St. Anthony -
Hey Rosetta! has recently played for audiences in places like Australia and England.
It's the life of rock musicians - travelling from one venue to another.
But rarely do they get an opportunity to get a look at the surroundings of the places they play. Usually, it's roll in one day, roll out the next.
That's why the members of the St. John's-based band are looking forward to playing this Saturday night at the St. Anthony Olympia as the headline act for Northern Tip Rocks.
"We've never been up that way so we'd like to see what it's all about," said Tim Baker, the band's lead vocalist and guitar/piano player.
"We're really excited to see the place and visit," he told The Northern Pen. "L'Anse aux Meadows is one of the places, for sure. I'm very interested in the whole Viking story."
Baker wanted to know what else there was to see and do in northern Newfoundland.
"Is there fishing? Can we go fishing?"
He also remarked that he was once involved in a relationship with a woman who studied and wrote about the unique wildflowers on the Northern Peninsula.
"So that's a nice perk of the job," he added. "Getting around to see some things. When you're travelling across Canada, as we have been, you don't get to see that much."
Opening for Hey Rosetta! is Nasty Weather, a group from Croque which also played during the Northern Tip Rocks show in 2007 at St. Anthony.
The band has done a minimal amount of touring of late. Recently they performed in Woody Point, but for the most part, they've been concentrating their efforts on writing songs for their third album, due out by next spring or possibly the summer of 2010.
"We've been writing for a while," Baker noted. "Though we're not entirely satisfied. We're trying not to be tied to a certain sound or song structure. There's going to be lots of variety, some catchy, some soft."
Hey Rosetta! is presently riding the success of their second recording, "Into Your Lungs." Reviewers have said the CD is "anchored by faultless melody lines, often carried by the surging guitar." Another commented "it's an album that you absolutely need to hear if you're in the mood for being absolutely floored by something epic."
The band's first recording, "Plan Your Escape," debuted in 2007.
"So we're looking around for a producer," he said. "I want to be recording by the winter, whether we have a producer or not."
The venue for Northern Tip Rocks is a hockey arena. He would rather perform in a setting that puts him closer to his audience.
"Hockey arenas are best for playing hockey, but we understand it can hold the largest number of people too," Baker said. "There will be challenges, but those challenges will be met and we'll give a good show."
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