Pre-1992

N/A

It all started when Mike Turner put a classified advertisement in Now Magazine and Michael Maida (who later changes his name to Raine to avoid any confusion between the two) responded to the ad.

The two became close friends and Raine joined Mike's band, "As If." (We don't have a whole lot of information on this collaboration, other than there is supposedly a demo tape out there that was distributed in the Toronto area.)  The other two members were not as serious as Raine and Mike, so this band did not last.

Later, the remaining two band members, Raine and Mike, went to a music seminar and this is where they met Arnold Lanni (owner of Arnyard Studios) and the story begins... 

1992

Jan

Recorded a four track demo at Arnyard Studios.

Feb

Put together an independent Video for "Out of Here"  which was a school project for Sam Siciliano who produced, directed, and edited the video (read Rob's interview with Sam to learn more) .  The video later received airplay on Muchmusic .

Mar

Returned to Arnyard Studios to lay down more demo tracks.

N/A

"Our Lady Peace" (name was taken from a 1943 poem by Mark Van Doren) was formed (included Mike Turner, Raine Maida, Chris Eacrett and guest drummers such as Jim Newell).

Jul/Aug

Featured in Canadian Musician's Showcase. 

Sep

Arnold Lanni (Sheriff, Wild T and Frozen Ghost) was enlisted to produce and arrange seven songs.

Nov

Management affiliates Coalition Entertainment (Eric Lawrence and Robert Lanni) took on the band and distributed a three track demo to various labels.

1993

N/A

An additional four track demo was sent to interested labels.

Apr

Refused to do a typical showcase gig for the half-dozen labels who were interested in them.  Instead, the band told them "If you're really serious about us, come down to our rehearsal space and we'll play you the five songs"   Only one label accepted the invitation.  The day Sony Music Canada president, Rick Camilleri, vice-president of A&R Mike Roth, and director of music publishing Gary Furniss showed up was the same day the band was auditioning for a permanent drummer. Fortunately, the label sensed the drive and talent behind the band members and despite the obvious risk, offered them a deal after discussing the band's needs. Later that night, Jeremy Taggart joined the band. OLP then signed with Sony Music Canada and Sony Publishing.

Sep

Our Lady Peace comprised of Raine Maida, Mike Turner, Chris Eacrett and Jeremy Taggart started recording "Naveed" at Arnyard Studios.

1994

N/A

Signed with Relativity in the USA.

N/A

Met Sol Fox and hired him for some pictures (he is featured on the first 4 of OLP's CD covers, "The Birdman" video, some concert backdrop films and on TV commercials).

Feb 24

"The Birdman" single released.

Mar 22

1st CD - "Naveed" (Middle Eastern name that means Bearer of Good News) was released.  Since Jeremy was only 17 when joining the band, they waited for him to finish high school before recording this debut album  (Reviews).

Apr

First time the band toured live was with I Mother Earth.

May 16

"Starseed" single released.

Aug

Recorded a remake of Neil Young's "Needle and the Damage Done" for a tribute album called "Borrowed Tunes." 

Sep

Performed their first Cross-Canada club headlining tour. 

Oct 10

"Hope" single released.

1995

Feb 6

"Supersatellite" single released.

Mar 20 

Won Juno Award for "Naveed" album design.

Mar 21

"Naveed" released in the USA (Review).

Mar 25

Performed Starseed and Naveed and were presented with an award for Best Song, Starseed on Toronto's Q107.

Apr 4

Appeared on Jon Stewart Show and played "Starseed" and "Supersatellite."

Apr 17

Released "Naveed" single.

Apr 26

Played with Page/Plant in the US at Robert Plant's request after hearing "Starseed" on the radio.

May-Jun

Shared the stage with such acts as Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Blur, Elastica, Bush, The Ramones, Collective Soul, Faith No More, Letters to Cleo and Matthew Sweet.

Jun 27

Performed "Naveed" on Conan O'Brien.

Jul 5

Shared opening band spot with Letters to Cleo for headliners, Sponge, in the USA.

Jul 15

Requested by Van Halen's management to tour with VH on their North American Tour.

Opened for Van Halen at Molson Amphitheatre and their performance frm one of these shows was recorded for fan club cd "Live 1995."

Sep

Chris Eacrett left the band due to musical and personal differences.

Sep 23

Duncan Coutts joins OLP (He was originally OLP's first choice when the band formed in 1992, as he had played with Raine Maida in a high school band. However, he chose to go back to University and finish his degree in filmmaking instead).

Oct-Nov

Toured with Candlebox and Sponge in the USA.

