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Youtube Channel

2006-12-13T02:19:00.000-07:00

We've added all the songs from our show last week. There is a couple of our songs embedded on the myspace profile. For the rest subscribe (c'mon..be social) to our Youtube channel by clicking right HERE.
There is some old stuff there too not just the GBV tribute show.
Thanks again.
Cheers!
Ryan

Favour at CKXU.

2006-12-01T15:17:00.000-07:00

This Saturday December 2 between 9pm and midnight mountain time we are dropping by CKXU to talk about our up coming show.

Hopefully we will get to play some Guided By Voices and Favour. We won't push our luck though ;)
If you live in the Lethbridge area you can listen at 88.3FM or if you live elsewhere you can listen at www.ckxu.com.

Life By Stereo and Girl O'clock are both excellent shows. Check them out every Saturday night on CKXU!

Next Friday December 8th we are playing a full set of Guided By Voices songs at the Slice in Lethbridge. Paul and Quint will be joining us on stage and we will be swapping instruments often. We are going by the name Striped White Jets in honour of our heroes from Dayton Ohio. Darby and Joan will also be playing.

Square Waves

2006-09-04T02:45:00.000-06:00

What the hell has been going on with the favours? Ryan moved back to Lethbridge, they played a few shows, and then they disappeared!
Side projects. They always get in the way don't they.
Jeff and Ryan have been rehearsing and playing a few shows with Patrick and Paul as the Square Waves. Yes the same Paul that played with Favour back in the glory days of 2001. Anyway you can check out the Square Waves on some strange new site called Myspace. I heard that site is popular with the kids these days.
John started up the Forever again with Deadbeats Greg and Cale. As always they will be playing all over place and freaking the shit out of everyone with their own brand of garage rock! They are on that Myspace thing too.
We have moved into our new practice space that we share with rock stars Atrophy Manuscript and will be sharing our output here and on the Favour Myspace machine.
See you soon!
Ryan

Show Diary: Tongue n' Groove - March 25 2006 - SoyCaptain/Darby&Joan

2006-03-27T20:19:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - Tongue N' Groove - March 25 2006
Taped: To digital 8-Track (2 Live mics) by Quint
Other Bands: Soy Captain, The Darby And Joan Club
Playlist: Blame It On The Old School, Upstairs, The Hardest Part, Ashes, Eventually, Ripe, Yr. Mistakes, Deathbed Fantasies,
Shining Statistic, Had It All Worked Out

Good show, better than the last. Wasn't as many people as the last show, but it was still a full house. Soy Captain, which is
Mitz, Emily and a guy named Aaron, were pretty wicked. It was poppy and really good. Emily has great voice too. Mitz is awesome.
We made a few mistakes but nothing that bad. Ryan and John yelled "Deathbed" during the "loud" part of Deathbed Fantasies.
This is really the first time Ryan & John have done some singing for Favour. It was pretty cool. We raised
Upstairs from the dead and people seemed to like it. Plus The Hardest Part made it's debut and it sounded pretty good.
Darby And Joan played a good set too. It was their CD Release party, and Lorne gave me a copy. I chatted with P-bone and
Jon from Atrophy Manuscript. Apparently he likes Seam. Nice fellow. Good show.

Show March 25 2006 at the TnG

2006-03-16T11:55:00.000-07:00

New Name

2006-02-20T02:42:00.000-07:00

In an attempt to stay hip and cool we are changing our name.

We will now be known as WOLF FAVOUR.

