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Defcon is Olympia's #2 Party most recent waxing of a Bo First there's MIRAH, Band, as stated on the inside of Diddley classic ("Who Do You (we've spoken about her in a the record, who on earth is Love") which receives previous column), who returns number #1? • rid an interesting treatment of with a collection of songs And finally, a compilation by Bryce Dunn Melvins-y trademark jagged, recorded between 1999 and of Minneapolis bands com heavy bottom end alongside 2001, mostly acoustic fare, pletes the Modern Radio roster. (switching between This record appears to be the ummer's here and the guitar-no-bass attack it also ize on an upcoming compila- guitar and ukulele), time is right—not for brings to mind dearly departed tion from Sympathy For the first in a series, part of the sung with softness label's attempt at profiling the Sbreaking into a Supremes contemporaries of the style like Record Industry, and if you're and subtlety, but number, but for giving you our great talent of the region. AMP all eschewing some 176 and THE HIDDEN latest 7" scoops good and prop quirky personality. er. First on the agenda is, well, CHORD kick off side one, with On the track both bands tipping the prover THE AGENDA! They're a "Dreamboat*' she bial hat to Minneapolis' group out of Georgia who defi gets a little randy favourite sons Hiisker Du nitely have what it takes to start with her lyrical con (Warehouse Songs And Stories a panic on the dance floor. On tent and on "Lone era, mind you). Crunchy guitar the A-side, "I Want the Panic," Star" the sound of leads the charge on these two they do updated R&B-infused hands sliding on punk a la The Mooney Suzuki strings takes on an mid-tempo numbers, while side or The Make-Up. The flip, additional melodic two perks up a bit with THE "50,000 Watts Of Love," drives undercurrent. FORTY FIVE mixing early Joe home the party platform of hip- Secondly, there's Jackson power pop with mod- shakin' rock and roll and makes the party collective punk Jam-inspired songcraft on these guys a band to keep an rag-time piano accompaniment, known as GENE DEFCON. the track "Take Action." THE eye on. (Kindercore, PO Box 461 while "Mad Power" continues Originally this began as a fun SELBY TIGERS (another previ Athens, GA 30603 USA). in the same vein, creating the offshoot of '70s-inspired new ous column attendee) clock in at Hip-shakin' is certainly feeling that you walked into a wave from like-minded just over two minutes with something THE SCAT RAG smoky underground bar in Olympia scenesters The Bangs, "Pomona," a speedy pop-punk BOOSTERS bring to the party France circa 1930 with the smell The Primadonnas, and Tight number with trade-off boy/girl on their latest Sidetracked EP. of cigarillos and red wine in the Bros From Way Back When vocals and a sweeping organ to Even though the songs were air. How I get these visuals is among others, but has since fill the choppy guitar gaps. recorded in 1997 and 1999 dwindled down to just Gene Overall, not a bad way to check The Oblivians or The still together, guys, pie sometimes beyond me, if you're respectively, 1 suppose it does Defcon himself and his mystery out the scene without leaving Revelators. "Sidetracked" and to the West Coast, all right? at all frightened by what I just n't really matter considering the partner. The four songs on this the comfort of your living room. "I Long For My Woman" are (Zaxxon Virile Action, 1816 East described, then I'm right there scorchers laid down here. EP punk up the kitschy party On second thought, now that more blues influenced numbers 3rd Avenue, Vancouver, BC with you. (Gravity, PO Box "Something For You" and with punchy keyboards, shout- you're done reading, get outta channeling the spirits of Willie V5N 1H2). 81332, San Diego, CA 92138 "Tarzan" show the SRBs' affini a-long backups and danceable here and enjoy the sun, boyo! Dixon et al., particularly the THE GET HUSTLE just USA) ty for crazed '50s rock and grooves and come with titles (PO Box 8886, Minneapolis, MN slower tune "I Long For—". paid a visit to our coast, and The folks at Modern Radio rollers like Hasil Adkins or like "Baby, Hallelujah," "Pick 55408 USA) • Look for more stuff to material- easily enough for them consid Record Label have been busy Jack Starr, yet with their two- little beavers—sending us a trio Up The Party," "Come Party a Local Music Directory it/pew 6 id Our annual directory, chock full of contact numbers and nae'f addresses of bands and the people and businesses that support them, will be in the September issue. The deadline for entries is August 15, 2002 Send your vital statistics in by fax or email: 604.822.9364 discordera>club.ams.ubc.ca CIRCLE ONE: BAND/MUSICIAN PROMOTER RECORD LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR VENUE MANAGER STUDIO ZINE OTHER NAME: DESCRIPTION (15 WORDS OR LESS):. CONTACT:. ADDRESS:, PHONE: EMAIL: URL: '!/«/„ (.-J/nH OO-t. cS?-/. 9773 :w:i:wm^ -:73Tmff-^m m^> j^^^ «^ ^ Ill okfi:.?=ik More information at www.gigstar.com Get your Gigstar prepaid membership card at these participating outlets. or call 604-806-0333 toll free 1-888-805-STAR(7827) Newer! Bigger! Belter! :LinQ biflllWhlx 7 n bullshit by Christa Min 2 16/24 track No Bullshit, Just Good Recording ock and roll is dead don't kjiow what it feels like to have been around forever, you because everyone who have an erection, but I'm guess- know), but pretty soon, once the Satisfaction Guaranteed! R made it choked on their ing if you're singing or playing on-stage erection is as common puke and died. Or maybe they bass or something, it could feel as cleavage, people will be say } turned their arms blue or the like it's in the way. Maybe it's ing "This band sucks! Where " (206)525-0628 sides of their skulls red. Or even uncomfortable. Maybe it's are the erections?" Cock rings maybe they just turned old. Rock and roll is boring. If you asked someone how the ROCK AND ROLL hbgrant fhcords last show they went to was, the m best they could say was that "It * * U 4E4TTIH4TTLE WAUJA email- [email protected] was pretty crazy. The lead NEEDS MORE ERECTIONS singer got totally out of control and got his white pants a little dirty." No one poos on stage anymore. There's no excuse for equivalent to the feeling some will soon be more populai that. It's bullshit, I tell you. women get when they get leather wristbands white BULLSHIT. banged in the face by their belts. Let me suggest some on gigantic knockers while run I am willing to bet that the stage antics that could liven up ning to catch the bus. next true rock and roll legend even the crappiest rock band. 1 guess it might be difficult will die of Priapism. That is the During the slow song, the lead to keep an erection the entire condition where the penis stays singer could cut off her toenails show, especially when every erect for too long and the blood in her beer and drink it. The one's looking at you like you're is not circulated throughout the drummer could piss on the hi- a creep, or if you're thinking rest of the body. That is bad. hat as part of his drum solo. Or, about the music or something. I Just like drug addiction, alco I like this idea the best, the lead say get your mind back in the holism, and suicide. But who guitar player could play slide gutter! Rock and roll needs cares? Rock and roll is in need guitar with his erection! hard-ons! The key here, is that of s i. Drink i Rock and roll needs more after a few years, people will shoot up, and get those coe ks erections. I don't mean back get used to the on-stage erec up. But don't kill yourseh stage groupie erections. I mean tion. I'm not saying that it'll lose yet. At least wait until you real live on-stage erections. I its charm (boobs, for instance, recorded a good album. • suits were buried waist-high in A programme note advised Light!! makes the cut. Some the ground. It's the kind of us that the show probably suggestions for this month... /strut, fret, thing you only have to look at wouldn't be "an indictment of On July 4, there will be a and your guts do the rest. At the corporate paradigm." And chance to see what European this point, I decided that the why not—while we were in the animators were doing in the and flicker show could have worked better neighbourhood? A few gentle, aftermath of Disney's Fantasia. as a gallery tour with dis oblique pokes in that direction Beautiful to look at and performance/art by Penelope Mulligan turbingly animated exhibits. would have been a lot more sat trippily soundtracked, 1973's What came through the isfying that all that hammering The Fantastic Planet is a headset was at times very away at trivia. French/Czech coproduction RADIX Lifestyle Theatre Instead, the company opted for going off to stare at a blank, 50" engaging, but at others, sound On the evening I'd intend whose sci-fi tale of a race of big The Swedish Play a polite neutrality which came TV screen. Particularly grating ed like arty waffle. Even the ed to stay in and write this, I guys subjugating small ones Thursday, June 6 off feeling clunky and strained was a cell phone conversation good stuff didn't so much skived off to the cinema instead should have renewed allegori IKEA Richmond when it wasn't being annoying- between our guide and his girl enhance the tour as distract and saw Songs from the Second cal relevance in 2002. I've been carried off by Radix ly obscure. friend about what brand of from it. (I was blissing our on Floor—a Swedish film, as it hap Rockaction! continues with a too often to believe that the Before setting off on a guid pens—and couldn't help notic new batch of commissions from grand masters of site theatre are ed tour, each audience member ing how the filmmakers dealt film and video artists invited to losing their touch, but for the chose either Comedy or The actual shoppers didn't look with uniformity in their own make a filmtrack to any song— first time, the company seems Tragedy and was given a head society. Absurd, outrageous and without blundering into that to have been defeated by its set tuned to the appropriate especially fucked up by deadpan, the film said volumes Rock Video thing. This time, the surroundings. Either that, or it channel. Our tour started well consumerism, but the performers about how our sanity and sense talent includes some high-pro needed a completely different enough. Swinging through the of home are affected by corpo file cameras wielded by approach to setting a piece office furnishings section, we behaved like anxious acting rations and consumption. In the the likes of Oliver Hockenhull about our relationship to con passed two ridiculously large end, perhaps The Swedish Play and Mike Hoolbloom. See sumer culture within IKEA's photographic prints of the pre- students trapped in some stalled just wasn't Swedish enough. Rockaction! 2 on July 17. big-box blandness. 9/11 World Trade Centre and Local videographer and The Swedish Play claims to our guide commented that this improvisation exercise. THE PLUGHOLE filmmaker Flick Harrison has examine the nature of desire, was our first tragedy of the How to reconcile a love for gone through the cupboards the future of theatre and our evening. Thereafter, things got a going to the cinema with the and collected material from his search for "home" against the bit laboured as the promised soymilk to pick up on the way Arvo Part and snatches of need to inhale summer 10 years as both auteur and backdrop of "IKEA's ready- "invisible theatre" became all home. Yawn. Of course there Mahler's Third when apparent evenings? Chose your venues hired gun. Some of his docu made worlds." Understandably, too visible. The actual shoppers was a message in all this, but I ly, I ought to have been paying carefully, avoiding those which mentary assignments alone some conditions must have didn't look especially fucked up kept thinking that there were attention to our guide.) require escalating between sound fascinating and he's also come attached to the super- by consumerism, but the per bigger fish to fry and subtler There were a few clever floors or traveling along corri going to leak us a few scenes corp's permission to use its formers behaved like anxious ways of frying them. link-ups— such as a reading of dors. Make sure the lobby has a from his first feature, Longshot. store, but it needn't have been acting students trapped in some When we passed a bed the Bible's begat section as we view of and immediate access But the real gobsmacker could concerned. Nothing short of stalled improvisation exercise. occupied by three women, lay on the beds, and a sentence to the street. Avoid multiplexes be his latest short, The Victory swinging a machete at the mer They dashed around measuring mewling and waving catatoni- in German whose meaning at all costs. This simple Feng Party. I attended the last few chandise could have ruffled the the same things over and over; cally, I finally recognized the depended on whether we were Shui should ensure that you hours of the shoot and still benign calm of the place. It felt a young woman threw a Radix that I know and love. The in the bedroom or the kitchen. I remain aware of the world out don't know if it was excessively impenetrable, and needed to be tantrum with plush toys in the tableau recalled a scene from also liked the sudden statement: side at a barely conscious, but relevant or relevantly excessive. infiltrated very slyly in order to childrens' bedroom department one of their past shows, in "The landlord always wins," still important level. That nar Had a fabulous time, though. shake loose the kind of theatre and a couple had a loud, pouty which performers wearing vin but this nastier aspect of home rows the field to about five— See it all in Flicks by Flick on at which Radix usually excels. row in a model kitchen before tage bathing caps and swim- wasn't explored. and of course The Blinding July 25. • VIDEO IN STUDIOS DJProfile we offer technical Daryl Wener final cut pro Wener's Barbeque training in video, Mondays, $:00-6:OOPM avid xpress Sport most talked about on your show: audio and new media Unfortunately I'd have to say hockey. I say unfortunately because it's very unoriginal. We do talk about nothing a lot of the time, and we love to discuss sports gambling. Wrestling used to be a big production and post- protools digital thing, but not so much anymore. Most memorable game: production including: audio editing / I was 10 years old when Kirk Gibson hobbled off the bench to hit a home run and win game one of the 1988 World Series for my lifelong favorite team, the Los Angeles Dodgers. The worst game ever sound design One rugby game I called definitely takes the cake. I was hungover and I showed up at the stadium we also have a 2000 sq. ft. unprepared but figured I'd be okay because there'd probably be 50 people at the game. Well, there were about 4,000 and people could hear me, and were shaking their heads at some of my calls. studio available for rental for camera, lights Pitcher UBC's Jeff Francis will most resemble in 10 years: He's a lefty, and I can't really think of one. Not Randy Johnson, not Tom Glavine, or Jamie Moyer. production purposes, and sound At best a left handed Mike Mussina, but that's asking a lot. I see Jeff Francis being a Paul Abbott. Maybe a little better. A guy who wins 13 games a year, and tops out at 17,18 one year. screenings and audio and Best interview: music events, for more George Shea, the head of The International Federation of Competitive Eating. I also got a great aftereffects minute out of an in-character Honkey Tonk Man. information contact Tricia Worst interview: I interviewed CFL quarterback Danny McManus while drunk. I didn't have a clue. Didn't even Middleton at 604.872.8337 Photoshop know what team he played for. It's also one of my favourites. That was a fun one. Athlete you'd most like to marry: Martina Hingis. I actually got to meet her, but she didn't seem that interested in me. It would be awesome to be a WTA tennis player's husband. If you find someone, email me at lookingforwom- [email protected]. Favourite show on CiTR: Maren's show, Stand and Be Cunted, when her and Kitty get out of control. [email protected] hours: 11-6 Strangest phone call while on air: One time, and I say one time, a girl who sounded good looking called and said she'd take her top www.videoinstudios.com mon - sat ffl off to win the prize. We said sure. • this appears to be issue five. Some people have suggest Hood, who has been working Now while I'd have to get an ed that great scenes are created on the site, along with a group expert opinion on the quality of out of dire need. This may be of occasional volunteers, for a these humble poems, I can't the case with some exceptional couple of years now. Definitely argue with the price of the zines coming from the worth checking out. radio tree DFCAA thing. Basically what we have is Abbotsford area: There might www.shzine.com three pithy paragraphs per be much more happening in The experts of celluloid eso- zines. etc. by Bleek page, and some black and white that village than I realized. terica known as the Blinding photos thrown in toward the Underlining all these activities Light!! Cinema (36 Powell St., back. Not sure what it 0 CANADA! Interestingly enough, my shelf, Dave's new small period Vancouver) are up to number all but it's three in their roughly film-relat 1 took my Canadian citizenship good friend Dave Hatton ical is called CARRION CROW. means, ed, square-shaped zine 250W. test yesterday and, barring any (whom I met in Canada) decid Issue #4 just made it to my always interesting to see Comprised of several varied bureaucratic snafus, aced the ed a while ago that he wanted mailbox recently. From issue what you Earth people articles, interviews, found sucka. In the process of making to move to the warmer and one the main topic has will do to make contact. the big decision, there'd been a been "Driving Contact Toot at PO Box items, and sloppy art, there's series of final-straws and outra California" as this 48884, Bentall Station, always something interesting or geous scandals that have led me seems to take up Vancouver, BC V7X confusing on each page. Inside to believe that my homeland so much of his 1A8. Bill Taylor meets with filmmak (USA) is essentially no longer in time these days. Really, some of you ers Maureen Marovitch and existence. I mean sure, the USA The well-paced kids are just too gener David Finch, and zinester/trav- was kinda fucked up before, and thoughtful ous, for in my paws is eller/author/ filmmaker/musi but I held out some hope for a writing always