Crookedhook Blog

The Rusty Trombones “Fights & Flights”

crookedhook — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:23:33 +0000

I wanted to give a shout out to our bro’s The Rusty Trombones new CD called “Fights & Flights”. It is a kickass CD with great songs start to end, “Zombie Love” being my favorite! Enough of the talk, listen for yourself:

http://www.myspace.com/therustybones

This Friday Aug. 6th w/ The Bastards!

crookedhook — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:18:25 +0000

August 6th @ The Bovine, Toronto
w/ Permanent Bastards and Stuck out Here
542 Queen Street, West

Come out to this show!! We will have some new songs to reveal.

WARPED TOUR 2010 in Toronto!!

crookedhook — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:10:49 +0000

So, I am not going to add any pictures in this blog but I will try and give the best review I can for our experience @ Warped Tour in Mississauga on Friday, July 9th 2010. So first off I will try and explain all that led up to this day…

We were informed that we would be playing Warped Tour over a couple months in advance thanks to Earnityourself.com! We were told we were going to play on the Kevin Says Stage. Crookedhook was super pumped to get the chance to play on this stage since it was solar powered and there was a bunch of awesome bands that shared the stage with us like Gardening, Not Architecture, The Snips, The Flatliners and WOTE. I went off to Much Music the day before Warped Tour to meet with somebody to talk about filming our experience @ Warped in Toronto. This was for a special that they are doing about Warped Tour. So, I picked up the camera and got ready to start documenting!

We woke up the day of Warped Tour real early and got all of our stuff together (Tent, new merch, food, Steam Whistle Beer, Gear, Press Kits, etc.) We had to get there for 9 and it was raining nicely. After turning back around to get pick up something that Mark had forgot (I really forgot it, I just feel like putting the blame on Mark), we were back on our way to start our big day @ Warped Tour. When we rolled in it was still raining hard and we were hoping it would go away. I had to go and meet with some dude named Andrew to get our tickets to get us all inside. It actually took me a while to find this dude named Andrew but when I did I noticed it was the same dude who ran the Ernie Ball Stage the past 2 years we played. I said hello and gave him some of our merch, got our tickets and was off.

We started loading in our stuff next to our pals Walk of the Earth and they brought along Rene and Julian from The Johnstones (Pizza Slice). Tally from The Talliband, Narco, Christian, our gal friends, and the Aurora Crew helped at our Merch Table. This year we even got Meal Tickets!! Holy Crap. One of the highlight of our day was that Sarah Saturday set up a Scene Meet Up at each stop of the tour and sometimes people like Kevin Lyman (the owner of Warped Tour) come out and answer questions people have! We were going to go to that in a couple hours!

First band we got to see was Gardening, Not Architecture. This was Sarah Saturday’s (owner of earnityourself.com) band, which we were probably the most excited to see! She was awesome and me, Chicken and my girlfriend Linny all lined up to get some merch and finally meet her! Wow, no wonder she got signed to Underground Operations!! Kick ass!!

After that we got the see all our favourite Toronto bands Flats, Snips, WOTE! Then we were off th promote our set times before we headed of to the EIY Meetup @ 5 and then we were on stage @ 5:50! We flyered almost every porta potty, garbage, fence and Dano even flyered some peoples backs!! We saw some Bouncing Souls and then were off to the EIY Meet Up with our new friend Sarah. When we got there it was about 15 people in a circle near the huge tour vans….and yes Kevin Lyman was there!!! People asked questions and very huge people from the Music Industry answer the questions!! I can’t tell you what was discussed at this meeting but let me tell you. If anyone is serious about learning a lot about the Industry in one sit down you should definitely check out the EIY Scene Meetup on Warped Tour next Year!! Unfortunatley we had to cut out from the meetup a bit early since our set was about to start.

