Nova Scotia and beyond!

What a week it has been.  The SSR bus left Toronto on Tuesday morning and arrived in Greenwood, NS on Thursday after a brief stopover in Rivière-du-Loop, QC on Wednesday.  We stayed in a couple of classic road motels and it was a fun trip!  We have all been taking turns tweeting our adventures so please be sure to check out our Twitter feed and follow us!

Our night in Greenwood was fantastic with the exception of the All-You-Can-Eat spaghetti at the Pizza Delight.  We should know by now that AYCE is never what you should get.  You always end up eating too much because you need to “get your money’s worth” and “stick it to the man”.   What ends up happening EVERY TIME is that you eat too much and feel like crap after; or in our case, you end up burping up spaghetti all night while you’re trying to sing.

The opening band at the Top Hat Beverage Room, Speed of Dark, was great, the people were fantastic and when we were cheered for an encore we decided to ask a question:

SSR: “What do you want to hear?  We can play Weightless again….”
Crowd: “WEIGHTLESS!!”
SSR: “… or we can play AC/DC.”
Crowd: “WEIGHTLESS!!!”

It was pretty amazing that everyone in the place wanted to hear us play Weightless a second time instead of playing a song by one of the greatest bands of all time.

Night and show #2 was in Westville, NS.  We arrived at the White Tail Pub & Grill in the afternoon to a warm reception by the locals which was great.  We set up the stage and hurried back to the hotel to get ready for the show.  Until you’ve actually ridden along in the van, no one can really appreciate how hectic and compressed our schedule is.  That said, there is also the entertainers’ cliché of “hurry up and wait” that happens a lot too.

It was a smaller crowd at the White Tail but they were pumped to have us there.  The night picked up later on in the evening and we ended off with a full dance floor and another encore.

Last night’s exploits were in Dartmouth, NS!  It was a homecoming of sorts for the boys as Dartmouth/Halifax is some of their old stomping grounds.  The bar was rocking with the opener, Human, as we entered the club.  Chris from Live 105 FM was on hand to introduce the band and the whole Live 105 crew hung out for the entire show!  It was great to see the radio support not only in playing the song, but also coming to the gig; thank you guys.

Another amazing audience, another fantastic experience for us with amazing sound on stage and guitars cranked to 11.  We talk all the time about how there is nothing like be able to crank it up and play loud and last night was one of those shows.  We played two sets of original tunes that everyone was into, and people were singing every word, and there an atmosphere that I would defy anyone to ignore, and I realize that this is a run-on sentence, but I don’t even care, because it was awesome.

We have a couple of days off before we head to Newfoundland so we’re going to be around town in Halifax.  If you see one of us, come over and say hello!  We love meeting people in the towns we go to and I’m sure we’ll be hanging out somewhere having a coffee.

Look out Corner Brook, here comes SSR.

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