I have a day off here. This is dangerous. I've spent way too much money on way too many awesome things here. I bought new shoes, 2 belts with crazy bling.. more blinged bracelets, a jacket thing, an awesome white strappy top, new perfume and some more MAC makeup. I justify this spending by saying to myself "when will I ever be in Hollywood again!?" This argument, although flimsy, works just fine for me! Right now, we are in a really awesome hotel right near tomorrow's venue the Knitting Factory on Hollywood Boulavard and after clubbing at Bar Sinister last night and shopping all day today, I just want to get in my jammies and relax for tonight.

Anyways, I'm still working on an updated post for the past few shows but right now, I really have to recap the San Francisco experience. My amazing S.F. peeps actually put together an Ayria cheering squad for the show. Lead by captain Starr, they made amazing sparkly shirts, pom-poms and banners and I was so stunned by their awesomeness, that I was left speechless. Needless to say, they won the tour. I need to send the team a care package of merch when I get the chance. They rule. Here's pictures:

More pics from the tour are posted in my Flickr gallery (which I'm just starting so it will grow) here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31292129@N03/sets/72157607982301779/

San Francisco Awesomeness!:::









Lastly, here's the flyer for our LAST MINUTE Hollywood show tomorrow night:

NEW SECOND LOS ANGELES SHOW ADDED to the tour!
ALL AGES SHOW!!
Cruxshadows, Ayria & I:Scintilla (early show - doors at 8:00)

The Knitting Factory
Monday, October 13th, 2008
7021 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California 90028
Cost: $10 adv/ $12 day of show
+ special guests Ayria & I:Scinitilla. *ALL AGES* venue website: http://la.knittingfactory.com

Help us spread the word about this show to all the L.A. people that can go if possible!

Thank you!
love,
Jennifer

**VENUE CHANGE ALERT** Los Angeles TONIGHT!!

We have just learned that the venue for our show in Los Angeles has been changed- Safari Sam's has been closed down, so the event will be moved to The Joint, located at 8771 West Pico Blvd. Los Angeles.

The new venue's myspace page can be found here:
http://www.myspace.com/thejoint

Hope to see you there and anyone that can help us out by spreading the word to friends or by passing this information along on L.A. goth/industrial forums, etc, it would be very much appreciated! This was unexpected for all involved so we are hoping to still make this work!!

Also, I'll be posting re-caps of all the other cities shortly. I'm having too much fun on the West Coast. Let's just say that San Francisco wins the tour! The uniformed Ayria cheerleading squad complete with pom-poms and signage wins on all fronts. Someone HAS to send me pictures so I can post about this soon (I love you Starr, Melanie, Daniel, Mollie, Eric, Howie, um.. other's who's names have escaped me??) I love you guys more that you know.

Hi everyone! Just a bit of a tour update for this week:

We are here on the West Coast of the U.S.A. now. Last night we (Ayria, The Cruxshadows and I:scintilla) hung out at Seattle's best industrial club, The Mercury and tonight is our show here. I'm so excited to be on the West Coast. I'm staying with two of my dearest friends here (Michael and Amy) and they have treated us unbelievably good that I almost don't want to leave tomorrow! Here's the schedule for the next 5 days with The Cruxshadows, Ayria and I:scintilla heading down the coast:

Oct 4, (Tonight!!) Seattle, WA @ El Corazon (late doors @ 10:00 PM)
Oct 5, Portland, OR @ The Fez Ballroom
Oct 7, San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge - ALL AGES SHOW (first all ages Ayria show at the DNA Lounge EVER! Spread the word that this is actually and all ages show and also, the live feed can be watched from their web site if you want to catch the concert online)
Octo 9, Los Angeles @ Safari Sams
Oct 10, San Diego @ Channel 1225 (first time Ayria has played this city!)