So we ran back to the Kevin Says Stage to see Mark is loading our stuff on stage and we were just about to head on. We loaded our gear on stage and saw the last song from the band that was playing. We tuned up real quick and the sound guy gave us the nod. You can check out our videos on youtube from this years Warped here:

After our set we got some dinner from catering which was 10 out of 10 in my books. I even fed some to a new fan/friend of ours that we met that day. We were having a great time and we ended up doing some more filiming for our Warped Documentary. Somebody passed out during a band called the New Cities set which was pretty nuts. They had to stop playing! Somebody made a joke and said they passed out from the horrible music. I found that pretty funny, 8 out of 10 in my books.
After that we noticed a lot of people were starting to exit as a final band took place on some other stage to the right of us, Glamour Pills or something like that. The band that was playing was kickass. Fake Problems was the name. Heard some of their stuff before and it was great to see it live! Warped 2010 was a huge success…

Crookedhook on Jones Soda Bottles??

crookedhook — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:18:29 +0000

Do Crookedhook a big favour and go to the website below and Rate/Vote for Crookedhook to be on a Label of Jones Soda!!

http://www.jonessoda.com/gallery/view.php?ID=1153526&

Thanks!!! We’ll let you know if we make it!

Skip the line @ Warped Tour…

crookedhook — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:12:26 +0000

Skip the line @ Warped Tour and help out an amazing Charity. All you have to do is donate 3 items of canned food or $5 to “Feed Our Children NOW”. More info here…

http://www.feedourchildrennow.org/Templates/calendar.html

Testing…

crookedhook — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:45:05 +0000

Hey, we are debating if we should remove the Crookedhook Blog here. Do people even read blogs anymore? Any suggestions on what we should do instead of a Blog?

In recent news Crookedhook has been asked to play Vans Warped Tour 2010 in Toronto (Mississauga) on July 9th! Thanks to Earnityourself, the EIY Movement and The Kevin Says Stage. Did I mention we will have Crookedhook Retro Sun Glasses for sale???

Crookedhook, Battle of the Bands 14!!

crookedhook — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:00:44 +0000

Hit the link above and join as a Fan. You can vote once a day! Crookedhook is trying to play the 2010 Vans Warped Tour! Vote as much as you can, thanks.

Contest !

crookedhook — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:07:35 +0000

Happy New Years! Crookedhook have been real busy writing new tunes and we figured we would enter another competition. All you have to do is go to this link and hit the “VOTE” button for us:

http://www.famecast.com/contest/stage.php?sid=1&rid=1740&aid=39996&vid=27059&stw=1

You will have to sign up a Fan account if you don’t already have one at this link:

http://www.famecast.com/join/signup_member.php

We would like to thank you ahead of time for your support!

Thanks!!

Happy Holidays!

crookedhook — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:34:50 +0000

Happy Holidays! Thanks to everyone who supported Crookedhook this year and the past 4! Thanks to all the punks in Japan!! We will be posting a lot of new shows coming up in the new year!

See you in 2010 and have a Beer with some turkey for us!!

Keep checking the site. More udates coming your way!

It’s been a while…

crookedhook — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:16:47 +0000

We haven’t posted anything here in a while so we will give you some updates on what is up with Crookedhook! We have a Toronto and Etobicoke show coming up in the next couple weeks. On is @ The Emerald Inn in Etobicoke and the other is @ The Hart House in Toronto with our bro’s Permanent Bastards!! We have lots of new tshirts so come to a show and check them out! Or you can pick them up through our website and Jakt Apparels! We are writing new songs for our next Full Length Album!

We updated the website too. There are now Free Downloads in the Media section @ www.crookedhook.net
Right now you can download the latest Salad Gold compilation featuring The Salads, Crookedhook, The Expo’s, OK Cobra and other awesome Canadian artists!!

Crookedhook @ The Official S4C Warped Tour After Party!

crookedhook — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:48:05 +0000

Official S4C Warped Tour After Party!

