The break we planned to take approaching New Year lasted a little longer than planned. Good news is the guitar is out of hibernation for another year, we are both feeling refreshed and ready to make and play some awesome music and hope you can all join in our fun. Jamie & Hollie.x

You can now find all of The Fifty Penny March’s videos exclusively at Youtube.

Ok so now we finally have a little time to breathe I’ll give you a quick update on how things have gone since we left Northern Ireland a month ago.

After spending two glorious weeks in Scotland visiting family and playing what was no doubt the best gig ever at King Tuts, we arrived fresh and hugely jetlagged in Vancouver. WOW! What a beautiful city. I’ve certainly never seen anywhere prettier on such a scale. I won’t get started on the literaly thousands of homeless people walking the street 24/7 as I fear a rant would ensure, so sad.

Van has little nightlife to speak of. We asked around and all of our muso friends said the same thing: “Head to Toronto!” So, never being one to disregard good advice we high-tailed it to Toronto in double quick time only stopping in Victoria, BC to catch the most amazing Killer Whale watching experience, ever! Here is just one of our photos….

Whale Watching: Victoria, BC

So now we are in Toronto and except for the atrocious weather this is OUR city. Cool music venues, free Jazz and lots and lots to do so with music contacts growing by the day and old friends like Yohann, etc living here then we feel we are in the right spot.

I’ve still got more videos to put up from the King Tuts show but the files are so big it takes a life time to upload them to Youtube. Watch this space.

Lots of Love,

Jamie TFPM.x

The Fifty Penny March have arrived safely in their new home of Vancouver, Canada. Watch this space for everything TFPM related in the new motherland!!

What a night!!!
Last Saturday night was our farewell show for a long while in the UK. There really is no better place to do it than King Tuts in Glasgow!
We had a great night, tonnes of old friends turned up and much fun was had. We videoed the whole gig from start to finish so I am trying to find a site that will allow us to host the whole thing but at 1.5GB it’s too big for youtube, vimeo and blip where we have stored videos before. Any ideas? Email me at: jamie@thefiftypennymarch.com

Here’s the video for ‘Ghosts’ in the meantime. Enjoy.

Big thanks to everyone who came out to the King Tuts show on Saturday night. we had an awesome night and was a very fond farewell to home shores for the next few months…x

We have just been confirmed to play The Drawing Room in Glasgow this Thursday. 8pm start. Free Entry!!

With one week left until the band’s farewell UK show at King Tuts, Glasgow tickets are available from either the venue box office or form the band directly. If you are within the Glasgow area this Thursday or Friday please email: jamie@thefiftypennymarch.com and we will endeavour to come up with a pickup point to collect tickets from. Priced at £5/ £6 on the night, it promises to be a great night of music. Also playing: Charlotte O’Connor and Caragh Nugent.

Sadly TFPM did not make it over to Scotland this weekend for the Ord Ban show…due to problems with transport and escalating costs we had to cancel the show. BUT threat not…the show will go on and will be rescheduled for sometime in September. We’ll keep you posted on dates for this and more upcoming shows very soon.

Hollie and Jamie will be joining Mel Wiggins and band onstage this weekend as guest vocalists at the Forfey Festival in Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh. Catch them at lunchtime this Saturday. For more info head over to www.melwiggins.co.uk to find out more.