The Greatest Mime Band Ever

As you probably know, we recently had a huge week. After 10 years of grinding, writing songs, and playing shows, we released our first major album, Time To Win Vol. I (yesss!). Even better, we were scheduled to perform live on MOD (just like TRL, but in Canada).

Needless to say, the band was extremely excited. We all grew up watching Much Music, and dreamed of the day we would get to perform live in front of the entire country on TV. The date was circled on our calendar, and we made sure to tell everyone; family, friends and fans to make sure that they tuned in to watch.

The day got off to a great start; the staff was incredible, sound check went off without a hitch, and even though VJ / Superbabe Sarah Taylor wasn’t scheduled to do our interview (as we’d hoped)… it went well. Nobody tripped and fell on camera or said anything embarrassing- not even a stutter. The only thing left to do was perform. We took our cue and shredded through the album’s title track “Time To Win”. The energy in the room was amazing. Everything sounded great, and the crowd cheered as we high-fived and celebrated a job well done.

Then I caught a glimpse of the producer who had been working with us all day as she began to walk over to us. I expected that she wanted to shake hands, thank us for coming. But instead, she looked like she had seen a ghost. Was my fly undone? Did someone accidentally drop an F-bomb on camera? No….worse….much much much worse.

She told us that there had been no sound broadcast on television. Someone had forgotten to turn the “mute” button off after the commercial break! Apparently, this had never happened before. Never. Not Once. What are the odds that out of the thousands and thousands of bands that have performed live on Much Music that DWW is the ONLY one that it’s ever happened to?

It started to hit us- all of the people we’d told to watch us! The hundreds of thousands of viewers across the country had just watched us perform without sound. Our cellphones were starting to ring off the hook with message after message after message saying things like, “What happened?” and “The Sound!!!!???”

Down With Webster was officially the greatest mime band anyone had ever seen.

Fortunately, the staff were very apologetic, and promised to fix the audio for the rest of the shows airings (they did), as well as have us back to perform soon (fingers crossed).

In the meantime, we have a pretty good story to tell about our national TV appearance, and the ability to claim that Down With Webster rocked too hard for Much Music, and that television is simply not capable of handling our power!

Click here for the clip….WITH SOUND!

Tyler
Down With Webster
October 2009

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