Sleepless Nights + PEI

(thanks to Tony Dawe for these photos!)


Well well well. The day after we played Fredericton last weekend, I issued a challenge to the folks of Prince Edward Island. I said, "Dear PEI. Fredericton was amazing, you have a lot of work to do to beat them for the best place in the Maritimes to play."

I'm not sure if they won, I mean, Fredericton is ridiculous always, but PEI was nothing short of amazing.

The first thing we did when we got there was go to China Garden, best Chinese food in the entire world. It's a PEI institute, we have never not gone there on our trips to the island.

The show was swell. We played in a weird spot in Hunter's Ale House - up on this staircase/pedastal thingy. Anyways, Lenore played with us and they were great. Pineau's cousin Laura sings in the band, her vox blew me away. great singer.

We were without Mary because she has pneumonia, so the set was a little weird. it was loud as eff though. we rocked it out, had a good time, converted a bunch of curious non-believers i think. It was fun for sure.

After the show, we hung around the bar and chatted it up with some old pals who have been to see us before in PEI, as well as some Halifax-via-PEI friends, like Bible Van and Sarah LeClair who happened to be back on the island for the show.

Went back to our lieu de residence and hung out with some of our old/new friends. We also adopted a new Sleepless Nights mascot. He first came to us in a dream Pinky had last time we were in PEI, and this time he came to life. His name is Jamal:





he kept pinky up most of the night, kept asking him to play bee-ball and to listen to some run dmc. oh jamal, you're hilarious. he's coming on tour with us in march. he can't wait.

the next morning, we went to Pineau's parent's place and his mom cooked us breakfast. Love Pineau's mom. Then we picked up some glass-bottled pop and came home.

Can't wait to go back.