The most requested MatM album finally gets reissued 24 years after its 1981 vinyl debut!!!
"This Is The Ice Age" was the first of three ground-breaking MatM colIaborations with the now legendary producer Daniel Lanois and marks the beginning of his sister Jocelyne's association as bass player with the band. Includes Swimming", "Women Around The World At Work", "Casualties Of Glass", "Boy Without Filters", "Jets Seem Slower In London's Skies", "This Is The Ice Age", "One Day In Paris", "You Sold The Cottage", "Three Hundred Years/Chemistry" as well as two rare bonus tracks from the same sessions,"I'm No Good At Conversation" and "Twenty-Two In Cincinatti". Remastered by Peter J. Moore at The E Room.

The C.D. reissue by EMI Canada is set for release on April 12th but this is your chance to buy your copy directly from the band and get it autographed by Martha and Mark. (When ordering, just be sure to request an autographed copy, specifying the name, if any, you want it made out to.) Ordering information is below.

"This was a great time of innovation for the Muffins and me."
- Daniel Lanois July 2004

"The great lost New Wave album - moody, detached, heartbroken…I finally figured out how to digitize my old vinyl records this year and "Ice Age" was the first, and best, to jump the divide. Virgin, release this on CD or I'll start burning copies for all of Boston."
- Ty Burr The Best CDs of 2003/The Boston Globe

"Swimming", which breaks us into the album is not only some kind of ambiguous masterpiece but says as much as any one track can about the overall tone of the album. It's a beautifully slippery mood piece, set to a straggling syncopation, which bursts into carnal brilliance with the dank, liguid croon of Mark Gane…Impossibly catholic in form, the record's unifying thread is its strange, modern melancholy."
- Dave Hill, NME, January 9, 1982

"There is no other band which emerged from Canada's fledgling punk scene of a few years ago which matters. With the release of their third album Martha and the Muffins not only prove themselves superior in their native land but reveal a musical and intellectual depth that is rare in rock'n'roll the world over. "This Is The Ice Age" is not only a brilliant musical work but stands on par with the music of artists like Peter Gabriel, Roxy Music and David Bowie."
- James Muretich, The Calgary Sun, October 18, 1981
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THIS IS THE ICE AGE Ordering Information:
CDs $ 18.00 each
Price includes all applicable taxes, shipping & handling costs.
Send your cash, cheque or money order payable to Muffin Music Ltd. to:
Muffin Music Ltd.
P.O. Box 65137 RPO Chester
Toronto ON
CANADA M4K 3Z2

PLEASE NOTE: Canadian residents please pay in Canadian dollars. For those living outside Canada please send U.S. FUNDS ONLY.
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COMING SOON!!! MARTHA AND THE MUFFINS & PARACHUTE CLUB AT HUGH'S ROOM

Martha and the Muffins will be co-headlining an evening at Hugh's Room in Toronto with their former Current Records labelmates, Parachute Club on Saturday, May 14th. Martha and Mark have been talking to P Club's Lorraine Segato and Billy Bryans for some time about putting a mutual backing band together to perform fresh versions of their respective songbooks so this should be quite an evening for fans of both bands! Tickets are $25.00 in advance and $28.00 at the door.
To order tickets and for further information please go to: www.hughsroom.com

"INTIMATE FLOOR SHOW" DVD IN THE WORKS

Martha and Mark want to thank everyone who showed up at The Drake in Toronto on February 19th for their duo performance, which by all accounts, was a resounding success, as well as those who emailed after the show with their good words.

Martha says it was one of her favourite MatM shows ever and thought the audience, vibe and venue were great. Mark agrees but reports he was so intent on remembering everything he was supposed to do that he wasn't relaxed until it was over and he could talk with fans. Both think the show had a raw intimate feel where neither one was sure what was going to happen next but the audience was totally with them on the ride which made it a one-of-a-kind experience.

"We are absolutely staggered by the loyalty and support of our audience - those who were there at The Drake, some who come from as far away as Syracuse and Chicago, as well as everyone who watched the webcast from Paris to L.A. ", says Mark.

Special thanks to Graham Stairs for suggesting the idea in the first place, to Jeff Rogers, Mark Finkelstein and the staff at The Drake for their hospitality and professionalism and to our friends Marcus Vichert, Laurie Potts, Aaron and Andrea Badgeley, David Johnson and Stewart Stein for their personal assistance.

A DVD of the live streaming of the show to the Internet was recorded off the webcam and will soon be available for sale as a limited edition "official bootleg". More details to follow soon.