New Blog at Exclaim magazine site

Hi folks,

The good people at Exclaim magazine have offered to host the Elliott BROOD tourblog once again at http://elliottbrood.exclaim.ca.
So for the remainder of the "Future Ghost Towns" tour the BROOD will be posting the blog there.
They are linked, so you can toggle back and forth if you wish.
See you there....

Elliott BROOD

PS it has been slow to get started due to the inglorious theft of much of our electronic gear in Montreal, but we are now beginning to catch up.

CMJ music marathonot

day 29 NYC The Living Room - Paste magazine showcase.

So there we sat at our motel in Stroudville PA, about 2 hrs West of NYC, just North of Philadelphia. We were watching a fantastic game 5 of the world series, and generally getting some well deserved R&R, until midnight, when our US publicist (from NYC) phones us from the club in Manhattan, "I'm here... where are you guys?". Oh oh.
On the CMJ website we are listed to play on Friday the 23rd at midnight (click on the picture). We had looked on their site to confirm that the show was on Friday. The website literally said, "12AM Friday... Elliott BROOD" (click on the picture above for close up). According to CMJ, Friday means anytime Thursday night from midnight on. We are pretty good at damage control, but this one got by all of us somehow.
After some quick phone calls to our agent and publicist, we decide that there will be no make-up show. My guess is that the best we would've received from CMJ with less than a days' notice is something like "Bill's Cafe at 2PM on the upper East side".
Thoroughly bummed out, Ryan and I went for a long walk and ended up at "Rudy's Tavern", an immaculate 1930's era bar that served pints for $1.25. Yes I said pints for $1.25. We had just made their last call, and that $1.25 pint was the perfect nightcap. Just the two of us lonely souls there, and a couple of locals. Then the door opens and in walks Casey. Perfect company for the brisk walk home, which was peppered by small groups of anxious young adults (or old kids?) out on the prowl in the pre-homecoming/halloween chilly night air. We should have been in Manhattan tonight, but something had conspired to keep us away. So be it.
The next morning we set off and pretty much surprised our loved ones by arriving a day early. To any New Yorkers who missed the Elliott BROOD show at the Living Room; hopefully you can make it down to Union Hall in Brooklyn on the 24th of November, where we will be rocking out like it's a make up show.

Cleveland - Beachland and the Waterloo district

day 27 Oct 21 Cleveland OH - Beachland Cafe

We saw today a small but complimentary review of Mountain Meadows in November's Mojo Magazine, done by by Sylvie Simmons. Anyways, back to the heart of Rock and Roll.
Have a little look around the Waterloo district and you'll see that this might be the coolest neighborhood in Cleveland. within a block of the club is a Mason's Hall, a used record store (called "Music Saves"), a couple of local art stores... you get the picture (no pun). Speaking of pictures I took some photos of interesting views in the block: one of a van wrapped up in colored plastic bags and another of a place with the suspicious title, "R&D Sausage Co.". If they are still Researching and Developing the sausage, I think I'm not interested in making a purchase.
This will be our last show of the tour with The Wooden Sky, and it is sad because we are not really getting (or giving) a proper sendoff. Tomorrow we will each be going to the CMJ festival in New York, but to different venues. we are splitting up, and tonight's show on a Wednesday night is not exactly the blowout event that we would have hoped to end this tremendous tour with those boys. It is in the plans to make this up by getting together in either New York or Toronto and really send off the tour properly.
On this night we also find out about a friend of the BROOD's, a musician we toured with last year, has become ill. Our hearts are with you Dave, and we pray for a full recovery.
The next morning we split out separately only to reconvene by accident at some random truck stop. Hello and goodbye again.

Chicago - Schuba's Tavern

day 26 Oct 20 Chicago Ill - Schuba's Tavern
Today we got a decent review in The Onion A.V Club. Being avid readers of this mag, it is awesome to see that they are writing about us. If you don't know The Onion, it's worth your bookmark, or follow them on Twitter. They will give you at least four gut laughs per month, with many other chuckles along the way. We also came in early to do a recording for a future videocast on Hearya dot com at producer Stephen Shirk's studio. Steve is a great guy and a fast engineer who we had the pleasure of working with on another occasion in the windy city.
Visiting Chicago this time was much like visiting LA this time: Get to the venue, set up eat, play, leave town. So much for the scenery. This time I hit a gag store across the street from Schuba's and picked up some gift toys for me kids. Ryan got to scoot over to the Chicago Music Exchange, which is the most extravagant guitar store I've ever been in (for example, in stock are no less than eight vintage Fender Jazz basses and sixteen P basses). But this store is still no Capsule Music (the band's personal favourite) from Toronto. Capsule has a great vibe and atmosphere and one can feel at home perusing their fantastic stock amongst a friendly staff who don't try to intimidate you are snob you out.
The show itself was a good one for a Tuesday night. Like LA too, none of my friends showed up, but they were well made up for by the enthusiastic crowd. One fellow who we know, named Paul, lives in Brooklyn , but has managed to see us now here, as well as in the past in Edmonton and Winnipeg (on the Wilco "Kicking Television" tour back in '06). Rock on.