I stumbled across this hilarious video of Raine Maida busking in The Hour (a Canadian TV talk show) offices on YouTube today. Raine is the lead singer of Our Lady Peace and released his first solo album last year, 'The Hunters Lullaby', an awesome album that explores much different musical landscapes to his Our Lady Peace work. In this clip he is playing 'Yellow Brick Road' from that album.
I just love how he keeps a straight face during the toilet scene. Classic! The clip relates to the official video that was released for 'Yellow Brick Road', where Raine busked on the streets of Toronto to raise money for War Child Canada’s School Rehabilitation and Revitalization Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He personally made $22,000, enough to build what is now called the Abala School.
Our Lady Peace are currently in the studio finishing up their seventh album. Raine is taking on producing duties this time himself and says of the album:
"There’s no, "Okay, let’s demo up this and demo this and see what we think." It’s like we have an idea, let’s write, finish it, and record it. That’s one of the things I’ve learned over the last five or six years, is really just to try and capture that moment as best you can. And that’s what we’ve done and probably made the best record yet."
I can't wait to hear the new material.
Listen to to 'The Hunters Lullaby' in full here.
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