Grant Lawrence Superfeed

Diver Bruce Bott shares what it was like to be underwater with the orcas on the chaotic night when the Pedder Bay 5 were captured, and his later experience diving down to Chimo, the prized white whale, when she got tangled in her net and was drowning. 

The white whale and the rest of her pod have been captured in Pedder Bay, Vancouver Island... but now what? The handlers quickly realize that these whales are unlike any they have ever come across. 

In this episode, Grant Lawrence takes you back to the serendipitous events of March 1, 1970, off the blustery coast of southern Vancouver Island: the capture of the one of the rarest ocean mammals of all time - a white orca whale.

In this gripping new West Coast adventure series, Grant Lawrence tries to crack a 55-year-old mystery that involves the tragedy and triumph of a unique family of orcas. 

A fully updated and fascinating "where are they now" of all the main players in "Dirty Windshields", including members of the Smugglers past and present, beloved roadie Ska-T, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Larry Livermore from Lookout Records and more. 

The Smugglers are pulled out of a dozen years of dormancy by a young promoter from a legendary venue: 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California, for an epic event that would eventually become known as "The Lookouting." In turn, "Dirty Windshields", and the Smugglers, received a surprise happy ending... 

In this final chapter, the Smugglers meet the ghosts of their future at a freezing arts collective in Switzerland: the rapidly rising garage rock 'n' roll band The Hives. 

NEW ZEALAND! The Land of the Long White Cloud! WE MADE IT!!! This was one of the Smugglers most exciting and fulfulling touring destinations in our many years on the road and in the air. Shows were packed, songs were shouted, Kiwi friends and lovers made. All this even though Beez barely made it into the country despite our endless internal crossing-borders training. 

The Smugglers embark on their first tour Down Under, supporting Oz punk legends the Hard-Ons, but all does not go to plan due to a series of calamities involving various Australian wildlife, both human and otherwise, culminating in the Smugglers suffering their first-ever robbery on the road. 

This chapter finally answers the oft-asked question: "Did any of the Smugglers ever get it on with any of the Donnas?" Also: the Smugglers make a triumphant return to Japan to begin their epic Pan-Pacific tour for "Rosie", infamously dubbed the "Pacific Rim Job Tour."

If you've ever wondered what it was like to tour with *The Donnas* aka the American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine, this chapter is for YOU. It was wild! It was skintight! It was non-stop party action! It was all over the U.S.A.! WHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! 

ROUGH PATCH! After years of slowly building up the Smugglers into something one might consider 'successful', the house of cards collapses when two members of the band quit. Upheaval at both Mint and Lookout Records doesn't help matters. 

Ever heard of Isny? Neither had the Smugglers! The band comes down from the huge crowds of Italy to going up up up into the Alps for an out-of-control show at a tiny ski chalet in Bavaria... if they can find the town.

The Smugglers arrive at the most remarkable, filthy, amazing, huge, and impossible venues the band ever played: Forte Prenestino, an apocalyptic castle-like socialist squat, on the edge of Rome. 

The Smugglers discover the smash 'em up demolition derby that is... Madrid during rush hour. Also, the band teams up with "Rock n Roll" Jimmy Garcia to help navigate Spanish clubs overflowing with elicit drugs and wild fans. 

The Smugglers head to the Continent for their "Selling the Sizzle" European tour with mixed feelings. Would this tour do as poorly as their first trip to Spain a few years earlier, or would their newfound association with Lookout Records save their collective touring asses?

The Smugglers misadventures in Japan with the Queers and Supersnazz rage on, with Queers lead singer Joe ever threatening to quit the highly disorganized tour at any moment. 

Dirty Windshields: the Audiobook is BACK for Part 3: "Sushi and Squats." In this chapter, the Smugglers journey to Japan for a tour with the Queers and Supersnazz, which begins on a bad note. Two members of the entourage disappear. 

Handy Candy takes a terrible tumble from her shoreline rocks on the evening of Desolation Sound's annual Full Moon Float in this final chapter of the series. 

Handy Candy shows a physical will and sheer determination to get to her cabin that has possibly never been seen before or since in Desolation Sound. 

Handy Candy continues to improve "Camp Candy", and sees opportunities for other neighbouring properties to clean up as well, believing strongly that "how things look matters." Some neighbours don't take kindly to Candy's unsolicited opinions.

Handy Candy rents a broken down cabin in Desolation Sound which she discovers is already occupied.

Handy Candy decides it's time to buy a lot in Desolation Sound, but her husband Bob has other plans, which comes as a shock.

