Pony Boy
Happy Halloween, it’s day one of our European tour and we’re in Madrid. Thanks to the magic of international travel we left Toronto last evening at 5 and arrived here this morning at 9. As a result everyone is sound asleep. Except me that is, I can’t sleep because I’m too excited about the bidet in our bathroom and I’m, um, waiting for a chance to use it. Full report to follow.
My main concern for today was not that our tour manager Robbie, whom we’d never met before, would show up late or without the van, but that he wouldn’t have a proper placard to greet us. No need for concern though, he came through:
Super pro. All signs point to a great tour.
Halloween as we know it doesn’t seem to be a big deal here so we’re going to have to get all Catholic and gear up for three days of All Saints celebrations. (We’re obviously saving our other All Saints celebrations for the UK.) Pray for us…
P.S. If you’re in Canada be sure to pick up the newest copy of Exclaim! - we managed to squeeze Matt inside a TV.
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Just got back from a whirlwind weekend of crazyness, and now have a week or so to chill before we leave yet again…. this time to Europe. Just to put it all in perspective, we left Toronto last Tuesday and drove 8.5 hours to NYC for the CMJ Marathon. We played 3 shows in 2 days. Had about 10 interviews, 2 photo shoots, and 1 video interview, ate many free meals, drank many free beers, and looked very stylish in the many free clothing items we made off with! Needless to say, we were exhausted.
Our “record release party” was on Friday in Manhattan at a bar called Home Sweet Home. Holy Fuck didn’t perform, but we did DJ some tunes, and had a BLAST, for a while. At 11pm that night, we had to split back to Toronto. We drove for an hour or so (into New Jersey) and were stopped by the cops as we were pulling into the motel we decided to stay at. Turns out, the right hand turn we made from the left lane wasn’t cool, but we got off with a warning! The next morining, we got up at 7am , drove the remaining 7 hours home, and played a homecoming show at the Kool Haus.
Anyways…. that’s pretty much it for now.
I’ll leave you with some footage I shot from the Victoria BC ferry boat. After driving 3 straight days to Seattle, we took the ferry to Victoria BC to start a tour. On the way, we were greeted by two beautiful whales who decided to hang out with the boat for a minute or two.
HOLY FUCK CMJ NYC
Holy Fuck Record Release Party ! Oct 19th 8-10pm. DJ set by Brian and Graham. 131 Broome Street. Home Sweet Home.
Check tour dates for more Holy Fuck CMJ fun!