Then we head East to Arizona, New Mexico and Texas!
More Complete Dates here: http://www.myspace.com/ayria

Much love,
Jennifer

We had a great time hanging out in Chicago! Thanks to DJ pathogen for not once, but twice, taking us to an amazing sushi restaurant and the night at Neo was a lot of fun, if not very low key for me. I was trying to not get too tired before the Chicago show and it turned out, I really did need my energy. We played to an amazingly energetic crowd at Reggies Rock Club and for dinner, I had possibly the best salad I’ve ever tasted in my entire life. It’s a weird thing to experience a “best of” for a salad, but it absolutely was (maybe my body was just craving the greens). Anyways,thanks to the Chicago promoters! The crowd in Chicago lived up to my expectations of being hyper wild maniacs dancing to everything and giving us a really warm reception. I <3 Chicago was my MSN name for 3 days ;)

We headed to Decateur, IL next, a much smaller scene but a lot of great fans really into the show! We were cursed with technical difficulties that evening but overall, a fun night and we met some genuinely nice people.

We stayed with Justin, the keytarist from I:Scintilla, in Bloomington, IL for our day off and got to hit up a Target store where I spent too much money on Halloween T-shirts, underwear, and Hello Kitty tack (yes, I know, but we don’t have Target in Canada so my senses were overwhelmed by all the crap they have and my desire for consumption ran rampant!).

Next was on to Kansas City! We played a venue called Davey’s Uptown where we had played a year ago actually, to find our fan base has grown significantly there too, which is really, really cool. I got to talk to people who I had met a year and a half ago and who were really excited for the latest CD release! The promoters Nathan and Cal were the sweetest people ever and they even prepared a stir fry (a la Mongolian grill style) where we got to customize it our selves, all from a selection of organic vegetables. This is the new BEST dinner provided on the tour!

Have I mentioned how much nicer it’s been to pull into all of these midwest cities and venues when it’s nice and warm outside! Last time, we loaded in through ice and cold.

The next day, we stopped for official Kansas City BBQ at the recommendation of a lot of people. Unfortunately, since I mainly eat (I do loves me some occasional beef but my preference is to eat vegetarian), this was not such a good idea for me (although tasty at the time). This really did me in somehow and affected me negatively for the next day.

Then we played Denver and I was really not feeling great at all. I was feeling really run down, tired and I woke up on the show day with a headache and slightly achey. My stomache had still not recovered from the BBQ. Despite all these symptoms, I was able to pull off the show and I hope it didn’t show to anyone! I still tried to pull off the best possible show and hopefully the audience didn’t notice that I was not my 100% chipper self to chat with afterwards. Anyways, a great crowd in Denver. I appreciated their enthusiasm and I ended up having a lot of fun.

Then we got in the van and started driving towards Salt Lake City. I had high hopes for this show. I fondly remember the crowd last time we played there trying to force an encore. While this didn’t happen this year, the energy was still really awesome and to my surprise, the front row had several girls singing along to EVERY single song. The new ones too which was an amazing feeling. This venue was cool with other events happening such as dancers, fashion & hair shows, etc. The stage was really weirdly laid out but actually really worked for all us bands and we were blessed with an awesome ound guy too.

Now we are hanging out in SLC where we were taken up a mountain by our gracious hosts and it was beautiful. I got 9 hours of sleep last night since we had no shows to get to but I fear that everyone’s starting to get sick. I’m worried, but there’s nothing that can be done living in such tight quarters with the touring party of 16 people!

Next drive: To Boise, ID and then Seattle, WA. The unofficial birthplace of Ayria (where the “Debris” release was recorded and produced) and then off to Portland (Whoo Portland Crew!!!!)

Love,
Jennifer

Marquee in Minneapolis:


Me and my drummer Mike:


Me singing on stage in Nashville:


I:Scintilla and Ayria hanging out in Chicago


Me on a mountain top in Utah:

I’m going to try for a recap here.. I’m very sleep deprived so I apologize in advance for any rambling.. but basically, we have the first 5 shows under our belt now and so far things are going well on the road through the U.S.A. We are riding together with fellow label mate band I:Scintilla and they are all really great people which works out since we are stuck in a big van together for the next 3 months. To kick off this tour, I got my merchandise of a whole whack of “Hearts For Bullets” finally in my hand which is pretty much like Christmas for me to have the finished packaged product in my hand after 2 years of hard work on it.

