The Lowest Of The Low release Deluxe Edition of Shakespeare My Butt on November 23, 2010
-Re-issue to include 45 minute documentary chronicling the band’s history with original soundtrack by Low’s Ron Hawkins -
- Band announce Toronto shows -
Toronto, ON – October 5, 2010 – On November 23rd Pheromone Recordings releases The Lowest Of The Low’s seminal 1991 album, Shakespeare My Butt. Remastered by Tim Branton at Joao Carvalho Mastering, the Deluxe Edition hits the streets on November 23rd. Delivered in expanded six panel digipak artwork the Deluxe Edition includes a booklet with essays from Edge 102.1’s Dave Bookman, comments from SMB fan Weakerthans’ John K Samson and more. The reissue also includes a 45 minute Lowest Of The Low documentary “LowRoads 91-08”. The DVD chronicles the Low’s history and is loaded with unreleased live footage, interviews and an original soundtrack by Ron Hawkins (click here to see the DVD trailer). The band will celebrate the re-issue by performing Shakespeare My Butt from head to toe at a two night stand in Toronto,
December 3rd and 4th, at Lee’s Palace.
There’s a demi-generation of Canadians that, when asked what Shakespeare My Butt means to them, smile wistfully and slowly nod with gratifying satisfaction. Memories of fuelled emotion, questioning of blah blah blah authority and a little of that ‘f&%k you’ attitude that ‘The Low,’ as they were affectionately called, helped bottle in the early nineties. Toronto born and bred, The Lowest Of The Low were trailblazers who turned the tide, bringing about the revelation that there was no longer a need to look beyond this country’s borders to satiate the soundtrack of our lives. Streetcars, the bridge on Carlaw, Bathurst Street – The Lowest Of The Low sang about their hometown. They made us feel pride in this town, not in some whitewashed Tourism Ontario billboard on the Gardner way, but because we could all relate to the honesty espoused in those 17 songs. Ron Hawkins (vocals, guitar), Stephen Stanley (vocals, guitar), David Alexander (drums) and John Arnott (bass) went on a ride in 1991 and took us all along with them. Sizzling Edgefest performances on a stage that still turned 360 degrees, radio play without major label heft, an episode on the then leading edge CBC series ‘Ear To The Ground’ and a gold selling band that sold music the good old fashioned way…that’s what thumps upside the old Intelligious Majoras when someone mentions The Low and Shakespeare My Butt.
Don’t miss the Toronto shows and keep stalking www.lowestofthelow.com for more concert announcements!
Tracklisting:
4 O’Clock Stop
So Long Bernie
Just About “The Only” Blues
Salesmen, Cheats and Liars
Rosy and Grey
Kinda’ The Lonely One
Eternal Fatalist
For the Hand of Magdalena
Subversives
Bleed a Little While Tonight
Bloodline
St. Brendan’s Way
Letter from Bilbao
Under the Carlaw Bridge
The Taming of Carolyn
Gossip Talkin’ Blues
Henry Needs a New Pair of Shoes
For more information please contact:
Indoor Recess Inc.
Joanne Setterington – 416‐703‐5217 /joanne@indoorrecess.com