sleepless nights of halifax

Zleeplezz Knightz Mix

2010-06-07T14:41:00.004-03:00

I have a DJ night comming up at gus' in Halifax with some guests later this month. I'll post the line up and the poster right soon. In the mean time here is a mix to whet your appetite.

Zleeplezz Knightz

right click and save as to download.

Plastic Bertrand - Tout Petit la Planete /

Public Enemy - Bring the Noize /

Holy Ghost - On Board /

ELO - Last Train to London /

Walker Brothers - Nite Flights /

Roxy Music - Love is the Drug /

Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away /

Lifelike - Soul of my Love /

Human League - Don't You Want Me /

Drake - Money to Blow /

The Clash - Rock the Casbah /

Justice + Simian - We Are Your Friends /

Roadrunner Roadrunner.

2010-04-21T13:32:00.002-03:00

Recorded April 20th 2010 in my bedroom on Fernlane in Halifax while Alex Saul provided the loan of a ukelele and sang/arranged the backup vocs.

roadrunner

Sleepless nights cover Myles Deck and the Fuzz

2010-04-08T15:31:00.001-03:00

covers of nights songs.

2010-03-23T23:58:00.002-03:00

Sleepless nights by not sleepless nights. click on the links for some myspace action.

allyson got robbed - cigarettes

politics - doug mason

Death

2010-02-11T15:11:00.002-04:00

This is a record i made 4 years or so ago about my dad and grandfather dying. I was reminded of it by the handsome Mr. Brad Casey of the Hamilton Trading Co. Sleepless Nights just did a tour with them and a few dates with the Diaboleros through the Maritimes, Ontario and Quebec. Here's the downers.

Stranger Than Fiction

Sososos Reprise

radio silence on the radio

2010-01-09T15:18:00.002-04:00

Here's a version of radio silence i did with just a guitar on the rock station in Fredericton sometime last year.

AA Wallace - Radio Silence

Songs By Bands Toni Likes

2009-12-25T00:36:00.003-04:00

As performed by me.

transmission

the sex has made me stupid

boys don't cry

how soon is now

Merry Christmas everyone. Did you get anything interesting?

DubSpot: Creating a dubstep bass sound / wobble in Ableton Live 8

2009-12-18T15:02:00.001-04:00

Here Is the Vid I was talking about in the previous post.

Reverse Polarity

2009-12-18T14:55:00.003-04:00

Here's another demo of a track thats going to be on the upcoming nights full length. I made the bass part by following instructions posted on A-trak's blog on how to make a wobbly bass sound in the simpler instrument of Ableton Live.

AA Wallace - Reverse Polarity

You'll find love.

2009-12-12T15:14:00.003-04:00

Here's the demo i recorded sometime ago. The drums and keys are from that wood paneled Casio that Matt used to play in Sleepless Nights. I got that from Tim Deon when we used to live at dirt mansion. It still has the Value Village sticker on it.

AA Wallace - You'll Find Love

Newz

2009-12-07T00:25:00.002-04:00

- New EP is done. It's called the Phone Booth Outside the Video Store.
-We're doing another cover EP. Not totally sure what will be on it but it will include Young Turks.
-The Nights are going on tour in Feb/Jan and recording another LP on the way.
-Sorry for the lack of updates. Got a ton of new tracks I will be posting soon.

Remix Radio Silence!

2009-11-09T22:14:00.000-04:00

Do it, I dare you. Here are the individual tracks. You can e-mail me the results at cheval93@gmail.com.

kids on fire video

2009-11-09T00:54:00.000-04:00

made by Michael Jackson of Doug Mason fame.

Kids On Fire

sleepless nights | MySpace Video

Exclaim!

2009-11-04T00:52:00.000-04:00

The Nights/Thomas/Richard are in this months exclaim on page 11. More specifically this blog. Thanks for being awesome when i'm not paying attention world.

in other news we secretly posted a new record for you to download at thesleeplessnights.com

Herohill!

