Next show - we're back at the Bovine with The Blue Demons and Aunt Beazy!  

New T-shirts on the way from the fine folks at Mariachi Ink!

Design by Mariachi Ink

Photo © Linda Dawn Hammond 2008 www.indyfoto.com/

Drum tracks done on two new songs.  Here's Tim getting ready to do his thing. 

So we set up a new youtube channel,  ChristianDMusic's Channel and the first thing I did was to try to do an arty black and white thing on my iphone.

Go check it out if you dare, and please subscribe to the channel, and let us know if you have any video or pics of the Hangovers in action that you might like to share...

Man, Barrie was a blast! Thank you to Anti Hero Tattoos and the Foxx Lounge 
The Brains, The Katacombs, Brigham, and everyone who came out to the show!

If you're a psychobilly fan make sure to check out the Brains- always been great but the new line-up with the addition of Brad Graves on 2nd guitar is killer!

~Christian

First of all- thank you to everyone who came out to the Dakota this past Saturday - we played all night and had a blast! 

The next Toronto show is gonna be at Rancho Relaxo Thursday Oct 6 with Little Foot Long Foot- I think that's gonna be a real barn burner of a show! You should probably be there...

So there's a cool new website in the town of Toronto. And it features us and a bunch of our T.O. friends like Alistair Christl, Buzz Deluxe, The Howling Bullets, The Swinging BlackJacks- you get the idea.  

Big thanks to Mr. Andrew Wright for starting this thing up- it's a really cool addition to the Toronto scene!

Go check it out at torontorockabilly.com

Working up to go and record some new stuff in July....

Our next Toronto show-

Another evening of incredible Canadian burlesque and variety talent featuring the stars of GCB and a range of awesome talent.

Featuring Austalian Burlesque sensation Skittle D'Rouge, Dolly Berlin, Rubie La Framboise,The unpredictable Chaos Divine, Aviva the Mirage, Val Cano, Hula maniac Sadie Spins, The beautiful Belles Jumelles, the debut of Beauty School Dropout, Molly Mishap and from Boylesque T.O the amazing Wrong Note Rusty. Bella Fox, Comedic duo Parker and Seville, Pickpocket James Harrison,70's Pop Icon Vance Vallance sings, The man of Steel Kal-El Superman himself, magician James Alan and musical guest and sponsor Christian D and the Hangovers. Hosted by the Wolfman. 
All these shows are pwyc with a recommended donation of $5-$10

ROADHOUSE SUNDAY'S - A Sunday Night Series of Rockabilly, Blues, Country, Rock n' Roll (February)

**SUNDAY FEB 6th: Christian D and the Hangovers & Gord Lewis

Well, Boxing Day is over, and your chance to download the whole Shake It or Leave It album is done too.

For those of you who didn't get it we'll leave the three most popular songs up as free downloads.  Which were: Vampire Rocker, Life Gets in the Way, and surprisingly to me- Good Woman. 

Hope you had a lovely holiday, and we hope to see y'all in the new year!

~Christian 

I can't afford to get you anything for Xmas- so how about some free music instead of a gift?  You can  download all the songs from Shake It or Leave It until Boxing day. Just click "MP3"

If you're in Toronto this Thursday the 23rd we hope to see you at the Bovine!

~Christian

This Thursday we are at the Bovine Sec Club for our last show of 2010. 

It's Prince Perry and the Gladtones EP release, Straight Razors opening and me and the Hangovers in the middle slot.

Come on out for some pre-Xmas partying with us!

~Christian 

Christian D and the Hangover with Alistair Christl.

Artwork from the Pin up Parlour on display.

Pay what you can so come on out!

I’d guess I’ve been listening to Nick Cave for about 25 years- first thing I heard was Release the Bats, which as a young boy, whose friends all seemed to be listening to Iron Maiden at the time, blew my little mind.

It must have been about 1985, on the old CBC late night show, Brave New Waves, which was awesome if you spent lots of time in a small cottage/ fishing community – as I did. It was THE way for people like me to hear new, challenging music unless you had really cool friends- of which I had but one.

That’s where I got introduced to the Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on the same night- it was the Brave New Waves on air birthday party, if I remember correctly, so naturally they started with the Birthday Party and continued with Nick Cave stuff for a solid hour. Played songs, read quotes – host at the time was CBC mainstay Brent Bambury- I’ve got the show somewhere on an old cassette that I used to tape over and over and over capturing whatever was cool the show played in those days. One Nick quote I think I remember is “women are the rock stars of the world, and I can only worship at their feet.”

ANYWAY- Nick Cave changed my life back then- it was so outside and noisy, intelligent and bloozy and punk rock - and hey, I hadn’t really listened to Beefheart or the Stooges yet. It was mesmerizing, he didn’t really sing, he howled. It was messy and lyrically challenging improv rock and roll. I loved it, I bought it, I bought his first book, I bought all the albums for years. And I still do.

Move forward to tonight. I just got back from Grinderman. It’s years and years down the road. Nick still howls like a man possessed. His lyrics still come on like a bible student who has taken to the bottle and illicit sex for kicks. The music is still based in the blues with a white noise smear of distortion and feedback over the top.

I’m still in love with it. It does something to me I can’t quite explain, but imagine that someone might feel in a drunken backwoods religious communion. I don’t just want to hear/ see it. I want to be it.

My own musical path has been towards simplicity, trying to find the most basic structures, acoustic guitars, three chords, no changes, simple melodies, heartfelt lyrics. Tonight I want to break out the electric guitars, distorted amps and grind!

Thank you Mr. Nick Cave for 30 plus years of rock and roll.

Two Hard hitting bands November 6th at the Black Swan. 
Christian D and the Hangovers and Lead Sled Rocket!

Doors @10pm
Cover 10 dollars

"Life Gets in the Way" -Live at Live at the Cadillac Lounge, Oct 15/ 2010.New additions to the Hangovers- Ken and Tim Kelley on drums and bass.
Camera by Truesville. Cadillac Lounge, Oct 15/ 2010

"When the stars come out, and the sun's gone down, we'll be drinking beer at the Cadillac Lounge- don't wanna sleep my life away."

Hope to see you all there!  And just click "Sleep my Life Away" to download the song for free leading up to the show.

Christian D and the Hangovers and  Alistair Christl and the Cosmotones play the Cadillac Lounge, Toronto Friday October 15th.

From the dark underbelly of Toronto, where urban cowboys moonlight in the psychobilly clubs comes Christian D And The Hangovers. Mixing early rock n roll with punk, country and lots of beer, Christian D And The Hangovers do for rockabilly what Big Rude Jake does for big band music. After the well-received Life Gets In The Way EP, released in 2008, Christian D And The Hangovers had to go full length to build on their legacy. Build on it they have with the dynamic Shake It...Or Leave It! This is an album you can't put down.

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We are excited to announce Christian D and the Hangovers have signed with Clayton.  What a display of energy this band shows in their photos.  You’ve got to see them live.  You can find out where they are playing next right here by clicking on this link “Christian D and the Hangovers”  They have been using our white pearl, .8mm rounded triangle shape, custom guitar picks.  We look forward to making more picks for this fun band.  If you’d like to be endorsed please submit your info here endorsements.

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