Juno

That blog title ought to insure some mis-directed visits to our lonely little corner of the internet. Now to get down to business…

Last night the Juno Awards were handed out in Calgary and we lost. L-O-S-T. Talk about a good way to ruin a European tour! And as anyone who knows us will tell you, we’re one competitive bunch, so we were frothing at the mouth. However, the results of today’s globeandmail.com online poll have served as salve for our wounds. Because if you can’t trust an unscientific poll on a newspaper’s website then what can you trust?

The Juno Awards weren’t all sorrow and bitter disappointment for Holy Fuck as our friends, labelmates and bandmates Wintersleep walked away with the Juno for Best New Artist! And deservedly so as their record is fantastic. However, when an eight year-old band with three records wins Best New Artist it suggests to me that the possibility of Ryan Malcolm winning Best Female Artist is not so far-fetched.

Tonight we’re in Brighton, one of my favourite stops in the UK. Unfortunately, Snooper’s Paradise, the junk shop that is the source of about half our set list, was closed and we couldn’t procure any more hit machines. Free Blood is currently playing but I’m caught in a bass trap as I write this so I’m going to move and watch them coax and cajole the crowd with their hot soul and dance concoctions.

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The Neverending Story

Oh, hi there… Sorry, I didn’t see you, I was flossing. Um, we just played Manchester and it was fantastic.

It seems that the last time we spoke we were on our way to see Aimee Mann film a live concert DVD in Los Angeles. Well, the sound was bunk (weird venue), but it was still a trip just to see her and to top if all off we got thrashed on free Grey Goose vodka. As a result Brad was pretty vocal about her lack of drummer, but I was just glad he didn’t yell “Play Magnolia!”

(P.S. If you haven’t seen the Aimee Mann Christmas Trilogy, do it now.)

Anyway, a few days after we played Los Angeles we flew to Mexico where I immediately proceeded to lose my wallet. Thankfully I found the wallet in short order, only to have my computer totally go bonkers. Which is the excuse that I’m going to use to explain the complete lack of blogging and posting of photos in the interim. Sort of a dog-ate-my-homework kind of excuse, but one becomes pretty dependent on their laptop when they don’t live at home for long periods.

However!, the computer is back up and running now (albeit not as fast as it once was) and we are back on the road after having a well-deserved week off. So, many untold stories from the last tour and upcoming adventures from this tour will soon be appearing. In the meantime, entertain yourself with this little remix we did one morning in L.A. a few weeks back (Brian’s got a great story about that coming down the pipe), seems someone went and entered it in a contest for us…

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