Blog – Wyntr – Hard Rock from Ottawa

Heat in the Wyntr

Fresh off a killer show at Dominion Tavern on January 19th, we’re ready to tackle whatever 2024 has to throw at us. You can hear all about the January show on this LiveWire Interview on White Water Rocks Radio!

Have you heard Snowflake yet? Our new single dropped on all the platforms on February 14th and we hope you fell in love with it!

Snowflake is the follow up to Inside Outside released in December 2023, and it’s the latest in a string of singles that will eventually comprise the follow-up to Amps & Lamps. Baby steps.

We are honored to be playing at The Bloodbash along with Resist the Throne, Complicit, Ultimis, and Scarecrowz. The Bloodbash is a fundraising festival for Canadian Blood Services organized by Resist the Throne and Pop-Cult Experience Podcast. 5 bands over two days – February 23rd and 24th- at Cafe Dekcuf in Ottawa. As some of you may know Bob’s daughter is still with us today in part because of CBS and the incredible work they do. It means a lot to us to have this opportunity to give a little back. You can hear interviews with all the paerticipating bands on the podcast HERE! Help us support the cause, get your tickets today at https://bloodbash.eventbrite.com

Then on March 16th we’re off to Kingston and the BluMartini for a BarnBurner Event with Taming Sari and Lowery Mills. That’s going to be especially nuts because we’ll be celebrating Bob’s birthday while we’re there! There will be shenannigans. You know it. Get your tickets while they’re still available at https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/47053/

April will have us back at Hillside Audio recording more new material that we plan to unleash over the summer. We have plenty of great stuff planned for you over the summer and beyond but you’ll have to come back and read about it next time.

Peace

2023 – A Year in the Wyntr

Hey you beautiful snowflakes you!

As we turn the page on an incredible year, we can’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for all the amazing moments we’ve been blessed to share with you. What a ride it’s been! We want to take a moment to reflect on the journey, express our appreciation, and share some exciting news about what’s next.

Inside Outside – Our Latest Sonic Adventure

To kick things off, we’re thrilled to announce the release of our brand-new single, Inside Outside! This track has been a labor of love, and we poured our hearts and souls into creating something we hope resonates with each and every one of you. You can find it on all major online streaming platforms. Crank up the volume, add it to your playlists, and let the music take you on a wild ryde! (see what we did there? hehehe…)

Limited-Edition Inside Outside T-Shirt – Wear the Sound

But that’s not all – we’ve got more than just music for you. Our limited-edition Inside Outside t-shirts are hitting the streets, and you can snag one at our upcoming shows or by reaching out to us directly. But hurry – they won’t last long! These shirts are not just a piece of clothing; they’re a statement, a symbol of the connection we share through music. Wear the sound, and let the world know you’re part of the Wyntr family.

A Year of Shenanigans and Gratitude, Fueled by Your Incredible Support

As we look back on the past year, we’re filled with gratitude for each and every one of you who joined us on this incredible adventure. The energy at our shows and the love you’ve shown us online have made this an unforgettable journey. Your support has been the fuel that keeps our music alive, and for that, we can’t thank you enough.

Thank you to everyone who attended our shows in 2023, singing along, dancing, and creating an atmosphere that will forever be etched in our memories. We saw you. You were there at PandaFest II, at the Summerdaze Festival, at the CityCentre Rock Out, you followed us down the 401 to Kingston and Oshawa and Peterborough, you sang along with us at Cafe Dekcuf and Dominion Tavern and Avant-Garde Bar. Your passion for live music is what makes this journey so special, and we can’t wait to see your smiling faces again in the crowd, feeling the music pulse through the air.

Happy Holidays and a Sneak Peek into 2024

As we enter the holiday season, we want to wish each and every one of you a joyous and music-filled celebration. Whether you’re spending it with family, friends, or just cranking up the volume on your favourite tunes, we hope it’s filled with love and laughter.

Looking ahead, 2024 pretty exciting for your Wyntr lads. We’ve got tons of new music, electrifying shows, and surprises in store. We can’t wait to share it all with you and continue building the incredible community that is Wyntr. Because that’s what this is, it’s more than just a rock band, it’s a community.

