October 7th - London - London Music Club

I came back to London once again, after getting a phone call from the London Music Club, asking if I'd like to open for another show. I said sure, and found out that it would be for Said The Whale. I was stoked, and even shaved off my 'moustache' that I had kinda/sorta/notreally been growing for 2 weeks. More like 2 weaks.

The show that night was awesome, as it was my first time hearing STW since having known about them for a few years. The room was pretty full, and everyone was really into it, even for my set!

That night, back at Reggie's, I did some laundry, including a little cleaning rag for my guitar. But when I opened it up, I realized that something had been growing in it as there was some sort of larva in it. That's disgusting for 2 reasons: a) it's a larva. b) all I clean with that rag is my guitar, which is covered in my sweat, so technically, my sweat breeds larva? Gross.

October 3rd - London - Black Shire Pub

After Guelph I drove back to London, crashing at Reggie's again.

Shannon and I went out to Spaghetti Eddie's, whose portions were monstruous, and even my big appetite couldn't finish the last meatball.

That night I was playing at the Blackshire Pub, with Modernboys Moderngirls, a band I'd heard a lot of buzz about, as well as Jane Carmichael (who had a full backing band).

I went up first (as usual, I am the 'solo act'), and had quite possibly the largest crowd there. Even old friends from Dryden came out to see it!

Here is a review given by Drew Whitson of the UWO Gazette

*photo by Drew Nelson

Jane Carmichael went up next, playing some awesome radio friendly pop-rock with a guitar player that had the best guitar tone I've heard on the entire tour.

Next was Modernboys Modernboys, who delivered a really groovy dance-rock set. Unfortunately, the evening ended on a sour note when tensions flared between MBMG and the JC crew over borrowing a floor tom. It was especially awkward for me as I tried to be friends with both camps.