Monday, October 1, 2007

Canada Part Deux

We’ve had some exciting adventures on the road since our last recap. We finished up a great Canadian run with Dragonette, and flew out to California for an epic three-day, sold out tour with The Sounds and UTIOG. I’ll just dive right into the recap, yes?

QUEBEC CITY / OTTAWA

By far the most French city we visited, it was a beautiful place with a beautiful club, Le Dagobert. As Martina commented, it was what we all imagined strip clubs to look like before actually visiting one on our friends 18th birthday. All Mirrors, sparkles, poles, and track lighting. We met some lovely French-Canadiennes, learned a few useful phrases, and got a completely incomprehensible parking ticket. Great. Our Ottawa show at Zaphod’s was cool as well. We had our first helping of Poutine (fries with gobs of cheese and gravy) which knocked us out by the end of the evening. I finally finished the remaining uploads for our album edits, which was a tremendous pain in the ass and a tremendous weight lifted.

MONTREAL / TORONTO

Montreal was possibly our favorite stop in all of Canada. We played a cool, intimate show at the Campus club, did an interview, and than partied in town with our new friends. Nevermind that we had to sleep in a Walmart parking lot the night before, and that we were sick as dogs. The city more than made up for it, and our heavy dosing of Robitussin helped us through. Plus, the place is packed to the hilt with the most stunning women in the country. Nice!

Our return trip to Toronto was for a myspace secret show at the Mod Club, a huge space that evokes visions of the Bowery or Irving Plaza in NYC. Its fun to play on a huge stage with a disco ball and flashing lights. That particular area of the city has a London vibe, lots of pubs and cafes with well styled and attractive young professionals hustling about. Our Canadian booking agents later took us out for huge plates of nachos, which put us all to bed.

KINGSTON AND HOME

Our triumphant return to Kingston (only one week later) was amazing. We did the town, reconnected with some new friends, and had an opulent dinner on Dan’s brother in law’s tab. The Queen’s Grad club staff took great care of us, and the five of us squeezed on their tiny stage to rock out up close and personal. Tea, sushi, and open bar was provided. Lovely ladies and gentlemen were in attendance. The band gave a drunk and inappropriate interview which actually turned out to be pretty funny - http://youtube.com/watch?v=fWCxM40KSsw

We said our tearful goodbyes to Dragonette at about 2am and started driving back to Philly. It was great playing with them. Great musicians and people, who have grown to love the absurdity of life on the road. Not to mention a raunchy sailor's sense of humor that could even make us blush. Customs were cleared with no problem (we were only 20 minutes behind the Genesis tour bus) and we got back home at about 9am. This gave us about 20 hours to regroup and sleep before heading to Newark airport for our LA flight.

I’ll post details of our CA adventure shortly.

Matt