Gloryhound

Fresh of a Canadian tour with The Cult, Gloryhound has announced the dates of their upcoming Canadian tour. Gloryhound will tour Canada coast to coast with fellow Nova Scotian Celtic Rockers The Stanfields.
It’s been a banner year so far for Gloryhound, who’ve recently signed with leading Canadian independent record label and distributor eOne Music Canada. Gloryhound launched their summer tour schedule with a Canada Day performance in St. John’s, NL, opening for I Mother Earth, followed by a show at Magnetic Hill (near Moncton, NB), where they shared the stage with some of the most popular acts in Canadian rock, including Three Days Grace, I Mother Earth, Arkells, My Darkest Days and Nickelback, before hitting the road as Direct support for The Cult on their Canadian tour in August and September. Gloryhound’s second single “TKO Tokyo” was released to Canadian rock and Alternative radio in August and has been selected for placement in season 4 of the critically acclaimed television show “Less than Kind”.
Comprised of Evan Meisner (lead vocal/rhythm guitar), David Casey (lead guitar/bg vocal), Shaun Hanlon (drums) and Jeremy MacPherson (bass), Gloryhound have built a solid fan base with their high-powered live shows, touring relentlessly over the past couple of years throughout Maritimes, Quebec and Ontario. Along with their own headline shows, Gloryhound have opened shows for Thin Lizzy, Sam Roberts, Big Wreck, Hollerado, Drive By Truckers, CJ Ramone (of the Ramones) and kicked off 2012 as opener for Deep Purple on their tour through Atlantic Canada.
Gloryhound’s Electric Dusk EP delivered a nomination for Rock Recording of the Year at the 2012 East Coast Music Awards, while the title track/debut single “Electric Dusk” spent more than five months on the national rock radio charts, reaching #14 on Mediabase Active Rock charts and #24 on the BDS Neilson Billboard Canadian Rock charts. Gloryhound is also nominated for Entertainers of the year and Video of the year for the upcoming Nova Scotia Music Week in November.

Gloryhound – Canadian Tour Dates:
(* = w/ The Stanfields)
(** = w/ Matt Mays and El Torpedo and The Meds)

September 14 –Halifax, NS @ The Carleton. Atlantic Film Festival Showcase (industry delegates only)
September 15 – Halifax, NS @ Argyle St.- Neptune Theatre’s 50th Anniversary Celebration
September 22 – Moncton, NB @ Oxygen Club
October 10 – Ottawa, ON @ Zaphod Beeblebrox*
October 12 – Toronto, ON @ El Mocambo*
October 15 – Dauphin, MB @ Watson Arts Centre*
October 16 – Saskatoon, SK @ Amigos Cantina*
October 17 – Calgary, AB @ The Gateway*
October 18 – Edmonton, AB @ Pawn Shop*
October 19 – Slave Lake, AB @ Saw Bridge Inn and Convention Center**
October 19 – Red Deer, AB @ The Vat Pub*
October 20 – Nisku, AB @ Blackjacks Roadhouse*(private show)
October 22 – Kamloops, BC @ The Blue Grotto**
October 24 – Vancouver, BC @ Venue Nightclub*
October 25 – Nanaimo, BC @ The Cambie Pub*
October 26 – Victoria, BC @ Lucky Bar*
October 29 – Banff, AB @ The Devil's Gap*
October 30 – Regina, SK @ The Exchange*
October 31 – Winnipeg, MB @ The Zoo*
November 1 – Thunder Bay, ON @ Black Pirates Pub*
November 2 – Sault Ste Marie, ON @ Lop Lops*
November 3 – St. Catharines, ON @ The Mansion House*
November 4 – Peterborough, ON @ Red Dog*
November 5 – Hamilton, ON @ Casbah*
November 6 – Guelph, ON @ e-Bar*
November 8 – Montreal, QC @ Underworld*
November 10 – Liverpool, NS @ Nova Scotia Music Week

For full tour details and more on Gloryhound: http://www.gloryhoundband.com
Electric Dusk Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/gloryhoundmusic
TKO Tokyo Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTedByAH9V4
For more on eOne Music Canada: http://www.eonemusic.ca

Media Contact:
Lynn Horne
Lynn Horne Marketing & Media Relations
902-465-3763
lynnhorne@ns.sympatico.ca - Lynn Horne

After making it big on the East Coast and in Ontario, Gloryhound brings the show out west for the first time as they tour with The Cult. The tour stops in Medicine Hat on Aug. 25.