2009-10-09T23:56:00.000-03:00

Herohill is an awesome blog that covers mostly east coast Canadian bands. And what with us being both of those things nights got props up on there recently

check it out.

tour dates/new record/exclaim

2009-10-07T13:43:00.000-03:00

Hey folks,
-Long time no see. Nights got covered in exclaim.ca 's click here blog for a bunch of Bryan Adams covers posted here.

-The new record King Diamond is available for download at the newly revamped thesleeplessnights.com

-We're going to be going on a breif tour next week starting with this sunday at Gus's pub in Halifax with our friends in Rah Rah. Dates are on myspace and on thesleeplessnights.com

xox

Aaron

live nights one world cafe

2009-08-17T22:52:00.000-03:00

2 recordings from November 5th 2006. Show was at the one world cafe in Halifax. I miss that place. I saw so many awesome shows there. It's some sort of glamour shot studio or somthing now. Acoustic-ish show. I think Richard fell asleep at this one.

Keep Your Voice Down

Breathe Deep Tornado

Way to Ruin Everything

2009-08-17T00:24:00.000-03:00

Two more demos and the track we recorded for our split 7" with thomas/richard a few years ago. Andrew Sisk plays drums on Way to Ruin Everything.

Way to Ruin Everything

Kristen's a Germaphobe

No Torch

Pics from Evolve 09

2009-08-16T12:58:00.000-03:00

Here are some pics by one Halifax's best photogs Chris Smith. You can see more of his work at www.funkfactor.com.

bryan adams on the phone

2009-08-15T11:15:00.000-03:00

Somehow a few years ago I got talked into going to a Bryan Adams concert. Then I decided that Bryan Adams was awesome and deserved a tribute album. I got as far as convincing three other people I was right. Here are the results.

Heaven - A.A. Wallace

Everything I do i do it for you - Turkules (that guy from contrived)

Run to you - Catholic Gaydar (featuring Matt Pacman from Sharpe Like Knives and Windom Earle)

Cuts Like a Knife - Thomas/Richard (who will be playing with a bunch of sleepless nights at the popex this year)

nights at the yarmouth ns exhibition

2009-08-14T13:26:00.000-03:00

We played in Yarmouth last week after judging a battle of the bands to see which high school band would get a slot at Nova Scotia Music Week this year. They get picked up in a limo and driven to the show from their school as i understand it. Pretty dope. I would have loved that shit in High School.

Here's some Vids.

old demos

2009-08-14T13:21:00.000-03:00

Here are three older demo's for you that didn't make it onto the a place who loves comp. Not because i didn't like them but because i couldn't find them.

I can break your heart

godspeed you deathwolf

water ring glasses

covers record from winter 06

2009-08-13T15:37:00.001-03:00

Here is a cover ep that i originally released on a 3 inch cd in 06. recorded on Compton ave in Halifax using cool edit pro and a laptop.

dance music - originally by julie doiron
you can have it all - originally by yo la tengo
the message - originally by grand master flash and the furious five
choking me - originally by burnt black
true love will find you in the end - originally by Daniel Johnson

I just recovered a bunch of old recordings like this so there should be alot of music posts comming up on here.

casiotone cover

2009-07-18T18:20:00.000-03:00

My regular recording program is crapping out on my so i'm looking at free alternatives to use for making demos. I tried out audacity today and recorded a cover of new years kiss by Casiotone for the painfully alone.

here's mine

here's one of his

success summer 09 mix

2009-07-03T19:33:00.000-03:00

sleepless nights are on tour. When sleepless nights are on tour there is a lot of time spent on the computer. a lot of time spent on the computer without any real inspiration, just the thought that computing is a less painful way of wasting time than actually doing stuff. In this time I made a new DJ mix for you. I hope you like it. it's way cooler than the last one.

here's the track list -

Holy ghost! - I will come back
Chemical Brothers - Chemical Beats
Peaches - Lose You (yuksek mix)
Armand Van helden feat. Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers
Tiga - Shoes(beni remix)
Musique - Keep on jumpin
Hot Chip - hold on (D.I.M. remix)
Muscles - Sweaty (shazam remix)
Daft Punk - Burnin
Micheal jackson - Smooth Criminal (lazertag edit)
Tiga - mind dimention to (soulwax version)
FUKKK OFF - love me hate me kiss me kill me
WZRDZ - kick it
Miike Snow - Animal (treasure Fingers mix)
Lifelike - Soul Of My Love

