Trick or Treat -- Happy Halloween Everybody.

Still no tour dates yet, Tim still has his cast on, but he should be getting it off in the next two weeks. Hopefully we'll have some dates to announce then.

In other news “melt” is being scheduled for release in Europe, Japan and Australia sometime in January. The band is also planning on touring to support the international release.

New photos added today to the web site from X-Fest in Indianapolis, taken by photographer Charles Duke.

According to the October 12^th Sound Scan report the cities with the highest sales for “melt” in the U.S. are; Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN; Los Angeles, CA; Houston, TX; Indianapolis, IN ; and Pittsburgh, PA.

And the radio stations still playing “Sick and Beautiful” in heavy rotation, include; WXDX 105.9 in Pittsburgh, PA; WARQ 93.5 in Columbia, SC; WGBD 95.7 in Lafayette, IN; KBRS 104.9 in Fayetteville, AZ; and Y107 in Los Angeles, CA.

Added a Web Links page to the site today. If you know of any more links please e-mail them to us so we can add them.

Here is another bulletin board on AJC for all you who are not using AOL. It's the “iMusic - Artificial Joy Club Bulletin Board”. There was seven messages on it yesterday, don't be shy go add something to it, and tell all your friends about it.

The October 20^th issue of People magazine has a great review for “melt” on page 32.

No news is good news! So they say. We are slowly adding photos as we get them, we added a great one of AJC live in Houston, Texas today, it's on the Pictures page. If you have any cool live shots of AJC send them to us and we'll put them up.

If you are on AOL you can take part in the “Artificial Joy Club: they're way to good to us!” message board, go to keyword MUSIC...then go to MUSIC SPACE.... then head to ALTERNATIVE...then to ALTERNATIVE MESSAGE BOARDS...then to “A-F” then to “Artificial Joy Club: they're way to good to us!” Thanks to RaWkGrLLL (Cami) for letting us know about it. You guys keep posting.

We've added a video clip of “Sick & Beautiful” to the web site, as well as updating all the links at the bottom of the pages to include a “Sound & Video” link. Thanks to Ted Okulicz in Australia, who found out about AJC on a Garbage mailing list, who provided the link from MTV with the video clip.

The AJC e-mail responder is now working, <info@artificialjoyclub.com>, click on the e-mail link and send your blank message and you will automatically receive the current AJC Newsletter for October. We will be using this for any updated tour dates etc. and let you know when there is something new on it.

Our new e-mail address is now working, it is <ajc@artificialjoyclub.com>. Please don't be afraid to send the band mail, they love to hear your comments and anything else. We will also have an e-mail responder which will automatically send you the newsletter when you e-mail it, we will get that working by tomorrow.

It's Andrew's Birthday today. Happy Birthday Andrew!

Some not so great news today, Tim broke his hand yesterday in a freak accident with his car. Which means AJC will not be able to play for at least a month that Tim will have his cast on. We know a lot of people were looking forward to seeing AJC on the Refreshments tour, but it looks like AJC will not be doing the tour.

Message from AJC:

Hey everybody, we're finally home for a little while, we had a great time on tour and really enjoyed meeting everyone. Also reading all the e-mail you guys send us. It's really great to get feedback and comments from everybody who has bought “melt,” come to see us play live or have seen the video for “sick and beautiful.”

We are taking a short break from touring, but we will be doing some shows in the next little while. We are doing some re-mixes for the next single, which will be released soon, although we are still unsure which song it will be.

Thanks again and keep checking the web site for more info on upcoming shows and news.

Sal, Leslie, Andrew, Tim, and Michael

Check out the Artificial Joy Club merchandise page that was added today, we will hopefully be adding more merchandise in the future but for now we have T-shirts and Baby Tee's.

The band is on their way back home to Ottawa, a long 26 hour drive from Winnipeg. AJC played 42 shows in 68 days on this tour, travelling over 36,000 km (22,320 miles) across the United States and Western Canada.

Here's some useless but interesting tour info:

• lost about $1,000.00 gambling in Las Vegas and Reno
• drank approximatly 1,008 beers, 40 bottles of vodka and kaluha (Sal likes her “black russians”!), and about 900 bottles of water
• Mike and Leslie used about 300 guitar strings
• Tim used 64 bass strings
• Andrew used about 30 pairs of drumsticks and 12 snare drum heads
• received three tickets, one for speeding ($270.00 US), one for no licence on the trailer ($86.00 CDN) and one for improper insurance papers ($86.00 CDN)
• smoked approximatly 4,760 cigarettes
• went through one set of tires
• best festival show: X-Fest in Indianapolis, Indiana
• best club show: First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota; sold out 1,200 people
• approximate number of people AJC played for on this tour: 210,000

Tonight is the last show on the AJC tour, they played to an enthusiastic crowd at the Pyramid Cabaret in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Thanks to everyone who came out to all the shows on the tour and they said it was great meeting everyone.

AJC was at the Republik last night in Calgary and played for a great and appreciative audience. Some of the members from the Pursuit of Hapiness were also there hanging out and watching AJC's set. Only two shows left in the tour, tonight in Saskatoon and Friday in Winnipeg.

The AJC merch stuff will be added to the web site in the next few days so you will be able to check it out, and order T-shirts and other stuff.

Also some new photos will be added in about a week as well.

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