| apparently i have this aversion towards writing mundane day-to-day entries but it seems that even after an entire month of not blogging, i fail to come up with anything substantial to write about...i do wish my blog had the eloquent musing of elusivewords, the travelog detail of christao408, the poetic quality of zenpaper, or the pretty formatting of brooklyn2028, but in short, i fail at xanga... =P
the band has just wrapped up two live shows to promote our new record that came out last month. the first was at the tipper restaurant and the second at trees organic coffeehouse. there are likely no more shows for the rest of the year - we've beaten our own record of having 10 live performances per year with a total of 12 in 2009! sales of the new cd have been extremely low (there, i got that one off my chest lol) but then again, nobody expected them to be stellar. =P that being said, i'm still very proud of "shine" and it's really our most advanced work yet, both in songwriting and technology that was used in making the record.
on the day before our performance at the tipper, we were faced with the decision of whether or not to go ahead with the show because we had just heard of an impending snow storm. the forecast was predicting 15-20 cm of snow (which is admittedly nothing compared to the kind of snow that people in calgary or buffalo get, but it is considered bad for vancouver), and kaila, kelv, and i were predicting chaos on the roads, which happens since vancouver isn't well-equipped for any kind of snowfall. in the end we decided to take our equipment to the venue early in the morning before the snow hit, and then head down to the restaurant again in the evening after work.  the trip to east vancouver from downtown is only a 30 minute journey via public transit. the snow began to come down hard as we hopped onto the bus. it felt like an adventure, and though i was a little concerned as to how we would get home after the show, i felt ready for anything with kelv and kaila at my side. but as they say, the show went on and we played our set, which included our more well-known originals and two covers (one of ella fitzgerald's "undecided" and another of jon mclaughlin's "smack into you"). we did quite well despite not having all the gear we would have wanted to have onstage, and the show allowed us to get comfortable with performing again (our last show was back in september). thankfully, the weatherman was completely wrong about the storm, which ended prematurely with rain, and our friend, an ever-gracious jeremy, drove us home in his suv.
our performance at trees went much smoother. the weather was on our side, and to our surprise, so many of our friends had arrived to see us. it was very heartwarming to see our fellow musician/photographer friends pack the house to catch our performance. the organizer loved our set so much that he immediately invited us back to play in the spring. =)
i'm not sure if i'm going to be making another entry during the holidays, but here's hoping you all have a very merry christmas!
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