One drawback of playing those other two shows was that we didn't get to see any of the NXNE showcases besides the other ones at Clinton's on our night. We got a chance to at least catch up on some live music over the past few days.

NXNE may be over, but the music keeps going. There was a NXNE wrapup party at El Mocambo, mostly bands and volunteers. I stopped by for a little while. Stinkmitt, a Vancouver rap act, was playing at the time, and there was supposedly another band after them but nobody seemed to know who it was going to be.

I met up with Marcus and Max at the Horseshoe Tavern. Pink Mountaintops, another Vancouver band, were the headliners for the night. The sound system at the Horseshoe is fantastic - it's loud but crystal clear, and even when there were fourteen (fourteen!!) people up on stage you could actually get by without earplugs. Some Vancouver venues could learn a lesson or two.

I find it funny that we traveled from Vancouver to Toronto, and saw more Vancouver bands on this trip than anything else.

Monday night we went to see Kevin Breit and the Sisters Euclid, Toronto staples who've been playing the Orbit Room for about the past ten years. Kevin is an absolutely incredible guitarist, and the band plays together as easily as breathing. At one point two people requested two different songs, and Kevin decided that in order to fit both requests they'd play both songs at the same time. He and the drummer played one song, and keyboards and bass took the other, and somehow they made it all work for a little while. Terrific show...