me no update longtime, so sorry

yeah yeah yeah, little to no updates - i apologize, but getting ready to go out on the road again with sleepless nights i felt i should get back into the swing of things.

here's a brief band-by-band run down:

Sleepless Nights

Well, we're leaving for tour tomorrow - gone for about two and a half weeks, then we play a bunch of local shows when we get home. we just bought our van today as a matter of fact, and the boys are running around getting the paperwork all filled out.

Here are the tour dates/details:
Spring 2007 Tour Dates:
Friday, May 18 – Montreal, PQ – Casa del Popolo w. Petunia & The Loons
Sunday, May 20 – Waterloo, ON – 130 King. St. N. [Trepid Records House Show] w. Richard LaViolette
Monday, May 21 – London, ON – Alex P. Keaton w. Icharys Flight
Tuesday, May 22 – Toronto, ON – The Horseshoe w. Jason Kent, etc.
Wednesday, May 23 – Peterborough, ON – The Spill Café
Thursday, May 24 - Windsor, ON - Phog w. Orphan Choir
Friday, May 25 – Guelph, ON – Jimmy Jazz w. Share
Saturday, May 26 – Cambridge, ON – 69 Pickups
Monday, May 28 – Hamilton, ON – The Casbah w. Petunia & The Loons
Wednesday, May 30 – Moncton, NB – The Paramount w. The Peter Parkers and Paranerd
Thursday, May 31 – Fredericton, NB – The Capital w. The Trick & Smir
Friday, June 1 – Saint John, NB – Elwood’s w. The Peter Parkers & Hospital Grade
Saturday, June 2 – Charlottetown, PEI – Back Alley Discs [all ages] w. The Peter Parkers
Saturday, June 2 – Charlottetown, PEI – Hunter’s Ale House w. The Peter Parkers

and then when we get home...
Friday, June 15 – Halifax, NS – The Attic w. The Peter Parkers & Museum Pieces
Friday, June 22 – Yarmouth, NS – The Cotton Mill [No Scene Records Showcase]
Sunday, June 24 – Halifax, NS – The Khyber Club [No Scene Records Showcase]


The Establishment

The Estab just played a couple Halifax gigs with our good friends Kilbourne from Calgary, AB who rocked the house down at Gus' on Sunday nite.

We're just getting the funding in place to pay for our 7" split with Orphan Choir, and crossing our fingers that we may get some cash to record our new EP at J. LaPointe's.

We're planning a short tour in August to push the 7" - and hopefully we'll be playing a bit more maritime dates come the fall.


Quiet Parade

Keyboard player/trumpet player Carolann left the group some time ago to focus on her awesome band Gamma Gamma Rays. Since then Megan, Mary and I continued practicing and learning some new songs, introduced a new Megan to the lineup - Megan MacDonald on the glockenspiel - and madfe our grand debut at Tribeca last week, opening for Ryan Cook and the Sunny Acres Band.

It was marvelous, better than I could have ever expected. Unfortunately for me, and for this band (not to mention Sleepless Nights), Mary is moving to Toronto, so i am in need of a new drummer.

However, we did get to record 7 songs on saucy Friday evening, so at least there will be a record of what we worked on together. Can't wait.



Did i mention TOUR!!!!!
weeeeee!!!