Well, the songs have been mixed, the songs have been mastered, vinyl sides have been prepared. The inner sleeve and jacket layouts are done, and the first single and title track of our new EP came out on all your favourite platforms on May 19th, 2023. Thanks to all of you who pre-saved the track and have been listening and following us!

The 12″ vinyl and remaining songs from the EP came out June 30th, and we have filled all pre-orders at this point. If you are in Vancouver, you can pick up a copy at Red Cat Records on Main St. or you can order from our bandcamp.

For those of you who prefer to buy at your local mom & pop record store, you can ask them to order you in one from Cobraside Distribution.

Thanks tons to all of you who have bought a copy already! Feel free to spread the word!

So while we continue to wait for the last two mixes from Dave, I decided to release another song from the 2011 sessions at Hotel2Tango with Bond Head and Jonathan, two of my former bandmates from Doughboys. This one was mixed by Howard and mastered by Ronan Chris Murphy and is a bit more melancholy and less heavy than the last one. It will also be a digital single, and will be released on January 27th, 2023.

If you’re a Spotify user, you can pre-save the track here. For the rest of you, I’ll make sure it gets on my bandcamp at some point.

I also asked RD Cane to take a stab at a video for it, so will be uploading that to the Scamindy Youtube channel in time for the release.

In the meantime, its -9 here in Vancouver, so I’m going to attempt to shovel out my car so I can get some provisions to get through Christmas!

Happy Holidays everyone!

I guess there really isn’t any good time to test positive for Covid. My turn came on Monday. I didn’t feel 100% at band practice Sunday, so didn’t join Shockker for drinks afterwards and just went home. I had symptoms Monday morning, so got flagged by the health screen app from my work (Netflix TV series) and got a drive through test at the Netflix Lab (yes Netflix has its own doctors and labs). I got a call later from the HSS telling me the sad news, and began the task of cancelling our gig at the Railway (sorry Balto and Moylan).

After a hellish night of broken glass throat and chest pain, I’ve been able to keep symptoms at bay by eating DayQuil and NyQuil. My poor liver will need to recover from the vast amounts of acetaminophen, but all in all, things could be way worse. Unfortunately, Shane, Brian and Christa all tested positive today as well, and Shockk is isolating with symptoms so… Yeah, after dodging this bullet for two and a half years, we’ve all been caught.

So fingers crossed we actually are going to play some shows again!

Our pandemic drought of live rock has been going since Bowie Ball 2020, which is now two years ago officially. We’ve decided to forego that event this year, but have been keeping ourselves busy writing songs by text message (yes iphone voice recorder is the way to go for this), and we’ve actually finished a couple good ones at a legit studio as well, which we’ll debut live in March.

Our good buddy Chris Walter has been writing up a storm and has asked us to join La Chinga and Rebel Priest for a book launch at Lanalou’s. We’ve also been asked to support the Dreadnoughts Punkstravaganza again this year and, public health order willing, that’ll be our first time back at the Rickshaw.