Far From Ruin-tour and general insanity

2007-03-11T16:28:00.000-07:00

Now for a dramatic reading of a REAL breakup letter.

Dear Loser, [Robin]~~~~!!!!!

We Broke UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPP!!!

2006-08-21T12:13:00.000-07:00

hey everyone,

Were sitting at our good pal Sara's house in Calgary waiting to eat some delicous vegitarian lasagna. Here's an update of our last couple days:

YWE FEST-Edmonton

Awesome as always. Although we've played Edmonton a thousand times, thanks to everyone for dancing and buying merch. Sorry we couldn't accomadate everyone with sizes!! We'll be back soon with new merch and make it up to you.

Here were some highlights of the fest:

A Textbook Tragedy-Awesome tech from BC.

Run With The Hunted-Our heavy ass friends from Edmonton.

E Town Beatdown-Our sing along style friends from Edmonton.

It was a great time, thanks to Jay Z for hooking us up again!!

Calgary- last night

We can't express how awesome this show was!! Thanks to everyone who came out and sang along- - especially those that knew every word to every one of our songs. Thanks to Peter, Cory and Kelsey for making the show possible.

We'll have some pictures up here in the next couple of days.

2006-08-18T18:05:00.000-07:00

WOW!!! WE SUCK.

I'm ashamed that we haven't been updating this thing more often- - but hey, I guess we've just been having too much of a good time!

The US and Ontario were excellent. We'd like to give to thanks the following: Sterling, Claire, Shane, Every Step Every Breath, Lions, Life Ruiner, Battlecat, Race Well Run, After The Eulogy, Seconds To Go, Grizzly Adams, Outnumbered- - and all of the other amazing promoters/bands/people we had the good fortune of meeting. We promise that the next time we play a show in your area or with your band we'll write a post raving about how amazing you are!!

So after 5 weeks in the US and Eastern Canada we are on our way out west to play YWE festival in Edmonton tommorow. If your in the area it's at THE POWERPLANT(on the U of A campus) and some amazing bands(run with the hunted, misery signals, drive by punch, darkest hour etc.) are playing.

Two nights ago we played Humbolt for our first time with our new friends in Streetlight Scenery and Midnight Effect. It was great to play a place that hasn't seen a lot of hardcore shows. Circle pitting and all types of crazy antics followed.

Last night was Saskatoon. Anyone who is familiar with the history of our band knows that Saskatoon and Far From Ruin have a shady past. Last night there were no signs of that existing- - no fights, no egos, nothing. It was great. Thankyou to everyone who came out and made us feel welcome in your town.

We've got a few more shows left on this tour before we head home to start writing again. Please check out our myspace for info on those shows- - www.myspace.com/farfromruin

Also, some of you might remember we went into the studio recently to record three new songs- - keep checking this journal and our myspace for info on what is happening with those songs. It's very exciting!!

I promise to keep updating this thing!! I will even be uploading some pictures!!

Tommy

2006-07-19T19:09:00.000-07:00

THE ROOOOAAAD!

We just finished our 5 show run with ANEW and it was awesome. Those guys are amazing, check out their new record THE DEATH OF YOUTH on Torque Records- - www.myspace.com/anewhc.

Were chilling right now at our pal Avrinders place and watching some F'd up movie about drugs. Tommorow is an off day and then were off to Ontario. Check out www.myspace.com/farfromruin for dates.

Here's some pictures from last nights show in Neepawa, MB (thanks margaux):

2006-07-10T12:35:00.000-07:00

Here's some of the photos we didn't upload yet- - enjoy!!

Jumpy getting permission from the parentals to swear.

The gang shooting the shit

the crew vocal gang

The mysterious Kevin Gales and his "power chair".

We leave on tour in a few days!!! Hope to seeyou at a show or three.

Tommy

2006-07-09T18:24:00.000-07:00

Well, here's what's happening:
Recording is....FINISHED
Yep, all the tracks are laid down. It's now in the hands of the genius Kevin Gales for mixing.
Then it'll be sent off to Alan Douches for mastering.
Then, exactly what will be done for release will be decided.
We play in Swift Current on the 12th, and then Regina on the 13th with Cancerbats. Then we'll have a couple days off before we head out East on tour. Dates for that can be found on our myspace.

I don't have Tommy's camera right now, so I can't put up pictures from the last day of recording, or of the mysterious Kevin Gales, so you'll have to wait on those..
BUT, I will put up this picture of me eating cake with my dad watching.