another free installment cian Bill Brown is also while. That was until the cur sheds some valu of the culture-jamming interviewed. There's a very rent administration in power able wisdom and zine PUBLIC WORKS. good article by Paul Kincaid on actually scrubbed thousands of inspiration from In this small zine are "the role of the minorities off the voting rolls, Dave's carefully several creative ways to artist in Operation Enduring declared war on everyone but make a point or get Freedom," which offers a gleam dingbat shoppers to the country that attacked it like life. Carrion of hope in terrible times. This think about the shit they (Saudi Arabia), gutted the con Crow might even review comes a bit late, but eat or the veritable slave stitution, and, to top it all off, offer an exhaustive that's what happens when labour that made their got applause from most of review of a live nothing is sent to the reviewer comfort possible. More the country. I thought the show (Modest who then has to suffer the than relevant in a world Democrats might fight for some Mouse, etc.) or, as humiliation of forkin' out the justice—but no, they won't be more prosperous life in in this issue, a lengthy look at that kicks the poor and weak then calls dissent cash. Come on now, should I seen criticizing a popular California (come back, come Apocalypse Noiv Redux. I miss have to put up with such hor (shudder) president. All those back). Dave's former zine Dave, but this is the next best violence. Instead of lashing out is the webzine SHZINE, which in non-productive ways, per offers columns, reviews, and rors? I've got a fragile ego and reasons were plenty but what Corvid Review was a well-writ thing to being there. (2087 a limited budget, ya know. I really scared me was the prospect ten literary thing which came Pleasant Hills Road, Pleasant haps we could learn some inter valuable resources from all esting ways of subverting the around the Lower Mainland, as mean, we can't all be Christa of having to travel with a US out sporadically over the last, Hill, CA 94523 USA) Min. Send your shit here or I'll passport. No thanks, man. O uh, five years? Something like Wandering around down mechanisms of the class-war well as links galore to BC bands mongers. EVERY NUN NEEDS | ANOIZE WK&I tm AM-1 N II m 1011 FM m W ItoS^f^^UftV 7 DiSCORDER kill your bovf^ife^cl-: iiniiiiiisa comics and graphic art by Robin THE AMAZING The Escapist would do what he what's going through her head. ADVENTURES OF could not, fighting the Nazis Lastly, I think Chabon's use of o o KAVALIER & CLAY that he had been completely hindsight was a little obvious. Michael Chabon powerless against. With The The way Sam and everyone Are you a local band or musician? We are now (Random House) League of the Golden Key, The around him dealt with his I know it's kind of late to be Escapist fights the bonds and homosexuality was too progres accepting entries for SHiNDiG! 2002. Send hopping on this bandwagon, chains of tyranny and helps the sive to be believable. I was also but hopefully that just means helpless to freedom. His alter not convinced by their struggle in your minimum three song demo of original you know what I'm talking ego, Tommy Mayflower, is a to maintain the rights to their about. No comic review this cripple, reminiscent of Sam's character. In these situations material (all styles welcome) for an opportuni time folks, but a review about a hobbling due to a childhood Chabon's characters handled book about comics—and a bout of Polio. Half way through things with too modem a sensi ty to play CiTR's annual rock 'n' roll death- Pulitzer Prize winner no less— the book is a major event that bility. match! Toss your demo, contact information, The Amazing Adventures of makes it impossible to put the But those are my only com Kavalier & Clay by Michael book down. I don't want to tell plaints. There are many reasons and anything else you want us to see in an Chabon, soon to be a comic and you anymore because I don't why this was an excellent book. a major motion picture. want to ruin the book for you, Chabon's greatest asset is his envelope and address it to: I was reluctant to handle on character. read this book initially -^ „~ He really knows SHiNDiG! 2002 I mean, who was this how to create inter guy and what did he esting and human c/o CiTR Radio know about the comics protagonists. Full of industry? The Comics depth and well #233-6138 SUB Blvd. journal's wholehearted rounded, I had embrace of Chabon also to find out what Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 left me instantly suspi was going to happen cious. How hard is it to these guys. really to just recount Their every motiva Questions? Interested in becoming a sponsor? For the real history of tion was completely ore information please visit ww comics? In the end, a lot understandable, of what he wrote about their every experi can also callus at 604-822-1242 or email Duncan I already knew. But ence hard not to when I heard he had empathize with. Joe at [email protected] won the Pulitzer I fig relieves his sur ured I really ought to vivor's guilt by check this book out. using The Escapist to * The story is about destroy the Nazi the two men who create scourge. Both char Become a rock star, the comic hero The acters throughout Escapist. You read the book also seem about their first meet to suffer from a dou ing, the conception of ble identity at one The Escapist, and their point or another. It years of collaboration. makes for an inter Through trials and esting parallel. I also tribulations, women, liked the fact that men, and war, you Sam was gay. Gay learn about them and culture has been their friendship. The absent from popular two main characters are Sam for so long, and I appre but it was ai •ting P ciate the fact that it's slowly but Clay and Joe Kavalier. The lat coaster ride. ter you're introduced to on the surely becoming commonplace. I did have some complaints The two love stories are also night of his arrival in America though. Like how after all that after escaping the beginnings of really nicely done. It was sweet, crazy stuff happening the end fantastic, and utterly roman the Holocaust. Joe is deter ing just peters out. It was mined to help the rest of his tic—just like a comic book. The incomplete and unsatisfactory book is also a Coles notes ver family escape and when his and confusing. Like I said American cousin mentions the sion of the history of comics. before, I felt the book was about Kavalier and Clay exist in the "big money" to be found in the their friendship and at the end newborn world of comic books, world of comics. They're con of the story you have no idea temporaries of Wil Eisner and Joe leaps at the chance. With Joe where it stands. It was a "hap illustrating and Sam writing, Stan Lee. RC Harvey devotes pily ever after" without a con chapters to Rosa. It's an inter they create their own Super clusion. Chabon also fell victim man, The Escapist. One of my esting perspective and makes to the age-old gimmick of start you feel likepart of the action. favourite parts of the book is ing the book with a bit of the when they're brainstorming Must be the film in Chabon's ending. In later years we find blood. about what "their guy" will be out that Sam had started to like. Never being a great fan of appropriate Joe's characteristics So yeah, I would recom the superhero genre, I found the as his own. It tells you nothing conception of The Escapist to be mend this book to anyone. Then and serves no purpose at the maybe they would understand exciting. It was hard not to get beginning of the book. I also caught up in the newness of the where my love of comics comes found Chabon's handling of the from. Plus, I loved reading a genre and the imagination one main female character, Rosa involved in the process. I also book about my favourite medi Saks, to be weak. She was Joe's um. It was interesting and real liked how their hero was an girlfriend and at times you amalgam of their own histories ly, really, really hard to put peered into her soul with naked down. • and personalities. In Prague, Joe honesty. But in the end, at one had been an incredibly talented of the most important points in www.michaelchabon.com 1 amateur escapist. In Joe's eyes her life, you have no idea It struck me that perhaps I friend out of jail. simplicity and a subtle authori didn't have a clear idea of what To add to my internal dia ty that makes his stories seem it means to be an adult. Maybe I logue about adulthood and age, shorter than they really are was already there, but just did my friend Miko asked "Do you because they paced so well. In n't know it yet. I decided to know anyone who looks their each story there is a character over mvA look up "adult" in the Oxford age?" while we were standing who is facing the challenge of book reviews by Doretta Dictionary: "a person who is in line at the movies. I was "adultness," of expectation. fully grown and developed. A thrown for a loop. She was Sadness and hope are the build person who has reached the age right. No one I know looks their ing blocks of Gray's modern of majority." Well, I've been this age and most people are gener In Which the Column There was only so long I could lishing house and instead of landscape, a place where choice ally striving for some is overwhelming and everyone Descends Into the Realm masquerade as a student in cutting my own hair, I turned thing other than what exists in the grey area between of Journal. Rather Than order to get cheap visits to the the scissors over to a profes they have. High school "right" and "wrong." The most Journalism dentist and free travel insur sional. The stars must have girls are aiming to look ance. I didn't want to sink back been aligned or something 19, while 50-year-old men poignant stories in Small hi June, signs that I'm supposed into the poverty that defined because I got an interview. I are trying to regain the Accidents involve characters to be an adult appeared. My my childhood. To make things found myself in a boardroom, physique of their 20s. It who are slightly flawed in situ friends and acquaintances were more difficult, it seemed like wearing ironed (not ironic) seems that everyone is ations that heighten their inade acquiring full-time jobs, trying so hard to hit the quacies. Master's degrees, one-bedroom mark that they're missing My favourite story in the apartments, engagement rings, High school girls are aiming to look 19, the point: all we have is collection is "Letters to the and pre-natal ultrasounds. It while 50-year-old men are trying to the present. Altering our Future," in which the protago seemed that my life was going looks to attain the future nist hunts down time capsules to start unfolding like a fash regain the physique of their 20s. It or regain the past is futile. from small town to small town. ion/lifestyle magazine, rather Fantasies of a successful The feelgood tone of the story career and a great rela than in the zine style I'd been seems that everyone is trying so hard shifts as it becomes apparent tionship are meaningless. accustomed to. I soldiered on, what the time capsule hunter is to hit the mark that they're missing the Then it came to me: sleeping in to embarrassing really after, versus our expecta maybe the trick of being tions of his intent. The idea of hours (yes, if you arrive at my point: all we have is the present. an adult is getting to a the time capsule deserves some apartment at 11AM, I will still state where you stop thought. It's supposed to be a be in bed, as a friend discovered everyone around me had their clothing, trying to give a good wanting and start enjoy physical space that holds a slice the hard way prior to a jaunt lives together. If they weren't answer to "Where do you see ing what you have, enjoying the down to Seattle), living in my successful, at least they were in yourself in five years?" But the low-to-the-ground height since moment. of time, an inscription of histo- ground floor hovel, waking up love or in lust. In my delusion, I question that stumped me had I was twelve. Gaining 20 'ry. It's a letter to the future and, to find that my socks smelled even envied those in the process to do with salary expectations, pounds at 18 doesn't count as during its creation, it defines like beer, and being generally of breaking up because at least to which I answered "I'm development, does it? It just ANDREW GRAY the present moment as the past. noncommittal. I was doing my they were allowed to feel some expecting more than minimum means I had a lot of burgers and Small Accidents In some ways, a column is best to emulate Alfred E. thing. I was feeling nothing, wage." Needless to say, my ice cream in my first year of (Raincoast) like a time capsule: it captures a Newman: "What, me worry?" save for ennui. I was a robot. adult act didn't work and the university. As for reaching the Andrew Gray, former executive month. There's no tin box or age of majority, I've been able to Then my 20-something fear The only solution that cost only 9-to-5 gig I'll be taking on editor of Prism International and photographs wrapped in plas vote for some time and during kicked in. I was tired of jobs nothing was to find a steady job is my 9PM-to-5AM role as current director of UBC's tic, but it will do. I think, just my last visit to Las Vegas, it was and set a career path. I applied "writer who procrastinates until summer writing conference, now, the wanting has stopped that lasted only two weeks and legal for me to drink and bail a having no medical/dental. for a full time position at a pub- the early hours." Booming Ground, writes with a and the being has just begun. • buns. Go down to Wreck Beach The New Forms Festival Joshua Kit Clayton and and sell as "Good EATS!" Sing Political and independent hip Sue Costabile (SF), Mitchell in acapella to the people on hop. Experimental electronic Akiyama (MTL), Ben Nevile 'shrooms. Wear nothing but a music. Glitch and Granular. (Vic) and myself flying into DJ, sombrero. Scratch-Video. Post-Rock. play live, and curate the night— poMorticon 2. Find out when SketchCo is Minimal Techno. If you are a so you know what to expect— having their Summer AGM and freak of any of the above, then plus the installation art of olo j. the sound of spectacle by tobias crash it—it will be in the board check it: August 1-5 is the sec milkman and Triina Linde. room of the Vancouver Yacht ond annual New Forms Saturday includes Independent Club. Pretend to be from a rival Festival, featuring an impres From the lips of the drunken King Agency to local, elected coun rights; and the general right to Elements, a free independent company selling bad refrigera sive array of artists across hip hop extravaganza at Dubya, who entered the Realm and cils to any government depart communicate in private—peri tors. four different underground said unto himself: so many Arabs ment, no matter how small and od. Forget personal emails or Robson Square in the afternoon 3. Walk into IKEA. Go into the musical and artistic spectrums. featuring Mr. Rumble and U- to fuck.—Anarchist Graffiti, petty—to obtain all email telephone calls. Hello, paranoia. warehouse and grab those Thursday August 1 is Scratch Tern plus a b-boy/girl invita Montreal records, phone records, and Any government bureaucrat with cheap shelves. Start assembling Video night with DJ Spooky tion, emcees, and graff, and in mobile phone records (includ a grudge can now check your them in a corner of one of the (NYC) and Nomig at Sonar and Montreal In the Summer ing locations, dates, phone email and phone messages and the evening at the Grandview Imagine a city where, at every numbers, and transcripts) with Auditorium, "Creative Control" possible opportunity, the streets out a court order. For the police, featuring Cyber Krib artists are shut down for sidewalk any officer of superintendent Forget investigative journalism; client-lawyer Masia One (TO), Low Pressure, sales, outdoor movies, live jazz, rank or above can demand an Sweatshop Union, and more. salsa parties.... Imagine a street individual's records without a privacy rights (already lost in Canada); doctor- Finally, Sunday is the wind- where it is perfectly all right to court order. This will comple down and anarchic post-rock hang out, stoned on hash with a ment similar legislation enacted patient privacy rights; and the general right to listening session, Abstractions, bottle in hand, at 3:30am. Yes, by the European Parliament at St. Andrew's Wesley it's Constable Drennan's worst which gives any member state communicate in private—period. Forget Cathedral featuring Kinski nightmare: it's Montreal. On the the power to force phone and (Seattle), The Beans, Jazz For other hand, Montreal has no internet companies to retain the personal emails or telephone calls. Robots, and Insection4. SHIT! beach, no mountains, no cool detailed communications logs That's a major festival—better of each of their customers for an forests. If Vancouver could only believe it, the NFF is a sonic import a little of Montreal's unspecified period. The UK's Hello, paranoia. force to be reckoned with. spirit, and inject that instead of Guardian also revealed last back aisles. Build something. don't miss DJ Spooky and Check www.newformsfesti- heroin, she'd be completely November that access to com seriously fuck you over because Play. Leave. (If approached, just tobias v's postmodern "State of val.com for all the info and start unstoppable. munications data would not be you voted for the other guy. say that you "wanted to give it restricted to anti-terrorist inves Times like this, I always sit the Art" panel either in the realizing that Vancouver is yes a run-through.") afternoon, where we'll be laying The Rise of Info-Fascism tigations, despite apparent down and watch The Triumph of indeed a good place to be. 4. Build public stocks. If you down the words. If the labels The UK gov't made a bold step assurances to the contrary by the Will—just as a reminder. Today's Secret Government can, get Public Works Uniforms. Mille Plateaux, Orthlorng in June to outdo even the US in David Blunkett, the UK Home "We couldn't have done it with Codes: XJS43//HIT11//UIG- Tell people that it's part of a Musork, Context, or intr_ver- eliminating privacy rights. The Secretary. What does all this out the megaphone."