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April 28th, 2008
SEVEN INCH FALL RELEASE ON: OUT OF TOUCH RECORDS
New Doers 7" record will be available this fall from Out Of Touch, located in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Dale runs it out there and he is a very sweet man, and we're going to really enjoy each other.

April 27th, 2008
YOUTH WEEK SKATE SHOW
May 10th, at 4PM, The Doers are playing outside at the skatepark, under the Georgia Viaduct, as a part of Youth Week.

April 26th, 2008
COMPS COMPS
2 NEW Doers songs on 2 NEW COMpss! One's a surprise, and the other one is called I ATE YR LEGS and that's coming on Thankless Records . Both songs were recorded at HQ by JoJo's Workout of course. I think they'll both be available in May and both are killer kompilations! Shammy even got asked to do a cover for one of them, so yes.

March 3rd, 2008
DOERS TURN FIVE!
Well that's almost 400 shows, 3 LPs, 3 EPs, multiple line-ups, Other Doers, friends and people and all over the place. Special anniversary show Friday, May 2nd at Little Mountain Studios w/Apollo Ghosts, SSRIs, and Better Friends Than Lovers... WORD 4 LIFE LOVERRRZZ

February 14th, 2008
ISLAND APRIL POWERS
It's been over a year since our last Island trip. This time it's at Logans in Victoria on April 11th, and over there, back in Nanaimo, for all ages on April 12th @ The Chrome Horse. See you soon island people!

January 22nd, 2008
ARTSHOW: COLOUR IS THE KEYBOARD
Shammy's in a show about Canadian musicians that do art here

January 14th, 2008
COVERS!!!
Is the Doers cover band now? For parties?

January 9th, 2008
UP YR BENCH!
This Friday, Little Mountain Studios -- Sean's art opening. Check here.

December 7th, 2007
SONG FOR THANKLESS COMP
Bil over there at Thankless Records asked us to contribute a song for an upcoming compilation. OF COURSE! we're gonna throw something together in the living room this week and have Mr. Ugly document it!

December 6th, 2007
WINTER SHOWZZ
We have some nice stuff coming up. It's all posted on our live page here.

December 4th, 2007
INTERVIEW FROM GUELPH
Shane Shapiro from the Echo Weekly in Guelph wrote a sweet and accurate interview about Doers. Read it here.

December 2nd, 2007
PLUS PLUS BIEN
Reluctant Recordings just sent us a box of the second version of the Plus Bien 12" EP. It also has the 'Susan Sarandon Is A Doer' drawing by Shammy, but this time the spiral is replaced by an Andy Dixon drawing. Plus Bien is limited to 330 copies w/different colour combos and drawings.

November 21st, 2007
CBC RADIO 3 TOUR INTERVIEW THINGEMA
Sean did an interview over at CBC Radio 3 about touring in Canada.

November 14th, 2007
COBALT / WENDY THIRTEEN BENEFIT
The next Doers live show will be on Wednesday, December 5th at the Cobalt in Vancouver as part of a benefit show for Wendy Thirteen who got robbed earlier this month. So far STAMINA MANTIS is also on the bill.

November 2nd, 2007
BACK HOME! BEST TOUR!
It was the best tour yet! Everyone was so great to us as usual! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING EVERYONE! We are the luckiest dudes in Canada! And extra-special thanks to Jef who quit his job, left his girlfriend and his bands in Montréal and joined us in the van. Tonight we'll be playing at the Railway, here in Vancouver, w/Ghost House, The Winks, Stamina Mantis and N. 213. We'll be re-united with Shawn and playing a couple of songs with Jef too!! On Sunday we will be playing at HomeFest which is a sort-of-homecoming show w/22 acts. We will be playing last at about 10:40pm. <3

October 19th, 2007
JEF DOER TO FILL IN
Jef from Special Noise will be joining us tonight for the first time as the Doers drummer, for our show in Montréal. He has quit his job and he'll be getting in the van to help us finish the tour.

October 14th, 2007
CAMERON PETER PARKER
Cam is gonna save the day tomorrow in Fredericton and the show after that in Moncton!!!

October 12th, 2007
DOER? DRUMMER?>
Shawn has a family emergency and has flown back to Vancouver. We're in Halifax. If anyone wants to fly out and meet us and play drums for the rest of the Gaiety tour, we will buy you a plane ticket. For real! Love, Don & Barry.

October 9th, 2007
DOERS NUMBER 7
For the month of September, GAIETY was the seventh most played record in the country based on the college radio charts here. This is the most played Doers record yet and thanks everyone out there for being so sweet to us! Love, the Doers

September 22nd, 2007
RECORDS!
Last night in Edmonton we met up with Evan from Reluctant Recordings and our 2 new records! GAIETY is red vinyl that comes with a 24" poster and also includes a CD-version of the album. PLUS BIEN is a one-sided 12" EP vynil picture disc w/a picture of Susan Sarandon.

August 28th, 2007
TOUR DATES
POSTED here with more coming!! See you soon! <3

August 27th, 2007
VINYL DELAYED
The 2 rekkids are held up at the plant. But the CD version of "Gaiety" is available!! The vinyl will be ready for our tour in September.

June 15th, 2007
NEW DOERS STUFF RELEASE DATES
GAIETY CD - July 31st
GAIETY 12" LP - Aug 24th
PLUS BIEN -- 12" EP ONLY - Aug 24th
All from Reluctant Recordings
All recorded by Jesse Gander at The Hive..

May 25th, 2007
GAIETY! PLUS BIEN!
Yesterday we finished mastering THE DOERS "GAIETY" (16 songs, 30 minute LP) and THE DOERS "PLUS BIEN" (6 songs, 14.5 minute EP)... both to be released by the lovely Evan's Reluctant Recordings from Edmonton over there!

