Since we last left you, snow had shutdown the city, our first 2 shows were cancelled and we spent our time sightseeing around snowy snowy London.
Ok so now, it’s the end of the tour for Dennis and I. We got to spend some time in Glasgow with my sister as the rest of Share(Andrew, Nick & Kyle) travel to Germany to perform in Berlin as a trio to finish off the very first Forward Music European Tour.
This last week has been amazing. The snow melted in London, things got back to normal. Grand Theft Bus was able to showcase at 229 in London to a packed house. We all got to see some familiar faces and want to thank our friends for coming out to support the band. After a week in Ireland, Andrew finally met up with the rest of us at the flat in London, needless to say he was happy to see us. Share’s first show was unknowingly in a country bar. We played to a packed house of country folk who surprisingly enough, loved it. Not that we aren’t country but, really we aren’t country. Tim, Bob and James headed home leaving the rest of us to finish off the tour.
Share & the Olympic Symphonium continued on to York to play this amazing venue, the Duchess. Headlining the bill was Bella Union artist Peter Broderick, a one man musical maniac looping keyboard, guitar, violin, a saw, plus a load of percussive toys while singing sad folk tunes. He really was amazing, blew all of us away and know we have crushypoos. At the point in the tour we rented a car to get us from York to Glasgow while playing some dates in between, I learned that driving on the left side isn’t so bad, you feel weird at first but you just need a little reminder from the guys what side is the right side right before you start the drive.
Andrew, Dennis and I went on to Leeds while the others hoped a train back into London to tape there BBC Session for the Olympic Symphonium. The guys were actually photographed by Papparazzi on there way out of the BBC studio(never know maybe it’ll be worth something someday). The rest of us played as a 3 piece for an open mic night hosted by an Elvis impersonator in a bar located in the Industrial Park in Leeds. Lets just say it was interesting. Elvis got up to the mic and introduced as “Smare” to the 6 people waiting to play after us. Some of the best footage we ever shot.
Newcastle was amazing we meet Joel and Jack the promoters of The End Bar, played to a create crowd. The boys treated us like gold and took us out for bitters after.
Then it snowed again…
Seriously it followed us the whole trip. We drove to Edinburgh, got to lay eyes on the North Sea while making our way along the coast, showed up to the Bowery our venue for the night, it was in the basement of like old church. Great space, great people, great openers called “2nd hand marching band” who were literally a 20 piece band with a Beirut feel to them.
We finally made it to Glasgow to play with Women an awesome Canadian band on the rise right now. We were lucky to see some good friends of ours plus play to a packed house, it was the best show to end our tour as a 5 piece band and send the rest of the guys off to Germany.

UK Blog 3: REUNITED!!

I can't believe Andrew and Zach just ran into each other on the street, then they decided to play some shows!!! Small World!!!

Non-Stop Sisk Posts

Andrew Sisk has yet another video update. This time it's from Ireland!!



mmmmmm Curry Flavored Condoms!!

Hey London Meet Minto/Chipman

Here is the Balcony TV interview/performance that we saw behind the scenes footage of earlier in Andrew's Video BLOG.



After further research into the topic "man-flu" is British humour for when a male exaggerates a common cold into "The flu" or something more serious. Of course Andrew, being a good Canadian lad that he is, has no concept of such an affliction.

Ya know what I think? I think all of London has "meteorological-man-flu" by calling a few centimeters of snow a "storm". Thus halting our good Canadian boys from bringing the rock a few days back.


Now for something completely unrelated, check out this kid high on drugs:



"I feel Funny"

"...Kinda felt good did-nit"

Storm of the Century!!

So you’ve flown across the pond. You go to a country you’ve never been to. You’ve got gigs booked. You’re waiting to play music to people who’ve never heard you before. Then you realize there’s a snowstorm. And by “snowstorm” . . . I mean a gentle, cuddly blanket of snow that plays like a typical winter New Brunswick day.
The sort of day in London, England that means school is closed, buses are stationary, businesses are closed and shovels are . . . wait a minute . . . what are shovels?
The Forward crew has been in London for close to a week now and two of our gigs have been canceled due to the “STORM OF THE DECADE” which dumped the largest mass of snow on the city since Prince William was in short pants. Nestled away in our cozy flat and safely away from winter’s wrath, we found inspiration in a songwriting game we call ‘Parkis Andorasis’. Let’s just say It involves divine inspiration ,a belly full of beer , ten minutes alone , a hat-drawn topic and a whole lot of laughs. Needless to say we have been making the best of our downtime. Box set to be downloadable soon….:)
We are all enjoying the convenience of the public transit, making our way through its pulsing veins each day to a new adventure. The tube is awesome.
Since we don’t have a van here, we loaded all our gear onto the bus to get to the gig tonight. Interesting…got a few odd looks from the locals, but we got there safely and soundly and on time.
The GTB show went well tonight at the Fox and Firkin in Lewisham , Firkin’ eh!! It felt good to finally play some songs over here!!! Crowd was small but mighty and seemed to enjoy themselves during the set.
Round two tomorrow night!!!!!
PS- Turns out you can drink here in the streets almost legally, so we did! No freebies at the venue so we grabbed a few at the ‘off-license’ for a pound a piece!! We aren’t lushes honest!!!!...or…..whatever.

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UK Update

Andrew Sisk (Share) and James have this update from the UK.

Europe

So a bunch of the fellas (Share,Olympic Symphonium, Grand Theft Bus) took off for the UK a few days back, leaving behind the snowy tundra of Canada. Or so they thought. Just as they arrived London, and the rest of the British Ilse's, received their worst snow storm in 20 years!!! So that is wrecking havoc for the Brits and the Forward Music Tour. Hopefully it will get under control and the tour will get back on track.

In CBC related news The Sleepless Nights CBC radio 3 Session recorded in Vancouver last fall has been posted online. I'm listening to it as I type!!

Click here for the CBC session


....I believe some of the tracks and titles may have gotten mixed up, but all the crunchy catchy content (Horaay for aliteration!) that you expect from The Sleepless Nights is there.

Also your local friendly The Capital Bar is nominated (and currently in the Top 50) Best Live Venues in Canada. The Capital Bar has been very good to Forward Music Group over the years and we hope that everyone goes to www.cbcradio3.ca and votes!