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Oliver di Place reviews POSTCARD COMETS’ Drown
Drown, a minor key groover from Postcard Comets’ Bodies Of Water, has received a thumbnail thumbs-up from music review site Oliver di Place.
Here’s the link or you can read the review below:
Postcard Comets’ two albums, Bodies Of Water and SuperNormaal are available on iTunes, amazon.com and Spotify (where available).
POSTCARD COMETS at Aurora Cultural Centre
POSTCARD COMETS
SchoolHOUSE Concert
October 22nd, 7:30 PM
Aurora Cultural Centre
22 Church Street, Aurora ON
Doors open at 7 PM • Elevator accessible at the North Entrance
Tickets are $15 and are available from the Aurora Cultural Centre,
or by phone 905-713-1818, or online at:
http://postcardcometsschoolhouse.eventbrite.com/
On Saturday October 22nd, join us for the inaugural concert in a new series of “House” concerts at Aurora Cultural Centre featuring POSTCARD COMETS for a performance of lyric-driven originals from Postcard Comets’ two CDs, Bodies Of Water and SuperNormaal (available on iTunes) with a sprinkling of favourites from the classic era of pop and rock songwriting. And don’t be surprised if there are some musical guests!
The Aurora Cultural Centre is a wonderful venue, a 19th Century Victorian schoolhouse that has been repurposed as an art gallery/ concert venue/ arts instruction facility just off Yonge Street in Aurora.
- From The Auroran, October 2011
Postcard Comets SchoolHOUSE Concert
POSTCARD COMETS
SchoolHOUSE Concert
October 22nd, 7:30 PM
Aurora Cultural Centre
22 Church Street, Aurora ON
Doors open at 7 PM • Elevator accessible at the North Entrance
Tickets are $15 and are available from the Aurora Cultural Centre,
or by phone 905-713-1818, or online at:
http://postcardcometsschoolhouse.eventbrite.com/
On Saturday October 22nd, join us for the inaugural concert in a new series of “House” concerts at Aurora Cultural Centre featuring POSTCARD COMETS for a performance of lyric-driven originals from Postcard Comets’ two CDs, Bodies Of Water and SuperNormaal (available on iTunes) with a sprinkling of favourites from the classic era of pop and rock songwriting. And don’t be surprised if there are some musical guests!
The Aurora Cultural Centre is a wonderful venue, a 19th Century Victorian schoolhouse that has been repurposed as an art gallery/ concert venue/ arts instruction facility just off Yonge Street in Aurora.
Postcard Comets on YouTube
We are pleased to add a modest little video for Abandoned Highway to the Postcard Comets YouTube stash. Abandoned Highway joins A Little More Than Me, produced, unbeknownst to David, by someone who took his songwriting workshop. The more the merrier!
Both songs are from The Comets’ SuperNormaal album. Pop by YouTube for a look!
Here’s a link:
ABANDONED HIGHWAY
DISAPPEAR, the latest from Postcard Comets
Postcard Comets have released a new track. It’s called DISAPPEAR and it features Don (the Zorro of Sorrow) McCarthy on steel guitar, mandolin and banjo, Dolores Dagenais on vocals and Nathan McCarthy on bass.
The song was written by David Partridge who also sings lead and contributes keyboards and percussion. David also produced the track.
DISAPPEAR is the first Comets track to feature banjo and is also the first track on which David and Dolores have sung together since Never Seen The Mountains which was featured on her album Big Girl Art.
DISAPPEAR can be found on the player at the top of the page.
Be sure to let us know what you think! We love to hear from you.
Guardhouse And The Moon Reviewed
The online review site Oliver di Place has reviewed The Guardhouse And The Moon from Supernormaal, the second POSTCARD COMETS release. You can directly link to the site by clicking Oliver di Place or read the review here:
Postcard Comets: The Guardhouse and the Moon
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I first met David Partridge of Postcard Comets quite some time ago, in an online song review group, and later in an acoustic music forum. Many of the people who are to be found in these places are amateur musicians, trying to get better at what they do and maybe make an album some day. But not Postcard Comets, at least not by the time I met them. Their music stood out, it because it was ready for the big(ger) time. I remember that, but I didn’t remember exactly what it sounded like. So when Partridge offered me their new album for the blog, I knew I wanted it, but I didn’t remember why. Now I remember.
