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Moncton, NB |
Tuesday: Was the Corner Brook show. All in all a good time, got to see some old friends. All the lady who ran the venue could say was "it was so loud!" I slept at Justin's place everyone else slept in Steady Brook.
Wednesday: Woke up in Corner Brook, sat around for a while petting dogs. We then decided to go swimming. We drove up to Steady Brook and walked up a large mountain (Marble Mountain) and went cliff diving. This was my first experience cliff diving. It was incredible fun, and scary as shit. Some kid did a backflip and landed on his face he hit so hard he gave himself a nosebleed. AWESOME!
Next we drove to Stephenville for the show that night. Played a place called Clancy's Pub. Nice layout. No stage lots of floor to run around. Broadcast went on after the opening act and played a killer show. As they were tearing down we started setting up. Some dude with a really tight white t-shirt and a matching hat walked over to Nick (Broadcast's vocalist) he thought Nick was in our band I guess and drunkenly slurred "buddy I hope your band is better than that last one because they fucking sucked!" Nick told the dude that he had in fact been in said "shitty" band and white t-shirt siad "oh, well you were awful, shake my hand. No hard feelings." He then extended his arm (which was mostly bicep) and nick shook the part of his barbed wire tattoo that had fingers. I assume it was a hand anyway. White shirt was impressed by Nick's ability to take such criticism and remain calm so he said as much and then went back to his table to continue flexing and doing other really cool shit.
We plugged our shit in and played as hard as we could. the night ended with me doing the worm and there were at least a handfull of folks who had a really good time, and that's all I really care about anyway, that SOMEONE had a good time. We played mostly covers and I played very little guitar that night, just sang. It was fun all in all. Stephenville "most rock and roll town in Canada."
As we finished up some dude said he'd give us $120 to get a hotel room for the night (which he actually did! Thank you you're awesome!) we decided it would be a better move to just head straight to the ferry and sleep there. Drove through the night got to the terminal, 3 of us hid in the top bunk of the van, got on the ferry and then we slept
Thursday: We drove to Antigonish and stayed with my brother Scott for the night. My dad showed up too and we went for food. We were gonna do karaoke but the bar closed for the night 'cause a fight broke out 15 minutes before we got there. Went home. Slept.
Friday: Got up and drove to Moncton. Got in with some time to spare, found the venue and loaded out. It was an all ages show and there were a ton of kids there it was a GREAT show. Played in an old abandoned firehouse so they opened the bay doors and we played out to the street, it was fantastic. I met a kid there who was hell bent on joining the army, I tried to talk him out of it, he wasn't budging. Fuck the army for grabbing our kids. Child soldering is not an option here but throwing our kids into "cadet" programs is the next best thing. Vultures.
After the show was over we piled in the van and the door lock ceased and now our sliding door won't slide. Fuck. Hop we can fix that soon. we now have a van with 4 doors total, of which NONE work properly. The Back doors don't lock so there's a bike lock on them, the passenger side door lock has ceased, the drivers side door won't unlock from the outside and now this. Regardless, we carry on.
Today: Just waking up, Headed backwards to Halifax to take in a free concert, we have a show there tomorrow so that's pretty convenient anyway. Who is playing you ask? Metric (HA!) The Offspring (HAHA!) Dinosaur Jr. (That's actually pretty cool!)
I think I want to move to France. |