Fist-pumps, loud guitars and no holds barred. All that's missing is the big hair and they've even got a little bit of that.
"I think we kind of missed it," Gloryhound frontman Evan Meisner laughs when thinking about how well they would have fit in with the music of the late '70 and early '80s. "A lot of people that still have that mind frame of music from 30 years ago can easily relate to us. And people who don't still like the band."

Gloryhound will open for The Cult at the Esplanade Aug. 25.
Meisner says the throwback style of Gloryhound four guys only in their mid-20s wasn't intentional, it's just what they grew up listening to.
"Even though it wasn't from our generation, we went digging," he says. "We weren't really satisfied with listening to music from our time. There's a lot of good music from our time but there's a lot of great music from the yesteryears."

Still, Meisner and the band remain conscious of the present.
"I like a lot of modern music as well and it's important to stay with the times," he says. "We love to play for a wide range of fans ranging from 15 to 55."

The Cult is not the first classic rock band Gloryhound has toured with, having previously opened for Thin Lizzy and Deep Purple.
"It's an honour to play with these bands because we've listened to them all our lives," Meisner says. "It's really cool to play with all these legendary groups and it really makes you up your game."
Taking a cue from those legends, a bare bones, roots approach is what Gloryhound is based on.

"A lot of bands these days use things like backing tracks or loops ... and there's nothing wrong with that, but our approach is very different, very rudimentary," Meisner says. "It's four guys and that's all that we have. We spend a lot of time on our songs and getting them perfect. So we don't have to use anything else and we don't want to use anything else. It's just straight up rock 'n' roll, and again that's not a knock on anyone else, it's just what we want to do."

Gloryhound opens for The Cult on Aug. 25 at the Esplanade. Tickets, $65 or $59 plus service charge and GST, are available at http://www.tixx.ca, by phone at 403-502-8777 and at the Esplanade box office and the Medicine Hat Mall customer service desk.
For more on Gloryhound visit: http://www.gloryhoundband.com - The Medicine Hat news: Wednesday, 15 August 2012 Chris Brown

The Ramones meets the Clash, these east coasters play serious punk rock, with a style and flair all their own. After all, a band doesn’t open for legendary classic rock band Deep Purple without gaining some confidence. And confident they were as they owned the horseshoe stage.
Adding Nova Scotia charm to New York punk rock, Gloryhound continues to solidify their spot in the Canadian Indie Music scene. And if they keep putting on stellar performances like this one, it won’t be long before they’ll be legends in their own right.

- The Examiner, Toronto March 2012


While the band torched the place with “Electric Dusk”, behind them towered an enormous backdrop that screamed classic rock. It featured a stylized picture of an ancient Greek temple: ruined columns, frescoes, and headless statues held up the sky, and above all this was written “Deep Purple”. Gloryhound were the priests in a temple for old gods”

-The Scene, St John’s Feb 2012

We started the night off with an opening act of “Gloryhound” a rock band from Nova Scotia who comprised of Evan Meisner (lead vocal/rhythm guitar), David Casey (lead guitar/bg vocal), Shaun Hanlon (drums) and Jeremy MacPherson (bass), are a tight well rounded rock band that had my brain searching for 80's similarities that were just out of reach. Influenced by Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop, I can see why my mind went there, and their sound backs that up. With solid tunes like “Electric Dusk”, which I really enjoyed, smooth vocals and musicianship these four high school band mates from Fall River have something good going here. Graciously accepted by the crowd of Deep Purple fans Gloryhound is a band to watch out for as I’m sure we’ll hear from them again.

