Archive for March 2009

Bridge to Bermuda

This picture was taken close to the town of St. George on the island of Bermuda. You can see the remains of an old bridge.

Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1,770 kilometres (1,100 mi) northeast of Miami, Florida, and 1,350 kilometres (840 mi) south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about 1,030 kilometres (640 mi) west-northwest. It is the oldest and most populous remaining British overseas territory, settled by England a century before the Acts of Union created the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Bermuda’s first capital, St. George’s, was settled in 1612 and is the oldest continuously inhabited English town in the Americas.

Lunchmeat tour part 2 starts today!

More Shows!!!

Played a show last night in Toronto at the Smiling Buddha. It was fun, but I’m more excited to hit the road tonight. We are embarking on another mini tour. Again we are on tour with our good friends Ancestors. This time we will be showing off Lunchmeat to South West Ontario. We have two shows this weekend. Tonight the show is at the KBD Hall in Chatham and then tomorrow night we are playing the Coach and Horses in Windsor. I will be taking tons of pictures, so there will be a ton to post on sandersrichmond.com and flickr in the future.

Meadowlark Lemon

This is the band that hosted us. Ancestors have played with Meadowlark Lemon before. That’s how we know them.

The show was posted in the the Sudbury Star Newspaper. Check out this quote:

“Their singer studies ancient poetry at U of T and can speak Latin. When we went to Toronto, their bassist told me that their band was going to destroy mine, and that their keyboardist would make me want to quit playing keyboards. Then he gave me a hug and told me that he loved me.”

The band we played with got their name from a basketball player. Actually, he was a Harlem Globetrotter.

Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon shooting a basketball

Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon shooting a basketball

Meadowlark Lemon (born April 25, 1932) is an American basketball player and actor. Lemon was known, for 22 years, as the “Clown Prince” of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.

Sudbury Water Tower

This confirms it. We had arrived in Sudbury.

Sudbury (2006 census population 157,857) is a city in Northern Ontario, Canada. It is the largest city in Northern Ontario in population, and the 24th largest metropolitan area in Canada.

Sudbury has lent its mining heritage to two major tourist attractions: Science North, an interactive science museum built atop an ancient earthquake fault on the shore of Lake Ramsey, and Dynamic Earth, an earth sciences exhibition which is also home to the Big Nickel, one of Sudbury’s most famous landmarks.

Just Dip It

“Just Dip It” is remarkably close to Nike’s slogan, “Just Do It”. Their lawyers will be contacting Pizza People soon.

Sammy in front of Todd’s house

We stopped in Barrie at our friend Todd’s house to pick up Chris from the band Ancestors. Then we carried on our way to Sudbury so Lunchmeat could play 2 all ages shows. Our singer Sammy, is standing in front of Todd’s house. There was way more snow in Barrie than I was expecting! I can’t believe how different it is in Barrie and it’s only a 45 min drive north of Toronto.