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Hi guys!! Ok we are in Innsbruck! Austria!! About to drive to Paris!! AIIEEE! I don't have much time- but I will say this: Reeperbahn was insane, Innsbruck took it to the next level....let's see what the future brings!! We have a ton of videos and photos to post, but no time to post them now. But I will, I will. You just have to trust me!

In the mean time- there are some changes. Unfortunately, due to a bizarre series of events, our paris show has been cancelled. SUCKS! On the pluss side- we added another London show- Oct 4th at Barfly! Yesss!  Also, our Northampton show has now moved to London- it's now an early show at the Bowery. I know, I know. Very confusing yes? But when you're a touring band, you have to fly by the seat of your chinny chin chin, or we won't let you in. Make sense?

Ok- onwards to Paris! I mean, we might as well check out the Louvre while we can right?

And we get to drive through LICHENSTEIN!!!!

Maghan

We Are Going To Europe! And Doing Some Other Stuff Too!

Hey everyone. Oh, I know. I know. We are, once again the worst. I seem to only remember to update this thing when we're on tour, you know, when we have wild tales to tell and we're running on no sleep!

But. Here I am, sitting at home in my own room, writing a blog! What??

Well, it's cause we have some news! Yes! WE ARE GOING TO EUROPE!! Wooooo!! It's our first time in two years and we are wildly excited about it! Wildly! We were invited to play the Canada Blast stage at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany. This will take place September 24th, at Kukuun, in Hamburg. Oh yeah. Details on the festival here: http://www.reeperbahnfestival.com/

And we're gonna play some other shows around too, just coz ya know...we can! So there's going to be some UK dates, some france dates, some more Germany dates...and likely one in Amsterdam too, just for funsies! So- I will update this as soon as everything is better organized and stuff, but YAY! EUROPE! Hot Panda miss Europe. Hot Panda can't wait to get by on fresh bread and beer again! woot! ta for now!

THE BAND

Quicky

Hello all!

just a quicky.

playing in Las Vegas with American cities and Thee Oh Sees was....pretty fucking incredible. never played in Vegas before, there couldn't possibly have been a better way to dive in. So many goood people. Damn.

and tonight, in san francisco. sooo good! we're staying right now in this awesome house with a chihuahua named dynamite. we ate fresh fruit and garlic pistachios from a farm stand. there were peacocks, goats, sheep, and rolling hills today. and the most delicious falafel i've ever had. good day!

will post some photos soon!

take care,

Hot Panda

We should all be a lot more like homing pigeons!

Hello everyone!

Nice to touch base, it's been a while!

I'll tell you where we are right now: Tucson, Arizona. I'll tell you where we were at 4 am today: Austin, TX. Yep...if you're in the know about your miles, we drove for 18 HOURS today.....good lord. We escaped alive and with our collective sanities barely intact....barely. Barelllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Oats and beans and barley grows....eeeeeeeeee!!!!!

Ummmmm, so. We after we drove across the country the other way (NY to Austin), we did that SXSW festival thingy. You know, the one with thousands of bands and as much free booze and tacos as you can (or can't) handle! Yeah it was pretty swell. Us Pandas clocked in with 4 pretty sweet shows, and a weekend of galivanting and doing and seeing crazy things. there are just two many things that happened this weekend, and with our brains scrambled as they are...i'm gonna just give some brief highlights!

.. Abbie and Jeff (see blog about kiddie show in Olympia) showing up in Austin (still on the SAME trip in their camper that they were on last tour when we ran into them). Dear Abbie and Jeff, we will miss your company, your enabling, and your overwhelming charm, and your ability to sneak us and yourselves into anything! Best of luck making it back to Edmonton with your wallets and truck intact!!

world's most charming couple.

.. Tune-yards in a church. So incredibly dear! And incredibly incredible. Incredible!!

t-t-t-t-UNE YARDS!

.. Free Six-shooter brunch in a dream Mansion from the 30's. The fixtures in the bathroom were awesome enough, but the brie and asparagus quiche, and the lox bagels really took us There. And the traditional Minty dinner too....mmmm....salad rolls!!!

