A Written Tour Blog
So the DGB is on the road again. The van is starting to feel more like home than our house. Last year I spent 10 weeks on the road, and this year we have already done 8. Last year I kept up written tour blogs over the course of the tours. This year I have been doing twitter updates (http://www.twitter.com/theDGB) and video blogs (http://www.youtube.com/theDGBtube), and haven’t bothered keeping up a written journal. Those two formats will remain my most used methods, however I am taking the opportunity of sitting in the back of the van on the way to Kingston as a chance to tell a few stories from this tour so far.
We kicked off this falls tour with farewell shows in our home markets. We started with a weekend in Peterborough and Oshawa. The Peterborough show got all screwed up. All the other bands on the bill canceled last minute, it was the first week of school, and we had more competition this night then could even seem possible in such a small city. It looked like it was going to be an awful way to kick off a tour, but as it turned out we had a handful of really good friends show up, and we had a pretty good party.
Then it was off to Oshawa. We knew this show was going to be good because we were playing with some of our favorite bands from the city. Sierra Padre opened the night with there slow and groovy but still marvelously entertaining set. Micronite Filters were up next, and they were debuting their new music video. The audio wouldn’t work right, so they ended up playing over it, and managed to do it in PERFECT time with the video. Considering the mess of spilled beer and broken glass, our set went pretty good too.
After a final few days at home, we kicked off the road trip portion of our tour in Sudbury the following Friday. Considering all the confusion in the line-up we had a pretty sweet show at the Townehouse. We played with some awesome bands, and ended up running into some friends. Afterwards we ended up at a party on the other side of town, and despite our early departure time the following day, we stayed up drinking till 5am. We were given an apartment under the bar to stay in, which was really cool, and I’m pretty sure at one point or another every Canadian band has stayed there. We were checking the place out and managed to set the alarm off twice very, very early in the morning. Felt real dumb the second time, but we were quite drunk, and that defense is good for 9/10 situations.
I just remembered why I started doing video blogs instead of written – because it takes a long time to write all this shit out! Follow the video blogs @ http://www.youtube.com/theDGBtube
-Daniel Greer, September 27/2010
