Jun 30th '99 - The Columbia Hotel with Fiction, Gradient Profile, and Napkin.

Jun 1st '99 - Web page moved to http://www.wayside.dhs.org after ml.org went down permanently. Updated web page... major overhaul. New look... Better feel...

May 7th '99 - New Music West '99 at The Picadilly Pub with Amoral Minority, Satsuma and Flannel Jimmy. Spent four days going out late and making contacts... Great fun.

mid Apr '99 - Bill Semrau was named the new bassist of Wayside - just in time to prepare for his first onstage gig at New Music West.

Apr 1st '99 - Bassist tryouts...

Mar 20th '99 - Derek Hemmes leaves for 6 months on an African adventure leaving the band bassist-less.

Feb 19th '99 - The Columbia Hotel with The Special Guests and The Salteens.

Feb 1st '99 - Wayside's "...Until Now" is reviewed by CiTR's Discorder.

Jan 11th '99 - Vancouver Seeds 13 was released and is currently available at A&B Sound. The Wayside song, "Jubilee" is featured on this album. It also features music from some of the best local Vancouver bands.

Oct 4th '98 - The Purple Onion with speedbump and Helen's Motor. Over 300 people in attendance.

Sept 27th '98 - Club Mora with Bored of Authority and Tammy Brimner.

Sept 24th '98 - Wayside's "...Until Now" gets reviewed in the Georgia Straight.

Sept 2nd '98 - Recorded the second half of Jubilee at MR&D with Craig Zurba. He mixed the song as well.

Aug 19th '98 - Recorded the first half of Jubilee at Turtle Recording Studio. Larry Anschell was recording. That was the day before Turtle closed down. Their new studio should be in Whiterock.

Aug 11th '98 - Mark returned from Europe. Immeditately began rehearsing for our Jubilee recording session.

Aug 5th '98 - Wayside's ...Until Now is reviewed on www.giglink.com.

July 24th '98 - Wayside played an all-ages show at Murrayville Hall in Langley. This was the first all-ages show the band has played (not including Showarama)... The show turned interractive when members of the audience were asked to come onstage and play certain parts and sing along. Mark was still in Europe (Italy) at this point.

July 3rd '98 - Mark went to Europe for 5 weeks.

July 2nd '98 - HMV on Robson. This was an instore performance to promote our CD. Quite a big crowd showed up. We were scheduled to have a double header and play at Studebaker's with Glimmer and 69km right after our HMV gig but it was cancelled at last minute.

June '98 - Reheased and worked on new material.

May 23rd '98 - We were scheduled to play a gig at the Columbia with Solarbaby and Bored of Authority. Unfortunately, Derek got food poisoning so we had to cancel the gig. The other two bands put on a good show without us.

May 18th '98 - A videoclip of our Cobalt gig appeared on the Internet on a website called TheJam.com. Pop Song was the song that they chose to feature.

May 8th '98 - The Cobalt with Diesel Candy and Technicians of the Sacred. Also featuring Hiro, the Fire-eater. The Cobalt used to be a strip club. It was converted into a club featuring live music in early April. A representative from TheJam.com came and videotaped the show.

Apr 21st '98 - The Gate with The Big Rig Sweeties and 69km. The Gate has since changed into a club featuring Swing music so we were one of the last rock acts to play there before the changeover.

Apr 8th '98 - Wayside CD's begin appearing in SAM The Record Man, HMV, Future Shop, Zulu Records (and more) around Vancouver and surrounding areas.

Apr 2nd '98 - Studebaker's Cabaret, Burnaby with Three-Sixty and 69km for CFOX 99.3FM's DemoListen Derby '98.

Mar 26th '98 - Wayside's CD Release Party at The Pit Pub, UBC with speedbump, Four Bone Chain and Flannel Jimmy.

Mar 21st '98 - Lion's Gate - an Internet broadcasted show using video and audio (http://www.travel-live.net). We were interviewed and played an acoustic set with Craig on the bass. Derek was absent with the flu.

