With the blooming of flowers brings the deflowering of The Artist Life. With a very successful 2008 and a promising 2009 on the horizon, The Artist Life are set to embark on their very first full Western Canadian tour. "Let's Start a Riot", the bands second release and first for Canadian indie power house, Underground Operations, has been obtaining wide spread media acclaim as the band to be on watch for. Edge 102.1 nominated the band for "Song of the Year" at 2009's FU! Awards, Japan's Boundee picked up the release for Japanese distro, and "Let's Start a Riot" has been supported by George Stromboulopoulos (the Strombo Show/The Hour), Allan Cross (Explore Music), MTV (Live performance), myspace (exclusive streams), AP (unsigned band of the month) and so much more, all on this five tracks release. In the weeks leading up to the tour, The Artist Life will be premiering their first video from "LSAR" for the track Sleep So Sound (myspace exclusive stream starting April 10th), performing at a Warchild benefit show ("Musical Mutiny") with Edge 102's Martin Streek, and a live performance at the flagship Sunrise Records store as part of "Independent Record Store Day." Join the party at the following cities/venues: 04.19:Winnipeg, MB @ The Church Basement* 04.20:Saskatoon, SK @ Le Relais* 04.21:Medicine Hat, AB @ The Ottoman* 04.22:Calgary, AB @ Sunnyside Hillhurst* 04.22:Calgary, AB @ Dicken's (19+)* 04.23:Edmonton, AB @ Avenue Theater* 04.24:Fort McMurray, AB @ Father Mercredi * 04.25:Edmonton, AB @ Filthy McNasty's (19+)* 04.26:Hinton, AB @ Olympia Tavern* 04.29:Vancouver, BC @ The Media Club 04.30:Port Albernia, BC @ The Academy 05.01:Victoria, BC @ Lucky's 05.02:Kamloops, BC @ The Dirty Jersey Pub 05:04:Regina, SK @ The Club 05.07:Thunder Bay, ON @ Black Pirates Pub 05.08:Sault Ste. Marie, ON @ The Grand Theatre *with a Trophy Life
IT is rumored that Vocalist/bassist Tyson Jay Ritter was born April 24, 1984 at a Van Halen concert, and after he came out, he was wrapped in a t-shirt for the band.