Andrew WK and Nardwuar and TIKI GODS!!

.. Our Mint/Olio party at Headhunters. Playing in a ram packed tiki bar with Andrew WK, Narwuar, Grimes, and Humans was PRETTY awesome. And really steamy hot. And there was free ice cream- and not just ANY ice cream!! I finally got to try Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream. I have arrived.

...Wicked vicious sunburns for 3/4 of the pandas on about 3/4 of their body parts. we should be called Hot Lobster. HA. HA.





...And SOoooooo much bbq. SO MUCH. oh god.

meatttttttt

Well! Then, at 4 am this morning, a false fire alarm went off in our hotel. We were gONNA get up like 4 hours later, but none of us could get back to sleep after all the bros from bands were flocking about in the hallway looking confused. So we packed up and left. We arrived at 8 pm, and that's with time going back 2 hours, making it a good 18 hour drive. sigh. We also wrecked a tire in there somewhere, and got it changed by a nice christian man at the side of the road. And ate some really good mexican food, with spoons. Happy birthday me!

Heath, don't get caught by the po!

weeee!!!

Night!!

LES LOBSTER PANDAS

Hot Panda: Laziest band ever.

Hi guys! yeah it's been a weekish....sorry i (we) am (are) so lazy. So, here's the what what. After the break-in in Winnipeg, we missed our Minneapolis show, after all. We had to get the glass replaced, because it was minus 30 celsius, and we couldn't just cardboard that shit up. Oh well.... The window costed 400 bucks to replace, but on the PLUS side, while we were waiting for the window to be fixed, we found the BEST german bakery randomly situated on the outskirts of Winnipeg. Here's me enjoying the Coconut macaroon that would change my life forever. I'm pretty much reaching enlightenment at this exact moment...

oh macaroon....

I never would have found that macaroon (or enlightenment) if it wasn't for those thieves. See, every cloud DOES have a silver lining! It's like that time I had a roommate who stole all the rent money one month, and had a prostitute in his room AND let my friend's cat who I was catsitting for escape to be lost for a few very stressful days. And having to evict him on my own and deal with the police and clean up several bottles full of urine from his room. See the girl who moved in to replace him and help us recoup some of the costs, she ended up being awesome and we went to costa rica together. Right? Costa Rica and Macaroons are clear proof of this 'silver lining' theory. Yeah.

But we did make it to chicago, and made 5 whole american dollars AND ate some deep dish. Then we drove some more and made it to Toronto. We played a sweaty-ass sold out show for CMF(W), saw some friends, made some new ones, showered, found lost kitties on the street, and created some general mayhem. Oh yeah, we made a music video too, for shoot your horse. It started out all innocent, but turned into a full on band brawl with a nightmareish dancing horse head scenario...kinda amazing. You'll see soon!! And how could I forget....some friends drove all the way up from sudburry with some Panda Cupcakes that they made!! I wish I had a photo but essentially they were angel food cupcakes with hotlips, chocolate eyeballs, and oreo ears. Precious!!

horse head of your nightmares...

Now we're in new york. It's late, I'm kinda drunk, and we've gotta make it to tennessee tommorrow so that we can go to Graceland on our way to austin.

ride your horse. don't shoot it.

Hurrah! Sunshine soon!!

with love,

Pandas.

go to wisconsin dells. they have the white house, but upside down.

Dear Avalances, Blizzards, Sub Arctic Temperatures, Heartache, and BURGLARS, eff you!!!! WE WINNNNNN!!!

Oh, hello.

And you say we don't believe in rock and roll?? We've put our lives on the line for rock! We've faced the evil forces of nature, the evil forces of human nature....and come out victorious!!! The spirit of rock and roll compels us!!!

lord shreddy's giant balls! inappropriate?

So, first day on the road...we drive from Vancouver to Calgary. Lucky for us we give ourselves an extra day, or we never woulda made it. We sat for hours on the highway in the mountains due to avalanches, accidents, whiteout blizzards, and just general sketchiness. But 23 hours later.....VICTORY!! we made it to Calgary! 23 hours. And the news said the crossing could not be done. Yes guys, we peed in the snow by the side of the road a couple of times while stuck, our legs were stiff, and our moms and dads and record labels probably thought we were dead for a while there...but it was a small price to pay for making it alive!!

