GORD DOWNIE, THE SADIES, AND THE CONQUERING SUN SHARE NEW VIDEO, LIVE ALBUM OUT TOMORROW

February 26, 2026

LIVE AT 6 O’CLOCK, OUT FEBRUARY 27 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

FEATURES COVERS OF NEIL YOUNG, THE WHO, STOOGES, ROKY ERICKSON, THE GUN CLUB & FUCKED UP

WATCH / SHARE “IF YOU HAVE GHOSTS” (ROKY ERICKSON COVER) HERE

**PREORDER & PRESAVE LIVE AT 6 O'CLOCK HERE**

“One hell of a collaboration" - Paste
“Scruffy punk diatribes and haunted earthenware roots-rockers” - The Toronto Star
“Sounds like a struggle. Sounds like shots were fired. Sounds good loud” - The Globe And Mail
“When the five of them are on the same page, there’s an intimidating energy” - Exclaim!

Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun released their debut self-titled album in 2014, a triumphant ten song barnburner that clashes the late Gord Downie's indelible poetry with the brash, inspired playing of The Sadies, whose resume already included albums with Neko Case, Jon Spencer, John Doe, and Andre Williams, to name a few. Not a one-off, but a brotherhood, Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun struck a punk-addled chemistry verging on possessed, compelled by Downie's peerless words, unbridled charisma, and the unencumbered playing of Mike Belitsky, Sean Dean, Travis Good, and the late Dallas Good. The summer tour of that album blazed a trail of indescribably fiery performances of the album, riddled with incendiary covers of punk & psych rock greats, a rare intensity now captured on the concert album, Live At 6 O'Clock.

Today the band shares a video of "If You Have Ghosts", the fervent opening of 'Live At Six O'Clock,' a possessed and reverent take on the song originally performed by psych-rock visionary Roky Erickson. Captured in the thick of Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun’s 2014 summer tour, the performance finds the band locked in a feverish communion.

WATCH / SHARE “IF YOU HAVE GHOSTS” (ROKY ERICKSON COVER) HERE

WATCH / SHARE “GENERATION” (FUCKED UP COVER) HERE

**PREORDER & PRESAVE LIVE AT 6 O'CLOCK HERE**

Join members of The Sadies tonight Thursday, February 26 at 9pm ET for an exclusive Bandcamp Listening Party of Live At 6 O’Clock.

“If this record is any good at all, it is for the love and support of our families and the company of good friends.” - Gord Downie.

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GORD DOWNIE, THE SADIES, AND THE CONQUERING SUN

LIVE AT 6 O’CLOCK - TRACKLISTING
1. If You Have Ghosts (Roky Erickson Cover)
2. So Sad About Us (The Who Cover)
3. It Didn’t Start To Break My Heart Until This Afternoon
4. Grey Riders (Neil Young Cover)
5. Generation (Fucked Up Cover)
6. Goodbye Johnny (The Gun Club Cover)
7. Demand Destruction
8. I Got A Right (Stooges Cover)

THE SADIES ON TOUR
Feb 28 - Brooklyn NY - Brooklyn Bowl
Jun 9 - Woodstock NY - Bearsville Theater w/ The Mekons
Jun 12 - Cambridge MA - Sinclair w/ The Mekons

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GORD DOWNIE, THE SADIES, AND THE CONQUERING SUN ANNOUNCE LIVE ALBUM, LIVE AT 6 O’CLOCK, SHARE SINGLE “GENERATION” (FUCKED UP COVER)

February 10, 2026

ALBUM OUT FEB 27 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

FEATURES COVERS OF NEIL YOUNG, THE WHO, STOOGES, ROKY ERICKSON, THE GUN CLUB & FUCKED UP

WATCH / SHARE “GENERATION” (FUCKED UP COVER) HERE

**PREORDER & PRESAVE LIVE AT 6 O'CLOCK HERE**

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Releasing February 27 via Arts & Crafts, Live At 6 O’Clock captures the electricity of Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun at their zenith. Featuring eight lightning strike performances selected from four festival sets – including covers of Roky Erickson, The Who, Neil Young, The Gun Club, The Stooges, and two originals from the debut album – Live At 6 O’Clock is a rare document of Downie and The Sadies’ legendary energy in supremely elevated punk rock form. Introducing the album today is their transcendent performance of "Generation" originally by Toronto hardcore legends Fucked Up. With Downie pushing beyond his limit, in combustion with The Sadies, “Generation” leads this cherished snapshot of an incomparable band, a pure expression of visceral and everlasting exultation.

WATCH / SHARE “GENERATION” (FUCKED UP COVER) HERE
PREORDER & PRESAVE LIVE AT 6 O'CLOCK HERE

“If this record is any good at all, it is for the love and support of our families and the company of good friends.” - Gord Downie.

The Sadies are currently on tour, see full itinerary below.