Tongue n' Groove with Beginning of the End

2006-01-27T23:59:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - Tongue N' Groove - January 27 2006
Taped: Video Taped
Other Bands: Beginning Of The End
Playlist: Had It All Worked Out, Yr Mistakes, Ripe, Nervous Laughing Stock, Conflicting, Deathbed Fantasies,
Ashes, Modified To Fit, Blame It On The Old School. Plus: Mildred Pierce and an awful version of 30 Hours

The Return of the Favour. A mostly good show. The sound was quite good, I could hear my vocals really well. Quint is awesome
for setting up the microphones. Quite busy. I knew tons of people. People from work too, which was different, but really good.
All went well, some mistakes on Old School, and our Mildred Pierce was too fast, and our 30 Hours was a disaster. It was
the premiere of Old School and I think it's a great song. You can almost dance to it. Almost.
Jeff from Jil and his 2 piece band was next. He played bass, and the other guy Dale plays Drums. The bass was mostly
distorted and had a wicked full sound. I spoke with the drummer later and he said they've made a bunch of recordings, and
that he is a fan of Jason Loewenstein of Sebadoh. Later many people came back to my house, but no Ryan! Ryan, where were you?
Also, the show was filmed thanks to Dusty and another guy I never spoke too. We'll see how it turned out.

favourweb

2006-01-25T22:10:00.000-07:00

Jeff:
Well we have finally moved some content to various places on the internet. Flickr for Photos, this for News, and music is in various places. We might have some video too.
You will notice that all the Show "Diary" entries are all here, which is why our archive goes back to 1997. I might also migrate over past news posts too. Why not.

Ryan is trying to get a video of the show and maybe Torrent it or something. Perhaps we will look at some other distrubition methods.

Yes, the show is Friday January 27, at the Tongue n Groove. Also appearing is Beginning of the End. So check that out.

This will be the first Favour show since March 2003!!

later.

Favour Live at the Tongue n' Groove

2006-01-18T13:27:00.000-07:00

Starlight Lounge

2003-03-22T05:21:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - The Starlight Lounge - March 22 2003
Taped: Maybe? on DAT and other things
Other Bands: Red Underground, The Minimals, The John Gleu 3
Playlist: Had It All Worked Out, Deathbed Fantasies, Ashes, Yr Mistakes, Conflicting, Ripe, Nervous Laughing Stock, Modified To Fit, Shining Statistic, Away, 30 Hrs.

Great show. We seemed to skip 2002 as far as shows, but finally, we played. It was sold out, and packed. I missed much of Red Underground. I think they were primarily covers. I heard "Rockin' In the Free World". Minimals were next, a 3 piece with an early Nirvana quality. Then we played, sometime around 11:30 or so. Our set of almost entirley new songs went very well. I managed to grab the slide for "Had It All Worked Out" in time. People seemed to like us, so we played 30 Hours as a bonus, nevermind that we havent practiced it for many months. Pulled it off though. Sound was good too, I could hear my vocals well, which helps for songs like Ripe which is clearly not in my vocal range. Tsk. And, I missed John Gleu 3, cuz I'm a bastard. But I heard they were very good too.

Hugo's

2001-09-29T05:20:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - Hugo's Lounge - September 29 2001
Taped: partialy video taped
Other Bands: Nick..I forget his last name, The Holics
Playlist: Modified To Fit, Waves All Around, All That You Dream, Deathbed Fantasies, Exit To The Park, Ripe, Fail Me, In The Mouth A Desert, Shining Statistic, Nurture, Sidewalk, 30 Hours, Sadier, Natural Grace (Acoustic Jeff), On Fire (Acoustic Jeff), Another Day (Acoustic Jeff), Afternoon (Acoustic John), In A Different Place (Acoustic John)

Long show. I missed the first half of Nick. He had a drum machine/sampler?, and big keyboard, and a Casio SK-1 keyboard (just like mine). He played sort of ambient keyboard sounds, it was really nice. Then the Holics came on, with Moukhi on Guitar and vocals, and a guy from Tokyo who's name I forget doing bass and vocals. And I don't know the drummer. I don't know anything, except that they were really good and I hope they keep playing together. Then we went on, and the sound quality was really good thanks to Quint. Everything was going fine till I broke my G at the end of Exit. Only at shows. So, I quickly put a new string on. We continued with a bunch more songs, then took a break. Then I did some acoustic numbers. I forgot the last half of Natural Grace ("I stumble here.."), and was pretty shaky vocally on it and On Fire. I tried to channel the spirit of Lou Barlow. Another Day went fairly well. Then John did 2 acoustic songs, using my guitar. It was a good experience. Then, finally, we finished off with 4 more band songs, throwing 30 Hrs. in at the last second. We made some beautiful noise at the end of Sadier. Good good show. Hugos is great. Rock.