First stop Tulsa (OK) where we met up with my drummer Mike who flew in from Seattle and also with the Cruxshadows who we hadn’t seen for a year and a half so it was nice to see the familiar faces and the new people who are all so nice and adorable! The show in Tulsa had a much bigger venue than we played last time and there was quite a large crowd for our debut show on this tour. It was great to see some familiar faces there and we were happy to talk with so many people after the show too.

Second was Fayetteville (AK) with a smaller, but really swank venue with a great back room for us bands to chill out in. This was also the first show I can ever remember where the meal provided to us was sushi and Thai – my absolute favourites! I wouldn’t really expect to get that all the time of course, so when I do, it was greatly welcomed!

Next was on to Nashville (TN) where we played the same venue we did last time around which made me happy since I remembered where a really awesome coffee shop was just near there and I got my first latte of the tour. Being a caffeine freak, this was a much needed discovery for me. Believe it or not, we have not found one Starbucks near the venues we’ve been playing at yet! Hah. Anyways, the crowd was great for us there this time around too and we were happy to have gotten back there.

The fourth stop so far was St. Louis (MO), a place I’d never played before and after some technical glitches from the sound guy got worked out after our first track (sorry everyone), the show went well and people were dancing (so that’s always a good sign!) and everyone we talked to after the show were all forgiving of the glitches. Since we had our first day off after this show, I:scintilla and us took the chance to celebrate a bit with some drinks and dancing after the show and met some very interesting people that night too. Great looking venue too.

Minneapolis (MN) came next and completely blew me away. We played a great set, the band has found our groove and we are becoming a cohesive machine onstage. The venue was crazy nice and large. Last time we played this city, it was colder than Antarctica so this warm weather was a welcome change… also, I found an awesome café and had a vanilla latte. Small comforts really make your day on the road.

So, all in all, the tour is going over well. We are still breaking in our new keyboardist Jeff who is ramping up quickly and getting used to tour life on the road with us. He’s doing just fine though and has been a good addition to the line up and a very good roadie (poor guy). The new tracks we are playing in the set are going over so well too. I honestly wish we could play the full new CD on this tour since I’m so excited about them, but of course, we have to accommodate the older songs still too and we only have so much time in a set! I am thinking of a small set change to work in another one of the new tracks but we’ll see ;)

Chicago tomorrow night is next. This is I:Scintilla’s home town so we currently have a bit of down time to chill with them, do laundry and probably go to a club called Neo tonight! I’ll update again shortly and hopefully with pictures next time.

Jennifer

Oh my God. Summer, why must you pass me by so quickly! I'm dumping a bunch of news on here just to get it out so you can't say I didn't tell you! (I apologize in advance for all the self promotion but this stuff currently IS my existence). The question now is, will I see you in person this fall (insert check box: Yes or No) ? ;)

New CD "Hearts For Bullets" in pre-order now from me: http://www.ayria.com or my label: http://www.alfa-matrix.com plus various other web shops.




Also, I'm so excited to announce we'll be hitting the road this fall again. I get to visit so many U.S. cities I haven't seen since winter 2007! Of course, I'll be promoting the new CD "Hearts For Bullets" that I'm so incredibly proud of and really can't wait for you guys to hear. We'll be supporting The Cruxshadows again and bringing special guests I:Scintilla (fellow Alfa Matrix label mates! Whoo!) Unfortunately Joe Byer my keyboardist will not be able to join me on this tour due to personal commitments (his wedding! Congrats Joe & Steph!) so after an intensive search this summer for a new live keyboardist, I've found someone and wouldn't you know, he's a fellow Canadian. His name is Jeff and he's from Toronto and I really think he's going to be a great addition to the live line up for this tour. Here's the dates so far:




Lastly, Ayria's confirmed for playing Montreal's Kinetic Festival in May 2009. Anyone who was there last year, knows it's some of the most fun EVER! So many bands.. and I hear they are announcing even more!

