The Stills Day 4, Hamilton, ON

What's funny about Hamilton is that people actually live there. And we have 2 shows there this fall. Wild!

We got up in London, went searching for food and failed miserably. After checking out a couple places, we ended up an "American Food" restaurant, where all the customers were overweight and red-faced. This was promising... Took about 5 bites of my chicken wrap and was done with it. We walked around a bit more, found a better place and got a couple things to go and ate in the van on the way to Hammertown.

It was a university show tonight which means 2 things: 1) everything is harder than it has to be, and 2) argh.

So it was hard to find parking first of all, then hard to load in. Then the house tech tried to tell Dave how to set up his guitar amp (didn't go over well), tried to tell me how to set up the stage (went over worse) and then told me he'd hang out with the monitor guy to make sure he knew what he was doing. Incredible. I told the band guys to leave for a couple hours while I did everything myself, and then once I was able to check the PA, found out it was half blown and not working before it was even powered up, which didn't help matters as the room is one of the worst sounding places I've ever worked in. Killer. At least there was an espresso stand down the hall...

So I trudged through the best day ever, made things happen, dreams came true and just like that, the show was over. We packed up fast because there's a show in Montreal tomorrow and we have to start driving tonight. Off to Belleville we go...