May 24th, 2007
!earshot! NCRC Kickoff Party w/The Doers, Mutators
One more for the summer. Monday, June 11th at the Lamplighter! NCRC stands for National Campus Radio Conference or National Canadian Radio Campus errr.. it's the kick-off for that thingema anyway and we are happy to be playing there -- what, with how sweet all the college radio folks have been to us over the past three years. LOVE LOVE++

May 24th, 2007
Master, Master
Oh shit, the new songs have gone over to Jamie over there at Suite Sound Labs, and Barry and Jesse are there right now as I speak, getting it ready.

May 8th, 2007
CANCELED Recording Party!
For a buncha reasons, we have to cancel the live recording house party. All other Doers shows/plans are going on/ahead as planned, like touring and the release of our new album(s) etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. SEE YOU REAL SOON+LOVE, THEDOERS

April 19th, 2007
Sean Doer/Andy Dixon/Wendy Oakman's Artshow Up Til May 15th
Ya ya, check it out if you like. Over at Anti-Social Gallery at 2425 Main St. here in Vancouver. Thanks to everyone who cameout for the opening party!!

March 21st, 2007
Urban Aid Benefit
The Doers are playing at the Jericho Hill Community Centre on May 24th at 7pm for the Urban Aid Benefit!

March 20th, 2007
'A Call For Evolution' - Sean's Upcoming Art Show
Sean's having a collaborative art show with Andy Dixon and Wendy Oakmen. The opening is on Friday, April 13th at Anti-Social on Main Street (enter from the alley) and there will be live music by The Doers, Winning (Andy's band) and Mattress (from Portland). I think it all starts at 8? The show features a bunch of new, original work -- solo and collaborative.

March 19th, 2007
Tour Highlights Blog!
Doers just got home last week from a 2 week tour w/Collapsing Opposites! Check out our MySpace page for tour blog highlights. This involved jamming "Funhouse" with Mike Watt and the Missingmen AND Nels Cline at the end of their set, and camping on the beach. Thanks to everyone who dropped by our homecoming party/artshow at Laura's pad.

December 18th, 2006
Doers Recording Time Booked!
We've booked in 7 days at the end of April to record a new LP, at the Hive, with Jesse Gander. That's why we're writing now!!! New songs!

November 20th, 2006
Doers Home Doers
THE 'WACK! This upcoming Saturday, November 25th, the Doers'll be back hometown out in Chilliwack at the Hope River Lions Hall with a bunch of wicked bands. Show at 7pm. It's ALL AGES of course/as usual! We're introducing all of our friends and family out there to our new Doer Shawn Doer. Done.

November 19th, 2006
Doers Eating Contest!
This upcoming Friday, November 24th, the Doers will play after an eating contest at Budgies Burritos. The contest starts at 8:00 pm and competitors face off against "Two-Burrito-Tong" Joel (if ya wanna be in the contest you have to be at Budgies by 7 o'clock). The Doers then play at 9 and then Joel will play at 10.

November 17th, 2006
Doers + Leeside Skatepark Benefit
The doers are playing their first show with new songs as the new trio on Sunday, November 19th at the Leeside Skate park tunnel at 1 in the afternoon, as part of a benefit to raise $$ to improve the park. Last year Lee Matasi was shot and killed downtown Van at a nightclub. he was a friend of many of friends and a local artist and skateboarder who started the Leeside skate park over by the PNE. This benefit is being organised by our friend Thor and the fine folks over at Anti-Social skateshop. Please come by and support ! This is important STOP THE VIOLENCE

check out these links:
http://www.leeside.ca/
http://leematasi.spekt.net/
http://www.artistsagainstviolence.ca/

October 24th, 2006
Doers Westcoast Tour
So we're gettin' in the van w/Ghost House and makin' a run for it. If you want to put us up or have us play, drop us a line here. See you real soon!

October 23rd, 2006
Doers Update
It's been awhile, so I thought I'd let ya in on what's up. We've been rehearsing as a trio and it's goin' well. New songs and all. Come to Budgie's on November 24th to check it out.. check it out! This will be our first show with the new songs the three of us have been working on. We'll be recording all this stuff in the new year w/Jesse and it's comin' out on vinyl and CD from the best record label in the world: Reluctant Recordings.

August 21st, 2006
Shawn! Doer Again Trio
The newest Doers team is assembled and currently in training. Sean and Barry are joined by their old friend Shawn, who will be singing and playing the drums. Some might know Shawn from Notes From Underground or various other bands around Vancouver. We will be having an inaugural performance this Labour Day (Sept 4th) at the ONLY magazine's Victory Square Block Party. It is outdoors at Pender and Cambie and it is free! The whole thing starts at 2pm.

July 12th, 2006
Everyone's A Doer
It's summer and, in regular Doers fashion, we're on vacation. In the fall we will be regrouping with a very new Doers. This regrouping will be followed shortly with a west coast tour, vancouver island dates and shows in and around the lower mainland. The Doers will also be recording new material to go with all this newness!!!

June 6th, 2006
Salut Joy!
So it was a brief run together w/Joy, but a darn good one at that! We went out to the maritimes together and her production of Joy Toys in the van and her general rad energy made for a trip that will be tough to beat on future tours. It was in Toronto, at Wavelength, where I think the Doers achieved the highest of peak performance and the tightest of musical connectedness. Joy will be dedicating her musical attention to the project she shares with her husband Jacob: The People Verses. All the best Joy and Jake! LOve your Doers.

June 5th, 2006
Top Ten Doers
As per !earshot college radio charts here, Whatcha Doin'? was number 10 across Canada for the month of May.

