Want to follow a band on tour but don’t feel like sleeping in a van?
With our debut of July Talk’s six-part video series, From the Road, you can party onstage, backstage, and en route without actually leaving home.
Live vicariously through the gritty-yet-polished July Talk, a Toronto-based garage rock/alt-blues group whose current tour is being intimately documented by filmmaker Jared Raab via high-contrast, monochrome footage.
The first chapter trails the five-piece outfit as their high-energy act makes waves through North America. “This is a song about losing your goddamn mind!” shouts Leah Fay, one half of the group’s lead vocals, as they start in with their rock n’ roll theatrics once again.
Over the past year, our lives have been repeatedly turned upside down, as we’ve crisscrossed the globe in a tour van. July Talk – From the Road was born out of a necessity to share some of these experiences. We convinced our talented friend, filmmaker Jared Raab, to come with us and direct, shoot and edit a video series in the backseat of the van as we drive.
Chapter One follows us through the first leg of our North American tour. Detroit gets messy. Chicago is Leah’s kind of town and 1st Avenue, Minneapolis lives up to its name.
A follow-up to the series debut, the second of July Talk’s cathartically entertaining six-chapter video From the Road follows the band back to their homeland of Canada where they perform five shows, each to a sold-out crowd.
The band’s guitarist and vocalist Peter Dreimanis tells us more about playing various stages across the Canadian Prairies:
My birthday is the first in Winnipeg, which got nice and messy with one of our favorite tour parties to date. We head to my hometown of Edmonton for two shows at The Starlite and the best/worst pizza in the country. We head through Calgary and over the mountains to finish at the incredible Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver!
Filmmaker Jared Raab had this to say about the second installment:
Remember in Grosse Pointe Blank when John Cusack returns to his hometown for a high-school reunion and ends up having to save the father of his long lost love? Well, this chapter is exactly like that, only it’s a huge party in Winnipeg for Pete’s birthday. Everyone goes a little nuts and it leads to some deep introspection as the band crosses the prairies.
The Fat Angel Sings 