a sort of homecoming

Whoa. two months. where on earth does the time go. We've been busy, and we've also been relaxing. August was home to one of the most intense tours known to man. 6 shows in three days. A short little jaunt up to the okanagan with tonnes of ping ponging from salmon arm to kamloops, to salmon arm, to kelowna to salmon arm, you get the picture.

The whole experience was of course tiring, but exhilarating. Each venue offering a completely new environment and space to explore. From a wide open parking lots, to a crowded coffee shop like wine bar, to restaurants, to (and this was definitely the highlight) playing our own stage at the salmon arm roots and blues festival. each venue seemed to have it's new set of rules, the do's and dont's so to speak. we were lucky enough to have our good friend Shawna of Adaline ( http://www.myspace.com/adalinesmusic ) in kelowna to perform East of Eden as it was originally intended, and while i swear the song would have killed on any other night the bar scene in kelowna didn't really seem into simply listening. their loss i guess.

My personal highlight was kamloops which was a gong show in the best way possible. as we entered the coffee shop slash wine bar i knew that something had to change. i figured it was the set list, as it just seemed like we'd be far too loud for this tiny little space. receiving resistance from my compadres i resigned to leave things the way they were. 3 songs in, however, i noticed an elderly lady sitting right in front of the speakers with her elbows way above her head, her hands doing everything they could do to stop the sound from coming into her ears, and a painful grimace on her face. the lady was chris', (our opening act http://www.soundclick.com/chrisbrock) grandmother. i decided we had to insert some of our more mellow tunes, and from then on in the night was great.

a big thank you for all that came out. we're finalizing a tour as i write this to return to the okanagan and continue on into alberta in mid october. check our myspace for more updates.

dom