-Refrain Music Feb 2012


"Electric Dusk is only 25 minutes long, but it rocks so hard that you feel drained by the end of it." ?-

The Chronicle Herald - Lynn Horne (2012)

The Scene:July 10th 2012
East Coast rockers Gloryhound have secured the direct opening slot for The Cult's Canadian tour! Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy both LOVE this band and personally picked them to take them on the road.
Gloryhound will perform with The Cult at the following locations:
22-Aug-12 Vancouver BC Commodore Ballroom
24-Aug-12 Edmonton AB Edmonton Events Centre
25-Aug-12 Medicine Hat AB Esplanade Centre
26-Aug-12 Calgary AB Cowboy's
28-Aug-12 Regina SK Evraz Place Eventplex
31-Aug-12 Toronto ON Phoenix Concert Theatre
01-Sep-12 Montreal PQ Metropolis
02-Sep-12 Quebec City PQ Grand Theatre

It’s been a banner year so far for Gloryhound, who’ve recently signed with leading Canadian independent record label and distributor eOne Music Canada. Gloryhound launched their summer tour schedule with a Canada Day performance in St. John’s, NL, opening for I Mother Earth, followed by this past weekend’s highlight show at Magnetic Hill (near Moncton, NB), where they shared the stage with some of the most popular acts in Canadian rock, including Three Days Grace, I Mother Earth, Arkells, My Darkest Days and Nickelback.
Comprised of Evan Meisner (lead vocal/rhythm guitar), David Casey (lead guitar/bg vocal), Shaun Hanlon (drums) and Jeremy MacPherson (bass), Gloryhound have built a solid fan base with their high-powered live shows, touring relentlessly over the past couple of years throughout Maritimes, Quebec and Ontario. Along with their own headline shows, Gloryhound have opened shows for Thin Lizzy, Sam Roberts, Big Wreck, Hollerado, Drive By Truckers, CJ Ramone (of the Ramones) and kicked off 2012 as opener for Deep Purple on their tour through Atlantic Canada.
Gloryhound’s Electric Dusk EP delivered a nomination for Rock Recording of the Year at the 2012 East Coast Music Awards, while the title track/debut single “Electric Dusk” spent more than five months on the national rock radio charts, reaching #14 on Mediabase Active Rock charts and #24 on the BDS Neilson Billboard Canadian Rock charts.
Gloryhound will take the stage at Roseland Cabaret for the Aug. 2 kick-off for the annual New Glasgow Riverfront Jubilee, and will rock the hometown crowd at the Alderney Landing outdoor stage on Aug. 4 for Halifax Natal Day celebrations, before hitting the road with The Cult for their Canadian tour, Aug. 22 through Sept. 2.
For full tour details and more on Gloryhound: http://www.gloryhoundband.com
Electric Dusk Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/gloryhoundmusic
TKO Tokyo Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTedByAH9V4&feature=relmfu
For more on eOne Music Canada: http://www.eonemusic.ca
Visit The Cult on line at: http://thecult.us


News Gloryhound
http://www.thescenemagazine.ca/gloryhound-pens-deal-with-eone-music-canada/

Interviews with Gloryhound
http://www.thescenemagazine.ca/gloryhound-interview-canadian-music-week/
http://www.thescenemagazine.ca/gloryhound-interview/

Live reviews of Gloryhound

http://www.thescenemagazine.ca/alert-the-medic-gloryhound-the-motorleague-live-ecma-review/
http://www.thescenemagazine.ca/nxne-review-day-2-gloryhound-the-bovine/
http://www.thescenemagazine.ca/deep-purple-mile-one-with-gloryhound/
http://www.thescenemagazine.ca/deep-purple-scene-pick-of-the-week/
http://www.thescenemagazine.ca/i-mother-earth-canada-day-on-george-street/ - The Scene (2012)

“Gloryhound’s sound is packed with testosterone, loud guitars, and hard-rock crunch, AC/DC-Zeppelin-inflected tunes that unleashes some serious speaker-shredding mojo. Black-leather-cool and plenty of swagger, these guys show you how it’s done.” Exclaim!