Mar 14th '98 - Showarama, Totem Park Ballroom, UBC. Wayside hosted and judged this battle of the band event. The bands that competed were Steveo's Custard Factory, Flannel Jimmy, Svelte, Zephyr, The Drowners, Blue Wail, The Lactating Men and Townhouse. Flannel Jimmy won a 15 minute slot at our CD Release party at the Pit Pub on March 26th 1998.

Feb 26th '98 - Received airplay for the first time on CFOX (99.3FM) for the DemoListen Derby contest. We were also on air on Mar 4th and March 10th.

Feb 19th '98 - Wayside announced as one of the 12 DemoListen Derby '98 semi-finalists on CFOX 99.3FM. Other bands that made it were Bleed, James Grant and the Small Mercies, Smarm, Susann Richter, 69km, Three-Sixty, The Loving Dead, Random Damage, Shannon Lyon, Hissy Fit and Pleasure.

Jan 30th '98 - UBC SUB Ballroom with Mr. Flood's Party, speedbump, The Velveteens and Four Bone Chain. It was a Science Week Bzzr Garden and Dance. And dance they did.... The performance was as good as we could imagine and the reception was even better.

Jan 16th '98 - Day 9 at MR&D. Craig Zurba mastered most of the CD when we weren't there. We came and decided on the order of songs, the intros, endings, space inbetween songs, etc...

Jan 13th '98 -  Day 8 at MR&D. Second day of mixing. Mixed Return to Begin, Merger and Undone.

Jan 8th '98 - Day 7 at MR&D. First day of mixing. Mixed Discontent, Love/Hate and Pop Song. Chose to use the second drum track that Craig recorded.

Dec 16th '97 - Day 5 at MR&D. Chris finished his guitar leads and finished most of his singing parts.

Dec 12th '97 - Day 4 at MR&D. Chris got started on the Guitar beds.

Dec 11th '97 - Day 3 at MR&D. Craig also recorded Pop Song again. Derek records his Bass tracks and Mark recorded his keyboard parts.

Dec 5th '97 - Day 2 at MR&D. Craig laid down his drum tracks for Return to Begin, Undone and Merger. Mark asked to come up with new part for Merger.

Dec 4th '97 - Day 1 at MR&D. Craig laid down his drum tracks for Pop Song, Discontent and Love/Hate.

Nov '97 - Spent most of this month in the rehearsal studio, getting prepared to record our album.

Oct 29th '97 - After touring many studios, we decided to record at M R & D Studio in Burnaby for our upcoming album due out sometime in January. Recording is planned for December.

Oct 18th '97 - Band photo shoot with Denise taking the pictures. Mark's WAYSIDE initiation party - passes with flying colours.

Oct 8th '97 - Starfish Room with Pretty Human and Forget Your Face - one of the best sounding performances with very positive feedback and a responsive crowd. Mark becomes a member of WAYSIDE.

Sept 27th '97 - The Vanier Freedom Festival at UBC with South of Main, The Malchiks and opening for Rymes With Orange - It was an outdoor event and it was raining but we had a good sound guy and had an inspiring performance especially from Chris.

Sept 25th '97 - Thunderbar (UBC Wintersport's Centre) with Jason Howell - we were the first band to ever play at the Thunderbar - the performance was a little shaky without a sound technician and it was Mark's first appearance with the band - nevertheless there was a large turnout and a decent reception.

Sept 16th '97 - Mark's first rehearsal with the band.

Sept 13th '97 - Robside Attraction in Cloverdale - an outdoor performance with  Big Rig Sweeties - received many compliments from people who had never heard WAYSIDE's music - this was one of the most inspiring performances yet.

Sept 3rd '97 - The Brickyard with The Special Guests and Forget Your Face - excellent performance and sound - there was a really good sound technician who this band worshiped that night - Band tragedy - Derek's bass, amp and some rented cymbals were stolen out of his car.

Sept 2nd '97 - Imagine UBC Festival with speedbump and The Malchiks - reasonable sized crowd for this outdoor venue - the first gig Derek plays with short hair - the band has a good performance and is very well received.

Aug 27th '97 - Mark is asked to try out for WAYSIDE, playing the keyboards - he accepts and begins eagerly learning all the WAYSIDE songs.

Aug 15th '97 - Web Cafe show with Sing Sing Dead Man and Jason Howell - one month after their last Web Cafe gig Wayside is back headlining a Friday night - band puts on solid show but encounters new obstacles associated with headlining a show.

