Winnipeg

Hello all!

I am writing this from Sault Sainte Marie currently, after surviving tornado warnings, dime-sized mosquitoes, and eviction notices…

Our show in Winnipeg at the Pyramid was packed! We played that night with Winnipeg’s Boats who played a great set and also Winnipeg’s Cheering for the Bad Guy. The show went real well all and all and we were very happy to start off this tour with a good show like that. We debuted a new cover at this show as well

The next morning, the shagbots met our head of state. She waved right at us. We are basically royal now biotches. That was top-ten coolest things ever! and it happened just by chance… After that, we headed East which marked the farthest we have ever traveled East as a band! We entered Ontario and our first Ontario stop was Kenora, home of Mike Richards. We then were forced to enter the mouth of a storm that threatened to slow our eastward progress to a crawl..We survived it bravely and marched on towards the great lakes!

We stopped in Thunder Bay for the night and explored some local…culture. We headed to a local club/bar/watering hole called Scuttlebutt’s. It was interesting to say the least..We returned home to speak at a normal level, move around our hotel room, brush our teeth and other wild and crazy rock-star activities. Naturally, this caused us to be served with an eviction warning and were spared of a night in the truck by a generous security guard.

We headed to the lakehead where we currently sit. Tomorrow we head to Port Perry!

Watch the video of the Winnipeg Adventure here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drD4L5dzej8

First Days..

Well, the moments right before we embarked on this great Central Canadian tour were…tense…to say the least. The bots survived a near catastrophe when our transportation  fell through at the last moment. Through an act of unbelievable charity on behalf of Devins family, we are riding in Jay-Z’s truck all throughout this tour. In summary, we are lucky sacks of shat.  

We started off eastwards for our show on friday in Winnipeg. Despite attempts to pack lightly, we ended up basically filling our trailer.. you can take a look at what our packing looks like here. We headed to Swift Current for our first stop for the night. Stopping to view the beautiful Medicine hat teepee and playing the first edition of  We arrived at around 2:30 AM to Swift Current to the friendly confines of our hotel which could have doubled for the Bates Motel at one time. We headed just around the corner to our hotel room. Sadly, no one informed us that this particular part of Swift Current was the insect capital of the universe. A hefty spider greeted our arrival in the corner of our hotel room, a hotel room that could be opened with a healthy push rather than a key.

This lead to an assault on the mosquitoe population of epic proportion. 

Today we visited an old friend. We made our second trip to Elkhorn Manitoba. It is our favorite town ever. Despite 31 degree heat and the stares of the locals, we staged a very successful soccer game by the coop gas station next to the war monument across the street from the legion and the post office…you know the spot..

We arrived in Brandon Manitoba, home of the Wheat Kings. The temperature of Brandon tonight felt like Hawaii and we met the nicest waitress ever at the Canad Inns bar who made a lasting impression on us.. Brandon is awesome and we even saw a few fireworks from the bed of the truck…

Tomorrow we hit the Peg for the Kustom Kulture show.. should be awesome!

-bots

Almost Here…

Right now we are practicing our tails off, getting our lights in order, getting culinary reccomendations, and counting down the sleeps. Wednesday night we pack our shat and head to Central Canada. This promises to be a lot of fun and we hope to meet a lot of new people and see some old friends along the way. We will try to keep this blog updated as diligently as humanly possible.

Our first stop is Kustom Kulture’s 15th anniversary party in Winnipeg, MB on July 2nd at the Pyramid. This show looks like its going to be fun as we are playing with Boats from Winnipeg.

next post will be from the road!

-bots