When I write a songs, I always go through a range of emotions from feeling like "I think I might have something here" to "This song stinks and I should never play it for anyone."
The night before my last recording day in August at the 2nd Record Studio with Engineer and producer Deni Gauthier, I sat down with my mom and wrote a song called "Waiting For You" which came together quickly and really excited me.
So when my sister informed me that CBC was having a love song contest for Valintine's day, I sent "Waiting For You" in. After I hit send, I stopped thinking about the song and the contest and kept focusing on all of the gigs that Geoff and Graham and I had coming. Including the one this photo at the Hershey Centre on Sunday February 12th for Faith and Family Day. At the end of the OHL game we were asked to join Mike Gartner and Mark Osbourne at Centre Ice to sing an original song.
It is always hard to decide which song to sing but for the nature of this event I felt that "Nowhere To Hide"(Another song from our EP) had a similar message to what the event was about. So we sang the song and were feeling super excited about all of the opportunities that we have had to play the songs publicly and meet so many cool people.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-CmhQnIr0&lc=0JMNpBPlTt2U9TjdCMfLpbTtsVVd7EBtj7VAz7uDzvA&context=C3c25e8eADOEgsToPDskJlyTsrj46Jp62kFYvsu2JG
Directly following the event I went home and crashed until Tuesday as I had been fighting a cold all week and was trying to hold it together for our 4 weekend shows.
On Tuesday (Valentine's Day) I finally left my house for the first time since Sunday to buy sloppy joe ingredients to make for my family for Valentine's dinner.
At around 4:10pm I started making supper and got a phone call from my mother who was crying on the other end and said..."Did you hear it?" to which I answered, "hear what mom?" She said, "You got second place in the Love Songs contest and they played your song on CBC radio." I immediately got chills and started thinking about writing that song (with my mom) and playing it for a whole bunch of people and now having it played on the radio. I didn't actually get to hear it but that fact that so many others did, is really exciting.
It really doesn't mean too much, except that a whole bunch of people listened to CBC on Tuesday and heard my song. The producer of the show "Here and Now" emailed me directly to tell me that she and the other staff having been humming my song all day and they can't get it out of their heads. It also means that CBC now has a copy of it and if enough people start requesting to hear it again, it could really help us as a band to reach a whole bunch of new listeners.
This is getting long so I am going to sign off for now. Thanks for reading this and all of your support.
Darin
