Official Happenings

Don’t forget to climb aboard for the John Allaire Summer ’26 Stay-Cation Canadian Tour! Coming to a venue near you! Tell your friends and family to come out! We need your support!

John’s first novel Motel Matchbooks

Motel Matchbooks is currently Number One on the Amazon Best Seller Chart!

Thirty days. One tour. A continent of dive bars, back rooms, sketchy motels, and stories that blur somewhere between insanity and legend.

Motel Matchbooks follows a Canadian songwriter chasing gigs across North America—through late-night highways, last-call confessions, questionable parking lots, and the strange, unforgettable characters that live just off the main road. It’s a world of cheap beer, broken strings, unexpected kindness, and the kind of chaos you only find when you refuse to go straight home.

Written with grit, humour, and a sharp outsider’s eye, this is more than a tour diary. It’s a reflection on music, survival, and the beautiful, unhinged rhythm of aging and life on the road.

If you’ve ever closed down a bar, chased a dream past reason, or found meaning somewhere between the miles—this story is for you.

It’s official — Motel Matchbooks is out in the world.

You can grab it on Amazon, Indigo online, or order it through your favourite local bookstore anywhere in the world via IngramSpark Distribution.

Thank you for supporting indie publishing—and this wild, beautiful story.