Digital Notes From Mediadome

Our Lady Peace- Digital Notes Canada - OLP's Mike Turner makes the introductions.
November 27, 1997

Well, I suppose an introduction is in order. My name is Mike Turner, and I play guitar in a band called Our Lady Peace. That's Our Lady (not of!) Peace; we aren't a religious band, just named after a poem by Mark Van Doren. Perhaps we weren't too bright when we overlooked the religious implications of the name, but then again, we didn't claim to be brain surgeons (or theology students). My bandmates and I will be doing a journal of our lives for your edification and entertainment.

This being the first entry of the "road" journal is a little ironic, being as we are at home for the longest stretch since January. We are in the middle of nine days at home, but being the workaholics that we are, we managed to occupy three of those days with band doings. The first day back was a sleep day, conveniently a Sunday. But at the start of the week we got right into the details of our upcoming arena tour of Canada. We have been very lucky at home

and are in a position to do this tour on our terms, so we went over the details of the tour: production, staging, and the like. There were several more things that needed our attention and we dealt with them as best we could. Believe it or not, we managed to take up an entire day with this stuff!

With the minutia of the biz taken care of, it gave us the following two days to get into the reason that we do this: music. We got to go into our friend and producer Arnold Lanni's studio to document whatever ideas have been kicking around in the time we've been on the road. It was really nice to see Arn and Ange (the engineer that worked on our record) and to remember the "good old

days" of making an album. They weren't all that good, to be honest. Lots of stress and lots of creative sparks flying. That's the essence of creativity though, so no complaints. There were lots of mid-tempo, "sitting around with an acoustic" type of ideas, and even a trancey sort of exploration. It seems that, without the exposure to the electrified band, we didn't feel the need to "rawk," so we're sitting around with big vibe tunes. I guess we'll just have to get together more often than soundchecks! I'm not sure how this will be possible given our schedule and the space we need to set up the band, but we'll figure it out.

The pictures that we've included are of us in the studio, of course excluding the cameraman, me. This is just the first of several entries here, so keep checking in and we'll be around! If you're interested in learning more about us, feel free to check out our Web site at http://www.ourladypeace.com, where you'll find our tour schedule and when we'll be near you with Everclear and Letters to Cleo.