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THE SADIES, AND THE CONQUERING SUN
LIVE AT 6 O’CLOCK - TRACKLISTING
1. If You Have Ghosts (Roky Erickson Cover)
2. So Sad About Us (The Who Cover)
3. It Didn’t Start To Break My Heart Until This Afternoon
4. Grey Riders (Neil Young Cover)
5. Generation (Fucked Up Cover)
6. Goodbye Johnny (The Gun Club Cover)
7. Demand Destruction
8. I Got A Right (Stooges Cover)

THE SADIES ON TOUR
Feb 10 - Los Angeles CA - Lodge Room
Feb 11 - San Francisco CA - Great American Music Hall
Feb 12 - Ferndale CA - Ferndale Music Company
Feb 13 - Portland OR - Star Theater
Feb 14 - Seattle WA - Tractor Tavern
Feb 16 - Vancouver BC - Fox Cabaret
Feb 18 - Nelson BC - The Royal
Feb 20 - Calgary AB - Ironwood
Feb 28 - Brooklyn NY - Brooklyn Bowl
Jun 9 - Woodstock NY - Bearsville Theater w/ The Mekons
Jun 12 - Cambridge MA - Sinclair w/ The Mekons

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GORD DOWNIE AND BOB ROCK SHARE CROWD-SOURCED AI VIDEO FOR “LUSTRE PARFAIT”

June 16, 2023

THE ACCLAIMED ALBUM FROM THE ICONIC DUO IS OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

WATCH / SHARE “LUSTRE PARFAIT” HERE
BUY / STREAM LUSTRE PARFAIT HERE

Built from hours of material created between 2009 and 2017, the Tragically Hip leader's collaboration with uber-producer Bob Rock bursts with vitality, buoyancy and bliss. It's not a sombre entrée — it's a lustre parfait. - Exclaim!

A stunning thrill ride that features Downie at his rocking, passionate best and Rock sculpting the perfect musical foundations around his lyrically cryptic musings.” - Toronto Star

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Today, Gord Downie and Bob Rock are sharing the new visualizer for the title track from their widely celebrated collaboration album, Lustre Parfait, recently released after years of speculation and anticipation. The “Lustre Parfait” video incorporates AI in the creative process. Using machine learning to interpret thousands of photos of chandeliers as the source material, director Matt King created an algorithm to teach a program to produce its own images of chandeliers. Swirled with Gord Downie's handwritten song lyrics and Matthew Cardinal's iconic album cover photography, the video is an abstract and incandescent response to the music, spotlighting a place close to Gord's heart – where art inspires art.

“In making this video, we wanted to manifest the spirit of Lustre Parfait (or 'perfect chandelier') and the shimmering electricity of Gord and Bob's music,” says King. “We wanted to bring people into the art, and create something inspired by it – so without giving too much context, we put a call out for fans to submit their own images of chandeliers. We then gathered these submissions (many of which can be seen during the intro of the song), combined them with Matthew Cardinal's stunning album cover photography to make a dataset of images. We put this dataset into an Artificial Intelligence program and asked it to create new images based on what it saw. What came out is hundreds of unique images based on the original chandelier pictures. Some images looked fairly realistic, some were a little off, while others looked like a total mess. Once we stitched them all together and put them to the song, we felt good about how they reflect the joyous cacophony of Bob Rock's production, while honouring Gord Downie's lifelong strive to create something that is beautifully strange and entirely unique.”

WATCH / SHARE “LUSTRE PARFAIT” HERE

MORE ABOUT LUSTRE PARFAIT
Lustre Parfait, is the long mythologized album by The Tragically Hip's legendary late frontman Gord Downie and iconic multi-platinum Grammy Award and Hall of Fame producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Michael Bublé). Downie and Rock’s relationship began when they worked together on The Tragically Hip's World Container (2006) and We Are The Same (2009). Inspired by their union under the spell of rock n’ roll, it was after the second outing that Downie asked if Rock had music he could write lyrics for. The sonic spaces that Rock provided led Downie into the depths of his notebooks, armed with the musical clues to navigate the brilliance mapped therein. Recording sessions between 2009 and 2016 in Maui, Vancouver, Toronto, and Los Angeles, featuring a multitude of seasoned Rock collaborators, led to Lustre Parfait – the ninth album to bear Downie's name outside the Hip, and the first album to bear Rock’s beyond the role of producer and engineer.

Songs like the title track “Lustre Parfait” and “The Raven And The Red-Tailed Hawk” showcase the boundless energy and heedless pace found within, both rave-up radio rockers that brim with glinting guitars, galloping drums, and combustive choruses. Steeped in their shared affinity for rock classics and pop punk abandon, heard before in The Tragically Hip’s “Fireworks” or Rock’s work with The Cult and The Payolas, Lustre Parfait is a striking contrast to the raw intimacy of Downie's posthumous solo releases – 2017's Introduce Yerself, and 2020's Away Is Mine – and the natural grain of his earlier solo albums like Coke Machine Glow and The Grand Bounce.

“First and foremost Gord was my friend, and having the opportunity to work with him on these songs was one of the biggest highlights of my professional life,” Rock says. “I am grateful that I got to witness his genius in such close proximity.” Watch Bob Rock talk more about Gord and Lustre Parfait with Ian Hanomansing on CBC TV’s The National HERE.

WATCH / SHARE “THE NORTH SHORE” LYRIC VIDEO HERE

From the raucous opening bars of “Greyboy Says” through to the exhale of the closing track “There Goes The Sun,” Lustre Parfait is a gift and invitation to eternally “gather in the dark.” As Bob Rock tells it: “Lustre Parfait is a reminder that even through the darkness, there is the joy of making music.”

**BUY / STREAM LUSTRE PARFAIT HERE**

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LUSTRE PARFAIT ALBUM TRACKLIST
1. Greyboy Says
2. The Raven And The Red-Tailed Hawk
3. Lustre Parfait
4. The Moment Is A Wild Place
5. Something More
6. Camaro
7. The North Shore
8. Is There Nowhere
9. To Catch The Truth
10. Let Me Howl
11. HellBreaksLoose
12. The Safest Day Of The Year
13. In The Field
14. There Goes The Sun

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