So, here’s to rocking out together in 2023, and to all the shenanigans to come in 2024. Thank you for being a part of our journey, and we can’t wait to see you all out there for more music, more energy, and more unforgettable moments.

Remember, maybe a single snowflake isn’t much on its own, but taken together they dominate the Wyntr. And that’s just righteous.

Peace and much love from WyntrHQ

November Shenanigans Report

New Logo, New Single, New T-Shirts

Brought to you by the letter N.

Another Halloween has come and gone and the weather’s turning chilly again; you might say Wyntr is coming (sorry, couldn’t resist hehe). It’s no coincidence that just as the days start getting frosty we come out with a brand new logo theme. It’s a brand new twist on the familiar smiling snowflake and we just love it!

Behold:

Smiley Snowflake hasn’t gone anywhere — he’s still around, he just got a makeover and is looking pretty slick don’t you think?

We wanted something that would be instantly recognizable as ‘us’, but with a fresh coat of paint and a new look & feel. We were stoked when we saw the first prints because it was exactly what we were looking for!

This variant combines all the new elements into one. What we’re loving about going with an overall logo theme consisting of multiple elements rather than a single logo pic is how the different elements can be mixed and matched like this, so we can tailor them to fit different contexts. Very cool!

A good example of this is how the new logo theme figures prominently in the promo material for our new single.

OH! That’s right! We have a new single! We started working on a new batch of songs with our main man Cameron Dunn at Hillside Audio and the first one is ready to go! Look for Inside Outside on all the major streaming platforms as of November 28.

And just like it says in the promo pic, to make the release even more exciting, we will have a brand new run of t-shirts specially made to go with the release of Inside Outside. We can’t wait to show those off to you…soon!

Speaking of Halloween we had a phenomenal time at the Pandamonium Promotions Halloween Bash at Dominion Tavern! We were there with Hempress, Sonder, Don’t Tell Sarah, and Radican and it was absolutely bonkers! Thanks again to everyone who came out to make noise with us! It was great to see so many of you there with all the amazing shows going on in town that night. We really appreciate you spending your evening with us.

Our next show is guaranteed to be another total banger and we’re absolutely ecstatic about it. On December 2nd, CHORD Productions presents Dearly Beloved and The Flamingos Pink at Dominion Tavern along with Yarns and we’ll be opening the festivities. Tickets are available right now at dearlybelovedottawa .eventbrite.ca and you should hurry to get yours because they definitely won’t last long!

We’ll be chatting about all of the above and more on the Dawg & Gus Podcast in a couple of weeks and the episode will go live on November 27th — don’t worry, we’ll post the links on all our socials when they’re available.

That’s it for now! Hope you all can join the shenanigans on December 2nd.

Peace

Wyntr in Summer 2023

Greetings from Wyntr HQ. Boy are we ever excited! You might already know we just released our latest single The Ballad of Richard Guy and we couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. Don’t let the title’s tongue-in-cheek reference to our well-endowed mascot fool you; this is a love song. It says so right in the chorus. It’s available on your favourite platform right now, including Spotify and Apple Music. Check it out!

And what’s the point of a new track if we can’t play it for you! Looks like we’ll have lots of opportunities with a nice batch of shows lined up over the summer. Take a peek…

May 12 – Ottawa, at Avant-Garde Bar, with Late Night Trouble and One In The Chamber

June 17 – Pembroke, at Lasso Live, with Black Water Brigade

July 22 – Pembroke, at Lasso Live (Black Water Brigade CD Release Party)

July 28 – Ottawa, PandaFest II at Brass Monkey

August 4 – Westmeath, White Water Rocks Summerdaze Festival

August 19 – Ottawa, City Center RockOut Festival

September 15 – Peterborough, The Erben, with Vinyl Hero

September 22 – Oshawa, The Atria, with Vinyl Hero

September 23 – Kingston, Overtime Sports Bar, with Vinyl Hero

We’d love to see you at one (or more!) of these! You’re the best part of this and we really appreciate it. Thanks or the support, love you all and see you at a gig real soon!

New Music to Kick Off 2023!

