"In honour of our upcoming show at the 2015 Glow Fair in Ottawa on June 19th, this week's #ThisDealInHistory features another Ottawa performance from way back: the Ottawa Tulip Festival from May 13, 2002. Perhaps in honour of performing in our nation's capital, I can be heard noodling the end of the "Hockey Night In Canada" theme as this cut fades in. The opening bit reminds me of some very early-era New Deal - the midtempo jams w a slightly swung feel. "Sub Sky" is called and we morph into an energetic version at a faster-than-usual tempo, prob to get our blood flowing out in the cold! (Note to everyone - we recently started incorporating "Sub Sky" into our 2015 repertoire, playing it for the first time in Toronto last week - just proves that you can't keep a good song down!).
The jam definitely falls into the style that i discussed in an earlier #TDIH - namely the shift we started to introduce around this time where we slipped away from straight house music and started working in more energetic rhythms and sounds (I called it "nighttime highway driving" or something like that). At 8:22 i can be heard quickly teasing Pigbag's 1981 dance track "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag". The second half of "Sub Sky" never materializes (perhaps we finished that chapter at our next show?) because we end up jamming our way into "Receiver" which features a pretty driving middle section. I always enjoyed that abrupt key change into the final part of Receiver (15:10)... who knows - maybe that song can't be kept down either?" - Jamie
