I’m happy to announce that you may now pre-order your own personally signed copy of Adventures in Solitude! If you pre-order the book from this site, you will receive your personally signed copy in the mail, plus my Desolation Sound No Shucking Around BBQ’d Oyster Recipe, and the (highly collectible) listening companion lanyard detailing the Adventures in Solitude Playlist. There are three ways to pre-order the book, just scroll to the bottom of this page.

Hey folks! Here’s the first in a series of videos that I made this summer up in Desolation Sound in preparation of this month’s publication of Adventures in Solitude. Hopefully these lil’ shorties will give you a better idea of what Desolation Sound is really like, and what um… I actually really look like up there. D-Sound is a long way from the fancy music galas of Toronto and Vancouver. In fact for this shot I don’t think I had seen a bottle of shampoo or bar of soap in about… oh… a week or so? More to come!

One more thing… have you ever been to Desolation Sound? Where do YOU find your own Adventures in Solitude, to the best of your ability?

Some of the gang at Rock Ridge Canyon, BC for the boot camp.

I just returned home from an action-pac’t weekend at the second annual Peak Performance Boot Camp, a week-long music conference/summit/think-tank that gathers 20 BC musicians and bands at a deluxe ranch outside of Princeton, BC (which is filled with death-defying contraptions, such as the “Tower of Terror”, which is essentially a 30 foot telephone pole that you climb to the top of, stand on, and jump off of, and a zip line from mountainside to lakeside, both of which I refused to do since my private parts are still hurting from doing that very zip line last year). The select 20 are all in the running for the Peak Performance Prize, a whopping $100,000+ given out by Vancouver radio station The Peak and Music BC.

I humbly accepted the invitation to attend and conduct my two music keynote seminars and was able to interview about 18 of the 20 artists in attendance. There is some extreme musical talent at this camp and it was my honour to spend a few days with these artists. I was particularly impressed with Kyprios, Acres of Lions, Bodhi Jones, Yes Nice, Ben Sigston, Vince Vaccaro, Said the Whale, Aidan Knight, and Greg Sczebel, all of whom you’ll be sure to hear me talk about, tweet about, and play on CBC Radio 3.

Good luck to the entire Top 20, and believe me… that 10-3 ball hockey victory by the artists over the faculty was pure luck (I was, um… the faculty goaltender).