We’re safe and sound back in T.O. after our second eastern leg (i’m not sure if ‘leg’ is an appropriate term, but let’s use it based on our use of the word ‘feet’ in our band name…get it? GET IT? Why aren’t you laughing?).
This leg proved to be most excellent in many regards. As I mentioned before, it’s awesome when you drive into a far away town and you are greeted with a familiar face and a hug (awwwwww…barf). It’s also awesome when you are greeted with a FIVE DOLLAR PARKING TICKET.
Seriously. Coming from Toronto, where paying 5$ to legally park for a couple of hours is a DEAL, this ticket is a magical love letter written by ponies. Yet another reason why we love the east coast.
It’s time to send the big ups to the other great bands we played with.
Fugato! We like you very much…especially when girls dressed in their finest ‘it’s Canada Day, so let’s dress in matching red and white themed slutty outfits’ go up to your bassist/fisherman Pete and stroke his face tenderly, then seductively whisper ‘We don’t like you very much.’ Honestly, I know it’s not that funny to recount unless you know Pete, but it just about topped anything we have seen during this tour (even Snuffy the goat).
Nicknameless! A pleasure to play with both them AND Grooveback in Amherst. Nicknameless hails from Springhill – the birthplace of Anne Murray – hence their most excellent drum skin:
And finally HUDSON! The Hudson boys were kind enough to let us hop on their CD release party in St. Andrews after our Halifax show was cancelled due to some tiny festival named after people who have never had sex. Suffice it to say that although the Seahorse is a most excellent venue, and we look very forward to playing there at the end of August…we really weren’t all that sad about it once the show was said and done. 4 words: foot pedal smoke machine.
So now it is time to try and detox for the next few days before heading out west. You can hear more about why we must detox on the July edition of the Blackfish Podcast – a Vancouver based music podcast. We are the featured artist this month and some snippets of an interview Joan did on a couple of hours sleep can be found within. Check it out here.
And of course, details about how we spent the 36 hours surrounding Canada Day can be found in the video blog. Before the video begins though, this image must be posted since we didn’t get a chance to film it (cuz it was just too damn bumpy and Isaac was scared of only hanging on with one hand while barrelling through West River Station, NS.
You can smell the machismo coming off of him, yes?
And now…the video. Cautions: Baby chicks may be involved.
EDIT: Thoughtlessly forgot to also mention Holdin Up Grants. Best damn two piece we’ve seen (and have geniusly solved the ‘what to do without a bass?) dilema. Even the ghost of M.J. approves.
Yeah so we’ve pretty much sucked at updating this here tour blog since we started this tour about a week and a half ago. We have a multitude of excuses, though, including the fact that we camped in the maritime wilderness for 3 days, hung out with strippers, and were generally having fun with all the great bands we’ve been playing with.
Great big huge enormous ups to the Bible All Stars for helping get this cross Canada tour off to a great fucking start, along with Grooveback, who know how to make this little band feel really welcome and introducing us to the ‘neighbourhood goat, Snuffy’.
Joel from the Bible All Stars looking really fucking cool
Morgan from BAS looking holy
Grooveback-Jay+LFLF
We’ve still got shows to look forward to surrounding Canada Day festivities…tomorrow in New Glasgow at some big fancy amphitheater with the Grooveback boys, then a big hoorah in Charlottetown with the Fugato boys, and Friday in Amherst with Grooveback AND Nicknameless. This tour would be worth it alone for hanging out with the wicked people we’ve met in our travels (although making some cash and gaining exposure in new ‘markets’ is also worth it, I guess). Unfortunatley we hit a snag with the upcoming show at the Seahorse next Saturday (we will blame it on the flower sniffin baby kissin corporate rock whores), but we’ve got alternate plans in the works so all should be well. Otherwise you can see what else we’ve been up to in the traditional video blog below: (* WARNING* burlesque bum cheeks, gratuitous polution, and obscure Survivor Man references lie within)
Hear ye Hear ye: So the the cd release was over a week ago…wait, more than a week. A week and a half? It’s unclear. I feel less bad about not posting since the cd release if it’s only a week ago, so let’s just pretend it’s last Thursday, shall we?