Unfortunately, my keyboardist Joe Byer (of v01d) will not be able to continue touring as part of Ayria. "Real life" responsibilities caught up with him which was completley expected since he's getting married this fall. Not to say he won't do another show with me, but dragging him on the road for 2.5 months at a time just isn't possible for him at this time. So now I'm hunting for fresh meat:


Requirements:
- You must have a flexible schedule and be willing to be on the road (not sure of any exact dates but definitely over the next year)
- Must have a valid "G" class license and a good driving record
- Must have a valid passport
- No criminal records
- No drugs & non smokers are preferred
- Must be at least 21 years of age
- Must be somewhat physically fit (if you've seen my keyboardist Joe live, you have LARGE shoes to fill in terms of energy)
- Must have an ear for music and sense of rhythm is crucial.
- I'm looking for someone with enthusiasm, personality, stage presence..
- Physical lifting is involved - (roadie duties) your responsibilities will include carrying merch boxes and stage gear in and out of venues
- Must enjoy Ayria music since you will be hearing it every night! ;)

If you are interested please email me including: about you, why you'd be a good fit as keyboardist, and anything else you feel is relevant for me to know. Also, you MUST include at least one recent photo for consideration. Serious people only please! Please write me by July 1st!

email:
jennifer@ayria.com

Last weekend I spent 4 glorious days in Montreal at the Kinetik festival. I had an amazing time, met up with some S.F. people, Chicago, and all over the place really. Nitzer Ebb was definitely the highlight of the festival for me since having never seen them before. They were better than I could've imagined and played tons of songs off "Belief" which is my favourite of their releases. They played 3 new songs too, which I already knew 2 of, and already love. It's been a while since I was that excited about seeing a live show and the venue was amazing too! Congrats to the organizers for such a great event! My feet were killing by the end of the weekend.

We spent Monday hanging out with Christian from Montreal band Headscan and he and I even jammed in his studio, singing a duet of sorts.. nothing to be released, we were just having fun. It's just so rare I get to "jam" with people. The festival inspired me though, my CD is so incredibly close to completion with Seb, and I'm starting to get more excited, a September release date is looking pretty solid but no official date though. Now I'm itching to get on the road at some point again too.. we'll see what's doable.

This month's been a busy one, I leave you with a picture of my disgustingly sweet birthday cake from 2 weeks ago. It's kind of tradition that I get the nerdiest, sickly sweetest, pinkest cake imaginable. The past two years I got bright pink barbie fairytopia cakes complete with collectible toys. This year, yeah, its a pic of me, on a cake.. I know. Good times ;)

Oh man, whad up!
It's officially a snow day in Toronto! I can't see anything out the window. Work is cancelled so yay for snow and yay for long weekends!

I went MIA this fall again from the L.J. The touring in Europe was great back in September/October (I miss the UK!) There's pics posted in this group and yeah, I know it's been 4 months since I've been back but oh well. I'm bad for that. I've learned to accept it ;) Now, I'm on a nice long break from touring and just enjoying working on the CD "Hearts For Bullets". Which comes out this.. spring? "The Gun Song" EP comes out on March 14th and pre-orders just started just recently. There's samples of all the tracks on my website and on MySpace




On to the important stuff like how I spent the past 4 months:
- I took off to Cuba in November. This was my first "vacation" in several years and it was all inclusive. I loved it. tons of sun block, pina coladas and my first time snorkeling, what's not to love.
- I spent 2 months watching the "Flight Of the Concords" over, and over and over.. I can quote the entire thing and oh yeah, watched R. Kelly's "Trapped In The Closet" and decided it's probably the funniest movie ever made.
- I went to some great concerts this past fall: M.I.A., IAMX, Trent Moller and The Police (reunion tour! Heh.)
- I dyed my hair dark "espresso" brown! (I will be blonde again by summer, I just needed a bit of a change right now) and no, I didn't go all "hippy". You may not believe this, but I'm actually not a natural blonde! It takes a lot of work and money to keep it up sometimes ;)

Oh and some BIG & exciting news: My keyboardist Joe got engaged to his long time girl friend and one of my best friends Steph!! CONGRATS to both digatalianation and blepharisma!!!

