Thanks Ottawa, Kingston & Windsor! Look out, Toronto!

Of course we’re stoked for our record-setting 2 hour set at our friends’ wedding this weekend. Of course we’re psyched for the Public City 2 Year Anniversary Party next weekend (it’s totally a public party BTW, come meet swanky industry types and help us show ’em what us scrappy kids can do). Of course we’re excited about CMW and NXNE, and a string of sweet shows we’ve got lined up for the spring.

*ahem*

But I wanna pause for a sec and think over the last two weekends of awesomeness. Getting another post from the BEST (and most under appreciated) music blog that we know of, B(oot)log; hanging out with our dear dear Apple Crisp friends in Kingston, and singing Born to Run to TWELVE CRAZY PEOPLE WHO’D DRIVEN FROM NEW JERSEY JUST TO SEE THE SHOW. I don’t, I mean, uh… wow. Just wow.

Then our show at the Imperial Pub (YES IT IS A MUSIC VENUE) with our good buddy (and my songwriting hero), Rueben deGroot. I CANNOT say enough good things about the concert series 50 River Concerts, and especially the driving force behind it, Holly Andruchuk. It’s so good to meet people who (despite their choice of headliners for the evening), are so clearly interest in doing the right thing right. True musical believers.

*swoon*

Then, back to (somewhere in the general vicinity of) my hometown Ottawa, with our label mates (and crushes) Wildlife, where we not only saw old friends and got to play the great stage at Live Lounge , but learned that night that we had been featured by the New York Times, nay, the Pitchfork, of Alt-Country, No Depression. I think I audibly squealed.

And to top it all off, Windsor. Was it crazy to play a show four hours from home on Super Bowl Sunday? Abso-fucking-lutely. But we’re crazy for the Phog Lounge, we’re off our medication for promoter Richard Kasoian’s new band Frontiers, and we’re just generally licking the walls for playing music to anybody anywhere.

There was a fella there in Windsor taking photos of us named Ron Marston. He’s so good at what he does that, that night, he took a picture that not only sums up the last two weeks, but tells the whole story of Entire Cities, at least the way I’ve seen it.