—Hitler. ORDO» new economic initiative to deal sion ring a bell, then Friday is Regulation of Investigatory mean? Forget investigative with "Tlie Indian Problem." Give your very own Glitch and Powers Act, Section 22, allows journalism; client-lawyer priva Four Ideas For July s pain the world out cards with Gordon Granular night at the Video In Until bread n any UK governmental section— cy rights (already lost in 1. Make brown play-doh. Form Campbell's number: 250.387.1715. with a rare live performance from over! from the Food Standards Canada); doctor-patient privacy ' into turds and put into hot dog Energy, enjoyment, and creativity are some of the most apparent valuesshows over there. I think we might just try to play some tiny little pick up the Discorder or see local shows do you feel inspired or held by this three-piece rock and roll band from Coquitlam. Although theirshows , just for the experience of playing in a different country. I just discouraged? approach is very much their own, they share similarities with the Jon think it might be interesting and worthwhile. I think that whenever I see shows or pick up the Discorder or get Spencer Blues Explosion, PJ Harvey, and even early Mayo Thompson.S Ino you guys plan on recording this summer? involved in any sort of cultural activity, I do feel inspired. Regardless the past three years, the band's public focus has primarily been perfor This summer we're going to try to lay down all the better Sharkforce of whether the music is great or bad, I feel like the act of actually mance-driven, playing sporadically in different venues throughout material that exists and do a really good job of it by ourselves just to doing things is valuable in itself. But at the same time I can find Vancouver. Without any released material, or website for that matter, have it as a document, something that we can keep for ourselves. I myself feeling pretty shitty and depressed about the state of things Sharkforce are understandably evasive. This lends an important quality to in Vancouver. It's such a difficult city to live in. I think that I am a their work, which refuses to be fragmented by an over-determined self-pro- particularly mediocre person, and I probably have some envy for these people who are really dedicated and devoted and are really phenomenal. Do you plan on releasing your solo CD? I feel like the CD I produced last summer is 85% garbage. There are a few moments that I can listen to as interesting ideas. It's difficult to maintain a subjective, I mean objective point of view when listening to your own music, though. ve been doing this for five years and nothing's really c Favorite local acts, please. Be honest. to fruition. We've been so lazy about it. But the recording is a worth I think one of the most impressive local acts is Atlas Strategic, who we while project, even if it doesn't result in the acquisition of new lucky enough to have played with. In terms of what Sharkforce shows or if we don't secure any kind of distribution. I just think it DiSCORDER: What about the future? would be useful for us to have a CD even in terms of our own devel Paul Kajander: Uh, future looks bad. I think I see the band eventu opment and in charting our own progress. Just to have a recording ally falling apart. I see the formation of a new super-group involving of reasonable quality that we can do ourselves and put a lot of time some recognized and highly-prized musicians. and effort into, just to give to our friends and to keep ourselves. I Who is Sharkforce? don't know if there's any point to releasing a Sharkforce disc, you Dylan Godwin is the better songwriter in Sharkforce and also per know? forms the role of percussionist in live settings. He's also an amazing How do you feel about your ideas being put out to the public? wordsmith [laughter]. Mike Loncaric |bass] is an amazing musician How comfortable are you with the interview process? might aspire to, I think that they're a band that have achieved what as well as a really thoughtful guy. He's such a brilliant thinker. I think I'm really quite uncomfortable with it. But I see it as being we've always wanted in the energy of a performance. I think it's obvi How integral is the friendship in Sharkforce? something you can either do or not do and I don't know if it's real ous we play a very different kind of music and it's a genre that I real It's essential. It's the main thing. I think that in a lot of ways, our ly harmful to put things out into the public. It's a question you ly enjoy. I do feel there are so many bands I am aware of that deserve friendship is Sharkforce. Not that the band is artificially keeping us always have to ask when involved in any creative act. When you recognition, though, and I just don't want to put myself in a position together, but I think more that it's a perfect forum. It's a great oppor put something into the public sphere it automatically contains a like that. The reason why I mention Atlas Strategic is because I don't tunity for us to get together as friends and do something that's question of intention. know any of them personally. Also, I don't go see enough live music. meaningful to all three of us. I think if you have a pre-existing bond At the same time you seem pretty hesitant to just be totally "what This year, it's terrible, and I shouldn't be saying this, but I can't stand and you enter a musical relationship with people, it can be really ever" about it. going to rock shows anymore. It's not that I'm not interested in the rewarding and satisfying and also it strengthens the bond or a new Yeah, maybe I take it seriously. I want to be thoughtful, and I hope music, but it just becomes such an ordeal for me. To get down there bond is formed because you are working creatively and it's always to be thoughtful. I think it might be disrespectful in terms of you and go to the show can be arduous and I do enjoy shows when I'm a a difficult compromise to do that with people. It takes a lot of trust putting in the effort into writing the interview. little intoxicated, so just in terms of finances and practicality it can be and energy and effort. Fuck, I sound like such a moron. I can't take Are you pretty indifferent to Vancouver? difficult. I guess lately I feel more inclined to spend my time being interviews seriously. No, I'm not indifferent to Vancouver. But I'm not happy in more personally productive. I think it's very productive to go to What other plans do you have? Vancouver. It's a limiting city. I mean, my circumstances are just not shows, but I can't bring myself to go to them when I have another The plans for the next year as it stands right now are that I'm going ideal. On a sunny day like today, I feel quite happy in Vancouver gazillion things that I'd been meaning to do. • to be moving to England with Dylan. We're going to be enrolled in and that's a happiness probably more born from the effects of the a university there and hopefully get some recording device so that atmosphere. Sharkforce is playing on Thursday, July 20 at Ms. T's Cabaret. Paul we can work on some new material and possibly perform a few In terms of the work people are pushing and producing, when you Kajander also performs solo infrequently. How big a part does music play in your everyday lives? Robb: The fact that being in a band costs you more money than it makes means there has to be a lot of things you have to do just to be in a band. Rehearsing and scheduling band time is difficult some THE ACCIDENT times—and I myself would like music to be a bigger portion of my w h time as it is. by j u I i David: I'd say we all wish it were a bigger part of our lives. DiSCORDER: First of all, who are you? And why are you in my ing back and recording another album. We're trying to put that out Sometimes we feel like we're not rehearsing as much as we'd like. house? in the fall or as soon as possible. That includes jamming more, writing more songs, and being more Gary: We are the Accident. I'm Gary and I play guitar Where do members of the Accident "hang"? productive. We'd like to be in a position where we can realize the Robb: I'm Robb and I play synth. Robb: We don't really hang that often. Usually when we hang out, potential that may be there. David: I'm David and I'm the percussionist. it's band-related and focused on band stuff. In the last while we How are your values reflected in the music? Jesse: I'm Jesse. I play bass. haven't been hanging much at all. Jesse: One of the reasons that I love this band as much as I do is Tell me about your songwriting. What bands or projects have you been involved in that you would because of the things that I'm involved in. Based on what I feel is Robb: Our songs usually start with an idea from Gary. like to share something about? motivating me, I would say that my values are very strongly reflect Gary: The rest of the band has their input. Robb: Gary and I used to play in a band called the Instrumen. Gary ed in what my function in the group is. My function is to be one David: Gary comes up with the basic idea and the rest of the band was moonlighting while starting the Accident. This was with Jesse, voice in a group of four. I feel that many of our different values are puts their spin on it. Dave, and Nathan. The Instrumen broke up shortly after the represented and balanced well, within the band. We're all people What kinds of challenges are you facing, if any? Accident began. who like to have fun and release energy when we play, but at the Gary: Booking a tour is my biggest challenge. Also wondering how David: Jesse and I were involved in different ways in the same time we're fairly [socially] conscious people. While we are on we are going to put out our next record in order to reach a larger Hoodwinks. Also, Gary and I played in a ska band called the stage the problems and injustices of the world may be far from our audience. Spectacles with Mike and Tyler who are now in the Hoodwinks. minds and the audience members' minds, but hopefully, when they What role does your community play in your band development? Do you still feel like a new band or have you come to the point of leave or when listening to our records, there is something more of Gary: Inspiration. Personally I'm inspired most by local bands. feeling fully comfortable with the way things are? the conscious side reflected in our lyrics. There's something about meeting with the people that are in other Gary: I still feel like we are new. We definitely are not tired of each Gary: One of my personal goals is to make that a bit more obvious bands. You are influenced by more than their music alone. Watching other. We definitely don't hate each other right now. We've only to people. It's hard to go on stage and show our views when you how they act and how they function can also provide inspiration. been around for about a year, and so it still has the romance. are having fun. There's something more there to look at later while What kinds of "lifeskills" have you all individually been working Robb: Things still feel very new to me. I've only been in the band for the initial enjoyment can be carried on. on? five months, and we haven't recorded any of the material since I've What is the intent of this interview? Jesse: I'm learning focus and perspective. joined. It still feels very new and exciting. David: I think the reason we are doing the interview is because we David: I can improve in every way. Gary: This is also the first band of ours that has planned a tour. want interested people to know what's going on. As for those who What are your plans for the next while? These things are so very new to us. have never heard of us, hopefully this serves as a sort of introduc Robb: We are touring for the entire month of August and then com- Do outside forces (life, etc.) ever discourage your productivity? tion and invitation to come see a show. • 10 JULY 2002 Two Minute Miracles The first time I saw a Two Minute Miracles show was an interesting expeAndy: Yeah, our practice space and our studio got ripped off. So the Aaron: A lot of on the whim ideas. rience. I recall seeing a band sitting around a table on a dimly-lit stagecas h for transportation and all that stuff got taken. It was kind of a Clayton: Out on a limb, on a whim. with their instruments on their laps. The singer of the band would occadrag because I thought the cash was well hidden. So maybe some How different is it from your first album? sionally sing into a microphone mounted on an army helmet he was wearone knew where it was, maybe did some snooping, which leads me Andy: It's far more, uh, I don't want to use the word "cohesive" ing. I remember thinking to myself that the stage setup made them look to think that it was somebody who knows me or has been there in because I've seen it in print a million times. But it's a band unit, you more like a bunch of guys drinking beer and playing poker on a Friday the past. know, whereas the first one was a bunch of four-track oddities. This night titan anything else. But the music urns good. The band played charmYour studio is in your house? one is a bit more of an album. ingly short, mellozo and eccentric pop tunes—just the type of songs that AndyI : Yes, it's in my house. They smashed the window in the front Did you try to make it different? love. door, but couldn't get in that way, so they shoved the air condition Andy: No. We just realized after it was all done that we're actually That was more titan a year ago. These days the Two Minute Miracleser in through a window and climbed in that way. better at what we do now. And it's still advancing. Volume 111 is in do their shows standing up like all other bands. The helmet is gone. And then you did a fundraiser show which helped to pay for some progress. We are just kind of freaking out when we look at songs Experience lias taught them that they can't spend an hour before each showof th e trip. we've got in the works already. setting up a stage when they are playing night after night, each show in Andya : Well, I was about ready to cancel the tour because we were, A few outsiders contributed to the album as well. different town. Looking more professional lias not affected their music, howwell, the total poverty tour to begin with. When I called my friend There are some guests. Because my house is a recording studio, ever, as they are still churning out finely-crafted pop gems that are winningZen a to tell her that we weren't going to be staying at her house in there are always bands coming through. Jose Contreras from By crowds all across the country. Vancouver, she said "No! You can't cancel the tour! We'll hold a Divine Right was there all the time last spring. I was mixing "Rayon The Two Minute Miracles hail from London, Ontario. There are fivefundraiser! " So she got on the phone and called the university radio Queen" when he arrived for a week of recording, so he helped out people in the band: Andy Magoffin (guitar, vocals), Aaron Curtis (drums),statio n in London, and she got all of them behind it. I got a call from with the mix, and he did some singing and played some shaker and Clayton Cornell (bass), Mike Christoff (keyboards), and John Higney (lapthei r Music Director saying "Hi Andy, this is Chris from the radio stuff. Whoever's around is happily invited to play something. steel, banjo, guitar, fiddle). 1 managed to meet up with Andy, Aaron, andstation . Listen, we are going to do everything we can to make this The name of the band is "Two Minute Miracles" and your songs Clayton before their recent show in Vancouver. show happen." This was on Wednesday morning that we were talk tend to be around two minutes long. There must be a relationship ing to all these people. By Wednesday night we'd secured a venue there. DiSCORDER: So this is the first time you've been out in and by Thursday morning we were postering. And the show was Aaron: We are not calling our songs miracles. Vancouver? on Sunday night. We got 150 people out, and Royal City came down Clayton: We sure are! Andy: Yep, first time we've been west of Windsor. We've played from Toronto to play. Gentleman REG and White Star Line, they just Andy: [Laughs] I don't know. It's kind of tongue-in-cheek. I forget about 10 shows so far. When we left a week and a half ago, we had came down to play for free to help us get back on the road. It was now why that happened. I guess in the early days I was having trou five shows lined up to this point, and we picked up five extras just pretty awesome; I was totally humbled by it. ble writing songs, and I asked some friends for song titles so I could by walking into towns and storming their open stages and muscling It must be great to be supported by your fellow musicians. Is write songs about them. And they all winded up quite coinciden- our way onto other bands' shows. Just introducing ourselves and music a job, a hobby, or an obsession? tally being about two minutes long. And rather than looking for a saying, "Guys, help us out, we wanna play." Clayton: We all lead different lives. More like double lives. band name which is always a painful process, we just defaulted to How did you get here? Andy: I can't see anybody in this band not being in a band. You the Two Minute Miracles as the band name. I don't know where the Andy: We drove in a van. know, at some point we are all going to be playing whether it's name Two Minute Miracles came from. Which towns did you play in? together as a band or in other projects. John's working for his PhD in Aaron: It's great that people like to mispronounce it though. Two Andy: We stopped in Kelowna, played a coffee house there. musicology. Mike has his Master's in composition. We've all been Many Americans we were called. Aaron: Canmore. A couple shows there. playing in bands all our lives and just doing the circuits. I would Clayton: Two Bit Miracles, Two Many Miracles. Andy: Yeah, one on an opened stage. And then we opened for say it's a full-time job that doesn't pay anything. Aaron: Two Many Muscles, Two Minute Heros. Shikasta the next night. We had shared a bill with them in the past in Tell us about your latest album Volume II. How were the songs Andy: Yeah, they are funny, I guess. If you mumble it's easy to mess Toronto. And it was a good time. What else did we do? Oh yeah, written? it up. Vancouver, when we got here a few nights ago my friend Zena told Andy: It was written in little bits and pieces. It was sort of a work in Clayton: You can say it slow and people still fuck it up. us we should check out the Side Door Cabaret because they have a progress for a long time. There was no master plan; they just kind of And someday you will have a 15 minute song in your album just very open booking policy. So we called them up and said, "Hey, can came together. We moved from one song to the next. And when we to mess things up. we come down and play a set?" And they said "You're in luck, realized that it was done, we mastered it. And then our label Teenage Aaron: [Laughs] There's that one song we have. It's a new one. 