I write about random things a lot. I write a lot about random things. With that in mind, let me tell you about how I recently came to be known as The Phone Guy. Nobody's perfect ... or at least, I feel as though that is the lesson to be learned here.

It began a few weeks ago, with the word that Dine Alone Records artists Parlovr and Dinosaur Bones would be performing at Fanshawe College on Friday, February 18. After a couple of emails back and forth with the publicist, I scored interviews with Alex Cooper of Parlovr and Ben Fox of Dinosaur Bones.

Through similarly unexciting circumstances, I missed both phone conversations. I know that you, the reader, can understand the kind of full schedule a student can face, but all the same, there's little worse you can do as a freelance writer than miss an interview.

Unless, like me, you manage to miss an interview with two bands touring together, giving them one more thing in common ... and the grounds for an embarrassing nickname.

For Parlovr - Cooper, Louis Jackson and Jeremy Mccuish from Montréal - the trip to Fanshawe is an opportunity to expose new listeners to their indie-pop style. The trio released their Hell/Heaven/Big/Love EP back in October, and have been working hard to get their music into our hands ever since.

This has included a brilliant take-away show on the French music blog La Blogothèque, for which the band filmed three songs. If you're familiar with the site (blogotheque.net), you'll know that the finest of the fine indie acts are featured, filmed intimately by talented French filmmakers. The combination of music and imagery goes down like a fine wine.

As does Parlovr; sadly, I wasn't able to speak to Cooper prior to this column; however, I've little doubt that the band are looking as forward to playing for us as we are to seeing them.

For Dinosaur Bones, the gig at the Out Back Shack is an opportunity to prepare us for things ahead; the band will release their debut LP My Divider on Dine Alone Records on March 8.

The band - with singer Ben Fox and Josh Byrne on guitar, Branko Scekic on bass, Dave Wickland on keys and Lucas Fredette on drums — have been enjoying a lot of positive exposure lately, and were most recently in London in December with The Reason and Arkells, joining both onstage for a show-stopping rendition of Bryan Adam's Run To You.

The band was also featured in a brilliant piece on woman.ca by Alex West, called "Ladies Love Dinosaur Bones." In it, they got the chance to talk about working with John Drew (Fucked Up, Tokyo Police Club) and the sort of natural environment that they created in the studio.

Luckily, I was able to get Fox back on the phone recently (we're even after a dropped call during the interview, in case you're keeping track), and we spoke at length about the record, which the band finished some time ago.

"Well, we kept busy," he said, when I asked about any frustration in holding on to a finished record. "The reason we sat on it so long is because we wanted to make sure it wound up in the right hands. And it totally did, so ... we're happy about that, it made the waiting a little bit easier."

"We recorded it ourselves," he continued. "Independently, without knowing where it was going to go, or who was going to release it, so we knew there was going to be a process when it was done — shopping it around, seeing if anyone was interested. But the wait was totally worth it, I think."

Luckily, you won't have to wait long to hear it, as both bands are gracing our stage in the Out Back Shack on Friday, February 18. If you're reading this hot off the presses, go to the show tonight! If you're reading this after the fact, you missed a great show, damn.

For more information on either act, check them out on Twitter @Parlovr and @Dinosaur_Bones, or on their websites at parlovr.com and dinosaurbones.ca. Dine Alone Records are fast amassing the richest, most talented roster in Canadian music, and these two bands are no exception.

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