Overdue Update

Windsor
Windsor was not our most densely populated show ever, but the people there were amazing and it was a blast to play for them. Afterwards sound guy Ryan 'Power Dealz' Drabble put on Michael Jackson and everyone jumped on stage and started playing along.

CHECK IT

A few of us sat by the river and stared at Detroit later that night. A photo of the lights can be found at our exclaim blog i believe. One will magically appear here in the future as well.

Montreal: A Night Off In Pictures

Karla got a suprise from a weird dude with one of those spider head massage things.


Didgeridon't.


Perhaps due to the Just For Laughs comedy festival we came across a street downtown that was completely covered in spray foam.


I got foam on my shoes.


And on my head.


Karla, the lovely ex-Reginian Dara, Ryan and a glowing yellow orb along la rue St. Denis.


Umm...


Ahh...


Had a few drinks.


And some more cheese curds(!).


Then finished the night off with poutine.


Thank you Montreal! We had a wonderful time.

Montreal

It happens every time we play Montreal:
I sneak away when no one is looking and buy a bag of cheese curds, that rarest of rare commodity on the prairies but so common in Montreal that you can find them in pretty much any depanneur. Since my body has declared itself to be more or less anti-dairy I tell it that I'm only going to have a couple and save the rest for later. Before i realize what's happened I've ravaged through three bags of curds and eaten a giant poutine. Massive fail. The feeling that follows is what I imagine taking psychedelic drugs with Atavan while wearing a clown mask and staring into a mirror would be like. The rest of the band asks me why I'm acting like I'm on drugs and then gets very angry and starts shaking me as they demand to know how much cheese I've taken. Sigh. Luckily last night most of the sickness wore off before we played.And the show was great! It was at Zoo Bizarre, which resembles a small, pleasant bat cave. We played with Pattern Is Movement from Philadelphia who were fantastic and very nice fellows. They couldn't believe that we came from a city that sounded so much like, well you know...

Tour Day Four - Ottawa

Thanks so much to everyone who caught our set tonight at Ottawa Blues Fest! As the sun set over the St. Lawrence (correction: the Ottawa River) it was totally a moment to remember.

Afterwards at club 'Edge' we danced our bums off. I received my first kiss from a drag queen and for once Ryan and my dance moves seemed to be appreciated.

Tomorrow we are off to Montreal. Life is good.
-Carl

Tour Day Three - Ottawa

So Mike is doing a tour blog for exclaim.ca. Be sure to check there for fascinating, articulate and entertaining commentary on tour life with the Library Voices. Unfortunatly he isn't flying into Ottawa until tomorrow afternoon for our show at Ottawa Blues Fest on the Subway Stage at 7pm so I thought I'd give an update here:

The last three days have been spent driving from Regina. We arrived in Ottawa this afternoon, not nearly as stinky and grouchy as you might expect. I spent the night with our sound man/tour manager/short-shorts wearer Ryan Drabble, he of the terrific Saskatoon band Slow Down, Molasses and head sound guru at Amigos. We caught 'Lightening Crashes' by the '90s band Live at the side of their stage. Pretty weird hearing the most awesome song of grade seven being sung along to by so many people at such close quarters. We also caught the face-melting end of STYX's set. So many solos! So much hugging!

Whoa, Ed the singer from Live just walked by me in the lobby of the hotel where we're staying and where I'm using the free Internet. I said 'ahhh, good set' and he either ignored me or has significant hearing loss. Regardless, eye contact was made. Weird!

We also ate some amazing vegetarian lasagna, missed M83's set by three seconds. Dammit.

On a personal note I'd like to say that I think smoking is silly and good on our bass player Eoin who's trying to quit and hasn't had a smoke yet this tour. You can do it Eoin.

Okay I should hit the sheets before someone from Kiss wanders by and things get strange again.
Goodnight blogosphere.
-Carl

Tour begins today -

We've launched our blog for Exclaim!
You can follow our travels @ libraryvoices.exclaim.ca



Canada Day photos by Chris Graham.

Tigher Jeans & Bigger Glasses Tour 09

Canada Day At O'Hanlon's

Sled Island

We had the pleasure of playing Calgary's Sled Island Festival again last weekend. Thanks to everyone who came to our show at the Underground! As usual the festival was a blast - blurs and streaks of running from venue to venue trying to catch as many bands as possible. Highlights included:

Yukon Blonde - Best buddies who've recently relocated to Vancouver and are going to take over when they finish their full length record.

Rural Alberta Advantage @ Broken City - This show was magic. You could feel the energy and excitement vibrating all through the room. They're on tour right now, maybe you can go see them!

Monotonix @ Tubby Dog - Insane show, great notdog.

York Redoubt - Energetic kids from Halifax who shared the stage with us at The Underground. We are all fans now.

Woodhands @ The Legion - The crowd was making the floor bounce up and down so violently during their set that I believe the building nearly collapsed. Such is the power of Woodhands' keytar rock.

Brasstronaut @ The Palomino - Indie/Jazz fusion. Their forthcoming album is going to blow minds.

We also saw Andrew WK which was a long time coming and Paul got his picture taken with Nardwuar the Human Serviette. We'll be posting that soon.

ONE MORE THING:

Library Voices are featured on the CBC Radio 3 podcast this week.

http://radio3.cbc.ca/

Listening to it made me so happy that I get to play music in this band.
Ciao For Now
Carl