Summer Wizzin'

Kyle Fee Wins Sexiest Man Alive 2010!

Nah, he got fucked over on that one. We did happen to end up on a couple best of 2010 lists which is pretty radical. Thanks to those who voted and even bigger thanks to everybody who bought, stole, shared, or wrote about the album.

http://itcameoutmagical.blogspot.com/2010/12/hastings-sunrise-another-poll-of-local.html

http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/awesomesound/archive/2010/12/03/best-albums-of-2010-loud-edition.aspx


Come party with us, White Lung and Purple Rhinestone Eagle THIS SATURDAY at Pat's Pub.

Love,

The Wiz

HELLOWEEN

so halloween is over and what do we have to show for it? well for starters...
friday: we played the first show at the newly renovated waldorf, there was beer bottles broken, crowd surfing, a guy ran up on stage and kissed johnny and even sisqo made an appearance!

we also got some fire works and lit them off my roof. watch it here. dont try this at home suckas.

in other wizard related news, apparently merlin wasnt even real? wtf man. johnny s gonna get a new guitar, maybe cross to the fender side.

til next time, GET REAL!

FERNIE FUCKERY

Hi kids,

It's Johnny here, and for once I'm going to try and type with proper grammar/punctuation. I really don't know why I am doing this, it's quite hard for me and i probably won't do very well but bear with me. We recently went on a three day tour (two of which were spent driving/partying/farting in the van) and it was a time and a half! We played at Bulldogs in Fernie B.C. with 3 Inches of Blood. It went a little like this.

We loaded up Mike's van at around 2pm on Friday (the show was Saturday so we decided to leave a day early, thank god we did) and waited until our driver Matt was off work. We picked him up in Coquitlam around 4:30 and immediately hit the road. This particular "road" would be paved with drugs and alcohol before we even made it to the on-ramp of the number 1.

On our way out of town Adam pulls out the cheeseburger Doritos and his pipe and the party gets started, come to think of it, that was even before we picked up Matt. As we were enjoying the coquitlam scenery Eug starts to freak out and says "Oh my god look who's driving in the car behind us! fuckin Mr. Feenie! We all turn around and sure enough, this guy looks exactly like Feenie! Me, being the biggest Boy Meets World fan of us all, whip out my camera and try to get a shot of him. There's too much gear in the way to get a nice one so I climb back over the terribly smelling bleached merch and jagged drum hardware to get a picture of this fucking guy. And i did. I think he looks almost exactly like Feenie, but you be the judge.


About 3 or 4 hours in we made the first rest break in Princeton B.C. to get food and wait for the car full of chicks half an hour behind us. I grabbed some tea at the gas station while Adam and Kyle stocked up on more liquor. Adam replaced the bottle of fireball he finished in the van and kyle bought a case of Keystone™, but he forgot his wallet in the van so he had to run back.



It was pretty fucking freezing there so they decided to warm up by shotgunning some of Eug's warm beers as opposed to the ice cold Keystones™. We all decided it was a good idea to walk into the only pub in Princeton - come to think of it, it was an Irish pub - and warm up. The place was full of Affliction and Tapout shirts and we got the stares. Right off the bat Kyle asks if they have any pitchers on special toady and the server replies "no, but we have shooters on special". She recommends the "Burt Reynolds" and he orders a round for everyone (except Matt who was stuck shotgunning his coffee).

Time passes and so do the drinks. I got a sandwich and soup and Eug got some fucking thing i don't remember. The girls arrived and we smoked in the parking lot and then went to the gas station to fill up.

I went to piss while Matt filled the van up and when i came back, kyle was chatting it up with a couple of locals who couldn't have been over 16. I walked over and joined them, he was giving them Black Wizard Cd's. Then they asked him if he would buy them alcohol. Now kyle, being an infamous underage drinker knows how shitty it is to be high and dry on a Friday night in the freezing cold. So he does what any other good Samaritan would do; he buys them a two-six of vodka and keeps the change. When he returned with the goods, he comes up to me and says "I bought them this booze, but you know what I'm going to tell them? I'm going to tell them there's a tax on it. and the tax is that I get to have a sip" so there we are drinking these kids' vodka in the freezing cold weather of Princeton shamelessly promoting our band (not to mention underage drinking). Wouldn't mama be proud!