We wrote Bleed back in 2021 for our first album Amps & Lamps. It’s one of our favourites and has become a staple of our live show. The kind of song you don’t mess with because it’s perfect as it is. Except…

Some time in the summer of 2022 we had the idea of trying something new – mixing an element of rap into one of our songs as an experiment. We talked about it a lot, trying to figure out how we were going to do this. Should we write a brand new song specifically for this? Or re-purpose an existing song? And who would do the rap?After a lot of back and forth we decided on Bleed as having a perfect backdrop for someone to rap over. Except for the small detail that none of us can rap. So we searched high and low for someone who could, and who would be down to do this experiment with us, and we finally hooked up with our good friend Renaissance from the band Ornate, who was more than willing and able to take up the challenge. And boy did he ever! After a couple of rehearsals – and one surprise live performance at Avant-Grade Bar in Ottawa – we had it. Bleed: The Remix was an actual thing. We booked some studio time with our producer Cam Dunn at Hillside Audio to record it and we had such a fun time we decided to make the video for the song using phone video we took while we were there . We think it turned out pretty good! Tell us if you agree!

But that’s not the only thing we did at Hillside that weekend. We recently wrote a brand new tune and recorded that one as well. It’s called The Ballad of Richard Guy and should be release for April 1st. Sit tight, we’re in the middle of planning the video for it and we’re pretty sure you won’t be disappointed.

Don’t forget our next show, The Rockin‘ Wyntr Disaster on March 4th at Bar Minotaure in Gatineau, Quebec with Rockin Engine and This Disaster! Tickets are $15 and are available from Eventbrite (link on FB event page) or by contacting any of the bands directly.

Can you stand it! See you at the show 🙂

Closing out 2022 and STOKED for 2023

Wyntr live at Lasso Live in Pembroke. Photo by Mike Graham. — Photo: Mike Graham

We played our last show of 2022 at Lasso Live in Pembroke on November 26th and we’re already jonesing for the next one. And what a show it was! We got to join our friends in Black Water Brigade and Beyond Driven for an evening of shenanigans that, if you were there, you know what we’re talking about. We’re definitely doing that again.

Our next show will also be our first of 2023, on January 7th at Avant-Garde Bar in downtown Ottawa with Carissa, supported by Social Suicide and Pale Black Eyes. This one is special, all proceeds are being donated to Amethyst Ottawa Women’s Addiction Center. Please take minute or ten to check out their website and learn about the important work they’re doing. And as an added bonus we have a special surprise for you all that you do NOT want to miss! But you have to be at the show to see it…

To keep ourselves out of trouble between shows we’ve been keeping ourselves busy writing new music that we’ll be recording at the end of January with our main producer dude Cameron Dunn over at Hillside Audio. We can’t wait to be able to share that with you in the new year.

We also had the pleasure of working with the one and only Laura Collins for a photo shoot a couple of weeks ago. That was a ton of fun and the early sample pics we’ve seen so far look AMAZING! Like this one…

Look for more here and on our socials soon!

We hope you all have a fantastic holiday and a kick-ass New Years and we look forward to seeing you all in 2023. It’s going to be a phenomenal year and we really want you all along for the ride. Umm, we mean Ryde.

Peace out and rock on!

October 2022 Update – Mini Tour with Vinyl Hero, Dawg&Gus Podcast interview and SuperKyle’s Sledge Hockey Game!

Well that was something! We took a plunge in September and hit the road with our friends in Vinyl Hero, and man oh man what a road trip it was! We kicked things off in Ottawa on September 2 at Cafe Dekcuf where we were joined by Eve of Uprise. Then on September 9th we hit The Atria in Oshawa with Toronto’s Queens & Kings The following night we were at our home away from home – Overtime Sports Bar in Kingston with Versatile Rock. After that was done we came back home to Ottawa to headline a show at The Brass Monkey on the 24th with Innuendo, Scarecrowz, and The Dreaded Rebels. Here’s a few pics to the shenanigans!

A week after that Ryan and Bob made their way to the Dawg & Gus Podcast studio in downtown Ottawa for an interview. Listen RIGHT HERE for a chat about our new mascot Dick Guy, the Ottawa live music scene, and all things Wyntr. That was a ton o’ fun!

