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Now this is more my style — I’ve been reading about it for a while, but Wired has a good musicians-in-Second Life overview called Second Life Rocks (Literally).

For those who don’t know, Second Life is an online virtual world. Kind of a giant 3D chat room. I’ve popped in there a couple of times and it was sort of chaotic, but the music angle is interesting and appeals to the lazy person in me.

Suzanne Vega has already gigged in Second Life and Duran Duran will be performing on their own island — which had better be called Duran Duranistan.

Even the front page of secondlife.com has this on it:

I think I may need to call a Brad Sucks Live meeting to suggest that our live show could benefit from an increased heavily armed robot and minotaur presence. 

According to the article there are lots of gigs going on all the time, I guess I’ll try to check one out. Any recommendations?

Riverpalooza was fun. The stage was ten feet high and the wobbliest I’ve ever been on. I’m basically as tired as can be.

We’ll be playing Riverpalooza next Saturday (August 12th). I’m not sure what time we’ll actually be going on yet so you’ll just have to chill and white water raft or something until the magic happens.

Our show at Pier 21 went well, the sound was probably the best we’ve had thanks to our friend and sound tech Jamie. Words such as “tight” and “hardly drunk” were used to describe us. If only there had been more witnesses.

We’ve got another show this Saturday night at Marshy’s in Nepean (117 Centrepoint Drive), going on around 10:15-10:30. It’s a charity thing for “Team Diabetes” so I’ll try not to eat ice cream on the stage as I’m fond of doing.

Looks like we’re playing Pier 21 this Tuesday (July 11th). We go on around 9:30-10pm and will deliver 40 consecutive minutes of rock (with a break in there somewhere). Unfortunately my blue guitar will not be ready by then.

Canadian Music Week (the one day of it I experienced at least) was fun. I went there, they had cancelled my hotel room, I wound up getting upgraded to a deluxe room which was hella swank with the double TVs and lounge area and walk-in closet and so on.

I went to the panel and none of the moderators showed up and once we were on I felt I was mildly to relatively obnoxious which I consider a personal victory. I recommended that a woman violate the Alzheimer Society of Canada’s copyright, said the word “bullshit”, drank a lot of complimentary water and made a suggestive comment about Jeff Price, the CEO of Tunecore.

The panel actually went quite well, our impromptu moderator Jay Moonah did an excellent job especially considering he was only told he was moderating about five minutes before we went on. There was a decent crowd but an hour really wasn’t long enough to get into answering everyone’s questions about RSS, online radio, file-sharing, podcasting, promoting music online, copyright, remixes, blogs, digital distribution, generating buzz, Myspace and more. I felt we only scratched the surface and could have gone a lot longer but that’s conference life I guess. (more…)

Well, I’m off to Toronto for the Blogrolling panel at Canadian Music Week tomorrow morning. I’m not sure how much of CMW I’ll actually wind up attending as we’re like the second last event. Regardless, I will lay down the bomb knowledge and the dope secrets.

I’m getting lots of spam from bands that are showcasing there so I might try to check out some of the more belligerent ones and pretend I’m someone important. “I can tell by the five press releases you’ve sent me in the past week that you kids got moxy.”

If I had my new laptop I’d probably try and blog it or something nerdy like that, but I don’t so I’ll just drink.

The gig on Saturday night went all right, the roads were snowy as hell and not too many people were there, but it was a nice second full-length show despite all our colds. Thanks to the folks that did come out and said kind things.

I broke my A string on the second last song (“We’re Not Friends”) and decided not to play guitar for the finale (a cover of “Search and Destroy” by The Stooges) instead of re-stringing for one song. Then while I sang without playing my hands got bored and I pulled on the broken A string and I guess cut my finger open and I saw a pretty decent amount of blood coming out of my hand.

Anyway, it was probably the most rock and roll thing in the history of me and it all ended when I was given a band-aid after the show. I’m sure Iggy Pop would have done the same.

Brad Sucks is opening for Just this Saturday night at Greenfields Pub. I think we go on at 9pm. We’ve practiced a lot but we may all have colds. Rocking will be attempted nonetheless.