Magic Teeth

				NEWS ARCHIVE______________________________________________ June 1st, 2005 The Magic Teeth Dailies Volume #3, featuring another 100 days of my comics is now available at Legends Comics and through this website for $10.00 each. I'll sign and draw a Perogy Cat inside if you'd like. The new Semi-Louise "Agents For Beehive" CD is also available now for the same low price of ten dollars. It's awesome. See them in a town near you on their upcoming world tour: www.semi-louise.com Thanks again. - Gareth. PS-Click on the "Magic Teeth Dailies (Excerpts) logo in the top right hand corner to get a sample of the series contents. -G _____________________________________________________________________________________ Friday, February 11th, 2005 Hi there. Yes, I do update this site more that once a year. Today's news is as follows: My new book is for sale now. It's early, actually! The official release date is Wednesday, February 16th, but if anyone wants an advance copy, please visit me at Legends Comics & Books (633 Johnson Street in Victoria, BC). If you'd like it "drawn in" for "your sister", then come and see me when I'm actually there (Wednesdays through Sundays). If you'd prefer not to see me in person (but would still like to read my latest graphic novel), come by the comic shop on Mondays or Tuesdays and chat with Lloyd. He's awesome, and you'll like the time you spend in his company. So, the book's called The Magic Teeth Dailes Volume #2 and it's the continuation of my cartoon-a-day project starring The Perogy Cat and Cute Elk. This volume features 100 more cartoons plus a beautiful full-colour cover with glossy French flaps. It also chronicles the rise of young superstar Leeroy Stagger during his trek from Mill Bay hobo-teen to world-weary rock star. It's my magnum-opus and I could use the support. The new Leeroy Stagger record will be released by Boompa Records on Tuesday February 22nd. The more copies you buy, the more royalties I'll get... Coincidentally, that release date is also my birthday AND the evening of the Monday Magazine Awards (one of which, I've been nominated for). Last year, I won the "M" Award for "Most Interesting Artwork In An Alternative Medium" for my comic book, and this year I'd like it again. I'm working my ass off on this project... and I want more hoopla. More Hoopla! "Hoopla" reminds me of "Boompa" Later skaters. -Gareth. _____________________________________________________________________________________ December 9, 2004 Hi everyone. It's been twenty-four years since John Lennon died, and today, he would have been sixty-four. I'm just mentioning this to show that I'm alert and quite aware of what's going on the world (dig?). Anyways - My new book is out: "Magic Teeth Dailies Volume One" and it's available in Victoria at Legends Comics, or through this website. It's $10.00 plus $3.00 postage. I've only got a couple first printings left, so either race to reserve your copy, or wait for the new edition. This is what the cover looks like: Thanks for visiting. More action is on the horizon with new comics, books, Leeroy Stagger news, The Rusty Willoughby Tribute Album (soon) and the Semi-Louise record. It's a great life. Cool Beans! -Gareth. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Monday October 18th, 2004 My new book, Magic Teeth Dailies Volume One will be available in mid-November. It'll be the first 100 days of my daily comic strip, compiled into a handsome book with full colour covers and flaps. It features stories, cartoons, jokes, and autobiographical snippets, torn from my life between July 27th and November 5th of this year. It's volume one of a series of books which will come out every 100 days for the rest of my life. It's a huge project. I hope you enjoy it. For a sample of a page, please click on this link: Book Sample 1 Leeroy Stagger news: He's touring again. Here are his dates: As for the record, "Beautiful House" - it is done, but we're looking into release dates and deciding if it'll be released by the fine folks over at Boompa Records in Vancouver. They're indy like Magic Teeth, but they have a staff of professionals so adept at their work that they make me ashamed to be in the music business. Lucky I have comics to fall back on. Boompa are great people. They'll treat the album well. You can trust them. Email me if you have any questions or need any records. My address isinfo@magicteeth.ca Thanks! - Gareth __________________________________________________________________ Thursday Setember 23rd, 2004 Leeroy Stagger news: The video for the new single, "Just In Case" was filmed in Victoria over a three day period this past weekend. It was directed by the Kymera Pictures out of Vancouver, BC and promises to be aired constantly