Shoot Me , NOW

So yesterdayI got a lovely message praising our new record a part of it was a congratulation for how we made our cover of another band's song "our own".
Except it's not a cover . We have not recorded a cover to this date. If we did we would not change the title of the song and we WOULD credit the band.
I'm baffled.
UGHHHHJHHHHHHHHHHJ.


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Speaking of covers , my on-and-off Black Flag cover band , The Sandwiches, played a few shows the other week. One of them being an after party for the
Mudhoney show across the street. As soon as I stepped of the stage , Mark Arm asked me if we could do it again.

As fun as it is to make fools out of ourselves playing all of "Damaged" , I think The Sandwiches , or at least this version of them are laid to rest for good.




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In totally ancient news (aka I suck) we did the record launches aka 2 last ever shows with Andre and they were happy sad. As I've mentioned on this blog more than once , playing local shows always gives me crazy amounts of stress because I'm simply too aware of who's there , who's not and all the promotion details . Also as we generally bring outta town bands to join in the fun , I worry about them having a good time , being satisfied with the show AND getting a good impression of Montreal.
This time was no different. Yannick and I were up printing till 5 am the night before and the day of , I couldn't nap cause it seemed everyone I know was calling. Dancing around the kitchen and listening to The Intelligence while drinking homemade kombucha and taking every vitamin known to man only goes so far to replace lost hours of sleep.
So tired and wonky I got to the venue and as usual started panicking. Panopticon Eyelids were great , Indian Jewlery were great and we played to a very rowdy crowd (maybe 2 rowdy with one dude BLOWING in my face--wtf? multiple times , Tobias lifting me over his head and Eben grabbing my face and pulling it.) . In the rowdiness I realized that outta the 250 people there , I only knew about 20 and a wave of calm washed over me. In the 5 and a half years since our first sow at the defunct Pasalymany's , our local crowd has turned from mostly being people we know to being , what? Fans? Kids? I have no idea who these people are but I love that they move and I love that I no longer feel nervous.

Walking around outside with my friend Lisa after the set was kinda weird cause kids were all"oh is that the singer ?" , It seems strange to be anything other than just Chloe , especially on home turf.

The Toronto show was more "fun" and yet yet more drama at the same time. Since we hadn't been there in a year (!!!!!!!) pretty much ALLLLLL the Toronto crews came out (yes even TEAM BURNOUT) so just catching up with everyone all night was LOVELY! The poster art on the walls only made the night better as did the mock duck from Buddah's.
Mclean's new band thrashed jeans brought the flipper meets meets throbbing gristle jams (although I could only hear one of the guitars, not to guitarists 15 watt amps are for the bedroom , not the stage. ) and I really really impressed with Romo Roto

I had a few talks with a few intense fans (thanks Toronto , we love you tooooo) including Tavis who flew in From Winnipeg (your dedication is awesome and it reminds me of myself when i was your age) and one girl who started crying on meeting me. Awkward yet AWESOME. THIS is the reason to be in a band. If only a fraction of these people end up pursuing art or music making , it'll have been worthwhile.

Of course ,being an AIDS Wolf show there needed to be a bummer and our bummer starts and ends with a violent sack of hippy shit.First he climbed on stage ,stomping on a buncha gear , THEN he threw a bottle at Andre , hitting him in the face THEN he was onstage again , punching Myles in the back.I was in the crowd and had no idea anything was amiss until my bandmates walked off the stage 2 songs before the end of our planned set.

Afterwards we saw some REAL violence on the street while loading our van .


Some photos Pierre took






More.
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Ends and starts , our first show with KZZZ is tomorrow night in Quebec City

Jeudi le 2 Octobre
L'Agitée
251, rue Dorchester:
Quebec, QC

Festival Antenne-A


LA soirée si vous aimez les sensations fortes et les performances qui résonnent pour les semaines à venir.
22h - 8$

An Albatross
An Albatross est un orgasme sonique, une bourrasque mécanique, saccadés des signatures des temps éclipsées par des pseudo-mélodies d'orgue Farfisa. Vous connaissez un groupe qui fait quatre prestations en une journée, qui offre un spectacle qui fait l'équilibre entre une attaque explosive de disco, une cérémonie Appalaches manipulateur-de-serpent et James Brown? An Albatross de Philadelphie est reconnu pour sa performance légendaire et sa musique est incontestablement parfaite pour la génération d'aujourd'hui : courte, complexe et remplis d'éclats viscéraux. An Albatross souligne la sortie The Family Album en tournant au travers l’Amérique et en nous rendant une première visite à Québec. Visite qu’il ne faut pas manquer!
An Albatross

Aids Wolf
AIDS Wolf est un groupe de noise rock canadien originaire de Montréal. Ils ont débuté chez Pasalymany tapes mais sont actuellement signés chez Skin Graft Records et Lovepump United. Citant Captain Beefheart, ils comparent leur son à quelque chose comme "une pieuvre mangeant de la bouillie dans un sac de polyéthylène" (a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag).
AIDS Wolf

Billets en feu chez Platine le disquaire et à L'Agitée.

AIDS Wolf , aids wolf, AIDS WOLF , AIDSWOLF
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Here are some olddddd and short videos of us in Orlando!

bangin' the withdrawl....

You know, i've always said that weekenders are the worst. It's just a tease of touring , all the prep but as soon as you start feeling like you're in the swing of things -BAM! it's time to go home and nurse what my friend Craig refers too as post-partum depression. But with weekenders it's mixed with blue balls cause you just KNOW that if you had play another 2-3 shows you would really gave it.
Right?
So yeah , we played twice on the weekend and it , as usual wasn't enough. I got home Sunday wanting to play more and feeling jealous of every band that is on tour or getting ready to tour.

Knowing that WE aren't doing a full tour 'til October bums me out , even when I know we have plenty of work to do in the jamspace as we plan to record an album while on tour and still gotta work on the new line-up.

Both shows were fun but our sets were plagued by technical troubles.

In Ottawa , the PA had a meltdown and we put my vocals through a guitar head that was no match for the men's racket. Then in Toronto Andre's amp was wonky (right ater being serviced!) and then Myles' setup got really quiet. And according to Mclean , only the vocals were going through the pa and the drums were barely audible. Enought to make anyone feel paranoid right? It's like the spirits had other plans...

At least no brains were smashed. Some kid , most likely outta his mind on some illicit substance , took a nasty stage dive that no one caught. He landed flat on his face and started climbing on stage to dive AGAIN. He had been yelling for us to play "we multiply " and then when we did he started LOSING HIS SHIT. The bouncer ended up throwing him out , worried the guy would end up in an ambulance. It was pretty intense and awkward. I had no idea if we should stop playing or what. Anyway if you know him , tell him he's awesome and i'm sad he got thrown out and hope he's not hurt too bad.
It was probably for the best though.A brokenface is a bigger bummer than getting kicked out of a show.

Oh yeah , also tell him not to worry we'll never move to California.

So many of our fans seem to be weird , messed up misfits. It suits me fine cause those are the people i relate to the best. The only people who like our band who aren't messed up are other musicians. On reflecting on this Yannick and I both realized that to the bands we like , we are the weird fucked up fans.


The best part of both nights was watching Smoke Judo (check these guys out! they recal a more minimal, early royal trux- really fucking quality) and Fucked Up play head-bangin' sets and chilling with palz.
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Here's a pic i found of us in Zagbreb , probably one of my prefered shows of our last tour. I have no idea what's going on with my face and even less idea what people are saying in this review. Probably that we suck.



Bummer-core for life!

xo,
c.deluxxx