Postcard Comets is the duo of Partridge and Buck Wilburn. Between them, they play seven instruments by my count, so the sound on the album is that of a full band. Partridge does most of the writing, and he is an expert scene setter. In The Guardhouse and the Moon, I can see that night sky as I listen, and I can feel that cold autumn breeze blowing on me.
Partridge’s voice has the texture of fine sandpaper, but he knows how to use that to his best advantage. Wilburn contributes a great part on lead acoustic guitar, with something of a Spanish flavor. All told, the emotion of this song comes through loud and clear. The subject is two childhood friends parting, as one begins military service. There are not all that many songs on this subject, so Partridge shows himself to be not only an evocative songwriter, but also a true original. The Guardhouse and the Moon is no fluke either; there are many other gems to be found on this album.
Thanks to Darius Rips for the thoughtful review!
POSTCARD COMETS: Supernormaal
We’re pleased to announce that SUPERNORMAAL, Postcard Comets’ second album is now available for download from iTunes!
SUPERNORMAAL is an extension of the Postcard Comets repertoire and includes for the first time the compositions of both David Partridge and Robert (Buck) Wilburn.
David has contributed 8 songs including Water’s Never Far, The L.A. Man, A Little More Than Me and Abandoned Highway.
Buck’s featured songs are Must Be The Radio, At Least There’s Tomorrow and He Could Fix Anything.
The tracks feature Buck on electric and acoustic lead guitar, dobro, lap steel, bass and background vocals. In addition to producing, David sings lead and background vocals and plays acoustic guitar, keyboards and percussion.
Eleven tracks of Postcard Comets on SUPERNORMAAL. Own them now from iTunes, amazon.com and other fine digital retailers!
POSTCARD COMETS Solo Performance
We’re pleased to announce a solo performance by David Partridge, singer, producer and primary composer for Postcard Comets.
David will be performing songs from the Comets repertoire as well as a light sprinkling of cover interpretations The show is in Toronto on Saturday April 16th. This is a house concert presented by Starry Nights and seating is limited.
He will also be reading from A Man of Substances: Misdeeds and Growing Pains of a Pot Pioneer, the book David co-authored with Gerald J. McCarthy but primarily, it’s a night of music.
Time: Saturday April 16 8:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: 52 Boustead Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
You can order tickets via Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1417623149/efbevent
To order tickets, please click the link above
or
send an e-mail to starrynights@starcompany.ca
Tickets are pre-sold only, until three hours before the event at which point you can buy whatever tickets are remaining at the door….
Here’s something new: Postcard Comet David Partridge is taking on a new challenge, teaching group music courses as part of the Aurora Cultural Centre’s Winter Arts Program, starting in January 2011.
The courses are Beginning Guitar: Chords & Their Rewards and Creative Songwriting: Tune Up Your Tunes.
The classes are held Monday nights from January 10, 2011 to March 7, 2011.
If you live in the neighbourhood, sign up and have some fun!
22 Church Street, Aurora, ON L4G 1G4 905.713.1818
Here are the course outlines:
A MAN OF SUBSTANCES: Misdeeds and Growing Pains of a Pot Pioneer, a cautionary memoir co-authored by Gerald J. McCarthy and David Partridge, is now available from barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com, amazon.ca and chapter.indigo.ca. Here’s the scoop:
When Gerry McCarthy hit the headlines in 1996, he was the man at the centre of a five million dollar dope bust, the largest grow-op takedown in Canadian history. But when he hit the big city as a small town teenager many years before, he was green as grass. The story between is a unique and winding journey through the most vibrant, revolutionary years of the Twentieth Century.
Told in the first-person, the book looks unblinkingly at the protagonist’s invention, reaction and folly over a life on the less sober side of the law. A MAN OF SUBSTANCES explores Gerry’s journey from a guitar across the shoulders to handcuffs around the wrists. In between are the exploits of one of Canada’s marijuana cultivation pioneers, at turns resourceful and rash, sincere and sardonic, hardworking and hammered. He is paperboy and pot dealer, secret-keeper and raconteur. He’s a devoted suburban family man with a pound of weed in the second car.
