Cancelled, not cancelled, whatever

Around 7 in the morning, approaching Canadian border. I hope all goes well there. At the border I mean. We've crossed it already twice on this tour with no problems but this crossing point is the one where Canada trains all their border control officers and is supposed to be a bit tricky. They may take any vehicle and decide to use it as training material for the most thorough search they know. We'll see.

Yesterday's show was again quite good one. As I said earlier the place was a shithole but technically pretty good and it was pretty much filled with the great audience so we have nothing to complain about the show itself. We added "Crows Bring The Spring" to the set last night. We didn't really leave anything out. We didn't do "Metsämies" but that's been on and off the whole tour.

Now we're heading to Winnipeg. For a few days there's been some speculation if the show will happen or not. The tour manager has been saying that there's a 90% chance of cancellation and when I asked why exactly he answered: "Because the local promoter is an idiot." Apparently someone has sold the tour package to local promoters when Eluveitie was still included and when they dropped out that someone jsut forgot to inform the local promoters about the change. They are now basically getting less for the same money and therefore some of them have been a bit difficult. Yesterday afternoon we got the final work: "Tomorrow's an off day." However later in the evening we got even more final word: "We're on tomorrow." So, it got cancelled already but the owner of the venue decided to have the show anyway so the local promoter was just dropped off and we're on as usual.

This bus network is brilliant but it only works in the USA so in Canada we have to rely on the venues' networks. Hopefully they have networks there too.