Success summer 09

Free Sleepless Nights Comp

2009-06-22T21:27:00.000-03:00

data compilation

2009-06-05T15:49:00.000-03:00

So there's The Nights and Rah Rah doing Breathe Deep Tornado at the capitol in Fredericton. I don't think i was actually even on stage at this point. Also above this post and below the pic we have the tour poster featuring the ever lovely Trevor Gertrude Murphy of blasse playing fame.

I made a typo in the previous post. The tour release is actually called "a place who loves" not that loves. 14 tracks.

the world forgetting
we're all doomed
politics
green lights
alone and annoyed
jeff's guide
backtalk
coup d'etat
way to ruin everything fast
sleepless nights
guitar hero
way to ruin everything
north dakota
disappear into the flatlands

none of these tracks will be remastered so there is going to be a wide range of volume dynamics. I recommend listening to it close to your volume control

the way bricks don't

2009-06-04T18:46:00.000-03:00

sorry for the lack of posts recently. the nights have been busy. we did a batch of atlantic province shows with Rah Rah over the last couple weeks. I'll gather the photo's i've seen scattered across various facebooks and msg boards and post them here in the next couple days.

We're gearing up to do a Canadian tour with Rah Rah starting next week and since we don't have a new record out yet we're going to do a tour release. It's going to be called "a place who loves" which some north-enders may recognize. On the disc there will be covers, demos, and failed attempts at album songs. I've been going through all the songs i have on hard drives and computers and it's going to be pretty eclectic. three peice drudgery from 2003 to space robot jams from the future. you're probably going to hate it.

nights album

2009-03-26T15:18:00.000-03:00

working on it. it's pretty psychedelic at this point. lots of stereo effects. you're going to get seasick.

Also, I just finished the music for a SERIOUSLY remix of morning eyes by OWL which is matt from the superfan's new boy girl 2 people band. it's right new wave disco. If i get permissions when it's done i'll throw it up here.

dear mr Branson

2009-03-09T23:10:00.000-03:00

I had a dream the other night that i just recalled. I was really stressed out about life and decided i should go into television. Then Richard Branson came over and told me i should program a channel he was starting. I told him I wanted to show 80's movies like they used to show on comedy central and science fiction. He said that was a great idea. Are you up there Mr. Branson it's me Aaron. Facebook me, we'll hang out after work this week.

old mashups

2009-02-23T22:27:00.001-04:00

these are from 2006 i think. I remastered them a bit.

snoop pharell and death cab

destiny's child and pink floyd

New Album part 1

2009-01-18T21:43:00.000-04:00

We recorded drum tracks today in Roger Nelson's shed for 9 songs. I'll post some pics as soon as i figure out how to get them off my phone onto this computer.
Also we recorded a version of Oh yeah by Daft Punk

10 favorite songs of 08

2008-12-28T11:58:00.000-04:00

So I guess forward is starting a blog and they were thinking we should all do a list of 08 or something. Here are the 10 songs i listened to most this year. Keep in mind I didn't specify FROM this year. It's a rar archive so you'll need some sort of uncompressing utility.

Surkin - Next of Kin
I heard this in the unreleased Fabric mix that Justice did and just figured it was them doing an edit of something. Then I happened on the actual track in a compilation.

Iron Virgin - Rebels Rule
I've always loved glam so one night on soulseek I got a bunch of best of's and compliations. This is the only tracks the really caught my attention but i can't stop listening to it.

Sebastien Tellier - Sexual Sportswear
Sebastien Tellier and Arpegiators. Put two of my favorite things together then add production help from a member of daft punk and you can't lose.

Portishead - Machinegun
I find some of third kind of off putting in how much every song sound like another song (silverapples much?) but this minimal electro gem easily rises above it's allusions.