SKATE 4 CANCER PRESENTS THE OFFICIAL WARPED TOUR AFTER PARTY LIVE AT SOUND ACADEMY 11 POLSON STREET FEATURING DJ & SETS BY SOME OF YOUR FAVOURITE WARPED TOUR ARTISTS! DOORS AT 8PM FREE ENTRY FOR WARPED TOUR TICKET HOLDERS OR YOU CAN MESSAGE US TO GET ON THE GUEST LIST!! FREE!! FOR MORE INFO, VISIT www.warpedtour.com OR www.myspace.com/skate4cancer

VOTE CROOKEDHOOK! Warped Tour 09

crookedhook — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:49:58 +0000

Vote for Crookedhook to play in 3 cities on Warped Tour 09!

TORONTO:

MONTREAL:

BUFFALO:

Crookedhook Interview on 102.1 The Edge!

crookedhook — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:39:30 +0000

Hit this link to hear Dano and Dave from Crookedhook on 102.1 The Edge:

http://www.edge.ca/DJsandShows/Punkorama/AudioPopUpPlayer.aspx

Show tonight in Burlington!

crookedhook — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:36:26 +0000

Crookedhook is playing a show in Burlington tonight @ the Red Rooster with Tlit Em, Panama Red and After the Invasion! Come out @ 9 and party with us. See you tonight. Happy Long Weekend!
-Crookedhook
www.crookedhook.net

Breathe Pollution Album Cover & Track Listing

crookedhook — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:20:09 +0000

ALBUM ART BY CRISTY C. ROAD

TRACK LISTING

Breathe Pollution featuring Steve Rawles (This Is A Standoff)
Ends Meet
Size Zero
Don’t Think, Just Swallow
Just About Time

Breathe Pollution CD Release!!

crookedhook — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:14:46 +0000

“Breathe Pollution” EP Studio Trailer!!

crookedhook — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:53:16 +0000

Check out the “Breathe Pollution” EP Studio Trailer!!

Studio Update #3

crookedhook — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:02:41 +0000

This time we went into the Slaughterhouse for Vocals and Back Up Vocals/Shouts. Dano was ready as he could be. The chap has been taking vocal lessons for the past year and it seemed to have really payed off. He ripped the vocal harmonies like Celine herself would’ve done. Singing melodies over his Main Vocal tracks, he tore it up. Here is a pic of Dano.

Dano sipping some H2O

Later on we had a Dano, John, Johnny, Walker, Simon from Permanent Bastards and Gid from Phat Bastard join us for back ups. They came in with a mission to tear up the vocal booth. A great job done by each person and we thank them all for coming out. Shortly after we all shared some high class beer together (Laker Honey).

A video will be up real soon of some of the crazyness that happened this day!! Check back later today.

-Dave

Vote for Crookedhook!

crookedhook — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:01:12 +0000

Vote for Crookedhook to get on Warped Tour 2009! Sign up a Fan Account and then Vote for Crookedhook. Just hit the link above!

Thanks

-Crookedhook

Studio Update #2

crookedhook — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:17:23 +0000

With drums already recorded, Crookedhook went into the studio again and this time we recorded the bass and guitar. I was up first and having Mikey lay down killer drum tracks, I would have to follow up with some serious bass lines. So I called to the “Bass Gods”.

Mitch Girio responded. All the questions that I once had were answered. I layed down the bass tracks like nobodies business. I was powered by coffee and Samosa. I felt really comfortable in Mitches new studio “The Slaughterhouse”.

Next up was Mark on Guitar. He nailed down his guitar tracks amazingly. He was powered mainly by Coffee and Banana Bread. Here is a picture of Mark recording the acoustic guitar tracks.