'cause the Gruesomes just cancelled." So we went and played a set USA went bankrupt because of the whole Song Corp fiasco. We had Andy: Yeah, there's a new one. It'll probably hit four minutes. there. to sit on it for a year. And as far as the writing process? It involves a I heard that this tour almost didn't happen. Some of your posses lot of beer, a lot of getting together and playing, and a lot of sitting Andy: And the album will be called Double It Up'. [Laughs] sions were stolen just before you were about to leave. down with the four-track or sitting down in the studio with guitars. Aaron: We'll then be called the Two Minute Miracles Squared. • by Ben Lai Nasty On Dave Gaertner photos by Andy Scheffler If it's rock you want I might suggest that you look no fur ther than the Nasty On. In fact you need not look any further than their latest album, due out this month. Actu ally you don't have to look any further than the three lines that will take you to this interview. How's that for convenience? The deep grooves, narrative lyrics, and pounding drums that make up City Sick, their new album out this month, are sure to turn any rock fan's head. I talked to Jason and Allen about City Sick and the mis adventures that make this band one of the hottest on the Vancouver scene. DiSCORDER: Introduce yourselves! 'cause there's a lot of little corners that bands get themselves tucked who gets Jason: Jason Grimmer, singer. in, and we've never considered ourselves to be anything but a post- known and who Allen: Allen Forrister, guitar. classic rock band. doesn't. When you How about a little musical background on yourselves as well. So is that something you keep in mind when you're writing work in a record store you Allen: I started playing in marching bands and concert bands play tunes? see how things work, it's not as ing drums and sax and guitar at, like, 11 after seeing groups like Jason: Definitely. There's no bandwagon we're trying to jump on. simple as "This is a good album, [there WASP and whatever, and it grew from there. I started taking lessons Allen: Except for all of them. fore] this does well"—it's based a lot on who and getting into groups like the Pixies. Then just creating bands until Jason: We're huge fans of a lot of music from the '60s and '70s and knows who and who knows what. this one came along. we always look back and say "Yeah, as long as it's like a certain type Allen: Geographically, music doesn't matter. There's good jason: I moved out here—I'm from New Brunswick—and I met Al of rock and roll then we're happy." and there's bad and that's all that counts. Somewhere else we're at Sam's [The Record Man] and he and I formed a band called Mys So moving on to the new album in that vein, do you think you're not a local band. tery Crater, that was like this total primitive sounding band with a groove-oriented band? Jason: [Laughing] That's a great point. two drummers who didn't know how to drum and we just wrote Allen: We've grown a lot. It's almost like if you look at the Replace You guys played the wrap-up party for New Music West. I don't tons and tons of songs. ments' career we've almost gone from the first album to Tim, so it's know if you read what John Lucas of the Georgia Straight wrote Allen: Some good but mostly crap. Then I moved away again and hard to say. A lot of the kick-ass rock band reviews come from CiTR about the Nasty On, but he said you were sloppy. came back, and they had a real daimmer at this point and we came people who have seen us live. Unfortunately as a recorded group Allen: Supremely sloppy. together and actually started writing real songs as the Nasty On. we only have those six songs, so it's really hard to see what we're Jason: That was a point of contention for us because everyone I So Jason, how about some of the bands you played in back east? able to do. But we've written 75 songs together and recorded about talked to after that was like, "I saw you like 12 hours ago eating Jason: I never played in any bands back east. I had a real bad, hor 40 by now. The new album will show a lot more of what we're capa burgers on the side of the road and then 12 hours later I saw you rible band called the Organ Favourites with some friends of mine. ble of doing and it's still rock. playing tighter than you did at the Royal." We just played Replacements covers. I think I was drumming and Jason: Every song we write we can usually pinpoint where it comes Allen: We felt bad and good about the review, but if you look earli singing, and I don't know how to do either, so it wasn't working. Al from. We can go "that's an Only Ones song," or "that's a Primal er in the paragraph he specifically states that he was in no condi had some bands back east. Scream song." On this album we decided we wanted to write some tion to review anyone's music and we were in no condition to play Allen: Saskatchewan, yeah. I had one band called I Am Joe's Lung longer songs, but I don't believe in writing songs just for the sake of ours, so I think we're even. and Mystery Crater was with Matt, our bass player. them being longer. A lot of them came out longer and we were Jason: I think within any review like that you have to look in the Jason: Matt and I are from the same town in New Brunswick, and I happy with that. paragraph and find what makes you happy. was best friends with his older brother. He moved out here 'cause Were you picking from that list of 75 songs for this album or did I also heard a story from somebody about one of you getting weed his sisters lived here and we hooked up. I've known him since he you have a particular set in mind when you went in to record? for Jonathan Richman's drummer. Is this a real story? I'd like to was a kid. Allen: For this, it was definitely set in mind. The first crack at the hear it. Allen: Chad's from London, Ontario. He was playing in bands album was taken last April, which really wasn't a crack at all—we Jason: We had the pleasure of opening for Jonathan Richman. We when he was like 17, I'm not really sure. Probably the biggest band just went and recorded the 14 songs we'd never recorded and then were so happy playing that show—we're big Jonathan Richman he played in was Black Donnilies, who are still a well-known punk it took a long time to finish and never went anywhere. By that time fans, big Modern Lovers fans. After the show the drummer from band from back in the early days in London. He was almost in we had written some new stuff that would be really great, and then Jonathan Richman's band was like "Hey, can you get us any weed?" Nickelback. we went in and actually made a focused album. We focused on 11 and Al was like "Yeah, I'll try." Jason: It's true. We were all almost in Nickelback. songs at least 10 you'll see. So it does feel like a step ahead as Allen: There was this guy outside with a bike with a lot of bags and Allen: I'm from Saskatchewan, so it's very close. opposed to just banging out what we have over a weekend. he had a giant bag of weed. I convinced him to give me a little How long has The Nasty On been together? Jason: I like our first EP like I like a lot of bands' first albums. It has nugget. So I ran inside and I couldn't see the drummer anywhere or Allen: Three years now. Three years ago May. the energy and the hunger there. I'm a big fan of second albums his friend Barbie, who was doing most of the talking, so I headed Jason: Really? Well fuck man, happy anniversary. because that's when there's the pressure to write something that is back to the band rooms and I knocked on the door and said, "Hey Allen: We booked our first show and the next day we rehearsed. like a classic. So I feel that we picked out the songs that people were Jonathan, I've got what you want." He just told me to go away. So You booked your first show and then you rehearsed? going to want to listen to for a long time. eventually I just shoved under the door and went "Pssst." I left and Jason: I wrote back to Halifax and Al asked me to do this with him. Where did you guys record this album? then ran into the drummer and Barbie and it turns out, oh no, they We booked a show and then we wrote these songs. What was the Allen: Still with Jay Soloym of the Spitfires. He's grown a lot with were just telling me it was for Jonathan [in order] to heighten their first set list? us too. chances of getting some. Jonathan's really very anti-weed and it Allen: There were like 19 songs. A lot of them were Mystery Crater It doesn't sound like it, but are there any frills on the album? actually really upset him. songs. Then we did Creation's "How Does It Feel," which was pret Allen: We've got some guest musicians on this one. We've got Jason: The drummer ran out going, "No, no, you shouldn't have ty ambitious. [Stephen] Hamm playing keys on some stuff, Shane Krauss playing done that!" Jason: And we did two songs I remember in particular: "I Hate My saxophone, and Mark and Kathy from the Cinch are on the album. Allen: Good times. Job" and "I Hate Your Life." We haven't played those since. Jason: Getting Hamm was a huge thing, and we're huge Slow fans, What are some Vancouver bands that the Nasty On is into? Allen: They were about four seconds long. and that was the happiest I'd been in a while about recording. Jason: Three Inches of Blood, The Cinch, Notes from the Under Where was that? So where's this album going to take the Nasty On? ground, StationA. Allen: At the Piccadilly on a Wednesday. Jason: To the mid-ranges of the college charts! Allen: Black Halos, rest in peace. If you guys had to pick your favourite show that you've done, Allen: As long as we move forward and keep climbing we're not Jason: Clover Honey, Hotwire. Who have we missed? what would it be? too worried. It's hard to pinpoint where things are going to lead Allen: Black Rice. Allen: Mac Hall in Calgary in October with Chupacabra, then us, you, you kinda just wanna take what comes your way. Jason: We're pissing someone off... and then the Black Halos. Amazing crowd. Jason: All the bands I've loved have been bands that you've listened Allen: Latex Bride, Canned Hamm. Jason: I'd probably pick the one I don't remember. to their albums forever and you still put them on, but they never Jason: Oh, and the Ewoks because they sang me that birthday song. Allen: [Laughing] Zulu. really broke or did huge amounts. Allen: How about if we forgot you, next time you should do some Jason: No, but that one was insane. Richard's on Richards show Allen: Failures thing memorable and then we'll remember you. with the Spitfires for their CD release. I don't remember it very well, Jason: And it's a sad thing that everything I love is a failure, but I Jason: Man, you just dug the worst hole, that's terrible. but I climbed shit, so I was happy with that. guess that's a pretty good goal to reach. Allen: Nasty On, reaching new heights of lowness. • So when asking people about the Nasty On before this interview So how about what's going on in Vancouver right now, the scene most people seemed to come to the consensus that you are a rock if you will. The Nasty On's CD release party for City Sick will be held at The Pic Pub and roll band. What do you guys think about that? Would you Allen: I think there are a lot of great bands. The ones that are recog on July 5. define yourselves as a rock and roll band? nized are the ones I question the most. Jason: Yeah we would, and it's refreshing that they would say that Jason: When you're involved in the music scene you can kind of see 12 JULY 2002 Was it all a dteom? One sunny June morning I woke up way too early in the morning ond dragged myself across the city to East Vancouver, home of the Hive Studios. I was then chauffeur ed to an undisclosed location to wait for Nick Krgovich, larissa Loyva, ond Chris Harris, three quarters of p.ano. I sot in a lovely bright liv ing room and watched someone's pet rabbit try and eat my shoes while drummer Justin Kellom and manager Miss ferry entertained me with gossip and chitchat. • P-.ano make deeply textured, nostalgic music based around, naturally, piano and organ. As primary songwriter, Nick balances remarkable energy ond sophistication with calm restraint. His bandmates "colour in the skeleton" of the songs gently and skill fully, creating a warm bath of sound. by Barbara photos by A. Harrison Memories of a Lawnchair: p:ano Make Boring Things Interesting Again DiSCORDER: [Gesturing at practice space in backyard] So, you know,goin g to construct this interview around weather metaphors!" it, and then translate it into a mood, into a feeling. there's no actual piano back there. You obviously have lots of elec Nick: No, that's good because weather's a humongous deal to me. Why a lawnchair? tric pianos. I don't know about the couch gang over there [looks at bandmates]... Justin: You could see a lawnchair and that would inspire a certain Nick: I wish we had a regular piano. Electric pianos are just neces Larissa: [Makes thumbs up sign] Weather. [Laughter] memory: a time when Nick went to a family barbeque and the bar- sities. We have no money. [Real pianos] are finicky, they change tun "P:ano: Pro-Weather." beque fell over and his grandma had to get up from the lawnchair. ings all the time... keyboards are where it's at. Justin: "Newsflash: p:ano not against weather! Back to you, It would be something like that—little nostalgic things from your The last time I saw p:ano play was in the summer of 2000. How are Larissa." childhood that you bring forward into your adult life. [To Nick] Not you different now from what you were like then? Did this album take you a particularly long time to finish? to say you're an adult. But you bring the skeleton, play it once, and Nick: I don't know if we sound different, the songs have just got Nick: We never thought we were going to make an album. We then we build the song. It never stops changing, either. The songs ten... I mean, as we've gotten older we're writing better things, we recorded two songs and eight thousand years later we recorded get played similarly live but there are always little changes that hap think. Beforehand it was just a case of someone asking us to play a some new ones and then two thousand weeks later we... pen, always a certain amount of freedom to change them. show and then I'd round up whoever and we'd practice maybe once Justin: I'm sorry, I hate to interrupt, but I've always wanted to know Larissa: Sort of improvisatory but not in a cheesey way. You can do or twice and then go play in front of people. how you two [Nick and Larissa] hooked up with the Hive. whatever's in your head at the time. There's the skeleton of the song Larissa: It's only the last year now that we've had a regular drum Larissa: They kept pestering us. and then you can fill in the colour. mer and a regular bassist. It's only recently that we've gotten into Nick: We were so naive about everything. We had no idea that there Tell me a bit about the tour that you're going on. practicing regularly. We've noticed how well it works. [Laughs] were people other than our friends that even knew who we were. Nick: We're planning on going down to San Diego with Jerk With A Nick: Our aim was never to be in a band and, like, be a band and do Colin [from the Hive] came up after a show and handed me his Bomb in August for two weeks. tours and make stickers and have a website. But it's just sort of hap number and said "We want to record you." So two months later... In punk rock clubs with Jerk With a Punk Rock Bomb? pening that way. you know what I mean, I didn't even jump on that opportunity. He Nick: Probably. I'm sure we're going to have to beef up our set a lit So you now have stickers. phoned me back a while later and we set something up. That's why tle because it's not fun to play to loud bar crowds when... but we're Nick: Well, not quite yet. But you know what I mean. We're going to it took so long—we weren't overly anal about making everything not stuck to doing any one thing. We're not like, "Oh, we're a quiet have buttons and postcards. perfect. band." What are the postcards going to have on them? Could you describe the album to me before I hear it? Jerk with a Bomb have their quiet moments. Nick: They're boring. A curtain. The album cover. It's just promo Nick: Twelve people play on the record, so there's lots of different Justin: In fact, their new album has some exceptionally quiet parts. material. Justin took [the photo]. It's the bathroom at the Hive. instruments. It's not like "Oh, we need to be eclectic so let's put lots So I heard you wanted to do some gossiping. Justin: The first thing Nick told me about when he was talking of instruments in." I'm just a fan of arranging lots of instruments. Larissa: What are we supposed to gossip about? All my boyfriends? about the album cover was that he was obsessed with the curtain Justin: I would hazard to say that that's your number one ability. Terry: Ashley Park. And maybe gossip about Destroyer. from the Hive bathroom: "You've got to see it, you've got to see it, Who did you bring in to play on the album? Gossip about Destroyer. That's excellent. it's perfect, it's exactly what I want." And then I came over and I Nick It was mostly people that we were already friends with. Some Justin: That's not his real beard. was sort of underwhelmed by it. And then when we took the pic people that Larissa and I knew from high school played, and Josh Nick: The money Dan and Merge Records paid the Hive to record tures and they came back... Wells, Stefan Udell, Andy Herfst, Veda Hille, my cousin Julia from the new Destroyer album is what's paying for our album to come What's so hypnotic about this curtain? Calgary, Ida [Nilsen]... We needed help and they were nice enough out. Nick: Nothing, it's just kind of boring and lame. You have to look at to help. Chris: Is that gossip? it in a certain way. Chris: I think that if I had to distill the album into something, it Justin: If I was reading, like, Option magazine back when it was still Justin: The way that I looked at it, when I was trying to translate would be that it's... around, that would be gossip. "According to Hive Studios, the your obsession, was—I mean, you used the same words, that it was Justin: "...a mixture of Low and Belle & Sebastian..." [Laughter] money from the new Destroyer album is going to finance p:ano. Is boring and that was what was appealing about it—but what I got Chris: I wasn't going to go in that direction at all. The thing that's that like [robbing} Peter to pay Paul? What do you think?" out of it was more that if you pay closer attention, there are cool lit nice about it is that there's a lot of songwriting craft involved that's Can you talk about some of your other projects? Nick, you have tle subtle things about the way that it hangs and the way that it's not obvious. It's very song-oriented stuff and the songs have a lot of Burquitlam Plaza... framed by the walls. thought put into them, they're very composed but without sort of Nick: Yes: Burquitlam Plaza, Boring, Two Bad Catholics, All Hail Nick: It's just pink, totally non-descript, it just hangs almost in a bringing along a lot of the cliches that songwriting-oriented mater Hail, Micro Nice, Parks & Rec... perfect square. ial normally has. It seems to me that most people that are really Justin: He's totally making up these bands! Larissa: We didn't want people in our cover art. No kids on bikes, good, craft-oriented songwriters always have an element of gloss Nick: ...Mr. Hooper and the Hooplickers, Terry-O and the On- stuff like that. and cliche about their songs. Dangs, The Modern Loyvas, Love Handles. I play in the Jon-Rae Justin: If you look closely, though, I think there are kids on bikes in Larissa: Our songs are all units in and of themselves. band too, and The Olden Days. there. Kind of like when you're staring up at clouds when you're a Nick They're not really verse-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus-verse. It's Terry: What were you recording yesterday, Nick? kid... chunk-chunk-chunk. Almost more like a symphony. Nick: I was playing some songs on Ashley Park's new album. 