Trip to Calgary

Well I took a trip to Calgary a few weeks back, I left on a Thursday morning at 3am to be in Calgary for about 11am. My associate Andrew picked me up at the airport. We went to his place and dropped off my junk, and I gave him some N.B. beer called Schooner (whew that is rough). So we headed down to the Ship for lunch, we hung out there for a bit.. I forgot to tell you why I was in town. I went to see the Dropkick Murphys, and Bad Religion. So we hung out at the Ship for pretty much all day. Brooke showed up, also Aaron from Vancouver, along with Joe, and Trish( who are coming here tomorrow). We all hung out until 8pm at which time Andrew Aaron, Brooke, and I ran out of the place to go see the show.
Now we get there and Andrew has to get our tickets from the will call booth. As we are standing there we both look at each other and say, "that is the Dropkicks playing". So Andrew grabs the tickets and we run for the gates to the floor (they were floor tickets), as we push through the crowd we plough through the gates. Andrew blasts through first, then I come right behind. About 10 steps on to the floor I stop fast, the door guy has me by the shirt. He says show me your ticket... At this point a shot goes through me and I look into a crowd of about 1000 ish, and say "my buddy has them" so they tell me to get out. You see in the confusion Andrew forgot to give my ticket. So I went back to the will call booth and they remember me, mainly because I was just there. They can't give me a floor ticket, so I am told to go off to the side and take my seat.
Aaron, and Brooke come along and laugh at me. I am fuming and missing the show. After about 30 minutes of trying to figure out what to do one of my favorite songs comes on "Barroom Hero", I am really wanting to be in there. So Brooke says "go for it" that is all it took. I run for the gates, and blast through. I made it on to the floor and half way through the crowd, and then I was tackled by this big hairy guy. He escorted me to the door, and then kicked me out. So I was in by 8:15 ad out by 9:00. I did things in true punk rock style. You might say I was too Punk Rock for Punk Rock. So 5000 km of travel for 45min of fun. Anyway we went over to the Castle and I was in bed by midnight.
The next day I flew jump seat to Toronto, where I got to see my buddy Randy , and his girlfriend Candy, and his roommate Fred. Also I got to visit Amanda. I haven't seen Randy or Amanda for about 12 years ish. So it was good to see them.


Good trip.


Punk Rock.