Halifax rockers Gloryhound are on a roll - film roll that is. They’ve not only scored a highly coveted spot in the Atlantic Film Festival’s “Music and Image 10 x 10” program, (which pairs 10 film directors with 10 selected bands/musicians for the making of a music video), but their song “Cruel Little Tease” from their recently released Electric Dusk EP, is the opening song in writer/director Michael Melski’s latest film, Charlie Zone. The Halifax shot feature will have it’s world premiere at The Oxford in Halifax on Friday, September 16th as part of the Atlantic Film Festival. Melski has also invited Gloryhound to perform at his “by invitation only” Charlie Zone post-screening party.



Gloryhound were signed to booking representation by Ralph James, president of Toronto’s The Agency following their multiple independent showcases during Junofest 2010 in St. John’s, NL. The band has since done several residencies in and around Toronto, while touring rigorously up and down Ontario’s Hwy 401 and throughout Atlantic Canada. Earlier this year, Gloryhound shared a sold out Montreal show with Australian buzz band Sick Puppies and rocked Toronto’s Sound Academy as opener for Thin Lizzy, while their debut disc, Leave It Alone brought a 2010 ECMA nomination for Rock Recording of the Year.



Gloryhound’s new Electric Dusk EP (produced by Laurence Currie), has drawn attention and rave reviews from regional and national media. Prior to “Cruel Little Tease” being picked up for placement in feature film Charlie Zone , their song “TKO Tokyo” garnered significant radio airplay, including hitting the number one spot on the nationally syndicated East Coast Countdown. Their EP title track - Electric Dusk is being shipped to rock radio this week.



Rock fans will have the opportunity to catch Gloryhound in live performance during the Halifax Pop Explosion on Saturday, October 21st (venue tba). They’ll also be hitting the stage at Moncton’s Plan B on September 24th, Winston’s in Clayton Park on October 1st, and in a double-header with The Stanfield’s at The Red Knight Lounge in Yarmouth on October 7th.



Just to keep ‘em on their toes, Gloryhound will take on the role of backing band for California-based dynamo Steve Poltz , when he returns for his nineteenth show at The Carleton in Halifax on Sept. 28th.



Comprised of Evan Meisner (lead vocal/rhythm guitar), David Casey (lead guitar/bg vocal), Shaun Hanlon (drums) and Jeremy MacPherson (bass), Gloryhound are nominated for both Rock Recording (Electric Dusk) and Group of the Year, in the upcoming Molson Canadian Music Nova Scotia Awards and have been selected to showcase for delegates and fans at the NS Music Week Conference in Yarmouth, on Saturday, November 5th .



Gloryhound’s tour schedule, music, live performance footage and more is available at: www.gloryhoundband.com



To arrange for interviews and/or high res photos contact:



