Stronger in the Broken Places

Heyo!

As promised here is the acoustic version of "Stronger in the Broken Places"
Let us know what you think!

Upcoming Shows

Hey all,

We just wanted to remind everyone of some shows that are coming up. Tomorrow (or tonight, depending on when you are reading this), Thursday September 24, we are playing at Lee's Palace in Toronto. Doors are at 8:30, we go on at 10 and cover is $5. We are playing with Blacklist Manifesto, Wildlife, and Championship Heartache.

Saturday we're in London playing at the Blackshire Pub with Hotel Royal and Nathan Oulette. This show starts at 10 and it marks our first time ever at the Blackshire. Judging from last week's shenanigans, these shows should be a pretty good time.

Now, we have some time off between shows, but we're so dedicated to you guys that we aren't taking a break - Friday and Saturday we're crashing at Phil's place in London and writing new songs (plus practicing some old ones). You've already heard "Sympathy" and we're going to get "Stronger in the Broken Places" up as soon as we can, but we're hoping to add many more to those over the next couple months.

Can't wait for this weekend - hope to y'all out

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Just Like We Promised

In an earlier post we mentioned we were going to be interviewed by the Fanshawe College student newspaper, and that we would post the story as soon as we could. Well, the issue came out today, and here is the story! Thanks to Jessica Ireland, who was both professional and likeable. Here are just a couple of the things she had to say:

"Local boys Phil Laffin and Eric Walker returned to their roots – the Out Back Shack – with their bandmates, drummer Mat Pataki and guitarist Lance Schibler to deliver a high-energy rock show, coupled with fans who seemed to know every word."

"Their music, which covers everything from relationships, complete fiction and nuggets of truth expanded into stories, is exciting and makes you want to move"

Thanks again to everyone who came out and had fun with us.

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Story Time with Lance and Mat

In order to make these blogs a little more interactive, we've decided to do a series of video blogs. This is the first we've done, and is basically that same stuff as the previous blog, but with a little more Lance and Mat, and a little less reading, which makes for some good video blog. Let us know what you think!

Thank You!

So last weekend we had a run of three shows in Toronto, London, and Barrie and we just wanted to say a huge Thank You to everyone who came out. The shows were so much fun (Hooters? Yes, please!) and here is some pictographic proof.

This first set is from C'est What, in Toronto (thanks to Kerri for the photos).

Mat plays drums REALLY hard...

Phil likes to scream

Lizz has three arms! And huge tats! Lizz is hardcore

Here are some from Fanshawe College, where we played the first New Music Night of the year with Flash Lightning and Songs From a Room (thanks for the pics Lizz and the Fanshawe Student Union)

We need to thank the handsome man in the middle of this pictograph. Pat Maloney is our old friend and the promoter at Fanshawe College, and he is responsible for the debauchery seen below (not pictured: Phil covering Mat, and the green room, in mustard). Schmegins, Pat, Schmegins

Sean briefly got trapped in the car...and then wouldn't let anyone else in

Apparently what Mat was carrying was heavy, but it probably wasn't

We didn't get any pictures at Hooters (sorry...) but we were able to stop in at the studio in Toronto to get this acoustic performance of Sympathy, an unreleased track we like to play nowadays.

Thanks again everyone, and like Phil said, come check us out at Lee's Palace on the 24th, we'll promise it'll be just as good (and less mustard-y) than these past shows!

The Decade of Sleep

C'est What?! Three New Shows and our Return to Fanshawe College

It’s going to be a busy weekend for us but we are so pumped for the shows coming up. The first one is Thursday at C’est What in Toronto (http://www.cestwhat.com/) at 67 Front at Church. It’s our first time playing C’est What and we are really looking forward to it, even more so because we are playing with our London friends the Standstills. Standstills go on at 9, we’re on at 10 and cover is $6. C’est What is “Toronto’s true local flavour in craft beer and comfort food since 1988” (according to themselves) and they are a micro-brewery, so as Lance says, it’s like drinking beer right out of the cow’s udder. Or something a little more delicious, and a little less graphic.

Friday we’re in London to play the very first New Music Night at the Outback Shack at Fanshawe College – doors at 9pm. Can’t wait to get back to the Shack and this time we are playing with Flash Lightning (www.myspace.com/flashlightnin), and Windsor powerhouse Songs From a Room (http://www.myspace.com/fromtheroom). Last time we played with them ol’ Patty Muldoon (who?) smashed a beer bottle on stage, so who knows what’s going to happen this time. We’ve got some new songs and some new tricks up our sleeves (literally? Maybe…) so you really can’t miss this one. We’ll also be interviewed by the Interrobang that night, and we’ll post that interview as soon as we can.

After the Shack we are going back up north to Barrie to play the Barrie New Music Fest on Saturday. We play Stix Sports Bar at 137 Dunlop St. East at 8:30. Wristbands are $10.00 and get you into shows the whole weekend. We’re playing with The Crystal Kage and TOP JOHNNY! as part of the NMF, which runs Sep. 10 -13 and features 75 new Canadian bands.

Courtesy of Barrie Life and Times, http://www.thelifeandtimes.ca/, who featured this photo on the front page of the Arts and Entertainment section.

See you soon!

The Decade of Sleep