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Julie Doiron & the Wrong Guys

JULIE DOIRON & THE WRONG GUYS with DEARLY BELOVED at the Garrison (1197 Dundas West), tonight (Thursday, September 13), doors 8:30 pm. $10.50. RT, SS. And solo opening for BEN GIBBARD at the Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), October 14. $25.50-$35. TM. See listing.


Julie Doiron is no stranger to collaboration. She’s played with Herman Dune, Wooden Stars, Mount Eerie and Daniel Romano and Frederick Squire (as Daniel, Fred and Julie). But the Wrong Guys are the loudest group she’s worked with since her Eric’s Trip days.

The singer/songwriter first got together with Neil Young-loving guitar slinger Eamon McGrath and Cancer Bats drummer Mike Peters and bassist Jaye Schwarzer for a couple of one-off local shows in February.

“It was really fun for all of us, so straight away we went into the studio and recorded our set,” says Doiron on the phone from Kingston during the band’s brief fall tour. “It’s very heavy and just different from what I’ve been doing for a while, so it’s been fun to change things up.”

That recording session has so far translated into Heartbeats/Swan Pond, the band’s limited-edition single out Tuesday (September 18) on We Are Busy Bodies.

The group mostly plays older Doiron songs, but they plan to get together early in the new year, whenever tour schedules allow, to write and record a full-length.

“It’s such a good project,” Doiron enthuses. “It’s a funny name, because those guys are definitely not the wrong guys. They’re great. It’s going to be an ongoing project, but for now they’re so busy so it won’t be that frequent.”

Doiron, who just left Toronto to move back to her old stomping grounds of Sackville, New Brunswick, is also excited about the October 23 release of her ninth solo album, So Many Days (Aporia). She recorded it with her former Eric’s Trip bandmate Rick White at his home studio near Orangeville.Though Will Kidman (Constantines) contributed to some outtakes that will likely appear on a future 7-inch, So Many Days is all Rick and Julie.

“It’s a little bit psychedelic, kind of rock, and then there’s some quiet stuff,” she says. “It’s a continuation of what Rick and I have done together up until this point.”

The title nods both to her last album, I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day, and to the time it took to record the new one.

“I wrote a lot of the songs three years ago, and then I wrote another bunch more recently. So many days have passed in the last three years.”

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