kyle's anti-blog

just a dude who grew up in a van, likes to play music, and has a peanut on the way. adventures, ahoy.
Fri Nov 13

Bromosexual Behaviour

Josh and I are going on tour!! I’ve been waiting for this for ages, it feels like. I have a fancy poster (one you should be seeing EVERYWHERE soon if you live in Canada) that I’m supposed to post but it’s not in a picture format so I’m gonna have to ask my manager about that and get it posted up soon, because it’s kind of a jem.

We’re calling it the Bromosexual Behaviour Tour 2009. It’s pretty small places, and it’s gonna be good. Cold, I’m sure, but good. Get excited, dudes!

Tickets onsale Saturday November 14th 2009 at 10am via Ticketmaster, or your local outlets.

December 2 @ London Music Hall, London, Ontario
December 3 @ Capitol Theatre, North Bay, Ontario
December 6 @ The Outpost, Thunder Bay, Ontario
December 7 @ Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, Manitoba
December 9 @ Louis Pub, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
December 10 @ Myer Horowitz Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
December 11 @ MacEwan Ballroom, Calgary, Alberta
December 12 @ Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, British Columbia
December 18 @ Metropolis, Montreal, Quebec
December 19 @ Bronson Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
December 20 @ Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario

I’ve been studying hard. Shooting starts in January. This is pretty exciting. I’m pretty nervous. I’m also nervous about something else… See next post.

I’ve been studying hard. Shooting starts in January. This is pretty exciting. I’m pretty nervous. I’m also nervous about something else… See next post.

Sun Sep 27

the drake hotel.

I’ve always wanted to play at the Drake. It’s an odd sort of classy venue, that is indeed a hotel but is often used as a place for musicians to play. I don’t even remember how this came up, but here it is. Starting on the first of October, I’ll be playing fourteen nights at this place, by myself, with a guitar and some lights and probably a stool. They won’t be very long sets, as the amount of material I have for this particular project is not extreme, but I’ve been writing songs for a long time and sometimes you just know that a song isn’t fitting for what your band is doing now. I’m still writing WWDA songs, the guys are still writing WWDA songs, but we’ve been writing those songs for awhile now. I know they have different stuff to try, too.

Anyway, set time is 9:30 to 10:30 everynight. Come down, say hi. Have a peek at my son and the lady who’s going to be my wife someday. I’m sure they’ll be around a couple times.

Have a taste of what you’re coming down for. (That’s a youtube link. Tumblr tells me it will open in a new window. Click it.)

Wed Sep 2

Miss you.

How do journals work? Are you supposed to be able to look back at them regularly and go, oh, shit, I can’t believe that happened to me? Because that’s not really the case here. I feel like I do that when I listen to my older music though. Not that every single song was a personal adventure of mine specifically, but they are all based on something and they were all based in certain mind frames. You know, and those songs take me back? I just read though Lucy’s blog (lightsgoblack.blogspot.com) and you know what? I’m shit at updating you people about things. I just kind of putter around and play my guitar and change diapers. Truth - I am a grumpy old man. Not always, but, most of the time. Our son, he’s like clock work. He gets tired at the same time everyday (coincidentally, usually around when The Young and The Restless comes on CBS midday…) and he baths at the same time and poops around the same time. He’s growing, and he’s a person and it is so ridiculous to see. I think we’ve turned into clock work with him, even if his clockwork includes us passing him back and forth like a hot potato who won’t stop wailing. He wails loud, guys. So loud, at night. 

But we are not always clockwork. Take nearly two weeks ago for example — When We Dead Awaken’s eighth birthday. We didn’t realize it was coming up until the week before. Someone pointed it out, I don’t remember who. So we decided that we should have a party, and cake and candles and a joke of a YOU’RE EIGHT!! birthday card turned into talks of shows, and new songs, and practice space and on the day, we let the monster loose. I won’t lie, it was one of the best shows I’ve ever played. A couple of people were missing, thanks to work and other obligations, but mostly, the people who counted were around. It was nice, like hanging out with family, even with the fans who were there. I love that. Thank you if you were there, or if you’ve ever bought a When We Dead Awaken record, or a shirt, or even downloaded our music on the internet. Eight years would not have happened without you.

I demo’d a new song today. I guess that’s why I’m being so thoughtful. I’m still not sure what I think of it (apparently Luce loves it) so there’s no way I’m posting it here. Maybe later. I just wanted to say hi, in the end. I miss you guys. Tell me what’s good. Tell me what’s not good. Do that at wwdarules at gmail dot com.

Love kyle.

Tue Jul 28

Inspired. That’s exactly what I feel right now. Between Blake existing, and watching Luce do her thing on stage everyday, I am feeling inspired. I promise this isn’t going to turn into a sapfest or anything like that. It’s just an introduction of sorts, I guess you would call it. I was fiddling around with my guitar a couple days ago and sometimes when you fiddle around with your guitar, songs happen. This song happened on the back of the bus while Blake was being incredibly fussy. There was no singing until I enlisted Joshua McGregor’s help. So, here you have it. I’m not sure what it’s called yet. But it’s something, and I like it. Thank you Warped Tour, Barclay, General Knowledge and my family for being incredibly inspiring.