Lynn Horne

Lynn Horne Marketing & Media Relations

903-465-3763

lynnhorne@ns.sympatico.ca - Lynn Horne

Submitted by Ian Finley on March 4, 2011 - 1:45pm

Fans of Halifax rock were in for a treat on January 15th when three of Nova Scotia’s finest took to the stage at Toronto’s Legendary Horseshoe Tavern. Along with supporting Haligonian acts Gloryhound and Carmen Townsend, The Stanfields lit up the stage and shook the loud, healthy crowd with three distinctly different, but equally raucous sets.
To watch the Stanfields and Gloryhound – touring mates for their recent jaunt across Canada – you would never believe they’d suffered the typical malaises of travelling over land in the dead of winter: the smell of five sweaty guys in a cold van, the countless hours of driving trying to recover and sleep from the night before, the malnutrition, the dodgy club owners, the 2 am load-outs – it’s almost too much for many young aspiring rock stars. But by all appearances, conditions like these are what these bands live for.
(This reporter regrettably missed Carmen Townsend’s opening performance due to a family commitment. My sources tell me, however, that the bluesy rock guitar mistress has since been slaying audiences on several North American dates opening for the newly reunited Heart.)
Despite the pounding one’s mind and body take on the road, there are silver linings that only well-seasoned musicians appreciate. These include acquiring new adoring fans and the increasing ability to gel musically after every show. Case in point: Gloryhound. When our group strolled into the depths of one Toronto’s oldest venues, we weren’t sure if we were hearing the right band. From the start of their career, Gloryhound and the Skyhawks could have slipped into the “Poor man’s El Torpedo” category. Instead, they overcame any hint of stagnation when they sold their “Skyhawks” moniker, hippy cowboy look and Gretsch guitars at the crossroads and reinvented themselves. Clearly the new Gloryhound has re-built everything from the ground up and has never looked back.
From the first crunch of Gloryhound’s road worn double Gibson guitar riffs, the audience was pounded with punky hooks and rocking licks that nearly bled from the speaker. Their new material has a heavier, nastier growl, which might be unexpected when compared solely to their debut offering, but which has been welcomed by a growing fan base. Instead of laidback looseness, these guys delivered tight, high-energy tunes, taking all the right cues from the Ramones, Lou Reed and David Bowie. By the end of their set, all the shoe gazers were converted, as fist pumping and erratic robot dancing ensued. (An added bonus: the energy and attitude of their live show is captured amazingly well in on their new album Electric Dusk.) - East Coast Connection

Electric Dusk is only 25 minutes long, but it rocks so hard that you feel drained by the
end of it. There are melodic pop hooks embedded in TKO Tokyo, a bit of glam dust on
Yes You Are and cowbell driven riff rocker Fever Stricken Night, and the quartet digs in
their heels to give their tunes the right amount of punch-in-the-gut bravado. Plug into
Electric Dusk at Gloryhound's CD release show on Friday at the Seahorse Tavern. The
band also joins the Stanfields at New Glasgow's Glasgow Square Theatre on Dec. 18th. - The Chronicle Herald

The rock 'n' roll purist tramps that make up Halifax's Gloryhound have their paws full this
week. A summer's hard work sweating it out in Toronto's Chemical Sound Studio lead to
the creation of the band's sophomore EP, Electric Dusk, officially releasing on December
10 at The Seahorse Tavern.
Forming in their teens while living in the Halifax suburb of Fall River, Gloryhound got an
unusual start for a band who would later make its mark as the east coast's answer to
The Ramones.
"We had been playing together for a bit and our first real gig was at a high school variety
show," says Evan Meisner, Gloryhound's lead singer and rhythm guitarist. Along with
David Casey on lead guitar, Shaun Hanlon on drums and Jeremy Macpherson on bass,
the quartet started slowly by playing a limited number of gigs around HRM.
"It was really hard to get shows when we were younger," says Meisner. The band began
performing at venues that would allow the young rock fans to hone their craft, regularly
playing at restaurant/concert hall Ship Victory in Dartmouth and other all-ages clubs.
"Once we became legal age and moved to town though," says Meisner, "we started to
get gigs at Tribeca, which led to other gigs in Halifax."
But for being young in age and new to the Halifax music scene, the quartet drew many
of its influences not from local acts, but from bands that hit their peaks in the 1970s.
"There is definitely a big influence from bands like The Ramones and Iggy Pop and the
Stooges," says Meisner. "A lot of really barebones punk rock stuff."
Although they're in their early 20s, the band continues to draw its influence from those
classic New York and Detroit punk records, turning a blind eye to the current music
passing itself off as rock.
"Today's modern music doesn't really have that raw feeling to it. You know, that 'Raw
Power!'" Meisner laughs, quoting the Iggy Pop classic. "The older stuff is just more
stripped down and has a lot more swagger than music out there today."
Meisner is likely not referring to "swagger" in its modern usage employed by hip-hop
artists like Jay-Z, who promotes the balla lifestyle, or summer tourmates Down with
Webster. Instead, he is likely referring to rock gods like Iggy Pop and Mick Jagger, who
gave off a potently dangerous lifestyle, or at least seemed to.
The cover of Electric Dusk has the band classic-rock posturing, with leather jackets on
all four members. Besides The Ramones-like image, the exterior has a faux vinyl-record
ring that gives off the image of an old seven-inch single.
With these influences in tow, the band went into the recording studio in early July to lay
down the seven tracks that would make up the EP. Recorded in just two days, Electric
Dusk has the driving power of The Ramones' constant tom-tom drum action and
blistering power chords. Some could relate the guitar tones to modern rock bands like
The Darkness or Jet, but unlike those has-beens, Gloryhound decided to record the
album live off the floor, instead of track by track, to create a more immediate sonic
attack.
"It's a very simple idea," says Meisner of the album and the band's premise, "but we just
wanted to capture the energy of us live."

