For the past few weeks I've been posting old live videos of my 90's band Pure. It's been quite a lot of fun to re-experience those days from more than 30 years ago.
Here's a few of the full song clips I've cleaned up so far.
Special thanks to Dan Maynard for not only videoing all these shows while doing lights for the band, but even finding a working camera for us to transfer the old tapes from. It's great looking back at these days!
Headlong Hearts "Creatures of Habit" out July 1st 2025 on all streaming sites.
The second full length from Vancouver, Canada's Headlong Hearts is a big shift forward in their sound. Growing on the strengths of their debut, What We Call Forever, Creatures of Habit puts the band in a fuller, faster style. With songs like One Golden Day, Canadian Shield, and Canada all pushing the tempos more like a folk rock band, Headlong Hearts is demonstrating what they've learned from playing live for the past decade. More aggressive, more dramatic, but still retaining the sense of beauty from their beginnings, the band is having fun with their sound.
Creatures of Habit is an eleven song, all original, album that features another wood cut cover art by the band's drummer Matt Brain. No only is Matt a great drummer, but he's also a wonderful artist as well.
Produced by Deborah Holland (with three songs co produced by Mark Henning)
Engineered by Emily Ryan and Mark Henning
Mixed by Mark Henning
Mastered by Graemme Brown
Original cover art by Matt Brain
CD layout and graphic design by Robert Edmonds
Check it out where you listen to music, Linktree
Or better yet, click through to Headlong Hearts' homepage and order a cd!
BE25045
Release Date - April 4 2025
Combine the Victorious - Monsoon Afternoon
Composed by Combine the Victorious (Clement, Dunlop, Henning)
Produced and engineered by Mark Henning at Boutique Empire Studio, Vancouver, Canada
Artwork by Boutique Empire
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Canada is written by Mark Henning with Chris Barrett, Matt Brain, Hugh Ellenwood, Brad Gillard and Matt Kennedy
The song is the eleventh track on the new record. Produced by Deborah Holland with Mark Henning
Recorded at Rain City Recorders and Boutique Empire Studio
Bedtracks engineered by Emily Ryan, additional engineering and mixing by Mark Henning.
Mastered by Graemme Brown at Zen Mastering
Original artwork taken from a Matt Brain original work called "Morning Walk"
Cover layout and graphic design by Robert Edmonds at Evoke International.
The video featured live performance of the Headlong Hearts from the Bez Arts Hub in Langley BC. The audio is the studio recording of Canada taken from the Creatures of Habit album.Video editing by Mark Henning at Boutique Empire.
Listen and download the song here
Headlong Hearts - City of Benares (video)
Directed and edited - Mark Henning
Camera operator - Jean Vercoe
Filmed at Boutique Empire Studio, Vancouver, Canada
Words and Music by Headlong Hearts (Ellenwood, Brain, Gillard, Henning, Kennedy)
Music recorded at Rain City Recorders and Boutique Empire Studio
Produced by Deb Holland and Headlong Hearts
Engineered by Emily Ryan and Mark Henning
Mixed by Mark Henning
BE24039
Release date Nov 1 2024
Words and Music - Combine the Victorious
(Dunlop, Clement, Henning, Hanberry)
Produced and Engineered by Mark Henning
Recorded at Boutique Empire Studio
Cover art by Robert Edmonds
Listen on:
Awkward Connector (lyric video)
Edited by Mark Henning
Back in 2020 I produced the album "Somewhere in America" for the band Zombie Roof. We did it in a week (including mixing) at Hipposonic Studios, here in Vancouver. Everyone was quite happy with it and felt excited. Sadly almost the moment we finished the mastering and went to pressing the Covid 19 pandemic hit and the world stopped. The album slid under the collective attention and has been lying dormant nearly ever since.
Back in August Combine the Victorious opened for Zombie Roof in their hometown of Squamish. While we were there Todd from the band proposed the idea of making a video for the title track "Somewhere in America." Todd felt the song connected with the general zeitgeist of modern day USA. He suggested taking news clips and popular stories to cut together a video that demonstrated the state of the union. With that in mind I re-listened to the song and tried to conjure up a narrative.
Using clips from news stories and popular youtube videos as well as advertisements the video came together slowly and a feeling solidified. It was a bit overwhelming at first and I found myself getting a bit depressed with the collected imagery, so spend a bit more time trying to add a positive balance to the video. I think in the end it works well and suits the energy of the song tightly. Have a look and please let me know what you think!