April 26th, 2006
Doers No. 9 In Canada
...for the week -- see here. Thanks to all college folks across Canada that spin the DOers.

April 11th, 2006
Do It Yourself
Check out this pic from Evan's garage in Edmonton. He's hand-screening the new record cover for Whatcha Doin'?. He'll be comin' to town on Friday to bring 'em to the show. Much respect to Reluctant and Red Cat. We'll try to match all of their hardwork workin' hard on the road.

April 6th, 2006
Doers Debut #1
Those sweet bunch at CiTR spin Whatcha Doin'?. here.

March 20th, 2006
Doers + Varge
Varge just flew home, back to Sudbury, after recording w/Jesse at the Hive for a week. Their new album 'Must Lunge' is so very rad. I had the honour of drawing the album cover. I'm listening to it right now. They're gonna be meeting Doers in Windsor, Ontario and touring with us for a few weeks. Another reason to say hi.

March 14th, 2006
Doers Spring Tour
Dates up here. More dates to come too. If you would like us to play at your place along the way somewhere, drop us a line.

March 13th, 2006
Greg MacPherson Helps Out
G Mac is flying out to East Van, from Winnipeg, for Doers release weekend. Greg is on the G7 Welcoming Committee and just finished a US tour w/Propaghandi. He'll be joining the Doers at the Railway Club on Friday, April 14th and out in Abbotsford on the 15th. Greg will also be playing a show in Victoria on the 14th. He is a lovely man with a frickin' great live show. No kidding!

February 22nd, 2006
Doers Pre-Tour Valley Tour
Gearin' up for the spring tour, Doers are gettin' out and warming up. We'll be doing a three-show, all-ages, community hall, suburb tour w/Mongoose, Bend Sinister, and In Medias Res. We'll also be gettin' up to Whistler for one of the last Punk Nights ever at the Boot Pub, before they tear it down and build something crappy. AND, Barry and Sham will be getting back to where they started w/a Doers show in Chilliwack at the Hope River Lions Hall. Details for all this here.

February 21st, 2006
Neighbours Finish Recording Antidote
Just got in from the Tong Dynasty Imperial Palace. It is perched on a cliff above a bay on Saltspring Island. We reunited w/Jerf, and Jesse set up a make-shift control room with a 1970's 1/4" tape machine, G4 w/pro-tools and other stuff he brought over from the Hive. We spent three days and four nights writing and recording the final tracks of Joel's new album which is to be called 'Antidote' and will be out in June. HOY!

January 10th, 2006
JOYful Union!
Now this is exciting!!! Last night we had our first practice of the year with the new Doers drummer Joy! She has skillz and we are real lucky to have found each other. Joy is also one-half of the Vancouver band The People Verses. Over the next few months we will be writing and practicing and gigging together, all in preparation for a recording session at the Hive in April, and a big ol' spring tour. ALREADY!

January 9th, 2006
Doers + Secret Mommy
Andy Dixon had Barry, Sean and SJ down to the Hive to do some tracking for the new Secret Mommy record. Barry took the double bass and Sean took his new nylon string and Sarah Jane had a couple of the many instruments she knows how to play. It was one fun session!

December 5th, 2005
Happy Do Year
5 bucks for a new years party down at Pat's Pube here in East Van. Other bands: Channels 3 & 4, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Fun 100. DJ Luke Meat might be spinning rekkids to dance to. This will be our last show w/Juli fillin' in before we get the NEW DOERS yes.

December 4th, 2005
Doers Another Island Hurrah
Gettin' in the van w/Fun 100 and You Say Party! We Say Die! and goin' over for a show in Victoria, a show in Courtenay and a show in Nanaimo. ALL ages yo! Details here.

November 23rd, 2005
The Parliament Of Owls
Sean M. and Sarah Jane are a part of an art collective here in East Van called the Parliament Of Owls and there's an art show opening down at the Butchershop (195 East 26th - at Main) this Saturday, December 3rd. The show theme is BROWN and there's over 25 local artists involved. Sean Wesley Wood will be performing and there's a bakesale. Shammy and SJ are collaborating on a piece of art and Shammy and Andy Dixon are collaborating on another piece with some glass and paint.

November 18th, 2005
Whatcha Doin'? To Be Released On Vinyl LP
Reluctant Recordings will be releasing Doers' upcoming full-length on coloured vinyl in April 2006. This will be in addition to the Red Cat Records release of Whatcha Doin'? on CD, also in April 2006. Hurrah! Records! Hurrah, CDs!

November 1st, 2005
The Doers' Plastic Bass Tour
Doers are playing 11 shows in western Canada. In celebration of the new Plastic Bass EP! Dates here please. See y'all soon. We can't wait!!! We're bringing Juli on drums fer chrissakes!

October 13th, 2005
Juli Fills In
Doers are so very honoured to have Juli (Black Rice's drummer) fill in for the rest of 2005. We've had one practice together at Doers HQ and it's an old shoe, as we've done this once before, at Ms T's Cabaret on June 20th, 2003 (Jerf was giving birth). Our first show back w/Juli will be on November 4th at the Astoria for the Plastic Bass EP Release show. Thank you Juli and love xoxo

September 29th, 2005
Doers Debut At #1
On CiTR. For the week. For The Plastic Bass EP. Wonderful, supportive folks over there at CiTR!

September 27th, 2005
Goodbye Jerf
Doers are real, real, real, real sad to say farewell to our drummer Jerf. Jerf, the grossest man in Canada, is moving to Edmonton to be w/his beautiful son Mingus. Jerf formed the Doers w/Barry and Sean an even three years ago after drumming for the final three years of STATIONa. God, we'll miss him. This isn't the end of Jerfus Christ though, as the new EP coming out in November has Jerf. And our full-length coming out next March has nineteen songs with Jerf all over them. Jerf is a wonderful, gross man and a talented musician and a best friend and we wish him and Mingus all the best. The final two Doers appearances w/Jerf as the backsman are: Saturday, Oct 1st at UBC and Saturday, Oct 8th at the Railway Club. Bye and love.