Written by Matthew Ritchie - The Coast (Dec. 9th 2010)

This Halifax four-piece further cements the fact that Canadian rock and roll still
illuminates every corner of this fine land. Much in the same way The Trews or Matt Mays
& El Torpedo bypasses Halifax pop sheen for a crash-and-burn 70's rock edge,
Gloryhound's sound is packed with testosterone, loud guitars, and hard-rock crunch,
AC/DC-Zeppelin-inflected tunes that unleashes some serious speaker-shredding mojo.
Black-leather-cool and plenty of swagger, these guys show you how it's done. - Exclaim! Network (June 30th 2010)

After turning some heads at a Canadian Music Week showcase last month, and follow
up performances at both JUNO Fest and the Gibson JUNO Party, Halifax's Gloryhound
have signed with agent Ralph James of The Agency Group. It was a late night
performance at Toronto's legendary Horseshoe Tavern that first got his attention, and
Gloryhound's subsequent performances during the JUNO festivities that sealed the deal.
With offices around the world, The Agency Group offers solid representation for Evan
Meisner, Dave Casey, Jeremy MacPherson and Shaun Hanlon of Gloryhound. James
does not sign many bands these days - he's kept very busy with acts such as
Nickelback, Three Days Grace, Thornley and Billy Talent, but feels that Gloryhound has
a great future ahead of them and wants to be part of it.
Gloryhound will be filming a live video at their upcoming show at The Seahorse Tavern
on May 8th in Halifax. They'll then pack up their gear and head to Toronto for an
extended two-month stint to write, showcase, collaborate and record a new EP with
producer Laurence Currie.
“It's been a crazy month for us” says Evan Meisner of Gloryhound. “We are thrilled to
sign with The Agency Group and are looking forward to our time in Toronto”. - Lynn Horne

Steeped in the raw rock n roll tradition of The Stooges, The Novaks and the late, great Heelwalkers, Halifax band Gloryhound is here to get down and dirty. - herenb

"Gloryhound will make you all sweaty..." - The Coast

http://thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1153567.html - The Chronicle Herald

Recording its sophomore album Leave It Alone was a learning experience for the members of Halifax-based Gloryhound.

A year in the making, Leave It Alone was produced by former Matt Mays & El Torpedo member Robbie Crowell, who guided the band as it changed its sound from a roots-rock sound to more of a straight ahead, “four-on-the-floor” rock sound, as singer/guitarist Evan Meisner describes it.

Meisner spoke with EastCoastNoise recently around the same time the band was launching the album with a show at The Seahorse in Halifax.

“It was a huge learning experience, more so than the (the band’s debut album),” he explains. “The other one we actually learned about recording and stuff, but this one was just about actually making a product that we really believed in, that we weren’t going to look back on and want to change anything.

“We actually learned to play a lot better, we learned to play together a lot better and we learned what kind of music we can make as a group a lot better.”

It was a year in the making, and while Meisner is happy to have it off the band’s shoulders, he describes the making of Leave It Alone as the best experience he’s ever had.

Gloryhound, also featuring David Casey on guitar and vocals, Shaun Hanton on drums and Jeremy MacPherson on bass, formed when the members were still in high school. Initially named Gloryhound & The Skyhawks, the band also featured Adam Baldwin (now a member of El Torpedo).

Once Baldwin left the group, they dropped the second half of the band’s name and set out to tweak their sound.

Meisner says they wanted to develop a more focused rock sound.

