Montreal. Where this all began for all of us, and I guess now where it ends. We concluded our Indie Rock Coloring Book tour in our home city of Montreal, on Labour Day weekend. It began with a daytime launch event at the Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore, on Bernard Street. This fun-filled afternoon was low key and family friendly, with adults, teenagers, and children – brownies, cookies, and juice - and lots of coloring. And, a very special acoustic solo performance from Murray Lightburn, of The Dears. 

For a full review of the event, read this terrific review by Christine Lariviere, from ‘Midnight Poutine’.

The Middle Distance Runner, chilling outside the Drawn & Quarterly bookshop.

A crowd of all ages, eagerly anticipating the performance of Mr. Lightburn.

Sam Roberts, The Dears, and YBP!

Click here to see the rest of the photos from this event!

The After Party took place in the evening in conjunction with SNAP Magazine @ SNAP’s loft. Yet again, it was another coloring adventure, bringing the Indie Rock Coloring Book to life with mystery punch, and other party delights.

More pictures here…

 THANK YOU – to all of you who came out to these events. It meant the world. Keep up the colouring! xoxo YBP

We recently came across some photos of Elvis Perkins, taken by Amanda M. Hatfield, who attended our Indie Rock Coloring Book launch event in NYC. Check them out, they’re exquisite: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dust/sets/72157622107502041/.  

We also came across a terrific review of our show on Baeblemusic.com. Read that review here!

Hello Yellow Birds,

New York City was short, but sweet. Pretty much as sweet as it gets. Our concert with Elvis Perkins and Ra Ra Riot at the Housing Works Bookstore went down an absolute storm - it sold out and Elvis really brought the house down. Elvis Perkins, pictured below is wearing our YBP merch tee.

Thanks to Ra Ra Riot’s DJing, people were free to hang the venue both before and after Elvis performed his solo acoustic performance. Wes and Milo from Ra Ra Riot pictured below. Milo is wearing a Bon Iver YBP tee, and Wes is wearing a Ra Ra Riot YBP tee, which is being released in October. Stay tuned for that…

Elvis played some of the classics, some from his latest LP, and also some brand new ones from his soon to be released EP. He spoke about our t-shirts, and our coloring book, and for his last song, he said ‘this is my contribution to the coloring book’ before proceeding into an alternate acoustic version of ‘Shampoo’, with the familiar lyrics ‘yellow is the color of a strangled rainbow’.

Thank you all for coming out! A special thanks also out to Elizabeth Weinberg, who was our official photographer for the evening. See more of her pictures in our gallery by clicking here.

We’re just about to head off to the Drawn & Quarterly bookstore, for part III of our Indie Rock Coloring Book Tour. Murray Lightburn, from The Dears will be performing a solo acoustic session. If you’re around in Montreal, come join! Announcement below is from the Montreal Gazette.

SNAP Salon
4064 St. Laurent Suite 1
Montreal, Quebec

Check out the deets here.

Hello all!

So sorry that we’ve neglected to update this here blog – we’ve spent most of the past weekend at the Outside Lands Festival, where we had no wireless access, and we’ve barely had a moment to stand still. We’ve just been too busy - meeting tons of great people, seeing some of our favourite bands, eating lots of amazing food, and spreading the good word about Mr. Yellow Bird. Here’s a quick re-cap of the events thus far:

We landed in San Francisco on Thursday evening, where both halves of YBP became one solitary unit. We drove to the Outside Lands Festival grounds to bag our vendor passes, and then headed straight to ‘The Mission’ district to have dinner and spend the evening with our friends at Chronicle Books, toasting to success of our Indie Rock Coloring Book.

YBP on the road…

Along the way we enjoyed some epic Mexican food. Mmmmmm.

Friday night we had our first official Indie Rock Coloring Book launch party, at the Medicine Agency. It was a super fun event, with great music, and LOTS of coloring! Thanks to John and Rama at Medicine for setting it up, and to Sean Desmond for taking such great pictures, some of which you can see below.

Standing by the punch table swallowing punch.

Colouring in MGMT’s psychedelic playground.

Whoaaaaaa! Colouring!!!

For three days straight we had a vendor booth set up at the Outside Lands Festival. We were situated right next to the Solar Panel Stage, which meant that we were able to see bands like Bat For Lashes close up. We met hundreds of nice people including the kind folks from ‘EcoMom‘, who were stationed in the tent next to us.

When we were not selling t-shirts and hoodies, we did also manage to slip away to catch a few big acts. Highlights included: a ridiculous set from Band Of Horses on the closing day, The National‘s Matt Berninger killing a bug ‘on his nose’, and then dedicating the next song to that bug, and Conor Oberst’s cover of Rilo Kiley‘s ‘Portions for Foxes’, with a special appearance from Jenny Lewis. Overall, we killed it in San Fran, and we had a great time. Below are some pics from the Outside Lands.

Bat For Lashes, performing near our tent.

Another view from just in front of our tent.

And here’s a picture of our booth!

To see the rest of our photos click here!

We’ve now just landed in NYC. More updates to follow. You also can follow us by day via Twitter.

ALSO: there are still some tickets left for the Elvis Perkins/Ra Ra Riot concert tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at Housing Works, tickets are available here.

Bye for now!
xoxo