it’s weird to write edmonton things from montreal

last things first

May 31, 2010

‘Cause sometimes it’s nice to time-travel. I’m working on tour tales, I promise.

First, VUE Weekly wrote some really lovely words about Bread Crumbs, and some more really lovely words about last Thursday’s enchanted evening. In the spirit of jumping around, I will talk more about that in a second.

Next, an oven-fresh tour tale: shortly after we rolled into Montreal on May 12, we met up with Mitch Fillion of Southern Souls, who has amassed a really awesome back-videologue of some of Canada’s most talented bands. We brainstormed potential filming spots, then footstormed St. Laurent, instruments in hand, to test our ideas. One woman thought we were in desperate need of a show, and sympathetically pointed us to a nearby bar. (Someday I’d like to plan a tour in which every show is hooked up the day of, just like this.) We eventually found a nifty alleyway (does Montreal have any other kind?) and played a spontaneous version of White Noise, permeated by a lot of just that.

Can’t seem to embed the result, but you can see it if you’d be so kind as to click here.

On a side note, Montreal (I am there now, again) has really, really good noises. Living city noises. People sing to themselves. I’ve passed by four singing people in the past day and a half.

Last last thing, for the moment: The album release show (#2) last Thursday was everything I’d hoped it would be. Eric Cheng’s baby shower was held in the stately splendour of Rutherford House on the University of Alberta campus. It was my first real night out after getting back from tour, and to have such a sparkling group of friends and loves in one gorgeous place made glowing happen in my bones. Sharing the night with Jom Comyn and Giraffedactyl was an honour. Jim and Megan are two of the most gifted and generous people around, and their music reflects their awesomeness.

Rico Moran was behind the lens that night, and did a splendid job of capturing magic moments: