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Meat Draw is a band from Victoria, B.C.

Alice and I held our wedding reception in a Royal Canadian Legion hall in Nanaimo, B.C.

These two facts seem unrelated, but become related once I relate this story that I sent to CBC Radio 3, where they read it on the air:

We received this letter from Brad Cavanagh, we got a letter here from Brad Cavanagh who’s in Hawaii.

“Hi Craig and Pedro! The appearance of Meat Draw and the subsequent banter on the R3-30 prompted this story. My wife and I were married in Nanaimo…”

That’s not in Hawaii.

“…in 2004. The day after we were to have the reception at a friend’s house but it was raining, so we had to scramble to find another venue. Enter one of the local Canadian Legion halls. We took over half of it and the vets moved to the other half. Part-way through our reception the Legion held a meat draw. Yes, raffling off fine cuts of meat was a part of our wedding reception. My mother-in-law won a pound of chicken. So I’d like to request The Devil In Our Bones by Meat Draw.”

Oh how can we, y’know, refuse a request like that? Here’s Meat Draw, at number 21, The Devil In Our Bones.

[tags]meat draw, wedding, royal canadian legion, cbc, cbc radio 3, r3-30[/tags]