McCarthy’s story is honestly told because fact is so often more remarkable than fiction. It reflects the times and the culture of the world in which he grew and explores that world’s folly and its shadows with equal candor.
New Tune on the Comets’ jukebox!
Yep, late breaking news: our latest track, ALIBI BOY, is at the top of the player. You can also find a blog called ALIBI BOY AND “THE PROCESS” by clicking on Cometary up above! We welcome comments on the blog and the track. In fact, we welcome comments on just about anything.
But soliciting us for medical advice is ill-advised, as you might have guessed.
David Partridge guest blogs on Multi-Hyphenate
NEWS FLASH!
David Partridge has written a blog about the making of Dolores Dagenais’ CD Big Girl Art for the blogspot Multi-Hyphenate.
You can find it at http://multihyphenate.blogspot.com/2010/04/breath-wood-and-optical-fire.html
Be sure to leave a comment, either there or here. You know we love it when you come back!
POSTCARD COMETS
Dolores Dagenais’ Big Girl Art CD gets press!
A recent article in The Advocate had some good things to say about Dolores Dagenais’ new CD Big Girl Art. The disc is produced by Postcard Comet David Partridge and featuring the multi-instrumental support of co-Comet Robert “Buck” Wilburn. The article calls Dolores’ songs “emotional” and “mature”, going on to call the work “funny, sarcastic and sometimes dark”.
Ms. Dagenais credits this in some part to her collaborators. “There are some strange influences on there that I might not have been brave enough to explore if I hadn’t had this group of people being my team, saying yes you can.”
Although David and Buck are mildly embarrassed at having stolen their inspirational message from a recent presidential campaign, they’re pleased to have contributed to the new territory Dolores explores on Big Girl Art.
Dolores is gigging in support of the CD release but acknowledges that her gigs will be complementary, but not slavish, reproductions of the sound of the album. “The sound of the album is not the sound of the live show. The sound of the live show is its own art form.” Her pals, the Comets, wouldn’t have it any other way.
Big Girl Art is comprised of 13 tracks composed by Dolores and a final bonus track written by David Partridge. The final track is Never Seen The Mountains, a duet between Dolores and David and can be found on the player here on the site.
ANGRY WORDS: There’s a new mix in town…
In Songville, to be exact.
In preparation for their second album, Postcards Comets are grabbing their shirt sleeves and, with a few quick swipes of the forearm, shining up a few selected songs for inclusion in the next batch of selected works.
A recent benficiary of wrist-to elbow burnishing is ANGRY WORDS, featuring bass by Howard Rabkin as well as guitar, dobro and backup vocals by Buck Wilburn. This “remix” borders on a “redo”, given that it also features a new percussion track and a freshly cut vocal by David Partridge, the song’s composer. Angry Words is a song about a well-intentioned telephone conversation gone awry and is indicative of the harder edge of the Comets.
To listen, there’s a widget below. Let us know what you think. We love feedback, unless it comes from the studio monitors like that time David forgot to… well, never mind.
Enjoy! And feel free to repost the widget. Just press the word “Share” on the widget for all kinds of reposting options.
New POSTCARD COMETS Song for March 2010
Postcard Comets hope you enjoy NEVER FALL IN LOVE, now at the top of the player here on the site, on Reverbnation and on Facebook.
NEVER FALL IN LOVE features Buck Wilburn on guitars and harmony vocals, with vocals by Virginia Evans and bass provided by Howard Rabkin. The song’s composer, David Partridge, handles lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and production.
Be sure to check out the making-of blog here on the Cometary page and leave us a comment.
We love comments!
Postcard Comets are pleased to announce that NEVER SEEN THE MOUNTAINS, their recently posted duet with Dolores Dagenais, will appear on Dolores’ upcoming CD, BIG GIRL ART.
The song will be included as a bonus track on the CD scheduled for release in May 2010.
For Dolores, it’s a logical extension of BIG GIRL ART– David Partridge produced the album and both David and co-Comet Robert “Buck” Wilburn played on the tracks. David wrote the song, initially envisioning it as a duet. Although he has performed it solo, he believes that this recording with Dolores captures the original spirit of the song.
