Runaway Slide performing at the 2010 Tremblant International Blues Festival

Justin, Adam and Matthew during sound check

The Tremblant International Blues Festival is an gig that we are honored to receive and this was our third year that we were given our own stage. Tremblant is a beautiful location to be playing outdoors and your always guaranteed to have blues loving fans in the audience. This year we played at the Lac Mercier stage on Saturday July 17 which is about 5 km from the main village. We apologise to the fans that came out to see us and had difficulties finding the place. We went through the same experience.

Runaway Slide fans trying to take cover from the rain

One thing that you're not guaranteed at an outdoor event is good weather. We started our set under a beautiful sunny sky. We were pumped to play our 16 song set but after our 5th song the sky opened up and the rain came down. Our hearts go out to all the fans who did their best to stay dry and stick around to watch our show. We we're then forced to stop playing because the rain started to wet the equipment.

Justin, Adam and Matthew performing at Lac Mercier

After a while the rain stopped but the menacing clouds remained. We started to play the classic song from Jimi Hendrix - Red House. Half-way through the song the skies opened up once again and it didn't stop for quite some time. Most people were forced to leave. Only a few die hard fans remained but by the time the rain stopped our time slot had expired.

Matthew and Justin playing an acoustic blues set

On Sunday we were asked to perform three songs at a Guitar Fusion show. Unfortunately, Adam could not make the show. The large crowd enjoyed our performance of some traditional blues tunes using a slide guitar and bass.

In the closing show of the festival I played two blues standards and sang crossroads with Mo Blues and Carl Tremblay. The crowd of at least 1000 (probably much more) certainly showed their appreciation. Carl Tremblay is definitely a showman.

We would like to thank all the fans that made the effort to come and watch us perform. Also, thanks to Brian Slack of Zeb Productions for giving us this opportunity. Last but not least, thanks to all the staff and technicians of the Tremblant International Blues Festival that made the whole experience most enjoyable.

Justin, Adam and Matthew

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Runaway Slide and Layla Zoe at Bourbon Street West May 2010

It's been a while since we last performed on stage so we were pretty excited about this show. Not to mention that the club that we were at, Bourbon Street West, is one of the best places for sound, lights, a large stage and lots of blues fans.

The only thing that made us a little nervous was that a Stanley Cup Eastern Conference Finals hockey game was on at the same time as our performance. Since our home team, the Montreal Canadians, are in the semi-finals we were concerned that fans would want to see the game instead of our performance. To our surprise the audience was into our music as much as any other time we've performed there.

We played most of our originals mixed in with some blues standards. We also introduced one of our new songs called "Karma." We received a lot of positive feedback on this song.

On this night we opened for Layla Zoe. Unfortunately, we had not heard of Layla before this show. We definitely recommend that you take a listen to her music. She is a fantastic singer and a super friendly person. Head on over to her website at www.layla.ca t learn more about her.

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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

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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
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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
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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

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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

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