Hello from thunderbay!!!
we pulled in here last night and got up to some serious hi jinx that involved white rappers native indians strippers making pizzas (we called it a photo shoot) and then finally being threated with baseball bats at 4am...however we all still have our teeth...interesting town!
so we have another day off i think were looking for a boat...lunch just came..chow

pullie

hey hey
writing from the "super 8" in Timmins....im gonna keep this short...ish......i love touring! i have had the oportunity to meet so many great people along the way and this in the big picture really is just the start...what i love about it is the fact that theres nothing to worry about all day i mean youre farway from home in a van with you and your thoughts with plenty of new happenings..happening all the time so its a writers dream.....one of my favourite books "on the road" by kerouac is what this little tour reminds me of.....then...at night its showtime...the crowds have been really receptive to us excepth the place in north bay ...well thats not entirely true i guess the people loved us but the old wank of a bar owner hooked us early for being"too loud" it was really weird......but with that exception the shows have been amazing last night here in Timmins "home of Shania Twain" we rocked hard to a room of 2-300 and made alot of new friends sold many cds and basically spread the word of the dunes

what else is really cool is weve had really good press all the way up here got a few covers of some local papers and entertainment mags which i think has really helped

heres some things to remember

-we are currently on rock radio in B.C. , Manitoba, and New Brunswick and all over the college radio scene...aswell as xm radio and galaxie you can also check us out on i tunes

-we shoot our video september 7th
-"socializing w/ life" is in stores in the U.k. sept 20 and sept 26 here in Canada

ok sorry bout the facts sheet but we need to update somewhere and right now its in this blog i have written a bunch of kinda cool things in the last week or so that i will put up here when i get email access again but for now were on our way to thunderbay to blow some minds!!!!

long live rocknroll

pullie

ooops! its actually "Echo Weekly" that u need to search not echo mag cause there is that aswell,anyhow.............

Guelph and Kitchener were both amazing shows great warm receptive large crowds and cold refreshing beers everywhere aahhhhh......so we got the "Hamme" tommorow night at the underground w/ The Speakeasies a great band from Guelph...ok i know im being short these days but im a man on a mission and failure is not an option that being said i must now go prepare for this little leg of the tour

oh one last thing which is kinda cool we are playing the skydome for the argos ticats preparty sept 9th details to follow

ok bye

word up! hit the lovely town of guelph last night for a show @ the e bar...weve been through there a couple of times now with little or no crowds but last night was fucking killer ...we arrived around 8:30 and we were greeted by our friends "the ride theory" who handed us a copy of "echo" weekly and low and behold we were the cover story...pretty fucking funny really of course the story was a bit off but overall it was pretty cool write up...i had done the interview last week on the road coming home from collingwood if you want to check it out google "echo magazine" you might get a chuckle....back to the show.....first night with adam on bass and the big fella started shaky and then hit his groove settled right into the pocket..nice one bro!!yeah full house some great bands check out the ride theory!!

we got a van!!!pretty pleased about that no more borrowing cars and schleping around

were off to kitchener tonight to blow some minds at the circus room....later!

pullie

Really sore throat going on here off to the ole doc to get a bit of medication we just came back from London Peterborough Collingwood with another band 74 openong for us the only problem was transportation but thats all changing we have just got under way in the purchase of our van which we are pumped about a little more comfort on the road is always welcome.

So yeah bunch of radioplay and some good reviews has us all kinda stoked over here however i personally would love to get in and do some recording ive written what i think are some pretty tidy songs....the college radio stations are really digging us i think i already said that which is cool our cd is slated to be in stores in the U.K. Sept 19th and here in Canada Sept 26 but as you know its available here online by clicking the cd baby or i tunes link on our myspace account.