on the Much Music station. It's "World Premiere" will be this Sunday (September 26th) at 8 PM, Pacific time on the show "Going Coastal". http://www.muchmusic.com/tv/goingcoastal Watch for appearances by The Perogy Cat as he worms his way through his first rock video. Leeroy's new album will be released sometime in October and until then you can distract yourself from the existing void the record will fill by visiting this excellent fan-site dedicated to Leeroy: http://members.shaw.ca/leeroyfansite/ . Semi-Louise's new album is forthcoming. You must check it out. The Rusty Willoughby Tribute Album "Obsequious and Dumb" is also nearing completion (some bands are slower than others). Thanks for your patience, dear potential listener. Later. -Gareth. __________________________________________________________________ Thursday June 24, 2004: Less than a week until Spider-Man 2 opens... This is just a reminder to those who aren't counting down the seconds. Oh, and tonight Leeroy Stagger will be opening for Lindy at the Central Bar in Victoria. He arrived safely back from Toronto the other day, so this will be the first of three shows heralding his triumphant return from the big city. Danny Michel is still putting the final touches on Leeroy's second record, and from all accounts, it's sounding brilliant, and, to wrap up this newsupdate, it must be noted that Jesse Lee has agreed to do a cover of "The Great Valediction" for the upcoming Rusty Willoughby Tribute Album. It's filling out very well... Very well indeed! OK, talk to you soon. PS- While you're here, check out the newly revamped site (Rob Nesbitt's getting good at this computer stuff), oh, and buy a Perogy Cat doll. gareth. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Monday June 7, 2004 Leeroy Stagger and his Sinking Hearts (Tolan, Leigh, Luke) and I are leaving for Toronto on Thursday for the North By Northeast Festival Showcase at the Rivoli. The newly scheduled time is Midnight o Friday Night. If their performance at Steamers this past Saturday was anything to go by, it'll surely be worth the trip. Saturday actually saw two performances by Leeroy and the band. The first being an incredibly surreal concert on the field behind Spectrum High School in Victoria. There were more band members than audience members in attendance but the mosquitos were out in full force. It was just like Woodstock with all the tarps and scaffolding and juice box containers littered about. I got to drive my car on the field (someone threw a frisbee at me though) but I was too scared to do doughnuts, however, as there were some teachers monitering the event and they had frowns on their faces. Oh, and FOG played right before Leeroy! They pronounce their name EFF OH GEE (like effigy) That's awesome! Anyways, Leeroy's second record should be done in the not- so-distant future. Danny Michel will be putting the finishing touches on it this month and Magic Teeth Records will be releasing it as soon as it's ready. Write me if you have any questions or come and see me at the comic shop (633 Johnson Street). I love all the demo tapes people send me by the way. Keep it up. See you in T.O. -Gareth. _____________________________________________________________________________________ May 9th, 2004 Magic Teeth Records sent their entire staff on an aeroplane to grunge-city, Seattle this past Friday to rock with the Young Fresh Fellows. Magic Teeth Records is now broke. We have the opportunity to aquire the music of Hank and Lily on our label but spent the money on beer in the United States! Make a note of that for future ridicule, if you're the type who hordes such info. As for the show in Seattle, it was great. The YFFs started the evening off with over an hour of their greatest hits (!) then allowed supergroup after supergroup to pay tribute to them with a selection of career-spanning cover songs. Members from such bands as The Presidents of The United States Of America, Mudhoney, Pure Joy, REM, The Minus Five, The Silos and Fastbacks joined a veritable who's-who of Northwest rock in a night that The Stranger described as "Seattle Rock's equivelent of a Dean Martin Roast: The A-list of the B-list getting tanked while skewering one of their own with good, if sometimes head-scratching, humor." In other news: Leeroy Stagger will be performing on Friday, June the 11th at the Rivoli in Toronto during the North By Norteast Festival. You can catch him and the band at 11:00 PM. I'll be there hawking records if you want to say hi. If you're in Victoria on May 10th, check him out at the Lucky Bar on Yates Street. Ghosts played a set at The Second Story last week to an audience sitting cross-legged in a semi-circle on the floor around them. Mosh pits have now been replaced by