Harry Manfredini - Theme to Friday the 13th Part 3
An instrumental from the 80's that could easily have been made by Chromeo.

Yuksek - Tonight
Phillip Clark showed me this song a couple weeks ago and i've since listened to it at least a hundred times. Everything about this song is perfect.

Jack White and Alicia Keys - Another Way to Die
I'm obsessesed with fuzz tone. This has got it en mass. Really crazy arrangement and the best bond theme since a view to a kill.

Women - Black Rice
I played a couple shows with them in the Jon Mckiel band not person. They didn't have any records yet so i didn't hear this until a bit latter but it was definetly a standout track of the shows.

Paul McCartney - Check My Machine
This is on the reissue of McCarney 2. From what I gather this was not a sucessful record at the time. The world was not ready. Forget about the beatles or any of those other guys. Get this record and try to tell me this isn't the music of the future.

Mr oizo Sebastian and Sebastien Tellier - Skatesteak
From the soundtrack to Oizo's movie Steak. Easier to watch than electroma.

new mash up

2008-12-27T22:50:00.001-04:00

Daft Punk, Super Mario Bros and the Rocky Theme in a failure Pile - SERIOUSLY

DJ mix.

2008-12-12T16:08:00.000-04:00

in other news i just finished a dj mix of some new tracks i'm into and some mash ups i did.

SERIOUSLY - DEC 08MIX

top 5 and ECMA's

2008-12-12T16:02:00.000-04:00

Our show in PEI tonight made the top 5 shows in Canada this weekend:
Fri Dec 12 - Corb Lund Yellowknife, NT - The Hurtin' Albertan will be giving a lesson in horsemanship and raw-country rocking Friday night at St. Patrick's High School.
Fri Dec 12 - Fembots Toronto, ON. A misty musical thank you to the little indie label that could. (weewerk) celebrates its 6^th birthday with Fembots, Tony Dekker, and Jenny Omnichord at the Whippersnapper Gallery.
Fri Dec 12 / Sat Dec 13 - Hey Ocean! Grande Prairie, AB. Since seeing them once is never enough, Vancouver's Hey Ocean! will take the stage at Better Than Fred's for back-to-back nights.
Fri Dec 12 / Sat Dec 13 - Jingle Bell Rock Toronto, ON. With The Dears, Tokyo Police Club, Metric, and Sebastien Grainger all taking the stage at the Sound Academy, it must be said: Helping charities never sounded so good.
Fri Dec 12 - Sleepless Nights Charlottown, PEI. The kids will be on fire this Friday as Sleepless Night's wall-of-sound makes its way into Hunter's Ale House.
Also we got nominated for best alternative recording at the ECMA's this year. I think hey rosetta'll get it.

another mash up

2008-12-10T11:43:00.000-04:00

while i'm waiting for work to call me back about when i can start i've been working on a new mix. here's a mash-up of britney's womanizer and katy perry's hot and cold. it's fairly brief but the joke gets old quick.

we're home

2008-12-08T21:58:00.001-04:00

Fredericton was awesome. The second show was crazy. I sweat the whole time. In other news I made a new myspace for my other side project SERIOUSLY. I'll be posting all the mixes and mashups i do there as well as original material.

xox

got caught live vid

2008-12-01T00:51:00.000-04:00

got caught at sneaky dee's on Zunor TV

some pics by trev

2008-11-30T00:19:00.001-04:00

facts

2008-11-29T21:27:00.000-04:00

i wasn't able to post anything since we got to the west coast and we're already on our way back east. here are a few things i learned.

-East Hastings is a shitty hangout

-I don't hate all hippies it turns out, just most of them

-You never know where you'll find a vocoder

-Mountain towns are beautiful and junk

-Pinky sleeps like a bear in January

-Actual recording studios are a thing that i like when i am at them

-That is what i want my amp to sound like and no i won't change it

-I like dogs. small ones. that shit next to pinky.

