October 2009
3 posts
Tour Update #2
Dear lovely people of the world-wide-web, friends and strangers alike,
Steph here, direct from my laptop, rolling swiftly along the 403 highway, somewhere between Hamilton, and London, Ontario. We have just three days left in this province, (London tonight, Waterloo tomorrow, and Utopia on Sunday) and I find myself harboring mixed feelings.
I believe I have developed a serious case of...
Tour Update 2.
So here we are. Driving around, drinking ridiculous amounts of coffee, singing our souls out… sleeping a little. I tell ya, this touring thing involves A LOT of sitting. In a car, mostly. Siting and waiting. Waiting to arrive. Waiting for a gas station to save your bladder from the five cups of coffee and 2L of water you just consumed. Waiting to get to the next town/city. Waiting to...
On Tour Kick-Off, and Identity Theft
After 26 hours on a bus (about 20 of which were spent napping), I arrived in Saskatoon on Wednesday evening. Zachary Lucky (friend and fellow touring musician) picked me up at the Greyhound Station.
I coerced him into going to Amigos to watch Library Voices http://www.myspace.com/thelibraryvoices and In Flight Safety http://www.myspace.com/inflightsafety command the stage. Wicked show.
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September 2009
2 posts
Those are just lines. Are you going to stand there...
This makes no sense.
Working a full time job to support a full time ambition. It seems completely impossible most of the time. (full time?)
If it weren’t for the fact that it makes me smile, and laugh, and cry, and ache in every good and bad way at the same time, I would say I don’t know why I do it.
But I know why I do it.
Music is the only thing.
This one perfect, frivolous,...
In the beginning...
I don’t blog often.
I’m told it’s something I should do more of.
The “industry” (hate that word) today, at grassroots level, at least, is a very person-to-person experience.
You make friends… or try to.
They tell friends… hopefully. (Thus, you make more friends.)
You try to keep in contact and update everyone as to your every move.
I guess...