Great Lake Swimmers Video Action

04/28/09 12:27pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

There's lots of A/V news in the Great Lake Swimmers universe.

The Toronto band unveiled a live video for "Palmistry" yesterday (Monday) as part of something they're calling "The Legion Sessions." The band camped out at a Toronto area Royal Canadian Legion to record a bunch of songs in February, according to a MySpace blog post. Holy Fuck's Graham Walsh helped capture the sound of the performances, while the video was directed by Scott Cudmore.

Other Legion Sessions songs are expected to be doled out in bits and pieces over the coming months.

You can check out "Palmistry" here:

Great Lake Swimmers' "See You On The Moon" from 2005's See You On The Moon: Songs For Kids Of All Ages compilation is being used in a commerical for the 2010 Honda Insight hybrid car.

It seems to be part of an attempt to get indie kids or hippies into hybrid cars, since the commercial features a bunch of early 20-somethings pulling their Insights into a field for a music festival, unpacking their belongings and getting all summer fun-ish with blankets on the grass. You can see it below:

Great Lake Swimmers also unveiled the video for "Pulling On A Line" from the recently released Lost Channels. It's kind of bizarre, what with the kids in bunny suits running around lamps set up in the middle of a foggy forest. It also unfortunately looks a lot like Donnie Darko. Check it out:

Great Lake Swimmers are touring in support of Lost Channels. You can see them here:

April 30 Groningen, Netherlands @ Vera
May 1 Ghent, Belgium @ Vooruit
May 2 Utrecht, Netherlands @ DB's
May 4 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
May 5 Hamburg, Germany @ Knust
May 6 Gothenburg, Sweden @ Pustervik
May 7 Oslo, Norway @ John Dee Live Club & Pub
May 8 Stockholm, Sweden @ SVMK at Strand
May 10 Berlin, Germany @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
May 11 Leipzig, Germany @ UT Connewitz
May 12 Dresden, Germany @ Beatpol
May 13 Fulda, Germany @ Kulturzentrum Kreuz
May 14 Schorndorf, Germany @ Club Manufaktur
May 15 Ottersum, Netherlands @ Cultureel Podium Roepaen
May 16 Brussels, Belgium @ Les Nuits De Botanique
May 18 Bristol, England @ St. Bonaventure's
May 19 Manchester, England @ Dulcimer Bar
May 20 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England @ The Cluny Bar
May 21 Glasgow, Scotland @ The Twisted Wheel
May 22 Birmingham, England @ The Glee Club
May 23 London, England @ Borderline
May 24 Tourcoing, France @ Le Grand Mix
May 26 Paris, France @ L'International
May 27 Niort, France @ Le Camji
May 28 Bordeaux, France @ L'Espace Tatry
May 30 Madrid, Spain @ Moby Dick Club
June 13 Niagara Falls, ON @ Oak Amphitheatre (100th Anniversary Of The Boundary Waters Treaty Festival)
June 19 Ottawa, ON @ The First Baptist Church
June 20 Montreal, QC @ Plaza St-Hubert
July 9-12 Winnipeg, MB @ Birds Hill Park (Winnipeg Folk Festival)