Bucky Award Nominations

It has been over 24 hours and I can still feel the effects of watching Paranormal Activity. If you have an open mind, an inclination towards fear and a yearning for being freaked out I can't recommend this movie enough. After seeing it last night I couldn't sleep for hours and wound up waking up in the bathroom of our hotel in the middle of a sleepwalk. Yikes!

As posted on our facebook, thank you to everyone who has nominated us for the CBC Radio 3 BUCKY AWARDS BEST LIVE ACT. We won a Bucky last year for Best New Band Name and it would rule to get nominated for another one. Just a reminder, to let cbc3 know who you liked seeing live the most (oh and there are also tonnes of other Bucky Award nominations that can be made) you can post on their website:
http://radio3.cbc.ca/

You can also email:
feedback@cbcradio3.com

And you can twitter. I'm not exactly sure how this whole twitter thing works yet. Maybe I'll ask Amanda about it tomorrow.

For the record here were my favorite live acts of the last year:
a.)Woodhands/The Rural Alberta Advantage (I can't choose between them for the life of me!)
b.)Zeus (eeeeggaaaddffffppptttthhh!!)
c.)Rah Rah (oh and hey you can nominate their song "Duet For Emma Lou" for the Most Canadian Song Bucky Award. I'm going to.)
d.)Great Bloomers
e.)Spiral Beach (These kids slay.)

-Carl

PS. We've all been sick at some point during this tour. Here's the aftermath from a recent show:
PPS. We recently shot a music video for Drinking Games in Regina. It should be finished in December.

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