We hit the road again with a van full of gas and liquor. Matt was still driving and i think Adam passed out cause i put on Wooden Shjips, but kyle was still going strong. I was sleeping on the first bench and i would drift in and out and hear kyle and Matt playing the ever-so-popular tour game "would you rather...". One of my personal favorites to pull out during that game is one Adam made up on the Black Sensae tour. "Would you rather be semi-retarded or have the Friends theme song playing in your head for the rest of your life". And on and on it went. Personally, I'd choose the former.

We pulled into Fernie around 7 am, but with the time zone change it was already 8 and the promoter Kyle (not to be confused with the bangmaster) had arranged for us to be able to check into our room at 8 am. So we pull up to the hotel that Eug directs us to and asked if there were any bookings under Black Wizard, Eugene or Kyle Hudon. No luck. What the hell man? At this point were thinking Kyle forgot to book our rooms and so we stood outside and racked up some long distance minutes trying to get a hold of him. Finally we found out that we were at the wrong hotel after Eug insisted that "this is the one we stayed at last time, i know cause i swam in that pool!". So we drove over to the Red Cedar inn, checked into our rooms and we all fell peacefully asleep for a few hours.

Around 4 pm I woke up and everyone was gone. Apparently they had only slept for a couple hours and were going to hit the pool. Classic Wiz™ right?. I got up very refreshed and decided to soak in the sauna for a while. So I trolled down there and after about 15 mins kyle walks in fully clothed and says "sweatin it out eh? I'm gonna join ya!". He returned in a flash ready to sweat in his Russian briefs and we roasted for another 20 minutes then lounged around and drank beer in the hot tub for a while. Just a regular Saturday afternoon, no big d.

I decided to continue the feel-good kick i was on and go for a run so I walked across the street to the Bargain Shop and picked up some ten dollar seniors Velcro™ jogging shoes and two pairs of boxer shorts that could pass for jogging shorts. I went and knocked on kyles door and convinced him to come with me instead of watching the tube.

We were just about to leave as kyle pipes up "Hold on, I have to grab my smokes" I told him that you can't smoke and jog and he replied "Why not?". So there we are, half of Black Wizard, jogging around Fernie in underwear, smoking. Just when you thought you'd seen it all eh. There were some bear warning signs and we discussed what we would do if a bear jumped out of the woods in front of us. I said I'd go jump in the river but apparently bears cans swim really fast. So we both agreed that I should get on Kyle's shoulders and start screaming as loudly as possible. As if that would work, that bear would have torn us skinny bastards apart and still be hungry! too bad Eug wasn't there to give him thanksgiving dinner while we ran away.

When we got back they were all gone to the bar to load in. So we jumped in the shower (not together, dream on Daniel!) and headed over there. When we arrived, Adam had informed us that we were graciously given two flats of beer for the night and anything on the menu we wanted. So of course Kyle and I all order the most expensive things. A Jack Daniels™ steak for Him and the roast chicken dinner for me. I forget what the other two had, but i think it came with yam fries. Damn, save me a bite.


There was an opening band, they were alright. Then we were on at about 11:15. Right before we went on, everyone went and smoked a bunch of pot without me outside while I was setting up, so I had no choice but to go smoke a joint in the bathroom by myself like in that one song. We played and it was really fun. some chick yelled "give me your shirt" after we played and I said that I couldn't cause its the only one I brought with me. I met a new friend Alan Gregson that night, he took some rad pictures of us, thanks dude!


3 Inches really drove it home that night. I hadn't seen them in about 4 years. it was a completely different lineup but it was really fucking good. They played some old stuff, notably Swordmaster and Wykydtron. Kyle and I were pretty pumped on that. So for about an hour and fifteen minutes, Fernie went fucking crazy and there were about 4 fights. One of which I caught on film, but I still have to develop that roll.

After everyone was done, one of the guys in the first band came up to kyle and handed him a huge box full of bags of chips. So apparently this guy works for Lays™ or something and it's his job to go around and give out free chips to people. He had no idea how happy that made us. I'm talkin ketchup, cheesies, tostitos, smartfood popcorn (it was this weird caramel kind that sorta sucked) and regular. So hats off to that guy, i don't know his name but thanks chip fairy!

On the way back to the hotel, Honey, Geneva and I hit up sev for some late night cheese dogs and granola bars. We Watched t.v. for a bit and then passed out. Matt got a $238 ticket from a cop for all of our open liquor in the van while driving the van back to the hotel to take a shit. Sorry Matt! at least we finished it before the drive back. Meanwhile, Kyle Eug and Adam stayed up through the night partying with the 3 Inches guys til around 8 am I'm told.

