Got back from a road trip this weekend with the band. Slept in my bed tonight after deciding to go down earlier that usual. Just woke up. I need a new strategy for sleep ( Read more... )

A comfortable groove is trying to emerge from the chaos of non-stop shows that I have been privy to over the last couple of months. On top of Morrissey, I've been able to catch Propagandhi, NoMeansNo, Electric Six, Mastodon, Kreator and Cattle Decapitation all in the last two months. It's been pretty wild but now things are calming down enough that ( Read more... )

We are playing with Propagandhi and Kursk tonight and tomorrow night at the Garrick Centre. I guess that means I'm listening to the new album non-stop today.  We are playing mostly new stuff off Sledgehammer Holocaust. We've been fumbling around with a sampler the Cory bought off Raul from Impaled. We've been tinkering with it a bit with less than ( Read more... )

One day stomping home in his big work boots, Shaun pulled over to the nearest CD store and purchased himself a copy of Neko Case’s Austin City Limits performance that had been recently released on DVD.  A couple of hours later, the rest of us showed up for our regularity scheduled band practice at their place way up on the outskirts of the city in ( Read more... )

A trip to Minneapolis has been booked for early April. Three fifths of the band will be heading down with some other Winnipeg pals to see Steven Patrick Morrissey at the State Theater in the TC's on April 6th.

Oh diary, words can barely express how my heart beats in anticipation of this performance. Do you remember conversations in 1993 with ( Read more... )

Early all ages show tonight.

Damascus
Putrescence
Withdrawal
Hoarfrost

Park Theatre, somewhere on Osborne. Six hundred block, I think.
Doors at 7:00pm, $10 to get in, yowza! I think we are schedueld
to play at 9:20.

Many years ago I saw a video of some southern Ontario and east coast US hardcore bands playing a New Years Eve show. I thought the idea was pretty neat. Since then, a few NYE's have passed and although a few have been alright, I can't think of many that were overtly spectacular. In an effort to do something a litle out of the ordinary this year, I  ( Read more... )

I am picking Impaled up from the airport tonight and finishing preparations for departing on Thursday late morning. This is the shit ( Read more... )

One of the big projects that I have been working on since May of this year has been working on getting Oakland, CA deathgrinders' Impaled up to Canada for a string of show across Canada. It was the brain-child of my Fuck the Facts brodude Topon Das and I. It's been an interesting journey and I guess I should probably make a note of the events that ( Read more... )

I just found out this morning that I'm being shipped off to Toronto for what looks to be a pretty good conference. It's the 11th World Conference of the International Institude for Restorative Practices. Not sure of the dates just yet, but it's around Oct. 21-24. So two weeks from now ( Read more... )