Brendan McLeodAbout me
Brendan McLeod has been Vancouver's SLAM poetry Champion, the Canadian SLAM poetry champion, and finished second at the 2005 World SLAM championships, held in Holland. As a novelist, he beat out over 500 original entries to win the 2006 International 3 Day Novel Contest for his book, "The Convictions of Leonard McKinley". He has performed all over the world, at over 200 poetry readings, and is a touring member of The Fugitives spoken word and music troupe. He has an MA in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo.
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‘The Big Oops’ – Reviews from Winnipeg
Congrats to Cara Yeates for a successful first run of ‘The Big Oops’ in Winnipeg. The reviews are in: 4 stars from the CBC, the Winnipeg Free Press, and an ‘A’ from Uptown Magazine. Read them all below. Next stop – Edmonton!
Winnipeg Free Press – 4 stars
Children’s entertainer Sammi Sam could charm the birds out ( Read more... )
Jul 21, 2010 | 0 comment(s)Posted in: News -
Tour Blog #3: Ontario and Quebec
The Ontario/Quebec leg of The Fugitives tour consisted of: Thunder Bay, Sault St Marie, Peterborough, Toronto, London, Guelph, Wakefield, and Montreal. This section of the country is particularly good to tour not just because of the great venues or the plethora of good people we know in these areas, but for the humaneness of it ( Read more... )
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Tour Diary II – The Prairies, Speeding, and How I Suck at Drawing Dogs
I’m writing from the road – 2,500 kilometres into the tour – somewhere between Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. I’m psyched because the landscape has finally decided to incorporate something from Nature’s vast bounty other than flat colourless fields of wheat. Like, a turn. I was raised in the Prairies and I’m totally down with huge ( Read more... )Apr 6, 2010 | 2 comment(s) -
The Fugitives Release Eccentrically We Love! And Tour Dates!
The Fugitives are proud and pleased to announce the release of their new full length album, Eccentrically We Love, due out March 23. The album will be supported by a long awesome tour across Canada and back.
Starting March 23, albums will be available for order at Canadian record stores, the 604 Records store (www.604records.com/store/product/product/the-fugitives), and for ( Read more... )Mar 23, 2010 | 0 comment(s)Posted in: News -
On the Coast
Hey all,
Just a note that I’ll be performing three songs ‘One the Coast’ on March 23 on CBC. I’ll be on sporadically from 2:30-5:30 so feel free to listen in if you’re driving about increasing your carbon footprint! Hurrah!Mar 23, 2010 | 0 comment(s)Posted in: News -
The Fugitives – March 11 & 12
Hey everyone! We had such an awesome time in the culture lab in January that we’re going to do it again! For two nights!
March 11 and 12 we will be bringing you special guests, new songs, old songs, funny stories from the road, and competition between teams accordion, banjo, straight white male with guitar, and triangle.
As seating ( Read more... )Mar 9, 2010 | 0 comment(s)Posted in: News -
March 2010 Happenings!
Hey everyone,
Thanks to all who came out to the Fugitives olympic gigs as well as the premiere of the new play. February was awesome rad face. Here’s what’s on that’s open to the public for March:
March 11 – The Fugitives at the Cultch (with Chris Masson) tix: www.thecultch.com
March 12 – The Fugitives at the Cultch (with Bodhi ( Read more... )Mar 9, 2010 | 0 comment(s)Posted in: News -
February 2010 Happenings!
Hey everyone!!
January ruled; February promises to rock even harder. Here’s the what what on some upcoming gigs:
February 13 – Awesome Face Actually Gets a Date
An Awesome Face Valentines Day show, featuring the dating game, speed dating, and awkward dating stories. At Cafe Deux Soleils, with special guests Raise your Kids Well. Show at 9pm – ( Read more... )Feb 10, 2010 | 0 comment(s) -
January 2010 Happenings!
Hey everyone, Happy new year! This fall was insanely busy – The Fugitives toured our new EP, “Find Me’ across Canada, we recorded our full length album due out in March, and I wrote a play to premiere at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre in February. Wowsers. But first things first, here’s ( Read more... )
Jan 4, 2010 | 0 comment(s)Posted in: News -
The Fugitives EP is now available!
Holla! The new Fugitives EP, ‘Find Me’ becomes available starting today!
To buy it, just go hither:
http://www.604records.com/store/product/the-fugitives-find-me-ep
Yes! We are very excited about its release into the world. Below are some of the reviews that have been coming in for the album. Go buy it! It’s awesome! It has loneliness in it! But also fun!
“An inventive piece ( Read more... )Oct 6, 2009 | 0 comment(s)Posted in: News
