Posts Tagged ‘Bosnia’

The Shows

Monday, August 25th, 2003

On this, the 30-day anniversary of our return from the Balkans, I’ve realized that I haven’t provided any photos from our actual shows! Most of these were taken by the official CF Show Tour photographer; the ones that are out of focus are all mine… ;)

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The opening of our two hour-plus entertainment extravangza featured a re-working of the very tired Second City Riverdance sketch, for the sole purpose of introducing Mr. Shawn Clements, aka Dr. Evil.

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A rare shot of Mr. John Landry’s tongue…

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This is as close as the Internet can get to recreating the excitement of the Shags in performance. Pretty sad, huh?

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The multi-talented Bobby Bruce added another character to his growing arsenal for our show.

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Anchoring all this madness was the big beat of Mr. Kyle Radomsky, aka Fat Bastard.

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Here’s yours truly, making all of Atlantic Canada proud.

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The climax of our two hour-plus entertainment extravaganza, looking remarkably similar to the beginning.

The Road Home

Wednesday, August 20th, 2003

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The carrot dangled in front of our noses for the entire tour was this, The Opera Hotel, in Zagreb, Croatia. We spent but one night here after our last show before flying to Zurich, then on to Canada.

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I’m guessing that the hotel gets its name from this opera house, located just down the street.

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After a gourmet dinner at the hotel, some of us (from the left: Lisa, Shawn, myself, Rebeca and Christy) decided to whoop it up at a local nightclub.

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The next day, we all enjoyed the eight-hour flight back to Toronto in our own ways.

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The closest I’ll ever get to Iceland? We’ll just have to see…

Merlin

Tuesday, August 19th, 2003

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To get from Sarajevo to our last gig in Banja Luca we somehow scored a ride on two British Navy Merlin Helicopters.

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Peter Sherk had a little trouble with his in-flight headset.

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Our gruff but lovable flight engineer kindly lowered the back ramp of the aircraft in mid-flight, for whoever wanted to dangle their footsies off of it.

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The one and only time I didn’t mind a tight-fitting belt — it was the only thing securing me to the helicopter.

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Myself and Marc Hickox enjoying the view. It was actually quite serene out there, until the hotshot pilots decided to pull some fancy maneouvres on us…