Took home 3 CASBY (Canadian Artists Selected By You) Awards (Staged by CFNY 102.1 in Toronto) for Favourite new artist, new release and new song, both the latter being for "Naveed."

1996

Jan

"Naveed" is released in the UK .

Mar 10

Performed "Starseed" at the Juno Awards.

N/A

Covered a Beatle's song, "Tomorrow Never Knows" for "The Craft" movie soundtrack.

May 13

"Starseed" hit number 14 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.

N/A

Played Canadian Grandstand with Killjoys, I Mother Earth, Moist and 54-40.

Jul

Played at Edgefest with I Mother Earth, The Tea Party, Rusty, and Ashley MacIssac.

Jul-Aug

Invited to tour with Alanis Morrisette in Canada.

Dec 16

"Superman's Dead" single released.

1997

Jan

The official website, ourladypeace.com is launched.

Jan 3-4

Video shoot for "Superman's Dead" took place in an abandoned Toronto warehouse and was directed by George Vale who did OLP's previous video releases ("The Birdman", "Starseed", "Hope" and "Naveed").

Jan 21

2nd CD - "Clumsy" was released ("Propeller" and "Trapeze" were also considered for possible titles. Most of the songs that made it on the CD were written at Coutt's cottage near Muskoka, Ontario where they had strange encounters with ghosts) (Reviews).

Jan 29

"Clumsy" debuted at #1 on the Soundscan Chart, a feat only matched by one other Canadian band, The Tragically Hip. The Soundscan chart is based on retail sales in Canada, and is the new equivalent of the Billboard chart. Essentially what this means is that "Clumsy" was the hottest selling record that week in Canada, including foreign and domestic releases.

Jan-Mar

Toured at universities and colleges with Change of Heart.

Feb 12

Transparent Human Radio Hour hosted by Jon Stewart.

Feb 13

OLP spoiled their fans and radio station winners to a private show at the Opera House in Toronto to promote "Clumsy."

Feb 18

"Clumsy" went Platinum in Canada.

Spring

Featured on cover of Extreme Magazine.

Mar

Featured on cover of Chart Magazine.

Mar 18

Video shoot took place for "Clumsy" directed by Matt Mahurin.

Apr 7 

"Clumsy" single released and the video for "Superman's Dead" made it to #1 on the Muchmusic Countdown.

Apr

Featured on cover of Canadian Musician.

Apr 11

"Clumsy" was released in the USA (Review).

Apr-May

Our Lady Peace visited radio stations across Canada to help promote Edgefest ‘97 which they headlined. The band stopped at  radio stations in Toronto, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, London, Ottawa and Montreal and performed a few acoustic tracks. 

Apr-May

Featured on cover of Access Magazine.

May

Played in Europe for the first time at Rock Am Ring in Rock Im Park, Germany.

N/A

Made it on Billboard's Top 5 Modern Rock Tracks with songs "Superman's Dead" and "Clumsy."

Jun 8

Our Lady Peace won the Contemporary Music-Recording Canadian Campus Entertainer of the Year award at this year's COCA festival, sharing the honour with Big Sugar. The Campus Entertainment Awards nationally recognize artists, agencies, and services who have been selected for outstanding performances in the college and university market.

Jun 20-27

Clumsy video hits #1 on MuchMusic's Countdown.

Jun 26

Summersault '97, a warm up to Edgefest that took place in London, Ontario's Western Fairgrounds, featuring Our Lady Peace, I Mother Earth, The Tea Party, Age Of Electric, and Finger Eleven, was sold out. 

Jun-Aug

Headlined Edgefest and played with I Mother Earth, The Tea Party, Philosopher Kings, Silverchair, Collective Soul, BTK, Age of Electric, Glue Leg, Finger Eleven, Kinnie Starr and Sara Craig.

Jul 14

"Automatic Flowers" single released.

Jul 

Self directed a video for "Automatic Flowers."

Jul-Aug

Featured on cover of Words & Music Magazine. 

Sep 18

Played "Superman's Dead" on the Muchmusic Video Awards  and snagged two awards, Favourite Group and Favourite Video for "Superman's Dead."

Sep 30- Dec 1

Toured with Everclear in the USA.

Oct 1

OLP's second appearance on Conan O'Brien, this time they performed "Superman's Dead."

Oct 13

Featured on Cover of Pollstar Magazine.

Oct 14

The song, "Clumsy" is featured on the soundtrack for "I Know What You Did Last Summer."

Oct 15

"Automatic Flowers" video reached #1 on the Muchmusic Countdown.

Oct 27

"Carnival" single released.

