Tea-Time

McNabb Masters Ramp Jam [video]

Tyler — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:36:31 +0000

This summer we had a great ramp just down the street from my apartment – the McNabb miniramp. A lot of older skateboarders started coming out of the woodwork to skate this thing so we thought it would be a good idea to hold a MASTERS RAMP JAM. A session dedicated to the over 25 skateboarding crowd. Here is the result:

Elmdale Recap

Tyler — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:58:43 +0000

Pdik posted one of his best entries yet on www.predikament.com – It’s an amazing photo narrative starting from our departure for soundcheck to the end of the night – post rock show. Hit it for the full story…

PDIK

TVB at the Elmdale

Tyler — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:39:54 +0000

If you haven’t been to the Elmdale Tavern in Ottawa (and you, by chance or design, have come live in Ottawa) then you have not truly seen the true indy scene in this city. Feeling a bit like a legion, the Elmdale has lots of tables, hockey on the tele and pool tables in a separate room to the back. There is no stage for the constant stream of excellent live music to be played from – but – in deference to their excellent PA and capable sound guy, all shows come out swinging. No food is served at the Elmdale but KFC is right next door so get a Family Fun Bucket and bring your laptop so you can blog about our next show while you gorge on draft and chicken – yeah? See you there.

The Village Bicycles

Friday September 25th

8pm – $5

The Elmdale House Tavern
http://www.elmdaletavern.com/
1084 Wellington Street West
Ottawa, Ontario

Chasing the Mechanical Fail Whale

Tyler — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:08:55 +0000

OK so I have to chronicle the ongoing saga of my old new motorcycle and what it has taken to get this thing going. I feel like a landlocked Captain Ahab chasing the green asphalt whale. For now I’m just going to enumerate the steps taken so far – eventually I’ll flesh them out with some frustrating amusing anecdotes. For now I just have to get the list down…

Find the Bike – Thanks to Rob Crossman this step was no problem
Buy the Bike – Again, no worries here
Insure the bike – I’ll get to this next!
License the bike
Drive the bike

Recording Setup

Tyler — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:33:13 +0000

Getting Ready for the Sunday Live Off the Floor TVB EP recording session

On Deck Mini Ramp

Tyler — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:09:55 +0000

Thursday night workout at the OnDeck mini in Ottawa with TVB

Re-Fusal

Tyler — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:08:12 +0000

Sovie blew a power tube the other day at rehersal so I was off to Spaceman for a new set.

Unfortunately this happened…

New tubes = New fuse

Lunch Time Yum Yum at the Minge Room

Tyler — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:08:28 +0000

The Minge Room

Conceiving the food baby

The Village Bicycles

Tyler — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:30:07 +0000

Well Ottawa is cold and snowy, skateboarding is over – until California. What to do with the dark evenings and cold weekends? Rock out of course. Enter the Village Bicycles (fondly refferred to as TVB) The line up is Guitar, Bass Drums and Keys – the sound is ecclectic at best – reggae, art rock, stoner rock with a sabbathy edge – hm let’s go with undefined right now. Everyone skates except nikki but she plays an mean keyoard. Recording this weekend in the most ghetto tradition of EP demos – 4 mics on the drums into a 4 channel mixer, mics on the guitar, bass and keys – then all into the other mixer and then into Logic. Gah. It’ll be fun – live off the floor is my favorite.

Know media

Tyler — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:29:09 +0000

Hey all, Ive been working on a new Public relations/tech blog
www.Knowmediablog.com
It’s a compilation if communications / social media tools news and various original articles. Hope y’all like it.