“I think for us it was more finding where we had to be,” he explains. “I think we were always a rock band, it just took a while for us to all work out in the band all our different parts. We all listen to rock music, and it kind of coincided with what we were listening to at the time. It’s the funnest kind of music to play, really.”

Crowell, producer of Leave It Alone, had a big hand in helping Gloryhound fine tune its music.

“He brought a very similar viewpoint, he just knew how to put everything into action,” Meisner says. “His ears are incredible. And his experience in music is far beyond ours. He was kind of like a mentor, really.”

The album was recorded in The Sonic Temple and Echo Chamber, both in Halifax, and it was engineered by Charles Austin, Dave Ewenson and Darren Van Niekerk and mixed by Lil Thomas.

The album was released late last month and track Best I Can is the single currently at radio.

The band is planning a Maritime tour in January, before it heads back to Toronto in spring.
- East Coast Noise

Q: What’s better than watching
five musicians tear up a stage with
their heads, hands and hearts mov-
ing together as they blast out old
favourites and new potential hits?
A: Watching 10 do it.
While the names Matt Mays and
El Torpedo and Gloryhound and
the Skyhawks might include too
many words for one CD cover (and
don’t worry, there’s a CD from both
bands in the works), it was clear by
last Friday’s performance that these
folks were cut from the same cloth.
Mays even invited the five boys
from Gloryhound and the Skyhawks
to borrow his five band member’s
instruments and sing along for a
piece of the encore.
Ten smiles and drinks aplenty
onstage (all other drinking was
confined to the back of the room),
the two bands hammered out an
extended version of The Hood.
Gloryhounds left-handed bass
player Jeremy MacPherson didn’t
miss a beat when he flipped Mays’
Andy Patil’s right-handed bass
upside down and joined in.
But before we get ahead of
ourselves ...
Halifax roots rockers Glory-
hound got things started.
Friday’s all ages show – part of
the Halifax Pop Explosion – was
one of a handful of shows that took
place during the festival.
Gloryhound will open for Mays
by month’s end, and it was clear in
their performance that the young,
hairy and experienced quintet is
headliner material.
While their tight sound and im-
pressive confidence struck a chord
with Mays fans, we’ll have to wait
to see how their well-balanced tal-
ent translates to disc when their CD
comes out later this fall.
(For now, their weekly Tuesday
gig at Tribeca will have to do.)
Enter Matt Mays and El
Torpedo.
Sometimes audiences have to
give a little of themselves, and Fri-
day, this took the form of auditory
sensory cells (the little hair cells in-
side your ears that let you hear), with
the eruption of the Cunard Centre’s
hair-shaking sound system.
And jeepers- it was loud.
But finding someone in the
audience who didn’t consider it a
fair trade for Mays’ performance
would’ve been a challenge.
Mays played a number of high-
energy new songs, saving fan-fa-
vourites Cocaine Cowgirl and Dart-
mouth tribute, City of Lakes, for
later in the evening.
And as Mays’ ponytail loos-
ened and broke free, so too did
the band’s sound, as they tweaked
and extended songs, and gave their
newest member, guitar player and
birthday boy Jay Smith, plenty of
opportunities to show his chops.
Smith, a replacement for guitar-
ist Jarrett Murphy, raised the bar
with a rotation of fist-pumps and
guitar solos, and enticed the clap-
and sing-alongs that kept his band
mates energized.
When Smith yelled, “El,” the
shouted, “Torpedo.”
Later, he and Mays flirted with
AC/DC riffs, and Smith reigned as
clichée champion when he whipped
his guitar over his shoulder and
around his body, catching it in time
to bang back into the song.
There was grey hair and Mo-
hawks, cowboy boots and Chuck
Taylors, and the mixed-age group
was a testament to Mays’ widely
enjoyed music.
From behind Mays’ shaggy beard
and Canadian flag ball cap he never
just says “thank you”; he screams
it loud enough for his childhood
neighbours to hear him back in
Eastern Passage.
A rare, tender moment kicked
off the encore, with Mays all on his
own for an acoustic cover of Bruce
Springsteen’s, I’m On Fire.
Four more songs, five extra mu-
sicians and one broken microphone
stand later, singer Kristen Hatt and
Gloryhound ‘s Adam Baldwin took
the stage for the show’s laid-back
send-off, Morning Sun.
With Gloryhound’s debut on its
way, and Mays headed to England
soon to record his next disc with El
Torpedo, the show gave fans a prom-
ising taste of two CDs to keep an ear
out for.
Just stay away from the Cunard
Centre for a while if you want to be
able to hear ’em.
gf630105@dal.ca
Geoff Tobin