We checked out around 11 and Kyle was nervous about returning his room key cause he broke it in the lock the night before. Nice goin there Conan. We left our gear in the bar after the show with the intent of the promoter coming down in the morning and opening up so we could load out and hit the road around 11:30. Little did we know that was a bad fucking choice cause he had also been up til 8 partying the night before. So there we are, waiting in the van behind the bar eating Hortons B.E.L.T.C.H'S complimentary of the girls (thanks!) in the pouring rain. Needless to say, we made a solid dent in that box of chips. We did this for the next three hours. I went for a couple nature walks and found some abandoned buses filled with insulation and cool pieces of metal. Took some pictures of a skate park and a church and got a coffee at Big Bang Bagels. Come to think of it, i think i gave the Aussies working there a CD.

Bored to death, we drove to the cop shop to see if Matt could pay his ticket, but they said he had to go to the courthouse to do it and that was definitely closed on a Sunday long weekend. The cop did help us try and contact the owners of the bar to come let us in but the only person she could get a hold of was the owners mum. While we were smoking, I plugged my ipod into an outlet on the police station wall and when the cop came around she says to kyle "have a good night last night?" we replied "yeah". "Your eyes are pretty red hey? tired?" "yeah, i am" he replies. Then she turns to me and says "That's stealin power y'know?" and I thought she was kidding and i laughed it off. I said "yeah right, really?" "people can get in a lot of trouble for that" she says. I thought to myself "GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK BITCH ARE YOU SERIOUS?". She left and I spit on the wall as we left to go sit behind the bar for what seemed like another eternity.


Finally Kyle showed up and let us in. It was three thirty by this time so we were about 4 hours behind schedule. You never saw us load gear faster than we did right there. We were out the door and on the road in no time looking for the next A&W to raid.

Matt drove the whole trip straight, no rest stops other than to pick up some thanksgiving dinner; valley bird, meatball subs and big macs. About half way i cranked the Eminem and Kyle Adam and I did some road tokes and zoned out to the Marshall Mathers Lp. Eug slept the entire fucking ride, we made it home in like 9 hours, take that google maps. 12 hours my ass!


And that was that. I missed Thanksgiving dinner with my family, but had a great, yet dysfunctional holiday with my other slightly-retarded-but-loving family that I'll never forget. I'll leave ya with a few quotes from the weekend.


"I'm not a gynecologist, but I do play one on t.v." - Kyle on compasses.

"Warm that up with some chicken!" - Adam on brain freeze

"Black Wizard doesn't eat apples" Adam on apples.

"God bless" - Kyle, to anyone and everyone that sells him bird.

til next time and god bless,

The Wiz

hey to the werld.

this be johnny, we havent played in forever cause eug was visiting the motherland (russia) but hes back now! and were gonna get rippin again. were playing fernie with 3 inches of blood on saturday and then the next local gig is the 29th at the old scratch records on richards with heavy chains and war baby. its going to be a kick ass fucking show.

RIDIN DIRTY

hey, its johnny from black wiz. when im not playing loud music or printing shit im sometimes working for this company that does shit for rich people. so then i eat their food out of the trash can and make music videos like this one while working. enjoy

BLACK SENSAE

So we just got back from a western canada long weekend tour with our friends nü sensae. it was probably the longest tour weve ever done and probably shortest for nu sensae.

We started it off the same way we start off any show and that is to make merch super last minute and rush like crazy. so adam and i spent all of wed afternoon bleaching t shirts on my roof and then printing them late into the night (with some help from a couple keystones and some bottom bag of course) meanwhile nu sensae were busy putting on a show down the street for a band from oakland.

At around 1 am we met up in front of their jam space to start the tetris (for those of you who don't know, this is how you load the van really efficiently). we all loaded gear while Adam made a peanut butter sandwich with his tour supplies: an over sized jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread. we started to drive at around 1:30 am. with the long haul to Calgary ahead of us we did what any band would do, smoked pot and music games in the van.first was the one where you had to name a band and the person next to you had to name one that started with the last letter of the previous. it was going pretty well, but then people started to lose and get "out" on the y's and x's. it was down to Adam and Daniel and we were stopped at a hortons/gas station in hope. after smoking we all went inside and ordered. kyle got his infamous double double, i got a water, Andrea got a bagel and Daniel got two timbits, one for him and one for his bass player. the game ended when Adam said "nirvana" for "n". what a dummy, that's what i started the game out with. he then proceeded to tell everyone how he hates nirvana even more now that they lost him the game.