September 6th, 2005
The Plastic Bass EP
Doers have finished their fourth recording. It is called the Plastic Bass EP and will be put out by Red Cat Records on November 8th, 2005. It is 17 minutes long and has 8 songs: Salutations, Captain Fightey; Good Drunk; A Little Heavy On The Lord; Doin' Yr Taxes; Rollin' (Pt. 1); Et Mykt Og Simplet Liv; Mr. Hot & Cold; Down To The Minute. Doers recorded w/Jesse Gander at the Hive and took 2 days to record and one day to mix it. This EP is the first time recording-Doers have: added a few guitar overdubs and had Sarah Jane play the recorder and guitar. There's a few songs up on our MP3 page over here. Doers' third recording (19-song "Whatcha Doin'?") will be available next March w/a big ol' tour.

August 31st, 2005
Doers Book More Studio Time
Jesse booked Doers to record the first weekend of February. This recording will be the second of a three-part EP series.

August 19th, 2005
Fall Plans Doers Make
Here's our TO-DO List for the next few months:
1) The Plastic Bass EP/Enhanced CD - We will be recording on Aug. 27th and 28th at The Hive. Red Cat Records'll be sending it out into the world on Nov. 8th. It'll be enhanced w/the 'As Good As Dead' video by Joel Tong. It will be a limited edition thing.
2) Plastic Bass Western Canadian Tour - 5 dates in November to let everyone know.. check it. So far confirmed shows include Doers playing w/Chad Van Gaalen, Anthem Red, Dagan & Leif Despistado's new band... more to come yo
3) Buddy the Red Cat Benefit - Buddy (Red Cat store cat) died recently from operation complications. This benefit is to help out Amy and Andrew after all the expense trying to save Buddy. Doers miss that old guy.. October 8th
4) You Say Party! We Say Die! Release Shows! - Doers are playing two of their release shows Sept. 9th and 11th. Also playing this/these show(s) are Fun 100, Hot Loins, They Shoot Horses Don't They?
5) Doers Back At UBC - First time back at the Pit Pub (this Oct. 1st) since we opened for the Weakerthans. Thanks much to The People Verses and Girl Nobody for inviting Doers along.

August 16th, 2005
Doers Video For 'As Good As Dead'
Joel Tong has finished the first OFFICIAL Doers video for the song 'As Good As Dead'. This recording of 'As Good As Dead' is an outtake from the 'Watcha Doin?' recording session. The song 'As Good As Dead' will only be released as part of the video on the upcoming, limited-edition, enhanced-CD: 'Plastic Bass EP'. The video is comprised of live Doers footage from three shows: Doers opening for Grant Hart in Vancouver; Seylynn Hall June 25th, 2005 and Jesse Wilson's wedding which took place in Doers'/Jesse Wilson's backyard. Shammy wrote 'As Good As Dead' during a trip to Miyako Jima, Japan in April, 2001. This recording is the fifth incarnation of the song. Shammy has performed it with: two different Japanese bands, STATIONa, Doers trio, Doers w/Kathy Dubé and most recently Doers quartet.

August 12th, 2005
Doers Warm-Welcome VARGE!
Doers met the Houle brothers and Antoine in Sudbury during the Fall Tour. We stayed and played and drank and smoked ciggies in their garage. They are the best trio in the whole damn thing and we get to give them their first warm-welcome to BC. Varge will be playing 7 shows (6 w/Doers) in the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley and Island (Dirty Gauge Island Tour w/Lights Below, Trevor Dickinson's new band etc) areas. Check Doers SHOWs page for deets. Check out Varge over at MySpace or over at New Music Canada. Seriously, don't miss this Varge in September!!!

July 25th, 2005
New Site For Doers
Our website has had some summer reno's. Thanks to our dear Ray from the Vertical Struts for the home page drawings.

July 11th, 2005
On Tour: Joel & The Last Of The Neighbours
As of Thursday, we are on tour. Not the Doers, but Joel & The Last Of The Neighbours. That's Joel Tong on the mic and guitar, Jesse Gander on keys, Barry on bass guitar, Jerf on drums and Shammy on guitar. We are playing 11 shows in 8 days between Vancouver and Winnipeg; details here. There will also be rare occurrences of Sarah Jane Doer's new band at a few of the shows which features SJ on bass guitar and vocals, Bernice (Prints) on drums and Krista (from You Say Party! We Say Die!) on keys. Check it out, check it out. See you soon, love Doers.

June 26th, 2005
East Vanada Day
For the second year in a row the Doers are playing East Vanada Day festivities. Last year our set was cut short by the cops and this year J Lee teams up with Wendy at the Astoria. High Tower is a band from San Francisco that are friends w/S.T.R.E.E.T.S. and Walken too. Channels 3 & 4 are Jerf's favourite band and they're gonna be there as well. J Lee drew a real nice poster and it's here. See you there for an evening of local patriotism! hurrah!

May 30th, 2005
Doers Book More Studio Time
For three days at the end of August the Doers will be returning to the Hive w/Jesse to record what is being called 'Transportation EP'. That's the working title anyway. There are no songs written and the only concept is that it will be a concept EP. The studio time was booked immediately following the final sequencing of Whatcha Doin?.

