Runaway Slide Video - Red House (cover)

Hi,

We haven’t posted in our blog for a while. We’ve been focusing on creating some new songs together and getting our set list ready for the summer festival season. Our plan was to have a CD released for this summer. We’re a little behind schedule on that goal. :(

This weekend we were reviewing videos of past shows and we came across this video of our performance of Jimi Hendrix – Red House at the Tremblant Blues Festival in 2009.

You can see towards the end of the song the skies opened up and it starts to pour. Despite the rain people stuck around to see the whole show.

Enjoy!

Justin, Adam and Matthew

http://www.runawayslide.com/

Runaway Slide Video - Catfish Blues (Cover)

Hi,

Another video that we wanted to share with you is our rendition of Catfish Blues that was recorded at the Trois-Rivières en Blues festival back in August 2009.

This song was first recorded by a little known African-American blues singer/guitarist known at Robert Petway in 1941. Later, Muddy Waters used the lyrics and style of "Catfish Blues" for his first single "Rollin' Stone", the song from which the band The Rolling Stones chose their name from. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Petway)

It was later redone by Jimi Hendrix which is the version that influenced this performance. Oh, there's a drum solo at 3:18.




Thank-you for watching.
Justin, Adam and Matthew
http://www.runawayslide.com/


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Video of Runaway Slide - Voodoo Child (cover)

Hi,

Here is a video of one of the songs we played at the 2009 Le festival Trois-Rivières en Blues. It's one of our favorite Jimi Hendrix covers that we play. We hope you enjoy it.



Justin, Adam and Matthew
www.runawayslide.com

Runaway Slide at LMAC with the Basement Superheroes

We opened another show for the Basement Superheroes. This time it was at Laurier Macdonald High School. We were happy with the way the students of LMAC welcomed us . We played a set of only our songs and the student reaction was very good.

Thanks once again to the Can Your School Rock organisation for giving us this opportunity. Check out the Basement Superheroes at www.myspace.com/basementsuperheroes.

Justin, Adam and Matthew

http://www.runawayslide.com/

Runaway Slide and the Basement Superheroes Show

This show took place at Laval Liberty High School. We love it when we get the chance to perform but playing at a high school is very different then playing in clubs or festival stages. Since the fans are our age there is a certain energy in the air that's hard to explain.

This show was the first of many promotional shows for the Basement Superheroes. We were very happy to have been asked to open the show. We were a little nervous at first since our music is very different than that of the Basement Superheroes. But the fans made us feel right at home. They loved all of our tunes whether they were hard rock or bluesy :D

This show was sort of the kick-off to the Can Your School Rock Season 2 competition. The hosts of the competition interviewed the bands just like they've done in the competition last season. As a matter of fact, the stage, lights and camera crew were in preparation for the start of the competition scheduled for the 6th and 7th of February.

A special thank-you to all the new fans that we met after the show. We're sorry that we don't have a picture of all of you who came and say hi. Believe it when we say that we really appreciate you taking the time to come to talk to us. We hope to see you all at our future shows.

The Basement Superheroes performed a 10 song set that included some of their new songs. Max, Alex and Shawn are a talented pop rock trio with an interesting sound. Check them out at www.myspace.com/basementsuperheroes.

Thanks to Sandro Mauro and the Can Your School Rock organisation for giving us this opportunity to open for the Basement Superheroes.

Justin, Adam and Matthew

http://www.runawayslide.com/

Runaway Slide at Bourbon Street West January 2010

Wow! Our first performance in 2010 and we couldn't have asked for a better venue. Bourbon Street West is a always a great place to play. Not only does this place have a history of important artists but it enables you to be up close to the audience and the sound is great.

A good portion of our set included all or our own music including a brand new song that we just completed to write a week before the show called "(come) Fly with me." Judging from the reaction of the crowd this song ROCKS!!

What was also exciting is that we opened for the Paul Deslauriers Band. Paul Deslauriers, Sam Harrison and Gregoire Morency are a bunch of talented guys that are always fun to listen to. We've known these guys since Runaway Slide first started to play (2006) and we consider them good friends.

Brian Slack (ZEB Productions) presented Paul Deslauriers with a birthday cake in order to celebrate his 40th birthday. Hey Brian!, how come we didn't get a cake when we turned 15!! (Just kidding :)

Thank-you to all the people that came out to support us.

Justin, Adam and Matthew

http://www.runawayslide.com/

Runaway Slide Opening for Guy Belanger

Hi, We haven't performed since the end of the summer and we were anxious to get back on stage. This was going to be a special performance for Runaway Slide because we got the opportunity to open for the Guy Belanger Quintet. This was our second time that we were given this opportunity and it was important to us that we performed well.

You have to understand that the music of Guy Belanger is very different than ours. If you would attend his concert it would be like as if you were listening to very soothing music with moments of high energy. He's a great harmonica player and story teller and is surrounded by experienced and talented musicians.

Our music is raunchier and is high energy from start to end. So here we are having to perform our style of music to an audience that is expecting to listen to Guy Belangers' refined and soothing type of music. I think you get the picture :)

LOL :D

We needed to be true to ourselves and perform in the style that Runaway Slide is known to perform. We did our thing and we even brought up the energy another notch. To our surprise the audience responded to our performance with applause and a standing ovation. We couldn't ask for more.

A big thank-you to Brian Slack of ZEB Productions and Guy Belanger for giving us this opportunity. A thank-you also to Irene and Lise of La société de blues de Montréal for helping us sell our T-Shirts and posters.

Thanks for reading our blog. Talk to you soon

Adam, Matthew and Justin

http://www.runawayslide.com/