I beleive i did an interview for a cover story yesterday for "Echo" magazine i think went well the interviewer was a pretty cool dude.

heres a poem/song


the inside of you

stop trying so hard and let it happen
the kit that you got didn't have a map in
a pile of salt and patience pills
for getting through the days
pushing rocks up hills
you can come in just leave the light on
the last couple nights really had youre cry on

its getting real close you need a van
a spiritual wave crashing in with a plan

a constant love a constant pleasure
buried in your eyes was my only treasure
i remember when you used to smile
thinking to myself shes so good at life
look at all this you got for that
somehow all this kinda makes you flat

and you know whats good and you know whats right
but youre gonna be on t.v. tonight

is the center of you
asking questions like me
like who should i love
who am i supposed to be
cause all the people you meet have a lesson to teach
and this shows us that were not so sure on our feet

and the wind it always blows
but everthing is a stones throw away
and sometmes maybe thats all you need to say

so sit on youre ledge and cry cause you cant stop
and you cant say goodbye
whats this then?

from the stream......

pullie

just quickly now i want to draw your attention to something we have just got involved with...imagine youre niece or nephew son or daughter god children cousin any child that you love imagine them laughing and playing there smiling faces glowing...yeah hold onto that picture doesnt it make you feel good? It should i feel great everytime i picture my neices and my nephew....but hold on a second picture this for a second those same kids starving severely undedrweight barely enough energy to cry....alone......living in conditions you wouldnt wish on your worst enemy .....well sadly the reality is, is that literally millions of children live on these conditions some orphaned some working 10 hour days at the age of 5 years old to help thier families put food on the table.....to me it makes me sick to think of one of my own having to live like this especially when we can help which is exactly what i have done iin sponsoring a child myself and which is what you can do and believe me it will help whether it be giving the families the knowledge to become self sufficient to providing medicine building schools and hospitals just giving these kids a chance...its pretty easy to shake this off and put it into the "not my problem" pile and pretend like this doesnt happen but listen to your conscience it will tell what to do it always does if you listen to it and its so fucking easy you can become a child sponsor for around a dollar a day i mean shit chuck it onto your credit card you wont notice 30-35 bucks a month and this will give you gratification of knowiing that you are keeping a child alive doing the right thing lifes to short you know start making a difference and i promise you you will feel better about yourself and you will feel your contribution at work good karma is catching get some yourself change a life!

please email me directly if you would like to sponsor a child at kevin@theduneslive.com through Worldvision or for more info got to worldvision.ca

hey happy tuesday more cool news weve just cracked the top 30 for our album "socializiing w/ life" at cfbx in Kamloops hurrrraaaayyyyy!

Remember the record is in stores september 26th in Canada and a week earlier in th U.K.

im off to rehearsal

pullie

Hey! First off just want to thank all of you who made it out to the Horseshoe this weekend for our cd release party...u guys rock!!!

What a great night the place was heaving with the loud crowd people getting right into the set we kicked off "calling all cars" then moved right into "rendezvous" it was a later then usual start as the band before us when a little longer than planned....however good things do come to those who wait we all agreed save the few tuning issues near the end of the set it was by far the most exhilerating set we have ever played this was really due mostly to the crowd...its really cool you know being up there and watching the crowd draw nearer to the stage with every song and by the end of the night having folks pressed right up against it arms in the air cheering us on...all i can say is wow! it felt so good i completely lost my mind up there saturday night as a few friends said who havent seen us in awhile "is this the dunes...whats happened?" or another "Pullie youve taken up your stage presence through the roof"....its great to hear that kind of stuff that positive energy just keeps cycling through your psyche pushing and pushing.......thanks to all those who brought up jaggers to the stage shit there must of been fifteen to 20 up there by the end of the night that would explain my state as i exited the stage.

in other news we have skyrocketed up the ciut radio charts this week moving up 13 spots to our current position @ number 5 this is an album chart not a song chart so we are really really pleased.

we start our minitour this week wednesday night we hit the salt lounge in london alright then must be going now

pullie

ssssssssoooooooooo then cd rerelease prerelease show saturday night @ the horseshoe we are pretty pumped then begins a mini tour through ontario its gonna be fun just got some more good news we are now charting in the top 30 for college/university radio @ #18 not so bad i would say ...im just heading out the door for rehearsal at the moment....i must say i have had the pleasure of meeting some really great people of late and its nice to know that they are out there...

got to go


pullie