaining the weight was almost the worst part. Sitting at my dinner table having just eaten a foot-long Sub, getting ready to start in on my steak dinner, knowing that I had another full meal to eat afterwards. Face ghost-white and sweating, shoving never-ending amounts of food down my throat, and not enjoying a single bite of it.

That was ALMOST the worst part.

If you haven't already - make sure to download this song, and the album it's a part of for FREE at http://EveryDayInTheLife.com

Thank you,
-Garnet "Tall Man" Clare

EveryDayInTheLife.com

2011-09-09T23:00:00.000-07:00

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MIDNIGHT RELEASE!
Stream and Download the new Animal Nation record on your smartphone or comp for FREE now at http://EveryDayInTheLife.com/ !

I've Never worked harder on anything in my entire life. This album took me 2 and a half years to create from front to back - from producing the tracks, finding the samples, playing and recording the guitars, banjos, pianos, harmonicas, keyboards, and everything else, to writing and recording the lyrics, to mixing everything, and everything in between. The album took me from my hometown of Whistler, BC where I created the music for this project, across this hugely vast country to Halifax, where I spent 6 months living with Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Compton Street. Riley and Meaghan Smith were/are amazing friends, and I had such an amazing time living with them, getting to know them and all their close friends really well. They were the best hosts I could have asked for. Halifax was where I wrote all the lyrics for the album. Almost entirely at the west end of South Street on a small hidden beach, basing the story for the album on my life back in Whistler. It's amazing there. I'll always have a seat in my heart saved for Halifax. I then drove out to a small town in Ontario called Woodville where I shacked up in a little restored barn to record all the lyrics I'd just finished writing. I've never worked harder on anything, or been more passionate about anything in my entire life. Check this album out.

The album is FREE, and not because it's an EP, or because it's a mix-tape, but because it's SO FUCKING GOOD, and I just want you to hear it.

Please listen to and download Animal Nation's "Every Day In The Life" for free at EveryDayInTheLife.com

-Tall Man
Animal Nation
EveryDayInTheLife.com

9.10.11

2011-08-08T11:00:00.000-07:00

Soon soon soon, so soon.

-Tall Man

New Album - Every Day In The Life - coming this fall on UrbNet.

2011-06-24T17:41:00.000-07:00

Hello friends!

We're going to be releasing a new album in the fall. It's going to be one of two solo albums by Animal Nation.

It is going to be so freaking AWESOME.

I did all the production on it, and I learned a bunch of instruments making it, and recorded all the vocals in this creepy old barn in a run down town called Woodville in Ontario, and I moved to Halifax to write all the lyrics, and I wrote nearly every day at a hidden little beach at the end of South Street, and it's a concept album! A real concept album! Not a concept album in the sense that Sgt. Peppers is a concept album, but more so in the vein of Prince Paul's "A Prince Among Theives". An album that tells a story from start to finish, and nearly every song connects to the next song, and I spent way too long in my house being really antisocial making it, and I had this really cool girlfriend at the time who I left for some reason because I couldn't do anything but think about making this album and now I kind of regret it a little maybe, but it's cool, because it is so freaking AWESOME.

Change it to 720p for better sound quality.

I'm in the middle of making a music video for my favorite song on the album right now. It should be done around September. I'm filming it myself. I have no idea what I'm doing.
Until then, above is the other half of Animal Nation - Mike's favorite song on the new record. The track is called "Brush Your Teeth (Ch-ch-ch-ch)", and pays a serious homage to the man that steals kids hearts (not literally), Raffi.

Make sure to check out the CBC radio3 Animal Nation site to hear new music by us as well. We might just happen to have an EP coming out together in the fall that I'm not really supposed to mention...

Soon!

-Tall Man!!!

Nas - I Know I Can remix on MPC1000 and SP-303

2011-06-24T17:38:00.001-07:00

Here's a quick Nas - I Know I Can remix I did a couple weeks ago with my MPC1000 and SP-303.

Word!

Every Day In The Life. Coming soon.

Mad Child of Swollen Members interviewed by Mike of Animal Nation

2011-05-13T11:49:00.000-07:00

We opened a show for Swollen Members a couple weeks ago, and had a chance to interview Mad Child afterwards. Mike asks Mad Child why he's so mad, and how to make it in America, and tells them that they're not big dicks, so what's with the name 'Swollen Members'?

C.R. Avery interviewed by Tall Man of Animal Nation

2011-04-30T18:18:00.000-07:00

We interviewed C.R. Avery the other week before a show we did together in Whistler.
C.R. talks about TOFU, Mighty Mike, how he would eat neapolitan without a spoon, and about how the sky isn't always blue.

Sweatshop Union interview by Tall Man

2011-04-25T21:01:00.000-07:00

Here's an interview we did with Colin and Mo of Sweatshop Union at Moe Joe's after sound check for our show we did together a couple weeks ago.
We asked them about their new album, The Bill Murray EP, what their favourite Murray movie is, and what their favourite food is.
Check it out.

Peace,
-Tall Man

Slakah the Beatchild interview by Animal Nation

2011-04-16T11:04:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick interview we did with Slakah the Beatchild of Art of Fresh, at the Live Vision offices in Vancouver.

Enjoy Yourself!

Animal Nation + CBC Radio 3 = (heart based emoticon)

2011-03-02T11:27:00.000-08:00

Animal Nation spent the day, the other day, in Vancouver, within Canada, at the CBC Radio headquarters with Radio 3 host Lisa Christiansen talking about how awesomely cute she thinks we both are. (It's a mutual feeling.)

Check out Animal Nation's BIG DAY OUT with CBC Radio 3 host Lisa Christiansen!
What joy!
What fun!
http://r3.ca/0DRK

Summer Tour Wrap Up (See You In Febuary!)

2010-11-20T13:34:00.001-08:00

Bless your heart.

Thank you so very much to everyone that got stoked on our tour with us.
We had so so so so so much fun nearly everywhere that we went. We did shots until we couldn't move, and then we did shots until we were sober, and then we did more shots just because it gives you a reason to shout things incoherently. We managed to talk our way out of 3 arrestings, 6 parking tickets, 1 slow speed chase, and multiple other po-po run-ins. We fell down stair cases, and fell off of stages, and fell for girls that we knew we'd never see again, and we still managed to make it home in (mostly) one piece.

Thank you so much if you partook in any of our shennanigans. They were way too much fun, and we can't wait to come back in 4 months and do it all over again.

If you didn't get a chance to listen to our music live or fling your bra/panties at us (I'm looking at you, gentlemen), make sure to head out to your local record store TODAY and pick up our latest LP "Understanding More About Nothing Than Anybody Ever Thought Impossible" on vinyl. The vinyl edition is only a couple bucks more than the CD edition, and comes with an amazing 12"x12" Taka Sudo wall piece, a 12 page Animal Nation comic-book-style album insert by Sponge-Bob -Square-Pants write Kent Osborne, and a free mp3 download of the album, so that you can LEARN ALL THE WORDS, and come join us on our next tour in Febuary/March!

We made sure to get records in the following shops.. If your favourite record shop isn't on the list, let them know that they NEED TO STOCK ANIMAL NATION, and then let us know, and we'll send them a couple albums! Rock!

Toronto: Sonic Boom on Bathhurst & Bloor

Montreal: Encore Records on Sherbrook & Oxford

Saskatoon: Vinyl Exchange on 2nd Ave & 22nd
Vinyl Diner on Broadway & 12th
Momentum Skate Shop on 8th & McCool

Edmonton: Sound Connection on 124th St. & 109 Ave.
FreeCloud on 101 St. & 108th Ave.

Calgary: The Heritage Record & Comic Shop on 11th Ave. SW & 14th St. SW

Nelson: Urban Legends on Baker & Ward St.

