This video is about the Family Thrift Store in Guelph. I never lived in Guelph, but it’s a town I often visit because it’s where a lot of my friends live, and it’s where my older brother went to University. I remember on one of my first visits a few years back being told I have to visit the Family Thrift Store. I went and thought it was a pretty neat store – heck, I bought a sweet jacket on my first trip! Since then, I made sure to stop by the Thrift Store whenever I visited, so I was pretty bummed out to hear earlier this month that the store would be closing. I heard they were throwing some concerts, so last Friday I made my way to the Royal City to catch one of them. This is my document of that night. I hope you get a sense of how important the Family Thrift Store was to a lot of people.
Note: If you want to see the best quality version of the video, go here, and click on HD, and then make it full-screen. Let it load all the way before viewing it. Trust me, it looks great.
So I went out last to catch a CMW Canadian Music Fest show at the Horseshoe. It was a pretty stellar lineup. I saw $100, Women (who were decent enough but I ended up sitting at a table with friends… you gotta pace yourself), Gentleman Reg and finally Chad VanGaalen. I shot video of $100, which you can see here, as well as Chad, which you can see here. I’m probably heading to some more shows this weekend, so I might have more video. Check the Ampersand too, I think some of my compadres are blogging about the shows they see.
This is a very intense new song from Peterborough’s Evening Hymns, shot last night at Sneaky Dee’s where he was playing for Wavelength 452. I wasn’t sure if I was even going to put it online because I wasn’t sure if the video really captures the intensity of the song. My roommate John was actually asking me how Evening Hymns was, and I said, “He was great! I shot one song and I might put it on YouTube, but it’s a really intense song, so I don’t know if I should.” John said, “Is it that song Dead Deer?!” and I was like, “Yeah, that’s the one!” And then he said, “I’ve heard that song before! That’s my favourite new song of his, it is really intense! Can you show me the video?” So I showed John the video and we both agreed that it was a good video so here it is, on my blog for all to see.
FYI, I’ve been embedding these new videos in HD, but some people have been saying they’re not loading properly. I suggest pausing them until they load all the way. Trust me, they look so much better than the low quality versions. Okay, cool! Alright, I’ve gotten too many complaints. All the HD videos have been replaced with lo-res versions. Find them on YouTube if you want to see the HD versions.
