False Heroics/FTF Tour - YARmouth, St. John!
I'm at the house of some incredibly nice people we met at a McDonalds in Quebec. They live in St. John and offered us showers and swim and food for today. man, a shower and a couch in a basement never felt so good. We're playing some video games with their boys (Dave barely beat me in Pod Racer, curse my vehicle's bad handling... uh yeah.)
We've played 4 shows in the last 2 days: an all ages show in Yarmouth, which maybe 20 people showed up for, and an amazing bar show right afterwards, which had incredible sound, apparently the best sound guy in the maritimes, and I wouldn't doubt it! Yarmouth is the ultimate pirate town. And the kids there all look like they're stuck back in the 90's, which is cool by me... Alan Benjamin was excellent, not what I was expecting at all. Really intense.. I'd call it "indie grunge" if I had to label it.. 1994's Seattle meets, well.. 2002's Seattle? Anyways, last night we played on the boardwalk in St. John, which was really cool, and then a late night bar show again. I was dead tired for the second show. We slept in our cars behind an arena last night, which was... exciting in the most uncomfortable way possible.
The rest of the tour is looking really sketchy... we're not sure if we can make it back to Halifax to play at Hell on Tuesday, and then our Fredericton show should be amazing, but Montreal looks like it's fallen through! Christine (who is former bongo player for Sam Roberts!) is trying to hook something up for us last minute, so hopefully she comes through. Seriously, though, the next tour we do, I'm going to spend a LOT more time booking. Everyone from Ontario-way should try to come out to our Brampton show though, it should be cool. I guess it's the same place Moneen had their CD release, but I'm just hoping that wasn't the CD release for their newest effort, cause that would be more of a bad omen than a good omen. It's cliched to say "I like their old stuff better" but honestly... "screw you and I hope you burn"? what were they thinking?
oh, I got an undercut the other night... or did i?
One of the 9-year-old kids here just told Jon, "In all honesty, I don't like your shirt."
We've played 4 shows in the last 2 days: an all ages show in Yarmouth, which maybe 20 people showed up for, and an amazing bar show right afterwards, which had incredible sound, apparently the best sound guy in the maritimes, and I wouldn't doubt it! Yarmouth is the ultimate pirate town. And the kids there all look like they're stuck back in the 90's, which is cool by me... Alan Benjamin was excellent, not what I was expecting at all. Really intense.. I'd call it "indie grunge" if I had to label it.. 1994's Seattle meets, well.. 2002's Seattle? Anyways, last night we played on the boardwalk in St. John, which was really cool, and then a late night bar show again. I was dead tired for the second show. We slept in our cars behind an arena last night, which was... exciting in the most uncomfortable way possible.
The rest of the tour is looking really sketchy... we're not sure if we can make it back to Halifax to play at Hell on Tuesday, and then our Fredericton show should be amazing, but Montreal looks like it's fallen through! Christine (who is former bongo player for Sam Roberts!) is trying to hook something up for us last minute, so hopefully she comes through. Seriously, though, the next tour we do, I'm going to spend a LOT more time booking. Everyone from Ontario-way should try to come out to our Brampton show though, it should be cool. I guess it's the same place Moneen had their CD release, but I'm just hoping that wasn't the CD release for their newest effort, cause that would be more of a bad omen than a good omen. It's cliched to say "I like their old stuff better" but honestly... "screw you and I hope you burn"? what were they thinking?
oh, I got an undercut the other night... or did i?
One of the 9-year-old kids here just told Jon, "In all honesty, I don't like your shirt."
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4 Comments:
yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmouth!
glad you guys are living it up in saint john.
if you false heroic boys want to come play in hell on tuesday, couldn't you just bring the car? i'm sure we can find you instruments. trev has a bass. the dean malenkos will have drums. i have an acous.
keep me on the update!!!
-karley
yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmouth!
glad you guys are living it up in saint john.
if you false heroic boys want to come play in hell on tuesday, couldn't you just bring the car? i'm sure we can find you instruments. trev has a bass. the dean malenkos will have drums. i have an acous.
keep me on the update!!!
-karley
hey MADA! heard you guys have been sleeping in cars, didnt you bring tents? lol anyways hope you are all having a good time! see you in JUNE!
Christine
hey guys!
glad to hear your tour's doing well. hopefully i'll be able to pop in and say some hello's on wednesday! thanks so much for everything, you're all really great guys! best of luck;
<3Sarah
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