CMW 2011: Day 1 Round-Up

Alrighty, there's been so much going on that the major articles, reviews, etc. will be posted at a later date but to give you just a tease I'll give a daily round-up of last night as well as for today and the next this weekend while I perfect my wonderous adventures for all of you readers (hopefully new readers as well seeing as I've been handing out my business card like CRAZY!).

So first off...the rain. WTF is up with this rain? It rained all morning, all day and all night. Seriously, I'm all rained out so monther nature, will you please give us a break today? Please?

I arrived into Toronto yesterday about 10 AM and headed straight over to the lovely Royal York for sign in and then we headed up another level to see the Celebrity Interview session with the one and only Nikki Sixx. Nikki is the bassist for Motley Crue and an aspiring photographer. His interview was definitely inspirational and I can't wait to write more about it!

Next we were onto the Phoenix to interview Ash and Human Kabob from U.S.S. They have to be the most random, happy-go-lucky, excited-about-life guys I have met in a very long time. My friend Jenny (aka ZebraPrintSky) did a sit down interview with them and it's so funny! (I'll add the link later)

After that we had time to get ready before we headed out to get some dinner (and Jenny to get her friend's camera - her camera decided to quit working on her, boo!) before we went to have a chat with Alex from Illscarlett!! After talking to him we ended up on the streetcar and headed to the Gibson Showroom and saw Low Level Flight (if you don't know this former Idol winner Ryan Malcom fronts the band) where there was free beer and great music despite the ugly weather outside.

*sidenote, I'm complaining about the weather, yes but it's in no way a comparison to what happened in Japan this morning and my heart and thoughts go out to those who are missing a loved one or lost one.*

After LLF we went on back to Tattoo to catch the sold out Illscarlett show! Nothing like great Canadian music rocking out to a crowd who was bouncing from front to back. Everybody was having a great time and it could be seen no matter where you were in the building!

AND we're not done yet...finally the last show of the night we headed down the street to the gorgeous bar Cherry Cola's, which is a caberet inspired bar, to see The Never Ending White Lights. Even though we were all super tired and sore at that point (which was about 1:30-2:00am) you couldn't help but get into the groove of The Never Ending White Lights. They just had a great vibe to them and everybody who was packed into that tiny bar had such a great time!

We were in bed finally by 3a.m. exhausted. We were up at 8a.m. today to do it again!!

...too be continued...our adventure is back in action as we head to the Royal York again for the CRMA's!