Forest City Lovers

Paris rocks.

Examples:

nice people
beautiful city
good coffee
biere emporter
soiree poche
nouveau amis

c’est tout pour maintnant!
(photos are of our acoustic show in paris at our friend’s flat)

Last post from Canada for a while! We celebrated Earth Day in Sarnia by playing two shows. We brought a bunch of friends with us from Torontoand made a fun night of it. We had some adventures! We partied at a mansion! The band wore blue and green as a throw back to public school. Mika wore black,  but hey, we’re realistic and pretended that it represented pollution. Both shows were both super fun and vastly different. In the early evening we played the Energy Exchange, a new community centre that will house art studios, woodshops etc. It was really nice and the audience was super attentive. I had a coffee earlier so I think I probably talked a lot. I took their photo and it looked like a grade five class on their best behaviour.  Loved it. Thanks to Shawn McKnight for organising the performance, it was an honour to celebrate his accomplishments!

The next show we played was the first night of Empty Fest, curated by ex-Sarnia-pat Eric Woolston, and it was crazy. We played with some awesome local bands and there was a really pumped up crowd. There were even some awesome MEGA AWESOME fans that made costumes. They rocked.

These are good people.

Our friend Colin Medley was there to film some of the craziness. Check out his video above (and you should check out his blog, it’s a good’n!). Apparently the floor was moving under the weight of everyone jumping. Call me crazy, but how awesome is it that people were moshing and dancing and freakin out? We’re not even a rock band! Made my night.

In other news, Kyle is living with Mika and I and he’s been playing the new Camera Obscura album lots and it rocks. I am still waiting for my new Anni Rossi vinyl to arrive. If you can, you should check out her show on the 27th. We will be in the air, but you should be at the concert.

bye bye bye!

xo
kb

photo by Ming Wu

Ottawa was great! Crazy late nights and amazing Indian food to keep us trucking along… We played four shows in two nights, and Mika also played with the Aline Morales band AND I was honoured to sing a couple songs with one of my current favourites, the Sunparlour Players. All in all, a very busy weekend!

Check out this photo of us playing in a hotel room for the OCFF conference. Thanks to Ming Wu for the shot – you should check out his photo blog - http://mingwuphotos.wordpress.com/

xo

This past weekend we shot a video for Pirates. It was shot on Super 8 in and around a park in Toronto… it follows the ‘Lovers as they go on a picnic but soon discover that the contents of their basket have disappeared…

Here are some photos from the shoot, taken by the lovely Chantale Lalonde