November 28, 2009 - Ritual Nightclub - Ottawa, ON
We had a wicked opportunity to open for one of Canada's legendary hip hop groups, Swollen Members. The show was BANANAS!
We arrived at the venue nice and early for soundcheck (8:30) and there was already a line up down the block. good look. We walked in to say whats up to the staff and mingled with Manafest(myspace.com/manafestca) and Swollen's merch guy. Swollen was camped up in their tour bus outside the venue, while the anxious fans smoked and did the "I have to pee" dance until the doors were eventually cracked. DJ Drastik (myspace.com/djdrastik) dropped some bangers for a solid hour and a half until we got the nod to set up. We said whats up to the people while Kane set his shit up and were immediately welcomed by a brand new audience! I'd say the crowd was mostly Ottawa U and Carleton U students who were ready to wild out to whatever spit through the speakers. Once Kane dropped the "Waiting" beat (homebased.bandcamp.com) we got right into it and left no room to doubt what we're all about. We followed that joint up with the "Few Words" mash up than right into the unreleased "All I Know". By this point, the crowd was going mental and fists were hitting the air to show us love and appreciation. We kept things moving and dropped another unreleased joint "Headache" (name pending), than Kane mashed that up with our super banger "Disguise" which blew the roof off. We had a special guest join us for our last song of the evening, the big homie Newsince (Ground Royal) for the posse cut "Entertain Us". To a roaring applause we threw the peace signs up and made our way off the stage, graced by the new fans we had just made. The feedback was nothing but positive and we did the job we came to do!
To those of you who missed the show, we'll be uploading video footage as soon as we can! Stay tuned folks..