Not too much happened until around 12 pm the next day when we arrived in golden BC. Eugenie and i being the only drivers, were falling asleep at the wheel and needed to crash. Adam and eug's plan was to just "go and sleep in some bush" so we left them to it and the remaining members went to browse around the local Bargain World. gems were found, necessities too.

Me, kyle and the dynamic duo of nu sensae went on a hunt for food, but all we found was a Chinese restaurant that also sold clothes, a weird art gallery and a gift shop that had the best t shirt ever printed. it said "golden, Canada's g-spot", thanks for that golden. after getting many bad stares we found this cafe and ordered food. Daniel was weirded out by the ice cubes and thought they looked like eyeballs. it was quite good, but the server didn't seem too pleased with us.

The muffler of the van broke and fell down. we tied it up with some wire but now the truck was louder than hell the rest of tour. or as Eugene put it "more manly sounding"

We got into Calgary around 6 pm. it took way longer than in should have but we were there regardless. food was needed and because nu sensae had played Calgary numerous times, they directed us to tubby dog. tubby dog takes regular hot dogs and turns them in to meals. Adam got the a-bomb (how appropriate) it had cheese, bacon, onions and ketchup chips on top. rug and kyle got the original tubby with everything on it, including chili. Andrea and i split some yam fries and a couple huge pickles. this would be the start of our pickle craze that still hasn't ended yet.

Next stop was the liquor store. tnt for kyle and rug, something else for the other dudes. Andrea and i were fascinated by all the different mini bottles of booze by the cash register and spent about ten minutes examining all of them and trying to justify buying one "for my mom" or because "its so cool" neither of us did.

Some guy came up to us in the park and hassled us for smokes. we didn't budge, we were on a budget man and by this time i think we were still on packs of 20 from bc. my sleep deprivation and the fact that he started coughing right into the group of us kinda lit my fuse and i told him to fucking cough somewhere else and we didn't have any goddang cigarettes. he left saying he was going to come back and kick all of our asses.

We got to the venue and started loading in. we were playing vern's, apparently the most hated, shittiest venue in all of Calgary according to everyone and we were about to find out why. we quickly found out that there was only one guy working the whole bar that night. i mean he was doing sound, the bar, the kitchen, everything. he offered kyle 100 bucks to do door all night. he regretfully accepted. we called the guy vern, that wasn't actually his name, but we didn't care. he was an asshole. between bands, the music was so quiet so Adam asked him if he could turn it up. bad move Adam, vern snapped back with "why!? for the shock value? yeah right!". he wouldn't let our good friend Noah do sound for us (for free), he flipped out at me for putting my cab too close to him when we was trying to set up drum mics, he yelled at Daniel during sound check and taught him the "proper way" and "real purpose" of sound check,. and at the end of it all he didn't pay kyle the 100 bucks he was said he would. so after all this crap, kyle was pissed. he flipped out on vern while i was in the van so i didn't catch it but apparently someone filmed it on their iphone. so it might be floating around. kyle told me he had to "refrain from physical violence". the sound was alright but if it wasn't for nu sensae playing, no body would have been there. we left with a new enemy made and a few souvenirs to ease the pain. needless to say, if you are in a band, do not play at verns, he will fuck you hard. oh ya, some wasted guy tried to pick me up and another dude on acid thought Eugene was jack black and asked for an autograph. eug promptly took a pen and piece of paper and wrote "fuck off". the guy took it home and probably framed it.

We went and stayed with friends of Andrea and Daniel. Josiah and Sara were so awesome to us and fun to hang out with. we all got a very well deserved sleep and had many laughs about vern that were'nt soon forgotten.

Up at around noon we left town at one for Edmonton. before settling on the crack-filled highway we fuelled up. gas for the van and various foods from the mall food court for us. on the way out of the mall, we all loaded up on the quarter candy machines. crazy bananas were the hit and we collectively spent around 5 dollars (in quarters) on that shit.

There was traffic on the highway from some chemical spill, and the fact that we were crawling along prompted Daniel to start serenading unsuspecting passengers in the lane next to us with such hits as "candyman", "crazy in love" and Eugene's all time favorite "single ladies".

We rolled into Edmonton around 6 pm, found the venue and loaded in. i could already tell that this was going to be better than last night because the music was louder than 3 decibels and there was more than one person working the bar. rod the promoter was super nice and told us where the liquor depot was. we headed over there so a couple bevies. after hours and hours of talking about it, Andrea and i split a bottle of blood orange mimosa and to our surprise (and benefit) it came with a free stick of lip balm. we found a nice elementary school park and told stories of drunken adventures and high-school shenanigans. Daniel did a sexy dance on the top of this crazy dome thing while there were some 10 year olds playing soccer right next to us.

