from the On3Radio Festival in Munich, Germany last week

WATCH us play "Domino" live at the festival
http://www.on3-radio.de/#/_videos/606/spiral-beach-domino-live-at-on3-festival-2009

WATCH us play "7 Girls" live in the studio
http://www.on3-radio.de/#/_videos/622/spiral-beach-7-girls-live-at-on3-radio

WATCH us play "Raising The Snake" live in the studio
http://www.on3-radio.de/#/_videos/621/spiral-beach-raising-a-snake-live-at-on3-radio

WATCH us play "Vagueries" live in the studio
http://www.on3-radio.de/#/_videos/620/spiral-beach-vagueries-live-at-on3-radio

LISTEN to us play "Orange" live on On3Radio
http://www.on3-radio.de/#/_music/894/spiral-beach-orange-live-at-on3-radio

WATCH an interview with a german TV host
http://www.on3-radio.de/#/_videos/586/interview-spiral-beach-super-mario-auf-dem-mars

more live videos from the main festival set coming soon!

-Daniel

Ok... this definitely deserves a full blog entry, one of the best and most well-put together events we've ever been a part of...

On3Radio is legendary in germany, best known for helping bring punk rock and krautrock to the masses 30-some years ago... now they have an annual indoor festival AKA the best party ever!!

we got to Munich a day early and spent the afternoon doing radio and TV performances and interviews (online soon!), then played a show at the Feierwerk club downtown with our Toronto friends Dance Yourself To Death and My Little Pony from Olso. Packed show, amazing crowd, love both of these bands and partied till 5:30am!

the actual festival had sold out in 5 days, even though none of the bands had been in Munich before... playing for a crowd of over 500 people who are guaranteed NOT to have heard your music could go either way, but despite some tech problems they wouldn't let us leave without an encore! plus we sold out of our CD's after the show - not bad for our first time in germany...

we also watched Ebony Bones put on one of the best live shows I have ever seen... as well as Pete Doherty playing the worst set in the history of music (plus he tried to steal Airick's hat!! asshole.)

now, I must pause and mention the food... fast food is pretty much the only option on tour (and that's totally ok, we aren't picky when it comes to eats)... but this festival had just about every kind of meat, cheese, fruit, dips, bread, pudding, yoghurt, pasta, rice, soup and chocolate EVERYTHING, and tried to pass it off like it was no big deal. Ha.

afterwards there was a mega- afterparty at the hotel(!) with our new friends My Little Pony, Chris Garneau's band and Royal Bangs from Tennessee (who were also incredible by the way), blasting some weird future-motown shit and dancing till about 6am when the cops finally came... even the hotel owners came down to party!!!

video and audio from the festival coming soon! here's some photos to get by till then.

-Daniel

Here are our final live dates for 2009! We're extremely happy to have some of our favourite bands with us on these shows - hope to see you there!

December 14 - Toronto, ON / MTV Live / 888 Yonge St / FREE / all ages

December 17 - Peterborough, ON / The Red Dog / 189 Hunter St W / 19+ with La Casa Muerte

December 18 - Kingston, ON / The Mansion / 506 Princess St / 19+ with Donlands & Mortimer and Pelt

December 19 - Toronto, ON / The Garrison / 1197 Dundas St W / 19+ with Boys Who Say No, Romo Roto and Heartbeat Hotel

the facebook event for the Toronto show is HERE

also we have more exciting news... just before we left for europe we shot a video for "May Go Round", keep your eyes peeled!

-Daniel

NEW TWITTER ACCOUNT - follow @snakes_ladders

Hello all, we are extremely excited today to announce our First European Tour!!!

November 12 - Dundalk, IE / The Spirit Store / George's Quay / with FRED

November 13 - Mullingar, IE / The Stables / 11 Domonick St / with FRED

November 14 - Dublin, IE / The Academy / 57 Middle St / with FRED

November 19 - Limerick, IE / Dolan's Warehouse / 3-4 Dock Road / with FRED

November 20 - Galway, IE / The Roisin Dubh / Domonick St / with FRED

November 21 - Tralee, IE / Horans / with FRED

November 24 - London, UK / The Queen Of Hoxton / 1 Curtain Rd / with Hey Rosetta + guests

November 28 - Munich, DE / On3Radio Festival (http://www.on3-radio.de)

FRED is an infamous Irish group whose latest album was released earlier this year on Sparks Music, and we're very happy to be supporting them for their homecoming tour, as well as playing our own dates in the UK and Germany - wish us luck!

Daniel

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to see us on our cross-canada tour - we've got some videos up from the Toronto shows at Sonic Boom and Lee's Palace last weekend, check em out!

The Sonic Boom video (of "Raising The Snake") was featured on the front page of NOWtoronto.com, watch it there: http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/story.cfm?content=171820

or directly on Vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/7151863

The Lee's Palace vid (of "Scour & Devour") is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfk8y4TqQ2A

if you've got photos or video of us from the last month of touring, feel free to post them up!

Daniel

we've got a bunch of new shows to announce for this month:

October 22 - New York City, NY / Arlene's Grocery / 8pm / 95 Stanton St / $10 (free with CMJ badge)

October 23 - Brooklyn, NY / Bushwick Music Studios / 11pm / 55 Waterbury St (unofficial CMJ party)

October 25 - Montreal, QC / Il Motore / 179 Jean Talon West / $10 / with Green Go

October 28 - Sarnia, ON / Adam's Apple / 148 Front St North / with Green Go

October 29 - Windsor, ON / The Blind Dog / 671 Ouellete Avenue / $8 / with Green Go

October 30 - Guelph, ON / The Albion Hotel / 49 Norfolk St / $8 / with Green Go

and we've got some BIG tour news coming up next week, so stay tuned...

for those of you in Toronto and Ottawa, we'll see you all this weekend!

Daniel