Back to Reality

Upon the conclusion of the OAC jury, I decided to stay in Toronto for a couple of days and catch a few shows. The guys in LSD/City Sweethearts/Dany Laj were nice enough to let me crash at their swinging pad for a couple of days.

On Friday night, I took in the Pick a Piper/the Skeletones Four/Ruby Coast/Green Go show at the Horseshoe Tavern. The fellows from Ruby Coast were nice enough to get me a guest list spot. Ruby Coast now have horns in the their band and they sound terrific. These nice young gentlemen are going places, let me tell you. Once their full length is done in February, they are going to BLOW UP.

On Saturday night, I caught HEALTH at Wrong Bar. I was a little disappointed by the quality of the opening act Torontobeat (who had some good ideas but sounded under-practiced), and the fact that Pictureplace got turned away at the border, but HEALTH was awesome! Wrong Bar is a weird place. It's a little too clean and over-air conditioned. HEALTH played most of the stuff from their first album and a bunch of stuff from the new record, which is super pumpin' to hear live. There were about 200 people there, maybe more. I was right at the front and watched the lead guitarist writhe around in the fetal position for most of the night.

Afterwards, I managed to catch the end of Windom Earle's set at Rancho Relaxo. I managed to catch all of BA Johnston and Horses though. BA's got some new jokes! I missed Orphan Choir and the other opening act (I think they were called Cousins?) unfortunately.

So now I am back at home and I just spent most of today cleaning the garage. It is super tidy. Tomorrow, I will clean the jam room in our basement, which I am very excited about. There's nothing like a clean room to allow you to focus on creating.

Also, tomorrow (Wednesday) there is a house show at mine and Jon's place. If you are reading this, you are invited. I will not post our address on the Internet though. Performing will be Andrew Laviolette, Little Albert and Thunder Bay's JP De Roover. Hope to see you there cool guy.

Oh No Forest Fires Interview in Sudbury Star

Click Here to Read it!

They got some of the info wrong (they left out the fact that Life Size Dream is playing and they put that the cost of admission is $7 when in fact it is $5), but whatevs; still a good interview!

I'm pumped for Saturday, are you?

This Saturday

Last Saturday at Adanac was totally awesome! Malentendu, Ancestors, Lunchmeat and Bot all rocked Adanac with furious abandon. We had a great turnout, and I bonked my head off some other kid in the mosh pit. I was wearing my sunglasses at the time and I thought that the arm had broken in half and that it was sticking out through my ear, but as it turned out it was just the plastic tab from my earplugs. Why would I think that?

The after-show at the Millards' garage went really well too. Sadly, I missed Bunnies in Berlin's set because Carter and I went for coffee. By the way, check out their myspace; they finally have some songs recorded! (Just click on their name: it is hyper-linked with the HTML!)

However, I am glad that Carter got a coffee because he delivered the pumpinest drum performance I've ever seen him give!

I took Ancestors for Big Drippers at Sub City afterwards (a sandwich they won't soon forget, I'm sure), and I attempted and failed to eat an entire large vegetarian pizza. Annabelle showed up randomly, ate a slice, and then subsequently vanished into the night only to apparently fall over a fence into waist-deep snow while trying to take a shortcut home. (I offered her a ride but she wouldn't take it)

This Saturday, my seven-piece rock band Meadowlark Five and my band the Birthday Cakes will be playing a show at Adanac with the awesome band Oh No Forest Fires from Toronto. Also performing will be Life Size Dream and Lightmares.

Here is the poster I designed for the show. See if you can decipher the hidden meaning in it:










Just kidding, there's no hidden meaning.

Also, the Birthday Cakes were ranked at number 7 this past week on the CFOU campus radio charts for Trois Rivieres. We were also ranked number 8 on the CFBX campus radio chart for Kamloops, BC! So, good for us.