While Mark was recording Mike was giving Mark massages, I was feeding him Chocolate Almonds, Big Feet and Hot Lips and Dano was serenating him. Mark was on his A Game. Mitch was fueled by Tea and Chocolate Almonds. We did some more recording then had a Subway dinner. We recorded til the sun came down. The Hook have been so busy recording lately that we haven’t had many shows. So, I have been taking some time to book some shows and we will be back on the road again real soon playing everywhere. This weekend we are going in once more to record Vocals and Back up Vocals. Keep checking back for updates. Oh yeah, check our Myspace Blog and read Dano’s point of view on the Studio Updates.

-Dave

WWMD?!

crookedhook — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:41:35 +0000

I (Dave) just got back from the studio with “the wizard” himself, Mitch Girio! We recorded bass today, ate some Jerk chicken and got some extremely huge news for Crookedhook!! Unfortunately we can’t release the information to the general public just yet but let me tell you we have some big stuff in store for you!! The bass went great in the studio today. We got a badass tone for the bass. Apparently my bassline in “Ends Meet” is Jackson 5-ish! Which was a huge compliment since I always dug the bass in Jackson 5. Mitch always gives great suggestions for all members in our band but since Mitch is a Pro Bassist himself he always has primo advice for me and I appreciate it all. What Would Mitch Do? That is the question I find myself asking myself lately. It is amazing to work with Mitch and we can’t wait to head back into the studio again tomorrow. Who knows what we will eat tomorrow? Toronto has some crazy restaurants. We had the Real Jerk tonight which was irie. Keep checking back, we have studio update #2 coming soon with some video’s.

Studio Update #1

crookedhook — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:08:58 +0000

We went in for the first day of recording and of course we are recording with Mitch Girio again, he is the king. Literally. We were told we were recording at the Slaughterhouse which is in Toronto. This is Mitches new studio which we haven’t gone to yet. When we got there we noticed there were a whole bunch of drains with sloping concrete. Then Mitch told us it was in fact a real Slaughterhouse at one point. We all found that pretty crazy! The studio was really comfortable. There was couches, soundproofing, carpets, pictures all over and overall it seemed like an awesome sudio! Plus, there is any food or coffee shop you can imagine in the area.

Mitch Girio!

Once we were all set up we recorded Mike’s drums. He had just got all his wisdom teeth yanked but luckily they didn’t yang a bit of wisdom from him. He owned those drum and amazed us, as always.

Mike D !

We finished all of Mike’s drums and we are really excited about this new EP! Our drummer Mike is actually half Canadian/half drum machine. As Dano said in the Myspace Blog, he set the bars really high for the rest of us. Until next weekend, Practice Practice!! Keep checking back for updates because we have some really huge news coming up! Peace

-Dave & Crookedhook

Recording begins this weekend!

crookedhook — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:10:17 +0000

We are heading into the studio this weekend to start recording our new EP “Breathe Pollution” with Mitch Girio. There will be five killer new songs from Crookedhook, which we will be releasing on Sore Loser Records. The Sore Loser Records website is set to launch in April. In the mean time you can check out their Myspace, they have some really cool bands. http://www.myspace.com/soreloserrecords

We have recently gotten involved on earnityourself.com which is a community of DIY bands from all over the world. We have met some relly wicked bands. The site is a very good place for bands to network so we recommend every band to join. You can start a fan account if you would like to support us, come check out our profile! http://www.earnityourself.com/crookedhook

We have big things planned for the summer with our new EP and a bunch of shows in the works! Keep checking back for updates!

The show last night…

crookedhook — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:33:07 +0000

Last night we played at The Salty Dawg with some great acts. Fabrizio’s cousin Sarah played an acoustic set to start off the night. She did a great job of entertaining the crowd! Gin and Juice were supposed to play next but Juice lost her voice at the FU Awards a couple nights before. We are looking forward to seeing them play next time. Up next were one of my favourite local bands and friends, Permanent Bastards. They have got some awesome new songs that we got to check out for the first time in full swing with their new drummer, who ripped it! Definitely check out their new tunes on their Myspace! You wont be dissapointed. It was also our good pal Brian Girardo’s birthday so we played him a birthday song. Thanks to him for coming out along with everyone else who came out and showed their support! We were happy to see people were digging our new Crookedhook hats! Mike D did a great job with doing the sound on short notice, thanks to him!
Keep checking back for updates!