First off, I cannot continue without mentioning the very special video that was screened of budding young historic re-enactor (if that’s a word?) 15 year old Isaac Klein and his stirring delivery of…um, some speech…by some King…from, er,…some era. It featured a table cloth, a plastic tiara, and a really unfortunately timed fly by of a huge airplane. It is one of those videos that youtube was created for, but unfortunately, it’s only on VHS. Come to our next show and if you are lucky (and there’s a VCR there) you might be able to see more.
But yeah, the release was AMAZING. THANK YOU to, well, basically everyone we have ever met? Ok, maybe not absolutely everyone (I will have to refer to my revenge list to make omissions), but the night was a resounding success. We could not have asked for a better turnout or better sound (thanks Colin!) or nicer door girl (thanks Jessica!) or better band to share a bill with (thanks My Shaky Jane!) or better artists to cover our music (thanks Julian, Craig, Jeff, Andrea, Dave, Matt, Bruun, Banger, Frank, Don, Mike, Dan, and Tristan!). It really was a trip (yes, i’m using the term ‘trip’) to hear our music covered in such diverse ways (or covered at all for that matter). We were so busy and happy seeing so many familiar faces that we barely even got a chance to document much of the evening, but here’s a little snippet of (semi) Franklin’s Fault covering Isolation Blues:
And here is Isaac and me wayyyyyy late into the night while cleaning up and forgetting completely how to even pose for a picture with regular faces cuz our brains were just so mangled in the best possible way:
Yup. We’re pretty much the coolest.
So we’ve spent the last week (or so) recovering and prepping for our CROSS! CANADA! TOUR! In the meantime we will try and enjoy brewing our own coffee, grocery shopping, napping on our own couches, and other such mundane things that cannot be done whilst on the road.
The rest of the review is just as awesome…he even uses the word ‘pillory’. It’s now my new favourite word. I am going to pillory everything against everything else. YES. ALWAYS PILLORY-ING.
So we are safe and sound back in Toronto, having survived our first round of ‘dodge the potholes’ out east. Damn, those are some big friggin’ potholes. Maritimes, you are very full of excellent and talented people and we like you very much, but Isaac’s Mazda does not find your roads to be very friendly at all.
A quick rundown of excellent things from this, our first tour of ’09:
- Isaac finding a child’s shoe on the roof of his car outside of BarNone in Kingston at 1am on a Wednesday…hey child, what are you doing up at 1am and why did you abandon/throw your shoe? Honestly?
- The sheer amazingness of Country/Trash Night at l’Esco in Montreal. Despite Joan’s severe amnesia in terms of remembering any French at all to get the crowd on our side, what a friggin great crowd.
- Isaac hooking up with a real hot bitch in P.E.I. Oh Mark from Fugato, you are such a cupid.
- Our booking office in St. Andrews, N.B.
- Free hats in Fredericton
- Meeting the boys from Grooveback. They finally gave us an appropriate answer for when everyone always asks us, ‘Which one is little foot and which one is long foot?’
- Trying to keep up with drinks-wise with the boys from The Stanfields (voted Halifax’s ‘best band to get drunk to’) and failing miserably.
- Greens+!! Thank you for shamming us into thinking that we ate incredibly healthily while on the road.
Of course, we have a video blog as well, but before that, let us remind you about the awesomeness tonight that is our CD RELEASE PARTY AT THE RIVOLI!! The record is now officially released, and can be purchased on our merch page in hard copy or iTunes…also check out some of the wicked awesome reviews that are starting to pour in on our press page…they will be updated regularly as more come in.
Oh yes, and we are a featured artist this week on myspace!
We look forward to many more tours this year…this summer is starting to look insane in a truly awesome way so hopefully see you at a show…or see you at another time, Joben.
Remember when playing barrel of monkeys was fun? Well we picked some up in New Brunswick and it is now our favourite game to play while waiting to play at bars. See?
Remember when using swears was awesome and fun? Well we have rediscovered our love of the ‘F’ word while in Halifax. See below in our latest (and most lengthy) video blog:
we’ve got another video blog for you. all you need to know is that we played a show in Fredericton last night, and for pretty much the first time we didn’t need to worry about being too loud for the venue or the other bands. if you would like some extra background about the venue, it can here found here (something about a zoning permit for adult entertainment).
oh yeah, and p.e.i. was lovely. big love to the boys in Fugato and to Baba’s, and the chef from the Bronx who taught us our new favourite nickname for everybody.
enjoy the movie, you old Bill Murray looking Mother Fuckers.
