The Stills Day 2, Toronto, ON
Today is some sort of awards show for XM Radio. Sounds like fun. It's always a blast to put a band in a venue that can't accommodate bands and see what happens. The Tattoo Rock Parlour wasn't so bad, turns out, but not really great either...
So, following through with my plan from last night, we got out of the hotel fast and went to Manic for coffee and Aunties and Uncles for food. Solid. Great way to start a day. We did have to go a little early though as the guys have MuchMusic stuff to do in the afternoon before the show. We went over there right after breakfast and did a soundcheck, then once it was settled, I went over to set up for the awards show.
It was a bit disorganized, but mostly painless I suppose. A lot of waiting around. Broken Social Scene was also playing, and their sound guy is an old friend, so after both of us got sick of waiting for stuff to happen, we just went to a pub across the street for a bit and waited for things to start moving. Eventually it came together, and we just kind of hung around the dressing room again til show time. They had good food for us down there, so that was a definite plus.
The show itself was a little weird. Mostly industry types that I'm pretty sure would've rather been somewhere else. It was kind of lame, but whatever. These shows happen sometimes, just gotta play through it... We got out fast after we were done and there wasn't much going on after so we just crashed.
So, following through with my plan from last night, we got out of the hotel fast and went to Manic for coffee and Aunties and Uncles for food. Solid. Great way to start a day. We did have to go a little early though as the guys have MuchMusic stuff to do in the afternoon before the show. We went over there right after breakfast and did a soundcheck, then once it was settled, I went over to set up for the awards show.
It was a bit disorganized, but mostly painless I suppose. A lot of waiting around. Broken Social Scene was also playing, and their sound guy is an old friend, so after both of us got sick of waiting for stuff to happen, we just went to a pub across the street for a bit and waited for things to start moving. Eventually it came together, and we just kind of hung around the dressing room again til show time. They had good food for us down there, so that was a definite plus.
The show itself was a little weird. Mostly industry types that I'm pretty sure would've rather been somewhere else. It was kind of lame, but whatever. These shows happen sometimes, just gotta play through it... We got out fast after we were done and there wasn't much going on after so we just crashed.
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