Lesley and I had 2 days off (what a way to start a tour) since we last touched base.  Poor Lesley's been suffering from a cold.  I’ve spent those days up to my eyes in meetings.  And when I wasn’t in meetings, I was collecting parking tickets.  Blonde hair doesn’t seem to get me out of those. This was the groovy ride I was given to accomplish my tasks.  It’s what would happen if a smart car and a mini cooper had baby. The last few dates have been quite uneventful as far as touring goes, and especially for a Blondes tour.  I...

It felt a little Cannonball Run to tell you the truth. Betti Forde and I got on a plane in Toronto, bound for Vancouver, Jubilee, Kenzie Clarke and Mama Miche (Bitchin') caught a flight from Calgary, and B.Traits was already in Van City having flown home a day early after the Banff show. We all met up at 9:30AM, a little groggy, a little banged up, but happy to see each other and get the last leg underway.

VANCOUVER

After switching up the lineup and bringing Bitchin’ into the game, the ladies touched down in Winterpeg on Thursday afternoon in rapid succession. Mama Miche and Jubilee from Calgary, Kenzie Clarke from Victoria, and Roxy Cottontail fresh off of a rest in Toronto. We must not have read the fine print on the itinerary, because apparently battling the lady at the Hertz counter with the T-Rex arms was first on the list of to-do’s. Once we had sorted out a snazzy red Mazda 6 (with enough trunk room for the luggage of 4 women…you do the math)...

It's that time of year again. When I pack up a bunch of the grimiest girls on and off the decks into a car and we traverse the Great Canadian North. The tour diary has become just a legendary as the parties of the years, so i hope I don't disappoint you with this one. First thing's first, we are NOT cut out for car rentals. For some reason this tour does not come equipped with licenses that go with credit cards. Those two things do not mix in the same wallet, so our friend Kitty offered to drive. She can't...

Lioness recently embarked on a 3 day jaunt through the States and let us get a peak of their life on the road.

LIONESS take on America - DAY 1

When you travel to Finland, the last thing you need is “The Hip Guide to Helsinki.” What you do need are friends – girls in the know. I just jumped ship from Toronto to Finland to kick off the ArtStars* Odyssey, a world tour to uncover the 7 Unsolved Mysteries of the Art World for my web show. And what mysteries there are – from basement galleries to underground comic scenes – Helsinki is the next Brooklyn and we were there to cover it all. Should you ever find yourself in the land of the midnight sun (no jokes: it’s sun, all summer),...

Pink Mafia asked us to write a tour blog, and we said yes but really it’s a little illusory – the tour was only three shows, and one of them was in Toronto which is where we live. But! It was still a crazy couple of days and as intense as touring gets for us.  Maybe even a little more, because we knew that we were coming home pretty soon.  In any case, here’s how it’s gone down for the first couple of days. Paul and I just got back from touring Europe on Sunday and after having a couple days...

Well, our three week tour with Young Rival is over and we're back home in Toronto, where there was a pretty out of control homecoming party for us - torched cop cars, smashed windows, even the President was here! Thanks Toronto! But for now let's flash back to our show in Cleveland, where we blew the power. Yep. Little old us. In fact, we blew it during our gentlest, least-rockingest song ever, Little Garcon. One second we were playing, the next, the PA was gone. We kinda looked at each other like "wtf guys," but luckily, the fine people of Cleveland… … were kind...

I'm going to start this off with a bit of a tale - because it turns out I didn't really know what we were in for when I sent my first blog entry from Calgary - things took a turn for the douchey. Not the Calgary show itself. No no no. That show was a lot of fun (including the dance party after). There was a small incident however; one we've never encountered before, because our fans are usually (a.k.a. always) not the type to give us the finger, because hey, if you're a fan of something, you generally don't show...

Hello internet users and people who print out the internet to read it on regular paper (do you exist?). My name is Mitch and I play bass for a band called Born Ruffians, and we are currently on a North American tour in support of our new album, Say It. There are seven fellers in our van because we're travelling and playing with Young Rival, a rock and roll band from the rock and roll town of Hamilton (of the rock and roll province of Ontario). So now is the time that you hum the Perfect Strangers theme song  in...

You Say Party! We Say Die! have been catching up with us as they traverse from East to West this great Canadian north in what is only loosely referred to as "springtime" which is a relative term for Canadians.

End of the night at Amigo's, Saskatoon. Great show, great food, great place.

We hit a brutal blizzard driving out of Saskatchewan towards Edmonton, wind gusts were up around 100km/h and there were a lot of highway closures all over the province. What is usually a five hour drive ended up taking about nine...

Vancouver’s You Say Party! We Say Die! Are touring across the Great White North as I type this. They’ve been gracious enough to do a Tour Diary for us as they traverse their home country after a month in the USA! USA! USA!. As a side note, they take really nice photos and are making us envious of the ever illusive cross-Canada road trip that all Canadians grow up lusting after. We played an all-ages Easter Monday matinee show in Sault Ste. Marie. It was not the busiest show in the world, despite the nice weather. An abandoned gas station somewhere along...