But by far the coolest thing we did recently was to attend SuperKyle’s sledge hockey game in Ottawa this past weekend. SuperKyle is a member of Rock n Roll Road Trips Crew, that crazy gang from Ottawa that shows unwavering support to independent bands – to the point of jumping into their cars and following a few around on tour! We were honoured to have the road crew follow us to Oshawa and Kingston last month – you know you’re doing something right when the RTC follows you to your shows! It was awesome to hang out with them along with bits and pieces of Taming Sari, Sunday Riot Club, and Late Night Trouble. This may well become a regular thing. SuperKyle is an inspiration.

Up next for us is a Halloween party at Dominion Tavern with Sunday Riot Club, Azulov, and The Lackeys on October 29th, followed by a short road trip up to Pembroke on November 26th at Lasso Live with Black Water Brigade and Beyond Driven. And in between we’ll be working on some of the new songs we’ve been writing for the next album…

We hope you’re having as much fun as we are, and if you’re not just come to our next show….we’ll fix that for you real quick 😉

Until next time,
Peace

“Steeples” Live from Summerdaze!

Hey everyone! We found this nice surprise from Mike Graham in our inbox the other day and we are absolutely thrilled to be able to share it here. “Steeples” LIVE from our first set at Summerdaze 2022. Check it!

Catch the shenanigans for yourself – there’s lot’s to choose from in September!

Sept 2 – Ottawa @ Cafe Dekcuf with Vinyl Hero and Eve of Uprise [Facebook Event Page]

Sept 9 – Oshawa @ The Atria with Vinyl Hero

Sept 10 – Kingston @ Overtime Sports Bar with Vinyl Hero and Versatile Rock [Facebook Event Page]

Sept 24 – Ottawa @ The Brass Monkey with Scarecrowz, The Dreaded Rebels, Seven Days Of Fire, & Innuendo [Facebook Event Page]

August Update: The Dog Days = Rock Daze!

First off, we want to thank you all for the wonderful response to our Amps & Lamps CD. Huge hugs to everyone that came out to the CD release party at Cafe Dekcuf on June 25th, and much gratitude to everyone who bought a CD. YOU ALL FREAKING ROCK!!

Well, the dog days are upon us. It’s hot and sweaty and just perfect for an outdoor rock festival. There’s always plenty to choose from this time of year, because rock festivals go with the dog days like mustard with hot dogs and smiles with cotton candy. It’s just the way of things and it’s proper as f**k

We’re thrilled to be playing at our first outdoor festival on August 6 when we’ll be taking the stage at the White Water Rocks Summerdaze Festival in Westmeath, ON. Can you say stoked? Because we’re definitely stoked.

But the fun doesn’t end there! We teamed up with our friends in Vinyl Hero to play three dates for what we’re calling the 2022 Mini-Tour!

Sept 2 – Ottawa (@ Cafe Dekcuf)

Sept 9 – Oshawa (@ The Atria)

Sept 10 – Kingston (@ Overtime Sports Bar)

And as if that wasn’t enough, then we come back home to get loud with you at the Brass Monkey for a special PandaMonium Promotions event with Scarecrowz, The Dreaded Rebels, Dead Dreamboat and Innuendo on Sept 24th.

Stay tuned for more, we never know when the shennanigans will occur until they occur so don’t stray too far or you might miss something!

Until next time,

Peace

Amps & Lamps is OUT!

It’s here! our new album Amps & Lamps is out and available on all the online platforms. We’ve gone ahead and put together a short list for you:

Amps & Lamps on Bandcamp

Amps & Lamps on Spotify

Amps & Lamps on Apple Music

Amps & Lamps on YouTube Music

Amps & Lamps on Tidal

Amps & Lamps on Amazon Music

We also have good ol’ fashioned physical CDs too! Get one at the merch table when you come see us at an upcoming show!

June 18th at Overtime Sports Bar in Kingston for a Saturday Night Barnburner event with Drop Top Alibi and We The Crooked.

June 25th at Cafe Dekcuf in Ottawa for our official CD release party with our friends in Black Water Brigade, Hot Jupiter and Trenchfoot.

August 6th at the White Water Rocks Summerdaze outdoor festival in Westmeath, Ontario

We’ll be adding a few more shows to the list soon so don’t forget to check back here often!