Thanks for nudging me (you know who you are) to get me to post something. The timing was good so I could also announce the EP to prove that at least I'm finally finishing and releasing some new stuff!!! ;)

<3
Jenn

Questions to my European friends or to any bands from North America that have toured in Europe with their own gear (some of you will have no clue what I'm talking about.. but I'm hoping someone might):

1. I've been told that my wireless Shure SM 58 Beta with PGX24 system will not work properly in Europe? Something about the frequency differences? Does anyone have any other information about this? Should I not bother bringing it? Also, I recently bought the PSM200 Wireless Personal Monitor system too to combat the trouble with bass and rumble I have on stage making it hard for me to hear pitch of songs etc, All I really ever hear is the oontz to be honest. It's weird. I'm just wondering if I should I ditch the gear for Europe? (any one with experience with any input is appreciated)

2. Has anyone had custom molds done for the in ear system? My tiny ears didn't really fit the standard ones that came with the system. I used it on the Combichrist tour and it helped a lot to hear the music but near the end of the set, they fell out (it never felt like I could get them far enough in). Do I have to go to a hearing specialist to get the molds done?

2. Also, does anyone have a Nord Lead II travel case they want to sell me? I need one, like right now ;)

I wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone that replied to my last entry about my Dad. For obvious reasons, I wasn't able to respond to each of you but I really appreciated the support from you guys. This has been one of the toughest things I've had to go through in my life. You can't imagine how hard it is to lose a family member (some of you can, I know). It's an emotionally exhausting time as I'm still in disbelief of the whole situation still. I'm trying to get back to my normal life but with a shaken foundation. That being said, I feel like I have a chance to use my voice and encourage everyone to sign your freakin organ donor card! My Dad needed a transplant and didn't get one. If it were up to me, by default, you are a donor. If for some reason you don't want to donate your organs, you would have to opt out because honestly, it's not that people don't want to donate, they just haven't really thought about it and gone through the steps to make it happen.

Ok, moving on to other things. The Combichrist tour was a chance for me to get away for a bit. It was much fun, the tour bus was really amazing and completely swank with Satellite TV in all the bunks. A very different experience from a hotel tour like the one with the Cruxshadows. They each have their advantages and disadvantages. The main disadvantage of living on a bus is the lack of shower. I only got one shower that week (Hooray for baby wipes keeping us clean!) Ayria is playing with Combichrist again in both Detroit on Sept 2nd (this weekend, argh!) for the Motorpop Festival (see flyer below) and in Toronto on September 4th at the Funhaus (the first ALL AGES SHOW we've ever played in Toronto!!!! Flyer below)

Last thing I'll announce is this below Euro Tour happening in Sept/October. It's Divalicious with lots of girl action! This summer, Ayria was signed by European Booking Agency "Wings Of Destiny" (Home of The Birthday Massacre & Cruxshadows to name a few) so this tour came about. Don't miss us on these tour dates because after this, I'm not planning on playing any more shows for a while. I need some time to heal and finish the new stuff without the distraction of touring ;)



Detroit:

AYRIA CANCELS FLORIDA DATES
Unfortunately and unexpectedly, I have had to cancel Ayria from the Florida dates with Combichrist this week. Tragedy has struck, my dad passed away so I was obviously unable to make it down to Florida today to start the tour with Combichrist. I'm so sorry to all of the fans. I'm truly disappointed that I had to cancel the first leg in Florida but I promise to come back in the near future. I know you will all understand and I appreciate all of the support I've received already. This is the hardest thing I've had to face but I'm getting through it! Much love to you all.
Jennifer.

Ayria will not be playing these shows:
CANCELLED August 2, Jacksonville
CANCELLED August 3, Miami
CANCELLED August 4, Tampa

Ayria will catch up with Combichrist starting in Houston, TX on August 6th.

Here are the upcoming North American dates that Ayria is confirmed for:
August 6, Houston, Engine Room.
August 7, Dallas, Lizard Lounge.
August 8, Austin, Elysium.
August 9, El Paso, Devil's Bar.
August 10, Phoenix, Sadisco.
September 2, Detroit, Motor Pop
September 4, Toronto, Funhaus

We will also be going to Europe at the end of September, dates will follow shortly.

