Another review we go for our new CD. The music: The folk-rock approach of Grand Rapids’ Common Shiner might most resemble the music of Barenaked Ladies but also plows new ground with distinctive tunes that “highlight the beauty found in the common experience we all share.” Taken from the Grand Rapids Press. The least informative …
Finally a New Post, Vancouver Day 12
Well, I’m finally updating. After posting almost daily while in Vancouver, it was weird to not have a chance to post all last week. I got back and my band had a CD Release party (you can buy this CD on www.cdbaby.com/commonshiner if you’re interested) in downtown GR that took a lot of setting up …
Vancouver Trip – Day 11
My last full day in Vancouver. Even though this trip did go by pretty fast, I do feel like I’ve been here a while. It’s also been nice to be here long enough that we could have some chill out time, and not worry too much about trying to cram everything in in a certain …
Vancouver Trip – Day 10
Well now that there’s 5 people in the apartment, I was relegated to the air matress instead of the sofa. However, all five of us slept in until about 11, which was almost 10 hours of sleep for all of us. So there wasn’t much breakfast time, as it was basically already lunch when we …
Vancouver Trip – Day 9
Well the usual sleeping in, reading, and lounging in the morning. Then we headed off to a place called Moderne Burger that I mentioned in day 8 (mainly because we tried to go there in Day 8, but were unsuccessful. It closes at 7:45pm for some reason. Weird). So I’d heard a lot about this …
Vancouver Trip – Day 8
Day 8 was actually quite wonderful, in the laid back just hanging out with Ryan and Jacqui sense. We didn’t really do much sight seeing or any kind of stuff like that but just basically hung out all day. It was great. We ate lunch at Mongolian Barbecue, which may have been one of the …
Vancouver Trip – Day 7
Well I don’t know what happened, but Day 2 disappeared for some reason, and I don’t really feel like recreating it. I really have no idea what happened to it. So to sum up, on Day 2 we drove around for a while and had 24 hour theatre. Well not too much to talk about …
Vancouver Trip – Day 6
Wandered around Victoria some more, although this time we were able to borrow Jacqui’s Mom’s car, so that made things tremendously easier. I’m so used to living in a driving town that my feet just aren’t used to walking that much (and I consequently got a huge blister on Day 5, which doesn’t make walking …
Vancouver Trip – Day 5
Today we just basically wandered around Victoria, which is a beautiful and fascinating town. And by wandered around, I mean that we walked. A lot. A LOT. After walking past the parliament buildings we started off toward Ogden Point (which is the breakwater point where a cool little lighthouse sits). So here’s a bunch of …
Vancouver Trip – Day 4
Well sorry for the delay on this one. I didn’t have any internet access on Vancouver Island, which we headed to on Day 4 (Sunday June 11th, to be exact), so I wasn’t able to update until now. So I might be a little behind on the days. So Sunday was Ryan and Jacqui’s 1 …