Cardiff, who has played in camps, backyards, prisons, churches, basements, festivals, kitchens and hundreds of living rooms, is known as an "advocate of alternate venue touring." What takes Cardiff into unique performance venues and into so many living rooms is a willingness to go where his fans want to see him. In 2007, while booking a Canadian tour, he turned to his fans to help him. Through his website, Cardiff asked fans to suggest where he should play and then booked shows through MySpace and Facebook. Many of those venues were small and intimate, and on that tour, Cardiff booked three house concerts. Because he is going where his fans suggest he play, Cardiff asks them to help spread the word about his shows. "It's not unmediated. It's just more fan-directed, and that's exciting," he says of what the "Globe and Mail" called "tour economics on a good-neighbour level," adding: "I think I'll manage to avoid hotels for most of the tour because of fans and friends who are able to offer spare rooms and couches."