Hi everyone,

I've been hermitting away from the internet. I've actually been enjoying standing in one place for the past few months and building a bit of stability here in Toronto. I'm still working on music so it's still all coming along. Unfortunately, I've had a pretty crappy year so far personally. My beloved Jack Russell Sparky "the indestructible" passed away at age 13 which is very sad of course but I've had some even worse family issues occur that I wont get into here. I was supposed to get on a plane to Calgary for my cousin's wedding a few weeks ago but unfortunately, a family emergency the night before the flight forced the cancellation of that trip. I've just been realizing how fragile all the people around me really are.

Anyway, some good stuff happening too. I thought it would be a nice quiet summer for me but I just got asked to be the supporting act for Combichrist for the first leg of their U.S. tour and, not wanting to give up the deluxe night liner combi-bus experience, I said yes. Here are the dates we'll be playing (unfortunately, there will be no Joe this time. I will have Mike on pink drums/pink keys with me. It was a bit short notice for us but it should be a really fun time):

All dates below: Combichrist/ Ayria / Modulate
Aug 2 - Jacksonville, Florida @ French Quarter
Aug 3 - Miami, Florida @ Studio A
Aug 4 - Tampa, Florida @ Network
Aug 6 - Houston, Texas @ Engine Room
Aug 7 - Dallas, Texas @ Lizard Lounge
Aug 8 - Austin, Texas @ Elysium
Aug 9 - El Paso, Texas @ Devil's Bar
Aug 10 - Phoenix Arizona @ Sadisco
Sep 4 - Toronto, Ont @ Funhaus

And then, there's Europe/UK in the fall. I don't have any confirmed information for that yet but I think I'll be getting details soon.

I'm working on getting more Cruxshadows/Ayria/Ego/spit pictures up online and posting them but for now I wanted to pimp this show coming up in 2 weeks. It's our official welcome home show (and our first Toronto show since last September 1st). Please come out!! It's going to be fun. I promise ;)



My official clothing sponsor for the last U.S. tour was Toronto store Posepod. If you haven't gone there yet, you should! They have tons of cool local Toronto & Canadian designers available there and as the flyer says, they will be doing some give aways at this upcoming night:



While I'm pimping (sorry) I thought I'd give shout outs to everyone who sponsored the tour. With out the following people, I'd just be plain old boring Jenn with no fun hair, clothing and stuff:
All hair designs by:


Other clothing items were provided by:
Artifice Clothing (white & black PVC outfit seen here)
Plastik Wrap (Pink & black mesh cyber top)
mildred_strange (black jagged & laced PVC skirt)
and Bee Girl Metal Designs who made the Ayria logo necklace seen here


In other news. I've rested up for exactly one week now since getting back from the tour and I'm kind of feeling motivated to start working on new music. I went to assemble my studio on Saturday night and found I'm suspiciously missing a few cables to connect everything. So, me, being in an easily distracted state, and lacking motivation to find the cables instead, ended up watching back to back episodes of "flip this house". I know, I know. The excuses will stop, I'll get myself together and get going on things again and stop watching crappy t.v... Soon.

Last night marked the very end of our U.S. tour with the Cruxshadows/Ego Likeness/Angelspit in Dallas, Texas. Today we're basically hanging out in our hotel getting ready to fly back to Toronto tomorrow. It's going to be so strange to get home. We've been gone for about two and a half months and although I'm more than ready to get back home to see everyone and sleep in my own bed again, it's also a bit sad and disorienting. Joe, Mike and I are going to miss the Cruxshadows so much as well as Ego Likeness. We said goodbye to the Australians (Angelspit) in Atlanta about 2 weeks ago since they were only with us for the East Coast dates. This was the longest tour we've ever done and we covered pretty much all corners of the U.S. starting and ending in Texas.

The things I WON'T miss about touring include: having to live out of a suitcase with limited access to laundry, staying in random hotels each night, loading out of venues at 3:00 am, getting to sleep by 4:00 am only to have to wake up at a ridiculously early hour to do the next 5 hour drive of the day, eating fast food, the freezing cold weather in Minneapolis, the ice storm in Texas, the ice storm (again) in the North East (between Philly & Northampton), no hockey coverage, and having limited internet access (hence the lack of updates to the Live Journal - sorry!)

