SUMMER 2026:
TORONTO SHOW ALERT!
What's an update without a show announcement? PUDDY WITH EQUATOR - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7th, 2026 AT JAMA! We recon it's been long enough, Toronto... By the time we roll around on this one, we'll be just shy of 2 years from the last one (we're hyper-aware of our good-will burn rate).
Some close friends have opened a new(ish) bar/venue in Toronto called JAMA and have graciously invited us to headline a night in their awesome live room. For those who haven't been, the Jama is a mega-hip secret haunt in Toronto on College at Dovercourt. Ultra cool, all analog vinyl bar in the basement and a great live room upstairs!
The biggest part of this announcement isn't the show itself... Paolo's daughter Ella will be joining the guys on stage for her first show as a 5th MEMBER! This isn't *just* a case of shameless nepotism. The new set features a lot of songs with keys, the kid is a legit killer.. and she almost certainly has a better record collection than you do.
We hope you can peel yourself out of your permanent couch dent to join us on what will be one for the history books.
There will be NO ADVANCE TICKETS - We're staunch believers that greasy tech platforms have no fucking business anywhere near local indie shows so this one will be first come, first serve with just over 100 spots. Get there early
JADED MUSIC VIDEO DROP!
In a long-forgotten, pre-condofied Toronto; in the days of $700 1-bedroom apartments; before smartphones and social media brought vapid influencers assaulting senses, shilling phony supplements and crypto ponzi schemes; A music video airing on Much-Music was the ultimate belt notch for an indie rock n' roll band in Canada. The bar was high back then. Equipment and know-how to produce a broadcast-ready music video were truly rare and expensive resources - far out of reach for most DIY punk rock budgets.
When we released Sweetspot in 2000, we intended to cut a video for Jaded, but after a bunch of rejections from VideoFact (Much-Music's "indie" video grant program that spawned an entire cottage industry for decades)... and after the industry wolves started circling around, telling us we needed a better sounding record - our focus changed and the project was abandoned. We moved on, feeling the Sweetspot package was never fully complete.
In 2023 we brought the unfinished business back into the periphery and finally pressed our scrappy little record on coloured vinyl. A small thing today, with everyone and their great grandfather's petrified turd puking out AI slop and pressing 1-off fake records - but, like everything else, we did it the slow, deep and hard way, sealing the personal milestone.
With the vinyl pressed, the video was the one lingering piece left unbuttoned. Twenty-six years later we're (sort of) wiping it off the board...
The concept is a bite of the opening scene in Superman I: Zod and company on trial; judged by the Godfather in a glowing jumpsuit and a jury of grumpy old men, lurking via zoom... Ultimately, exiling our anti-heros to the phantom zone (a flying jewel case).
In our version, we play the crotchety judges watching the 'younger' us down in the hula-hoops, performing Jaded over a freshly re-recorded version of the song from the Demagogo sessions (more on that later).
The song slotted into the concept far better than we expected. We're ancient now, judging our bad decisions with the kind of perspective you only earn after a quarter C of more bad decisions. All of it fell in place without any shoehorning.
SWEETSPOT
26th ANNIVERSARY
PACK
Why 26? Why not 25? Because shut up. We need to finance Powerhoser but we don't want to play shows.
If you buy the vinyl, you get the pin. Loads of bonus all over the place.
Special Edition
Sweetspot Vinyl
- 9 track 2023 Remaster
- 180g Ruby hand-numbered red wax
- Updated inner sleeve with retrospective liner notes
- Over-sized OBI strip made out of original vintage Puddy show posters.
¿ WHAT IS A MAGIC PIN ?
Special Edition
Sweetspot Magic Pin
- Newly recorded 2026 versions of "Jaded" & "Did You Drop Something"
- 2 remastered bonus SS tracks; "Suck Test" and "Barricade" deleted from vinyl
- 5 studio-mixed live tracks
- Downloads of live concert & archive content
- Album download codes
For those who've already purchased Sweetspot on vinyl, we've got your back. Post a pic with your Sweetspot vinyl on IG, tag us and get a link to the Deluxe MAGIC PIN as a stand-alone item for less than the price of a pound of medium ground chuck... Also, FREE worldwide SHIPPING ON PINS!!
PUDDY.tv V7 IS LIVE!
After a recent blowup with the parasitic website platform "Bandzoogle", we packed up our toys and went back to building and hosting our own shit - 90s/00s/10s Style. The straws that broke our back were half a dozen unresolved support tickets and Bandzoogle suddenly killing off U.S. orders mid-purchase with no warning, explanation or fix. Long story short, this site is brand new and platform-free. Things look similar around here (that's intentional) but rest assured, it's ALL Puddy's house now with no greasy shitbags lurking in dark corners, pick-pocketing every click.
CHEAPO worldwide SHIPPING UNLOCKED!!
