I ended the Month of March with a blast - Snow Patrol Weekend!

First stop, Montreal. Here's Jenny & MOI.

Silversun Pickups were amazing! Pablo came out and played on Lazy Eye!

OKGO were having far too much fun. Crazy projections!

And rather than posting photos of the SP boys, here are some videos of Gary rambling...okay, maybe ONE obligatory tummy teaser first.

Snippets from Montreal. Click to view.

Gary proclaims his love.

Gary on a gay day.

Set The Fire...on the first girl.

Set The Fire...with Marianne.

Snippets from Toronto. Click to view.

Superstition.

My dear Robert.

Set The Fire...with Alex & Jen (aka Sam).

As they say across the pond, IT WAS A BELTER! Love to all, x.

Nuit Blanche.

I participated in Toronto's first 'White Night' last night/this morning and what an amazing experience that was!

What is Nuit Blanche? It's all about contemporary art; there are over 130 art exhibitions, indoors and outdoors... and you go see as many of them as you can (or want), but within a time period: from 7:00pm the 30th of September to 7:00am the first of October. Twelve hours. One... sleepless... night.

Out of more than 130 art exhibitions, I managed to see 20-something installations... I lost count - and, we didn't even make it to 7am! We got a little hungry at 4:30, stopped in at Fran's (the only 24-hour eatery in downtown Toronto) for a quick bite - mistake! Once my belly was full, all I wanted was my pillow. Oh well.

Here are some photos of my favourite exhibitions from last night:

Mike's taking a picture of me, taking a picture of him, in the games area at OCAD (Ontario College of Art & Design).






A ghostly, larger-than-life image by Derek Michael Besant from his 'Fifteen Restless Nights Collection'.





Can't remember which gallery we stumbled into, but found a room of lovely lanterns all alit.






'Fog in Toronto' by Fujiko Nakaya was one of my favourites last night. An small area (on the U of T campus) was transformed; jets (seen bottom left) pump out water-based fog, creating a microclimate which moves and disappears like natural fog - cool.

Carlos Garaicoa photographs two images of the same location: one before, one after. Thread is used and pinned onto one of the photographs (seen on the right) where a building/structure once was.


They call it 'Ballroom Dancing' but who are you kidding? It's dodge ball... only with smaller and softer balls... a roomful of strangers... and any pent-up frustrations you may have.



There were a few exhibits held at swimming pools. This installation, called 'Night Swim', projected a film across the water onto the back wall. Strange and eerily quiet.






This is the penguin that Alisa wanted me to swipe for her from the 'Roy & Silo's' exhibit. NO. So instead, she went and swiped the one that was in the men's urinal... as some poor sod was taking a piss! Shameful, hehe.

I do have more images but won't be posting them as I'M GOING TO BED! Nighty night. x.

September 13th was SNOW PATROL DAY!

Thought I'd document Snow Patrol's day in Toronto as I did with Editors last month, but it's hard to keep up with those long Irish legs of theirs. Plus, didn't help that they were LATE and I was not on bike - I had to hoof it which always takes longer around town.

Gary and Nathan were supposed to arrive at MuchMusic at 5:30pm for a live interview... then it was 5:40...5:45. Finally at 5:54 their huge black chauffeured car pulls up with only 6 minutes before the show ended. Tsk tsk tardiness!

Here they are running in:


Quick Nathan, go that-a-way!








See, long Irish legs.










But in their defense, rush hour traffic in Toronto is asinine.
No cameras allowed inside MuchMusic. Poo.

Since I was still stuck at MuchMusic when I should've been hoofing it to their next scheduled stop, I didn't make it to their quickie radio interview with Dave. I headed over to MTV instead. But to my surprise, they arrived on foot (ha! Must've gotten tired of sitting in traffic).

As you can see my camera wasn't ready - I was expecting their vehicle to pull up.







By the time I got my camera set, I only caught the back of Gary as he ran in.

Drat. Need to strap some weights on those boys to slow them down. No cameras allowed inside MTV either. Hmph.

But you can watch 'Burt and Ernie' in their interview on MTV Live.


By the time they finished up at MTV, it was time for the show. Augustana opened and played a 40-minute set.
Snow Patrol played a solid 14 song set plus 2 encores...with the exception of a very minor glitch during the intro, it was an err-free night.

Song List:
Intro - Spitting Games
Wow
Chocolate
It's Beginning To Get To Me
Headlights On Dark Roads
Grazed Knees
Chasing Cars
Shut Your Eyes
How To Be Dead
Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking
Make This Go On Forever
Ways & Means
Run
You're All I Have

Encores:
Open Your Eyes
Tiny Little Fractures

This is just a teaser for SP Boardies...

at least until I get my SP Boardies Gallery/Photobucket sorted, whichever comes first.








Paul, you make me laugh with your theory of pizza-sandwich ergonomics!






Thanks for such a great day guys!
A Snuggleupagus-sized love to you, x.