Hello all - things are going Rad!!!

We started out september 10th for some thursday night rawkin at Vern's in Calgary with The Profits of Doom and Enemyus - Crowd was small but decent for a thursday and the energy was high!  Great way to kick off the tour - always a good time in Calgary.

We drove straight to Winnipeg the next day and crashed at our friend Jenny's house - great to catch up and breakfast was rad.  Then of to Kenora for our Saturday night show.

Shooter's in kenora is a big ass bar.  We were joining our friends Mojave from Vancouver for their second night there as our tours crossed paths (they were on their way home and this was show 2 for us)  At 10:30 pm it was looking like we would be playing to each other and the staff (did I mention this is a big ass bar - tends to look even bigger when its empty)  But the Gods of rawk showed mercy and at about 5 to 11 people started coming in and it never stopped - the place was packed by 11:30 and both our groups had an awesome show.  Thank you Kenora!  And thank you Mojave for the unlimited late night salt and pepper - probably the best pepper ever and served up enthusiastically by lisa Mojave at 3 am.  Breakfast consisted of 2 LARGE servings of the worlds best fries - we could not conquer them between 4 people - mmmmm french fries!!!

Then off to the marathon drive from Kenora to Sudbury - Damn you thunder bay!!!! LOL  We drove through the night and arrived in Sudbury around 11 am - hot tubbin and sleep all around.  tues/wed we did a couple nights at The Nightclub - always interesting playing a strip joint...made some great contacts and sold a wack of merch - yay our gas tank can be fed :)  We had a relaxing day off on Thursday (hot tubbin and 420 ALL DAY)

Friday we headed off to Barrie and the Foxx Lounge - this was a last minute add on show that we were able to pick up - we knew no details of the show coming in.  Probably one of the best shows we have ever had (definitly the best surprise show)  We left with 2 pages of email contacts, way less merch than we arrived with, and an awesome memory of shows and a venue we could only wish we had back at home.  We should have a few pics up soon - seriously cool venue - can't wait to return!!!

Saturday we were off to Niagara Falls for the Ontario rocks festival - alex george was awesome to allow us to play on very short notice (we lost our
Chatham show so we were offered the opportunity to play Niagara)  We got to play 2 sets throughout the day and made a pretty big impact on the locals - looking like we might be back in the next couple weeks before we head out back west (which is awesome - who wouldn't want to return to niagara???)

Sunday we head out to Windsor to play the Coach and horse - unfortunately the show appeared to have slipped through the cracks and the venue was not even going to open that night :(  Fortunately the venue is connected to 4 other venues, one of which - the FM lounge was hosting an acoutic open mic.  The most gracious host Travis - allowed us to set up all our gear and play a set.  WOW!  Totally blown away by the generosity of the people of Windsor - by the end of the night we had been paid/fed/beered - offered places to stay, given more opportunities in the next couple of days to play at a couple more venues and sold a ton of merch ( I think everyone in the room bought something) - we had earmarked the next couple of days to have off but hey- if we can find stages to play we will play them! 

Having a blast!!!  Our shows keep getting tighter (remember as of last night that was Jed's 10th performance with us)  and the band is really enjoying each others company which is pretty awesome being we have to spend almost every waking hour together.

Looking forward to the weeks and shows ahead - remember to try and tell anyone you know in the towns we are hitting up - we won't be back til the spring!!!

cheers

the HELCION's