Regina

We begin the brief post-deconstruction of the Puke 'n Rally tour here, in Regina.

Another day of booking a motel for 3 people, ahem, with 5 friends. At least this place had a pool, which is a wonderful tonic for the the kinds of stickiness that only come from sitting still in a van for over six hours.

The SoHo Restaurant/Manhattan Room complex is amazing. A huge open building with easy traffic between the dance club (bottom floor), restaurant (ground level) and live music venue (top floor... with some questionable carpeting.)

Above the bar in the restaurant is an upside-down scale model of Manhattan. Cool.

The show itself was sparsely attended. However, we got to play with Skratch3, an excellent ska/rock band from Toronto that had the unfortunate incident of having their van burn down to the ground a few nights earlier. The remains of their van fit into a tote bag.

Thankfully, their trailer survived, so they rally on. In good humour, too, about the whole thing. Of course, the "the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire" jokes were kept to a tasteful minimum. Right.

Prairie thunderstorms are pretty awe-inspiring for us islanders.

Big ups to Zandria for having the coolest name ever, and Dave Kapp and the ska crew for the heckling!

Also, big ups to the Regina Winners store, and to the dude at McDonalds who sprints from station to station.