TOUR DIARY:

VANCOUGAR

by CC Rose

Saturday, Sept. 18

The Stork Club, Oakland, CA

We spend the day at the Santa Cruz boardwalk where “The Lost Boys” was filmed. (Hot!) Megan takes her first ever roller coaster ride and by some fluke the cars don’t stop and we go on Megan’s second ever roller coaster ride. We hang around drinking beer and then drive to Oakland. Ladies, you know how there’s an overwhelming number of hot chicks in Vancouver and a shortage of hot boys? Well, it’s the other way around in Oakland. Yeeeee-hoooo! The Stork Club is a pretty cool bar; vintage Barbie dolls and neon flamingos line the walls. Van’s very own Chinatown are on the bill, and true to bad boy form, there’s drama. They don’t want to play first; we don’t want to play first. There’s an attitude showdown, followed by them telling us that if we don’t play first, they won’t lend us the backline equipment they’d promised. Luckily Drunk Horse are there to party with us and save our asses by offering to go get their gear and play a few songs so that we can borrow their stuff. Drunk Horse!! Hello!!! Chinatown chooses to play last. Drunk Horse goes up and SLAYS, despite birthday boy Chris’ severely inebriated drumming, which ends with him standing amidst his splayed drum kit in his orange tighty-whities. We happily play for twenty hot boys. While the next band is up we all decide to go to Cyrus’ house, emptying the bar before Chinatown has even hit the stage! It is an epic burn. At Cyrus’, a full-blown dance party is in effect! Drunk Horse are our heroes!