Things I WILL miss about touring & things that rocked: Getting to go to a new city everyday, the amazing people that I got to meet and talk to (even if briefly) at our shows, the promoters that were so nice and accommodating to us (we love and thank you all), Walmart trips (believe it or not - is a luxury on the road), hotel rooms with the history channel, Pee-Wee Herman, our vehicle's Prince poster, getting to play at the venue that Purple Rain was filmed at, Starbucks (Large Chai Latte's were my saving grace), Florida and SPRING BREAK! Swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, Dance Dance Revolution (Steve, when's our official rematch?), MILKSHAKES!!!! Booty dancing, "Pass the Dutchie", "I love Lamp" (our merch lamp extrodinaire), setting up the merch table with Lauba, the warm weather of Texas & Florida, being called "The Canadians" and getting made fun of, Tom Tom (the amazing GPS, my drummer Mike's addiction to NPR talk radio, being asked at every gas station "Y'all in a band", signing boobies and MAINLY: I'll miss the people that have been my friends and my "family" while on the road (all 16 of us): The Cruxshadows, Ego Likeness & Angelspit!

Here are a few pictures that I have. I'll have to compile more of them when I get them from everyone:

In case you wondered what A.Y.R.I.A. stood for, it's - Awesome, Yeah Really, I'm Awesome..


All 4 bands (Cruxshadows, Angelspit, Ego Likeness (with Dingo photoshopped in) & Ayria) in Atlanta:



live in Indianapolis:



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There will definitely be more to come...

Hi everyone! A really quick update from the road, sorry, but I have about 3 minutes before we have to drive to L.A...

Well, we conquered Texas and I have to say we LOVE you guys so much in Texas!! There was so much great energy! I'm so happy we FINALLY got to play there. Super friendly people. I also saw my first real live cactus.. yeah, I know. So sheltered. Last night was Tempe Arizona which also went really great too (thanks to those that came out and bought lots of stuff too ;)! We're really feeling a lot of love out here in the U.S. so far! Now we travel Westward for an all ages show in L.A. tonight & as always we are really excited to get back to the West coast.

I'll try to update regularly when I get a chance to get online but time's been limited and so has sleep. We get about 4 - 5 hours per night if we're lucky.

This below flyer will keep being updated with more show dates and more details to the existing shows should be added in the next few days!!!

Much love to you guys & I hope to see some more of you guy on the road on our dates still to come! <3

Here's the upcoming dates::

Here are some actual dates now. We now have 20 confirmed dates happening this January, February & March as the supporting act for the Cruxshadows across the U.S.A. (also with Ego Likeness on the West and Angelspit on the East) and stay tuned for more dates to be added since this tour continues into March heading down towards Florida still. I hope to see as many of you out at our shows as possible. It will be much appreciated and Joe, Mike and myself are psyched to be on the road again! Many of the upcoming shows are ALL AGES (if the show closest to your location is NOT all ages, there's nothing us bands can do. All I suggest is that you contact the venue to ask for further information). Help me spread the word about the upcoming tour! Feel free to post this info to your sites, profiles, communities etc. and let me know what show you're coming to!



That aside, today I feel like a bum. I've been in my pajamas for 2 days straight and my roots are 2 inches long. It's also really, really difficult to pack for a 2 month trip all in one suitcase. I'm realizing that I'll have to find a way do things on the road that I'm used to doing monthly and in the comfort of my home like bleaching my hair!! Argh. Anyways.. still excited. Looking forward to both the West Coast to see many good friends (you all know who you are) and the East (FINALLY THE EAST COAST!) See you soon <3

So, yeah, I realize I didn't really announce this upcoming tour yet but: AYRIA will be touring the U.S.A. this Jan/Feb/March as the supporting act for the Cruxshadows. . I've posted the first leg of the tour on my myspace and I'll be updating more dates over the holiday. I'm both super excitedand a little terrified to go away for this long. We just got back from Europe last week where we were gone for 3 weeks and it was much fun but brutal. I can't imagine needing to pack enough for two and half months. But anyways.


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