James Lire & The Crazies

James Lire & The Crazies is an acoustic folk rock group from Toronto, Ontario. They have just released their debut EP "Sleeping City" which has received great response. The group is hit the road in the fall of 2013 in support of the new album with a Canadian tour in September. The group played a number of shows between Ontario and Alberta, playing its music to new audiences and gaining some new fans, but more importantly some new friends.

James Lire & The Crazies have some big plans for 2014, including the release of their first full length album and another Canadian tour.

James Lire grew up in the small town on Melville, Saskatchewan. At the age of sixteen he picked up his first guitar and almost immediately started his first band. At the age of eighteen he had written, recorded and released his first album, which was available in HMV across Canada. He then embarked on a tour of Western Canada. At the age of nineteen he realized that their wasn't enough potential for a musician in the small town of 4,500, so he travelled up to Toronto to follow his dreams. When he got there he quickly found bands which shared his goals and aspirations and started involving himself in the Toronto music scene, finding gigs at venues such as the Hard Rock and The Velvet Underground. Meeting a handful of inspirational musicians along the way, James Lire decided to start up a Toronto project of his own, James Lire & The Crazies.