We're doing pretty good with updating this, aren't we!?
Hopefully we can keep it up! More updates to come later this week!
Later, gotta finish bbqing!
-Jason

2006-07-08T02:03:00.000-07:00

07/07/06----#5 Dizzled

Well today marks the last day of tracking(mostly) for this visit to the studio. Guitars and vocals are all finished. Tommorow is crew vocals, and to help us out we have our pals Jumpy Josh, Robin Sernich and Krish Olson up to our little house on the prairies.

I got tattooed today so I'm not really sure if anything cool happened. I can tell you that on the way back to the studio Luke's window kept falling out of his car and scaring me.

Here are some photos from today:

LP WAILING

Beautiful

wow

Our living room

Check back tommorow for a very special picture, the unveiling of the MYSTERIOUS Kevin "torque" Gales.

2006-07-06T22:06:00.000-07:00

Daaaaaaaay 2!
Today, we were up bright and early at the crack of 9am! Kevin came over and we started the drums! Andrew pulled off his drums quite nicely and with a few chops, sounds rad.
Next, Tommy stepped in and dropped some hot bass licks, piece of cake!
Then, it was time for the water to get fixed. Kevin had a nice little guy come by and fix our water situation, so we now have running water! (hoorah!)
Then we took a BBQ break and BBQed at Kevin's place! Woohoo!
Then came the return of Luke! He was back! And we started on my guitar tracks. Finished those babies off and here we sit!(after some VERY frustrating guitar troubles. As in my input would work if it wanted to, and if it didnt want to work, it wouldn't...FUCK).
Luke's training for his toaster-repair-man future career. Will of course is playing Metroid, Tommy's cleaning up a little mishap mess, and I'm just sittin back being lazy.
Tomorrow, bright and early we'll start off by rockin' Luke's guitar tracks, and then by noon hopefully we can start in on some vocal-action! Then we're gonna head back to the city for the kickass Robzat's birthday show! Then we'll ride on back out here for a rad latenight drive, and then here we'll be by Saturday morning putting the finishing touches on our recording! Yes!!!
Now, for the PICTURES OF THE DAY!!!!!!!!!!

2006-07-05T23:59:00.000-07:00

06/07/06----#3 And were off!!!

Day one of recording is finished. We arrived in Govan at 7 pm, loaded in and checked out the studio/our living quarters for the next week. For anyone who has never heard of Govan, SK before(which is more likely, then not) it's a small town of roughly 200 people about an hour north of Regina, SK.

We set up and laid down some base guitar/vocal tracks. So far everything is sounding great.

After finishing we had some food and walked around the town of Govan and "explored". We met a Govan's local punk rockers and hung out. Now Luke and Dre are watching Seinfeld, Will is glued to his DS and Jason is, well, who knows.

Here's some pictures from todays happenings:

Jason and Wil, READY AS FUCK!!

Caravan to Govan.

Jason laying down some smoking tracks.

DS owns this guy.

Anyway, I am going to go message my GF and watch Seinfeld. Take care!! Check www.myspace.com/farfromruin for our upcoming tour dates.

Tommy

2006-07-03T13:59:00.000-07:00

03/07/06----#2 Major Bummer

The studio has flooded!!!!

Mr. Kevin Gales studio is filled with water and black mold due to a heavy rain. Never fear, he is clearing it out as we speak and we'll start recording on Wednesday.

To Say sorry, everyones favorite JUICEY JUICE drew a picture for you.

Tommy

2006-06-29T15:44:00.000-07:00

29/06/06----#1 the beginning

Welcome to the Far From Ruin journal. Hopefully we keep this updated, between the 6 of us I'm sure there are bound to be some hilarious, shocking and WILD entries.

We played in Weyburn, SK last night- - a small town about an hour from Regina. Every New Day(hand of hope rec), Roses Dead(black box rec) and Means(Torque brotherhood) also played and the show was nuts. Even though Weyburn was having their grad lots of kids(many from Regina) made it out.

Make sure to check Means and Roses Dead out on their eastern Canadian tour, both are phenominal bands.

We will be going into the studio staring July 3rd to records three new songs for a project that will be announced SOON. As well we leave on tour July 12th- - check out the dates on our myspace.

Finally, if your not already planning on going to this- - DO SO!

Sunday July 2nd--Odd Fellows Temple

The Riviera Heist-Melodic Metalcore from Calgary

Captain-Local Indie Rock

Glory Nights-Rock from Kelowna

If Dusk Feared Dawn Local Metalcore

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