Even though The Remedials haven't even jammed (which was almost a month) since returning from Bowen Island (Gabe of The Remedials guitar and Wayne of The Remedials bass was at Lionel of The Remedials crib the whole time) when they played at Pub 340, The Remedials only had to impress one person that night and needless to say they did! Thanks to Cobweb Society (these guys and girl are outta sight! We'll be playing more shows with em') and Christ Puncher (who didn't show...) for having us play. Look forward to The Remedials playing more shows at Pub 340.
The Remedials wanna play there with our punk bros Raised By Apes (who played The Columbia the same night we played Pub 340, if they hadn't already finished when we got on we woulda told everyone in the bar to go see em' instead), the POGs (the show at New West was wicked with Jerry Demon schooling everyone on why the wireless unit was invented, running and jumping from table to table to table and back to the stage was pretty cool and crashing into an unsuspecting Juice at the end of the set - check out the video at myspace.com/thepogs - had everyone cheering except the promoter and sound guy who slapped Jerry's wrists for his on and off stage antics! * The Remedials will always have a soft spot for ska, we listened to The Specials, Skankin' Pickle, Op Ivy and Choking Victim so when Beer For Breakfast played we stuck around to check em' out and now we can't get "I Hate You (I Hate Your Friends)" outta our heads hear em' here: beerforbreakfast.ca you've been warned, plus they got one of the coolest band names ever *, The Remenants (these guys and girl have something scheming which you'll hear about soon...) and Denderah (who played another awesome set at The Columbia - Gabe missed out on the crazy boob lady thankfully - check out the new mixes of Ten Year War and Sentence at myspace.com/denderah, The Remedials are choked to hear Kwin got roughed up at Pub 340 on St. Patrick's Day, we were gonna go to that show too good thing we didn't cuz we woulda given those punks the "People's Elbow")...
After a fun show at Pub 340, thanks to the POGs for showing up (we'll hook Juice and Marty up with shirts too) and jumping on stage and in the pit! The Remedials used the cash they made at that show to buy more beer since it was already last call at Pub 340 they had to go to The Railway Club. On the way there after having a drunken snowball fight and Lionel being shoved to the slushy wet cold hard pavement courtesy of Wayne. Ouch! The Remedials made their way to the smoking section and hung out with Jay from The Black Halos.
The Remedials are shocked that they have finally been paid "real" money for playing shows (who woulda thought certainly not us) since all they have been given so far is beer. Since The Remedials are quite content with getting paid in beer (after the infamous Asbalt show if it wasn't last call when we got paid, all that cash - which was quite a bit - woulda been transformed into beer, but instead financed our Bowen Island trip) but now that they get paid in cold hard cash does that make them a professional band? Or even musicians? Well, no it doesn't. Gabe still can't tune his guitar, Wayne still forgets what to play and Lionel still can't count to five.
For a band that doesn't really promote itself (we discourage people from going to our shows) in their own town let alone any others we've got peeps in a real city T.O.! Since Gabe of The Remedials kid bro Danny Boy (our #1 fan) works at a tattoo shop everyone he inks has to sit thru The Remedials CD (Danny's got three Remedials CDs, one at the shop, one at home and one in his portable CD player) and everyone who listens to it digs it. One girl said "This can't be your bros band!" and when Danny goes "Why?" she says, "Cuz they're good!" Uh, we're still trying to figure that one out... Digging our tunes is one thing but now kids are getting Remedials tattoos?! That doesn't rub off ya know! We wouldn't have believed it ourselves until we've seen the pictures, check em' out for yourself they're posted in the pics section.
Damn, I guess we can't break up now since these kids are all getting inked...
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