Brrrr!!

So after a dull day off in Des Moines and a show in the Val Air Ballroom, it was off to Minneapolis then onwards to Denver, which is where the fun really began. The day off was spent driving mostly, its about 15 hours from St Paul to Colorado, but we did have time to go for dinner at the Buckhorn Exchange, which is a wild game resturaunt. We had a reglular smorgasboard of food from Elk, Ostrich, Yak and Buffalo to the starter which was Nachos with Rattlesnake Cheese dip. Not exactly vegetarian friendly if you know what i mean.

Next day it was off to Red Rocks Amphitheatre, one of the most amazing looking natural venues in the world.

Its a tough place to work though as its 6500 feet above sea level

I think you'll agree though thats its a pretty spectacular looking venue.

So after the sun went down, it became a night of horrors. 2 songs into the show, We realised something was up and after the 3rd song, Brandon left the stage to see the doctor and after some time passed we were forced to cancel the show. i hate to inform that he wasnt suffering from a hangover, he wasnt losing losing his voice due to an orgy of coke and heroin. Im afraid to report he had a bout of Bronchitis. Anyway, we will be back at Red Rocks on September 4th to make up the full show.
So next day it was off to LA for our performance at KROQs Weenie Roast festival. Check out this picture from just after take off in Denver.
Unfortunately Brandons voice didnt recover in time so we had another day sat in the hotel.
So i decided to head on daown to the festival anyway to meet up with some friends and see some bands, such as...
Tim Armstrong

Social Distortion

Korn

Interpol

Linkin Park

And replacing our set was a last minute acoustic set from Incubus


Incubus and Korn proved to be the surprise spots of the day, Social Distortion were fantastic as were Interpol who had to cut theyre set short due to Pauls amp blowing up during the last song PDA.

After another cancellation in Seattle, we made our comeback show at Virgin Mobile Festival in Vancouver alongside Hot Hot Heat and AFI. Another 16 hour drive through the mountains to Edmonton followed, this is always a fantastic drive, its almost like driving through a postcard.


Spent the rest of the day at the biggest shopping mall in the world. The West Edmonton mall has over 800 stores, 100 resturaunts, an ice skating rink, a waterpark and a theme park inside a building which takes up the equivalant of 48 city blocks. I also went on the in house rollercoaster which is pretty good, complete with a triple loop.

So here we are in Calgary now for the final canadian show of this tour before another 16 hour drive to Portland, Oregon tonight. Imagine my surprise when i woke up this morning to find snow all over the ground. Roll on california next week i say!!!