About: Fool's Union

The Fool’s Union online store is up and running with some brand new items for you to check out, including our COVID-19 charity bomber jacket – we’ll be donating all sales of these jackets to local food shelters in the Hamilton community. Get an awesome jacket and help out those who need it most during this crisis! You can visit the Fool’s Union shop here, enjoy the new designs!

It’s been a rough couple of months for everyone as we adjust to life to in the age of COVID-19, and as musicians we really miss jamming and playing live! Since it’s the May 2-4 long weekend, we thought we’d celebrate by dropping a live video! Click below to watch “Live Action” recorded live at WTFest in Brantford in July 2019! We had a blast playing the festival, and we can’t wait to get back to playing live when the world re-awakens.

In the meantime, enjoy the video!

Like everyone else is in the world right now, we are all in self isolation at home to help stop the spread of COVID-19. To keep everybody entertained and to stave off our boredom, we’ve taken to social media to do some fun stuff!

This week, Dave posted the very first episode of the Fool’s Union podcast, where he breaks down his must watch picks from Netflix to check out while you’re hanging out at home, We’ll keep posting new episodes about different topics so keep your eyes peeled on our Instagram!

Armed with his acoustic guitar, Nick has been posting a new series of videos called Isolation Songs, where he has been playing both original songs and cover tunes for all you self isolaters out there, including our new single “I’m Givin”! Head over to our Instagram to keep up with all the tuneage!

It’s a been a really weird time lately with all the COVID-19 stuff happening – a lot of concerts and events have been cancelled and we’re super bummed to have to add our upcoming shows to the pile. Social distancing and self isolation are of utmost importance right now to keep everybody healthy and safe, so gathering for rock shows is probably not the best idea right now. We were really pumped to get out there and rock out, and we’ll definitely be re-booking these shows once the dust settles:

• April 3 at The Atria, Oshawa w/Doghouse Rose
• April 30 at the Bovine, Toronto

We hope to get back out there soon, in the meantime, everybody stay safe out there!

We can’t tell you how excited we are to shake off this winter weather, get out and start playing some shows, and we have another one to add to the list: we’ll be opening for DOGHOUSE ROSE at THE ATRIA in Oshawa on Friday, April 3! We’re super pumped to be getting back out to Oshawa, we had a great time when we played there last! We’ve never played with Doghouse Rose before, but from all accounts they are kick ass, so this should be a solid night of rock! Doors at 8pm, 19+

Songs can take many forms on their way to the final version people hear on record, and for us we like to strike while the iron’s hot and get an idea down while it’s still fresh. Nick came up with the idea for “I’m Givin” over 10 years ago, and we’ve demoed the song many times over the years. The demo presented here is the very first demo recorded way back in the day, on a cheap microphone on some dodgy computer – but the main melody and drive of the song is already there. When we recorded our first batch of songs as Fool’s Union, “I’m Givin” finally got it’s chance to shine and became one of the songs we really wanted everyone to hear. Check out the stream of the “I’m Givin” below and compare it with the finished studio version, which one do you prefer?

https://soundcloud.com/foolsunion/im-givin-demo

Big show news kids! We’re heading back to Toronto to rock the Bovine Sex Club on April 30! What’s even better? We’re going to be joined by some stellar bands that will no doubt make for a most triumphant night of rock ‘n’ roll – Pink Leather Jackets, Killer Virgins, and Uforia! Now that “I’m Givin” is out in the world and rocking playlists on a galactic level, we’re ready to get out there and flex our rock ‘n’ roll muscles. Trust me, they’re huge. Behold the show poster below! Tickets are $10 at the door and shit kicks off at 8pm! We’ll see you at the Bovine.

The day has finally come! Our new single “I’m Givin” is now available on all streaming services! ARE YOU READY TO ROCK? Then CLICK HERE! We really hope you enjoy the song, it’s a rocker in the vein of Oasis and Rolling Stones. It was a fun song to write and record, and we’re excited to share it with you. We filmed a video for the song in a log cabin up in the far reaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was wild! Check out the video below!

The CBC Searchlight competition has begun for 2020, and once again we’ve entered ourselves in CBC’s search for great Canadian talent. We think we’re the GREATEST of all Canadian talent, so we submitted our video for “Under The Thunder” of Nick flying around with Gus the puppet. Trust me, when it comes to talent competitions, puppet videos kill. Anyway, we need your votes to rock this thing, so head over to the CBC Searchlight page right now, search up Fool’s Union and VOTE! You can vote once per day. Vote for any artist other than us and consider our friendship severed. Maybe.

Our new single is called “I’m Givin” and will be available for stream/download starting February 14. That’s right, the Valentine’s Day love song of 2020 is coming and you should be fucking stoked.

Here’s a little peak at the artwork.

“I’m Givin” will also be accompanied by a music video that we shot in a log cabin up in the far reaches of the Northwest Territories. We almost ran out of food and water, it was crazy! Here are some screenshots.

“I’m Givin” is the follow up to 2019’s “Under The Thunder”, and is the fifth single of five. When we first launched this band, we promised five standalone singles of pure rock awesomeness and we delivered goddammit! We’re proud of ourselves and we’re proud of YOU!