Sik-Ooh-Kotoki Friendship Centre

2001-07-28T05:19:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - The Sik-Ooh-Kotoki Friendship Centre - July 28? 2001
Taped: No
Other Bands: The Day After Tomorrow Band (Calgary), The Red Light Sting (Vancouver)
Playlist: Deathbed Fantasies, Modified To Fit, Fail Me, Shining Statistic, Ripe, All About, Waves All Around

Back again. They need more power cords/mic stands. Not very many people showed up, most of the crowd was in one of the other bands. Marks the return of our original 3-piece line-up. Also the return of All About which hasn't been played forever, as well as the debut of "Deathbed Fantasies". We played fairly well. We tried a noise ending for Shining Statistic, but it just wasn't working for me so I sort of cut it short. Oh well. The Effectron I was making some decent sounds finally. I didn't stick around for the other bands but I guess they were good. Pracitcally everyone ended up at John's house afterwards.

Pier 49

2001-05-05T05:18:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - Pier 49 - May 5 2001
Taped: Videotaped (on a tripod)
Other Bands: East of Me, David Fletcher, Defpotec
Playlist: Sadier, Another Day, Fail Me, Ripe, In the Mouth a Desert, Shining Statistic, Exit To The Park, Modified to Fit, Away, Mildred Pierce

This show was great. It was $10 for the bands, pizza and pop. There was tons of people there (final count was 81), but it is a pretty small place. East of Me was really really good, I wished I had seen them the day before. They did a Sloan and a Weezer cover so therefore I like them. We definately want to play with them again, maybe a split 7"? David Fletcher was good too, but hard to hear over the crowd. He did acoustic stuff and also had a didgereedoo. However that is spelt. Defpotec did some covers of stuff, and seemed to have a good following. We played pretty good. It was the first time we've played "Shining Statistic" and it went very well. Paul got the crowd going too. The Mildred Pierce "cover" was kind of sloppy but people didn't seem to care anyways. Good show.

Sik Ooh Kotoki Friendship Centre

2001-05-04T05:17:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - The Sik-Ooh-Kotoki Friendship Centre "Anarcho Art Show" - May 4 2001
Taped: Partially videotaped
Other Bands: East of Me, First In Last Out
Playlist: Sadier, Another Day, Fail Me, Modified To Fit, Exit To The Park, In the Mouth a Desert, Away

Our first "real" show in a year and a half, our first show as a 4 piece with Paul on guitar. We played fairly well, though the sound wasn't too good. Vocals were pretty inaudible in the crowd. The crowd was small but were really into all the bands, so it was good. Ryan's cord cut out on the Pavement cover. I missed East of Me, but First In Last Out was really good, and made some good noise. I picked up their CD.

Movie Mill

2000-12-18T05:17:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - The Movie Mill - December 18? 2000
Taped: No
Other Bands: No
Playlist: Stars Will Be Used, Into Stars, Away, Exit To The Park, Another Day, In The Mouth A Desert

This was the staff xmas party for the movie mill. It was our first show in over a year, and our first show with Paul on the drums. We played in a theatre which was cool. We had to wait around a long time before it started which kind of sucked. I borrowed some guys amp whose name I forget, it sounded pretty good. The cymbals fell over a bunch, and the timing went awry a few times. It was ok, but the crowd mostly wasn't that into it. But what do you expect I guess. The Pavement cover went pretty good, it'll be a good song in the future for shows.

