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Rescheduled Tour Dates

April 30, 2008

We are pleased to confirm the following rescheduled dates that were postponed due to weather conditions last weekend.

May 08 - Thunder Bay, ON - C2
May 20 - Sault Ste. Marie, ON - Canadian Nightclub

Tickets from the cancelled shows will be honored.

 

Thunder Bay & Sault Ste. Marie Shows Postponed!

April 26, 2008

The shows scheduled for tonight, Saturday April 26 in Thunder Bay, ON and tomorrow April 27 in Sault Ste. Marie, ON have both been POSTPONED due to extreme weather outside of Winnipeg, MB. Our tour bus was stopped by the RCMP who had closed the highway. All tickets will be honoured at a later date.

 

Canadian Tour Video

April 24, 2008

Hey all, this is a short montage documenting a few of the shows so far, it's set to the tune of Burning Wheels. It was filmed by Kevin Davidson who has been with us since the start of the Canadian tour. It's pretty fun to watch so kudos to Kevin.

Enjoy folks!!

Colin

 

We Love It!

April 21, 2008

Vancouver...we love it!!! Whistler....we love it!!! Kelowna...we love it!!! Edmonton...we love it!!! we love it!!! we love it!!! We've had a seriously great start to the tour out here on the West Coast.

The Commodore was a hoot despite the jet lag and it being the first show of the tour. Whistler and Kelowna where a lot of fun and I think Edmonton was the best show so far.

Thanks so much to everyone who came out and and supported us. The enthusiasm levels of the audiences have given us more energy than ten red bulls, so thank you for that. I hope you're liking the new material and the light show, it's been a blast so far, I'm looking forward to Calgary tonight!!!

Talk to you soon
Colin

 

Canadian Tour Starts Today ..."Alright, let's get started"

April 14, 2008

So we finished up our tour with Ace in New York City and we were stoked for it was the best response we've had from a New York crowd yet!! After the show some dude from the Kiss Army approached me to talk about our set; He said "You guys are a really great band but you should keep your politics to yourself, we don't appreciate you Canadians having opinions on our gun control laws. My sister's in the third row and she wants to kick your ass!!" and I was like "You're sister wants to kick my ass? Why don't you want to kick my ass?" So I was thinking his sister must have been a body builder or something. Luckily I didn't hear from the disgruntled fan or his potentially dangerous sister for the rest of the night...I was very glad about that, I don't know how I would deal with his sister trying to kick my ass. All in all the Frehley tour was a great experience, his band and crew where more than accommodating and most of his crowds seemed to really like us...so...cool.

Shortly after the gig we hopped on our bus to make our escape from New York and head for Toronto in order to catch a plane to Cuba. Unfortunately, like last year, it wasn't going to be that easy. We hit a couple of crater sized potholes heading under the Lincoln Tunnel and something in the bus engine blew up. So it was all about another last minute contingency plan. Once again we where stuck in New York with a trip to Cuba around the corner and we weren't sure how we where going to make it. Our road manager Tod leaped into action and managed to find us some early flights out of LaGuardia airport. The funny thing about this was that the bus had broken down ten minutes from an airport only it was Newark. So we jumped in cabs and sped off towards the airport that was about forty five minutes away. We got there fifteen minutes past the required one hour check in time and the agent wouldn't let us on the flight. After a colorful exchange between the agent and John Angus we resolved to fly stand by on later flights. We've got bad luck when it comes to getting out of New York and traveling to Cuba. We eventually got to Cuba late the next night and had a great week with some awesome friends and fans from across Canada.

Which brings me up to today. We start our Canadian tour today out in Vancouver. We're all really looking forward to it, between our new keyboard player and our new light show it should be one hell of a time. So we're looking forward to seeing some crazy canuck fans over the next few weeks. I hope we can keep our karma good and avoid any more unnecessary mishaps, but if they are to occur you'll be the first to know...Take care

Colin

 

# 1 Video On MuchMusic

April 3, 2008

Got to say it's pretty cool hitting number one the MuchMusic Countdown, thanks to everyone who called in to request the video. Who would of thought a bunch of scruffy dudes from the East Coast would beat out Britney... I'm sure it's the least of her worries right now.

We try not to get too caught up in the charts, cause more often than not it's a let down... but fuck it in the words of that singer from Almost Famous "I am going to enjoy this".

We played a show in Williamsville, NY last night and the crowd was off the hook, thanks so much to all who graced us with their presence. Nothing beats the feeling of a crowd singing along to every word of 'Ishmael and Maggie'.

On one more note our new single "Paranoid Freak" just shipped to radio this week so it would be super cool if you called in a requested it at your local station. Anyway I have to run, until next time, keep being your wonderful selves.

Colin

 

Access Magazine Contest

March 28, 2008

Access Magazine has just launched a national contest in conjunction with Mazda and Motorola offering a lucky fan a chance to win a Motorola prize pack, take a test drive with us (well, maybe not all of us) in a new Mazda and shoot your own video of the day's events!

Click Here to view the contest page.