Tour Diary II – The Prairies, Speeding, and How I Suck at Drawing Dogs

  I’m writing from the road – 2,500 kilometres into the tour – somewhere between Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. I’m psyched because the landscape has finally decided to incorporate something from Nature’s vast bounty other than flat colourless fields of wheat. Like, a turn. I was raised in the Prairies and I’m totally down with ( Read more... )

Tour Diary, Pt. 1: Tour, the Global Apocalypse, and Facebook

I am writing a weekly tour diary about the Fugitives April X-Canada tour. It can also be read the wonderful media/East Van blog GutterSnipe here: http://www.guttersnipenews.com/2010/03/24/the-fugitives-tour/ The Fugitives head out on the latest cross-Canada tour next week. All the way from Vancouver to Charlottetown and back – four bodies, four instruments, hundreds of CDs (what ( Read more... )

  • Mar 24, 2010 | 0 comment(s)
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February 2010 Happenings!

Hey everyone!! January ruled; February promises to rock even harder. Here’s the what what on some upcoming gigs: February 13 – Awesome Face Actually Gets a Date An Awesome Face Valentines Day show, featuring the dating game, speed dating, and awkward dating stories. At Cafe Deux Soleils, with special guests Raise your Kids Well. Show ( Read more... )

About the Upcoming Play…

Hey! I’m writing a play! A one woman play! It doesn’t have a name yet, but it will soon. Soon, because on February 28th it will make its workshop premiere at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. I am more than excited to welcome it into the world, as it is in the overly capable hands ( Read more... )

  • Jan 4, 2010 | 0 comment(s)
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You can now buy Little Troubles, Live

You can now buy my new solo cd, ‘Little Troubles, Live’ online. Just click on the links below! “Little Troubles, Live documents McLeod the spoken-word performer, storyteller, standup philosopher, solo musician, and (now retired) slam poet… He is definitely a funny guy. Something of a creative typhoon… a charmingly silly creature who also strives for ( Read more... )

From Edmonton…

Hey, I’m currently in Edmonton, at a bar called the Empress Ale, warming up to watch good friends and good people ‘The Gruff’ rock a few sets of Victoria based folk tunes. A little taste of home! While I cannot recommend the bar’s house brew (though it’s $4.50, so could be appreciated for things beyond ( Read more... )

  • Jul 29, 2009 | 0 comment(s)
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What’s Been Going Down…

Le Bonjour, I’m writing this at a coffee shop in North Vancouver, waiting to get back into the studio to hear the final mixez on the new Fugitives EP, due to hit Canada in October. I did not mean to spell ‘mixes’ with a ‘z’, but now that I have, I’m not going back on ( Read more... )

  • Jun 29, 2009 | 0 comment(s)
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Oh, to be Obama

Apparently a great deal is being made about the fact that Obama gave a handwritten note to a ten year old girl excusing her from school after she came to a town hall meeting he was throwing in Wisconsin. Obama came down from the podium to hand deliver the note after her father asked him ( Read more... )

  • Jun 11, 2009 | 0 comment(s)
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When men come to streets

This is a poem I wrote, centred around the recent gay bashings happening on Davie Street. You can reach me at: eightmillionbrendans at yahoo.ca with comments. When men come to streets When will men stop coming to that street when will they stop in that street where people live and fall in love and practice ( Read more... )

  • Jun 8, 2009 | 0 comment(s)
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One Guy Starts a Dance Party

I quite love this. You never know what’s going to happen in life. Can you imagine this happening every time you started dancing? Life would rule. Though you’d have to be careful when to pull it out. Not on dates. Or grocery shopping. Or pretty much anytime other than when you were incredibly lonely. But ( Read more... )

  • Jun 4, 2009 | 1 comment(s)
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