May 29th, 2005
Whatcha Doin? Done
Yesterday Jesse, Barr and Jerf sequenced the 19 songs that are the album 'Whatcha Doin?'. It was recorded and mixed by Jesse Gander at the Hive and it was also mastered here in Vancouver by Jamie at Sweet Sound Labs. It will be released on an enhanced CD that will include a video for a 20th song: 'As Good As Dead'. Sean wrote 'As Good As Dead' four years ago in Japan and it has found the perfect job being host to a video Joel Tong is putting together from live Doers footage. Whatcha Doin? will be released on Red Cat Records sometime soonish. Even sooner the Doers MySpace page and www.thedoers.com will have a single and B-Side available for online listening/download.

May 15th, 2005
Doers Summer Plans
As we prepare for the fall release of Whatcha Doin'? and an accompanying tour, Doers will be busy this summer with a few other things:
a) Joel & The Last Of The Neighbours
The Neighbours (Jeff, Barry, Sean and Jesse Gander) are currently recording the new double double Joel Tong album over at the Hive. There is also a one week tour in the works for the Neighbours that'll see them out to Winnipeg and back to Vancouver. The time for that is July 14th to the 22nd.
b) Prints
Prints is Sarah Jane's other band that will be playing around Vancouver and joining the Neighbours on the July tour. Check Doers Live page here for info.
c) The Doers
The Doers will be playing a handful of summer shows like: opening for Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart in Vancouver and Victoria, Seylynn Hall all ages in North Vancouver, outdoor downtown Vancouver, all ages show at the Butchershop w/The Winks, Douggernaut's birthday boat cruise, Jesse W's wedding in East Van here, Daygristle screen-printing workshop w/Nick, some Vancouver Island incl. a music festival in Nanaimo. That's it for plans right now but it is still only spring, so check back here and over at the Live page y'all.
HAVE A LOVELY SUMMER! love doers

May 10th, 2005
Doers Live Performance On CBC Radio Two
This Saturday, May 14th Doers live in-session performance will be broadcast across Canada at 10pm. That's 10pm everywhere except the Maritimes (11pm) and Newfoundland (11:30pm). That's 105.7fm in Vancouver and to get where it's at on your dial anywhere else you can check here at: http://www.cbc.ca/frequency/

May 8th, 2005
Doers In The Can
Jesse Gander kicked the hell out of the control room at our recording session at The Hive with us this past week. We recorded and mixed 23 songs (51.6 minutes) in 6 days, working 10-12 hours each day. Barry and SJ almost beat Mario Brothers 3 on the original Nintendo as well. We had a few Other Doers join us again: Mr. Anderson (harmonica), Todd Winks (electric mandolin), Patrick Swan (poetry). Jesse was also an Other Doer singing on the song he wrote called 'Step To The Left, Step To The Right'; he wrote that song to a guitar riff Shammy wrote one night at a Neighbours practice. On the second last night we had a small impromptu hoohah w/Amy & Andrew, Shannon, John Cow, Jen Deon & Scott, Dayvo - all helping out w/gang-singing and hand clapping. It was fun and now all we have to do is figure out what goes where and get that shit mastered. Out in August y'all.

May 2nd, 2005
Doers Turn Two Today!
So we made it home last night from our month-long April tour and set up w/Jesse at the Hive today. We tracked 15 songs-worth of bass and drums for our second album 'Whatcha Doin'?'. We will be recording/mixing until Saturday. We would like to send thanks and love to all the people across Canada that put on shows for us, put us up at their pads, came out to dance and made the Ready, Set... Do clearance sale tour happen. Thanks so much. In the next couple weeks we will have the Tour Doery posted and tour pics uploaded to the site here. We had a lovely time seeing everyone again and meeting new folks. Thanks again, love Sean, Barry, Jerf and Sarah Jane.

April 4th, 2005
Doers Live On-Air-Broadcast Of Calgary Show
CJSW folks are doing their first live concert broadcast tomorrow night at Broken City. We're not sure what will be broadcast live but Chad Van Gaalen, Doers, Run Chico Run and CJSW will be there. So ya, live good.

March 27th, 2005
Doers & Run Chico Run Set Sail This April Fools
This coming Friday night we have our tour send-off at the Railway in Vancouver. The next night we will be at Steamers in Victoria for Chico's hometown hoohah. Two nights later, on the way to Calgary, we will be rocking Prince George for the first time for a benefit for the college radio tower. Beyond that April and the tour booked is sweet. Thanks in advance for all the work everyone's been doing to get us to Montréal and back. This all rules as all of you do. We are the luckiest dudes and bitch in the universe. So ya, see you soon and we will be sure to enjoy a beer or two whilst playing the hell outta yr place. Love Sham, Barr, Jerf & Sarah Jane

March 26th, 2005
Sean's Traveling Artshow
Sarah Jane's printing out a colour catalogue for Sean and we'll be bringing prints on tour with us. On April 1st the collection will be up online at: http://www.neptuna.com The prints sell for $75 each and will be available at all Doers shows on the spring tour. The exhibit will also be up during the month of April in Winnipeg at A Label For Artists and in Montréal at The Electric Tractor.

March 15th, 2005
Doers Live At The Hive
This Friday, March 18th, Doers are playing live at the Hive Creative Labs w/Cadeaux and S.T.R.E.E.T.S. This year, once a month, Jesse and Colin trade off picking three bands to get together and jam it out. At the end of the year there will be a Live At The Hive compilation CD released. If you're interested in being a part of the limited audience this Friday email Shammy here.

February 20th, 2005
Doers/Run Chico Run Spring Tour Dates Confirmed/Posted
Twenty-two shows confirmed. Check the Live page here. We have two open dates: April 17th, 18th if anyone in the Québec area would like us to play a house party or some sort of event, then email us here.