- Geoff Tobin gf630105@dal.ca (page 16 the halifax commoner Friday, october 26, 2007 )

"(Gloryhound) connects with listeners on a more viceral level; via a fully loaded roots rock sound that still has it's share of poetry..." -Stephen Cooke - The Chronicle-Herald

"...Gloryhound and the Skyhawks, a Halifax-based group also featured on FMO. This group has a terrific on-stage chemistry. If you love rock, you'll love Gloryhound and their original tunes..." - Fibber's Music (http://venues.fibbers.ca/members/193/blog_3573.php)

Gloryhound Live @ The Cellar

October 16, 2009

An opening act that stole the show is the best way to describe Glorryhound's performance at UNB’s Cellar Pub. This amazingly tight rock band from the streets of Halifax is a blast to watch. Even though the crowd was lack luster and boiling over in university ironic dancing Gloryhound put on an amazing show that surprised me. Gloryhound seems to have risen from the ashes of 70’s hard rock that has been pushed under ground and spit on by the Theory of a Nickel Creed esq rock music that has been dominating rock radio. The vocals of Evan Meisner were reminiscent of Alice Cooper in his prime blasting catchy choruses that are stadium ready crowd chants.

Gloryhound is a band I would suggest any rock fans check out and go with an attitude to see great Maritime talent bringing back a genre that has been missed by this guy and I assume thousands of others.

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After making it big on the East Coast and in Ontario, Gloryhound brings the show out west for the first time as they tour with The Cult. The tour stops in Medicine Hat on Aug. 25.

Fist-pumps, loud guitars and no holds barred. All that's missing is the big hair and they've even got a little bit of that. "I think we kind of missed it," Gloryhound frontman Evan Meisner laughs when thinking about how well they would have fit in with the music of the late '70 and early '80s. "A lot of people that still have that mind frame of music from 30 years ago can easily relate to us. And people who don't still like the band."

Gloryhound will open for The Cult at the Esplanade Aug. 25.
Meisner says the throwback style of Gloryhound four guys only in their mid-20s wasn't intentional, it's just what they grew up listening to."Even though it wasn't from our generation, we went digging," he says. "We weren't really satisfied with listening to music from our time. There's a lot of good music from our time but there's a lot of great music from the yesteryears."

Still, Meisner and the band remain conscious of the present.
"I like a lot of modern music as well and it's important to stay with the times," he says. "We love to play for a wide range of fans ranging from 15 to 55."

The Cult is not the first classic rock band Gloryhound has toured with, having previously opened for Thin
Lizzy and Deep Purple. "It's an honour to play with these bands because we've listened to them all our lives," Meisner says. "It's
really cool to play with all these legendary groups and it really makes you up your game."

Taking a cue from those legends, a bare bones, roots approach is what Gloryhound is based on. "A lot of bands these days use things like backing tracks or loops ... and there's nothing wrong with that,
but our approach is very different, very rudimentary," Meisner says. "It's four guys and that's all that we have. We spend a lot of time on our songs and getting them perfect. So we don't have to use anything else and we don't want to use anything else. It's just straight up rock 'n' roll, and again that's not a knock on anyone else, it's just what we want to do."

Gloryhound opens for The Cult on Aug. 25 at the Esplanade. Tickets, $65 or $59 plus service charge and GST, are available at http://www.tixx.ca, by phone at 403-502-8777 and at the Esplanade box office and the Medicine Hat Mall customer service desk.
For more on Gloryhound visit: http://www.gloryhoundband.com - The Medicine Hat News, 15 August 2012 - by Chris Brown