Quiet month, huh? Fake Nudes draws ever closer but here we are still little the wiser. With the big Canadian Autumn tour due to start soon, I’m sure we’ll hear something by the time that kicks off at the end of next month though, maybe even some new songs! I managed something I’d been planning for a while this month and got my hair dyed for the first time ever. It didn’t come out exactly as I wanted – It looks more like the dyed part has a sunburn – but it’s Jim-coloured at least and that’s pretty cool. Now if only I could grow a foot and a couple of inches like him too... Well, on with the newsletter! We’ve got what news there is and a cool exclusive feature on page 2 to help boost your BNL passions again during the lull! - Mil NEWS The Canada 1-Five-0 Tour starts at the end of next month! It’s your last chance to get tickets if you haven’t already as some venues are already selling out. Check page 3 for the full list of dates. Just over a month until the Gordon vinyl LP is released. See below for more details and how to pre-order a copy. Fake Nudes will soon be upon us! In a recent Rooster Teeth Podcast, friend of the band BBurnie Burns said he already has a copy so it can’t be long until we get to hear it too. Upcoming Gordon at 25 BNL are releasing a 2-LP version of Gordon on the 13th of October in honour of Gordon’s 25th birthday this year. Find out more and pre-order a copy HERE! Want to listen to Gordon but only have 8 minutes? Check out Trevor Cox’s awesome medley of all the album’s songs! Solo News Ed N Kevin ♪ Ed was featured as the guest on the Nights at the Game Table this month, a ♪ Kevin has been playing podcast about all things board game, and in this case pinball. The podcast features some shows with his old nearly an hour of Ed discussing topics including how he got into pinball, current friends the Rheostatics this pinball culture, being on social media in a band, the transition musically after Steve month. The band are also left, how the experience of being in BNL has changed with their popularity planning a new album for trajectory, the resurgence of vinyl and the double-edged sword of the internet and 2018. Read more on technological advancement. (Intro about the band and episode’s history 7:25- KawarthaNOW and 21:00. Ed’s part 21:00-1:13:00) LWinnipeg Free Press. Jim Tyler The ginger ninja hasn’t emerged from the shadows this A la ‘She’s On Time’, Tyler has left us all asking, “Where’s the month – No news drummer?” this month – No news Features Shoe Box In this month’s shoe box of BNL siiiiites- Wait a minute, shouldn’t this be on the final page? Well, this month is a special exception due to a very happy revival in the land of BNL: BNLHTTP.com is back! BNLHTTP is the ultimate BNL resource on the web, the one shoe box to rule them all. It has everything, including hundreds of audio recordings from live concerts, radio interviews, video footage from TV appearances and more. If you go spelunking even deeper into the weirdest corners of the archive you can find photos of Jim from his high school yearbook, Steve doing some pole-dancing and there’s even unpixelated footage of Ed totally naked if you know where to look ;) And it’s all completely free! All you need to do is sign up with a simple email address log-in and you can access the archive any time you like. Founder Macoland gave me a little history on the site: “I started listening to BNL in the mid-90s and instantly fell in love. I quickly became fanatical about the band and started collecting everything I could find. After collecting materials of theirs for about 6 years, I B realised that it would be great to share the things I had collected with other BNL fans. I first launched the site in 2003 and it slowly gained popularity as word spread throughout BNL message boards. The original site got over 20,000 hits, which is not bad for a site that had no advertising other than on BNL websites. The old, original site Everything went well until 2009 when Steve left. I was devastated, and that’s when I started to see other BNL sites vanish. Many times I thought it would be easier to shut my site down as well but I never did because once or twice a year someone would email me saying they found a rare track they were looking for