Thursday June 4/09
Woke up in that parking lot in a haze. The Cauldron boyz and I managed to get ourselves out of the band for another round of Nasty Ronnies. When we got back to the vans most of the Toxic boys were sleeping on the ground in the crowded parking lot. We jump in the van and got all fired up and headed out.

We got to Windsor just ahead of the Toxic boyz. We hit the local Dr Disc's for some record finds. There were a few things with good prices. The boyz and I picked up some Saxon, Warlock, Lee Aaron, Black and Blue, Raven, Rigor Mortis and a nice Roadrunner - 100% pure metal sampler. Decay decided to fuck with Chambers record buying mentality by placing metal records at the front of each row of the new arrivals. So when Chambers came in the store it would like seven rows of Metal records. Chains and Decay hung around til the Toxic boys got there and Chambers totally went for it. He thought he hit paydirt with this massive metal section. "Ahh no way", he could be heard saying

By the time we got to Windsor we were all hankerin for a good old BBQ. Toxic had a BBQ in the trailer so we set up shop behind the club. It wasn't long until we were grillin corn, cranking Accept and shotgunning endless PBR's. This seemed to go on for hours and it totally did. There were skull cuts going on, backyard wrestling, Running Wild sing-alongs. It was all getting pretty insane for like five hours and then someone from the club showed up. "You guys can't drink back here", they kept saying or something. Well in Windsor they don't really get into enforcing anything so we just kept drinking and making more runs to the beer store when we were running low on those PBR's.

About eight hours of this went on until it was Cauldron's set time. Everyone was so wasted. Chambers had to set up the drum kit for Rites and the boyz stumbled on stage. The Cauldron boyz then began to play a very special rendition of their set. Obviously paying more attention to not falling off the stage, than to the actual playing of the songs, the boyz gave each gem it's own unique spin where some songs were now about making 'fat chicks skinny again' and others were 'not to be worried about'

The Toxic boys fared a little better and slaughtered the faces of the 400+ kids and crust. The merch and shots were flowing like crazy and the party that seemed to last forever continued. Decay and Rites eventually got lost in the streets of downtown Windsor and the only people they could ask for help were wiggers. But it seems everytime Decay asked a wigger at 3am where the Chubby Pickle was they just made fun of him.
-Craig "Rose" Rose

Wednesday June 3/09
Huge fucken show in Sarnia!  Got to the venue around 4 waiting to load in.  Then called the TOXIC boyz who said they were also at the venue.  We didn't see em and it made more sense to leave the Trinity Ukrainian Church parking lot and head over to the Trinity Lounge, where we were in for a real treat.  We had to wait until 6 to load in, so we sat in the van and watched what appeared to be some kind of weekly gathering of nerds.  More and more of them started showing up with stilts and bongos.  We were surprised no one fell and lost all their teeth on the pavement.  At 6 we had to back the van up to the club and slowly the congregation dispersed.  The club had some charm to it.  It felt more like we were loading into a hotel than a gig.  The owner is a huge fan of taxidermy too.  There were supposed to be 5 bands playing, but 2 of them forgot to show up.  I guess there's other cool stuff to do in Sarnia than play a show, but anyway we were on a lot earlier than intended.  We didn't see too many people coming into the place, but by the time we went on stage the place was packed with 600-700 crusts and metalheads!  We set up our gear on the floor instead of the stage cause that's how the crusts like it.  The show went over a storm and nobody died, except maybe that kid outside who got his head kicked in.  Toxic played all Poison songs and we aimed the smoke machine at Al's head.  It looked pretty cool.  We all went to the local strip bar after the show to make last call.  Jason got kicked out right away for some reason.  Afterwards we ate at Nasty Ronnie's and then kept it true and all slept in the van.
Windsor shit-show update comin' atcha live!
-Chains




Tuesday June 2/09
Just getting up from the return from Hamilton last night.  "It was a bit of a Tuesday-nighter, but still a decent gig." Still one of the better turnouts to be seen in Hamilton for a while, even when me and Jason played in THOR.  It's always a good omen when there are patch vest denim dudes outside the gig.  Unfortunately they were just in line for the Mexican restaurant next door.  Word on the street was that there was a record store worth going to called CHEAPIES.  After being heckled by wiggers on every street corner we finally made it there, to be rewarded with all the SANTERS and Emerson Lake and Palmer "Tarkus" records we could handle.  I picked up the KISS - Music From the Elder lp and Craig picked up a DIOXIN tape.  Not the greatest finds, but they were pretty cheapie.  Made it back to the gig, checked out OVERFIEND who played the other night as well, and then hit the stage.  Pretty good all around, no tripping over cables, played about 7 songs but didn't get to add another new album track due to time restrictions.  Good to see some OMEN and TANK patches in the crowd.  Well, that one guy.  Sold some records and cds which we're now running dangerously low on, so stop buying them!
SLIK TOXIK HOLOCAUST were headed for a helluvatime and slimed up all the greasy skulls up front.  We're headed for Sarnia tonite, see you in hell!
-Chains


Monday June 1/09
So we just played the first of 6 shows around southern ontario with Toxic in St. Catherines. It was a bit of a monday-nighter, but still a decent gig. Major down time before the show last night that resulted in a weekends worth of drinks before the show. A couple songs in I got my foot tangled in some PA cables and fell spinning backwards and smashed my face off the side stage wall. I'm rocken a bit of a bruise there today. This was a small stage, so next up I got my foot caught on Chris's drums and came tumbling backwards over his cymbals and toms. I for sure though the boys we're gonna think I was drunk, but I thought we played a pretty decent set considering. So we came back to TO last night to crash. I was supposed to work today before we head out to Hamilton tonite, but I didn't make it in. Off to so-called steel-town tonite, which I think is better known as shitty ol Hamilton. See you at the...

-J