Handy Candy and her husband Bob discover the ultimate sea kayaking campsite in Desolation Sound, so good that it would remain their driftwood camping kingdom for 14 straight summers. Where is it? Have a listen. 

Handy Candy and her newlywed husband Bob make their first-ever trip to Desolation Sound, in a double yellow kayak. On that trip they stumbled across a spectacular location that would serve as "Camp Candy" for the next several years.

Find out how Handy Candy Anderson went from a childhood of living all over the USA with a father who worked for the Pentagon, to discovering the coastal Canadian wilderness of Desolation Sound.

With her brand new boat hung up on the rocks on a dropping tide, Handy Candy makes a big mistake: she gets out of "Tinkerbell" to give it a shove, but the outboard engine is running, and in gear. Reverse gear. 

In this new series, Handy Candy, one of the most beloved characters from Grant Lawrence's books "Adventures in Solitude" and "Return to Solitude", takes centre stage for a series that charts Candy's artistic, danger-prone, off-grid lifestyle that has spanned over 40 years in the oceanic wilds of Desolation Sound, BC. This is "Handy Candy: Coastal Crafter of Desolation Sound."

The Smugglers and the Queers make a shocking discovery while searching for the Buddy Holly plane crash site in the corn fields of Iowa. 

We chronicle some of the most bizarre punk rock crash pads we ever slept at, which includes one of the most infamous and disgusting tour stories in Smugglers history. You have been warned!

Maxwell's, the famed music venue in Hoboken, New Jersey, infamously catches fire during a Smugglers performance. 

The Smugglers tour with the Mr. T Experience devolves into a full-blown punk rock riot at the show in Denver. 

The Smugglers make their most popular album with Mass Giorgini, plus the band hires infamous roadie Ska-T while embarking on the first wildly successful Lookout tour with the Mr T Experience.  And Larry Livermore is everywhere. 

The Smugglers meet pop-punk icon and Lookout Records co-founder Larry Livermore, learning of his fascinating history. As well, the Smugglers play a fateful show at the Purple Onion with the Ne'er Do Wells and the Groovie Ghoulies.

The Smugglers take a very, very wrong turn into the scariest town in America, then figure it out to play one of the most notorious venues in Texas: "Taco Land" in San Antonio. 

Grant suffers his mostly potentially deadly physical assault while on tour (which is saying a lot) and the Smugglers tour the Deep South with bands like Man... Or Astro-Man? and the heavily armed trio the Subsonics. 

The Smugglers meet cub, an all-women twee pop band that would become a North American indie sensation... and lead to several ego-crushing moments for the Smugglers when the two bands embark on tour together.

Hear the wild stories behind the Smugglers first-ever New York City show at punk rock mecca CBGB, their bloody Chicago show with the Dwarves, and more rock 'n' roll action!

The Smugglers enter the urban wilds of New York City for the first time, and the band gets a crash course on NYC street-smarts... or dumbs, in Grant's case.

The Smugglers lead singer Grant Lawrence pulls a horrendously stupid, life-threatening stunt on the way into Washington D.C. for a Memorial Day gig with Thee Flypped Whigs. 

The shows are getting better, but the touring for beleaguered Smugglers drummer Bryce gets even worse in the American South. 

The Smugglers suffer through their Worst Show Of All Time in Phoenix, Arizona, one that would leave a permanent and collective mental scar.

The Smugglers roll into a smouldering Los Angeles in the charred and shattered aftermath of the Rodney King Riots. 

Legendary punk band NoMeansNo help out the Smugglers in finding the ultimate touring van. In Portland, the Smugglers discover the X-Ray Cafe, the 24-hour Church of Elvis, and that... their new van isn't working properly.

The Smugglers actually win something and are flown to Ottawa to perform on national TV and dine with the Governor General of Canada. With mixed results. 

Nobody ever believes the story contained in this chapter, but we swear, it's true! Bounce-bounce-SMACK.

The Smugglers get a smackdown of culture shock when playing their first-ever show in San Francisco. Also: your emails received and read!

The Smugglers enter California for the first time and almost immediately get into a nasty encounter with Golden State bangers.

The Smugglers perform at the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia during the sizzling summer of 1991, which changes the band's fortunes for years to come in the U.S.A.

Grant is forced to ingloriously perform an entire set from a rainy sidewalk in Bellingham when he forgets his fake I.D. back in Canada.

Despite the band name, the Smugglers plot, strategize, and attempt to cross the border into the rock 'n' roll promised land of America.