Burning Love - Reunion/Final Show - 5/31/2025 - Toronto

Holy smokes, what a weekend. Prepare The Ground 2025 in Toronto was fantastic. Everything was worth it just to hang out with Chris from Burning Love and then see their reunion (2nd attempt) and sadly, final show. Chris is the nicest fucking person on the planet, he went out of his way to meet up, show us around a bit, let me in on some Cursed lore, hooked me up with some killer posters, looked out for me with my recording nonsense (always a mess), and in general, just being a kind human. The Burning Love set was GREAT, and huge, almost 50 minutes. Everyone got their money's worth for sure. Hopefully you guys dig this video, it's a good representation of the show, audio was a bitch, has to merge 2 different sources but it all worked out in the end.
Other things of note: Kowloon Walled City played Friday and were amazing, and they did a Shallow North Dakota cover set on Saturday with guest vocalists which was KILLER. If you don't know Shallow North Dakota, you need to. They were a pummeling, abstract sludge punk band from Hamilton, Ontario. Loud as fuck 3-piece featuring the bass player from the last version of Cursed. Their singer died a few years ago from Cancer, I believe. Lets see, Young Widows were great, Kylesa were great, Alaskan reunited and were great, Midwife was great, Atlas Moth, Coliseum, No Man, Morne, Dismal Aura etc etc...I know I'm missing a few. The whole trip was a blast. 
Burning Love is dead. Long live Burning Love

UNWELL // 𝗉̶𝗅̶𝗎̶𝗌̶ ̶𝖡̶𝖴̶𝖱̶𝖭̶𝖨̶𝖭̶𝖦̶ ̶𝖫̶𝖮̶𝖵̶𝖤̶ ̶𝗋̶𝖾̶𝗎̶𝗇̶𝗂̶𝗈̶𝗇̶/̶𝖿̶𝗂̶𝗇̶𝖺̶𝗅̶ ̶𝗌̶𝗁̶𝗈̶𝗐̶

In what will most likely be the final (or near final) post here (no real reason, it just seems like we are all super burned out, I know I am. Thanks go to the chat for keeping this site on life support), I am coming full circle here (my first post was a Cursed post) and am bringing you UNWELL, a (still ongoing) pandemic project from Chris Colohan. In his own words, 

"I started making solo music just over the pandemic, & it was right as things were returning to fake normal that it really got rolling. Learning to play and record simultaneously with the total lack of moderation skills compounded by mad ADHD left me with over 100 songs spinning all at once, all of them 90% done. They comprise four full LPs of different genres (& one double one, possibly). I’m going to start posting a song from each so I have to finish what I started"

As stated above, a song from each is available on Bandcamp. They range from creepy spoken word, to moody acoustic to atmospheric doom & psych. In addition to more or less having his total musical output be the inspiration for this blog, I don't think there is anyone in the scene who doesn't owe something to him in some way or another, whether it be the reason for starting your own band or just benefitting from his natural kindness and him just being an all around good dude. Hopefully this is just the beginning of more Chris Colohan as we know it. 

unvvell.bandcamp.com

And for a bonus, UNWELL will be playing live for the first time at the 2024 Prepare The Ground music festival in Toronto. This festival is happening May 31-June 2 across 5 venues, and it looks like Unwell will be playing on Sunday June 2nd.

But wait, there's more. BURNING LOVE (both lineups) will also be reuniting to play their final show on Sunday June 2nd at Prepare The Ground as well. This is fucking crazy news and as long as I can get my passport straightened out in time, I will definitely be attending. Just kidding, Pat, Burning Love's guitarist, just recently broke his wrist, so unfortunately they will not be playing Prepare The Ground. Look for something from them in 2025, if the universe doesn't ruin that too. I got a passport and tickets for Sunday so I'm still going. I'll be mad, but I'm still going.