Later before the show, we walked to whyte ave to see what downtown Edmonton looked like on a Friday night. blech. a few donairs were had, a couple clubhouses and a lucky or two. Andrea got some crazy religious zines from a dude on the street that provided some entertainment the next day.

The show was way better than verns and after the show, rod let us smoke in the bar. didn't really matter to me cause i don't smoke but everyone else was super stoked.

we got a bunch of beer and headed back to aaron and chris' house where we got invited to crash at. jared read, our good friend from new west was in town so he came too and spearheaded a singalong that would go until the wee hours of the morning on the back porch. they belted out such classics as "my heart will go on", "i will always love you", "18 and life" "panama" and many more including some creed song. then at around 4 they stopped and i heard them leave for a "sprit quest" since there were a lot of hallucinagenics consumed.

the next day was a long fucking drive. we had to get to kamloops from edmonton and thatw as around 800 km. i set my alaram for 8 but stupidly forgot about the time difference in alberta so we got up at 9. headed over to the venue and started the tetris, haggard as ever. i saw rod in his underwear too.

we drove and drove and drove. passing (and stopping at) too many a&w's (this tour was sponsored by 2 mama burgers for 4 bucks by the way). we got to the loops around 7:30 and using todays premiere technology found the venue no problem. i walked in and looked around and came back out and said to everyone "we're playing at earls". seriously. what the hell were we, and all these crust punks doing at this place? we were about to find out. the lunch crew kyle, danny boy, andrea and i hit up senor froggys and pigged out on cheap mexican fast food before the set which was not the smartest idea.
shithawk opened the show with a performance that would rival any other band with a bass player on mushrooms. but seriously, shithawk rules. their drummer had only been in the band for 8 days and two jams. next up were the intruders also from vancouver but born and raised in kamloops. their set was pretty killer and they did a lot of cocaine. they ruled, pretty bluesy and jammy just the way we like it. nu sensae was next and it was the best show of the tour, belting out such classics as "worms" and "graceland" they didnt play my favorite song "total drift" though, fucking assholes. the crowd of crusty's and ballers went nuts for them and they even got an encore! the wiz played last and played what i thought was one of the best shows weve ever done, that may have been the weed and double gin's talking though. we played through almost all our songs new and old. we didnt get paid that much but we sold a lot of merch.



there was an after party, so we tetris'd the fuck outta there and had a navigator to where we were staying so we could drop of the van. we stayed in this rad tralier owned by matthew bayley of shithawk. he was nice enough to let us crash on the floor. i stayed behind with andrea and daniel cause we had to leave at 8 am the next day and it was already 3. daniel soon passed out leaving only andrea and i. we made some decaf earl grey, smoked a joint and sat on the stoop gazing out into this amazing trailer park, fantasizing about living there.

















we were up late, at nine. and since daniel and andrea had to be back intown by 12 to go see hole in seattle, we had to boogie. we left matt a note and took rite off. driving way too fast and eating way too many baked ketchup chips. we hit the final A&W of the trip and i tried to order timbits with my poutine. it rained a lot on the way back to van, and we listened to a lot of dre.

home sweet home and surprisingly sunny out we arrived at around 2pm. exchanged numbers and said fairwell to the sensae. maybe well see them again some time.

GOIN PARTY ROCKIN TONIGHT!

HEY WERE BACK!

hey we havent blogged for like a million years. we dont have any excuses. but heres an update of what you can expect in the coming months.

split 7" with Hugenelk is being mixed right now.
new t shirts.
anti tour kickoff show july 30th at the biltmore with hugenelk
GHPR fest in squamish july 31st with such rad bands as baptists, congress, emeralds, haggatha and many more!
heavy metal reunion with skullfist at funky winkerbeans august 19th
western canada tour with hugenelk early sept.
olio festival sept 24th in vancouver.
west coast tour down to l.a. and back in october.
back in the studio for next release around then too.

and in the mean time while all this is in the works, heres a live video for mountain bitch.

love ya lots!

the wiz

WEEKEND WARRIORS PT 1

FRIDAY: STRAIGHT OUTTA' SQUAMPTON

Friday was a bit stressful because we didn't know if the gig was actually gonna happen or not, and we have two bands coming up from seattle to play it with us! The original plan was to play this show on the reserve up in Squamish but at the last minute, the promoter fell through so Will Sotham stepped up and asked his parents (the best parents ever) if he could have a metal show in their backyard, they agreed (although they might not have if they knew what the yard was going to look like the day after).