Club 911

1999-10-31T05:16:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - Club 911 - Sunday October 31 1999
Taped: No
Other Bands: DSFA, the Local Rabbits, and the Flashing Lights!
Playlist: Fail Me, All That You Dream, All About, Take Another Drag, Modified To Fit, Waves All Around, Into Stars, Exit To the Park, Eventually

I didn't see DSFA, apparently they were good. Our first song (Waves) was shot cuz the sound woz fucked and there were no vocals. Well we played the rest alright. We debuted Modified, Fail Me, and All That You Dream as well as our Hermit cover which turned out alright. Mr Matt Murphy was watching. The Meliorist girl gave me a shitty review saying my stage presence sucked, which it does but I didn't think it sucked as bad as her interviewing skills. Ho hum. Local Rabbits were great and Flashing Lights kicked ass and played many long songs into the night.

Barn-Elevator To Hell

1999-09-24T05:15:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - The Barn
Taped: Video taped except for first 2 songs
Other Bands: Delusions of Grandeur, Elevator Through Playlist: Sidewalk, Waves All Around, Cupid Come, Eventually, more...

Delusions of Grandeur were quite good, and it was only their first or second show. They were nice folks. We played a fairly good set except that we fucked up our My Bloody Valentine cover of "Cupid Come" as Rick White looked on. Blah. Elevator were awesome, but lacking the keyboard which was too bad. Tara asked whether Sidewalk was going to be on anything in the near future, so maybe she actually liked it or something. Elevator kick ass.

Zoo at the U of L

1999-09-19T05:14:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - The Zoo (UofL)
Taped: No
Other Bands: The Monte Carlos, ...I forget all the rest
Playlist: I don't remember

I think this show was alright. We played much later than we were supposed to. This show was put on by CKUL so we were happy to play. That's all I remember, as I write this month's after the fact.

Shadows

1999-03-13T05:13:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - Shadows March 12 and 13th, 1999
Taped: Most of it video taped
Other Bands: Tod Robinson on the 12th
Playlist: Almost everything, up to Waves All Around

Tod played a good show on the Friday, though most people weren't paying attention which sucked. What a small little place. We played fairly decent shows but it was kind of a crappy place to play. It closed down shortly after we played there. Another business destroyed! Good job, Favour!

Shakers with Wagbeard (their last show ever)

1998-11-19T05:12:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - Shakers - ..
Taped: no
Other Bands: Wagbeard
Playlist: Nurture, All About, What I Want, Into Stars, Letting Go, Eventually, Stars+bars, 30 Hrs, Upstairs, I'm So Near Here, Another Day...?

Really good. We even had people coming to the front who weren't our friends! Some guy requested Another Day, so we played it. They seemed to like us. First time we played 30hrs too, which went pretty well. Ryan's string broke at the end of All About which we played second I think. Shakers is cursed. But he restrung and things were ok. Apparently Wagbeard did a cover of GBV's "Motor Away", but I missed it.

German Canadian Club-Elevator To Hell

1998-06-09T05:11:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - German Canadian Club - Tuesday, June 9th, 1998
Taped: Videotaped Elevator only
Other Bands: Elevator To Hell, Jil, Queen of the Worms
Playlist: ..blah blah, plus I'm So Near Here

Wow, we got to open for Elevator to Hell! Who cares how we played, we got to see Elevator... but we played alright. Not spectacular, but not too bad. None of Elevator were there to watch though.. they were at the hotel (El Rancho). But Elevator were awesome.

Shakers

1998-04-16T05:10:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - Shakers - Thursday April 16th, 1998
Taped: no
Other Bands: Queen Of The Worms, The Molestics
Playlist: Nurture, All About, Into Stars, Letting Go, Means To Amend, Eventually, Stars + Bars, Glory, Punk Rock Town, What I Want..?

Good. Cept, Ryan's E string broke during our first song, Means To Amend. Didn't see Molestics. It was good n' stuff I suppose.

Shakers

1998-02-07T05:09:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - Shakers - Saturday February 7th, 1998
Taped: non
Other Bands: Source Unknown
Playlist: Nurture, All About, Into Stars, 12Many, Letting Go, Another Day, Means To Amend, Legal, Eventually, Near Here

Alright. Except, my goddamittohell D string broke! Since when does that break. I attempted to then play 12Many, which was a huge failure. Crap. But Jason saved the day by having his Fender with him, which provided quite a muddy raunchy ET like distortion. I couldn't get any distortion from S.U.'s amp. They had a horn player and keyboards and looked like a bunch of weenies but seemed nice. The fuckers (whoever) didn't pay us. Die bastards.

