Winnipeg was a really fun night and a great end to the tour. We were back at the Cavern, only this time no punks. There were, however, zombies.

Hordes of zombies roaming the streets of Winnipeg looking for brains to eat. Fortunately, that meant we were safe. We added “Zombies welcome” to the sign but they must have found better prospects elsewhere, or else they’d been cured by the time they came to see us.

The Monty Yanks played first, a mix of covers and originals, danceable stuff. We went on around 12:30 and had a really good set, apart from a few feedback issues and one drunken girl who tried to grab the neck of Marcus’s guitar as he was playing. He had to do some pretty quick maneuvers to get away from her, and escaped without missing a note; later in the set a different drunken girl slipped and fell and bumped his pedalboard as he was recording a loop, but he got through it okay.

Other than that the audience was great and appreciative. The bar was bustling and we had a good time, then packed up, went back and opened up a bottle o’ sparkling wine to celebrate the end of the tour.

We did have a sort of impromptu show the next night, though. We stayed with some friends in Regina, who invited us to play a set of covers. We took turns on different instruments, and even though we got booed off stage a few times, we ended up making 8000 new fans! Wow! If only it was that easy in real life. I’d only played Rock Band once before, and Marcus never, but we did pretty well (professional musicians often do badly at Rock Band and Guitar Hero, because they try to play as if it’s a real instrument). But 8000 new fans? Come on! You’d have to sell out the Commodore Ballroom over eight times for that. Oh well, it’s still a fun game.

We’re driving in Saskatchewan now, and we’re going through an action-packed section of the highway. There is a huge flock of birds, thousands of them, stretched out in patches as far as you can see. I think they’re some kind of tern. They are glorious and spectacular to watch, weaving in and out of patterns. However, they’ve also splattered the van rather nastily, and in the meantime Marcus is having to dodge tumbleweeds that are leaping out haphazardly from the median. Given how sparse and flat the long drive through Saskatchewan can be, it’s kind of nice to have something interesting happening (but not TOO interesting).

That’s all we’ve got for shows, and we’ll be home in a few days. I’ve got some videos I haven’t had a chance to upload, and I’ll be popping those online pretty soon, so stay tuned for those…