I've now played two of my favourite shows ever with the same two guys at the same club... so something good must be going on. It was another Wednesday at Bread & Circus down in Kensington Market with Jeff Straker and Grant Tilly. Although we'd done a night a month or two before, this was our first "3 GUYS FROM THE PRAIRIES" show. We'd designed a logo, we'd thought up Prairie stories and got the whole shebang catered by THE GIRL catering (featuring perogies, prairie-dogs-in-blankets and prairie wedding cake (or something - Jeff said it was a prairie must-have, but apparently I never went to any wedding in Saskatchewan...). We'd also rehearsed (and I use the term loosely) a couple of eachother's tunes and a big finale, which I couldn't seem to remember the words to.

Here's why I love Jeff & Grant's music: because on our own, we are kind of quirky guys who do some theatrical stuff in our sets, like people to sing and clap along - and in the indie rock world are generally a little quirky (or dorky, depending). But put us in a room together and suddenly it's an awesome statement about bringing ENTERTAINMENT back to live music. The audience laughs their asses off - sometimes at our funny songs and sometimes at us being being idiots - and we laugh back too. It's this great feedback loop of laughing and singing and fun. Seriously, the next time we do one of these shows, you have to come.

The show was great. Grant debuted a couple new tunes (one of which my wife said was "sexy" - my wife isn't allowed back at these shows anymore...) and I debuted a new song called "High School Geography" which referenced Regina... Grant also played nose flute on my new song, "My mother's lesbian jewish wiccan wedding." Jeff and I had actually rehearsed him playing piano for my tune, "Subway Sparrow" but I'd completely forgotten, so, despite rehearsing, it looked totally improvised. One of my favourite moments, was forgetting the words to Dear Aunty Emm and having the entire audience shout suggestions for what they thought ought to be next - hilarious!

And then we got to the finale. Appropos of being from the Prairies, we had settled on sharing the lyrics to "Go West" by the Pet Shop Boys. "Together... we will find out way... together... we will leave someday... " And together we all knew the lyrics, but I swear I never knew what was happening throughout. A glorious, hilarious train wreck of an ending. Afterwards, the guys at Bread & Circus pumped the 80's tunes and everyone stuck around and danced.

And did I mention the perogies?

BEST... SHOW... EVER.