As patriotic as we are, it needs to be said... HEY CANADA POST!! DO BETTER!!! Last month, we had a batch of $10 discounted tees to mail out and got dinged $20 per shirt!! Apologies to our friends who had to pay 3X THE LISTED PRICE FOR A CRUMMY TEE. We made sure to stuff some extras into those packages.
Now that the site is under our full control, we've got the store hooked up to discount shipper ChitChats which slashes the shipping rates for much of our catalogue by as much as 60%!!
No more 2-300% markup on records and shirts at checkout... AND - If you're one of the few American folks who were stonewalled at checkout, you too can now order hassle-free and take advantage of our new bargain-basement merch and shipping prices in sweet, devalued Canadian play bucks.
DEMAGOGO IN THE BAcK, POWERHOSER IN THE FRONT
Our Demagogo cycle is winding down and we're moving on to other stuff. It wasn't a blockbuster, but it seems it wasn't the total shit sandwich we've made it out to be either. Sometimes it's hard to see the forest from the sewer.
We racked up about 50,000 streams across the platforms before pulling everything down. We launched 3 killer DIY videos ("What Do You Want", "It Has A Name" & "Bourbon For the Bylaw Officer") pulling 40,000 views on YouTube. We hit 750,000 reel views on Instagram and 1.23 Million reel views on Facebook since launching the first single. Write ups in over 20 national rags and online zines... We came a nose hair from clearing out the first pressing and became the first band in Canada in decades to sell out of a release on 8-track tape. We sold-out most of the headlining gigs (<200 capacity venues), and literally, invented a physical music delivery system (check out our Magic Pins if you haven't already).
Not bad for a bunch of refurbished GenX luddites with basically zero promotional budget.
You might be wondering what all those metrics translated to in dollar bills. Precisely $0.00 in payments. The record cost quite a bit to make and to manufacture... Vinyl and tee sales at shows and in the store have kept us close to the black, so to everyone who supported us, thanks again.
The bigger story here though, is we've received nothing to date from Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon Music, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Additionally, a couple of the singles got decent spins on several prominent radio stations across Canada and on satellite, AND, the "It Has A Name" music video aired a bunch on TV on the Stingray Loud channel (previously MuchLoud). SOCAN however, currently claims we have zero earnings accrued. When we woke from our decades long slumber, we knew it was bad, but we had no bloody idea.
Puddy has always been about just getting through the current cycle with enough gas to get to the next checkpoint. There were brief, fleeting moments in the journey that looked like it would be more... but far more moments when it felt like staring into an abyss. Never have the feelings of hopelessness in this project been more intense than in the last couple of years.
In the depths of despair caused by endless vapid noise, algorithmic discrimination and industrial-scale counterfeiting operations funded by some of the absolute worst humans on the planet... we found a nugget of inspiration. The data centers, endless hype and twisted cultural wreckage in its wake have made one thing clear... Big tech is now openly, shamelessly anti-human. The endgame is to erase people from creative endeavor (among many other things). "Human-made" is now becoming defiance in a bigger way every day.
Somewhere along the line, we needed to accept the act of plowing in the face of this ocean of sewage; not to win, but just to plow; is the game we're now stuck playing. We're just spiteful enough that hanging onto that flimsy notion just might give us the mileage we need to make it to the next stop.
POWERHOSER
update:
Week 1 of June saw Mr. Cohen making the 10 hour train trip from Montreal to scenic Niagara On The Lake to track drums for our next fart-in-the-wind, "POWERHOSER."
We rented 1968 Ludwig Keystones in a finish we think is called "Psychedelic Puke" The most gloriously hideous red-white-and-blue mess ever slathered on an insturment. Luckily, they sounded better than they looked.
Friday night was setup and locking sounds. Saturday we grabbed beds for most of the songs. Sunday was a bit of a slog. Wrapped up what we didn't cover on Saturday, reviewed all 8 tracks, re-tracked a ton, then went back again and re-cut anything that we were second guessing. Slippery Tim ran technical detail and kept cables and connections behaving.
Paolo's kiddo Ella - a recent graduate of Harris Institute for audio production, engineered the session - Officially making the Puddy albatross a multi-generational burden. She ran the board with the patience and fortitude of an old pro, managing temper tantrums and artistic whims with grace. Ella will be mixing Powerhoser this fall once the tracks are cut.
Next up: Paolo and Tim re-cut guitar and bass beds to Eric's drums, then 'for real' vocals... Then in late August, Paolo hauls a portable rig up to JV's camp hidden deep in the bush. Full-stacks on the lake, mic'd outside. Three days of tracking guitars, shooting guns and riding 4-wheelers in the middle of fuckin' nowhere.
Apr 2026:
Still… Alive… MAYBE…
Happy April Fool's… Powerhoser is in production. No joke… or is it? That's all we're saying about that for now.
