We had such an amazing time in Ontario this past week! Thanks to all of you who came out, rocked out, hung out, sent us sweet e-mail messages, housed us, shared breakfasts and beers, and bought records and zines. We love you! We played with awesome bands and re-visisted great towns. We’ll be back soon. [...]
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Loves
Posted in Tour Diary on November 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tour diary: running low on fuel, words…
Posted in Tour Diary, tagged Mike Rollo, tour video on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
All photos by Mike Rollo. We are renewable energy: just photos for now, we are a bit under the weather / exhausted! Tour videos and links to photos on other people’s blogs from the shows, real soon, OK? PS: We’re recording a new song this weekend. What? Yes!
Thank you!
Posted in Tour Diary, tagged conor prendergast, L'Esco, L'Escogriffe, Mavo, sandman viper command, Tour Diary on June 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to everyone who came out to our homecoming show last night! It was a total blast- thanks to Mavo and Sandman Viper Command for the excellent music, to Conor Prendergast for the sweet show poster and to L’Esco for being so much damn fun. We’ll be posting up one last tour diary in the next [...]
TOUR DIARY: Breaking strings and mending hearts
Posted in Tour Diary, tagged Tour Diary on June 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Getting closer to home: THUNDER BAY > WINDSOR > TORONTO > KINGSTON On the way back to Montreal we are humbled by 14 hour driving days yet feel strangely that the country is too small, the trip too short- we may need to go to the Maritimes soon to get the rest of fill of [...]
Homecoming show this Saturday!
Posted in Tour Diary, tagged L'Escogriffe, Mavo, Montreal, sandman viper command, tour on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is gonna be an excellent and ridiculous time. Come count our mosquito bites! Trace the lines around our eyes! Gawk at our exhausted happiness! With the ever awesome Mavo and Burlington/Toronto’s Sandman Viper Command! Facebook event is right here. More tour diary stuff coming soon. Tonight we play Phog in Windsor with The Locusts [...]
TOUR DIARY: Eastern Promises to Keep
Posted in Tour Diary, tagged all citizens, black sheep diner, bokononists, broken city, BRUNO, CALGARY, dolphins and whales imax, doug hoyer, GFCB, lo pub, Ohanlons, regina, sit down tracy, ST-ALBERT, steels wheels, tour, Tour Diary, winnipeg on June 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Back eastward: ST-ALBERT > CALGARY > REGINA > BRUNO > WINNIPEG Once again, photos from our fabulous driver-cum-merchman-cum-photographer, Mike, will arrive shortly after we return to la belle ville! In the meantime enjoy the snapshots, y’all. Listening to mix CDs mailed to us on the road. Karen Dalton and Exuma sing us back eastward, out [...]
Caravan: a zine about indie touring!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, Tour Diary, tagged Brave Radar, how-to, ladies of the canyon, Modernboys Moderngirls, PARLOVR, sherwin tjia, tessa smith, touring, van, vinyl record guru, zine on June 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As some of you know, we decided to create a wee zine about independent touring in Canada to sell during this June tour. Folks at the shows and fellow musicians have really been enjoying it and have made their own plans for new content to add to the next edition (best cheap breakfast spots in [...]
TOUR DIARY: Elevator to Hello Rocky Mountains!
Posted in Tour Diary on June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Kamloops – we ask the shorter folks in the audience to move to the front. The western crowds seem more willing to dance with their eyes closed. The mountains that ring this city look western too, bare hills the shadows of passing clouds skim over. Driving through the mountains brings to mind antique Chinese paintings [...]
TOUR DIARY: Flatlands to the Mountains
Posted in Tour Diary, tagged alberta, edmonton, manitoba, prairies, regina, rock, saskatchewan, saskatoon, Tour Diary, winnipeg on June 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We can’t believe that we’re in Saskatchewan, that we’ve driven so far. When filmmakers and photographers from this prairie province take their cameras out-of-doors, they frame with a careful consideration for the ratio of land-to-sky. In the middle of the flatlands, you can feel both limitless and penned in, standing in the center of a [...]
TOUR DIARY: Shows, shows everywhere and not a stop to think
Posted in Tour Diary, tagged sudbury, thunder bay, Tour Diary, winnipeg on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tour diary! We drive past hundreds of kilometers of fields and forests, stands of trees that hide and reveal lakes, quarries, valleys and some towns. most often we glimpse acres of unknowable brush quietly living and ending beneath the branches. We drive along highways with adventurer hearts. The Canadian Shield is rock, an unconscious bank [...]


