WILD LIFE SKETCHES never-ending tour...

Well so many things are happening but let's start with the upcoming concerts.

Catch live cougars in action at:

The Sleepless Goat

Kingston, ON

Friday, February 22nd - 9PM

Sweet Escape Coffee Lounge

Belleville, ON

Saturday, February 23rd - 1PM

The Grad Club

London, ON

Friday, March 1st - 8PM

The Underground Café

Toronto, ON

Sunday, March 3rd - 4PM

**Please note this concert is in one of those coffeshops and smoking is permitted so the concert is not recommended for kids or German shepherds.

Gordon Best Theatre

Peterborough, ON

Friday, March 8th - 8PM

w/Elk the Moose and I, the Mountain

Mile End Guitar Shop
Montreal, QC
Friday, March 15th - 9PM

The Old Station
Bracebridge, ON
Tuesday, March 19th - 9PM

The Griffin Pub
Bracebridge, ON
Wednesday, March 20th - 9PM

Plenty more gigs tba AND stay tuned for exciting news regarding the soon-to-exist WILD LIFE SKETCHES.

credit: John Tubbs

Cougars in America LIVE BOOTLEG (Scott Hamilton Solo)

Recorded Live at the Coach and Horses 11/1/2013

In Love With Leaving - Festivus Edition

ALBUM UPDATE:

Cougars in America became Cougars in the Studio in November and soon enough we will have a 3-song EP ready for your ears! I think Paolo took some pictures so I will upload them as soon as I fix my computer.

COMPUTER UPDATE:

Irregular electricity has zapped my means of updating the blog but i'll do my best to post pictures/videos/news as I get them - you can help by emailing me things I can post! A funny aside for anyone who has seen where I live: the computer repair man asked me if I live in Africa when he saw the state of my computer's fried interior.

CONCERT UPDATE:

In Brussels I'm playing a bunch of solo shows over the next month.
These include:

Friday Dec. 7 - El Turco, Place de Londres, 19h-21h

Sunday Dec. 16 - Lava Café, St Gery, 20h

Saturday, January 19 - 12 Chaises, St Gilles, 20h ***POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE***

CANADA UPDATE:

I'm going home for Christmas and staying for a month - stay tuned for details about any of the small concerts I hope to play while I'm home.

GENERAL UPDATE:

All is well!
If you want to listen to me trying to speak French about various things cougar-related and not with Nicolas, Dany and the DI crew at Radio ALMA, you can! They "got to know me" a couple weeks ago and you can listen by clicking HERE. They also let me pick the music and play songs on the guitar. I still have not had a chance to listen (see computer update, above) so I can only hope I didn't swear or sing off-key or tell jokes that weren't very funny.

First solo concert in... 9 months?

Wish me luck!!!

Cougars in America BAND

Moving ever onward and upward, Cougars in America will grow into the boots of a pop-sauvage trio with the addition of David Koczij on drums and Paolo Melindi on contrabasse. The transformation takes place before your very eyes at Bonnefooi on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 at 22h00. Don't miss it!

On the Road Again: Ger-MANIA

This year starts off with a short tour with Koln-based Popanz Productions and singer-songwriter Chris Klopfer.

January 14th, 2012 - Amsterdam TBA

January 15th, 2012 - LE COQ, Brussels, BE
January 18th, 2012 - THAV, Hildesheim, D

January 19th, 2012 - HEIFISCHBECKEN, Bremen, D
January 20th, 2012 - GELEGENHEITEN, Berlin, D
January 21st, 2012 - HASENSCHAUKEL, Hamburg, D
January 22nd, 2012 - ANALOG SOUL, Leipzig, D

Anti-?????

Tapas!

December's Anti-Tapas will feature a special apéro with Cougars in America providing the sonic backdrop for the opening hours of their last party of the year. The music goes until my fingers hurt, and then I join forces with a beautiful and sultry lady of the night to present DJs Glitter and The Gutter all night smoke out - Indie-rock in the lounge til breakfast.

Caves de Cureghem, Anderlecht

Saturday December 10th, 20h30
ANTI-TAPAS

What the Folk?