We are in New Brunswick, Canada’s only official bilingual province, recouping for a couple of days before our next show in P.E.I. Our first two shows in Kingston and Montreal basically exceeded our expectations and there’s really nothing amusing or interesting to share…just excellentness all round. I can share a couple of photos from our Kingston show at BarNone, taken by photographer extraordinaire Garrett Elliott (and please do not assume by the double exposure awesomeness from the first pic that he is a Sears photographer).
Yeah, I added the captions…but the rest is pure Garrett. Dan Aykroyd jokes are completely Kingston-centric, so there’s no use explaining it aside from saying that old Dan is known around those parts (and once stealthily touched my bum when I was leaning over in the campus bookstore at Queen’s. Ew.)
I will leave the rest of this post to something new we are trying: the video blog. Enjoy (?)
I think there are a lot of cases of that piglet flu thing going around out east in Nova Scotia, so we hope to pick that up and milk it for all the publicity that it’s worth (or just lie and say we have it, and then admit later that we don’t have it, and then everybody will hate us…which will lead to more publicity.)
Yep, we’ve got the ‘buzz’ thing pretty much figured out.
Stay tuned for touring blogs. I can’t promise that they’ll be as entertaining as last summer’s (found on our myspace…somewhere in that blog area. grrrrrr myspace), but i will do my best.
One thing I can guarantee: there will be NO return trips to Magnetic Hill. None.
And apparently Joel Plaskett will be out on tour, so stalking him will be out as well this time ’round.
Oh and that stuff I said before about getting the link up to buy the new album…yeah that’s going to have to wait till we get back for the BIG HUGE ENORMOUS CD RELEASE PARTY IN TORONTO ON MAY 28TH!!
Here’s some actual CD/tour news, as promised a couple of blogs ago before I got all distracted by tiny robots and modelling.
Check out the very first review of the album here at herohill.com . We now love herohill.com . We loved them anyways cuz it’s a great music blog and they’re from the east coast, but now we extra love them. *Update* They linked to our video, too!!
Thanks to the lovely press we are starting to get more inquiries about the new cd and how to purchase it (while I’m sure the album has already been leaked and is for sure spreading around the internets like a bootlegged Wolverine movie) …it should be available on itunes by mid/late May, and although the cd’s official release is May 26th, and the party attached to it is May 28th…well who are we kidding? We already have it, so a paypal link will be up momentarily to purchase the cd if you reallllllllllllllly can’t wait. It is also available for sale at our shows. Unprofessional? Mayhaps. But in the words of 30 Rock’s Jenna Maroney, “ME WANT FOOD!” (ie. we would like the money you could potentially pay to us in exchange for the cd that we have made, thereby allowing us to feed ourselves something other than bread sandwiches while on the road).
Speaking of the road, please check out the ‘shows’ area for all the updates on new confirmed tour dates. We embark next week. ME WANT SHOWS.
First off, I have to mention something that is going on behind the scenes here at littlefootlongfoot.com. while we are thrilled with the ease of posting on this here blog, we have suddenly been inundated with little robots. Not cute ‘Batteries Not Included’ robots, but those spammy ones.
Would someone please explain to me why someone ever made some sort of bot thing that would decide to type this in our blog comments?
“Hello Man!, need your help.
HELP! I’m having a telly/jello shots? Thenks. I am vaiting for answer!!!”
It’s not even SELLING anything. No penile implants. No college diplomas.
It actually makes me sort of happy inside if I picture one of those cute little movie robots typing that…he’d be like some sort of eccentric confused type from Russia. With a little fur hat. One day he mechanically waddled into a bar and was presented with a jello shot. Stymied with what to do with it due to its un-liquid nature (cuz he was programmed to drink only liquid things in glasses), he accessed the internet through his tiny mechanical brain and somehow our blog comment section was the first thing he found.
But yeah, I don’t think that’s what’s happening. But what do I know? I am just a model. See?
Big ups to journalist extraordinaire Sofi Papamarko for spotting my teen model potential. Apologies to those who opened up Toronto’s Eye Weekly over the past few days and spat our their coffee in surprise at my extremely red lips and my ‘I think there’s something in my bum…but it’s SEXY’ expression.
