U.K.O.K

I spent just under a year going to school in England. I was staying in a little holding cell at Lancaster University. The floor I was on was all male!!! I definitely miss some of my Lancaster friends thats for sure. I took a flamenco guitar course which really changed my taste in music. My teacher was a great guy named Howard Haigh, who taught me a lot about performance. I took part in one of his massive performances, which consisted of over 100 people singing, making weird noises and playing instruments all at the same time. The performance was called shifting sands... to see a flamenco band, a jazz band, a children's choir, an adult choir and a group of local maniacs (me and some homeless folk.... no joke) making "sound atmosphere", was out of this world. I also played some really great music with a friend I met there named Garreth, who's CD I still listen to all the time.

Jacqui came down to stay in the prison for a while and we had a really great time. We went camping in the lake district (where we froze our bodies to the bone). We also caught a really great rock show in Birmingham. The Hives & John Spencer Blues Explosion kicked @ss that night!!! We ended up stranded in the streets of England with nowhere to stay..... Finally, a girl that we had met earlier at a bar caught us wandering the streets and offered us a place to crash for the night. We stayed up all night drinking tea and talking about all kinds of England vs. Canada things.

Its always nice when you meet some nice friends on the road and is probably the reason we keep floating down the road.