toronto/peterborough/windsor

haven't been able to make it to a computer for a while...

we strolled into toronto for the better part of the day on tuesday, and parked near the horseshoe, where we would be playing later that evening as part of their New Music Night. Load in wasn't until 6 so we went to eat at a Vietnamese restaurant, we checked out some music stores, and hung out in a park for a little while.

as a band, we like parks.

soundcheck was around 730, and at about 8 my cousin malizza came to meet me at the bar for a drink. it was good to see her, good to talk. a bunch of friends ended up coming out, namely Simp (one of Pinky's friends from X), Travis Greenough (who I haven't seen in at least 6 years) and Rachel and Katherine (two friends of mine from my college days at Kings).

Usually playing last at a show is a good thing, but at these New Music Nights in Toronto, it's kind of the opposite. When the first band went on at 930, the bar was packed. By the time we hit the stage to fill the final slot, there was maybe 20 people left. That really sucked, especially since we had all been building up this particular show so much.

That night, we slept at Nadia and Rob's - who are friends of Andrew's with an amazing house and outstanding hospitality. They made us breakfast and we listened to Wilco mixed tapes when we finally woke up around 1 on Wednesday.

Soon after we began the trek to Peterborough. We assumed since it was a Wednesday night, and we weren't playing with a local, and necause our only other show in Peterborough was a complete bust last year, this show would not be fantastic - by any stretch of the imagination.

We played at a place called The Spill, which was very nice. James, the guy who runs the place, was very nice and accomodating to us. We played to about 8 people - which, by my counts is 700% times better than the amount of people we played to at our last Peterborough show - but they were all very nice, and they all loved our band, and they all bought merch.

We had a lot of fun with our set. We played a few songs we don't usually bust out - like "Too Many Ghosts" - and at one point, I was even playing my bass outside, still plugged in an everything, but I was just out on the sidewalk, playing "Breathe Deep Tornado." Hilarious. Yes, I am.

Philip Clark, aka A/V was in town with The Crimson Tides, so he came to watch some of our set. In return, after we were all done, we went down the street about a half a block to watch both of their sets at another Peterborough venue. The Crimson Tides were awesome, and hilarious, and possibly my new fav. Halifax bands, and A/V capped the night off with a new-wave dance party - like he always does.

It was a six hour drive to Windsor, but it was good to see the boys in Orphan Choir as always. There was a good crowd for our set at Phog, and we sold a bunch of CD's. Oh, yeah, PS, we found our missing bag of Tshirts. They're in Montreal. We're picking them up on the way home.

Right now we're at Jim's house, everyone's sleeping (or trying to) and my head hurts from the shots of whisky we were doing with Nate in the bathroom.

Tomorrow, Guelph.

Back to Joe's! But, I am sad that Katherine won't be there.