Davey Boy 2.0

bloody hell what a perfect night to honour our friend... -15°C  with a windchill (in which I don't believe btw) of - 25. He would make his way in this weather. He would still take the bus. He would still show up early.
quite amazing really in a lot of ways

Just grabbed a pair 4th row balcony centre.
 
So very stoked... Big bucket list for me... obviously not as big as the Talking Heads but Ill take it.
There are still lots available now through the presale.... pw is lifetime. Use the map to search for tickets.

A few dates have been released. 
Very interesting. I assume duo means no backing band?
https://livemusicblog.com/2017/12/10/bob-weir-and-phil-lesh-announce-2018-tour-as-a-duo/

...sounded during their final moments before extinction, I reckon.

Long time y'all. Espanola is my side project, it was always more country than Huron, but these days it is every bit as loud and rocking as that band was. I've been slowly working on a solo record for way too long, and rather than keep songs in the can for the eventual full length I kinda just decided to put out a few songs at a time. Here are the first two: 
https://exclaim.ca/music/article/espanola-ever_kind_and_true_everyone_you_know
Here are my dates:
Thu Nov 30 - St. Catharines - Warehouse
Fri Dec 1 - Toronto - Monarch Tavern
Sat Dec 2 - Ottawa - Dominion Tavern
Sun Dec 3 - Hamilton - This Ain’t Hollywood
I'm bringing a sweet backing band which is comprised of:
Sam Cash - guitar; Anna Ruddick - bass; Dan Edmonds - keys; Cam Giroux - drums.
Would be lovely to see some old familiar faces! Hope everybody is well. 

yeah the golden age of rock and roll is slipping away one legend at a time

*tucks in t-shirt*

Very sad to hear about BradM's passing.
As many of you, I know BradM through the music scene.  I've been fortunate to get to know tapers from all over the country, and consider myself a amateur taper, mostly recording the shows I produced for my own use.   It's a rare breed of people who dedicate themselves to this craft and I think it's such an admirable and selfless job.  The taping scene in Canada is so small and those few who do it really help preserve and document our Canadian culture - and above all so many memories.   
He mailed me copies of the shows he taped but were not authorized to be uploaded to the archive.  I remember once that he wanted to check with one of the bands he taped first before burning me a copy, in spite of the fact that I was the promoter.
Outside of his admiral dedication to taping, BradM was a sweet guy.  I spent more than a few set breaks with him outside and really enjoyed his different point of views and quirky sense of humour.  I'll always remember him enjoying a pint, standing next to his microphones at a show enjoying himself. 
Much love BradM, I hope you are out there taping the great big gig in the sky.
 
 

Aloha - Remembering Bradm
An evening to commemorate the life of our good friend Brad McFarlane featuring some of his favourite Ottawa musicians:
Burnt Reynolds
Pauly and Stuart from The Dusty Drifters
Death Cake
Super Awesome Club
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
Irene’s Pub
no cover/8pm
 

Aloha - Remembering Bradm
An evening to commemorate the life of our good friend Brad McFarlane featuring some of his favourite Ottawa musicians:
Burnt Reynolds
Paulie and Stu from The Dusty Drifters
Death Cake
Super Awesome Club
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
Irene’s Pub
no cover/8pm

This was one of my favourite shows of allllllll time!! 

Giant pandas sleeping, eating, napping, snacking

is that you and your brother?

Pull the banjolele out of your ears booche. We're going to make beautiful music together. Love this fire/ice relationship. hahaha. EDIT: I swear to god, when I first ready your post I read something completely different. Re reading your post it doesn't sound at all argumentative. You can put the banjolele back in. 
 

