Born somewhere between endless sunny days that slowly turned to balmy July nights, Toronto indie rock band Midday Swim (David Mitchel – Vocals/Guitar, Sebastian Shinwell – Lead Guitar/Vocals, Craig Saltz – Bass/Vocals, Stephan Ermel – Keyboards/Vocals, and Max Trefler – Drums) formed a little over a year ago at a lakefront cabin in the backwoods of Ontario. “There is something about losing yourself in summertime’s eternal warmth that often breeds inspiration,” says bassist Craig Saltz. “That cabin, which has been in David’s family for 30 years, is a special place for us. At the time, we really didn’t know what we were working on; we were just sort of doing it. David had written 10 or 12 songs on his own and so we were just up there working them out, enjoying each other’s company, going swimming in the middle of the day, and having camp fires at night; it was a really easygoing time. When we finally mixed the first song and everyone took a step back to hear it, it was immediately clear that we were going to drop everything else and do this thing together.”
This song is from their sophomore EP “Climbing Out Of Caves” which is due out later this year. For the video, the band and director were inspired by their mutual admiration for films like “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, “Pulp Fiction”, and “The Grand Budapest Hotel”. Both the song and video were made in an attempt to capture the spirit of childhood.
Hello
Hello? Good morning, definitely not a good day for a midday swim… at least not in these parts
Hello hello! Digging the Midday Swim, even if the weather for it isn’t great 🙂
but there is so much water around for you to swim in
Well, Garf, if the CEO of Tim’s has his way, you’ll be awash in crappy coffee and frozen do(ugh)nuts in no time at all
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-hortons-uk-expansion-advancer-1.4103850
I believe the first one is opening in Glasgow
I’d still rather go to a Timmie’s than a Starbucks
I have been following this for almost a month now
https://www.facebook.com/TimHortonsUK/?fref=ts
I don’t know if anyone else feels this way, but I think Tim Horton’s outside of Canada tastes differently than the Tim Horton’s in Canada.
@Janet ask me on July the 3rd because I am hoping they will be available at the Canada Day party in London
@Garf will do!
It’s snowing in Ottawa. Oh, small flakes that don’t survive the ground. Still, carried as they are by a wind that’s coming down from just east of James Bay, it feels a lot more like March than May. Grumble.
Happy Monday! My play is done and people seemed to really enjoy it. I have a couple days of work and then I am off to Vancouver!
I didn’t know pink cream soda was a Canadian thing
http://www.cbc.ca/life/food/7-canadian-snacks-you-can-t-get-in-the-u-s-and-the-backstory-on-why-1.4102299
When my sweetie and I were first dating, he would come up to visit me in Alberta and order cream soda every chance he got because it was a novelty for him that he couldn’t get at home in the US.
The red cream soda that is, not the drink itself.
If anybody wants me I’ll be over here staring at a picture of Nanaimo Bars
we have American cream soda here
http://www.barrflavours.co.uk/products/product/american-cream-soda
I don’t understand how Brits can make such great chocolate, and then go and put artificial sweeteners in a “regular” soft drink
When I was a kid, there were still some regional pop bottlers and brands. Summers in Notre-Dame-Du-Portage (a little shy of Rivière-du-Loup), we could buy Kik Cream Soda (clear white) and Kik Fraise (=strawberry), which was quite red. But was also cream soda. Mucho sugary.
fanta did a clear cream soda at one time.
and when A & W first released their cream soda here, it was a caramel sort of colour, then it went pink
here’s what wikipedia says is one of the original recipes.mmmm
A recipe for cream soda—written by E.M. Sheldon and published in Michigan Farmer in 1852 at a farm in Linstead, Jamaica—called for water, cream of tartar, Epsom salts, sugar, tartaric acid, egg, and milk, to be mixed, then heated, and when cool mixed with water and a quarter teaspoonful of soda (sodium bicarbonate) to make an effervescent drink
“I’ll tell you what’s in a Nanaimo bar,” sang Gabriola Island folk singer Bob Bossin. “Smoke and peelers, cocaine dealers, redneck loggers, non-stop talkers, hookers with daughters, yes, yes, yes.”
@BfO, So, all the good stuff?
Apparently!
My first memory of cream soda was a pic a pop. It was my favourite and it definitely had colour.
Both pic-a-pop and pop shopped have returned, now as specialty pop, a la Jones
http://www.picapop.com/
the Nut Man in Regina sells it
and Chocolate Moose in Moose Jaw
Mmm maybe I will track some down.
I really enjoyed Hold on Tight track btw. I am going to check them out some more.