Career
Before joining Alexisonfire, Green was in a band called Helicon Blue, producing several songs before breaking up. The three piece band also featured Marce Lanteigne on bass and vocal, and Nicholas Osczypko on drums. The band recorded a self-titled release with Greg Below from Distort Entertainment, who also recorded a second record with the band which included; My Last Breath, Sunder, Greater Victory & Perpetual Healing.
Dallas began playing with Alexisonfire in late 2001. Since then, they have released four albums (Alexisonfire, Watch Out!, Crisis, and Old Crows / Young Cardinals), along with several EPs. His melodic and piercing vocal range often brings a large presence in most of the band’s songs.
In 2003 he appeared (along with George Pettit) on Jude the Obscure’s album “The Coldest Winter”, doing additional vocals on 3 songs.
One of the first appearances of Green outside of Alexisonfire is on Neverending White Lights’ collaborative album Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies, released in 2005. He contributed vocals to the song “The Grace”. Green provided additional vocals on the track “INRihab” with Every Time I Die as well as on the track “Black Albino Bones” with Fucked Up on their second full length album, The Chemistry of Common Life.
City and Colour’s first music video, “Save Your Scissors”, from the now gold-rated album Sometimes, was released on January 17, 2006, featuring some of his best friends, band mates and favourite places in his hometown, St. Catharines, Ontario. The second video, “Comin’ Home”, went number one on MuchMoreMusic’s video countdown.
City and Colour also released a live CD/DVD entitled Live on March 6, 2007 which includes two different live performances and a special performance with Ron Sexsmith. A limited edition has also been released at the same time. It included a USB key with footage from MMVA and Much on Demand performances.
On February 12, 2008, Green released a new full-length studio album entitled Bring Me Your Love . It was published under the label of Dine Alone Records. The music video for the first single, “Waiting…”, was released on January 24, 2008. On June 6, 2008, “Sleeping Sickness”, the second single for the album, was issued and on June 27, a music video was made by Montreal-based director Vincent Morisset. This second single also features The Tragically Hip’s Gordon Downie’s vocals in the second verse.
Bravo! aired an hour-long City & Colour performance as a band for their Live at the Concert Hall… series on August 26, 2008. The performance included interviews, several songs from his latest album, Bring Me Your Love, and also a few songs from Dallas’ debut, Sometimes, where he included his backing band into the songs.
In May 2009, Dallas appeared on CBC Radio’s Q for an interview with Jian Ghomeshi, as well as a solo performance of three songs; “Body in a Box” and “Waiting…” from the album Bring Me Your Love, as well as “Comin’ Home” from his debut album Sometimes.
