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Halifax VFest Feels "Alternative" Like The '90s

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By Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack) July 6, 2009 1:45 pm
It wouldn't be summer without a muddy festival on Citadel Hill. This past weekend Halifax hosted the inaugural Virgin Festival Nova Scotia, free of charge due to The Tragically Hip's last minute cancellation. Virgin headquarters sent out notice less than 24 hours before the show, which stated there was an unforeseeable family emergency that...
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In-Flight Safety — We Are An Empire, My Dear

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) January 29, 2009 4:36 pm
This Halifax quartet are stepping up their game. We Are An Empire, My Dear, released on their own label three years to the day after their The Coast Is Clear full-length debut, is filled with radio-friendly rock. Unfortunately, most of the songs sound like Coldplay tracks — especially "Big White Elephant," "Torches" and "...
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In-Flight Safety @ NXNE 2007

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) June 11, 2007 10:00 am
Background/Composition: Though their name would suggest they're a cautious bunch, this Maritime foursome have proudly adopted the slogan, "Breaking acoustic guitars since 2003." Grade: 81 Comment: Just when you thought formal dress was on its way out, along come In-Flight Safety with an attempt to bring ties back in fashion...
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In-Flight Safety @ CMW 2007

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By David Missio (CHARTattack) March 12, 2007 1:00 pm
Background/Composition: The Doves meets the Stars meets, oh, lets say Pilot Speed. Lovely layered, melodic pop songs with an unmistakable Maritime feel. Grade: 86 Comment: In-Flight Safety are just another band trying to steal Toronto and Montreal's thunder. Halifax has been brewing up bands for as long as any other of these music-...
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In-Flight Safety — The Coast Is Clear

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By David McPherson (CHARTattack) January 17, 2006 2:40 pm
Canada’s answer to Coldplay, this Halifax-based four-piece seem to have caught the British atmospheric pop wave. This is a flight that they’ve quickly mastered and adopted for their own audience. Though lead singer John Mullane's vocals echo Chris Martin's, the band have added their own Canadian twist to the ubiquitous British band's sonic mix. In...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 20, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 20, 2010 12:14 pm
Former Inbreds singer/bassist Mike O'Neill is helping Halifax indie rockers In-Flight Safety record new material. —TwitterDallas Green has written a song about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster called "At The Bird's Foot." But he says it's different from many of the other songs about the tragedy because he focuses...
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In-Flight Safety Plot Cross-Canada Tour

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 15, 2010 4:58 pm
Halifax indie rockers In-Flight Safety will spend the early spring touring Canada in support of last year's East Coast Music Award-winning We Are An Empire, My Dear. Singer/guitarist John Mullane, keyboardist Daniel Ledwell, bassist Brad Goodsell and drummer Glen Nicholson will perform throughout eastern Canada with Said The Whale and Tokyo...
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In-Flight Safety Make Model Homes

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) May 12, 2009 2:46 pm
Halifax pop/rock quartet In-Flight Safety have just released their video for "Model Homes," the second single from their sophomore effort, We Are An Empire, My Dear. Check it out here. You can also get a free download of the song here. The video was directed by Drew Lightfoot (Constantines, Matt Mays & El Torpedo) and features some...
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In-Flight Safety — "Model Homes"

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By CHARTattack Staff May 12, 2009 11:46 am
Here's In-Flight Safety's video for "Model Homes" from their sophomore album, We Are An Empire, My Dear. The video, directed by Drew Lightfoot, has some pretty neat (and song-appropriate) animation of blueprints of homes being drawn up, with an animated version of the band performing amongst the drawings. I wonder if Ted Mosby had...
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In-Flight Safety Album Streaming Now

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) January 26, 2009 2:41 pm
In-Flight Safety's sophomore album, We Are An Empire, My Dear, doesn't hit stores until tomorrow, but you can hear the album in its entirety here: The Night Danger/Outside release is the follow-up to 2006's The Coast Is Clear debut. It was recorded last April with producer Laurence Currie (Buck 65, Sloan) in a rural Nova Scotia...
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Pumping: In-Flight Safety — We Are An Empire, My Dear