on my site. Late last year my web host informed me that BNLHTTP was using some old code that was going to be retired. This would have broken the site, so I could either shut it down or create a new site from scratch. After talking to a few passionate BNL fans, it gave me the motivation to make a new site and start adding new shows again. The response so far has been great, with many people reaching out and sending new BNL goodies my way. I hope to continue to collect and share BNL materials far into the future.” There are still plenty of BNL goodies the site doesn’t have. Get in touch by emailing [email protected] if you have anything BNL to share, particularly if you have any of these items: ♫ Everywhere for Everyone/Au NaturalN tour shows in FLAC format (Not mp3 format) ♫ A physical copy of Bucknaked (to purchase or borrow) ♫ Anything from the last Ships & Dip cruise (Ships & Dip 4) ♫ FLAC format versions of any live shows already on the site in mp3 format. ♫ Any tapes or CDs of old shows. (Macoland will convert and then return them to you.) ♫ Episodes of Ed’s Up, particularly seasons 2 and 3. Alternatively you can also donate money to help keep the site running. Or just come sign up New and blue for the mailing list and look forward to new updates of BNL goodness over the coming months and years! I’ve been helping map the site to help improve navigation soon too, so there’s never been a better time to dive into BNLHTTP! L Upcoming Dates Fun and Games To get tickets visit BNL’s official website Word ladder time! Get from the top word to the bottom one by changing one letter at a time to make other ♫ Sep 2 Village of New Lenox - New Lenox, IL common words. We did it in 4 changes – Can you? ♫ Sep 3 Naperville Last Fling - Naperville, IL ♫ Sep 10 Markham Civic Centre - Markham, ON JANE ♫ Sep 30 Capitol Centre - North Bay, ON ???? ♫ Oct 2 Stockey Centre - Parry Sound, ON ???? ♫ Oct 3 Oakville Centre for Performing Arts - Oakville, ON ???? ♫ Oct 4 Oakville Centre for Performing Arts - Oakville, ON HOME ♫ Oct 6 Rose Theatre - Brampton, ON ♫ Oct 10 FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre - St. Catharines, Answer next issue! ON Last issue’s answer: Little Tiny Song ♫ Oct 11 Imperial Theatre - Sarnia, ON [Only VIP tickets left] ♫ Oct 12 Sanderson Centre - Brantford, ON ♫ Oct 14 The Grand Theatre - Kingston, ON ♫ Oct 16 Confederation Centre of the Arts - Charlottetown, PE ♫ Oct 18 Rebecca Cohn Auditorium - Halifax, NS ♫ Oct 20 Queens Place Emera Centre - Liverpool, NS ♫ Oct 21 Casino New Brunswick - Moncton, NB ♫ Oct 23 The Empire Theatre - Belleville, ON ♫ Oct 24 Showplace Performance Centre - Peterborough, ON ♫ Oct 26 Burlington Performing Arts Centre - Burlington, ON ♫ Nov 1 E.A. Rawlinson Centre for the Arts - Prince Albert, BSK Who Knew? ♫ Nov 2 Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre - Camrose, AB The “I is for irk” line in ‘Crazy ABCs’ has a special ♫ Nov 3 Dow Centennial Centre (Shell Theatre) - Fort history compared to the other letters. Saskatchewan, AB ♫ Nov 6 Red Deer Memorial Centre - Red Deer, AB Whilst recording Snacktime!, Ed’s daughter asked him ♫ Nov 7 Charles Bailey Theatre - Trail, BC what words he’d used for each letter one night, during ♫ Nov 8 Key City Theatre - Cranbrook, BC which he realised he’d forgotten to do an I word. So he ♫ Nov 9 Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre - Vernon, found the word ‘irk’, recorded the line and seamlessly BC fitted it into the song. It wasn’t until after the album was ♫ Nov 11 Sagebrush Theatre - Kamloops, BC published that Ed realised he had fitted the line in the ♫ Nov 12 Clarke Theatre - Mission, BC wrong place however: The song goes FGIHJ. ♫ Nov 13 Port Theatre - Nanaimo, BC [Only VIP tickets left] And that is the story of why BNL’s alphabet song isn’t ♫ Nov 15 Cowichan Performing Arts Centre - Duncan, BC in alphabetical order. That’s it for this issue! Send feedback,N ideas and contributions to [email protected] or tweet @Mil_Feirn Photos, videos, fanart, reviews, fanfiction – If it’s got something to do with BNL, we want to see it! Useful Links The Team Editor – Mil Feirn Barenaked Ladies Official Get Barenaked! Hosting – Liam McKinnon Proofreading – Suzanne Harding Logo – Tori Schallhorn L#8 .