Day 1 - The Plan

Cody from Jaguar Love and Marine from Plastiscines via NYLON

Hey guy's... So here's the plan

It's Day 1 of NXNE. I am EXHAUSTED and the shows haven't even begun yet. I was up all night working on the layout for this NXNE Diary Blog (I hope ppl read it... lol), then I was trying to work out where Phoebe and I would be crashing for the night/morning since we are both living in the 'burbs. Nicole has generously opened up her place to us, and thankfully she lives in East York so we don't have to stress about expensive cab fares home (Toronto cabs are ridiculously expensive... you won't get it unless you live here) -- we were contemplating sleeping in Union Station like transient hipster bums, but luckily there will be no need for that anymore. (Although if you see us, feel free to throw change at us... it comes in handy when tipping the barmaids).

So, Phoebe and I will be meeting downtown at Queens Park to get our drink on (who the fuck wants to spend $10 for a beer from Mod?) then we'll catch the College Streetcar and head over to the Mod Club for the Nylon gig. It doesn't start till 7, so we're gonna chill in the park for an hour and get "stupified". We've landed a photopass for the gig so we'll be taking pictures of all the cooler than cool party goers, and will be posting them up here... so those of you that were hoping to check it out, fear not, we'll have videos and pics for you!!

We're going to duck out of the NYLON Party a bit early (so we won't be able to watch Patrick Wolf's full set unfortunately) to meet up with Nicole at around midnight... then we're gonna head over to the Drake Hotel on Queen St W (?) and party the morning away at City Sonic's Official NXNE Kickoff Afterparty. (Loads of amazing people playing there--most of whom we won't get to see-- but we will arrive in time for the DJ sets to start pumpin')

So now you know where we're gonna be... and you know what we look like, so don't hesitate to come up to us and say "HEY... I read your blog!"... and if you'd like to buy us a drink... we won't turn down the offer (unless we're sober, which we won't be) and we can all party the night away together.

We'll be posting pics from the NYLON gig and the Drake Party up on the blog, as well as a video entry of the entire night (so long as our batteries last) so keep checking this blog for updates.

Hope to see you tonight!

- Maria xoxo