farewell to ryan + last show of 2024.

ya know, i thought blogging was gonna be easier than this, but i've made it much more difficult than it needs to be. lots happened over the last month. let's talk about it!

emissions with bloom dream.

our 7" as a staff pick at emissions!

some of our releases spotlighted at emissions!

new ho king with bloom dream.

new neon.

post-gig dinner at owl! <3

thee WEEKEND OF VALOUR with bloom dream was real sweet—you better pray they come back again soon. we love our new best pals! 305 x 416 forever. <3

we played the respire release show the other night at the church and it was (predictably) tremendous. thanks to everyone who came through, we'll post photos if/when we get them. we played a couple of new songs that we have saved for something longer next year and we're very excited about them. as well, it was our last show for the foreseeable future with our beloved cellist, banjo ryan! ;_; they're moving out to ottawa at the end of the month, but not before one last dionaea spouse gig:

ryan's playing a farewell set of sorts alongside parallel play at st. luke's united church this friday to raise funds for the international coalition for human rights in the philippines. please consider attending if you can.

flyer by kai.

aaaaand finally—we've got one last gig for the year coming up in a few weeks. we return to everyone's favourite worst nightmare prison on the 7th with a frankly absurd roster of bands—body nest's proper debut (members of please don't crash & blood wraith), mauling (london powerviolence), heavenscoldhands (montréal metalcore), lice (brampton bully music) & the almighty REALITY DENIED (niagara's finest). hardcore! thanks to gonz for putting this together; we better see ya there.

that's all for now. 'til next time...

love,

boxxy

~

p.s.

 

soybomb is getting evicted at the end of november—there will be one last show on the 30th. animal faces, big brave (drone set), they grieve & piper maru will be playing. $25/p.w.y.c., all ages, doors at 7. you need to be there: don't fuck it up.

g-d killing herself + next shows + recent photos.

although the new friends fest afterglow has subsided and we’ve all returned to our usual routines, we still remain as busy as ever. we've got a new song out (!!!), a ton of photos that kai took over the last few weeks, and a few more shows left this month before we take september off to write new songs & replenish our health bars.

art by faith & kai.

we've uploaded our track from do you know where your friends are?—select copies of which are still available—for those of you without cassette players. you can listen to it here or via the handy player embedded above (thanks to punknews.org for the feature)! if you've seen us at all this summer, you already know that we've been playing this song in every set since june. if you haven't, we hope you dig it. <3

flyer by kai.

first up: we're back in hamilton this wednesday. we'll be hitting the infamous doors pub w/ canisbay from niagara in support of d-beat warriors destruido & agravio coming all the way from guadalajara! tickets can be purchased cheaper in advance here if that's your thing. thanks to jesse for putting this on; we’re stoked to fuck up the vibes completely.

flyer by kai.

flyer by toast.

next monday @ bar orwell: a benefit show for migrants resource centre canada, facilitated by c.p.s.o. (canada-philippines solidarity organization), featuring us, toast’s new band gutmachine, banjo ryan playing folk songs as dionaea spouse, and faith spinning as dj feral catgirl alongside meeks! in addition, it'll also double as a birthday show for toast! :) it’s gonna be the weirdest mixed bill of the summer—come down & support a good cause if you can.

flyer by mt. vile.

last one for august: our first time in st. catharines! we'll be playing alongside one thousand times goodnight & moe killed my cool, 2 of the city's newest; e-mail us or contact mt. vile for the address.

finally: all those photos we keep mentioning. we didn't even play the whinerack show, but we feel it needs to be documented here.

please don't crash @ the whinerack, august 2nd, 2023:

.gif from god @ the whinerack, august 2nd, 2023:

ostraca @ the whinerack, august 2nd 2023:

pg.99!!!!!!!!! (august 6th, 2023):

wolf fang fist @ toronto style, august 8th, 2023:

feat. justin!

feat. justin!

waste youth @ toronto style, august 8th, 2023:

the gonzalo slide!

treehouse of horror @ bampot, august 13th, 2023:

growing fins @ bampot, august 13th, 2023:

that's all we've got for now! expect more recaps & miscellaneous updates as the end of the summer rolls on.

love,

boxxy