Canadia Beats

I documented the fuck out of the Marystaple tour, and here is proof:

Marystaple and Canadia Brodeo 08 [flickr]

On Friday, just as I was about to watch the intro to The Littlest Hobo my laptop seized up. No worries, I figured, my trusty iBook G4 had been through a few turns before, nothing it couldn’t survive. So I put it in my bag and figured I’d deal with it when I got home.

But it turned out I was too late.

As if by heart attack, or attack by germs and other microbes, my Pants had been taken away from me. Serious hardware malfunction. No backs.

Which kind of left me in an awkward position, what with Pants being the only other member of Canadia, and us going on tour in a week and a half. He was in charge of the bulk of the music, and he was dead.

I swear to you within twelve hours everything was okay, in the form of one Ed Musik. This handsome devil just happened to be in Auckland, which is not normal. He also just happened to have an iBook G4 with him, same model as Pants. He also offered to lend it to me for the duration of the tour.

What a champion. Am I wrong?

So before anyone even knew a thing Ed Musik had saved my soy rashers. Someone buy that guy a beer, and I’ll see you on the road.

I’m finally taking this thing out of the garage and taking it for a few laps around the lagoon. Only I’m taking it much further, really. The Canadia machine has shows booked up and down the country, so let’s hope my metaphor holds up.

Damn, broke the illusion.

Head you on over to the newly created Gigs page to have a look at the shows I’ve got coming up. You’ll notice most of them are part of a Marystaple tour. That’s because those rocking Porirua dudes have asked me to come be ballast on their No Need to be Nervous album release tour, and I do love being ballast.

Want to know more? Marystaple have some tunes on their MySpace page, and the lovely team at Amplifier have posted the whole press release. Oh noes, the inner workings of the industry! I don’t know about the ‘staple stuff, but my contribution remains unchanged. They obviously recognise good work when they see it.

The one anomaly on the gigs page is a one-off show at the Kings Arms this Sunday, where I’ll test out the arrangements for this tour. File under experimentation, or maybe just preparedness. Which just seems anathema to me.

See you at the shows, hot sauce!