Really choked I couldn't get my son there. He (and I) would have loved it! But with work and Halloween it wasn't in the cards. My son did give a tip of the hat so to speak in his own way nonetheless

I went to the 1st show at MSG Sunday night, and I totally enjoyed it.
Had a lousy seat, but it was still a fun time.

i'll put up a permanent link to some pics once i sort through them, but in the meantime, here's a few.
HK skyline and light show as seen from Kowloon



An old church (St. Johns?) among the skyscrapers in HK

Hehe

Views from Victoria Peak



Skyterrace and restaurant building at the peak

HSBC building inside and out

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I was half awake when I heard Heather puttering around.  I cracked open an eye and saw she was dressed and ready to head out the door.
“Where you going?” I moaned sleepily.
“To get us coffees,” she said, like an angel.  
“Do you remember the Starbucks we saw last night near the 7-11?” I asked.  
“Yep,” she replied, and off she went.
It was 11am and I could have easily laid in bed for several more hours but I felt it prudent to get up and about and try to get in step with time on this side of the planet.  I was showered, dressed, and smiling by the time she got back with her cups of brown goodness.
We left the hotel around 12:30 and walked to the Star Ferry terminal.  For just fifty cents each we rode the ferry across the picturesque harbour, once again marvelling at the astounding array of skyscrapers on both sides of the water.
On the other side we traversed the labyrinth of raised walkways until we finally found the HSBC Building, one of the stars of last night’s light show.  When the HSBC Building was built it was the most expensive ever, construction costs for the architectural wonder soared to a billion dollars.  We went inside and rode the angled escalators up the the first level.  Underneath us was all glass, above us air.  For such an expensive project they sure sacrificed a lot of floor space to make way for their extremely open concept.  Much of the building is basically hollow.
We searched for an antique poster shop Heather had read about, discovered it had moved to online-only and decided to make for Victoria Peak, the pinnacle of the mountain that lines the west side of Hong Kong.  We rode the funicular up (the oldest funicular in Asia, it started in 1888), which was a gravity-defying G-force blast and spent the afternoon enjoying the astounding (yet unbelievably smoggy) view.  
We explored the complex up there (we had paid extra for the Sky Terrace 428, which gave us access to the open-air top floor of the angular concrete complex, the highest elevation 360 degree views of the city, which wasn’t really worth it) and after some humming and hawing decided on eating dinner at BubbaGumps, just one floor below the rooftop terrace.  It was my first time experiencing the franchise, which I’ll rate just a millistep above the Hard Rock Cafe for food, which isn’t a great compliment, but man, the view from our window seat was delicious.
We lingered over an extra beer until it got dark so we could enjoy the night view as well and then we got in the prodigious line to ride the funicular back down.  I’m sure it would have been quicker to walk down the mountain like several people do but I’m glad we didn’t - my legs and feet were already feeling the pressures of the day.
We arrived back down at the bottom just as the nightly laser/light show was going off.  It’s so not a thing that we almost didn’t notice that it was even happening, although to be fair that’s mainly because the lit-up buildings are so impressive on their own.  The lasers add but a smidgen to the already sense-exploding skyline.  
Mostly ignoring the lasers we meandered in the direction of the ferry and stopped by a wine-tasting expo on the waterfront.  Turns out there was an admission charge so we didn’t go in, which is too bad: when we got back to the room later I noticed that the flyers we had been given when we purchased our tickets for the funicular were in fact free passes to the wine fest with four free drinks included.  Oops.  Instead I merely posed with a giant great white shark statue and we moved on, boarding the ferry to take us back across the harbour.
Finally we completed the slow plod back to our hotel and gave our gams a much-needed rest.  Along the way I toyed with the idea of a foot massage/reflexology session but was too tired to even stop for one.  It’s not like I didn’t have the opportunity; there are probably more foot massage places than restaurants in our area, and there are a lot of restaurants.  Regardless, it wasn’t yet 10pm when we made it back to the room and flopped into our rock-hard beds for the night.
All in the name of beating the jet lag.

I swear we had a thread going about this when it was first announced that Rob was sick.  Yet I couldn't seem to find it.  
Anyhow some hopeful news and even a couple shows scheduled. I hope it draws in the energy he needs to continue to fuel his recovery ((())))
https://www.jambase.com/article/moe-announces-return-stage