Working for the Weekend: Part 2 Guelph

As much as i whine about my perceived failure of shows, the one thing i can never complain about are our accomodations. We've had people welcome us into our homes all across the country and we have had such a good time with all of them and thankfully saved a lot of dough that we would have been forking out on hotels. Guelph was no different.

In london i gave my buddy jerry a call to see if he could hook us up. Jerry lives in Van city, but studied in Guelph and assured me that he could hook us up. Jerry gave us directions to a place called Atmosphere in guelph where we would meet up with our first contact Mike who would give us the key code for the house that we would stay at. (Starting to sound top secret to anyone?). Well when we got there, Mike had no idea who we were, I guess we didn't have the correct response to his 'Roses are red violets are blue' riddle. All was quickly sorted out with a couple phone calls, however, and we headed apprehensively over to the house.

Upon arriving our doubts were quickly vanquished. Aaron, on of our hosts, greeted us with "Hey Painted Birds! i'm a huge fan. you guys want a beer?". Aaron and his roommate Ola assured us that they would come to the show but needed to get up early for work the next morning. Their noble ambitions were soon forgotten, as following our show at about 2:30 in the morning Aaron said screw it and ordered us and a group of people back to the house for more partying.

The show was pretty good. Leighton managed to zone out for most of my solo and only come hug me for the very ending which was again hilarious. Starting in London and continuing on in Guelph, Sarnia and Windsor, we've started to include a newer song called Seashore in our encores. It's probably one of my favourite works. There's of course an oceany seafarer feel to it which i hope will someday be belted out by a throng of people who have lost all self control and have no fear of dancing or singing in front of their friends.

Dave from Bedroom biography ensures me that we should record it in Toronto so you might hear a version of it sooner than later.

stay posted

Dom