Home And Halloween

We are back in Regina. Thanks so much to everyone who helped make it such a wonderful tour, from Victoria to Charlottetown and back to the prairies again. We met so many wonderful people and bands and I can honestly say that every show was wonderful to play, whether it was to packed houses at the Legion in Calgary and the Seahorse Tavern in Halifax or to 20 wonderful people and bar staff in Lethbrigde. We are going to miss In-Flight Safety and Julie Fader so much! We couldn't have asked for more fantastic people to share a tour with.


What did you do for Halloween? We played a rather ridiculous party in Barrie, Ontario at The Mansion. What a night! From what I remember. Our two 'Best Ontario Friends Forever' (BOFFs?) Caitlyn and Matthew were on hand and shared this photo with us. Also, I was bored before our show in Hamilton so I recorded a Vangelis-inspired version of Kundera On The Dance Floor in our hotel bathroom. Yes, the same hotel that had the Hooters attached to it. I've called it the Kundera Caitlyn Mix. Thanks to Mike for help tweaking the keyboards and thanks to Caitlyn and Matthew for the fun times!

Check it out:
Kundera Caitlyn Mix

Montreal At Le Petit Campus

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.

MOVIE NIGHT

Tonight a few of us went and saw Paranormal Activity. The movie. And it was awesome! See it before the wave of pop culture it's riding crests and all the attentive theatergoers turn to irreverent movie-talkers.

select snapshots from the current tour

SEPT2609 ROBERTS CREEK jeff storytelling on the beach. prairie kids on the water!


SEPT2809 KELOWNA paul and jeff find & capture a black widow in the garage of the home we are staying in


SEPT2809 KELOWNA the spider is now hidden in our trailer, and trained to attack gear thieves

SEPT2809 KELOWNA the day 2 boys became men


SEPT3009 CANMORE carl redecorates the hotel room (or) wtf is brennan doing?


OCT1109 SAULT STE MARIE thanksgiving dinner. 10cent wings, karaoke, and friendship. a terrible photo but a precious memory. (that goes for most of these photos)


OCT1109 SAULT STE MARIE that night something that will never happen again occurred. LV and In-Flight Safety had a song-for-song rock-off at LopLops. This is a photo of us giving our love and encouragement to our buddies. Our collective competitive streak almost matches the love we feel for one another. almost. but not quite.



OCT1309 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN MONTREAL AND MONCTON jeff locks carl in a phone booth. typical pittstop.


OCT1509 LEAVING CHARLOTTETOWN again with the prairie kids and the water


OCT1709 TO HALIFAX a view of the maritimes from shotgun



More to come darlings. promise.
xo. manda & LV.

We Freakin' Love The Maritimes

I can't believe how awesome antibiotics are. Oh modern science. Whilst most of the band are falling like dominos to sickness I'm on day three of taking prescribed drugs and feeling better than I have in months! And just in time to take in the east coast. We played Hunter's Pub on Prince Edward Island a few nights back - fun times - and Capital Bar in Fredericton last night which was a fantastic show. Really, we can't get enough of the east coast and all the wonderful people out here! We met a lot of very nice people at last nights show including the wonderful Capitol bar staff and a nice girl named Julia who took some great pictures of the show like this one:



And this one of the end of the night when we joined In-Flight Safety for a swashbuckling rendition of Midnight Oil's Beds Are Burning:



Thanks Julia!
For more of Julia's show pictures check out her flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juwhalen

Next up Moncton, more bloggery to follow.
_carlos

today we were responsible adults for an hour (or) which are good, which are bad...

Now in the maritimes! In-Flight Safety Country!

Today Brennan, Carl and Amanda went to the doctor in Moncton. We were feeling pretty under the weather as about 75% of the Library Voices/In-Flight Safety Camp has had some sort of malady since our kick-off. A big thanks to Julie Fader for the small pox (just kidding, we miss you Julie!, it's not small pox, and Carl also brought the rickets into the camp).

And an even bigger thanks to John (IFS) and his parents who put us up in Moncton last night, fed us, and gave us each our own individual bed!...that never happens on tour with 9 people. Ever. Pure luxury. This morning John's dad Bill drove us to the doctor and escorted us about the town.

Here is a photo of us outside Bill's ride (noice IFS sticker!), with all our happy new drugs. This is Carl's first time ever taking antibiotics. We'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks again to the Mullanes for your beds, Thanksgiving leftovers, gas, time, patience, laundry facilities, cats, love, bathrooms, and of course your lovely son.

Take care Blogdom.
Manda. LV.