Jetset Motel

Canadian alternative country/folk rock band. Biography - While on the road heading to a gig in London, Ontario, four Newfoundland musicians, in a van loaded down with Fender gear, passed a sign advertising Ingersoll’s Jet Set Motel. The band was touring in support of David Picco’s debut solo album, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, and the sign typified their aesthetic perfectly. Songs of heartbreak and longing mingled with ambition and a dedication to fine musicianship. The sound of smoky bars and cross-country trips by many a band - from Neil Young and The Flying Burrito Brothers to Songs: Ohia and Wilco - this van was on that same path of sincere music and dedication to the craft that so many greats have travelled in the past. Jetset Motel are four displaced East Coasters who found themselves and each other through various bands playing around Toronto at places like the Legendary Horseshoe, Silver Dollar, Cadillac Lounge and Dakota Tavern. Last year the band started to work on a eponymous debut album at Orchard Studios just outside the city. Long hours of rehearsing, tracking, re-writing and re-working the songs they had been honing in the live setting were finally paying off. Mixing with Laurence Currie was next and after all that work something of great importance to them had emerged: an album. Now in 2010, all that blood, sweat and toil will be pressed onto plastic discs and sold in small shops around the country, uploaded to countless social networking sites and sent to festivals, magazines, blogs and newspapers so that all this hard work can finally be heard by the fresh ears of an audience. Jetset Motel’s debut was released this spring and will be followed by shows across the country and south of the border. Keep an eye out for that van loaded with gear on a highway near you. Influences The Band, VU, Neil Young, the Stones, Wilco, Luna, Songs: Ohia, Kinks, Bonnie Prince Billy, BJM, Sun Kil Moon...