February 10th, 2005
Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart and the Doers/Maykings For Two Shows
Just confirmed: Doers are opening for Grant Hart, formerly of Hüsker Dü, for a show in Vancouver (May 24th) and a show in Victoria (May 23rd), alongside Edmonton's Maykings. "Metal Circus" played a very important part in our discovery of punk, as did "New Day Rising". In 1994, Sean tried out for Flexible Flyer (later to become STATIONa) with Grant's song "Dead Set On Destruction". Enough said.

February 9th, 2005
Doers To Open Greg MacPherson's Release Show In Winnipeg
Doers have confirmed in the past that G7's Greg MacPherson is the sweetest man in Canada. This is truth. Greg emailed Sean today and Doers will be the opening act for the Greg MacPherson Band and his release show in Winnipeg on Saturday, April 23rd. This will be part of the Doers' Spring Tour. Hurrah!

January 31st, 2005
Doers/Rock For Choice Benefit
With all the tsunami relief shows i believe this year's 11th annual Rock For Choice has been overshadowed. Doers are honoured to be a part of Rock For Choice this year and equally honoured to share the stage this thursday, february 3rd (railway club) with Foster Kare (best local band) and LadyHawk (also best local band). All proceeds go to Pro-Can, Everywoman's Health Centre, Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic, and Sheway. you can check out all of that at: http://www.rockforchoicevancouver.com/index.html - Rock For Choice folks have told me that it doesn't take much to keep local women's centres and clinics open. The proceeds from Rock For Choice are always a significant part of the yearly operational costs of most of our local women's centres/clinics and help ensure these services stay open. Please get behind it all, we are. I have also donated some poster art to the Rock For Choice silent art auction that's happening on wednesday.

January 25th, 2005
Doers USA
Ready, Set... Do is being released in the USA on May 3rd, 2005.
The how/what to come.

January 24th, 2005
Sean's Art Show
For 6 or 7 years Sean's been hitting Vancouver poles and boxes with art to help spread the word about local music. Red Cat Records held an art show back in July 2003 exhibiting 27 of 'em. Café Deux Soleil had a very similar show next November. This March Sean's gonna have his first fine art show which is gonna consist of hand-made prints of new drawings. They will be 24", 2-colour (limited to 20 of each drawing) prints. It will be showing in Vancouver from March 1st to 31st at the Foundation (2301 Main Street) and in Montréal from April 17th to May 16th at the Electric Tractor (6674 L'Esplanade, Suite A11). Check out Sean's site at: http://www.neptuna.com for details, stuff and a newly updated gallery page.

January 15th, 2005
Doers Spring Tour
Doers are hitting the road in April. Unfortunately only Victoria to Montréal this time. But this one month tour is cool as hell for several reasons:
a) Tour mates Run Chico Run will be making this tour a double bill.
b) Sarah Jane will be there for the entire tour now that she's officially the fourth Doer.
c) This tour is the pre-production for Whatcha Doin'? which means (i) we should be rather tightened up for recording the day after we return to port (ii) show-goers will be getting a big ol' shwack of new songs.
d) This tour is also the Ready, Set.. Do Clearance Sale. We're clearing it out at a lower price to make room for the second pressing and the new album.
d) The Montréal gig date coincides with Sean's Art Show opening also in Montréal. Sean's new art show will be showing in Vancouver in March and Montréal in April.
e) Run Chico Run will be travelling and sharing the stage with Doers for a month.
Tour dates and art show info later...

January 14th, 2005
Doers Record On CBC
This next Monday Doers are recording a half-hour set on CBC. More info later on when it will be aired.

January 3rd, 2005
"Whatcha Doin'?" Recording Date Determined
We have scheduled the 2nd of May to record the Doers' 2nd album on Doers' 2nd birthday. Barry told me I love that sorta thing the other day after I told someone that. We're recording at the Hive (of course) with Jesse Gander (of course). Red Cat will be releasing Whatcha Doin'? in the autumn this year and there'll be a big ol' tour to follow (of course).

December 8th, 2004
Doers On CBC Radio 1
Stuff from "Ready, Set... Do" was played on CBC Radio 1 this week, like with the news or weather or something. And s'pposedly some sort of spiel about Doers and what-not. Not really sure what, but ya it was on the ol' station over there. Thanks and love again for helping baby jesus.

December 8th, 2004
Doers Record With Mr. Plow
Right now Barold Do is in the studio over at the old Profile which became the old Rec-Age Recorders which is something else now laying down some bass for the new Plow record "Mad Plow Disease". Norwood from Fishbone did most of the bass duties but Barr's doing it for two songs. Jojo and Shammy Doer went in and did some back-up face a few days ago. Sarah Jane is s'pposed to go in on the mic too and Jerf isn't doing anything cuz there's some metal dude that played drums. There's also that guy from Suicidal Tendencies playing guitar and Sean's drawing the cover art.

December 7th, 2004
United We Stand, Divided We Form Solo Projects
That is the name of the show tonight at the Pic Pub in Vancouver w/Joel, Mr. Plow, Chris-A-Riffic and Shammy Doer. Sham's first solo show ever.

November 21st, 2004
What Are Doers Doin' After The Hell-ride?
So we've been back not even a week and Doers are gettin' down gettin' to work on writing the new album. The album title will be Whatcha Doin?. We have a bunch of songs ready already as we never really stop writing but we are all worked up from tour and doing. Hopefully we'll have some songs ready for the homecoming show on December 3rd. Jesse emailed Doers today about booking recording time for March so we'd better get going here.