Atelier 210
Wednesday, December 7th
20h00
http://www.atelier210.be/programme_information-A210-85.html

Cougar vs. Bizon

Wednesday, November 30th
22h00
Café Bizon

Help Yourself

Don't leave me alone / don't leave me alone / Just throw my bleeding heart out the window / Don't leave me alone / don't leave me alone / Just throw my bleeding heart out the window / You know that I have seen it all before / Don't ask me why / I don't saddle up and fly across an ocean to / The week before I met you / I was proud as I was young / Reading politics and thinking of the good that it had done in this whole world that I've been shaking like a tree / But now you see me on a ladder with a basket with no fruit / And I scream somebody must me listening / I have nothing except all that you have given me / I'm crying foul for what's merciless and pitiful / I'm holding sacred to the things that I have got / I'm crushing diamonds with my teeth and searching anxiously for someplace I can spit / And I'm begging you

Don't leave me alone / don't leave me alone / Just throw my bleeding heart out the window / You know that I have seen it all before / Don't ask me why / I don't saddle up and fly across an ocean to / The year before I met you / I was sitting in a park / Watching fairytale processions of my past and it was drinking from a can that I've been shaking endlessly / But now you see me bursting open / foaming white / Sticking to you / I scream somebody must be listening / I am bleeding on an altar you have given me / Still crying foul for what's merciless and pitiful / Spilling cups that you are filling with my blood / Shaking mountains with my rage and looking endlessly for someplace I can sleep / And I'm begging you...

Don't leave me alone / don't leave me alone / Just throw my bleeding heart out the window

Don't leave me alone / don't leave me alone / Just throw my bleeding heart out the window

In This Age of Hope and Golden Mountains

A love song for mother earth. Baby, let's go dancing.

Biography

Cougars in America is the new alt-folk project of Canadian-turned-Bruxellois singer-songwriter, Scott Hamilton. Poet, multi-instrumentalist, and troubadour, he transforms his world into song. Taking his name from a cat that lives on only in popular myth, his lyrics express an image of humanity lost, tragic, comic and beautiful. Armed with his guitar, harmonicas, stylophone, loopstation and voice, he creates an atmosphere that is intimate, sincere, and overwhelming. His music has been compared to Bonnie Prince Billy or Sufjan Stevens, and serves in equal measures American Folk, Blues, and Indie Rock. He is joined on stage and on all his latest recording by Belgian string wizard Erik Schoepen on Mandolin, dobro, resonator, lapsteel and banjo.

Cougars in St. Gilles

Returning to the scene of the crime:

Le Zwanzeur

Ave Jean Volders 11, 1060 St Gilles

October 8, 2011 - 19h00

Gig at Piola Libri!

Friday September 27, 2011 - 18h00

Breaths of Paradise

Oration To The Saint Of The Impossible

O excellent St. Rita, worker of miracles, from thy sanctuary in Cascia, where in all thy beauty thou sleepest in peace, where thy relics exhale breaths of paradise, turn thy merciful eyes on me who suffer and weep! Thou seest my poor bleeding heart surrounded by thorns Thou seest, O dear Saint, that my eyes have no more tears to shed, so much have I wept! Weary and discouraged as I am, I feel the very prayers dying on my lips. Must I thus despair in this crisis of my life? O come, St. Rita, come to my aid and help me. Art thou not called the Saint of the Impossible, Advocate to those in despair? Then honor thy name, procuring for me from God the favor that I ask. Everyone praises thy glories, everyone tells of the most amazing miracles performed through thee, must I alone be disappointed because thou hast not heard me? Ah no! Pray then pray for me to thy sweet Lord Jesus that He be moved to pity by my troubles and that, through thee, O good St. Rita, I may obtain what my heart so fervently desires.

Gig in the vault

Last minute concert: Gig in a bank vault. On Monday they close it and won't open it up again!
Friday, September 2nd
Avenue Louise 280
10PM

Get Low!

Brussels Summer Festival

It is with great pleasure that Cougars in America will be taking a brief holiday from Benito Band's summer tour in Italy to come back and play at the Brussels Summer Festival on August 13. See you there!

Saturday August 13, 11PM
BIP
Mont des Arts
Bruxelles

Vertigo

Dead Man Ballad