Archive for November, 2009
Here we go again!
Same party with some of the funnest bands we’ve encountered since last years Burly Calling 2. This 3 day festival/tour across our fair city is going to be unique this year. All Saint Alvia side bands ( minus Grade) will be playing a show together which will no doubt be booze fueled as well as two Saint Alvia head lining events. Celebrate some of the finest bands we can muster up. Here we go yet again. Also check out this rad tiger design which is a teaser of what this years poster/burly calling 3 t shirt will look like. Designed by Matt Darling.
get down.
Click on over to the facebook event page and let us know you’re coming!
DAY 1 (dec 17th)
The Six Slash Cartel Night @ The Bluemoon Lounge
JEREMY CHAMBERS ( Burlington Hip/Hop Up and Comer)
THE VIDEO DEAD ( Members of Saint Alvia)
MONSTER TRUCK ( Members of The Reason & Saint Alvia)
ROBERT PASALIC and THE OLD SCHOOL FUTURE ( Of Saint Alvia)
DAY 2 (dec 18th)
@ The Dickens
SAINT ALVIA
THE REASON
JON LAUREN ( Montreal/Waterdown singer song writer)
DAY 3 (dec 19th)
@ Clancys Pub
SAINT ALVIA
SKITTLEBRAU (Hip/Hop w/ former members of BNO)
THE ROMAN LINE
THE SKULLIANS ( Toronto Street Punk)
all shows 19+ ( sorry )
more info to come!
Sometimes…. Well all the time when I’m on the road, I have to find ways to entertain myself. It often results in something super random and super retarded. Everyone that has ever had the pleasure of being in a band with me knows this all to well. For the past 15 or so years, my band mates have been my targets, students, partners in crime, and the only ones who will listen. To most of them, I become the bane of their existence. Luckily the guys in Alvia, are still keen to play along.
The latest fascination is with coffee, and the names we’ve come up with for it. In Canada we have a coffee joint called Tim Horton’s. Tim’s is somewhat revered as a National Treasure. For the time being I’ve renamed it as Bob Thayniacs. What I love about Saint Alvia is their loyal willingness to accept these new names, and even embrace them without question. Now coffee; has somehow changed into a “John Brophy”. Why? I have no explanation. That’s what we call them, and that’s what we order them as with no explanation (that’s the fun part). John Brophy was a coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 80’s. Why I chose that name to represent coffee even boggles me….and I don’t really even follow hockey! So as with every nickname, it evolves. It get s abbreviated to just a cup of John, or a “Brophy”. So John, Brophy, or “ John Brophy” proper has now been them term coined for coffee in general. Here are the different incarnations we came up with on the last tour with Bouncing Souls.
John Brophy – General term for coffee
John Candy – when you have a “double cream, double sugar – *because it gets candied
John Smith – a Regular -one cream, one sugar – * because it’s a super “regular name”
John Wayne – Black coffee – * because its fucking nails to drink black coffee
John Doe – when you get coffee at random stop like a gas station -*because you don’t know what your gonna get!
John MacLean – when you have a smoke and a coffee – *bruce willis in diehard
Sir John A MacDonald – when you get a coffee form MacDonalds
John Belushi – When you have like 4 creams and 4 sugars
Johnny Winters – Iced Coffee
John Mcenroe – when you have a super jacked coffee that makes you spazz
We’re open to additions to this list if anyone feels like contributing. yeah, its weird, but the real fun part is when you put these new names into use. Next time you’re ordering a double-double… ask for a “John Candy” instead… totally straight faced, like it’s the only name that it was ever called. Let us know how it goes in the comments section below! (We’ve done it too… we do it all the time.)
- Taylor.
Did you miss Saint Alvia when they performed on Bite TV at the end of last month? Check out both songs right here!
This first clip is of an acoustic performance of Blonde Kryptonite, followed by an interview with host Jason Agnew where among other topics of discussion, Greg Taylor explains a little bit about how while on the road the boys decided to rename coffee. More on that from Greg himself coming in the next few days. In the meantime, check out the clip now.
In this second clip, the band performs an acoustic arrangement of the song Romeo. Enjoy!
The boys are in the old-country now, and Ben’s Exclaim blog is rolling along swimmingly. The first three entries are now up online at saintalvia.exclaim.ca – click on over to check them out!