Dec 15

"Clumsy" ranked #2 on the top 10 selling albums of 1997 in Canada, according to The Record magazine.

1998

Jan 5

Opened for Rolling Stones in Quebec City.

Jan 6

"Clumsy" was the #1 album of 1997 in 102.1 The Edge's Top 102 of 1997.

Jan 7- 

Feb 11

Performed their first Cross-Canada arena tour with Age of Electric, Finger eleven and on some dates, BTK.  Fans treated to a piano version of "Julia" submitted to OLP by a young, aspiring pianist Sarah Slean. 

Jan 12

"4 am" single released.

Jan 13

Four of OLP's videos made it on MuchMusic's Favourite Videos of all time for 1997 list. They were "Superman's Dead" #5, "Clumsy" #22, "Naveed" #33 and "Automatic Flowers" #47.

Jan 17

Played to a sold out concert at Maple Leaf Gardens in hometown, Toronto and appeared on Edge 102's Live in Toronto.

Jan 18

Participated in an Online, Live and Personal with Steve Warden.

Jan 23

Video for "4 am" was premiered on Muchmusic.

Feb 

Featured on cover of Nightlife Magazine.

Feb 26- May 17

Performed their first American club headlining tour. 

Mar

Featured on Cover of Shift Magazine .

Mar 22

Won 2 Juno Awards (Group of the Year and Blockbuster Album of the Year for "Clumsy"). 

Apr 17

Opened for Rolling Stones in Syracuse, New York.

May

Toured with Black Lab. 

May 24- Jun 9

Performed in Europe. 

Jun 30

Contributed a remixed version of "Starseed" to the "Armageddon" soundtrack which has sold almost 4 million worldwide.

Jul-Aug

Toured with Third Eye Blind.

Aug 23- Sep 5

OLP launch their own festival, Summersault (with Garbage, I Mother Earth, Crystal Method and others).

1999

Jul 16-18

Played 3 secret shows (1 at Kee to Bala in Muskoka and 2 at the Horseshoe in Toronto) under the pseudonym "Belly Flop Communist" to warm up for Woodstock. 

Jul 25

Performed on the second stage at Woodstock. 

Jul 30

"One Man Army" single released.

Aug 7-10

Video shoot for "One Man Army" video.

Sep 8

"One Man Army" video premiered on Muchmusic.

Sep 13

Our Lady Peace Online, Live and Personal (OLPOLP). Launched a  new website, the online premiere of 'Happiness ...,' the first ever OLP chat with all four band members, fan chat, webcams, online door prizes, and an offline Clumsy Congress party.

Sep 21

3rd CD - "Happiness is Not a Fish That You Can Catch" was released (contributions by jazz legend Elvin Jones and stunt musician Jamie Edwards) (Reviews). 

Sep 23

Performed "One Man Army" at the Muchmusic Video Awards.

Sep 25- Nov 14

Toured in the USA with Creed and Oleander.

Sep 28

"Happiness..." is released in the USA (Review)

Sep/Oct

Jeremy was featured on the cover of Drums Etc.

Oct

Featured on the cover of Chart Magazine.

Oct

Featured on cover on Watch Magazine.

Oct 13

The Video for "One Man Army" is officially added to MTV.

Nov 19

Won Best Video Award for "One Man Army" and
the Sweet Happenings in Music this Year  Award for "Happiness..." in Chart Magazine's Year End Poll.

Nov 21

Video shoot for "Is Anybody Home?" at Eastminster Church in Toronto.

Nov-Dec

Featured on cover of Canadian Musician.

Dec 3-14

Opened for Stereophonics on UK tour.

Dec 10 

The video for "One Man Army" was #1 on the Muchmusic Countdown.

Dec 13

Premiere of "Is Anybody Home?" video on Muchmusic.

2000

Dec 99-Jan

Featured on the cover of Access Magazine.

Jan 9-21

Played scaled shows in the USA. 

  Jan 10

Jan 26

Performed and were interviewed at an Intimate and Interactive at Muchmusic.

Jan 29- Feb 21

Headlined an arena tour called "The World's A Blister" in Canada with Stereophonics, Spur of the Moment and Blinker the Star that featured OLP's short films The Metronome, A Doctor, A Soldier, and a Priest, Benjamin Frawley and Your Wheel. 

Feb 26

The video for "Is Anybody Home?" jumped to #1 on Le Decompte de Musiqueplus.

Mar 4

Performed at Musique Plus' Jam Des Neiges.

Mar 6

The video for "Is Anybody Home?" debuted on MTV.

Mar 8

"Happiness..." was released in Japan.

Mar 12

Performed "Is Anybody Home?" at the Juno Awards. 

