Liam Corcoran (Full Band) + Tyler Messick

  • March 23, 2018
    10:00 pm - 1:30 am

PEI’s Liam Corcoran (Two Hours Traffic) with a full band and Tyler Messick (Museum Pieces) make up their postponed show from the fall at The Carleton on Friday, March 23rd. Liam will be celebrating the vinyl release of his new Nevahland album. Live music gets underway at 10 PM and admission is only $10 at the door.

Former Two Hours Traffic frontman, Liam Corcoran is just off the November release of his debut album Nevahland. The album features guest appearances by Brian Murphy (Alvvays), Kinley Dowling (Hey Rosetta!, KINLEY), Emilee Sorrey (SORREY), Dan Griffin (Arkells, Teen Ravine) and Nathan Wiley. NEVAHLAND follows the compelling story of three couples facing an impossible decision.

Singer-Songwriter Tyler Messick‘s friends call him a time-traveler. His passion for uncovering archaic ballades of the British Isles and rural America have informed his unique style of orchestrated psych-rock. He grew up in the bowels of archives and museums in America, Canada and the Middle East – while his academic parents curated galleries and resurrected ancient texts for academia.

He was displaced to rural Nova Scotia at 14, and there became the obsessive kid in the front row at Plasket, Sloan and Al Tuck shows. He has since formed his own unique sound branch – taking his lessons from these local legends.

Tyler released one of the best debut solo albums we’ve ever heard – Grain Sales of 1840 – at 23, when he first arrived in Halifax, before forming The Museum Pieces and making a couple of ground-breaking albums with them. Then he took off for Montreal and wound up on a career detour that has seen him traveling the world with Arcade Fire as Win Butler’s guitar tech. He is back to his roots making a pop/rock music solo and with a  full band. His latest album is Black Cape and was released in July 2017.