1 sang Larissa: We didn't want clouds. Larissa: Beethovenian. [Laughter] on it and played piano on it. Speaking of clouds, I came over here intending to ask you lots of Chris: I wouldn't call it indie rock, if you had to call it anything. Larissa: I play in A Luna Red. questions about weather. Your album's called When It's Dark and Most indie bands—that's such a terrible word to even use any Chris: The Secret Three have a new record coming out. Tliat's just a It's Summer. I think of rain when I think of your music, and on more... rumour, though. I have another band called Parks & Rec which is reflection that is really tacky. People tend to make a big deal about They tend to work from an aesthetic. sort of my songs with a lot of the same people involved. We're this city being a moody, dark, rainy, melancholy place. So I Chris: Yes, and you can pinpoint song devices, writing devices. putting out an EP as well. thought, "Maybe I'll throw this at them and see what kind of faces Nick's songs are almost throwbacky pop songs but not in a rehashed Terry: And when does the Secret Three record come out, Chris? they make." kind of way. Chris: 1 don't know. Soon. It's called Northern and Industrial. Nick: I never ever mention rain in anything. Grey is okay because I How do you write songs? Terry: At the beginning of July, you say? The second release on Hive like that colour. But rain is bad, that crosses the line. Nick: I write everything and we all work it out during practices Fi Records? It's a cliche way of dealing with moods, equating them with the together. Justin: Hive Fi, what's that? [Laughter] Throughout this whole inter external environment. Justin: Going back to the curtain thing, I think the things that inspire view, you can kind of pick out what is rumour and what is not. Does Nick: I think there is some of that gloominess in the music but I try you [Nick] a lot of times are the connections you make between Nick really write songs like that? Is Chris really like that? not to go straight there. I try to bring it up in a roundabout way. things that are really really boring but are significant in the way you Larissa: Does Larissa really have boyfriends? Justin: It would be too easy to use rain as a metaphor. feel. You connect boring things with bigger feelings. Justin: Is it really all just a dream? Was I really here? • Also, I know you're from Coquitlam. I lived in Burquitlam for a Terry: Nick's able to walk down the street and see a rock... while and it was never sunny—it was always just grey. Anyway, Nick: [Wincing] Not a rock. P.ano's first album, When It's Dark and It's Summer, is due out this this would be my tacky rock journalist approach to p:ano: "I'm Terry: Or a lawnchair. He'll see a lawnchair and get so excited about month on Hive Fi and Zum Records. Vancouver Folk Music Festival: not just banjos and beards by Val Cormier Norouet Tlie Vancouver Folk Music Festival, which celebrates its 25th pen to a non-profit organization in difficult times. She credits the hard inside the whole breadth of roots music, and I think the time is real- \ anniversary this year on July 19-21 at Jericho Beach Park, has gar work of the staff, board of directors, and the persistent faithfulness of ly ripe now for us to get things a bit more together in town. I'm real nered an international reputation for being on the iranguard of defin the audience with helping the festival out of the financial slump. "We ly feeling optimistic and positive about working on that." ing folk music and especially the concept of "world music," before feel that budget changes and attempts to keep the artistic budget at a What took them so long? "I think organizations needed to be able that term xvas coined. reasonable level have been successful, and we've snatched triumph to get to a certain point where you can look up from your immediate Tlie VFMF has long been controversial within the local folk com from the jaws of debt." concerns and say: well, where are we? Who are our allies, our com munity and the public at large. Programming (too big a variety? not While ticket prices did rise, early bird prices were held to last munity? Then it becomes more likely that we can get together and enough? insufficient representation of local artists?), lack of a beer year's prices. The estimated 17% of attendees hailing from the US talk. In this kind of work, there's some very strong personalities garden, communication (or lack of) with other groups in the Pacific Northwest is expected to increase this year because of the involved, and it can be just as simple as a personality conflict. But as folk/roots community, financial woes, ever-increasing ticket prices anniversary, security concerns (Americans traveling closer to home), times change, new doors open up." ($130 at the gate this year for an adult 3-day pass) and a perceived and the cancellation of Seattle's WOMAD festival. Challenges left-wing, anti-corporate political stance are just some of the topics Many festival-goers appreciate the refreshing lack of corporate VFMF also becomes a moving target for the simple reason that there Folk Fest critics love to gnaw on. logos on the site. On the other hand, many others wonder where the is an ethereal, ill-defined Folk Process out there (whatever that is). I sat down one sunny afternoon ivith the festival's effervescent hell the money's coming from, especially with government's ever- Dugg's take: "I think we've always tried to create an organization and ivell-spoken artistic director, Dugg Simpson, to address these decreasing funding and support of the arts. that lives up to some of the aspirations that people are singing about issues and allow him to philosophize on the festival and folk music Dugg responds: "If you looked at a festival program from 15 on the stages. That's an ongoing tension—you have your aspirations in general. years ago and then one from this year, you'd probably be surprised at up here, and then you have the hard, practical details involved how many more people from the private sector are actively involved towards doing that. History in supporting the festival. There are a lot more of those relationships "Of course we're also challenged by resources. Nobody has as The first Vancouver Folk Music Festival was held in Stanley Park in now than there used to be. But they've also been done very carefully much money or staff as we would like to have. At a certain point you 1978 and moved to Jericho Beach Park the next year, where it's been because we're a cultural organization, and we don't see ourselves as hit a wall in terms of what two or three people—year-round staff— held ever since. Organizers of the first Festival included folks such being here to peddle our audience to Company X or Corporation Y can do. How many balls can you keep in the air?" as Gary Cristall (VFMF artistic director through the '80s and early We're kind of old school—we want to work with people from differ One common complaint heard about the Festival is that it tries '90s) and Mitch Podolak (artistic director of the Winnipeg Folk ent parts of the private sector that we'd be proud to work with, and too hard (or not hard enough!) to please a lot of different interest Festival for many years). In the early years, the Children's Festival who we feel support all the things that are unique about the festival. groups. Dugg has evidently given this a lot of thought: "One of the and the Folk Festival were operated by the same organization. "We have also become more skilled at the writing of grants [for nice things about having worked one's way up from the mailroom, Dugg's first involvement with the Festival was as a volunteer in government funding]. Part of the reason that we continue to be suc so to speak, is that I have a good understanding of the audience, I its second year. After working in the production end of the festival he cessful with those levels of funding is that we do care about gender think. There definitely are 'constituencies,' as they're called in arts became the volunteer coordinator for about a dozen years, and has balance in a lineup, do programs with diverse communities and grants. Each year we start from recognizing our own traditions, and held his current position since 1996. artists—for a generation at this point. We are all of those things that making sure there will be some excellent singer-songwriters, Celtic Despite coming off a particularly gruelling production week at they [bureaucrats] think of as good. Finally, most of our money has music, music from away, maybe from a place you can't find on a map, the time of the interview, Dugg maintained an abiding love for his come from earned revenue: selling tickets, and donations from our and our commitment to women's music. job. "It's something I really enjoy, and raising the bar for oneself, as audience." "Part of our understanding, I think, with all the people that come well as for the event, keeps it engaging. There are so many things that He also points out that the institution of special pricing for stu to the festival is that the thing that you love the most in the world— can be done both inside the festival as it exists now, and in terms of dents, which came in three years ago, was a direct result of audience whether it's singer-songwriters or Celtic, or what have you—yeah, the potential for music in people's lives throughout the year." lobbying. "Which is how a lot of changes have happened at the festi we'll have some of that. Once people have got that comfort level and Oh Those Money Woes val—people standing up and saying 'Have you thought about this?'" they know that a few times a day they can hear their heart's desire, Dugg deftly deflected questions on financial matters to the festival's "One of our official surveys has showed that our audience has they're then much more open to listening to some other things as well. executive director, Frances Wasserlein. been getting younger over the last five years. I think part of that is the It opens up their generosity and curiosity. He did, however offer these thoughts: "We didn't set out to be a programming, part of that is acknowledging that they face increas "On one hand, it's very challenging, on every level from marketing corporation. We still stay as a cultural organization, and we're still ingly real financial challenges. Volunteering provides another way to scheduling. On the other hand, it's one of the things that makes the concerned both with the artistic side of that and with the communi for young people to get involved. It's been very conscious—how festival very special, that there is this variety. One of my favourite ty side. We've tried to keep ticket prices reasonable, maintained the we've tried to open up the festival. I couldn't be happier, because we things about this festival is that it remains an all-ages kind of event. disabled access program, the community tickets program, so that all have to pass it on at some point. This organization was started by We have some cases where three generations of a family come togeth kinds of people can come to the festival. It's not a way to big pay. If people with a median age of 25, but they're no longer that age." er, and that's because each group inside that bunch knows there'll be you went into a bank with a business plan that says we want to stage Collaborations something for them. I also think there has to be a place where people a music event for 8-10,000 people a year, and we're mostly going to While it's probably not a problem unique to Vancouver, this city has can cross-pollinate a little more, and not just self-associate." bring in young artists, women artists, and people from traditions that developed a rep, in folk/roots circles at least, for lack of effective com Speaking of all-ages, how does this bode for the possibility of ever most people have never heard of—you'd get laughed out of the munication among various presenters. having a beer garden on site? Dugg smiles upon hearing this oft-asked building! But we've stayed true to that stuff for 25 years, which is Dugg readily admits this has been a problem, but is optimistic question. "Most of the people in the audience have said they don't amazing c:i a certain level. We're not here shilling for some company, about recent developments in this area. "As we've got our financial want one. I appreciate that some people, artists included, think it's we're not here to sell running shoes. We're not here to sell you any house much more in order than it was some years ago, we've got the weird that we don't have beer. On the other hand, I enjoy a drink more thing else except a chance to spend time with people of similar mind festival down. We've got this great train set, but what else can we do? than most, and I don't think anyone in the festival is anti-alcohol. I also and hear some musical stuff that'll just blow your mind." What are other ways in which music and people's lives can come don't think that it's the worst thing in the world to listen to some of this Not surprisingly, my inquiries to Frances about the financial sta together? That's a really engaging zone. music straight. Especially some of the challenging programming, like tus of the Vancouver Folk Music were met with a sigh of exaspera "We're going to work with the Rogue Folk Club and Capilano traditions from Persia, Central Asia, music you might not have heard tion. Nobody, it seems, really wants to talk about what is sometimes College to do the Folk and Roots series at Cap College. The three live before. I'm very sensitive to the fact that more than half of the peo referred to as the "[Gary] Cristall years" anymore. "I don't mind talk organizations are working together to help spread the word better ple who come to our festival are women, and they were among the ing about it, but people tend to dwell on this to the extent that it's and help create more opportunities for artists. It also gives us a most outspoken around the idea of beer." difficult to keep moving forward." With that caveat, she reports that chance to follow up with artists we introduce at the festivals, so that "I've been to other festivals that I know are netting $50K out of the three of the last four festivals brought in a small surplus and they're those relationships can carry on over time. beer garden on the weekend. But I also walk past and see people that are in much better financial shape than five years ago. The financial cri "We've got half a dozen presenters that present different kinds of there just to drink beer. They go out and hear the one thing that they like, sis of about five years ago, which culminated in a major creditor fil roots music. Why aren't we talking to each other? I think that every and they go back and drink more beer. They're not participating in the ing a well-publicized suit against the festival, was, according to body is ready to start having those conversations. Each organization festival—it's like a beer garden with a really high cover charge. It's a way LFrances, the result of a whole bunch of things which can and do hap- has its own solid sense of identity, and their own special interest of doing it, but I'm getting perversely proud of the fact that we don't." UJ 14 JULY 2002 Speaking of seeing this music straight—and don't tell me there's no BC bud consumed on site—what about those hash cookie vendors outside the western gate on Jericho Beach (as happened a couple of years ago)? Chuckling, Dugg replied: "On the one hand I thought it was charming that anyone would even do that—it's so 'old school.' On the other hand, who, in the year 2000, is going to buy a home-baked cookie from someone they don't even know, and put it in their mouth? Have you forgotten everything your mother ever told you? "Our zone of control, such as it is, runs as far as the fence. We've been more than happy to have a live-and-let-live attitude. For many goes for years they [the "non-sanctioned" vendors] were out by the gate on 4th Avenue. We were fine with that arrangement until they started doing things that were untoward, like selling food, drum circles in front of a seniors' residence at 11pm. That's just not on. "Now, down at the beach, they [vendors] do what they do, and on the Silver the way in people can see it's not part of the festival, so it's caveat emptor. On a certain level, mazeltov—live long and prosper." Cormier photos by Justin Kellam Advice To Folk Festival Newbies No doubt about it, Folk Fest is a quintessential Vancouver experience Vancouver's folk/art-rock goddess with its own code of behaviour which can be puzzling to any first- Veda Hille has been a busy gal of late. time attendee. For instance, dressing like a hippie is good, setting up Recently back from Toronto to com big lawn chairs is bad. Helicopter dancing is encouraged, as long as plete her soon-to-be-released live CD, you're polite enough to not block any lines of sight. Getting up early she also traveled to Russia earlier this year to perform in a festival in St. one morning to witness the "Birkenstock 500," as the