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Here is where we will put up information about past shows,. Any comments about our performance, let us know. If anyone reading this wants to hear Clim play for you, email us, or let us know, and we’ll try to find a good time.
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August 5, A Bible College Outside of Ensenada, Mexico
I am excited to say that Like a Phoenix has done its first show outside of Canada! Where would we play first you might wonder. London, Tokyo, maybe somewhere in the US of A? Well if we were an ordinary band maybe, but seeing as how we like to do things differently, for our first international show we played a stripped down acoustic set in Mexico. For those of you not in the know, Dane and I (Ben, for those of you who haven’t caught on by now that I’m the one who seems to write these) went on a mission trip to Mexico for two weeks, I have to say that for me it was an awesome experience, and I know its something I will do again in the future, especially if we are fabolously wealthy one day. 
Its ironic because compared to the average person in Mexico I am fabolously wealthy, I think its amazing how much we really have up in Canada that we don’t realize, there’s a song in the works about it, and expect a fundraiser concert soon. But on a more music related note (Finally) we played all of our songs to a captive audience of about 4, and it was a relatively fun show, no real stress, which was probably due to the fact there were only two of us up there playing, which is about 2/5 as complicated as having the whole band up there. Well thats all I have to say about that one, its sort of lame for our first tour journal in several months, but we’ll do a show with the actual group and then we’ll have something to talk about.
April 27, West Meadows Baptist Church, Edmonton
If someone were to ask me about the show on Friday, I’d have to say its a lot like a flavor of skittles you’ve never tried before. We were without our lead singer or bassist (Ben and Theo shared vocal duties), so I’m not even sure if it was technically a Like a Phoenix show, but back to my analogy. You tentatively open the sour tropical treat and skeptically sample what you found delicious in the past. The taste left in MY mouth at the end of the night was a sour explosion of flavor followed by an aftertaste oddly reminisceint of too much barbeque sauce. We played this show to a crowd of 60-70% people over the age of 35. This meant that unlike the show in Camrose mere days earlier, we were sitting on chairs, quietly playing while people were grabbing their food. Despite the fact we were largely background noise, we plodded on, and upon deciding that most of our songs probly weren’t going to be a huge hit with the 40+ group we spent the rest of the night doing our best impression of a jazz band. We did play a toned down Responsibility cover, as well as a few of our own, which according to the lady who came up and talked to us after was “quite nice” Some last important points about the night were that we had Jordan doing some jamming with us, which was a good time, and we got free food after we finished playing, that consisted of hamburgers which we speculated to be dipped in a vat of barbeque sauce, and some popsicles that soothed our road weary throats and generally lifted our spirits. To everyone who came, thank you, to everyone who didn’t you better have a good excuse.
-B. Bouwsema. B.
April 24, Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute, Camrose
Today was a very monumental show for a lot of reasons. Firstly it was our first show as Like a Phoenix instead of the slightly less catchy clim. Secondly altho this is our fifth show now, its the first one with everyone there, doing what they’re supposed to be doing. (We figured out today that Theo has played every instrument for this band including doing vocals for us over the course of our history.) Thirdly (I wasn’t kidding when I said MONUMENTAL) it was our first show outside of Edmonton. We all piled in Bren’s car and drove down to tiny Camrose where Dane is taking Bible College. As we stopped at a local fast food drive through we informed the lady that we were rockstars, and I think it got us our food faster, or maybe she just looked at us strangely. The fourth and final reason why it was MONUMENTAL. (I don’t just break out the caps lock for nothing) is because of the bands we played with and all the nice people around CLBI. First of all Kirstens/From/Surrey was ridiculous, just screaming and thrashing around like crazy, definetly was some good moshing going on for that one, and secondly, after the show several people came up and said they liked our set, and I got to talk about guitars and music type things with a really awesome guitar player from the other band. My minor celebrity experience was that the very same Kirsten who was the inspiration for the band Kirstens/From/Surrey told me that she liked my hair before the show, which frankly will always put a person in my good book. For this very reason we are changing our band name to Like a Kirsten. On a closing note as we were going some guy was joking around with our bassist about leaving the band, and I replied “You can’t leave like a phoenix” at which point Stu made a motion with his arms like a phoenix flapping away. Oh the fun we have, the fun we have. -Benjamin
June 8, Jasper Place High School, Edmonton
This was an “interesting” show. We played our newest song, The Only Thing Truer Than What You Know. The great part was that we only practiced during lunch, and after school the day of the concert. So we were pretty unprepared, but it actually went really well I think. Dane forgot how to sing the verses, so that kind of messed up, but other than that it went really well. The best part was the look on the face of my guitar teacher when I announced that we had only practiced this song once. He apparently almost stopped us from playing. But the song went really well, and I think we are getting better at improvising things when we aren’t prepared for shows. A whole bunch of people came up and complimented us after we had played. Theo played bass for this one, because Haley is really only psuedo-band member at the moment. He is really good at moving around, but I would like to not be in fear of getting whacked in the head with a bass… Well I have to go because I have a Japanese speaking exam tomorrow, and the band needs to practice for the concert I set up for Wednesday.
If your city is flooded, you have two options, run from the sharks, or see if you can climb on one of their backs, and become ruler of the herd. Just something to think about… Ben
April 12, Jasper Place High School, Edmonton
It looks like third time was the charm for us, because when we played the fashion show we played better than we ever have! It looks like Dane is starting to break away from his patented, stand in one place and stare at his feet stage presence! Plus we got out of class all afternoon, so that made it worth it already. We only played three covers (“Responsibility” MxPx, “California” Hawk Nelson, and “Definetly Maybe” FM Static) but it was still pretty good. We didn’t play any of our songs because until it was too late we thought the songs had to be grad appropriate. I think we played well so I’m still happy with it.
December 16, Beulah Alliance Church, Edmonton
So today we had our second show. Kudos to Karissa who came out to our show! Clim definetly hearts you. Also kudos to our official manager Craig, and our techie Eric! We did a set of 4 songs. We played two originals, a Christmas song, and a cover. The cover of Definetly Maybe started it off really well, it was feeling good, but then we played Dumbfounded, which we didn’t really get to practice, and we hadn’t really finalized a lot of things about the song, so it tanked… (We only found out we were playing two days before the concert) After that our third song, “Get Over It”, went pretty well, with a couple hiccups in the drumming, but nothing too bad. It felt like we were back on top, but then our fourth song was The 12 Days of Christmas, and we got through it, but it was just too long… Overall it was a lot of fun, and I’m looking forward to doing it all again in February, except in February we decided we are going to do “Dumbfounded” again, and this time it will be practiced, and we are going to own that song, cause we’re the type of band that just bounces back. We’re like bouncy balls… Except I don’t think an object with no hands could play a guitar.
-Ben
November 18, Beulah Alliance Church, Edmonton
At Beulah’s music night competition we were the first place band! It was fun, but we actually played pretty badly. For my solo I jumped down to the lower part of the stage to look cool, and started playing, unfortunately when I jumped down I was hit with a massive wave of feedback, from the two amps in front of the stage, which drowned out most of the solo… Then, because I didn’t have the song memorized the confusion made me lose my place, and I kind of played random power chords for a while. Luckily a chorus with no guitar had to be sung pretty soon after the solo, so I had time to get my bearings back and the rest of the song went without a hitch I think. I don’t know if it was just me, but I felt like the guitar was being drowned out by the drums, and the voice was also not loud enough. It was apparently good enough to get us to the semifinals next week, so hopefully we can get it together by then. For getting second place overall (#1 band, but beaten by a singer…) We won 8 dollars for the band. Unfortunately it cost us two dollars to enter. -Ben
