East to Saskatoon

February 13th, 2010 | By

So…. a lot has happened since our last show! and it’s also been a very long time since our last official show! With Gully no longer in the band and taking Wil (second guitarist) with him to focus on shreddin’ onions, The Empire hired back the original bass player Trev DePagie.

We invaded Saskatoon for our first out of province show. Opening for Saskatoon’s Slypstreme, we were givin a very warm welcome and shown hospitality from begining to end. Our show was at the Roxy on broadway, a decent venue with a great sound and happens to be owned and operated by a couple of Romanian Gypsy’s ( good guys! ). We did close to a hour set surprising the crowd with how ‘heavy’ we were.

The set was our first time covering two songs from the 90′s called ‘Pure Massacre’ and ‘Dirty Magic’.  Aside from my three hours of sleep the night before and all of us being a little hungover, We held it down and rocked out! A few mistakes were made between us on stage but everybody said they loved us and couldn’t tell.

We made a couple contacts including someone from a radio station and a few new fans. To sum it all up… Saskatoon was a blast and I would gladly play there again!

Thanks to all the friends and fam that came out that night and filled the bar, ya’ll rock!!!

I Heart Edmonton

January 11th, 2010 | By

I-heart-Edmonton

Category: Music

http://www.iheartedmonton.com/2009/12/homegrown-talent-empire-assassins.html

A Great write-up about the band written by Edmonton’s own EMIL TIEDEMANN

Thanks Emil!!!

CD Release Party

November 17th, 2009 | By

Oct 30 2009 Halloween Bash

So….nothing went according to plan, however i’m pretty sure everyone had a great time ( I know I did!). Was a Halloween bash and we asked everybody to dress up. A lot of great costumes were on the sceen! Our friend Brit started the show doing an acoustic performance and was really good. She was followed by Pizzarrhea, they were differnt and had everybody there asking what was going on. After them, our boy K-blitz took the stage and ripped it up, energizing the crowd and hyping everyone up. Beyond Addiction took the stage next doing a great acoustic set as always! By the time we took the stage everybody was tired and drunk, but we still powered through it! I vow to never drink that much before a show again as I had a few mistakes, even though everyone said it was un-noticable. All in all, it was a great night but I’m pretty sure I speak for everyone in the band when I say I don’t ever want to play Brooklyn’s lounge again. It is a decent lounge, but they’re not really set up to have bands play there and the staff wasn’t co-operative either, good thing the drinks were cheep!

-Kevin-