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) January 14, 2009 3:33 pm
Holy '80s influenced rock, Batman! While this wasn't entirely original, it was an enjoyable listen from one of Halifax's best up-and-coming bands. Hopefully this gets them some more attention.
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In-Flight Safety Are An Empire

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 6, 2008 4:00 pm
Halifax's In-Flight Safety will issue their sophomore album, We Are An Empire, My Dear, on Jan. 27 as the first release on their Night Danger label. The album was recorded last April in an empty schoolhouse in rural Nova Scotia by producer Laurence Currie (Buck 65, Sloan). You can hear "Amy Racina" and "I Could Love You More"...
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In-Flight Safety's Daniel Ledwell Releases Solo Record

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By CHARTattack Staff January 16, 2008 5:30 pm
In-Flight Safety keyboardist Daniel Ledwell will release his first solo effort, Two Over Seven, via Emm Gryner's Dead Daisy Records on Jan. 29. Ledwell wrote, arranged and performed the seven songs on guitar, bass, percussion, trumpet, cello, lap steel, keyboards, glockenspiel and banjo. He also sang and recorded, produced and mixed Two Over...
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In-Flight Safety Check Out The Yukon Before Canadian Tour

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By Daniel Vest (CHARTattack) May 11, 2007 4:00 pm
Halifax's In-Flight Safety are getting away from it all for a few days this month before touring across the country in June. The quartet will gig at various locations around the Yukon capital of Whitehorse from May 21 to 26, exposing the Canadian north to a sound that earned the band three East Coast Music Awards and a Juno nomination earlier...
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In-Flight Safety At The Horseshoe Tavern

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Horseshoe Tavern
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March 10, 2007
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Joel Plaskett And In-Flight Safety Win Three East Coast Music Awards

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By Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack) February 19, 2007 6:00 pm
This year's East Coast Music Awards show was filled with traditional, folk, alternative rock, jazz, country music and trailer trash. The Trailer Park Boys (outfitted in their fluorescent prison suits) kicked off the event by crashing a beaten-up old car into Halifax's Metro Centre. Bubbles (Mike Smith), Ricky (Robb Wells) and Julian (John Paul...
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The Golden Dogs And In-Flight Safety Headlining Third Chart/Horseshoe CMW Showcase

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By CHARTattack Staff February 2, 2007 7:00 pm
After announcing who's playing the first two evenings of Chart's Canadian Music Week showcases at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern last Friday, we can now reveal who will close the three-night run. The Ryde, Wil, Two Hours Traffic, Jenn Grant, Yoko Casionos, In-Flight Safety and The Golden Dogs will all take the Shoe stage on Sat., March 10. The...
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On The Road Again: Obie Trice, In-Flight Safety And Sydney

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By CHARTattack Staff October 18, 2006 5:00 pm
After being shot in his hometown of Detroit to end last year, rapper Obie Trice is checking out the land of stricter gun laws with a two-week tour that takes in a few markets where you might not expect to see an Eminem protege whose previous album (Cheers) sold a million copies in the U.S. Trice is supporting Second Round's On Me, which was...
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The Coast Is Clear For In-Flight Safety

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By Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack) April 27, 2006 6:30 pm
In-Flight Safety may not have conquered their fear of flying, but that doesn't prevent them from touring. The New Brunswick quartet are teaming up with Raising The Fawn for a group of dates scattered throughout southern Ontario and the Maritimes. "I wrote a song before the band was really getting going and it was this little instrumental...
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In-Flight Safety Land At Dead Daisy Records

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By Olena Kutin (CHARTattack) November 28, 2005 5:30 pm
After trying to glide through the turbulence of the music industry for the past few years, In-Flight Safety have finally come in for a safe landing at Emm Gryner's Dead Daisy Records label. The ambient rock quartet are comprised of Glen Nicholson (drums), Brad Goodsell (bass), Daniel Ledwell (keyboards) and John Mullane (guitar and vocals). The...
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