opening-of-gates Petersburg alongside artists like Nash rush is called, is worth seeing once. Dugg offered more nuggets of the Slash and Eugene Chadbourne. wisdom: The Vancouver Folk Music Festival "You should remember that it is a long day outside. Native commisioned Veda to do a piece to Vancouverites know that the weather can change from warm to cool, commemorate its 25th anniversary, so remember a jacket, drink water, keep hydrated. In terms of enjoy which is certain to be a festival high ing the festival, get a programme [available in advance this year] and light. Veda was happy to talk about have a read-through. See what strikes you and just take a wander her impressions of this work and the over. We try to have different moods on the seven stages, so it's not all festival in general. full-assault all day. It certainly isn't a crime to sit under a tree and chill out for a while. And pick one or two times during the day to check something new out at no risk. We all have our favourite music, but if DiSCORDER: Tell us a bit about this piece. me with that was John Korsrud, who did some excellent horn you've never heard Persian music, for example, you can just walk Veda Hille: I've called it Silver, in honour of the 25th anniversary of arrangements—really crazy stuff that I would never have come up over to a stage and see how it strikes you. If you don't like it, there's the Folk Fest. They commissioned me about a year ago to write a with. I rearranged songs for myself and told my fantastic band to six other stages where there's things happening." song cycle in honour of the festival. The requirements were nice and come up with something different, and lo and behold we had some This Year's Lineup loose—I could use it to close an evening, and I could also get some very new versions of old songs. I also concentrated on songs I guests in. thought had been neglected, like personal favourites that aren't the As always, the programming provides a potpourri of all things When I first approached it I was keen because I've been going to ones people yell for. I'm pretty happy with it! I'm not a real fan of folk/roots, with something for (nearly) everyone. Exotic music from the festival since I was 12, and consider it an important part of my live records, and I decided to give this a try, fully conscious of the other cultures? Amampondo, Amir Koushkani, B'Net Marrakech musical education. Plus, it's been a lot of fun—it was the first place fact that they might be two really lousy nights, but the band played more than fill the bill. Dig the Celtic thing? Ireland's De Dannan will I went without my parents. It was like this city that I could go where really well. I have this amazing band, and in a lot of ways this album be there, along with Slainte Mhath and a host of Quebecois bands who everything would be fine. is a tribute to my band and the unity we've managed to achieve. fit that category. Old(er) white guys? See Roy Bailey, Utah Phillips, I wasn't really sure how to write about having a good time Are you already thinking ahead to another album? David Francey. Old-timey strings? The Backstabbers and John every year, but once I got in there, some themes emerged: nostalgia This is kinda my crazy year. I actually have three other records in the Reischman. Women artists of various orientations are well represent and the relative merits of that, as well as aging and responsibility, works, all coming out within a year, I hope, which is really nutty. I ed by the likes of Kim Barlow, Ferron, Tegan and Sara. action over inaction. Then I ended up working with folk music from don't think the world wants this many Veda Hille records! Instrumentalists pushing the envelope of their genres? Oliver Schroer, other cultures. The Folk Fest was really a forerunner of that kind of Kelly Joe Phelps, and Eugene Chadbourne, to name a few. Like in- There's eight songs that are really fine that I cut from thing. Before that [festival], there was nowhere to hear Bulgarian yer-face folk? Dan Bern and Bitch and Animal are for you. And what Auditorium, so if people like that album, I could make a quick fol wedding bands, Tuvan throat singers. I realized as I delved into the about local representation this year? low-up. I've also been working for two years with Christof Migone, festival programs just how daring the programming has been and who's a computer-manipulating artist from New York and "We have more Vancouver artists now at the festival than there continues to be, and became much more aware of how it had shaped Montreal. He and I have been working on an experimental record were 10 years ago, by a long shot. Partly because the scene has grown me in terms of how to perform music and listen to music. for a couple of years called Escape Songs which is sort of in the digi up and blossomed, but partly because we want to represent. We think There's a little Chinese waltz that I wrote, and I wrote a song tal click-and-stutter mode. And my German label is setting up a the artists in Vancouver are as good as anywhere else. One of my around a Swedish piece. Swedish folk music is very strange—unnat recording date with my band and Iarla O'Lionard, an Irish singer. hopes as a programmer is that people will walk away thinking: ural rhythms that people wouldn't necessarily associate with You might know his voice from the Afro Celt Sound System. I hate 'Damn, those Vancouver artists can hold their own with anybody.'" Sweden. And of course an Irish piece, and a little medley of English that band, but he's amazing. What he does on his own is the Gaelic Local artists include Zubot & Dawson; a Grrrls With Guitars stage; a folk songs. It all ends up with a big old singalong of a song that a sean-nos singing. He's got, I think, one of the great voices of the community project of artists who play at the Irish Heather; the good chunk of people will know. world, and he's wanted to make a record in English for a long time. Thundering Word Heard (spoken word); John Reischman (bluegrass); It's about 35 minutes, and I'm going to have lots of guests. Kim If I actually get all these records done in the next year, I think I Vivian Xia (yanquin player); Amir Koushkani; Adele Awad and Barlow and Stephen Fearing will be singing with me. I wrote a song deserve a few years off! Sahara; the Universal Gospel Choir, and the World Rhythms Youth that sounds just like a Rory McLeod song, so I'm hoping Rory will What does the Folk Festival mean to you personally? Ensemble. And of course Veda Hille, who has been commissioned to jump in with me. For the singalong at the end we've got Linda I was sort of a misfit kid, and when I was 12,1 moved into the city perform a piece for the festival- Tillery's gospel choir beefing up the singing. Maybe we'll do that from the country. At that point [early '80s] it was pretty crazy down Does the festival have another 25 years left in it? Dugg certainly thing where we pull up a bunch of folks on stage at the end and there. There were naked women all painted blue, and tons of crazy, thinks so. "The amount of music out there is phenomenal. In a given everybody sings. I'm gonna cry for sure—I think part of the com edgy stuff. At first I wasn't at the festival for the music, I was just year, I've probably got 2000 choices of people who could potentially mission is that I have to weep on stage. [Laughs] there because we could get in free as kids. be part of it [the festival] and we're able to do 50, maybe. There's It's nerve-wracking to know that you're going to be premiering I went back every year and slowly, it started to be about the always a long 'wish list,' and that's not going to change. The kinds of a work in front of 10,000 people, but then I also made it very specif music. It was always the place we went in the summer, all the way music that emerging artists are doing now, the level of musical skill, ic to the folk festival. Shawn Chappelle, who did the video for Field through my 20s. The most amazing thing was when I was 24 and the way they can move between traditions, wasn't possible 20, 25 Study and has worked with me a lot in the past, is making a video to put out my first cassette. Gary Cristall [artistic director at the time] years ago." accompany the piece and is going to turn the speaker columns into called me and put me on the mainstage at the Folk Festival. That "Let's face it, rock and roll bands have become an oppressive video screens. I wanted to do something that would benefit the peo was crazy. That constitutes the only big break I've had. It was a big force. What began as a music of liberation has now become so boring ple in the back, so I'm hoping the video images will be large and leap from playing La Quena to playing mainstage at the place that and so obsessed with the selling of beer, etc., that it's like we need an clear enough that those people will have something to look at, for a had been my highest musical focus for years. Sweetly enough, it's alternative to alternative. Roots music of all kinds is there. As long as change. come full circle and Gary is my manager now. people want to hear it in a beautiful park, in a congenial atmosphere, The other great thing is that we managed to record this piece, Vancouver's festival stands up very well among other music there'll be a need for events like this across the country. In these days and the album's going to come out at the festival. I threw together a festivals. I really like Vancouver's "non-star" policy. A lot of other where we're hearing about the music industry in crisis, the roots thing quick but spirited recording, so both Silver and Auditorium, which is festivals rely on really big names to draw people in. I've always has shown that by staying close to the ground and by involving peo my new record, will be coming out July 20. appreciated that our festival is about discovering people you've ple from the community in the creation of the events, you create some Your last CD, Field Study, was also a commissioned piece, wasn't it? never heard of. It makes it seem much more egalitarian and street- thing that can just go on and be handed down from generation to Yes, Field Study came out of a commission from the Yukon Arts level. I hope that people are still finding that today. • generation." Centre. Auditorium is not a commission—it's a live album, taken from two nights at the Cultch. We recorded the shows May 24 and Silver will be performed at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival Saturday, More information on the 25th annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival (July25, and I'm handing in the master to the manufacturer this week. July 20. Be there and witness a piece of Vancouver musical history. 19-21) is available at wirw.tliefestiyalbc.ca • My mandate was to put things on the record that had changed sub stantially either over the years or consciously for the record. Helping 15 DiSCORDER Bleeps In the Heart of the Beasl:—Mutek 2002 in Montreal [The following has been excerpted from what we presume to be the cold Huta. All I can write in my little red notebook is "speed organ metal hands of the famous writer tobias v, RIP; we take no responsibility for the solos" and "Andy Kaufman meets Thomas Brinkman with a 12" coherency or accuracy of this journal. We found it all in this little red book Polish sausage..." "Deep duchadelic," says Nova Huta. Indeed. I and xve think it's his. If anyone has seen tobias, please let us know. For more mean, what do you say to a performer who lip syncs a story for 25 info on Mutek, see wiw.mukkca—Ed.J minutes about how the birds of socialism told his uncle to play an organ in an Eastern European factory and then he goes a little crazy Wednesday, May 29 * Mixing until trie PiBs and dies and bequests his musical project to his nephew—Nova The sun is setting on the cemetary across the street, reflecting off the Huta? Sweet Jesus... Then Mr. Huta plays out of tune to his beer hall headstones and onto my laptop. The weather here has been unex techno rhythms and his paper with all the programming info gets all Clockwise from Left to Right: pected boiling desert heat mixed with Miami sweat and humidity mixed up and he swears in poor English and gives away records for Timeblind, Sue, Akufen, David combined with vast dark and sinister rain, thunder, showers, mon answering pop quizzes about his uncle. Later he takes out an inflat Turgeon, Ben Nevil, Agf + Dlay, soons, and hurricane wind. Every day is a surprise. Sometimes it is able Stars 'n' Stripes baseball bat and bonks audience members on Richardo, Losoul, Danny, Stephen noon and pitch dark from fog and cloud. Then the monsoon sets in the head while yelling "Politics!" Then he shows us his robot, and it at 32"C and we sweat through the rain. That's the way it is out here. falls on the floor. Behind us is a video showing Nova Huta playing It's weird and I need a new toothbrush. Somebody knocks at my in China. I don't think they got it. I don't think I did either—but that door. I hide all criminal objects and flush the toilet. The door opens. didn't stop me from flailing all arms and legs. Polski! Putsch! "It's time for Mutek," they say. Next was Felix Kubin who can play three synths at once. He by (the late ?) tobias v Later, I'm at the Societe des Arts Technologiques (SAT) for the composes techno waltzes while wearing high heels and a white Press Gathering. I get my pass and nod and smile, hoping they sparkle suit which he tears away to reveal a space uniform. And his won't recognize me from last year. Things are deja vu as I stumble mad music insanity: techno-rhythms meet an S&M organ and weird into the bank vault-turned-art-gallery-space that sports enough choruses sung live: "Hit me! Provider! I've lost my mouse—Oh No!" quad sound to sterilize a well-hung horse. Somehow I get too drunk That one is apparently a real kicker in Berlin. And Felix Kubin CAN and completely miss the first show that evening at the beautiful sing... it's inspiring and weird all at once and I am leaving at 4:30am post-modern video building, Ex-Centris. Acts missed include SND, feeling like Eastern Europe is the place to be because that's where all Dioxyde, vitaminsforyou and Mens/Koolwyk. But what can you do the acid is—just one look at Kubin's video will confirm such suspi i when the pusher man arrives? He works on his own schedule. Word cions—I cannot even begin to explain what was essentially ultra- is that SND lays down a building-block set of minimal beats culled fucked colourful 1969 surrealism; no computer graphics here, all from their latest Tender Love album on Mille Plateaux. I cry into filmed scenes of Felix with silver hair in space suit getting probed by my beer. weird doctors and twin girls in high heels and weird green dresses. Fragment I Thursday, May 30 • Tanked and Toasted, Backwards Lineup ...I just got back from the strangest night—and it is only Wednesday. I arrive at the SAT for the free cinq-a-sept with my friend Mr. Hellothisisalex began the evening with an honest performance of Baphomet. The Devil always catches the late train from Toronto.... Warp-ish IDM—all gear and young. But the real meat was Nova As I walk in, Montreal's Deadbeat is just finishing up a marathon 16 JULY 2002 dub-techno webjam with Berlin's Monolake. It's wild: Deadbeat has run into David Turgeon later and we talk about this. He is trying to night"). And if it does, will we have to accept that rave culture the specially-programmed patch projecting on the screens—you can understand Herbert's popularity; fact is, Herbert was quite popu indeed has something to offer experimental culture? Today's see them altering and affecting each other's sounds real-time. Next lar, a strange anomaly in the rave era, even more so than now when "avante garde" is conservative compared to the hedonistic days of is Alexander Burton, who begins with a quick microphone sample, what he is doing is more conveniently packaged under Art. Several not only rave culture, but DADA< the Surrealists, Artaud, the and then, live and before our eyes, builds a massive Max/MSP years ago it was just madness: Herbert in a suit and tie, with Bohemians and the Beats, the punks, the French hardcore anarchists, patch spurting out weird and wonderful squelches in one long blenders and chip bags making weird noises to 200 people fucked UK Spiral Tribe squatters... We need to lighten up—not intellectual improvised stroke of software wizardry until his machine crashed on many drugs who at that point had only been schooled in house ly, not in the sense that people who tell you to lighten up want to under the strain. Not to be outdone, Zack Settel sends everyone into and techno. Herbert came off like a being from another sonic planet. infantilize you into the abdication of responsibility. We need to light a tizzy by panning sounds around the room with his joystick. Tonight, the rhythms Herbert makes are hard, ranging from en up in the sense that we need to undergo a little revaluation of all Unfortunately I miss duul_drv from Winnipeg because I want to polyrhythmic techno to banging house. Dance floor material and values at the level of the subject and the subject's passage to politics, find the Beer Festival. very good, all sampled from destroyed consumer objects—TVs, and this passage is the realm of music: "We should consider every McDonald's cups, etc. He throws the GAP bag on his head and rais day lost on which we have not danced at least once." Fragment 2 es both arms making anarcho-devil signs with his fingers and the That evening and a little sideways; at Ex-Centris half-way through crowd goes wild... but are they simply entertained by him or fully Saturday, June 1 • The Beait and the Ugly, Musork Helen Of Troy's loop-violin-feedback set. The crowd is either rapt in grasping his political statements? I was talking to some German Saturday afternoon is the Orthlorng Musork showcase and the best attention or paralyzed on the floor from back pain. I sit down to magazine editors over some hash about it, and they mentioned that solid block of sound of the entire festival. Everyone is sitting down in order to do the RadioBoy performance, Herbert must purchase enjoy the spasms and the complex and evolving post-dub beats of on the floor in the middle of this hot and windy afternoon in all these consumer products; therefore he is participating in the Montreal's Ghislain Poirier, and then the looped Handel remixes Montreal and the applause is thunderous as Stephen Mathieu leaves economy and consumerizing his political statement and the domain and subtle ambience of Germany's Stephan Mathieu. But certainly his laptop after a subtle