There's a more complete update coming shortly. No big spoilers, but it involves Superman, Sweetspot and 7 lbs of shit in a 5 lb bag that should make a handful of you creeps happy. Stay tuned.
DEAL: $10 MYSTERY SHIRT + STICKERS
We need to move some swag to make room for some new trash… We'd rather give it away than reorganize it into a dumpster / fire / dumpster fire.
Here's how it works: $10 (plus shipping) gets you a blind-pick tee and a couple slaps (stickers). Include your size in the order notes. We pick the shirt. You trust us. The designs in rotation include the slick Jason (black on black — 'sleeper'), Demagogo, the M*A*S*H*, some 8-track shirts, and a few premium 3/4-sleeve pieces.
Half price on most of these. More than half on some. We're not going to tell you which ones.
HIT IT — Quantity is whatever quantity is. Don't sleep.
BROWNOUT VOL 2 - SOLD OUT
The Full Beard PA had plans. We weren't included. We spent the better part of the afternoon attempting to ‘influence' gear that had no business in the same room with a stage - and arrived, through gritted teeth, at what we're calling an unplugged set. Despite the balmy -40 (yes, minus. four-tee.) temperature, the room was full. Money changed hands. Almost no one left early.
The gear situation started well before we even got to the door. We arrived at the airport in Toronto EXTREMELY early to make sure the bag full of gear made it to Timmins with us. Tracked it to the gate. Got the notification it had been loaded onto the plane. Landed in Timmins…. No bag.
As it turns out, it was pulled from the plane to make room for a mountain of curling rocks belonging to a Manitoba team on the same flight. Curling rocks. A sport that requires ice and a broom — priority one. Maybe they paid for economy-plus.
Paolo regrettably lost it on the agent in Timmins. Security was involved (sort of - he just stood there, blinking at us silently) - This is now officially on Paolo's Air Canada profile as he was unable to check in for the flight back without issuing a formal promise, in person - signed in spirit, crossed heart and everything - that he would not be disruptive on board.
We got the bag eventually - just in time for the PA to deliver a giant sloppy middle finger to all in attendance. It was a hell of a long way and a lot of effort and irritation for Chez Nous (the show was just a cover story)… Anyway, mission accomplished.
Our saving grace: Slippery Tim - who, right up to the flight home, was repeatedly asking "Do we really need me on this one?" - had his newly minted studio-in-a-backpack running (way smoother than the PA). A solid chunk of the night was captured in gloriously detailed audio and video, catching every gaffe, missed cue, sour note and blemish on our deer-in-headlights faces. For those who weren't there - and you know who you are - we'll be dripping recordings and video out imminently. More on that in the next update.
Morley Bonhomme - JV's kid - came up for the Kyuss Space Cadet cover and it was a hit. Tyler Burns filled in on drums for the second time, which means the benefits conversation is now overdue. Ken Harrison shot the whole thing, again. The Travelodge kept us off the street.
Cheers to all of them.
Jan 2026:
BROWNOUT VOL 2"
SHIPPING UPDATE
So our beloved on-again, off-again national postal service is on again. We've resumed shipping orders within Canada and the US. Costs on US orders are admittedly kind of high but we are slowly starting to send stuff out the door again. Thanks for the patience through the ongoing confusion.
On Saturday, February 7th, 2026, we're returning for another stripped down, “unplugged” performance at Full beard Brewing in what is typically the COLDEST month of the year in our favorite subarctic stomping ground.
Advanced tickets are just $10 at fullbeardbrewing.com. Spots are limited and premium tables are first come so get the jump early. Our good pal Brad Martel will be supporting.
We had a pretty good response last year so we'll have a full band on stage this year, and a much longer set packed with surprises.
We'll be doing a multi-cam capture of the night so all the chumps south of the 48th parallel can get a glimpse of the fun. Be sure to wear your best grimaces. There'll be plenty of audience shots.
Also worth mentioning… we've been watching the national news. In a gesture of solidarity In the wake of the largest snow storm to hit Timmins in 40 years, We have new PUDDY toques packed for the merch table.
Thanks to Full Beard and to sponsors The Travelodge, for supporting the show. Listen to Q92 for your chance to win free tickets and PUDDY prize packs.
SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE BAGELS
Montreal – it’s been a minute. Over twenty years, actually. Our set at Le Ministère for M for Montreal was a riot – packed house, sweat on the walls, blood on the guitars and the floorboards doing their best impression of a trampoline.
Huge thanks to our friends at Indica Records for making it happen, and to SKA Sound System for making the night one for the books.
There’s a lot cooking behind the curtain right now, and this show marked a bit of a turning point. More on that soon.
For now – Montreal, you did us proud. See you again sooner than twenty years this time.
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