The Wildildlife and Emeralds boys got past the border and up to the jamspace at around 6:30 pm. Once they were out of the car they were easily distracted by the wonders of Canadian culture like ketchup chips and stronger beer. It was hard to tell them we really had to get on the road cause they seemed so happy and stoked. But alas, we had to move. So we set off with the wiz van, the girl wiz car, emeralds and finally wildildlife. The four piece convoy was hard to keep track of so kyle was put in charge of looking back and making sure everyone was still following us.

The trip to squamton was about an hour give of take a few', and by the end of it everyone really had to piss. adam even tried pissing in the radiator water supply, no luck. We arrived with minutes to spare, the show had to be done by 10 pm cause the cops are hard asses up there. So we put the power of 12 skids to use and unloaded the van in record time!



Wildildlife went on first, churning out some killer stoned out jams with a raging closing tune that i love. It was outside in the backyard but it was fucking loud!


Emeralds was next up, and they ruled hard. This was everyones first time seeing wildlife and emeralds so it was a huge treat!


Then the wiz took the yard and blew some ear drums for a half hour before the cops came the second time right before evergreen. So we turned it up. It was our last song anyway.


The rest of the night was pretty great, there was a few drinks and a bunch of joints goin around, so that was all good. Thorin from hugenelk came up and ended up camping out in a tent in the back yard. Hopefully all his colt 45 kept him warm that night!



The next morning the ketchup chips made their rounds, talk of chicken chips and chicken smokes fueled the early morning conversation and Nancy and Joe (best host's ever) cooked up the best breakfast ever for all 20+ of us. it consisted of bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, fruit, o.j. coffee, pancakes and much more! it was incredible. you shoulda been there. We polished off the rest of the jameson with the coffee.



and finally our time in squamish came to an end (for now). we gathered all around our mom for the weekend and got a group shot. thank you nancy, joe and will sotham so much for letting us come and destroy your backyard and eat your food! you are the best metal party host's ever!



SATURDAY: VANCOUGAR ATTACK

We got back into town at about 2 pm after stopping at a lake and exploring the wilderness of british columbia. As soon as we got back to bullys one of the dudes from emeralds was looking for his lost i.d. he was choked because this would make it really hard for him to get back home to the states. while everyone was helping look, he comes walking down the street holding the i.d. in his hands, apparently he found it on the street, where he lost it a day before. what are the odds? any way, after that, everyone except johnny and kyle went up to grab donairs at ali babas on 12th. the seattle dudes were stoked on.

Later that night we played pub 340 and it was a packed bar man, much thanks to everyone who made it out. i managed to save the van from a parking ticket and a possible tow by telling the officer that we were from out of town and that in kamloops we park in lanes all the time and its not a problem. he asked me "do you have the keys?" and i said "yup" kind of snikering to myself for reasons i wont go into. and i jumped in and moved her around the block. when i got back, i was informed that my amp had blown up so i and emeralds had to use adams back up, which wasnt a problem, but i didnt get to use my new traynor which kinda bummed me out.



everyone went back to bullys, to crash and shit. the seattle boys left the following morning with a bunch of our merch and us with a bunch of theirs. best weekend ever dudes! were goin down to do seattle and portland with em in june! stay tuned! and stay tuned for next weekends edition of Weekend Warriors: Island Invasion.

peace and love

the wiz

WERE ON MTV!

not! but you should do drugs and watch this. the video for drugs, shot and edited by jay gavin and reel suite productions. this was shot in 74 while we were opening for uriah heep at pat's pub.

TRADING CARD CONTEST

Do you want to be in the next edition of black wizard trading cards? well, YOU CAN if you win this contest. have you ever seen survivor? its kind of like that. whoever sends us the most obsecene/crazy/awesome/ridiculous picture of themselves with some visual representation of the wiz gets their OWN screen printed black wizard trading card, a RECORD and a special official laminated free admission pass to the next 4 black wizard shows. so think about it carefully and send all entries to black.wizard.band@gmail.com. there will be a panel of celebrity judges announced closer to the entry cutoff date: may 20th. REMEMBER: NO RULES, GET CREATIVE!

your buds in the wiz

FAN OF THE DAY

SEAN "SIX PACK ATTACK" CLARKE PLAYS IN A RAD BAND CALLED M16. HOPEFULLY WE WILL ROCK SOME GIGS TOGETHER THIS SUMMER EH!!!