and melancholic set of textures. He hands it of art. I am not so sure about that: the purchase he is making is only the house-closer—if not the most amazing performance of the festi over to Timeblind, a.k.a. Chris Sattinger, who moves into a dement val—is from the UK's spectacular Janek Schaefer, whose turntable an economic purchase, yet the utility he applies to it is in the realm ed set of breaks that skirt IDM but are much harsher, in your face, improvisation, set in the middle of the room, blows minds and ears of the symbolic—like culture jamming. The symbolic exchange- and confrontational. It becomes more and more rammed in this dark with directional panning and a linear and LIVE scape of clicks, value of destroying these items has more representational affect— cavern, above our heads are Sue Costabile's messed slide-MAX- drones, loops, and layered samples, all mixed live from his own the realm of politics—than their meagre economic purchase. Of visuals and the walls of the SAT are now echoing the strange vocal innovative record pressings and his dual tone-arm, homebuilt course things are not so black and white and this dialectic is a little turntable with built-in contact mics. Interwoven with a subtle and more complex—for the same reasons that culture jamming can back wanderings and deep bass hums of AGF, a.k.a. Antye Greie-Fuchs of evocative video which corresponds with the lights dropping on fire—for the advertising potential, the representational power of the German weird-pop-duo Laub. One hour of direct from the mind of Schaefer and leaving us all in darkness, this man has messed with consumer objects, maintains a certain affect even when being erased, this strange German—for all we know she could be telling us her my goddamn mind. "Art," I mutter, to no one in particular. But sev destroyed, deconstructed. Re-appropriation and counter-appropri washing, giving us her shopping list. No matter—our minds turn eral people move away from me. It might also have been because I ation. The power can never be deleted—only put under erasure. The to dirty thoughts. My mind is distracted, anyway as AGF+DLAY have broken my Black Minimal Techno Glasses, and they keep question is, then, how you affect that dialectic and whether it can jam together, a.k.a. Vladislav Delay of minimal dub techno fame, falling off my face at weird angles. I don't really know.... be exploded into something beyond the representational mingling a.k.a. Luomo of minimal house mastery. Mr. D(e)lay has been And then dinner. And then hurrying back to the SAT to see the of music and politics. But enough—back to the show and away from putting out quality vinyl since his teens, and he and AGF now work last friggin' 15 minutes of the beautifully stark and vocoded elec the philosophizing: that was more the rambling commentary of very closely together. tro-duo Solvent + Lowfish (TO). Tonight was some of the worst pro Saturday night in any case, when I should have had a microphone Evening. By now you know what to expect of this second, half- gramming of the festival, with S+L only playing a short set with no taped to my head.... filled night at Metropolis. I spent the majority of the evening dictat encores, leaving the rest of the evening for ambient music which fil Before Herbert came Repair, a.k.a. the Thibideau brothers (TO), ing notes and hiding from anyone I knew. Victoria's Ben Nevile lays tered everyone out of the SAT. After S+L were IDM legends Bola who threw down excellent dub techno beats. I've been a fan of them down the most inventive set of the night, with his joystick-Max (UK), whose amazing visuals complimented a live performances of ever since their releases on Blue as Altitude, they have a very deep, patch projected live above my head while he dances his deep and their audio rarities from the Skam label. The visuals are every bit as Toronto-influenced sound that is nonetheless driving. Their live minimal house rhythms with an intensive flair, indeed, a subtle pro acid-good as the rumours say. However, by now everyone was singer, Dawn Lewis, was sonically beautiful but very shy, perform gramming that leaves everyone tense with expectation. He's set it lounging on the sticky floor and wanting something a bit different. ing hidden vocals behind the gear. up brilliantly for Farben, who plays deep to the point of obscurity, Montreal's Ensemble was a bit of a let-down not because of his Then: Copacabannark, whose simple techno set is nonetheless lost in atmospherics. It's wicked, but the energy is low. Germany's expansive soundscapes and ambient beats but because no one want brilliant with its wild squelches and abrasive squealing sounds. Losoul starts like he's on crack, pressing buttons like he has no idea ed to lie on the cold, dirty SAT floor at 2am. Solvent + Lowfish There is a difference that I immediately begin to notice between per how to operate his setup, but comes out on top with the best tech- should have been on last so they could play encore after encore of formers—those who are DJs, or come from a dance background, per house set of the evening. Chilean-German Ricardo Villalobos takes sweet electro lovin'. haps the rave scene—and those who are it hard and percussive, getting dark and stark by the end, leaving it rock-musicians-turned-electronic-artists... the former have a real for Luomo who warms everything down with liquid and vocal deep Friday, May 31 sense of bringing people somewhere in a set; the latter often lose the house. The musical description makes it sound like a good night: Where are we... lam writing this at the Sunday show... sleep deprivation floois r if they are producing beats. Copacabannark are the former: but something was off.... setting in... But wearen't thereyet: I've got to catch up. instant dancefloor appreciation and they are into it, headbanging away like spring-filled robots with the smoke pouring out the back, Sunday, June 2 Arrived at the 5-7 just in time for Camp, a.k.a. Montreal's David crazy live organ playing, throwing down pounding minimal "Sunday was the day when it all came together." Or this is the shit Turgeon of NoType. A real sonic treat: very linear, unexpected, and rhythms that are, for me, the heart and soul of stripped minimal I write down at 4:15am on a Monday morning as the music is sf/7/ it went in a bunch of different directions that was anything but techno from the days when it all meant a dark and dangerous lis pounding in this black box of techno... backtrack, rewind, earlier... repetitive. David is all about the linear exploration of uncharted tening experience at 4:15am in some blacked-out warehouse save Missing completely the Cynosure/Revolver showcase in the after topographies, he's an explorer with all sounds and hums and sam for the red spot on the DJ and that strobe at the periphery of your noon—which included Mike Shannon's first live set—I saved my ples and he wants to see how they talk and relate to each other. This energy for that evening's extravaganza, the real techno mother- is fundamentally different than the duree-time of the groove: The main event is Montreal's Akufen, the cut-and-dice techno fuckin' blow-out: Murcof, Juan Self, Atom Heart, Dandy Jack, and David's time is a time of the event. wizard whose career has exploded. I like his records, but I find over Ricardo Villalobos. All the reserves were called up for this one. Unfortunately, my memory is not up to commenting on the all that his sets are usually more of the same. This set is the most People knew what to expect or at least were prepped for the dura music past this point as my mind hears sounds from every direc varied I have heard of him yet; he plays on the house side, adding tion. The last night of Mutek goes all night, and strips away the pre tion. There is a crazy man who lives above me in Montreal with a synth pads to the cut-samples, exhibiting an emotional maturity that tentious bullshit. But first I had to grab dinner, and score the cane who rocks back and forth on the squeaky floorboards at 9:20am you can hear in the first two tracks on his Force Inc. album My Way. necessities, which meant missing Murcof's set—another failure in every morning. This morning it sounded like he was sawing a table. He is trying bloody hard—I think it is just a case of him finding the both journalism and experience; I caught the last few minutes of I was pondering this as I tried to sleep a little this morning: grabbing right balance with his sets—and the crowd digs it; thing is, it is too Juan Self but don't remember much, for everything was mindblown a broom and pounding out rhythms on my ceiling... or anti- packed too dance. by the quiet little red-moustached man that is Atom Heart. Atom rhythms... and that's the whole thing with David, the division At the end is Hakan Libdo, but to be honest I have trouble stunned everyone by breaking out of the 4/4 into breakbeats, and between sounds repetitive and linear—a strange dichotomy that is appreciating his washed out jazz-beats as tiredness sets in; it's too then breaking out of that into jungle, mixing in "Jesus" samples also at the point of ripping Mutek in half as it attempts to satisfy late, I want to go home and hear him, or listen to him on a sunny from his Geeez '11' Gosh material and driving the place mad. It was both experimental purists on the one hand and dance purists on the afternoon. See here's the deal: Mutek is trying to incorporate artists the real shit all over again. But it didn't let up, as Dandy Jack hands- other. As for the rest of the evening, it's Mutek's first massive. working with beats who are obviously on the cutting edge of dance down took the Dance-Det of Mutek Award by pounding home Metropolis is a humongous old and round theater, three levels of floor sounds alongside the extreme sonic experimentalism. For me Latin-techno rhythms mixed with an '80s spirit. Sweet Heaven! The bars and security and no-smoking enforcement. Oh, the irony, given this is wonderful as it is tears down boundaries between high and whole thing was only to be topped with the mindfuck that followed: that Metropolis is in the heart of seedy Hookerville—an amazing low art, ripping apart the Eurocentric view that says that essential a gear-jam between Dandy, Atom, and Villalobos... starting at 2am experience walking out at 3:30am into a city bursting with life and a ly African-based rhythmic music is not artistic but "just dance thereabouts, it moved into the pounding and one-bar loops of hard potential dangerous energy. Look: there passes the ghost of Leonard music." What isn't recognized, however, is that this was essentially techno, but always with this strange funked edge, cutting into elec Cohen... but don't light up that friggin' cigarette, bon ami.... the entire movement of rave culture, Detroit techno, Chicago house. tro, and then building back into the 4/4... somewhere along the way Now, this music, appropriated by Europeans and North American Metropolis is a concert venue and things feel "staged." The it became relentless, and vicious. Sadomasochistic. Suddenly Mutek white culture—and this is a very true observation, all one has to do Friday night, however, is good in the sense that it is rammed; every made sense. It all became clear again. I pulled out my notebook and is go to DEMF and then Mutek to see a serious racial divide in this one is here and the performers openly mingled with the public. This began to write, and jotted everything down that you see now prob is important because the next night, Saturday, the crowd is much music that is unsettling—is seeking validation as high art; this is not ably as the Discorder review: people are moving, not speaking, the different. Hostile and vicious. Security is called in to remove drunk a purely negative movement, for it reasserts various territories and inane and incessant chatter of the scenesters has completely been en/high jocks from the dance floor, and all the who's-who are sitting broadens visions on all sides. However, Mutek as the spatial nexus driven out of the room. The curtains of the SAT have been drawn behind the fence separating the backstage from the floor... and the of this musical movement is desperately trying to figure out how to closed and chaos reigns. Mr. Baphomet tells me that he has not seen hierarchies form found at raves and concerts: are you important program these artists. Shall we program them like a rave, with peaks enough to be back here, do you have the right pass? and valleys? Or mix things up to remind people that this is "Art" ? anything like this since Richie Hawtin and Jeff Mill's Sickness party. This is where we are at. An unnamed journalist from San Francisco But I am getting ahead of myself: the Friday is a rammed affair. In the way that "Art" is not supposed to be fun? Euro-Art appreci ation as opposed to Neo-African debauchery? has just offered me a bowl and we are going to lie back and listen as Yes, Herbert as RadioBoy is good. His performance is very similar to our minds and bodies and legs are too tired to do anything else.... • what he was doing in 1997 and I am having strange memories of The question is whether Mutek will become a dance party split him playing a packed 200 person warehouse in Vancouver. In fact, I from the experimental music ("art in the afternoon, dancing at 17 DiSCORDER rard. Legendary vocalist Fontel- HOT HOT HEAT "From Beyond the Triangle of la Bass is featured in TCO's sec Knock Knock Knock the Lost," she even makes a bit ond release, and her opening (Sub Pop) of a tuned-percussion racket lines play like a mantra through Victoria's very own raging wild with the contents of (some my head: "All that you are, all party group, Hot Hot Heat, has body's) kitchen sink. This music MM dcr that you give: can you hear me made quite the juxtaposition. would sound great in the Sugar review raven?" They have shed much of their Refinery on a sweltering sum recorded media What they are is "live" and animosity toward listeners and mer night. other than a sweet harp, there is now offer an invitation to dance Deerhoof's fantasy art rock no evidence of "orchestration." the night away. These five songs is playful and piercing—spazzy BOB BROWN/VARIOUS cause. It's difficult to critique beats, electro, lounge, funk, and Instead, a motley crew of sound are dub-heavy, dance-tastic and woodwinds (real and synthe ARTISTS this release musically, but this is soul not unlike the Beastie and interesting minimalist ripping at the seams with pop, sized), guitar, and Satomi's sug Afrika Aware my position: I am a journalist, Boys' pal Money Mark. All the lyrics—which perhaps could rock, and Latin filling. Front ary vocals bounce like golden (Afrika Aware/Framework) not a publicist, and so I have to tracks are well produced and have been mistaken for a hallu man Steve Bays writes witty shrapnel off bathing dryads. Philly techno DJ Bob Brown say that Bob Brown's mixing, heavily derivative of musical cinogenic daze once upon a lyrics that flow perfectly into It's also serious music: listen invests his skills into a worthy while certainly raw and intense, trends of the days of yore time. I think of Jamiroquai, not hooks and unexpected changes. closely and you'll hear echoes project with this 37 track mix fast and furious—good qualities (haven't dance instruction just since both are from the UK Knock Knock Knock is the "teas of all your favourite noise rock CD dedicated to raising aware of a techno DJ—leaves some records been sampled enough?). but because their complex char er" five-song EP to get audi ers, filtered through a '70s AM ness of the devastating AIDS thing to be desired in the haste Like all well-connected bands acter comes through in saxo ences primed for their radio haze and warped by too epidemic in Africa, especially of the mix and its lack of subtle these days, the Baldwin Brothers phone, conga drum, keyboard, upcoming full-length album, many revisionist fairy tales. Zambia. All profits from the sale ty, precision, or narrative. don't skimp on the guest appear gong, drum kit, etc.