For those of you that are perhaps starting to get tired of my negativity, perhaps I should have warned you that these three consecutive shows would be kind of the low point of the tour. Actually, no. There were lower points, and stetson’s and edmonton both had great parts about them too.
We had booked a billiard hall to play in Edmonton, and because the Edmonton band that had agreed to play hadn’t responded to our emails in over a week, we invited Alpha Baby to come up to Edmonton with us, which was once again awesome. Our invite, led to them inviting us to Regina on the following night. There was the half hour or so of us being ecstatic about flying by the seat of our pants, but that was later crushed by the fact that we couldn’t go over a certain amount of miles on our rental van, and the fact that the gig was a fundraiser and therefore a massive money losing venture. Sorry regina, we promise to be less practical about our decisions next time.
A cloud was unfortunately cast over Edmonton shortly after we played. I remembered hearing yelling and witnessing the commotion of 5 or 6 guys running towards the door of the establishment. A friend of mine told me that it was a fight, and this was quite common in Edmonton, the murder capital of Canada. Alpha Baby and Shawn allerted me lately that during the fight someone had pulled out a knife, and after chasing eachother around our parked van somebody got stabbed in the abdomen. I heard the story shortly after seeing the trail of blood that led from the front doors into the bathroom of billiard hall. As far as I know the victim survived, so not all was lost. Definitely, however, not a highlight of our trip.
Our next two days were days off, so led by shawn, our former edmontonian, we headed to West Edmonton mall for a day of leisure, and shopping(?) I cut the latter down to a minimum as I can’t really stand shopping.
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