And when we got to calgary, there was a kitten with oversized balls (Lord Shready) ready to pounce on us in the night, and friends waiting to shot gun beers! Ah. Alberta.

frozen arctic hell

Next night we made it home to Edmonton...the frigid arctic hell that I've missed so much since moving to Vancouver (I'm actually serious...I never thought this was possible, but there you go!). Our friend was kind enough to lend us his about-to-be-demolished-Mansion for the night, and us and our Edmonton cronies Bonspiel played a very Rock and Roll party with some very Rock and Roll kids, complete with dancing, old friends, and broken hearts. Ah, homecomings! We got drunk and fell on the ice a lot, too.

Saskatoon, always wonderful!

And Winnipeg.....at first, you were awesome. Until one of your burglars BROKE INTO OUR VAN. Now, here's the best part. You smashed our window, and all you took was an ipod. That window costs WAY MORE than that ipod. Gahhhhhh. Couldn't you have taken the butloads of cash that were in my bag? or my fancy camera?? or howbout those guitar pedals??? That would have made smashing the window a lot more punk rock. But no......miss all the valuable stuff. Take our tiny ipod. Sure. Whatever. ha!! I still say we won in this situation. Have to get a window fixed, but at least we still have all the band money!! And we'll still probably make it to the Minneapolis show. So suck on that!!!!!

YEAH!!

Over and out.

Hot Panda: Winners.

A good time in shorts. The playhouse, Edmonton.

Pandas on Wheels!

Oh hello all, 

it's that time again....time for us to get off our lazy bums and get moving! The Panda Van is gearing up to go on tour AGAIN (with a stop at Canadian Music Week and one at SXSW in Austin, too!), and the tour looks a little something like this so far:

• FEB24
  
  
  The Biltmore Cabaret (With Analogue bell Service and The Albertans)
  Vancouver, BC
  
  
• MAR3
  
  
  Broken City
  Calgary, AB
  
  
• MAR4
  
  
  The Playhouse (With Bonspiel)
  Edmonton, AB
  
  
• MAR5
  
  
  Amigos
  Saskatoon, SK
  
  
• MAR6
  
  
  Lo Pub
  Winnipeg, MB
  
  
• MAR7
  
  
  Sauce
  Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
  
  
• MAR8
  
  
  Hot Panda in Chicago
  Chicago, Illinois, US
  
  
  
  
• MAR11
  
  
  CMW
  Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
  
  
• MAR13
  
  
  Cake Shop
  New York, New York, US
  
  
• MAR16
  
  
  SXSW (Riot Act Show Case @ The Ghost Room)
  Austin, TX, CANADA
  
  
• MAR17 
  
  
  SXSW (Mint/Olio Party @ Headhunters)
  Austin, TX
  
  
• MAR18
  
  
  SXSW (The Verge Live Session)
  Austin, TX
  
  
• MAR19
  
  
  SXSW (Official Showcase TBA)
  Austin, TX
  
  
• MAR21
  
  
  Soda Bar (With Boats!)
  SAN DIEGO, US
  
  
• MAR22
  
  
  Lost Leaf (With Said The Whale)
  Phoenix, Arizona , US
  
  
• MAR23
  
  
  silverlake lounge
  los angeles, California, US
  
  
• MAR24
  
  
  BunkHouse (With Thee Oh Sees)
  Las Vegas, NV
  
  
• MAR25
  
  
  Hemlock Tavern
  San Francisco, California, US
  
  
  
  
  And a lot more TBAs in there too! Woohoo! Should be pretty good! We leave prrrretty soon, so wish us luck! And as always, we miss your faces, so come say hi when we come through your town! OH! there is also a music video in the works- AND the winner of the Mindlessnesslessness remix context will be announced shortly!! Exciting stuff!
  
  
  Well, ta for now...see you in March! (Or on the 24th, if you live in Vancouver!)
  
  
  
  
  And I will leave you with some funny animal pictures I found while Cruising The Net. Eeee!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  xHP