November 15th, 2004
Doers Home From Tour
52 Show Fall Tour DONE
Jerf and Sham docked about an hour ago at 12 noon Pacific Time. We got held up on Vancouver Island last night and spent the night at Thomas Chico Run's pad. Barr and Sarah Jane walked on to get back to their loved ones and a homecoming party at the Legion on Main Street. Much love and thanks to EVERYONE across Canada who took us in and came out and danced. So good, so so good. We started putting songs together for the new album during our stay at Clinton's pad in Calgary and that was a big ol' BOOM! It's gonna take some time to update the Doery and the Tour Pic Of The Day and to get to the 8 million emails in Doers' inbox but fer now Sham's goin' to bed for a very long nap. Will holler soon! If you're in our area here's the scoop on what's up-and-coming:

Friday, Nov. 19th - LANGLEY, BC - Club NV (19+) OPENING FOR NOMEANSNO! w/Paper Lanterns, Short Circuit Transfer
Saturday, Nov. 20th - NORTH VANCOUVER, BC - Seylynn Hall (AA) w/Happy Kreter, Daggermouth
Friday, Dec. 3rd - VANCOUVER, BC - Asbalt (The Astoria) (19+) DOERS / BLACK RICE HOMECOMING SHOW! w/The Cape May and Mr. Plow
New Years Eve - VANCOUVER, BC - The Main (Advance tickets available)

November 14th, 2004
Doers + Sarah Jane = Quartet
This officially all went down in Montreal on October 23rd before our gig at the Electric Tractor. The Doers are now four. Sarah Jane is a Doer and we are no longer a trio. We are all very lucky to have each other. Please join us in giving Sarah Jane a warm welcome fer chrissakes.

November 5th, 2004
Doers #11 In Canada This Month
Over there at Earshot! and Exclaim magazine they're sayin' Doers are all eleventh for November - check here. Hey, thanks again for the support from everyone on the radio and everyone on the road across our beautiful country here.

October 16th, 2004
Doers #14 In Canada This Week
Third week on national college charts, check here.
Started at 24, then 15, now 14. Number 1 on Vancouver's CiTR. Much thanks to all for support and listening.

October 1st, 2004
Nomeansno/Doers Show Official
Here is the link for advance tickets: http://www.nomeansnotickets.com/ Doers are very excited to be opening for one of our all-favourite bands and our man Mike and his band Short Circuit Transfer and our bros in Paper Lanterns. Come all to the tower, hurrah!

September 10th, 2004
Doers Open For Nomeansno
We are bookending our tour with two fantastic shows. Weakerthans send us off and Nomeansno welcome us back. We'll be doing at least two all ages shows with Nomeansno in November. This is an honour. Also helping out with bookending our tour is The Feminists. That's our friend Ferdy. Ferdy and the Feminists. Respect.

August 24th, 2004
Hello Sarah Jane
Sarah Jane is the thirteenth 'Other Doer'. Our new doer-temp chanteuse. She has a big brain and can memorise anything; that's what 22-year-old brains do. Sarah Jane is gonna join us on the next batch of shows including CiTR Thunderbird Hell, Weakerthans show, Van and Vic CD Releases, Roberts Creek, Langley and maybe some other dates on the Doers Fall Tour. That's it so far for the plans that we make. We love you Sarah Jane

August 21st, 2004
Doers Open For Weakerthans
Jason, the Weakerthans drummer, emailed Shammy about the possibility of having the Doers open for a student-only party thing at UBC on Sept 9th. Just waiting for confirmation. You might recall The Doers played alongside Jason when they opened for his other band The Fembots back in April over there in Regina.

August 12th, 2004
Advance Copies Of "Ready, Set.. Do" Available Online
Your can go over here to CD baby and place an order and get a copy early if you're so inspired. The release date is only one month and two days away so i don't know... Actually you can get a copy at either one of our two release shows Aug 10th/11th (check details here) and that's less than a month away.

August 4th, 2004
The Doers Announce The Release Of "Ready, Set.. Do"
September 14th, 2004: The "Ready, Set... Do" CD will be available and will come complimentary/also include the EP "I Can Enjoy Almost Anything" (which features Mike Watt on bass). Hear some songs here. The CD will be available in Canada through Scratch Records. The Vancouver Release Party/Tour Send-Off will be held on Friday, September 10th w/The WPP, The Winks, Dave Gowans, Amy Honey and Chad MacQuarrie at the Railway Club. The Victoria Release Party is the very next night at Logans and it's a show with The Robosexuals, Dave Gowans and Chet. check here for tour dates... see y'all soon!

August 1st, 2004
Red Cat Records Teams Up With The Doers
The wonderful folks Amy Honey and Andrew Pearson down there at Red Cat Records are helping out The Doers. The wonderful Mr. Dave Gowans is the Minister Of Propaganda (credit: Jason). Go say hi to Buddy the Red Cat at 4307 Main Street. www.redcat.ca

July 4th , 2004
The Doers Are On Summer Vacation
That's it for live shows for the summer. We're gonna be up at the cabin havin' a two-month-long barbecue. And over on the island at the Tong Dynasty Imperial Palace recording the new Neighbours record. And a one-night stand with Plow. All gettin' ready for the fall release of "Ready, Set... Do/I Can Enjoy Almost Anything" and a big hell-tour. Check back here during the summer for tour and album release plans.

June 10th , 2004
Jojo Doer Lends A Hand
Shammy's wrist is injured. Joel Tong has announced he's gonna fill in on guitar for the next five shows. He has a day to learn the parts. This line-up was at one time known as Joel & The A Minus, except this time we're playin' our songs. Joel as a Doer - I don't know if he knows what he's getting into.

May 20th , 2004
Doers Christen The Dodson
Last night we were the first band ever to play the Dodson down there at Carrall and Hastings on Hastings. John Cow has taken the joint over, built a stage and brought in a sound system and we were there to help out and get things up and running. Call John at 689-7559 to get yr band in there. A new venue is good thing.

