“It’s slowly turning into some strange Howard Hughes world where we’re using Kleenex boxes as shoes,” ponders Rainbow. “[But] life could be worse.”No, The Birthday Massacre's guitarist isn’t going stir crazy -- not yet -- under self-imposed isolation.
Back home in Toronto following the postponement of the band’s U.S. tour supporting eighth album Diamonds (arriving today on Metropolis Records) due to the coronavirus pandemic, his city, like much of the world, is on lockdown.
In Toronto, things are still winding down as opposed to gearing up again, he says, as more and more stores shut down day by day.“The streets are pretty bare, and it’s almost like an Escape From New York/Kurt Russell kind of vibe,” says Rainbow. “It’s very quiet at night,.