The Stills Day 16, Ottawa, ON

So how do you go from Glasgow to Manchester to Birmingham to London to Montreal to Ottawa in about 48hrs? With great difficulty. Woke up in Montreal today bright an early at 9am, felt like 1pm, went for breakfast with one of the guys, picked up the gear and drove in to Ottawa. Interesting bit of useless trivia: this is the first time in all my years of touring that I've actually come to my hometown as part of a tour. Quite odd considering it's the 4th largest city in Canada, not to mention the national capital, and I've gone across Canada maybe 5 or 6 times now... Anyways, like I said, useless trivia...

So we get to the Capital Music Hall, a place I used to work at and am happy to no longer do so, and we find out that the show is being broadcast live on XM radio and CBC webcast something or other. Ok, whatever, we do our thing it all works, we have a break, come back for the show which started at 12:30am (so 5:30am for us), find out the soundguys with the other bands changed all my settings (fun, really...) pull a show together and that's it, we're finally done. 14 shows in 13 days, my ears are burnt and my head is about to explode but now I can finally rest! Amazing!

After the show, we went back to the hotel the guys were staying at, had a couple drinks and said our farewells. The Stills are now off until June, when we'll be heading out across the US of A. Can't wait. Corn syrup, here we come...