Brussels!! We just arrived in Belgium. It’s been 2 weeks now since we’ve been in France and we haven’t had much time to rest… not even enough time to give you a news update ;) As usual we’ve had warm welcomes as much from the fans as the people at each venue… We eat and drink well… On other hand I feel obligated to share one recurrent subject on the bus: when we are far away from home sometimes we attach ourselves to strange things… I know it’s hard to have a craving for cheese whiz and Quik (one of us has a crush on powdered Quik…) when we have access to all the great food in Europe, especially when we wouldn’t eat these things at home. The heart has its reasons that cannot be reasoned… In short, if anyone knows where we can find these products please let us know! We have managed to find a poutine restaurant in Paris so far… thanks for listening and please don’t judge us too much J haha

Pascale

We’re packing, almost done and ready to fly out for France next Wednesday. That being said I don’t have that much interesting stuff to tell you this week. (Far from saying that our news is always pertinent…)

I can say that I’m very happy to let you know that we’ve been very productive during September. I can even go as far as to say that we have 10 almost complete songs and that it looks like a second album!!! Yeah!!! We can’t wait to be back on the tour bus and to be on French, Belgium and Swiss stages. Hoping to see you soon. 

June 22nd

Yesterday was Music Day. There were groups of musicians all over Paris and people everywhere that made a little more traffic in the city. We walked all day to enjoy the energy and ended up in a very popular little bar called "Les Pères Populaires". They set up a little stage in the street and the band that was supposed to play never came. To keep the thirty people there happy two employees of the bar went on stage and then they gave us the guitar... In short, Math and I took the opportunity, ended up playing for Music day, and we had a wonderful evening...

And then... June 30th...

Last week we managed to cross France in 2 days!! Everything started with a tour at Décibulles in Neuve-Église en Alsace. (after being lost 20 times and checked by policemen, we made it to the site only one hour before going on stage) to leave the next day for Tullins and the next next day to Pas-de-Calais.

The bad news is that instead of visiting the places that we were playing we reserved our time at rest stops, and instead of enjoying every outdoor site we were trying to catch up on some sleep...

The good news is that the 3 shows went really well and that we are off until our next show on July 4th in Cergy. The band is dispersed all over France to be tourists... Congratulations!!!

So see you soon!!

Pascale

We just finished our sound check for the midnight show in Mans tonight. It is 5:15PM and it just stopped raining to our delight. Since most festival shows are outside we are more and more interested by temperature!! In fact, now that the sun is back we have time to look at the racecars on the track. Here is what most of our days look like: lots of road and waiting to play an hour and a half of show. What is good about that is we get to use our imagination to kill time. Besides talking about temperature with the entire festival crew (because we’re not the only ones concerned by temperature) Philippe (not Morissette but the gentleman who drives us around France) worked on a backdrop that we’ll put on stage tonight. Right now, from near and far all jokes are about little Karl’s wiener dog (named “saucisson-sur-pattes”). Which isn’t really that funny, but we’ll have a very nice wiener dog on stage with us tonight and that makes us really happy!!

(I hope that you can follow me even if I use parentheses a lot…)

Last week I had the chance to discover 2 excellent bands on the same festivals as us. Ebony Bones and tryö (I’m a bit late I know…). We’re very lucky to share a stage with good bands. We also saw people Body surfing on ‘’smilin’’’ and a team of 5 firemen came to help me when I hit my foot running around like an idiot without looking… The French are taking really good care of us!!

So that’s it! Fingers crossed to have some courage to go in the mud tonight and we’ll keep you posted…

Pascale

… P.S: we get a lot of emails about the music for our songs… A songbook has been released in France and we are trying to make it happen in Canada… and ideally free on our website soon… In fact, we read all emails and we appreciate your comments!! Thanks for giving us news about you too J