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Waxbills look forward to afterparty at their gig
Original Article by Jennifer Smith - Kelowna Capital News

If there’s a chill in the air Nov. 6, you’ll know the White Fang has pulled into town.

The Fang, is the name of Niagara Ontario’s pride, The Waxbills, new touring van—a great beast of a machine sporting a dent in the hood where a wild fan took a chunk out of its armour.

The Waxbills are winners of the Niagara Music Awards Album of the Year for Hard to Lose, their second album in just over a year. The group say they’re as serious about touring as they are about their music and are sporting an exhaustive schedule of cross-Canada stops taking them everywhere from Thunder Bay to Lethbridge on this tour.

They have picked a pretty lucky date for their first-ever show in Kelowna. The auspicious evening just happens to share the date with the BC Interior Music Awards, leading the three musicians to speculate the after-party, planned to spill into the Habitat where they’re playing, will find them dancing up a storm with a fan-friendly music crowd and plenty of interesting musicians.

“This is our first time touring through B.C., so we’re pretty excited,” said frontman Nathan Warriner, in a telephone interview from the road this week.

The tour has been full of funny timing and odd coincidences for the band, right down to the naming of that van.

The day after the White Fang assumed its new moniker, the group was greeted at the side of the road by a pack of wolves—a first sighting of the beasts for everyone—and it sent a chill down Warriner’s spine, for one.

The three band members chanced into their show at the Habitat, as well, after being invited out while playing a show in Toronto by a member of the popular stop’s staff.

To date, the three have concentrated their efforts on touring Ontario and Eastern Canada, having only released their first album last fall.

The group formed as an experimental music project and eventually started touring under Warriner’s name as a group of five; they dropped his name and launched the Waxbills last fall, when their numbers whittled to three, and have been earning a living off the band ever since with plans to tour in Europe later this year.

All in all, it’s been a pretty successful ride, though they’ve little time to write nowadays.

On the day of this interview, the group had just picked up a guitar for the road, but said it would probably take some time before the new tunes get rolling.

“I tend to write on my own when I’m at home. On the road, there just isn’t time,” said Warriner.

The Waxbills roll into town to play the Habitat Nov. 6.