New show and new songs!!

crookedhook — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:42:00 +0000

We are playing at the Salty Dawg with our good pals The Permanent Bastards this Saturday. Come on out and check some of the new tunes that we will be playing. Some of them are the songs from our new EP!! On that note, we will be starting to record in 3 weeks with Mitch Girio. We have about 9 songs written and we will be chosing a few of them for our next CD that will be out sometime in April. Then Crookedhook will be playing every town/city we can. Contact dave@crookedhook.net
if you want to see Crookedhook come to your town this year. We are also planning to head out East again, so keep your eyes on our show dates. Thanks for the support!!

Got a minute to spare…

crookedhook — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:32:25 +0000

Go to the website below and register a fan account. Then go to our songs and give us a “Tap”.

http://www.bigrockuntapped.com/register.php

Thanks for the support!!

Crookedhook live from Salad Gold 15 @ The Sound Academy!

crookedhook — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:26:13 +0000

Cornerstone Creations came out to film our set at Salad Gold 15 @ The Sound Academy on November 21, 2008. Hit the link below to watch all 3 on the Toronto Music Archive!!

www.torontomusicarchive.org/play.php?vid=127

2009 Update, JAN.

crookedhook — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:46:17 +0000

Hello everybody! Crookedhook have a bunch of new things planned for the new year. We have about 10 new songs written and we will be going be picking a few of them to record a new EP, released indepedently through Sore Loser Records. It should be out in April but we will have a release date posted soon! In other good news, we will be recording with Mitch Girio again!! He is the best. Sorry we havn’t been playing as many shows as we normally do. We have been really busy getting the new songs/EP together. Keep an eye out for us in late March and we will be playing more often. Thanks for the support and we will keep you updated if anything new comes up!
-Crookedhook

Request Crookedhook for 102.1′s Punkorama, Best of 2008

crookedhook — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:48:16 +0000

Request Crookedhook for 102.1′s Punkorama, Best of 2008. Just send a message to this email saying you want to vote for Crookedhook :

punkorama@edge.ca

Thanks

Dave & Crookedhook

Thanks Newmarket!

crookedhook — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:33:42 +0000

We are always glad to play shows in Newmarket. Last night was probably one of the best shows we have had there! It was a Semi Formal night at Tomboo’s and everyone was dressed up. All of the members in our band were hyped to check out Stack and Large for the first time. They were fucking awesome! Check them out if you get a chance. We also had the pleasure of sharing the stage with The Sick Needs. It was our third time playing with them and they definitely nailed down a great set. The sound in the venue has improved since the last time we were at Tomboo’s. Thanks to Fraser for doing sound! Thanks to Josh for making the show happen! Thanks to all our friends, family and all the Tombooze crew that are always at the shows supporting the scene. See you all soon.

Merch Sale !

crookedhook — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:23:49 +0000

$5 T-shirts, $5 Sweaters and $5 CD’s !!! Contact us here band@crookedhook.net or come out to our show in Newmarket @ Tomboo’s Saturday December 20th. Thanks!

Pics from Salad Gold 15 and a new show…

crookedhook — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:59:39 +0000

We got a new show posted in our shows section on our website, check out the flyer below. Also, if you want to check out some pics from Salad Gold 15 click on this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arbitrarymotivation/

Nov. 21st Flyer !

crookedhook — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:08:42 +0000

We are really excited about playing this show with some really awesome bands, DJ’s and MC’s. Be sure to make it out to this one!

