Wallaceburg’s Craig James Laur is coming home.
Laur is set to play The Imperial Theatre tonight (Oct. 3) in Sarnia as part of his Transit Love Tour.
Laur said his new album Transit Love has not hit the shelves yet, but will be available at the show.
“We haven’t released it yet, we’re giving people incentive to come out to the show and get a copy of the Transit Love album,” he said. “I couldn’t be more excited. For what we wanted to do, we accomplished exactly that. We went in with a mindset to come out with the best product we could possibly get done with the time that we had. I couldn’t be happier.”
Laur said he is working with some “really, really great musicians right now.
“Kevin Fox on cello, he works with Steven Page quite a bit. I’m working with Steve Zsirai, he’s known as the bass player for Moist, he was David Usher’s bass player for a long time. I also have Ben Riley on the drums. It’s a really exciting time, there is lots of good energy on the stage. Every show we have played so far, we’ve hit it out of the park,” Laur said.
Laur has lived and played in Toronto for the past couple of years.
Before that he was the front man for local bands Foreclosure and Creek Street.
He said people can expect to see a “more evolved” musician on stage.
“I really hope they expect a guy that really put his heart and soul into the music like he always has, just on a different level,” Laur said. “I’ve been working on expanding my song writing and really trying to create that universal meaning for people to latch on to and give it their own feel.”
Laur added: “That’s the only thing you need to do to connect with someone, is to let them feel it too on their own level. That has been my tactic for a long time. You go into a writing session, you sit down and say how do I let it mean the world to me and mean even more to someone else.”
Laur said he has a full arsenal of tunes ready to play for the Sarnia crowd.
“I’m going up there with 18 or 20 songs and I’m just going to play songs off the record I am selling throughout these shows and pretty well the entire new record I am going to be working on in the near future,” he said. “There is going to be lots of new stuff, lots of upbeat stuff, a couple covers here and there. It’s going to be an excellent time.”
Laur said he is hoping to see the support out at the show.
“I hope the support pulls through,” he said. “I was a little discouraged at first because the process to get tickets was tough for some people, as they accept credit card and you can get them at the box office. I was worried there was people that wanted to come but couldn’t get the transportation to come from Wallaceburg, Chatham and surrounding areas to meet me half way in Sarnia.
He added: “I was a little nervous about that, but all is good now, things are looking up. I have a feeling that it being First Friday in Sarnia that people are going to be just walking down the sidewalk and mosey in and check out the show.”
