Post by dana06 on Feb 16, 2007 21:09:36 GMT -4
Shaye spawns a family
Babies delayed new sophomore CD of `Happy Baby' singers
Feb 16, 2007 04:30 AM
Ben Rayner
Pop Music Critic
Sure, the sisters are doin' it for themselves and all that, but it can still get awful lonely out there for a sister doin' it by herself.
Ask the three ladies of Shaye. Expat East Coasters Kim Stockwood, Damhnait Doyle and Tara MacLean were all known quantities in their own rights before they hooked up in Toronto some five years ago to form a roots-pop singer/songwriter "supergroup," but they're having a helluva lot more laughs these days.
"We'd all been doing it for seven or eight years each by then, and it gets to the point where it's just boring," says Doyle over a mildly riotous Italian lunch with her bandmates. "I was bored of my own company and I was at a point where I didn't know if music was something I wanted to do any more.
"It can be quite isolating, taking the hits and the good things that come along by yourself. It's not fun when you don't really have anybody to share it with."
An impromptu version of the Beatles' "Yesterday," performed by Stockwood, Doyle and chum Dayna Manning for an EMI Music party, left enough lingering good feeling around the record-company offices and between the two singers to sow the seeds for the first Shaye album, 2003's The Bridge. They lured mutual friend MacLean into the fold "with margaritas and shoes," and an insincere promise "that we were just gonna do a cover record and she wouldn't have to write anything" when Manning was too busy to stick around.
The Bridge produced a reasonable radio hit in "Happy Baby" and moved enough copies (more than 15,000) to merit a quick request from EMI for a sequel. The only thing that held up Shaye's recent sophomore disc, Lake of Fire, so long was the call of motherhood.
"In the past five years, we've had three kids; I've had two and she's had another one," says Stockwood, gesturing across the table at MacLean.
"They both have two children each, but I also have two children: Tara and Kim," quips Doyle.
Not that pregnancy slowed these gals down much. Stockwood gamely went on a tour of Japan last year while seven months pregnant, and she laughingly observes that three weeks after MacLean's newest daughter, Stella, was born, "we were onstage in St. Catharines with the symphony with her baby in a sling at her boob."
Shaye's generous collective sense of humour and penchant for super-mommy (and "super-aunt") adventures hasn't gone unnoticed by the folks at Breakthrough Films – the makers of Kenny Vs. Spenny – who are preparing a four-part "reality" series tentatively dubbed The Shaye Show for broadcast on Global and CMT in the spring. Doyle jokes it's a "dramedy."
"It's basically what our life is like, and the pure comedy behind trying to juggle everything and be friends and sisters in the midst of the chaos," says MacLean. "It's really good."
Shooting will proceed through such events as Shaye's performance at Mississauga's Living Arts Centre on March 30 and a planned concert in April at the CBC's Glenn Gould Studio exclusively for people awaiting organ transplants.
Promoting organ donation has become the trio's cause celebre, not least because MacLean's late sister, Shaye Martirano – for whom the band was named after she died in a car crash during recording of The Bridge – was denied her dying wish of passing on her organs due to bureaucratic red tape.
"That's not acceptable, when my sister's 27-year-old, perfectly healthy body could have saved someone else's life," says MacLean, who's pushing the idea of a legally binding registry of would-be donors. "Canada has the lowest rate of organ donation in the developed world, and that's just ridiculous."
www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/182427 --there's a cute picture along with the article
Babies delayed new sophomore CD of `Happy Baby' singers
Feb 16, 2007 04:30 AM
Ben Rayner
Pop Music Critic
Sure, the sisters are doin' it for themselves and all that, but it can still get awful lonely out there for a sister doin' it by herself.
Ask the three ladies of Shaye. Expat East Coasters Kim Stockwood, Damhnait Doyle and Tara MacLean were all known quantities in their own rights before they hooked up in Toronto some five years ago to form a roots-pop singer/songwriter "supergroup," but they're having a helluva lot more laughs these days.
"We'd all been doing it for seven or eight years each by then, and it gets to the point where it's just boring," says Doyle over a mildly riotous Italian lunch with her bandmates. "I was bored of my own company and I was at a point where I didn't know if music was something I wanted to do any more.
"It can be quite isolating, taking the hits and the good things that come along by yourself. It's not fun when you don't really have anybody to share it with."
An impromptu version of the Beatles' "Yesterday," performed by Stockwood, Doyle and chum Dayna Manning for an EMI Music party, left enough lingering good feeling around the record-company offices and between the two singers to sow the seeds for the first Shaye album, 2003's The Bridge. They lured mutual friend MacLean into the fold "with margaritas and shoes," and an insincere promise "that we were just gonna do a cover record and she wouldn't have to write anything" when Manning was too busy to stick around.
The Bridge produced a reasonable radio hit in "Happy Baby" and moved enough copies (more than 15,000) to merit a quick request from EMI for a sequel. The only thing that held up Shaye's recent sophomore disc, Lake of Fire, so long was the call of motherhood.
"In the past five years, we've had three kids; I've had two and she's had another one," says Stockwood, gesturing across the table at MacLean.
"They both have two children each, but I also have two children: Tara and Kim," quips Doyle.
Not that pregnancy slowed these gals down much. Stockwood gamely went on a tour of Japan last year while seven months pregnant, and she laughingly observes that three weeks after MacLean's newest daughter, Stella, was born, "we were onstage in St. Catharines with the symphony with her baby in a sling at her boob."
Shaye's generous collective sense of humour and penchant for super-mommy (and "super-aunt") adventures hasn't gone unnoticed by the folks at Breakthrough Films – the makers of Kenny Vs. Spenny – who are preparing a four-part "reality" series tentatively dubbed The Shaye Show for broadcast on Global and CMT in the spring. Doyle jokes it's a "dramedy."
"It's basically what our life is like, and the pure comedy behind trying to juggle everything and be friends and sisters in the midst of the chaos," says MacLean. "It's really good."
Shooting will proceed through such events as Shaye's performance at Mississauga's Living Arts Centre on March 30 and a planned concert in April at the CBC's Glenn Gould Studio exclusively for people awaiting organ transplants.
Promoting organ donation has become the trio's cause celebre, not least because MacLean's late sister, Shaye Martirano – for whom the band was named after she died in a car crash during recording of The Bridge – was denied her dying wish of passing on her organs due to bureaucratic red tape.
"That's not acceptable, when my sister's 27-year-old, perfectly healthy body could have saved someone else's life," says MacLean, who's pushing the idea of a legally binding registry of would-be donors. "Canada has the lowest rate of organ donation in the developed world, and that's just ridiculous."
www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/182427 --there's a cute picture along with the article