Nov. 21st @ the Sound Academy w/ the Salads, Expo’s and more…

crookedhook — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:07:28 +0000

SALAD GOLD is back again with show 15 being held in Toronto at The Sound Academy (fna The Docks), along with FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE w/Martin Streek on Edge102! This show will feature: THE SALADS, GOD MADE ME FUNKY, THE EXPOS, ABDOMINAL with CIRCLE RESEARCH, & OK COBRA! For a FREE SAMPLER of music from all of these bands copy and paste the link below:

www.mediafire.com/?jlzd1noagjd

How Crookedhook was created…

crookedhook — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:14:12 +0000

Alright we are going to go back in time here, back when Crookedhook wasn’t around. About 3 years ago I had received this hand drawn pic from from a buddy of mine name Dano. I was bandless at the time. Our high school band Grand Skam that Mike and I were in just broke up. That is where this pics above is from, it’s me at the Open Eye Festival. Dano was playing in a Punk band called Not a Damn Day with another friend of ours named Mark. We had played shows together at a place called Cafe Oasis in Woodbridge. Mark and Dano’s band had just broke up at about the same time ours did. I was talking to Dano one night and we got on the subject of being down that we weren’t in a badass Punk band. We both decided that night that If Mike and I (Dave) were to team up with Dano and Mark, we would be unstoppable. Or we would be force that would be pretty damn hard to slow down. So we did it. The band got together and wrote our 1st demo “Rock or Walk”. We decided to name our band “Crookedhook”.

The Salty Dawg

crookedhook — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:29:10 +0000

We had showed up at the Salty Dawg expecting to be playing infront of a bunch of bikers. It turns out there were only a couple of bikers there and they were quite friendly. One asked if I needed a hand taking my bass amp to the back of the bar where his truck was (joking that he was going to steal it). I got a laugh out of that. There was a pretty good turn out considering it was just us playing. I counted 70 people!! Thanks to everyone who came out. We played the Happy Birthday song for Barfield which never seems to get old. We had Wendy and Greg from RockonBands out filming the show with some pro gear. Thanks! We will let you know when they post some stuff. Aside from Dano and I being sick as Dogs we still gave it our best and we all had a great time. Thanks to Renee for having us out. Apparently the Salty Dawg wants us back soon. So I am sure we will be back there rocking out and eating Jalepeno Poppers in no time. Unfortunately we had to miss out on True Trout’s last show ever (RIP). They were an awesome band and not many people play that old style of Punk anymore. They will be missed.

Down It Went…

crookedhook — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:16:27 +0000

We just finished filming our video for “Down It Goes” and we had a blast! We would like to thank Jarrett Ford, Rob Casmire, Graydon Stranks, Megan Thompson-Walker, Adam Battarino and everyone who came out to the video! We shots some really cool scenes. It is going to be an awesome video! Stay tuned!

“Down it Goes” Video Shoot

crookedhook — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:39:45 +0000

We are doing a video for “Down it Goes”. Our good buddy Rob Casmire is filming the video and our other pal Jarrett Ford will be doing the Editing and putting it all together. We have already done the first day of filming and today we will complete the video. We are very excited that we could do a video for this song. Aside from that we also have a Halloween show in Klienburg at the Salty Dawg on October 25th. Free Show, 19+.

Crookedhook Blog!

crookedhook — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:45:02 +0000

So we switched the Crookedhook Forum to the Crookedhook Blog! First off, I would like to thank all of the people who have helped us out in the past couple of years. We have met a lot of cool people, bands and a bunch of great promoters along the way. Our friends and family have supported us a lot which is always appreciated. Also, thanks to everyone that came out to the Edge show last weekend! Aside from me destroying the Edge elevator, it was an awesome night! If you missed the show there are a few videos up on Youtube.

The question that I have been asked the most lately is “What the hell has Crookedhook been up to?” The answer is writing our second full length album. We have a bunch of new songs on the go and we are constantly adding to the list. We plan to release it early in 2009. Keep checking the Blog, we will have detailed updates on what Crookedhook has been up to!!

Check out “Ends Meet” live at 102.1 the Edge: