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Edmonton’s Yardbird Suite felt like a place that already knew why you were there. Ten tickets short of a sellout. Todd and Leah ran the night with a kind of […]

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Red Deer came with velvet ropes and slot machines. They put us up in a casino hotel. It was great. The illusion that luck might be transferable. The show was […]

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Driving to Saskatoon playing different albums for each other. The Kinks. Hotel has a Yuk Yuks comedy club downstairs. Hoping someone I know is playing but turns out tonight is […]

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Clay booked the show. I knew his name from punk listings, so I expected a certain type. Ideological certainty, maybe a basement full of amplifiers. Instead, he’s a computer programmer. […]

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Who would think a Motel 6 would be cool but it was. Like the crazy prefab hotels in Germany in the 90s. Cold, but whatever. I could see two worlds. […]

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The Fairmont in WInnipeg on our day off. I was proud of the routing I booked over these 20 dates including these two day offs now. Bc finished, now Sk, […]

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Squamish felt like a night where the categories people carry around quietly give up and go home early. James has a heavy metal band, though he talks about it with […]

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Powell River arrived the way certain dreams do. Quietly, then all at once you’re inside something with its own logic. Jason promoting the show. Electrician by trade, mountain climber by […]

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The Gumboot Café in Roberts Creek feels like a place where conversations never end. Pause a few years, pick up again when someone wanders back through the door. Joe was […]

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Nanaimo arrived on a hill. Not the polite incline of Toronto sidewalks but the kind of hill that makes you feel we’re in San Francisco by mistake. Streets as if […]