Tuesday's Playlist (Aug 3/10)

Things have been rather busy here in the middle of no where. I understand thats an oxymoron but living in the heart of cottage country and working in a community center can get a little bit hectic. I'll tell you a bit about my town, there's 200 people here in the winter. It's a long winter with 6+ feet of snow and temperatures as low as -35 degrees Celsius (or -31 Fahrenheit for you Americans) but in the summer there are 70 000+ people here.

My neighbor is the largest lake that is not a great lake in Canada; Georgian Bay. This is the hot bed of activity in the summer as people will drive upwards of 3 hours to spend a long weekend huddled up in their cottages on the bay or the surrounding lakes. For this reason it gives us locals a certain bragging right, a certain higher authority, or at least you would think. You would probably think that as people who are here all year round we would be able to dictate where these strangers stay and how they act and that they would have a certain respect for the locals and the environment.

If that was your guess then you would be sadly mistaken. These people invade the quiet tightly knit community and leave us nothing but complaints and crazy driving techniques that you would expect to see in a B lister action movie. I'm not saying that i dislike the cottagers because believe me they have made my town what it is today. We have a beach and a sports-plex and all the things that a big city has but what the cottagers don't realize is that all those great things are here all year and for that I thank you.

Now, on to the MUSIC, at the last band practice I was at we all decided to make an artistic decision and tune down. Instead of playing in the drop B we normally play in we have decided to take on a much heavier sound. We are now tuned to drop B. Being the singer this makes my life much more difficult as I now have to raise my voice an octave to keep the same feel of the music. That being said i have been listening to a lot of bands in a lower tuning than drop D. A prime example being Parkway Drive. Although they have no singing in them it gives me a feel for the type of music we want to showcase. The second band is Attack Attack!; their latest stuff that is. Songs like Sexual Man Chocolate and Smokahontas are prime examples of the two genres being clashed together. Not to mention the incredible synth work from this band.

Since i spent most of this blog ranting on about the cottagers i'll have to cut the music part short. Thursday's playlist will be about the music, don't worry haha.

That's all for now...

Noah