Oh dear.

These long drives are starting to get the better of me. While traversing the long (and sometimes back tracking) distances we did in the USA, in Europe we can normally look forward to some semblance of normality and reasonable travel times. Since you can drive for eight hours across Canada and still be in the same province, in Europe you'll ( Read more... )

I guess now that we have been back in Canada four days now, I no longer have jet lag as an excuse for dragging my ass and posting a blog. Instead, I'll use the excuse that we have been doing shows with Schomberg Fair and White Cowbell Oklahoma. You would be surprised how much that can take out of a girl trying to keep up with these guys. Our first ( Read more... )

 
And so we drove on. Winding our way down through Switzerland, past France and into Spain as the countries bled into one another. Trying in my mind to switch back and forth from German to French to Spanish finally at a loss with Portuguese of which I knew no words when we finally arrived in each burg. Thank goodness for laptops, iPods and sleep to ( Read more... )

We had been to Ulm last year, when we had toured through in June. It had been or first time there, and we had found it to be welcoming and very pretty. The Danube river cuts through it, dividing the town into the upper and lower half. It is also host to the very infamous Bread Museum, which s-Careoline visited last year during our stay. This did ( Read more... )

Because life is chock full of disappointments I feel I should skip ahead from Oct.30th to Nov.4th. I will gloss over the very inadequate Halloween (let’s just say they Europeans don’t go as crazy as we North Americans do) and a sickly 30th birthday for myself two days later complete with cake from my awesome band mates and a horrible case of ( Read more... )

 
This falls into one of those ‘this will horribly embarrass me when other people find out about it’ files. So in the interests of good storytelling, I figured that I would circumvent any problems and tell the story myself. This is pretty much up there with maggots in my closet and mistaking spoiled milk consumption for morning sickness. We need to ( Read more... )

Because we are allowed to be indulgent about ourselves in this forum (such as yours truly) I wanted to take a moment to say congrats to Big John Bates for his appearance on the Gretsch website as a long-standing sponsered artist...

Big John Bates on the Gretsch

As well as part of our Canadian tour with White Cowbell Oklahoma, Exclaim! and Gretsch are ( Read more... )

Italy - It sounds so much like an old Scooby Doo episode, but we spent a night in an old asylum cleverly disguised as a hotel in Torino. After the last Italian show, which for the record was busy and fun as hell with a good dance party at the end of the night, we were to retire to our hotel to try and get some sleep. This particular quarter was ( Read more... )

Is anyone familiar with the old Jerome K Jerome book, 'Three Men In A Boat To Say Nothing Of The Dog"? I might be taken for a bit of a classicist here, but our lives were not so far removed from this story on our travels to and from Scandinavia.Our testosterone/estrogen levels were fairly matched for that leg of the tour. We had our agent/booker ( Read more... )

Our wake of glitter, destruction and style have been steadily ploughing it's way through Europe and we are halfway through! But we felt it only fair to warn our fellow Canadians about our upcoming tour with White Cowbell Oklahoma and Strougberg Fair!

As well the new songs off of Rookie Records 7" "Bad Pussy" can be found online at our MySpace here ( Read more... )