After playing New Year’s Eve at the Commonwealth we went to our drummer Jeffery’s house for a get-together. Lesson #1 for 2012: The pomegranate fruit may look delicious, but it is not an apple and don’t eat it like one.

We played Mikey’s Juke Joint over the weekend and it was a blast. Before our second set the place sold out. By the third set there was some serious dancing going on. Nice dancing dancers!

After winning some studio time at last year’s Calgary Beercore Awards (Best New Band) we’re preparing to cash in and record a few new songs later this month.

At the end off March we’ll be in Toronto for Canada Music Fest. We’ve begun planning (and saving) for a short ONT/QUE tour that will happen around the same time.

We’re excited to see Twin Butte, the best place on Earth, Feb 4.

That is all for now!

We have two more shows before the new year and both are in Calgary.

December 28 we’re playing an all star show with Samantha Savage Smith, Young Ones and our old pals No River at Republik Nightclub. You can purchase advance tickets here for $13.25.

December 28 - The Republik

December 31, also known as New Year’s Eve, we’re excited to play our first show at Calgary’s newest club, The Commonwealth Bar & Stage. It’s going to be a crazy night!

Commonwealth Bar and Stage and Modern Vintage Saturdays Present: Prohibition Party, New Years 2011.

Join us for our first New Years Eve where we celebrate a time when gin was made in bathtubs, medicinal bourbon fell off the back of trucks, beer was smuggled across borders and speakeasies were a way of life. We’ll turn back the clocks and turn them to 2012 all in the same night. It’ll be a time for rocking, drinking, eating, dancing and celebrating.

Doors at 7:00
8:00-10:00 Food served from Cafeteria (included in ticket price)
9:00-10:00 Cowpuncher plays their first show at Commonwealth
10:15-2:30 Modern Vintage Saturdays Presents: Ivan/Heebz Upstairs, GSD/Sideshow Sid Downstairs
Champagne at midnight.

Tickets are $40 – you can purchase them here.

Commonwealth Prohibition Party, New Years Eve 2011

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But for now it’s still the winter here in Calgary. And as much as we can relate to hibernating and hiding in the house from the cold, we’ve got a few shows this week that are guaranteed to warm you up!

• SLOTH Records
• Hot Wax Records
• Heritage Posters and Music
• The Inner Sleeve

Last weekend was our Halloween extravaganza in Coleman. The show at The Rum Runner was a lot of fun, with one lucky customer winning a trip to Vegas for their beheaded bride costume (better luck next year Vegas adult-flyer-hander-outers). Matt and I were Ghostbusters, while Tynan was a zombie mountainman and Harley did a rodeo clown thing.

The next day was a tough one. We buried Matt’s dog Leroy in a clearing in the mountains. Leroy often came with us on rock and roll trips and he was a big part of the Cowpuncher family. Leroy had an especially good time in the Crowsnest Pass hanging out with Tynan’s dog Joy. I remember a couple of different times leaving him alone in the van for a few minutes and returning to find he’d sniffed out and eaten van cheeseburgers. He definitely enjoyed sneaking into the garbage! He taught us moves. We’re missin’ you, Leroy.

Cowpuncher is off to Fernie tomorrow to play at The Northern Bar & Stage.

And finally, the line-up for the TransCanada Alberta Music Series at the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts has been announced. We’re closing down the BarnBurner Session Saturday, March 31, 2012.

-RK

CP played this show at this little place that was filled with all these frightened bartenders. They were frightened of the patrons that sold cocaine to the local roughnecks and farmers (nothing like a Hutterite high on coke). These ‘coke heads’/ dealers should have been kicked out for being such assholes but because the bartenders were so scared to kick them out that the jerks were allowed to stay and ejaculate their misaimed rage at every one in the bar. There was this particular woman that just pissed all of us off. She was coked out and kept yelling and trying to fight us while we played, we had the mic, she had her anger. Her anger became our frustration, or at least my frustration and I put that right into my playing; I was laying big slabs of distortion in everyone’s face so they could feed from what this woman was feeding us. I kept imagining my guitar was a shotgun and my notes were the shells and I was blowing her body apart piece by piece with the music, my solos were strange that night.

What I am getting at is that you may think that we’re feeding you all this music but you are giving us your energy to feed from. Without out a crowd there is just a bunch of guys with their hearts in their hands with no one to give them to. Even the lady that was annoying is beautiful, in her own very broken and destroyed way – she is the fragility of humanity, the toughness of our spirit, the daughter of some woman’s womb, and the girl that probably broke some poor pubescent boys little junior high heart. What you look like to us is beautiful.

I love you,
Tynan

This Thursday we’re helping our buddies No River release their new album at Calgary’s Broken City. Then on Friday we’re in Edmonton at the Baby Seal Club with Sam Masterton and in Lethbridge on Saturday at The Slice with Toques and Beards.

If you’ve ever wanted to book a show with us, check out our rider so that you know what you’re in for. That is all.