Kixx

1998-01-21T05:09:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - Kixx - Wednesday January 21st, 1998
Taped: Ah no.
Other Bands: Popular Discontent
Playlist: Nurture, What I Want, All About, Into Stars, Letting Go, Legal, Eventually, Another Day, Means To Amend, 12Many, Punk Rock Town, Glory..?

Alright. My dammed guitar kept going out of tune cuz I put new strings on. Uhm.. Popular Discontent played lots of covers. Woop. Oh, and we actually made $100! woop.

Barn

1997-12-05T05:08:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - The Barn (LCC) - Friday December 5th, 1997
Taped: NO, but videotaped by Miki
Other Bands: New Block Kids, Jil, The Buicks
Playlist: Another Day, Into Stars, Letting Go, Legal, Eventually, What I Want, Means To Amend, Glory, 12Many

Bleh. I couldn't hear myself. The amp sucked. It was too clean. Way too clean. Pah! It was alright I suppose... (upon viewing the video tape a long time later, it was actually a pretty damn good show)

Exhibition Building

1997-11-07T05:07:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - Exhibition Building - Friday November 7th 1997
Taped: No
Other Bands: 7Ate9, Wisecrack, Belvedere
Playlist: Letting Go, All About, Eventually, Into Stars, Charmin Carmen, Sadier, Means to Amend, Legal, Another Day/Near, Glory

This was alright. Vocal levels were pretty good. Ryan's bass was cutting out a bit. Didn't stick around for the other bands. Yeah.

Kixx

1997-11-05T05:06:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - Kixx - Wednesday November 5th 1997
Taped: No
Other Bands: Lazy Fair, Popular Discontent
Playlist: Letting Go, All About, Into Stars, What I Want, Another Day/Near, Glory, Eventually, Nurture, Sadier, Means to Amend, Legal

Bleh. Kixx. The sound was great though, the best sound ever. I could hear myself and everything. The debut of Means to Amend, we messed it up a bit but pretty good. We won't win any free CD's, cuz we forgot to play an onslaught of popular Muchmusic hits, like Lazy Fair. I don't know anyone who saw Popular Discontent, but they are supposed to be good??

the Zoo with Thrush Hermit

1997-10-23T05:05:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - The Zoo (U of L) - Thursday October 23rd 1997
Taped: No
Other Bands: Plumtree, Thrush Hermit
Playlist: All About, Letting Go, Into Stars, What I Want, Another Day/I'm So Near Here, Glory, Eventually

Yes, that is right. Thrush Hermit and Plumtree. We played a pretty good set, although I couldn't hear my vocals too well. I used Joel Plaskett's amp. John played Cliff Gibb's drums. Ryan played Ian Mcgettigan's amp. Yes. I talked to Rob Benvie, and gave him a 7". Joel showed me how to use his amp. Thrush Hermit are gods. Plumtree were really good too.

Nancy's House

1997-08-06T05:04:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - Nancy's house - Saturday August 6th 1997
Taped: Videotaped by someone
Other Bands: NCL, Feedbak, Smut
Playlist: All About, Nurture, Another Day, I'm So Near Here, What I Want, Eventually, Pop Rock Band Stuck In A Punk Rock Town, Letting Go, Legal, Charmin, 12Many, Glory, Into Stars, Sadier

We played first and it went pretty good. We did an extended Sonic Youth ending on Sadier, which went really well. I cut my finger doing it. I missed the other bands, except for some of NCL. They were missing a member. Smut only got off 4 songs until the police came by. Oh well.

