So... to follow up on my last post, just as I was about to go to the Exclaim! Party, I stepped outside and my car had been towed! So I didn't make it to the party, I ended up having to pay the City of Toronto 145$ + a cab ride across town of 20$. However, the show at O'Grady's was super fun. Keith Hamilton of the Postage Stamps put it on and he is a great promoter. Good times both for Malcolm's band and for me. We played with a cute electro couple band called Foxes. I told them that they must come to Montreal to play with Hexes & Ohs. The next day, we played at The Grad House in Waterloo to an empty room. The opener, Sean Stokholm who was from Waterloo didn't even draw. Ontario is so hard! We had a great time there though, everybody played solo sets and told the stories of each song. Alicia Penney of Cape Breton has great songs, I played with her in Cape Breton in 2005. Incredible voice.
We then drove to Thunder Bay and decided not to play since the staff told us that nobody would show up. We ate at the Thunder BayCasino and then just hung out.
We shared a hotel room and I left super early the next morning because I was dying to see Mike B (Good Form / Better Swimmers). I was so happy to be in Winnipeg! It was so great to see all my friends and play in front of people who actually cared. Everyone was very proud of me and told me that they were happy that I didn't stop playing music when Gab Left.
We had the next day off so we went for Breakfast at Ashley's (Good Form) and then I checked out some CD stores for LOCAL and we went to see a movie. Today, I got up and left Winnipeg, drove to Regina and I will go see Geronimo play and then hang out with Dagan.
Should be fun. Tomorrow... Edmonton and one of Canada's most good looking men... Dallas!
The drive down to Vancouver was amazing and I actually loved doing it on my own. I took pictures with the great camera Dallas lent me. The first show in Vancouver was at The Main which is one of my favorite venues in Canada. It's a Greek restaurant! The show was fun, we played with RC of Mongoose and it was great. The next day, I hung out with Wes and Brawnwin and with The Feminists. We played at The Marine Club with the Skort and Ghost House which have members of the band Cadeaux I played with in Winnipeg a while back. It was nice to see them again. 
I finally went down to Calgary to see my good friends Al, Grant and Shawn of the Outhouse (www.outhouse.ca) which I had been looking forward to since last summer. Al planned this great All ages show at a cute little venue called Cliff Bungalow Mission Community Center which doubles up as a pre-school. We played with my friend Laura's new band The Consonant C. They were unbelievable!
So... drove to Edmonton, hung out with Buffy and Dallas and played an all ages show at The Skatepark which was pretty cool and then went to Buffy's to play some Karaoke videogame which was awesome! Today, I hung out with Dallas and played my favorite show so far at Wunderbar Hofbrauhaus, this really cool bar on Whyte Avenue. A bunch of my friends came and people seemed to really enjoy the set. Malcolm and his band played their best set since we started touring. Liam Copeland booked the show and played as a duo called Suicide is Painless. Really nice. A great evening all around.
So... to follow up on my last post, just as I was about to go to the Exclaim! Party, I stepped outside and my car had been towed! So I didn't make it to the party, I ended up having to pay the City of Toronto 145$ + a cab ride across town of 20$. However, the show at O'Grady's was super fun. Keith Hamilton of the Postage Stamps put it on and he is a great promoter. Good times both for Malcolm's band and for me. We played with a cute electro couple band called Foxes. I told them that they must come to Montreal to play with Hexes & Ohs. The next day, we played at The Grad House in Waterloo to an empty room. The opener, Sean Stokholm who was from Waterloo didn't even draw. Ontario is so hard! We had a great time there though, everybody played solo sets and told the stories of each song. Alicia Penney of Cape Breton has great songs, I played with her in Cape Breton in 2005. Incredible voice.
