My 30th birthday party!

Today is my birthday. I am finally 30 years old! I decided to plan for myself the greatest party of all time. I booked Main Hall and asked a bunch of friends to come and play me some songs. First, Vicious & Delicious played a set, followed by Mordechai, Doug and Maria who flew in from Vancouver for the show! After that, Gab played and then I played a few songs by myself and a couple of songs with my good friend Sunny Duval of the Breastfeeders. Hexes & Ohs followed us and then Caro, who made me the amazing dress that you see here, played after them. The last band to play were my long time friends Mia Verko. Everyone were amazing and said such sweet things about me! Then two DJs played really great tunes, Parklife who spins at Green Room on Thursday and Mike B from Better Swimmers out of Winnipeg. They were amazing. I also had a chocolate fountain which is always exciting but I didn't even try it! Many people came, I was very touched. It was the best birthday ever!

Quebec City, February 9th 2007

I went to Québec city on Friday. I drove there super early because I had a meeting with people from the culture department of the City to maybe set up a SOPREF office there. I then went to hang out at CHYZ and do an interview. The people there were so nice. I played a show at Le Vieux Bureau de Poste with Standing Waltz. It was all ages, it was sold out, the show was super fun, I tried out a delay pedal which was amazing. After the show, I went to Galerie Rouje to see Pawa Up and Gatineau play a show. Pawa Up were great, Malcolm Bauld was playing piano and it was pretty sweet. I only watched a few songs from Gatineau because I decided that I would drive back home in the middle of the night.

I loved the drive, I listened to some old mix Cds that people gave me a few years back when we used to make Mix contests. Really fun!

Divan Orange on January 23rd 2006

The show at Divan was so much fun! I was so happy that Lionel invited me to play again. Divan Orange is such a great place and I feel so at home there. Chrissy's show was amazing. She has the most beautiful voice. It's also always fun to see Chris play. And Jay, Sterling, Jean-Philippe and Marianne were great! I love playing with a full band! I love them and I'm so lucky that they are such lovely people and seem to really care about me and play with their hearts.

I'm working hard as usual for SOPREF. LOCAL is releasing 10 albums next month and they are all really good! I can't wait for all launches to start. I'll be able to go out with my very good friend Paule, who is actually the very talented press agent that is getting me all this crazy promo. Thank you Paule!

I also want to give a sincere thanks to Edmund Lam who designed this great poster and my t-shirt. What a talented artist!

Back from the holidays

I spent most of the holiday season watching DVDs and taking off price stickers on all the CDs that were returned to LOCAL during the Fall. On December 24th, a few friends came to my house and we had a big Christmas dinner. I cooked two turkeys (Alice & Stella, last year's turkey was called Beatrice, hence the song about Christmas Eve 2005) with yams, I made a butternut squash soup and bought some oysters. I also made dessert. Ines made a cipâte which is a traditional Québécois meat pie which was to die for, Sophie made the best cheese cake ever and Dominic made really sweet drinks. We ate for hours and played games. It was so much fun!

My friend Antoine invited me to play a live performance on his radio show on CIBL. We had a really good time. I was under the impression that nobody listens to the radio at 9h00pm on a Friday but I forgot about all the people in their cars looking for parking close to their favorite bar!

So, Serge is a superstar and has a lot on his plate so I asked my friends from Diamond Sea, to play with me for my next show on January 23rd at Divan Orange. I've never played with an actual rock band without Gab at my side. It's so amazing! I'm having a great time and I think it's going to sound great. They're adding some nice shoegaze parts, HOT!

I got my first real article in VOIR. Check it out!

http://www.voir.ca/musique/musique.aspx?iIDArticle=45535