The West is the Best

Hey Blog Readers,

Writing from Edmonton, AB.  We’ve now been heading in a westernly direction for a week, but it feels more like a month (mostly cuz of the distance that has been covered and the amount of Stephen King’s The Stand we have gotten through on audiobook…we’re deep into the stuggle between the Dark Man and Jebus).

Things have been going swimmingly well.  For some reason we were expecting to be awoken from some lovely friendly dream into the harsh reality of Western bookers/bar managers (cuz we figured it just doesn’t get more friendly than the Maritimes), but we have been fortunate enough to meet some of the most supportive booker types out here that we have ever encountered.    So nice that both The Pyramid in Winnipeg and and The Apollo in Thunder Bay will be having us again on our journey back east.  Hoorah!

Other hoorahs: Check out this sweet sweet review we just got in national music paper Exclaim! HERE .   Also, we’ve been super pumped (I really hate that expression, and yet here I sit, typing it.  Honestly, who wants to get ‘pumped’, let alone ‘super pumped’…ok, i should just stop.  We’ve finally found a heat wave here in Edbmonton and it’s definitely affecting me.  DIGRESSION) for a while now for our Steamwhistle Unsigned showcase at Broken City in Calgary this Friday (check out the fancy website featuring us HERE), and now we have the excellent fortune to also perform at the Steamwhistle Brewery itself in Toronto at the Roundhouse on September 18th!  So be prepared to hear more about that one soon.  It will be our first show in T.O. since the CD release at the Rivoli (who knows, maybe we’ll even bust out Isaac’s grade 10 Jewish History video project again?).

And, of course, we cannot end this entry without another video blog.  This one features killer butterflies (nobody suspects the butterfly…) and a near death experience in Winnipeg.  Enjoy.