May 2nd , 2004
The Doers Turn One!
It has been a year since our first show at the Silvertone w/Robosexuals and Gang Bang. Happy Birthday to all you DOERS!

April 30th , 2004
Doers At New Music Waste
Sean Doer drew the logo for the festival. The Doers are to share the stage this year w/Channels 3 & 4, Black Rice and S.T.R.E.E.T.S. The Neighbours are to share the stage w/Clover Honey, Raking Bombs, Harrow and The Vague Demons. Both shows are at the Cobalt - HERE'S the info HERE. Here's the Music Waste website.

April 27th , 2004
Doers To Record Live On CITR
The Doers are going to record live on CITR on June 3rd. More details later...

March 31st, 2004
Whistler To Winnipeg Tour w/Mr. Plow
The dates are set. Eleven gigs in eleven days. Tour info here. See you soon...

March 24th, 2004
'One End Snaps' The First Single Release From The Doers
From the freshly completed and yet-to-be-released LP 'Ready, Set... Do' here is the song 'One End Snaps'. The B-Side is a cover of The Cure's 'Grinding Halt'. Email the doers here if you would like a copy on CD for yr radio station or what-have-you.

March 3rd, 2004
Set Sail Ye Scurvy Neighbours
Joel has called for all hands on deck. 2 parts Black Rice + three parts Doers = Joel & The Last Of The Neighbours. It has been months since the last sighting of the Neighbours and there are now plans for another appearance - details here. Training commences this weekend at Jesse's. Read Jojo's deck call.

March 1st, 2004
EP/LP Gone To Stu's Mastering Place
Both the 'I Can Enjoy Almost Anything' EP and the 'Ready, Set... Do' LP are being mastered by Stu as we speak here. No release plans or dates as of yet. But there will be a single and B-side available for download from the site here next week and college radio stations across our nation by April. Stay tuned...

January 16th, 2004
Doers Do Alberta Again
we're opening for the Salteens on Jan. 22nd in Edmonton, Jan. 23rd at a record store in-store and Jan. 24th in Calgary w/ The Cape May as well. check here for show details.

November 18th, 2003
The Doers Brave The Rockies...
in late november. might not be the smartest idea. but hittin' the road with our man Clinton and his new band The Cape May is. and that far outweighs the not-so-smart-idea. so, make it worthwhile for the doers and brave the 35 below weather. check here for show details. we'll be in Canmore, Edmonton and Calgary. Despistado will be there too.

November 5th, 2003
The Doers & Nasty On Together Again
Friday, Dec. 19th. nasty.

October 1st , 2003
Doers Open for Mike Watt & The Secondmen
honoured to share the stage with watt for the third time. this time in calgary at the night gallery. saturday, october 25th. it's a day off for him from the Chili Pepper's stadia tour he's opening.

September 24th , 2003
CBC Radio 3: The Art Of Recovery
the fine folks at the CBC http://www.cbcradio3.com wrote a story about barry's accident. the story is accompanied by the sketches i did during that crucial first week after the fall. i am happy they have a home online now.

September 15th , 2003
Barry A Lemonhead?!
watt just emailed wondering if barry can fill in on bass for the evan dando show in vancouver next week as their bass player can't get the right papers to cross the border. ah, the border. barry has to call george who's playing bass for evan (and also shared the rhythm section with watt in j mascis and the fog).

August 31st, 2003
Erin Green's Art Show - The Doers Live featuring John Cow
Info here.

August 28th, 2003
The Doers first tour w/ The Notes From Underground
The first rockin' road-trip. With our pals Notes. One stop in Nanaimo. At the Cambie. Saturday night. The 30th. For the next two days leading up to the gig, Doers will be running in the surf at Long Beach or camping somewhere around Tofino.

August 25th, 2003
The Last Doers Show of the Summer w/ Clinton St. John
Our dear friend Clinton (Trikl Act) is in town and will be joining us on stage tomorrow. read my bulk email out.

August 8th, 2003
Doers Prepare To Record
The session is booked for October 2nd, 3rd and 4th at Rec-Age with Jesse Gander behind the board. Kathy Dube will be there on the mic. And John Cow's gonna stop in and add guitar on the outro of Oh, Fearless King. Joel has a little bit of smart face he's gonna throw in and that's about it for plans so far. This recording will be the accompanying side for the Watt stuff.

July 25th, 2003
The Flyer Records Show Tonight!
It is the first show of the new Flyer cooperative. Featuring Joel & The Last Of The Neighbours, The Approach, Robosexuals, The Doers, Black Rice and Assertion.

June 8th, 2003
STATIONa Poster Art Show
Amy Hunnie at Red Cat Records just arranged for an art show to exhibit Sean's poster art. the show will cover a selection of posters from a portion of STATIONa's life. the show will also exhibit art for the Nasty On, the Doers, other local music and the Never Ever War imagery. the opening night is on July 2nd and is at Red Cat Records on Main Street. After that The Main (across the street) will host The Doers for another show.

May 30th, 2003
Media Whores
the doers press page is with the release of the Terminal City Doers-On-The-Cover issue. read here

May 16th, 2003
Show!
it has finally come together. and what a show for May 30th. Shawn Mrazek Natasha Thirsk Jen Deon The Approach Maplewood Lane. And The Doers. ok, done.

May 13th, 2003
Joel & The Last Of The Neighbours
last night our first practice in awhile. preparation for the release of Joel's new album Return Of The Fucked. the show is booked for july 5th at the Sugar Refinery. the Last Of the Neighbours is: Barry, Jeff, Sean and Jesse Gander.

May 2nd, 2003
Hello World, We're The Doers!
Ready, Set... Do!