Mar 24

The video for "Is Anybody Home?" hits #1 on the Muchmusic Countdown.

May 2

Video shoot for "Thief."

May 23

The "Thief" video was premiered on Muchmusic

July 1

Joined Goo Goo Dolls, No Doubt, Stone Temple Pilots and Third Eye Blind in Simulbash - an interactive Canada Day party that took place in five cities, with five bands, in one night.  OLP played at their Simulbash gig in Ottawa.

Aug 3

"Thief" made it to # 1 on Edge 102's New Rock 30.

Aug 4-16

Hosted Summersault 2000 (with Perfect Circle, Smashing Pumpkins, Finger Eleven, Foo Fighters, and others).

Sep 19

Raine Maida and Arnold Lanni were awarded SOCAN #1 awards for their collaborative writing on "Is Anybody Home." Raine also picked up a second SOCAN award for his writing efforts on Chantal Kreviazuk's "Dear Life."

Sep 21

Won People's Choice awards for Favourite Canadian Group and Favourite Canadian Video at the Muchmusic Video Awards.

Sep 25

Jeremy Taggart was a guest on Geddy Lee's solo album, "My Favorite Headache." 

Nov 7

Featured on cover of See Magazine.

Nov 15

"In Repair" single released.

Nov 22

The video for  "In Repair" premiered on Muchmusic (there are two different versions). 

Nov 23-26

Performed secret campus warm-up shows in Canada. 

Dec 1-13

Toured cross-Canada on a club crawl tour.

Dec 12

4th CD - "Spiritual Machines" was released (co-produced by Raine Maida). The CD was inspired by Ray Kurzweil's book, "The Age of Spiritual Machines -When Computers exceed Human Intelligence" and the artwork for the CD was created by Oli Goldsmith.  During the recording session, Jeremy Taggart was involved in an unfortunate mugging incident and was unable to complete all the tracks for the CD. Fortunately, long time friend and drummer for Pearl Jam, Matt Cameron sat in for tracks, "Are you Sad?" and "Right Behind You" (Reviews).

Dec

"Life" single was released in Canada

Dec 23

"Spiritual Machines" topped the Soundscan Charts in the categories of Alternative and Metal.

Dec 00- Jan 01

Featured on cover of Chart Magazine as Artist if the Year.

2001

Jan 

"Spiritual Machines" was considered one of the Best Canadian CD's of the Year by HMV.

Jan

"Spiritual Machines" went platinum selling 100,000 copies.

Jan 31

Video Shoot for "Life" at Mirabel Airport in Montreal (this particular video was never released).

Jan-Feb

Featured on cover of Canadian Musician. 

Feb 1

Performed and were interviewed at MusiquePlus as part of being Musiqueplus' band of the month.

Feb 10

Raine and Mike appeared on Pamela Wallin's Talk TV with Ray Kurzweil.

Feb 23

The Video for "In Repair" hit #1 on Le Decompte De Musiqueplus.

Feb-Mar

Featured on cover of Profile Magazine.

Feb-Jul

Toured the US clubs with American Hi-Fi and The Sheila Divine.

Mar 1

"Clumsy" was certified Diamond with 1,000,000 copies sold, Worldwide sales are in excess of 2,500,000 copies sold.

Mar 10

Tied with Barenaked Ladies as Best Homegrown Band in EYE Magazine's Best of Everything in Toronto poll.

Mar 12

Performed at Snowjob 2001.

Mar 13

"Spiritual Machines" was released in the USA today (Review). 

Mar 20

Performed "Life" on Craig Kilborn show. 

Apr 5

The video for "Life" premiered on Muchmusic (There is also an American version of this video)

Apr

"Spiritual Machines" was released in the UK (Review).

Apr 20

American version of the "Life" video was released.

Apr 27

Performed "Life" on Conan O'Brien.

May

A new song surfaced in OLP's soundchecks and live shows, it was called "Whatever" and was written for a wrestler in the WWF (now WWE), Chris Benoit.  The song is included on WWF (now WWE) CD called "Forceable Entry."

May 9

"Spiritual Machines" was released in Japan.

Jun 27

The show at the Metro in Chicago was recorded and Raine reveals that a live CD may be released in the fall including some of the tracks from the night's performance as well as 5-7 new songs.

Jul

Single "Right Behind You" was released.

Aug 3

The video for "Life" hit #1 on the Muchmusic Countdown.

Sept 18

Pied Pipers Fan Club ended.

Sept 21

One Man Army Street Team ended.

Oct 21

Performed with Alanis, BNL, and Tragically Hip at Music Without Borders (Mike's last performance with OLP).

