thebirthdaymassacre

Song Playthru 001: Blue

Chibi, Rainbow, Falcore and Brett sit down for our first Patreon Song Playthru! We chose to do "Blue!" Enjoy!

From Poison to Mirrors

Here's a demo for another track off the new album! A lot of our songs start this way as 1 minute ideas or moods and then grow into their full versions!

Chibi Interviews: Phil

After our first rehearsal since March Chibi sits down with Phil to have the first interview of our Chibi Interviews series.

Tales from the Manager Part 2

For Part 1 see "A Message from Terry the Manager" on Oct 24th 2020. 

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So, Rainbow sent me the contracts and I noticed that the band had given up ownership in the masters to a European label.

See…. I have no idea how Taylor Swift did not own her own masters. After all, she was dealing with some heavy hitter lawyers and the first thing that they should have done for her was give her ownership of her recordings in any contract that she signed. If not immediate o...

2014 Rainbow Studio Walkthru

In 2014 Rainbow takes us through his set up. We plan to do a 2020 version of this very soon! We're working on new content today actually :)

Diamonds Demo

Here's the groundwork of what would become the title track on the latest album! A simple demo before drums or vocal ideas were put forth. 

2014 European Tour Vid

Found this video in the archives! Thought the Patreon's might enjoy revisiting this and maybe you've never seen it before! 

Undone_032619 - Parallel World Structure

In this version of the demo, the idea is starting to take shape. The structure is taking shape and there are some new sounds being added. From here we will usually start to think about lyrics and melody and begin adding those layers as we build the song into its full production. After listening to this go and throw the album on and see what's changed from its early stages! 

Undone 030518 - Demo for Parallel World

This is the first scribble of an idea for the song "Parallel World." In this version you can see the idea, but it's yet to be explored. We'll post the next version in a new post for you to see the progression! 

First Live Q & A on Patreon starts at 6PM EST

Hey everyone! 

Here's the link for today! Since it's our first time we will work through this together and figure it out!!! We will be doing text questions from you guys so please enable chat and we will try and choose as many questions as we can during the stream! 

In the future we hope to do more interactive sessions so if your question gets missed or you can't make it today we will definitely be doing more of these!

Talk soon!

~Brett

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Tomorrow First Live Q & A

Hey everyone, tomorrow will be our first attempt at a live Q & A on Patreon! We're gonna start things off at 6PM EST.  Check your time zones because things may have shifted since last week with the Daylight Savings changes over this weekend. 

We will take your questions from 6PM-7PM EST on an unlisted private YouTube stream that I'll post on here tomorrow a few hours before we get started. 

This will be something we regularly do on Patreon now so if we don't get...

Trick or Treat?!?!?!?!?

Me and rainbow used to go dancing together when we lived in London. This was Halloween 1999. I went as "witch", rainbow went as "dapper". The most horrifying thing about the night was our dance moves... ~Chibi

Happy Halloween everyone! 

Photos From Vid 001 - Beginnings

Some of you may have caught a peek at these photos in the book!!! But in case you didn't get a copy or wanted to see them again here are the pics I cut in from the 1st video about the origins of the band and a few bonus ones! ~Brett

Patreon Series Video 001 - Beginnings

Brett sits down with Chibi, Rainbow and Falcore to discuss the early origins of the band.

Launching Soon

Hi Everyone! I'm just putting the final touches on the interview I did with a band about the beginnings of the band and we'll have a few goodies in addition to that to throw up today. We'd also like to officially announce our first Live Q & A which will take place on Tuesday November 3rd at 6PM-7PM EST and will have Chibi, Rainbow and Falcore along with myself, Brett, as the mediator to answer your questions to the band! 

Happy Halloween! 

~Brett

The Tour That Didn't Happen

It's still hard to believe we couldn't play these shows!!! We are really hoping that after the dust settle's from this pandemic that we will get to play alongside these great bands and at these amazing venues! Missing the road so bad especially with Halloween approaching. Other than "The Birthday Massacre" shows that got cancelled what are some bands you missed during this whole thing? 

Terry and I have been posting a few things to get a feel for the Patreon system and we've got a ...

A Message from Terry the Manager...

Hi, Terry the Manager here and I am going to be contributing to this site in a number of ways.

I am going to talk about the business and the band giving you some insight into how this whole thing got together and stayed together. I will give my opinion on the members of the band and what I have learned from them over the years. I will talk about the good times and the not so good times. It has been 99% good in my opinion but a couple of times, people let us down and this is my chance to...

Patreon Intro Vid is Live

As we build to the launch here's a little chat I had with Chibi, Rainbow and Falcore about what you might expect from the Patreon. ~Brett

March 2020 - The Birthday Massacre - Promo shot

Testing this new system! 

It's Brett here, the "newest-old" member of the band. I'll be helping out with the Patreon and some Social Media stuff going forward. This was my first photo shoot with the band since somewhere around 2004-2005 when I was playing keys in the band and we did a pic together on tour.

This photo was taken on March 15th 2020, the day before Canada locked everything down and what also seemed like the day the Earth stood still... There was uncertainty in th...