On June 30th, we were headed to Lloydminster for a special Canada Day celebration with Calgary's 40 Gun Flagship and Tupelo Honey. Lloydminster has always been first among the Assassyn Nation, supporting us in ways few others have, so we were pretty excited to finally get a face to face with our fans.
Our single "You won't regret it" had just breached the #2 position in Lloyd's 106.1 The Goat's most requested top 8 at 8, right behind Our Lady Peace and Kings of Leon and I must admit, it was a bit weird when we were all sitting at Smitty's to grab a quick bite after soundcheck to hear ourselves on the radio blasting out of the kitchen. We were pretty pumped to give them a performance they wouldn't soon forget but as fate would have it, Jay blew a fuse from his JCM900 3rd song in the set... Fixed it on the fly but blew it again and then the second fuse...and then the third...
Wasting valuable stage time is a horrific way to learn a life lesson (i.e. have back up gear...) but there's nothing else we could do.
The guitar player from 40 Gun Flagship came to the rescue and offered us his Triple Rectifier (if I'd believe in god I'd say "god bless you" but since I don't, I'll just be thankful to you!).
We unfortunately were forced to drop a few song from the set after all the downtime but we still manage to have a good time in the end.
As it turns out, this incident, which had us a little worried considering we weren't able to kick ass as hard as we know we could have, had little impact on the good people of the region and the following night, our single reached #1! Move aside Kings of Leon...

Now that we're back home, healing our sunburns from Boonstock and nursing the hangover from Canada Day, we're getting ready to take on the next festival - Alberta's Own Independent Music Festival, happening next weekend at the Benalto Rodeo and Fair Grounds, 10 minutes west of Sylvan Lake. You can check out their website for information at http://www.abown.com/
This year will see featuring Starewell and Wide Mouth Mason, as well as 18 other bands over the 2 days span.
Hollywood Assassyn will be on stage at 3:15pm on the A stage on the Saturday, July 11th.
We hope to see you there!

'til then, Stay wicked!

Boonstock really rocked this year! It was a perfect day with all the sun and cold beers anyone could ask for. You guys made us feel pretty good about being part of the event and we hope to be back in the future. We had a few cameras snapping shots and we've video'd it all. Hopefully, some good things will come out of the editing room and we'll have something to post to show you what you've missed (if you missed it).

Next, there's Canada Day coming up quick and we were asked to join Tupelo Honey at the Kooler in Lloydminster for a kick ass party on June the 30th. That's coming up really quick so clear you're agendas and if you're still wondering what to do for Canda Day, come down to Lloyd, you won't regret it!
The Lloydminster demographic has always shown incredible support to us since the beginning - this is going to be our first time there and we intend on putting on a show they won't soon forget.