Nov-Dec

Recorded in Hawaii with producer Bob Rock at Rock's Plantation Studios.

Dec 12

Mike Turner left OLP quoting creative and musical differences.

2002

Jan-Feb

Recording in Vancouver, BC with producer Bob Rock.

Mar 15

"Somewhere Out There" is the first single released from OLP's CD, "Gravity."

Mar 22

One Man Army Street Team is back up and running..

Apr 15

Steve Mazur from Michigan named as new Guitarist in OLP.  Jamie Edwards referred to as a member for the first time.

Apr

Jamie Edwards "stunt musician" for OLP leaves the band for personal reasons.

Apr 25-26

Video shoot in Montreal for "Somewhere Out There" with fans taking part in the making of it.

May 15

OLP start touring to promote "Gravity."  The band kicks off the first show in Dayton, OH. Mike Eisenstein from "Letters to Cleo" touring with OLP to fill in on keyboards and guitar.

May 22

"Somewhere Out There" video premiered on Muchmusic, Musiqueplus and EdgeTV.

June 18

"Gravity" is released in Canada and the USA (Reviews).

June 26

"Gravity" debuts at #2 on the Canadian Charts and #9 on the US charts.

June 27

OLP perform "SOT" On Conan, "Gravity" hits #1 on Soundscan's Metal Top 50 Chart, OLP.net (Online Fan Club) is launched.

July 11

"Somewhere Out There" reaches #1 on "Edge 102's New Rock 30 Countdown."

The video for "Somewhere Out There" hits #1 on MTV2's Rock Show Countdown.

July 30

OLP perform "Somewhere Out There" on Craig Kilborn.

The video for "Somewhere Out There" reaches #1 on the Muchmusic Countdown.

"Innocent" is released as the second single on radio stations everywhere.

"Somewhere Out There" debuts at #75 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Tape an MTV performance at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH.

Perform at the MTV Video Music Awards Preshow Party.

Video Shoot in Toronto for "Innocent."

OLP perform "Somewhere out There" on Jay Leno.

"Somewhere Out There" is released as a single in Australia.

Sept 30

"Gravity" is released in the UK.

"Gravity" is released in Russia.

"Gravity" is released in Australia.

"Somewhere out There" single released in Holland.

 Best Buy presents OLP at the ACC in Toronto, Ontario for free.

 "Gravity" won an Edge 102 Casby Award for Best New Album. Article on
 Katrillion.      

2003

"Somewhere Out There" is released as a single CD and 7" in the UK.

Innocent video added to both MTV Europe and MTV Holland and    entered medium rotation on Juice in New Zealand. The video's also playlisted on Channel [V] International chart in Asia and continues to be featured on MTV Nordic.

OLP tour Europe opening for Avril Lavigne.

OLP nominated for best rock album, group of the year, single of the year for "Somewhere Out There" and album of the year for "Gravity." and performed "Not Afraid" on the Juno Awards.

Apr-May

OLP are in the studio working on their 6th CD.

OLP lead everyone in nominations for the Muchmusic Awards with 6     nominations in the categories of Best Video, Best Director, MuchLOUD Best Rock Video, Best Post-Production and Best Cinematography for "Innocent" and
People's Choice: Favourite Canadian Group for "Somewhere out There."

Toronto Concert at Skydome with other Canadian artists to counter the  taint  of Sars in the city. Here is the setlist.

OLP played a 30 minute warm-up show including "Walking in Circles," "No Warning, "Not Afraid" and" Starseed" before Muchmusic Video Awards and played "Innocent" during the awards. They also picked up awards for Best cinematography and Best video for "Innocent."

June 24

 Live CD released in Canada taped in Edmonton, Calgary and Montreal 2003  
 (Reviews)

"Our Lady Peace Live in Alberta" will be the first ever HD concert to be           broadcast  in Canada.

June 28- Sept 19

 OLP play at various festivals across North America with 3 Doors Down.

OLP play the last Edgefest at Molson Park in Barrie with F11, Stereophonics, Sloan and the Tragically Hip.

2004

2005

 First single, "Where Are You?" from upcoming CD "Healthy in Paranoid   Times" is played on radio stations across Canada. 

OLP perform at Live 8.  Songs played were a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on a Wire", as well as OLP's "Where are You?" and "Innocent."

 Video shoot for "Where Are You?" 

"Where Are You?" is released to radio stations as a single across the USA.

"Where Are You?"  video premiere on Much on Demand.

OLP's sixth major release, "Healthy in Paranoid Times" is released in Canada/USA.

2006

2008

2009