David, Buck and Dolores would like to thank the folks who came to this site and suggested adding NEVER SEEN THE MOUNTAINS to BIG GIRL ART. Without your enthusiasm, it never would have happened. Our friends are full of good ideas!
NEVER SEEN THE MOUNTAINS is on the player here on the Comets’ website. More music by Dolores Dagenais can be found at www.doloresdagenais.com.
POSTCARD COMETS duet with DOLORES DAGENAIS!
POSTCARD COMETS are pleased to offer a new track featuring a special guest!
The completion of Never Seen The Mountains as a duet with singer/songwriter Dolores Dagenais is a realization of the original conception of the song.
David wrote it some time ago and has sung a solo version since its composition. But the song was always intended to be a scene with distinct male and female voices delivering their perspectives on the end of a relationship. With the help of Dolores and co-Comet Buck Wilburn, this new version does just that.
David and Buck worked on Dolores’ upcoming CD Big Girl Art so bringing Dolores on board for a POSTCARD COMETS track seemed a logical step. The fact that the song is set in a harbour town and Dolores resides in Nova Scotia was just a lucky accident.
On this version, Dolores sings lead and harmony, Buck plays lead guitar and sings harmony and David does the rest.
We hope you’ll give Never Seen The Mountains and leave a comment here on the site about what you think. Have your say!
PS: In answer to a visitor inquiry, the email address request is so that the comments come from real folks and not salesbots. No need for little blue pills, fake diplomas, or replica watches here, thanks!
The first new POSTCARD COMETS track in 6 months!
A BIRD IN OUR HOUSE is the latest POSTCARD COMETS track, our first in 6 months!
During that time, Buck and David were working on Dolores Dagenais’ album BIG GIRL ART due out this spring. Also during this layoff from cutting Comets tracks, David and Howard Rabkin prepped for and played the Stateside Gathering in Cleveland this summer.
We bring this up because A BIRD IN OUR HOUSE features David and Buck AND Howard. Howard plays bass, Buck plays mandolin, (a Comets first) and sings harmony as well. David composed the song and sings, plays guitar and keyboards and handled the production.
David has described the song as being about his family’s first television. He has also acknowledged that it’s about death. Which, when you think about it, could be one and the same thing! It’s the contemplative side of the Comets and we hope you enjoy it.
We also hope you’ll add a comment here. Come on, weigh in – on the song, the band, the universe or the superiority of your pets over all other animals on the planet.. We love your comments; they keep is on our toes.
Oh, and for those new to the site, A BIRD IN OUR HOUSE is the first tune on the player in the upper right of the page!
David Partridge and Buck Wilburn are pleased to have been a part of the production of 13 songs for Big Girl Art, Dolores Dagenais’ next CD. Over the last six months of 2009 David and Buck have been working with Dolores on her album of original songs.
“It was a good break from the Comets”, said Buck, “and a bit of a change for Dolores whose past recordings have been mostly solo work.”
Dolores wrote the songs, a broad, lyrically driven selection ranging from sultry ballads through topical pieces to joyous uptempo tunes. She sang them and played acoustic rhythm guitar. Buck accompanied her on acoustic and electric guitars, lap steel, dobro and mandolin. David oversaw the production and chipped in with keyboards, percussion, harmonica and backing vocals.
“We love Dolores’ songs and her evocative singing”, said David. “We hope to talk her into an appearance on a Postcard Comets track this year!”
Dolores Dagenais’ CD Big Girl Art is scheduled for release in the Spring of 2010. Check back here for more details!
POSTCARD COMETS on video Live in Cleveland!
Postcard Comets are pleased to be able to show you a one song clip from their recent August 8th show in Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The gig was the Stateside Gathering, organized by Jo Robinson under the auspices of the Artistic Freedom Collective.The footage was shot and credited by singer/songwriter Trevor Marty and features David Partridge (guitar, vocals) and Howard Rabkin (bass, vocals).
The video can be found on YouTube but is also embedded in David’s Cometary blog here entitled “Comets Spotted in Cleveland!”
Just click on Cometary at the top of the home page and you’re there. And be sure to leave a comment under the blog!