Dickens of the Mounted – Brad

First full day in the city. We finally got our posters printed after walking around downtown trying to find a wifi link to download our poster.

We had a bit of a scare. We had opened up the side of our van to push the sandwich boards out the back, where we put our show info and posters and reviews and stuff for people to see. So we fixed it up, closed the back and then proceeded to go set it up and walk around for 1.5 hours. As we came back towards the van Kris starts swearing. The side door has been open this whole time. We know this is stupid. We forgot to close it before we took off. This is stupid in any city, let alone in Winnipeg, the autotheft capital of Canada… grrr. We were lucky, nothing was taken. My uncle that was trying to track medown had actually hungout by our van for a while, thinking clearly, that if the door is wide open we must be near by… maybe his presence was a deterrent, but he had to go back to work, so we missed him. Anyway, stupid, we know. 

We got that done, then went in for our Media time slot where they videotaped us and did an audio recording of a scene. And then our tech time in our venue – the school for contemporary dance. It went smoothly, our technicians seemed to really appreciate that we were organised and ready to go. I am nothing if not organised. Our technicians scare us more with talk of auto theft, so tomorrow we’re going out to buy a “Club” for the van. Who knows if it works, but Kris and I both worry about things perhaps too much, and it might put our minds at ease a bit. 

After that we put up some posters around the area. They’re pretty nice posters if we do say so ourselves – designed for us by Robin Senior, a friend in Toronto who has some pretty mad skills.

Our first show is tomorrow night. Yeah.