ROYAL WOOD/HOLLYWOOD

You've been to Hollywood...you've seen Royal Wood... he's crossed the ocean for a heart of gold...well, he crossed the border at least (but that doesn't fit in as well with our clever Neil Young reference). Royal put on some spectacular shows last week in LA in between the Canadian coasts. After a full-blown east coast tour with Rose Cousins, Royal set off for California to play the Canadian Consulate, Hotel Cafe, Disney and Sony Pictures, where he got to go back to old-Hollywood roots on the lot! Remember that big chase scene in Pee-Wee's big adventure where he is cruising all over a Hollywood lot and drives a santa sled across the set of a Twisted Sister video shoot? It was totally like that (well, probably totally, I wasn't actually there)! I love that scene! Even with jet lag up the wazoo, Royal ripped Hollywood a new one and stole their hearts! Now on the road for the western part of his Canadian tour with Rose Cousins, Royal has been packing houses non-stop. He's on a roll! Watch out! I mean, watch below in case you can still catch him in a city near you. BOOYAH!

MORE AWARD NOMS ROLLING IN

We win so many prizes. Well, at least we get nominated for a lot of prizes. It's looking like we might need a new trophy case. Actually, I think what we really need is some gold office furniture that reflects our stature as award winning superstars (or at least gold plated furniture... or gold spray painted furniture... or somewhat yellowish furniture). In addition to The Beauties winning NOW Magazine's Best of Toronto Award for Best Roots Band, and in addition to Jenn Grant's accolades mentioned above, we have some other major zingers that you might want to know about. Jenn's producer, Jonathan Goldsmith, was nominated by the Canadian Folk Music Awards for Producer of the Year. The CFMA also nominated Wendy McNeill for the Pushing the Boundaries Award and Melissa McClelland for Contemporary Vocalist of the Year. The Hamilton Music Award nominations have come in also...Melissa McClelland is up for so many of them, she even agreed to perform at the ceremony (Hamiltonians can mark December 6 on their calendars). Luke Doucet is up for one as well. Did you know that the Hamilton Music Awards has a category for "Emo/Screamo Recording of the Year"? Not that we're nominated for that one, but I like their moxie in how they've created an award just to give to Alexisonfire. I'm thinking that Melissa should put out a Screamo record next year, so that she can totally dominate. Oh, and NQ Arbuckle was up for some Bucky Awards, namely, "Saskatoon Tonight!" for Best Canadian Song and Best Lyrics ("Officer Down), but didn't make the shortlist. Whaaa??? But Elliott BROOD did make the shortlist for Best Live Act. So go and vote for the BROOD and for Jenn! We love the Bucky awards, they are buck wild!

BEAUTIES FULL OF PUNCH...HOLIDAYS GONNA KNOCK YOU OUT!

The Beauties are embodying the true Christmas spirit this December as they rock out for several seasonal shows. They will be traveling to all of their upcoming shows in a one horse open sleigh (or a van, or a few compact cars, or whatever), and drinking many jugs of egg nog on stage. Y'know, the whole concept of egg nog kinda grosses me out, probably because it has the word "egg" in it, and well, I also kinda think milk is gross (except for Hawksley's album Milk, woo!). I'll just go for the spiked egg nog, hold the egg nog. Hard at work in the studio making their debut full length album, The Beauties are also polishing their choirboy voices for a War Child benefit with Serena Ryder on December 7 at the Dakota Tavern in Toronto. Also on the list of nice people they’re going to share their musical gifts with is Andy Kim (ooooh, Sugar Sugar), during his two-night Christmas-a-thon at the Mod Club in Toronto. If you aren't there, we are sending you a lump of coal and telling Santa that you don't care about helping War Children.

SIX SHOOTER XMAS WEB-STORE DEALS

We still miss our retail outlet on Queen, but we are trying to get over it by trying to embrace the future (aka the internutz). Why shop in person when you can do it all on-line? We are now carrying Hawksey Workman items and Shout Out Out Out Out t-shirts and vinyl in our store, in order to receive items before Christmas please order by December 6 (international) and December 16 (domestic). We are doing some package deals such as.....

2 CDs and a t-shirt $40
Shout Out Out Out Out triple LP vinyl and + Shout Out Out Out Out t-shirt $40
10 CDs for $100 (go big!)

We are going to have a bunch more holiday specials up on our webstore, so come cyber-visit us. There are also some beautiful Martin Tielli Christmas cards available.

LUKE AND MELISSA CAYAMO CRUISE

If you're looking for the perfect way to escape the cruel Canadian winter, there are still packages available on the Cayamo Cruise, Feb 21-26. Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland join Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, John Hiatt, and Lyle Lovett on the best Caribbean cruise imaginable, starting in Miami, and hitting Belize and Mexico on the way! What?! That is insano! Someone remind Luke to put on some sunscreen, he burns easily! Check here for details: www.cayamo.com.

BOOB/YOUTUBE

Shout Out Out Out Out's "They Tear Down Houses Don't They" was featured in MTV's Styl'd on Sunday night, which I guess makes sense since that song does make reference to the similarity between distressed denim and condominiums, both of which undoubtedly make appearances on that show. And Jenn Grant's "Heartbreaker" was featured in Mercy on NBC on October 21, which makes sense because a "medical drama" about nursing undoubtedly will have a few heartbreak-y moments. Footage from our killer Ottawa show is now up on Youtube, featuring fantastic performances from everyone, and a hilarious (and profane) job of emceeing the night by NQ Arbuckle. Man, Six Shooter has both kinds of tube ("boob" and "you") on lock! Check out www.youtube.com/sixshooterrecords to see all the great stuff we've got going on.