This will be my final blog while on tour. Well actually we are at Brando's place in Toronto right now (10am) after driving all night... AGAIN... We are trying to muster up the energy to get back into the van and drive our asses home to Kitchener. The last 48 hours to me are a total blur. All we did was drive with a few short break in different small towns to play shows. We drove 10 hours from Regina to Kenora to play the Rideout Community Center with 1971 and We Built This City (I think their name is something like that but as I said before... its a blur). The show was cool. I really liked the venue which was this very small community center on the top of a hill in small town Kenora. There were deer grazing in the street on our way up to the venue. This place reminded me... felt like when I was 16 or so and we were doing shows at the Button Factory. Really awesome!
Immediately after that show we hoped in the van and started the 16 hours drive to Sault Ste Marie. Will took driving duty first and I was navigator then we switched part way through our shift (which happened at Thunder Bay). I saw about a million deer that night but NO FUCKING MOOSE!
In Thunder Bay we were stopped by the same OPP officer that pulled us over on our way house. He came up with some bogus story that he mis-typed our plate in and it came up as a stolen vehicle... yeah right. He came up to the van and said "hey, wait a second... aren't you guys in a band?"
We reply "yup"
"Oh I think I pulled you guys over about 3 weeks ago"
"ah, yeah"
"oh, so how was the tour?"
Ha ha ha... we're thinking, if you wanted to hang out with us and live vicariously through us and our band you could have just asked.
Then when we pulled away he was right behind us and then poof he was gone. We are wondering if he might be an OPP ghost caught in the mouth of madness. Weird. Anybody else meet this cop on your travels?
At around 8am in Thunder Bay Jan and Brando took over driving duty. When we finally arrived in Sault Ste Marie it was 4pm and we were exhausted. We all hunkered down in the van in a BDO parking lot and slept until 7:30pm. We got up and waited at the venue with Greg Rekus until after 9pm when Foggy Notions finally opened and we were allowed in. The bar is really cool but being that it was Easter Sunday the whole place was a ghost town. A few people showed up and it was great to meet the other musicians. The first band was called Redd Monkey. Instead of a bass they had a cello player who played really intense cello with a bow. Really cool. They will be touring this summer and we are going to booked them a Kitchener show... So everyone come and see them. We played after Redd Monkey and we had to play ultra quiet because the bar was getting a lot of noise complaints recently. Its really awkward playing quietly... and it sounds dumb but its actually more work. It was alright though. The final act was a solo dude named Greg Rekus (former Hi Five Drive). It was an awesome and entertaining set. He's touring now too and we're trying to put together a Kitchener show for him. Come out to that show too!
Well, we're heading home now.
Happy Birthday to Brando today! And I'm sorry he had to spend the first part of his birthday driving.
I'm so glad to be home but I'm gonna miss the road.
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