Vancouver: Red Cat Records on Main St. & 27th Ave.
Zulu Records on 4th Ave. & Maple
Beat Street on Hastings & Richards

Whistler: Foto Source in Whistler Village Square

And, of course, there's always iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/animal-nation/id192463240

We're planning a small scale tour in Febuary / March for Western Canada. If you live in or around BC / Alberta / Washington, get yourself stoked, get your friends stoked, get your dog stoked, and get to partying right now!
You're gonna need to build up that tolerance if you're wanting to party in Animal Nation.

-Tall Man
Animal Nation.

Links:

Myspace: myspace.com/animalnation
YouTube: youtube.com/animalnation9000
Twitter: twitter.com/animalnation
Bandcamp: animalnation.bandcamp.com
Basti iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/basti-made-me-do-it-ep/id367497037
Animal Nation Doesn’t Know Anything Blog: http://animalnationdoesntknowanything.blogspot.com/

Summer Update #3 / Animal Nation on Wax

2010-09-24T08:10:00.000-07:00

My bandmate's back, and you're gonna be in trouble.

Mike, along with our longtime friend and new-found road manager Jeff Waters, landed in Montreal last night.

It's time to party.

Our first show is set for next Thursday in Ottawa on September 30, and we've already put all sorts of fun new things together for you and yours.
These shows are going to be amazing, and full of way too much awesome, and assuredly absolutely horrible for our health, so make sure to check out the dates to see when we're playing in your city, and then COME ON DOWN as if we were Rod Roddy, and Drew Carey never existed.

Along with new music, new instruments, and new friends we've also got a couple new items to display proudly on the merch table.

For the first time Animal Nation will have their critically acclaimed album "Understanding More About Nothing Than Anybody Ever Thought Impossible or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Music" available on vinyl.

-The 12" vinyl albums come with a full colour 12-page Animal Nation comic-book-insert drawn by Sponge-Bob Square-Pants writer Kent Osborne.
-The vinyl album also comes with free mp3 download of the album so you can easily rock it on your iPod or cassette player and send it to all your friends internetically.
-And, of course, the album features the 12"x12" cover art drawn by Whistler/Japan artist Taka Sudo. The album is worth buying for the album art alone. They make for great wall art, 12"x12" stain coverer-upper, huge-ass rolling tray, fly-swatter, Slap-Chop replacement, etc, so there's really no reason to not have 3 or 4 or 5 of these in your collection.

We'll be selling these almost exclusively at our shows, so make sure to come by and get yours soon! We're ridiculously excited about having our music on wax, and absolutely can't wait to find one in the $0.50 bin at Value Village one day.

Basti Made Me Do It! has also finally been pressed into CD format, which will be available at shows as well.

We're really excited about this, and about this entire album, and I didn't mean to overshadow it with the news about our other album, but shit, we've got our music on wax!

Make sure to download both of these albums on iTunes before the shows, so you can help us out when we stumble on a lyric, or stream either of these albums at CBC Radio3 today! Now!

See you soon.

-Tall Man!!
Animal Nation

Summer Update pt.2 / Tour Dates!!

2010-09-08T19:00:00.001-07:00

Hi!!

How's your summer going? I hope it's good! Mine's going really well.. I think Mike's summer is stressed the eff out, but hey, mine's going really well!

We've confirmed most of the dates for our upcoming tour, and will should have the rest confirmed in a few weeks!

They're all posted on our myspace page, our facebook group thing, as well as our CBC page (where you can stream our entire new album!).

The shows are posted at the bottom of this post as well! Hope to see you out at some or, perhaps (!!>??!?!), all of the shows!

Here's a few pics of the barn I've been recording in... It's absolutely amazing here, and also incredibly lonely, but besides facebook and cheap celebrity slam websites I don't have too much to distract me, and am getting lots done..

And I promise ONE more amazing ultra-rad summer update by the end of the month! It's going to be the best update yet, and it's totally awesome, and it makes me all sorts of happy thinking about it!

See ya soon, bud!

30 Sep 2010