Upon the conclusion of the OAC jury, I decided to stay in Toronto for a couple of days and catch a few shows. The guys in LSD/City Sweethearts/Dany Laj were nice enough to let me crash at their swinging pad for a couple of days.
On Friday night, I took in the Pick a Piper/the Skeletones Four/Ruby Coast/Green Go show at the Horseshoe Tavern. The fellows from Ruby Coast were nice enough to get me a guest list spot. Ruby Coast now have horns in the their band and they sound terrific. These nice young gentlemen are going places, let me tell you. Once their full length is done in February, they are going to BLOW UP.
On Saturday night, I caught HEALTH at Wrong Bar. I was a little disappointed by the quality of the opening act Torontobeat (who had some good ideas but sounded under-practiced), and the fact that Pictureplace got turned away at the border, but HEALTH was awesome! Wrong Bar is a weird place. It's a little too clean and over-air conditioned. HEALTH played most of the stuff from their first album and a bunch of stuff from the new record, which is super pumpin' to hear live. There were about 200 people there, maybe more. I was right at the front and watched the lead guitarist writhe around in the fetal position for most of the night.
Afterwards, I managed to catch the end of Windom Earle's set at Rancho Relaxo. I managed to catch all of BA Johnston and Horses though. BA's got some new jokes! I missed Orphan Choir and the other opening act (I think they were called Cousins?) unfortunately.
So now I am back at home and I just spent most of today cleaning the garage. It is super tidy. Tomorrow, I will clean the jam room in our basement, which I am very excited about. There's nothing like a clean room to allow you to focus on creating.
Also, tomorrow (Wednesday) there is a house show at mine and Jon's place. If you are reading this, you are invited. I will not post our address on the Internet though. Performing will be Andrew Laviolette, Little Albert and Thunder Bay's JP De Roover. Hope to see you there cool guy.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Last Night
Last night I stayed up until about 4 AM listening to Patton Oswalt's stand up routines on YouTube. Needless to say, I feel like a failure pile.
After having listened to EVERY SINGLE BIT OF RECORDED STAND UP BY PATTON OSWALT, I have noticed some similarities between him and BA Johnston's onstage persona. They've both got this weird mix of haughty above-it-all-ness while at the same time they can admit that at times (leading me to suspect most of the time), they are more pathetic that you are.
But, I think we can all relate because who hasn't pulled their oranged cheeto claw out of an empty family sized bag of Cheetos and exclaimed, "What have I done?!" I like to think that our pathos is what unites us as a species. That way, I don't feel so bad when I am being pathetic.
On another note, there is a show this Saturday at Adanac at 5:30. Come out! Here's that poster again:
After having listened to EVERY SINGLE BIT OF RECORDED STAND UP BY PATTON OSWALT, I have noticed some similarities between him and BA Johnston's onstage persona. They've both got this weird mix of haughty above-it-all-ness while at the same time they can admit that at times (leading me to suspect most of the time), they are more pathetic that you are.
But, I think we can all relate because who hasn't pulled their oranged cheeto claw out of an empty family sized bag of Cheetos and exclaimed, "What have I done?!" I like to think that our pathos is what unites us as a species. That way, I don't feel so bad when I am being pathetic.
On another note, there is a show this Saturday at Adanac at 5:30. Come out! Here's that poster again:
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
I was going to
I was going to apologize for not having updated in a while but then I realized that's stupid. I'm a busy man and you can damn well wait for the sugary sweet water that is the details of my life to slowly trickle out through the tiny pinhole in the dam of my communication with the outside world that is this blog.
How does this information taste, after such a long absence, does it taste sweeter than ever? Or does your bitterness due to my indifference to your suffering mar it and turn it into a vomitous poison?
Anyway, I have written a couple of album reviews for the upcoming issue of Northern Rocks. But, there is a catch. In order to read them, you must subscribe! Then, Northern Rocks sends you a fabulous .pdf file every month with delicious musical goodness inside. Well not delicious musical goodness so much as words describing delicious musical goodness. And, I guess some of it is describing music that is not so good or just okay so whatever, just subscribe please.
And, the terrific band Ruby Coast is coming on April 4th to play Adanac Ski Hill. Here is their myspace. Seriously, go listen to their tunes. THAT BAND IS COMING TO SUDBURY! Here is the wicked awesome poster I made for the show:
How does this information taste, after such a long absence, does it taste sweeter than ever? Or does your bitterness due to my indifference to your suffering mar it and turn it into a vomitous poison?
Anyway, I have written a couple of album reviews for the upcoming issue of Northern Rocks. But, there is a catch. In order to read them, you must subscribe! Then, Northern Rocks sends you a fabulous .pdf file every month with delicious musical goodness inside. Well not delicious musical goodness so much as words describing delicious musical goodness. And, I guess some of it is describing music that is not so good or just okay so whatever, just subscribe please.
And, the terrific band Ruby Coast is coming on April 4th to play Adanac Ski Hill. Here is their myspace. Seriously, go listen to their tunes. THAT BAND IS COMING TO SUDBURY! Here is the wicked awesome poster I made for the show:
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