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A Laurel and hearty HELLO to all of you multitudes of The Sianes Social Club, otherwise known as our loyal fan base. You might think that this is just another gig notice, but you'd be tragically wrong. On Saturday, November 23rd at 7:30 PM, Diane and Sean will become the proud parents of a bouncing baby CD!!! The little tyke is called All The Glow and it will be the centre of a fabulous CD release party at one of Toronto's rapidly emerging hotspots for live intimate performances, LOLA, in Kensington Market at 40 Kensington Avenue. After Jean Baptiste De Collier and Cathy Anne have each played a few songs to warm things up, we'll be playing a short set of five or six songs. Sean also makes no promises that there won't be nudity on his part. After all, with the miracle of alcohol, anything is possible!! ;)
Anyway, here’s a handy questionnaire to settle any concerns:
1. Is there a cover charge? ‘Cause those Taylor Swift tickets have cleaned me out til Christmas 2025 y’know…
- No sir/m’aam! Save your bucks for buying your brand new copies of All The Glow (which we will be happy to sign for you!) and for tasty beverages from LOLA. You can bring in eats from outside if you get hungry while enjoying our throat noises while I play a big wooden thing with steel wires that strikes your fancy or speaks to your very soul or touches you in places that you’ve never felt before and… (that’s enough of that – Diane).
2. Is there parking? ‘Cause having to walk more than a few blocks from where I parked really gives me the red ass y’know…
- Sure. It’s mostly on the side streets and there's an elevated parking garage around the corner on St. Andrew. Whadda ya want from us? Blood? It’s downtown Toronto, not a Wal-Mart parking lot! Get off your fat asses and walk a few DAMNED BLOCKS…(Sean pauses, as he’s just realized that he’s potentially alienated a sizable chunk of the audience and has to think fast to ensure bums will be firmly planted in seats lo the 23rd)…because…because…you’ll need to be first in line for the FREE PUPPIES that we’ll be handing out to the first five patrons at said show. You lucky people you! (Whew! thinks Sean, not bothering to consider the logistical feasibility and moral quagmire of actually delivering said puppies to said bums in seats. “That is for another day” thinks he.)
3. Is this some kind of drunk party or swinger joint? ‘Cause the wife swore that we’d never go back to one of those things y’know…
- Dear Sir or Madam, you wound us. To think that The Sianes would ever play such low rent establishments is beyond the pale. Sure, as Canadian musicians – and therefore lacking in the quality known as “dignity” - we're not above debasing ourselves in all sorts of ways for base commerce, as Sean did play a glorified crack den called The Grasshopper on Parliament St. many years ago after he’d first ventured to this noble city, and yes, there were a few times playing in sports bars directly underneath the big-screen TV hockey game, and yes, we've had drunken louts coming up and requesting “thfuckinsongilike” but rest assured that LOLA is not that sort of venue. Although it's obvious that it does still retain traces of it's former dive-bar character, Cori and Chris have worked their collective bums off to ensure a warm and satisfactory experience for all patrons. Whaddya want? Some gentrified, lame-ass corporate "pub"? LOLA is where real music and spirit continue to thrive. Good day to you!
4. What kind of music are you gonna play? 'Cause if it’s any of that stuff that the kids like I’m bolting for the door y’know…
- Absolutely not, as we feature only the finest quality ingredients in cooking up our heady mixture of roots music soup. Folk, soul, rock, jazz, blues, country, with melodic singer-songwriter-y things thrown in as well. It’s presented with our voices and my, like, totally gnarly acoustic guitar playing, and we've been told by various sources that our voice and guitar skills are, ahem, “not unpleasant”.
5. "Dear Sean: There's this girl that I really like, but I don't think she wants to go out with me on account of this huge pimple on my face. How do I make her see that I'm deep and sensitive and attentive to her needs? Help!"
- (Sean, in best Dr. Phil voice) Use a whole tub of Vaseline for that pimple. You've got to show that girl that you're worth her attention, so since you don't have much personality, just fake it like the rest of us.
See you there sports fans!!!
Sean and Diane (The Sianes, pronounced SHY-ANNS, an amalgam of Sean and Diane)
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Music At Lola, 40 Kensington Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 2J9, Canada,Toronto, Ontario
