Our crazy fall season of 2018 began when our friends in Big Lonely offered us the strangest show we've ever played: The Bad Magic School Bus. The premise was brilliant; A listening party for their forthcoming album Bad Magic, on a school bus, as it drove down to Port Colborne where they had assembled a long list of friends to play in a barn. Yep, a barn. We released our first ever single to streaming platforms through Distrokid, to coincide with the show. It was nuts, but it was a good day. We settled on October 19th as our official released date, a week after Big Lonely's album Bad Magic was set to come out. A few days after we set the date, a music promoter company called A Minor reached out to us about booking a show with them. It was really cool because they gave us the opportunity to play Hard Luck Bar, a venue where I've seen some of my favourite acts like An Horse and Surfer Blood. Since then we've played Sneaky Dee's with them several times, and they've been really easy to work with. That more than anything has kept us with a steady string of shows in Toronto. The reception to the EP has been really great. This is the first music I'd ever released into the world, and it's amazing to have it out there. I'm a big perfectionist, and I'm rarely happy with anything so the fact that I'm happy with the EP astounds me. We're currently working on a physical copy for later this year, along with beginning work on whatever comes next. We played what were probably our most and least successful shows in the last month and a half of the year. Our most successful was with our friends in Honesty, for their EP release. We were the first band, the show was at The Bovine Sex Club which is a wild name for a venue, and based on all the scrap metal protruding from the walls, it's a lawsuit waiting to happen. But it was a really fun night nonetheless. Less than two weeks later, we played Mill's Hardware with a band called Look Vibrant from Montreal. Now, according to the 8 people we brought out, we played a great show. But at the same time, there were only 8 people in attendance besides the bands themselves. There were a couple reasons for this; first, we were filling in for another cancelled opener and had only been asked to play about two weeks beforehand, which didn't give us a lot of time to promote. Additionally, the usual people I would invite out were A) at the sold out Dirty Nil show in Toronto that night, and B) playing a show of their own. But even more than that, we assumed that the headliner, being the headliner, would have at least some draw in the area. Unfortunately we were wrong, but we didn't let it dissuade us and took it as a lesson for future shows. When all was said and done, we rounded out 2018 with 10 gigs, which doubled the amount we'd played in the 2 years prior. It's progress for us, for sure. The band feels more complete than ever, and 2019 is sure to hold even more. We'll keep you updated. ~Fonfur
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