I'll post some pics as soon as i gets them.

jasper

2008-11-22T13:44:00.000-04:00

I'm in a hotel room in jasper that is connected to the place we played last night. Getting hotels is awesome because then you don't have to hustle to find a place to stay all day. It's a rare and welcome treat.
The show last night was really fun. we played jeff's guide to TV and breathe deep tornado which we have not played yet this tour. the show was opened by a dance party so we had to try and keep the energy going which it's safe to say we failed at and i couldn't have been happier. the few people that were into the show were cool so i was glad to be there playing. not to mention we got an insane amount of beer and some girl bought us shots. That made the heckling alot easier to take.
Yes, the heckling. No we won't play you a tragically hip song and no you can't come up on stage and play it yourself.
In honor of the corporate-ish surroundings i'm in, here is the radio mix of got caught.

sleepless nights -got caught radio remix

Winnipeg.

2008-11-18T00:42:00.000-04:00

We've arrived in winnipeg after 3 days of travel and attempts at travel. The first day TOMTOM our navigator wasted all our daylight then we confirmed that out lights aren't working right at all. We were searching for a motel 2 nights ago when a place called Krazy Krust Patties appeared as being on out route in the GPS. We had to check it out. turned out to be a jamaican restauraunt in a stripmall. needless to say we did not sleep there.
Anyway, we drove and drove and ate and slept and now here we are. We're playing a show tomorrow which is why we do this so i'm psyched.
Note: chicken bowls from kfc are the best thing since rock'n'roll.

Toronto

2008-11-15T13:08:00.001-04:00

Last night we played at Sneaky Dee's in Toronto. We got to hang out with our former drummer Mary; always a nice feature of passing through. She got really drunk and was pretty much hilarious all night. We got a few drinks from the bar but they were only good for some beer caller grolsh i think. It was quite bizarre. the driest beer I've ever had. the cotton candy of beers really. Paul from Zunior was there and he taped some of our set so hopefully some of it will end up on Zunior TV in the near future. Our timmons show got cancelled so we're driving from Toronto to Winnipeg but now we have 3 days to make it there. By the time we arrive i should have gotten quite far in lego batman and beaten the crap out of Pinky in tetris attack a bazillion times.

here's a demo of a song that may make it onto our next record.

we're all doomed

best tour ever.

2008-11-14T13:27:00.000-04:00

we're hanging out in the basement of sonic unyon in a rehearsal space with out friend nick. last night we played at the casbah lounge, which was cool although different. we usually play in the big room there but for the amount of people that come to see us the small room is probably more apppropriate. The show ended early so we got to go see preistess down the street afterwards which was awesome. guitar envy enmasse. we're off to Toronto today where we're going to get to see Mary C our former drummer. Show is at sneaky dees. last time we where there spooky ruben showed up. do do ou yoy yo yeh.

guitar hero

2008-11-11T16:49:00.000-04:00

Here's a song we recorded at the same time as turn into vapour. Like jeff's guide i just got around to finishing it. It'll be on a forward compilation that should be be out by christmas.

sleepless nights - guitar hero

music NS

2008-11-11T16:41:00.000-04:00

we played a music nova scotia showcase this weekend. it was fun. not a huge turnout or anything but playing on big stages with nice sound systems makes me feel like a rockstar. t/r took some pic. trev made a bring nova scotia music week to yarmouth t-shirt. that would be awesome, we travel so much that i never have the time to get home.

we're going on tour again.

2008-11-05T23:05:00.000-04:00

First show is at the Music NS awards in New Glascow, we get to play with Myles Deck and the Fuzz which is pretty daunting but I think we may be up to it. we'll be breaking out a new song for the first time. I think it may be called "your affection" I could be wrong. also we've renamed our song "information" to "faber drive". They have a song called sleepless nights and we keep hearing about people finding that on the internet when they're looking for us on-line so we may as well google-fuck them right back. This is the first post here SNOH, so i'll fill you in on what to expect. lots of MP3's of demo's and radio sessions and side projects and such, links to video's hopefully some of which we can make and post on this tour, and my ramble ramble. I'm going to try and update this as much as possible. As soon as i get my hosting situation figured i'll start with some radio session tracks i think.

xoxoxox