Played with ghost storys last night in houston. Awesome psychobilly ala torment/krewmen. Met some cool dudes from a local car club who played in a band called dukes on bykes. Drank some stolen whiskey and got to play our first good show so far. Tonight should be good. Saturday all ages in austin. …BEW!!

When booking the tour, I tried to keep mondays and tuesdays open so we could check stuff out…we decided to go to padre island on the gulf of mexico. It was amazing. Ate some coldass burritos, and had a bonfire on the dunes!

Sitting at a rest stop, eating cajun mix and listening to ben play danzigs ‘mother’. We’re doing this cause our show in kansas was non existent when we got to the venue…oh well. It was a pretty bad weekend in terms of shows. Were having fun though. We picked a couple shows in new mexico to make up for it. Cannot wait for the sun beams to hit my face!! Better then what we drove through to get here.

Forgot to mention we won gold in hockey, FUCK YEAH!!!!!

Click here to hear a few new songs. Album will be released on February 26th!! aces!

5. killing/murdering. i guess songs about murder and running from the law/battling internal demons is a popular topic in the psychobilly scene…yawn.

4. drinking whiskey. a decent drink, boring topic for a song. listen to the caravans “More Whiskey”, they do it best. leave it at that.

3. driving hot rods.  down the highway with/without your hot rod mama.

2. going out. we don’t need another rock n roll song about people getting ready to go out. ya ya, you have your hair piled high, your feeling just right, got your baby by your side, your rockin tonight….i get it.

1. vampire girlfriends. none of us have any relationships with any undead brides or demon lovers. This includes all monsters, zombies or any undead creatures for that matter. a very unfortunate, and played out, psychobilly stereotype.

New songs on the Gunsmoke myspace….check em out. They are un-mastered and will be on our next album coming soon…more on that later….good day!

- sam

so were just practicing as much as possible getting in shape for our next show at the dom with our friends, The Rookers on Rememberance day. A good time, for a good cause.

Other then that….new songs, unmastered mind you, from our second album are now posted on myspace HERE, and were booking a very long, very fun super tour for 2010…more on that later…

-sam

“I first saw and met Gunsmoke at the Railway club in Vancouver BC, about 6 months back. It was for a homecoming Deadcats tour show that HitEmHi sponsored. A few weeks before the show, I had checked Gunsmoke out previously on Myspace. I liked what I heard-not too shabby at all. I had a feeling they’d be better live.

So I went to the show and I have to say, honestly, the bands’ MP3’s as posted on their MySpace, didn’t do them justice. They put on a good show, and had a tiiiiiight sound. I was stoked! I decided later down the road, I’d like to interview them and well, here we are!! Gunsmoke will be on tour around April-May of 2009 to support a new cd they’re putting out-if you get a chance to go see them-do it! I can’t wait to hear their new cd… ”

CLICK HERE TO READ THE INTERVIEW!

Some bands, well, they suck; others are the complete opposite. When the latter play, you hear “it.” The one ineffable quality making them stand apart form the crowd, like Ottawa’s Gunsmoke, who made staying up late on a Sunday worthwhile at the Slice, May 3 with local psychobilly/punk band The Phantom Creeps.
The Creeps put on an energetic and tight set. But Gunsmoke was in another stratosphere all together, winding up the last show of a three-week tour with a blast and a tight, hyperactive set of 45 minutes and 15 some original songs which would do the Ramones proud as far as speed and stealth goes.
Unfortunately, Sam Freeborn’s vocals were drowned out, as his brother Adam tore at his white standup bass like he was trying to strangle it. Lead guitarist Ben Hurlow’s fingers were ablaze while drummer Phil Lemieux was impressive on the skins.
“It’s always great,” Sam Freeborn said.
“We’ve played with a lot of different bands. Rockabilly band the Raygun Cowboys in Edmonton and lots of local punk rock bands,” he continued, adding the band, which started practising as a trio without a drummer in 2006 (Lemieux joined about six months ago), enjoys playing all-ages shows the most.
“Kids enjoy us a lot,” he said, adding this tour they hit everything from Legion halls to basements and even a place east of Nanaimo, which ended up being an old cottage.

The Lethbridge Sun Times.

so anyways, we’ll post some videos and pics in the next week or so.

Anyway, we’d just like to thank everyone for coming, specifically to Emmanuel and Ian for making sure everyone behaved! haha. cheers!

Make sure to keep checking this blog while we’re on tour. It’s been awhile since we’ve done much with this blog, but we’ll change that. We’re going to continue to post videos as we go as well!