Place by Hoyt's

1997-07-23T05:03:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - Place by Hoyt's - Wednesday July 23rd 1997
Taped: No
Other Bands: Product Four, Kid With Man Head, Beautiful Youth, Consumer Identity, NCL
Playlist: All About, Into Stars, Charmin Carmen, Legal, One Two Many, Letting Go, Glory, Another Day

Yeah, we played alright. Sold a shirt and some records. Kid w/Manhead were good. Remote control sounds didn't work too good. They were quiet. I got to use a Marshall Amp.

Silladome in Stirling

1997-07-04T05:02:00.000-06:00

Stirling - The "Silladome" (barn) - Friday July 4th 1997
Taped: No
Other Bands: Feedback, Pez Heads, Smut
Playlist: Sadier, What I Want, Nurture, All About, Into Stars, Letting Go, Legal, One Two Many, Charmin Carmen, Glory, Another Day

Interesting. Feedback played a rather sloppy set. Pez Heads had some good music. Smut was good as always. We played last, and played very good. We played in a barnlike place, and near the end of "Glory", it started to rain. The rain went thru the roof and got us wet, but it was neat. So we played Another Day rather fast but it was a really good version. We are rock gods. The crowd would laugh at almost any lame comment I made. Good show though. Yay.

Will's House

1997-06-13T05:01:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - Will's Basement - Friday 13th June 1997
Taped: Yes
Other bands: 2nd Chance 2 (Noise something), Feedback, Smut
Playlist: Neh

Bad. We suck. I quit. Smut was really good, we played last. It seems like everyone left after Smut. Lotsa lameass I'm-a-punk guys there. Well, that's normal though. And Goth chics, yay. The sound was the WORST ever, I couldn't hear a fucking thing I was singing. Although we patched vocals into the recording, but the drums are too loud (or is it the guitar and bass are too quiet?!). Ryan's A or D string broke during "I'm So Near Here", so we didn't play it. He borrowed Smut's bass. The crowd mostly sucked. Matt from Smut is nice as usual though. I recorded Feedback after we played. They were drunk (except maybe for Will). Came out alright though. Not bad.

LCI

1997-05-21T04:59:00.000-06:00

Lethbridge - LCI Drama Room - Wednesday 21st May 1997
Taped: Yes
Other Bands: Monday - Chaser, Tuesday - Feedback, Thursday - No Copies Left dropped out
Playlist: Yeah

Good. We won the competition. $80.00. Big crowd. Bad recording. Mic cord sucks. Fucked up Whitey Peach a bit, but otherwise, a good show. Yay for us.

Bill Kergan Centre

1997-03-31T04:58:00.000-07:00

Lethbridge - Bill Kergan Centre - Saturday, March 1997
Taped: No
Other bands: Second Chance, Smut, No Copies Left, Unameds, Rich's new band
Playlist: Into Stars, Legal, ..

This show was pretty good. We played after the Unameds. Ryan's bass wasn't working when we were setting up, but luckily it worked when we played. The sound sucked again, but the vocals were louder than last time. Smut's guitarist let me use his amp. He's nice. We played quite well, although there was some bad feedback during "Paste". JL was doing the sound, of course. I didn't see Rich's band. They had good equipment, Rich had a red Gibson SG. Some of the band looked kind of old.

Taber Elk's Club

1997-01-11T04:55:00.000-07:00

Taber - Elk's Club - Saturday, January 11th, 1997
Other bands: Second Chance, Smut, No Copies Left, Generic, uh.....
Taped: Yes
Playlist: Another Day, Hit's You, Glory, What I Want, I'm So Near Here

Well this was our first show. We were marred with technical problems. John's kick drum pedal fell off half way through "Glory". It's noticable on the tape but probably no one noticed live. The vocals were too quiet live, but they are very loud on the tape. The singing is crap, I couldn't really hear myself unless I yelled. The amp I was using stopped working for awhile too because it was unplugged or something. It was alright for a first show. Smut were good. Second Chance sounded better at the rehersal before the show. Some of the band members were pretty lame. One of the guy's from Generic seemed like a real loser. But really he's cool because he's in a band. They stole John's black sticks.