the new, much safer, Nursery Pits. You'd need a pin-hole camera strapped to the back of a chimp on a tricycle if you wanted to capture any of that aesthetic of movement which is so popular in rock journalism today. The chimp rode his trike over to Logan's later that night to see Run Chico Run, but a drunk guy kept getting in his way, so we went home early. Someone set fire to a guitar or something, Jesus! OK, that's it for now. Stay tuned for more adventures from Victoria rock. Something better happen soon... _________________________________________________________________ Thursday, April 22, 2004 The Pixies show in Victoria last night was outstanding. Leeroy Stagger, the opening act, was met with favourable cheer by over fifteen hundred headbobbing ticketholders. It looked to me like they could have filled a few hundred more into that huge room, however, so it was unfortunate that so many people I know couldn't get in. Lousy fire codes. It was a beautifully choreographed event that went off without a hitch except for when someone turned the lights on during the encore and harshed everyone's buzz. Somebody's fucking mom, I bet. The Magic Teeth "merch" booth was nestled nicely between the gigantic Pixies merch booth and the ever-popular DiscLive CD table at the back of the venue. I was dwarfed by the sheer size of their stacks of money. I did get a few copies of the double disc "official" bootleg of the show not twenty minutes after it ended, though. There's apparently 1000 CD copies of each show on the tour to be sold. I wonder if anyone will "collect them all?" The world we live in never ceases to amaze me. Now to sell my extra copies on eBay... As for the Magic Teeth Contest #2: The correct answer to my very tricky quiz was sent in by a Mr. Bart Simpson of Vancouver, British Columbia. In response to my Spider-Man question from last week, he correctly answered "Peter Palmer." That guy's a steel trap. If you haven't already, please view his latest film, The Corporation as soon as possible. It will change our society. I wish I could do that. Anyhow, an autographed copy of the Run Chico Run CD "A New Peak In Lowdowness" is on its way to your door, Bart. Thanks again. __________________________________________________________________________________ Sunday April 11th, 2004 Hello, you can stop emailing in your answers to the first-ever Magic Teeth website contest now. We officially have a winner and, thusly, have no need for your further attempts. A Mr. Jon Murphy of Edmonton, Alberta was the first to contact me with the correct answer. Dozens of you responded incorrectly with answers ranging from the silly (Hat-FM) to the deranged (Sausage Cartwheel). I appreciated every attempt, but the only satisfactory answer was, of course, "Feel Like A Lotta People" by Andrew Molloy. (A little long-distance nepotism never hurt anybody, did it Jon?). In other news: The Perogy Cat has been making a name for himself around the offices here for the past year or so and has now officially taken on the job as mascot to the Magic Teeth Empire. Star of many comic book adventures written and drawn by Gareth, The Perogy Cat is now available as a limited edition hand-sewn plush doll. Standing an impressive 6" high and cute to the touch, this little bundle of sweetness was handmade by Bronwyn and Gareth with hopes that you'd want one on your living room chair or bedside table. Now available for mass consumption, each lovingly produced piece d'art comes with a selection of miniature comic books which double as adoption papers! Fifteen dollars buys you the works, postage paid. Magic Teeth Contest Number Two: An autographed copy of the Run Chico Run CD, "A New Peak In Lowdowness" is the prize to the first person who correctly answers this skill-testing question: "What name was Peter Parker accidentally called in the first issue of the Amazing Spider-Man comic book back in March 1963?" This one is hard. Good luck. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday April 7, 2004: Welcome to the new Magic Teeth website, home of a slew of Victoria, BC bands such as Leeroy Stagger, Ghosts, Run Chico Run, and Bum. Feel free to have a look around while we unpack and perhaps you could consider bookmarking it for future visits. I promise lots of contestsfeaturing record and comic related fun over the next few months, so check back often. Speaking of which, there's a free copy of the new Leeroy Stagger "Dear Love" CD to the first person who emails me with the answer to this pop quiz: "What song was the title of the Bum Tribute album taken from?" If you're the first one to respond, I'll contact you and have the CD in the mail asap. The fun has already begun, and we aren't even officially built yet. Talk to you soon. -Gareth.