Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Of Kings and Burgers


It’s been a few days since our rockin’ out of your ass return-to-Clydes show. First of all, we just want to give a shout out to all the people that showed up. You guys made it a really fun night and are awesome fans.

We’d also like to thank Static Kings for wanting to play their first show with us. We had a blast and thought that they played VERY well.

We thought that this show was the best one so far and demonstrated how we’re able to work cohesively together more and more. So much so, that we took the liberty of recording the show! Our friends, Dennis and Joe, helped with that and said that the recording was good quality. We should be listening to it real soon and getting that out to you guys ASAP. A huge thanks to them, as well.

On Saturday, we went to go see our very good friends, Line Spectra, perform at Piranha Bar. The place is pretty small, so it felt like we had the privilege of a private performance. Obviously, we danced and made asses of ourselves to the point where Vanessa started laughing while she was singing. They played a great set and are just some of the coolest girls we know.

This led to yesterday, where The Koalas and Line Spectra met for Burger Summit. Yes, that’s exactly what it sounds like. We got together with them and a few friends and made gargantuan burgers with onions, sausage, jalapenos, BBQ and hot sauce already in the meat. Then, we dressed them with sautéed peppers and onions, tomatoes, grated cheese, salsa, avocado and poutine. Needless to say, we were all fat and sexy afterwards.

Just a heads up, our next show will be in a month, April 30th at Underworld. We’ll be taking the month of April to work on some songs and deal with finals.

If you want a custom made Koalas t-shirt, then let us know with the size, shirt colour (black or white for now) and logo placement and colour and you’ll be the bell of the ball wherever you go.

Keep it real,
-Daniel

Sunday, March 13, 2011

March 12th Gig

Hey Everyone,
Patty Onions reporting on the underworld, katacombe, foufounes electriques, Playhouse Cabaret Gig, yesterday night.

First question you might ask: what the Hell happened? Here's the answer:

So on Thursday night, Kevin Fernandes (who booked us for the Café l'Inco show and yesterday night's show) was talking with the guy that books people for underworld (where we were supposed to play). The underworld guy says ''Alright, dude, i'll see you on monday'', to which Kevin responds ''AHAHA, NON! see you on Saturday!''. The guy: '' AHAHA! NON! you don't have anything on saturday. we've got a contract with some Asian people.''

Conclusion: Underworld double-booked the place. So even though our gig was the one announced on the  Underworld's website, and even though everyone at Underworld thought we were playing, we got bumped because the booking guy had a contract with the Asian people. SOOOO PANIC.

All day friday and Saturday, Kevin Fernandes tried to find another venue: He called Katacombe first. not available. Foufounes? Available, but i don't think they could find any staff for the sound so that went down the drain. Finally Playhouse Cabaret: Available AND staff available.
So the Venue was chosen at .... 3 pm on Saturday, so less then 6 hours before the show. you can imagine how everyone (Kevin, the band members, some friends that knew about the situation, etc.) were really stressed about this.

Even though the time/place change affected a good number of people, A LOT still came to assist to an amazing evening of music. For us on stage, it was awesome! the crowd at least gave the impression of having a good time, which is gratifying for us ! Crowd surf, (very) special happy birthday wishes to Steve, good music cheap-ish beer, the night was the perfect recipe for AWESOME.

Consequences:
#1 The guy from Playhouse said pretty much this : whenever you wanna book with us, the place is yours if you can bring as much people as you did tonight. pretty awesome!!
#2 Some important music person-producer-guy was there and loved us. more on this soon when we meet with him!!!

Anyways just to say that last night was awesome, again thanks to you guys who showed up! for those who didn't, no worries. We have a gig on friday the 25th of march, at Clydes in Pointe-Claire Village in the west-island (familiar place!). Also fun to know, we are going to be recording this show live, so we're gonna play ALL OUR SONGS (and we'll have more time on stage then at Café l'Inco, for exemple)!!! REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT!!! go see the event's page http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185240121498857 . We'll be playing with Static Kings: their first concert it'll be very interesting to discorver what awesomeness they have to offer!! BE THERE!!!!!

Anyways, i think that's it.

going back the study the theory of the hermeneutic circle from Gadamer. someone wants in??

-Patty Onions out-