guelph/hamilton

the friday night show in guelph was pretty good. it started snowing, it's the only time it's snowed since we left actually, so i don't know if that had any effect on the crowd or not. we played at this place called jimmy jazz which was a neat little room.

because only us and jon mckiel were scheduled for the bill, we decided to throw in some surprises. andrew (aka Share) played an opening set. jon mckiel and I played a couple songs with him, including "the hill," which is one of my favorite Share songs, then he got all of the sleepless nights up to play a song called "everyone i know" which is usually a sleepless nights song. since andrew has been gone for 4 months, we haven't played it in a long time, so it was fun to break it out again.

the sleepless nights set went pretty well - pineau's bass amp kept screwing up so that was a downer - but other than that it was fine. i think we impressed some of katherine's friends who were there.

jon mckiel played after us, and got everyone up on stage from the sleepless nights for an awesome gang vocal part in this new song they play called "Almost Had It," and then we did the same thing for their version of Huey Lewis' "Power of Love." it was fun.

for some reason, everyone thought it would be a good idea if we also did and Establishment set - and i'm not one to argue with that, so we did. we basically just played all our new songs to practice up for the show in Hamilton on Sunday, and played a rousing rendition of "Medicine" with some extra help from josh, jon and cheval - like we've been doing all tour.

after the show was over, we came back to kat's and stayed up till six in the morning drinking 40s of old english malt liquor, laughing our faces off at gut and his stories and throwing things at josh (the bass player from jon mckiel). as you can see, it was pretty funny:



Despite going to bed at 6am, we got up at like 9am to head to ottawa for a show with
The Fussy Part. About 20 minutes after we leave, we had a band meeting (in the van of course) and decided that due to our kilometre cap on the rental van going to ottawa and then back to hamilton on sunday, then back home monday would have been too much of a giant zigzag, and cost us too much money. so as much as it sucked, we decided to pull out of the ottawa, and just head to hamilton.

we didn't really have anything to do in hamilton since our show was only sunday night, so we all went to the theatre to see 300 (which was visually cool, but not really my thing). we met up with nick from The Inflation Kills for a little bit, then we headed to this house party where jon mckiel was playing a set.

the party was definately one of the funnest things we've done on tour. there ended up being quite a few people there, and it being st. patty's day and all, we all consumed our fair share of le booze to celebrate (except for pineau, poor guy was our driver). jon's set was supposed to be more subdued and slow and quiet, but we all wanted him to rock the fuck, so cheval, pinky and i decided to get things going by playing extra percussion on their first song. then their first song turned into their second, then their whole set! by the end, they were given 'er pretty hard. somehow cheval and gut ended up playing their underwear, and pinky ended up playing drums for "the power of love." it was a ridiculously awesome time and a definate perfect end to a pretty fun tour.

some of us decided to drive back to guelph last night for the luxury of beds (cuz it's only like 25 minutes away) - and had a nice big sleep in this morning for probably the first time the whole tour. now we're going to buy some breakfast, and then we're going to clean kat's house cuz she's an amazing host and let's us stay at her place so much - then we head to hamilton for our final show of the tour. we're thinking about driving home after the show tonite. this is it. c'est presque fini.