The Parkdale Hookers

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Have a Parkdale Hookers Christmas – ReMastered

noise — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:52:11 +0000

The long rumored digital remaster of your perinatal holiday favorite “Have a Parkdale Hookers Christmas Time” is now available – right here! Expertly re-mastered by Phil Demetro at The Lacquer Channel.

What do you think?

The New CD: The beds are all done

noise — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:52:13 +0000

Well, we managed to knock off 8 songs at Johns Green Door Studios.

‘Still have some guitar overdubs to do and I think I want to re-do a bass track, but overall, we got quite a bit done for two sessions of 8 hours. It’s nice not being in the studio for 13 hours – always felt like a bag of S*** after one of those marathon days. It has been a long time since I was able to spend two full days in a row playing – not bad work if you can get it.

As always, our host, John was surprisingly easy going considering the 8:00 am start times!

Now – time to start the NXNE stuff!

Recording the new CD: end of session 1

noise — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:28:10 +0000

Well, we got quite a bit done today – 6 beds down, we’ll do the remaining 2 tomorrow and then the overdubs.

We haven’t picked the dates when we’ll do the vocals – that will be a couple of weeks once all the flu will have exited my lungs – still hangin on.

The next session will be tomorrow at 9:00 a.m.

pictures and videos to follow

The New CD: Session 1: 8am in the studio

noise — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:00:16 +0000

So after much changing of schedules we finally roll into John Critchley’s Green Door studios today at 8am. Mark C is there now loading the drums in and starting to develop the drum sounds. I’ll be getting there in a bit (it’s just down the street from me).

Many thanks go out to John for putting up with our corporate time tables for this one – he’s not used to starting at such an ungodly hour!

The Parkdale Hookers invited to play NXNE 2009

admin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:45:34 +0000

NXNE has invited The Parkdale Hookers to play this years North By NorthEast Festival in Toronto, Canada.

The show is schedualed for June 20th @ 9:00pm at the Black Bull.

More details will be available once the legal department has crossed all appropriate ”T”s and the appropriate “i” s.

Hear the CBC Interview

noise — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:57:47 +0000

Now you can hear the CBC Radio interview with Mark J, and Mark C on the ever crumbling economy.

Click here to listen

Guns N Roses are back?

markcollins — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:16:09 +0000

Well,
The Axl Rose solo band have finally decided to start paying some of their bills, rather than continuing to live with the distinction of most downloaded, and watched on YouTube, for free. As a fan from the days before Appetite for Destruction was a hit record, let me be straight. All those who have decided Chinese Democracy is not “Guns and Roses”, you are all correct. However, for those that saw them in the beginning, and watched them deteriorate into a bloated Vegas, Rolling Stones wanna be act, complete with back-up singers, and keyboards, Use Your Illusion, was not Guns N Roses either. Guns N Roses, was a great bar/club act from L.A. that made one great record with a raw passion that can only come from a group of artists that have nothing to lose.
So, since the authenticity of Guns N Roses died with the 80’s, I guess it comes down to: does the name the band goes by matter, or is Chinese Democracy somethings else. Knowing it was finally coming out, I wanted to hate it on principle. Knowing Axl Rose insists on using the name of the old band to prop up sales made me want to hate it even more. Now that I’ve given it a listen, I have to admit, if it showed up in my mailbox, wrapped in a blank paper bag, I’d have to say, it’s a pretty good bunch of songs. This is closer to Use Your Illusion, than Appetitie for Destruction, of that there is no doubt. Sans Slash et al, it had to be different, and after so many years, and having passed through so many engineers hands, no doubt it had to be overproduced.

BUT, this is not Def Leppard, and this is not Guns N Roses either. It’s Chinese Democracy, and I like it.

Breaking News!

noise — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:36:45 +0000

Mark J & Mark C live on CBC Radio 3!

The Website Grader – Free tips on improving your lawn on the world wide web…

noise — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:15:03 +0000

Any musician or band worth their salt these days needs to have a web presence and a good understanding of what brings people to their site and how people can find them on this ever growing world wide web.

A great resource on such topics and well as others in the Social Media Driven Marketing World is one of my favourite podcasts called “The Marketing Edge“

Today (well, at least thats when I listened to it) the host Albert Maruggi had a great talk with a friendly fellow from a company called Hubspot about a free website tool they’ve built and offered to the world called “Web Site Grader“

This tool, along with the great advice given in the podcast, can really help with ones efforts to move your website higher up in the rankings in Google and other search engines.

Our site ranked a respectable 78%, and the report came with a few pointers on how to improve our score. Not bad for free.

Put your site in and see where you rank. The team here at Parkdale Hookers International will be working overtime to implement some of the reports’ suggestions.

Once all the paperwork and approvals are in that is…