July 16th '97- Web Cafe show with South of Main and Saturnhead (headlining) proves to be best gig to date - larger draw than at Brickyard and show is broadcast live over the Internet - first time band plays a collaboration (written by Chris and Craig) with verse vocals from Craig.

June 3rd ‘97 - the Brickyard with Clockwork & Hydrogen Dog - best gig to date - great reaction from good sized crowd - received compliments from management who promised to have the band back on a busier night.

May 30th ‘97 - record 5 songs live at First Music over the course of 7 hours.

May 12th ‘97 - the Mighty Niagara with Fuel, Elephant Gun, & ? - good reaction from average sized crowd.

Apr 4th ‘97 - Arts Bzzr Garden, Buchanan Lounge, UBC with Forget Your Face - mixed reactions from our most diverse audience (and probably our largest to date).

Mar 22nd ‘97 - the Columbia Hotel with Return to Zero & speedbump - great gig - great reception from good sized "hostile" crowd.

Mar 21st ‘97 - the Highland Pub, SFU with Wayne Templeton - weak turnout - average performance - impressed sound guy enough that he wanted to keep in touch with the band for future considerations.

Mar 8th ‘97 - Showarama - Totem Ballroom, UBC - fairly good reaction from mostly "hostile" crowd - played second set after extended stay in beer garden.

Mar 1st ‘97 - the Vancouver Press Club with the Koz - average show with good turnout.

Jan 18th ‘97 - the Columbia Hotel with Dorothy Missing & speedbump - Chris enjoys performance but Craig and Derek suffering from snowboard trip exhaustion.

early Sept - Craig starts drumming at reheasals....it’s apparent that he’ll rock.

mid Aug ‘96 - frustrated, Craig says he’ll learn drums....band changes name to WAYSIDE.

Aug 7th ‘96 - boy wonder says he can’t make rehearsal.....no more boy wonder....Derek (drummer from 351 Cleveland) steps in for the rehearsal....plays heavier style than MindOpenShallow.

Aug 1st ‘96 - auditioned "boy wonder" on drums....played pretty well....thought we had something.

late July ‘96 - change name to MindOpenShallow July 29 ‘96 - auditioned "alex van halen" on drums.....didn’t work out.

June 26th ‘96 - Pin Collecting Family takes DAT to James Bowers to master on to 3 CDs.

June 14th-17th ‘96 - Pin Collecting Family and Dev re-mix the tracks onto a rented DAT using rented effects processors.

mid June ‘96 - Chris and Devinder re-record some of the vocal tracks.

Apr 24th ‘96 - Pin Collecting Family, Dev, and D.B.( a long time supporter of the band) try to mix tracks on to DAT in the UBC theatre sound room. Sounds like crap. Everybody’s depressed. Derek leaves next day for 6 weeks in Europe.

Apr 11th-13th ‘96 - Pin Collecting Family lays down 5 songs on Devinder’s 8-track in the basement of Dene.

Apr 8th ‘96 - Steve says he can’t do the recording so Derek and Chris use video tapes of Steve to program drum machine "Dr. Rythm"

late Mar ‘96 - decide to record 5 song demo with Devinder Agnish (yet another roommate taking theater sound) at Steve’s place.

Mar 1st ‘96 - play first show at Showarama (Totem Park Ballroom) - show goes relatively well aside from Chris falling down on the second song and breaking his guitar strap.

Jan ‘96 - start rehearsing with Steve on drums for Showarama (a UBC talent show)

Dec '95 - Pin Collecting Family enlist drummer Steve, a former UBC roomate.

Nov ‘95 - band goes to a Watchman show at the Commodore and decides that Derek sucks on guitar so Craig takes over guitar and Derek begins to learn bass.

Oct ‘95 - Chris begins to teach Derek guitar...Pin Collecting Family is born with Craig on bass!

Sept ‘95 - Chris & Derek become roomates in Gage; tells ‘pin’ story. "Good name for a band, eh"

Aug ‘95 - little kid tells Derek in Tourist InfoCentre that he wants some pins because they’re a "pin collecting family"