—but with due out this autumn. This teaser Challenging time signatures, of this techno mix are dedicated Throwing down tracks one after ances. Unfortunately, the best an added element of subtly is quite a gem, having been pro superior amateur playing, and to Project Concern, a grassroots the other might work peak time tracks are the ones featuring the interjected electronica. duced by one of Seattle"s boundless creativity are the key on 20,000 watts, but it doesn't likes of Cibo Matto's Miho favorite young producers, Chris organization aimed at getting There are seven tracks on stones of Deerhoof's castle, work as a listening experience. Hatori and Frentei's Angie Hart, Walla of Death Cab For Cutie. If youth off the street and safe this new album with titles like making Reveille a thoroughly Two-thirds of the tracks, given not straight-up Baldwins mate you are wise enough to procure from HIV through education, "Flite" and "Evolution." My enjoyable primal mess, a Baby time and a more careful narra rial. Add the songwriting abili it, this album will change your food, and shelter. The liner notes final thought is that these guys lon of baby talk. tive structure, with attention to ty of Chicago's Dave Trumfio (of perspective on today's musical tell me that as many as 75,000 epitomize a common partner Barbara musical moods and moments of the Pulsars) on a few tracks and direction. It's not depressing, kids are living on the streets of ship of the moment: electronic Lusaka, Zambia's capital, with suspense, would have made for there isn't any shortage of talent nor is it aggressive. It's all about a more enjoyable and ultimate found on the release. Although with "real" musicianship. Their SND many of them in the sex trade forgetting your mundane life ly satisfying listening experi they have all the elements for fusion creates a bang and some Tender Love and infected with HIV. It's and entering a world of fun and ence. Which, in the long run, superstar exposure, the Baldwin thing happens. From my sonic (Mille Plateaux) worth getting this mix to sup fandango. translates into more sales and Brothers, like their Hollywood point of view, the aural images Precision - Minimalism - port the cause, and the CD fol more profits for Project Con- namesakes, aren't contributing of Everyday complement and Amie Nelson Scalpel - Clean - Spectrum - lows in a tradition of hard anything new to the musical enrich each other... as well as Incision. techno producers and DJs orga me... and now you. HOT SNAKES These words are the code- I am not just an armchair world. Save yourself the money nizing for social justice and out and buy the "Dream Girl" 12"; Sheena Suicide Invoice monikers (chosen among a critic on this. As a hard techno reach, from Spiral Tribe to the it's the best track on the album (Swami) potential two billion) for snd's DJ of many years, I can under hard techno EPs and LPs of the and comes with a fine remix by HIRETSUKAN One hour post-purchase (PP): Tender Love—and Tender Love is stand and speak to the style Belgrade series. And hard tech Vancouver's own Pilgrims of Invasive/Exotic Goddamnsofuckinggreat. There a precise arrangement of chosen Brown grounds his performance no is where this CD is at, with a the Mind. After the apocalypse, (G7 Welcoming Committee) is nothing wrong with this. I sounds—a cut-up—skirting fast and furious mix of every within. However, what a DJ has aliens will find a copy of Cook I have this disorder: I can't read should listen to more than one anarchic potential with razor- thing from Steve Stoll, User, to realize is that creating a mix ing With Lasers amongst the ash. newspapers. I can't even look at song. sharp sonic decision—imple Gaetano Parisio, Justin CD—especially one designed Perhaps they'll date it as one of them. This illness has been Two hours PP: The title is menting precise scalpel slice at Berkovi, and Subhead to Neil for this purpose—needs a differ 1997's more innovative albums. worming its way through my kinda ironic cuz this record is the point where body has been Landstruum, Woody McBride, ent focus than a mix for a party Too bad it's 2002. system since the Serbian War. It giving me a reason to live. There removed—slicing cleanly Titonton Duvante, Oliver Ho, or a promo CD designed to dis Rbot earns me mystified looks from is nothing wrong with this. My through middle line—removing Surgeon, Jasper, Kit Clayton, play one's turntable ferocity. But "knowledgeable, political" peo neighbours can go to hell. Other Half—leaving gap—"a perhaps these comments are in Dietrich Schonemann, Cari ple, who seem to all agree that Three hours PP: Moved the peg like many splendored bad taste in the face of ethics. Lekebusch, and DJ Slip. It's a THE CINEMATIC "knowing what's going on" is party into my car. I'm hot-box thing—i've got you deep in the The imperative remains: as First good mix, but not an excellent ORCHESTRA three-quarters of being a good ing Hot Snakes at 100 kph. guides body enclosed darling in World citizens, it is our duty one; and although I say "Go buy Everyday global citizen. Well, a couple of Four hours PP: The cops let my fashion—yes cool hands on to help those suffering in any this, it's money well spent"—for (Ninja Tune) weeks ago Guerilla Media put me go cuz I turned them on to his naked flesh my way—"—a way we can. not only are profits going to I'm a lovesick puppy. It's okay, out another Vancouver Sun par Hot Snakes. Uh! Yeah, I'm your cut up can be like that—or a cut- where it's needed but because tobias v read on. This music is just cool. ody and it thrilled me so much I pusher. up can be like this where the this is also a great way to get They've got a sort of acid-jazz was able to look at the National Five hours PP: Hot Snakes' slice removes all inspiration and your ears into hard-to-find hard BALDWIN BROTHERS feel, occasional deep-toned rap, Post. "Look," I said to my man, Rocket from the Crypt/Drive all that is left is—is—is—is— techno 12"s from the mid-'90s to Cooking With Lasers calmness, rhythm... but HER "Guerilla Media did the Post, Like Jehu indie-pedigree belies gaps between being—gaps the present—it's also one of (TVT) voice, her voice is soulful, the too! 'Kashmir's Daily Dance the slutty charms of this band. where the stutter stutter can those mix CDs I might have Though not brothers at all, this best of Roberta Flack's passion With Death'! 'When Anorexics Who says the first time is the insert a beat—and the beat passed on were it not for the Chicago-based four-piece mixes with the resonance of Lisa Ger- Become Nutritionists'! That's best? inserted between gaps between perfect!" I was laughing my ass Six hours PP: 33 minutes of being—and that is Tender Love— off over all these hysterically unrelenting, hard riff-rockin' Robert Stanton sees TL as syn funny Post headlines until it was action and I still want more. I thesis from dialectical revealed to me that I was being am the bitch in the back of their movements of makesndcassette ASTYOTJ SOW, SO SHALA^OU^REAP LP entertained by a real newspaper. and stdio—an interpretation he Hiretsukan is a political offers among others—yet syn hardcore band from New York. thesis is ultimate erotic coupling Invasive/Exotic is 16 minutes of REBECCA SIMPSON of two levels indistinct from the driving, eviscerating music with Robot Drama other except through their rela r\ NATION TURNS ITS BACK AND GAGS LB vocals that hurt me in the heart. (Die! Venom) tion—with the relation of two Michelle's screamed lamenta DEERHOOF halves the whole becomes syn tions describe riots, economic Reveille thesis and the result according l-Ov HOC fr-EAC " brutality, sexual abuse—modern (5RC/Kill Rock Stars) to Robert Stanton is Tender terrors made medieval by their From the realm of breathy fan Love—but synthesis result rS/T 7" REPRESS ON RED VlMYL ~ stark woodcut illustration: tasy rock come these two leaves no room for Other Half "Force it down. Flashpoints and albums, wrapped in the sweet erotic voice cut-up inside— paraffin. Ricewhite backspin." smell of Templars' Roses. eradicate cellular processes says After the massacre they throw Rebecca Simpson is an Reich get rid of their voices— in a version of Metallica's almost-one-woman-band from Burroughs he was not so sure "Creeping Death" as if to say, Toronto; except for a little help should one eradicate the Other "No, don't worry, we're just kid in the drum department, she Half yet eradication it destroys ding." Hiretsukan are bringing played every note on the 4-song the capacity to write—maybe bad news, but they have the Robot Drama EP. Though her inserting beat beat in stutter kindness to wrap it up com- high voice—swaddled in layers stutter is better than 20 years in pellingly. Don't miss them of tremory delay—recalls Kazue lotus position or analytic when they play the Video In on Makino of Blonde Redhead, couch?—is as good as tape cut July 15. Rebecca's minimal arrange up?—and what tape cut up only Forty-nine ments are challenging enough good if used in a direction—as a to stand on their own. On direction it cannot be nor become 18 JULY 2002 syntliesis—synthesis is culmina "new age" but worthy of hear mill 'Latin' style percussion" glitch, ambience, minimalism, tions from the lesser genres of tion static left alone dead ing for its calmness and passion bongos and congos, they really IDM, and whatever other ill- (respectively) house and hip Utopia—synthesis ain't much in today's madness. It's great come into their own across the conceived language is currently hop. Early last year, his track fun for KY—synthesis is eco that people are still producing first few tracks. There are many being used to describe non- "Imagination" was responsible nomics trying to make love but this sort of layering, too. surprises, too, in the bedrock describable sounds. America's for the partial annihilation of the stalemating frozen fucking— A whimsical release which bass anthems. Strange electron Accelera Deck provides mod phenomenon of time, a substan JULY music is political economy of speaks of talented musician ic noises flit in and,out of the ern electro. Canada's Andrew tial loss from which our enemies noise and it is always fucking— ship. .. and the cover art is lovely. mix, choruses get buried to Duke provides magical sounds have yet to recover. Observe the snd they are fucking the econo Shcena favour non-traditional instru reminiscent of Eno's Gyroscope almost comical numerological AT THE my by taking knife to noise and ments, and watery clicks run label but greatly updated. progression of his tracks on the recutting the polis—they've TOSHACK HIGHWAY rough over popping and hiss France's d'iberville provides CD release of 02.1: track two: carved the Great Wall of Every Day Rock '«' Roll Is ing surfaces. You can hear that three tracks that are an exercise "Imagination" (the reintegration BUNDING China—they didn't synthe Saving My Life Ryan is very attuned to what is in genre-hopping and mood cre of the older anthem into the pre size—they could not their two (Space Baby) going on in experimental elec ation. If your aim is to update sent entity, this time as the intro dialectics existed one before the This is the second Toshack tronic music, and he interprets yourself on the poly-directional duction to the new order rather LIGHT!! other Robert only synthesize Highway album, the solo work and incorporates, in his own paths of electro, then V.5 is for than the death knell of the old); DICKIN AROUND with historical summary—snd of Adam Franklin of way, recent developments from you. If you want an "I didn't track three (in collaboration e Live dubbed improv to classic Dick Tracy, Jungle Girl, & Buck Rogers you make me bleed—along the Swervedriver. I can't say I don't glitches to clicks. In doing so, he expect that!" compelling listen with the spottily successful divide line—between the sharp like Swervedriver because "The offers a prescient projection of then pick up Twine. If you want Keaton): "Twisted City" (sug | ICTV NIGHT beats and rhythms—with your V Counter the silence of the Hitcher" is a Swervedriver what these "new" sounds could to sit on the beach, leave these gesting a survey from above); community voice over Vancouver TV block sounds—with your song, and a good one at that. become. Unfettered by much of albums at home for hill listening track 10: "Skyliner" (suggesting obtuse programming—with But slowed down and layered the dogma that retro-electronic- pleasure. Sun block would have the progressive elevation of |THE FANTASTIC PLANET ^ Humanoids as housepets your structural sex sonic— fore- with happy acoustic guitar, futurism has become, Moore been a wiser companion. consciousness); track 14: for a race of giants... play with your architectural Adam Franklin makes it even unabashedly lets loose on the Rbot "Soundwall" (the marker of ark(h)e-Kech\.on\c plate with— better on his own. In fact, it's bass and gets down to the the limen or threshold region); with your cd3—cutting you up the high point of this CD—if a groove, all the while redefining VARIOUS ARTISTS and, finally, track 15, again with artist without selling out - Features and into me with two old tape four-song CD can have a high not only the dub sound but the 02.1 the mysterious Keaton: IAN MACKAYE, LYDIA LUNCH, MIKE WATT, recorders Burroughs style and point. I found myself dividing isthmuses where dub, electronic (Moving Shadow) "Archaeon"—"the highest RICHARD KERN and more Burroughs was right be careful this very compact disc into two music, and the rock tradition Military Dispatch: Attention all time"—a hidden model of the SPIN with whom you cut for the sections: a) "The Hitcher" b) meld. These are the heavy robo-soldiers. The Truth War trajectory of ascension. O Pirated TV. exposed media process is markedly erotic—beat "The other three songs." The rollers... crashes on around us in our Of course, the Moving personalities and spin doctors revealed slip [insert musix here)—out song "Every Day Rock 'n' Roll tobias v streets, homes, and minds; Shadow group is far too JEM COHEN SHORTS side traffic pompiers—words Is Saving My Life" has charm however, I can confidently state advanced in their tactical skill to © Vancouver Premieres of AMBER CITY and BLOOD ORANGE SKY cuts withs sounds—sound- ing lyrics. "Seize the Day" TWINE that our absolute victory is release any product which could words-ultima te-cut-precision- sounds a bit more pop-like, and Recorder inevitable. The recent expropria be interpreted as a facile bid for minimalism-scalpel-clean-spec- VARIOUS ARTISTS comparisons to Elliott Smith tion from the Insect of the ultra- "underground," "occult" status. Live music to Eisenstein's trum-incision are not inaccurate. "O Sweet Bip-Hop Generation V.5 mythic potency of "music" has Thus, 02.1 also includes tracks *Quote from Tlie Ticket That Daughter" is slow and shim (Bip-Hop) greatly intensified our collective from millionaire playboy Exploded by William Seward mering. But all three are heavy These are not the albums with striking power. In the domain of Decoder—partly responsible for Burroughs from Tangiers and on distortion and in their fuzzi- the summer sun anthems you electronic production, a genre the mainstream dance-club pro Human ri Robert Stanton's review of Ten ness they end up sounding may be seeking, unless you're known as "Drum & Bass" has ducers Kosheen—a truly der Love on www.electronicmu- pretty much the same. Can I say looking forward to a season of proven to be a fierce comple sophisticated agent who appro SPATIAL POETICS sicreviews.com and Doctor a song is good and also say I personal isolation and intro ment to my already substantial priates cultural symbols of Powell Street Fest presents Wilhem Reich he did the orgone spection. Perhaps 1 feel this way a redefinition of the reading don't enjoy listening to it? No. arsenal: expressing with every power, deliberately distorts with special guests accumulators. That would be cheating. And because I'm writing this review shattered beat structure and dis them until they operate only on tobias v cheating is lying and lying is on a Vancouver beach. sonant bassline the epic inhu the potent threshold of recog- FRIENDS FOREVER This duo play gigs directly out of their wrong. Truth: my ears can't I'm listening to track one, manity of the Universal soul, nizability, then repackages and van on an America Tour... Spinal Tap for TANAKH take all the feedback. I want a "None Some Silver," from these sounds are inherently per rereleases them to unsuspecting the indie-rock crowd - except it's real! Villa Claustrophobia whole CD that sounds as sun Twine's third release, Recorder. nicious to human pretensions to establishment audiences. Further (Alien8) It starts off with naked guitar FROM THE VAULTS shiny as "The Hitcher." relevance. The dissemination of enhancing the sophistication of © YOU pick strange films from our I'd compare this debut album to strumming—then, at that this genre has been accelerated the 02.1 release is the presence massive 16mm archive - police training, tasting a decadent piece of instant, a playful game of pad- by two key tactics which are of "old skool" agent Blame's life saving, nuclear fission, birthing techniques and more! chocolate: smooth and sweet. TWILIGHT CIRCUS DUB dleball erupts on the sun self-evident in this commu track "Music Takes You"—as Headed by Jesse Poe out of Vir SOUNDSYSTEM drenched beach in front of me. I nique: first, the affectation, by remixed by John B—both of ROCKACTION! 2 ginia, Tanakh is difficult to con- Dub Plates Volume 3 hunker down with my newspa me and some other agents, of a whom have greatly progressed Ne textualize, but I like it as (M) per and prepare myself for non- militaristic mytho-narrative our cause by performing sham sensuous music. The opening Every time a new Twilight Cir engagement and perhaps an framework to achieve a total collaborations with various hip BRING YOUR OWN FILM DVD. 16mm, Super 8 and track caught my attention— cus album comes out, I descend afternoon of sleep a la plage. subterranean harnessing of the hop producers, much to the VHS- keep it under 10 minutes melodic and beautiful, with a into a mad orgy, scrawling at The acoustic guitar is pushed to over-exploited reserves of ado bewilderment of enemy intelli and laugh your ass off... female vocalist's eerie wailing. the background and replaced by lescent aggression; second, the gence. In keeping with Autobot the shrink-wrap to uncover TV CARNAGE WEEKEND Profound guitar riffs (especially high frequencies and glitchy strategic, annual publication by policy, none of these operatives these delicious grooves of deep ® Three different nights of VICE the second track) try to capture and massive pure dub. It's chirps and clicks. I sit up quick the aesthetic collective Moving are aware of my organization or MAGAZINE-approved hallucination- an idea of "players in the pavil something I enjoy every time ly and search the overcrowded Shadow of "value-priced" sam their allegiance to my directives. inducing excerpts of the best in Bad TV ions of other men's dreams"— because every time the music is urban refuge for the source of plers of their product. 02.2 is the Already, comrades, through A SERBIA'S LOW-FI VIDEO ancient history stuff, though this just one crafted dub master the sounds I'm hearing. Neither latest of these samplers, which the efforts of myself and my ^Hr A rare chance to check out the CD doesn't quite manage to cre piece after another. It is very the young guy talking to the have improved steadily in allies at Moving Shadow, every Serbian Moving Image underground ate a similar level of greatness. unusual of me to write succes exchange student, nor the Good applicability to our cause—as unconscious particle resonates FLICKS BY FLICK I listened to it loud to get a sive reviews—I believe this is Humor snack vendor provides well as general relevance-—since in broken rhvthm, and every A decade of doc, drama and © industrial from Vancity's better feel for the deeper tones the third one in Discorder me with any answers. As the their initial distribution several strand of reality tenses in resis own Flick Harrrison and long drawn-out melodies... alone—of an artist's work and album progresses, its seemingly years ago. tance to its own being; when the Tanakh are masters of minimal give in to hyperbolic praise. But post-rock beginnings slip into 1 am exceptionally pleased webs of pseudo-awareness % LUCKY BUM WEEKEND ^ Portland's own Vanessa Renwick ism. The experience is reminis this is the shit. Dub Plates Vol. 3 brooding, unpredictable ambi with the progressively increased known as human cognition and Bill Daniel grace us with their cent of chilled-out Cowboy sees a series of remixes of previ ent electro soundscapes. Twine, integration on these releases of become attuned to this mode— latest video and installation work Junkies, and has some catchy ous gems "Depth Charge" and an American file-swapping duo one of our most spectacular the very sound of their own + The Heidelberg Project lines like "I put my hands on "Binghi," as well as a series of (Greg Malcolm and Chad agents, the cyber-organic hybrid heartbeat collapsing—surely we MULTIPLEX GRAND her breasts" in an old folk song. new cuts that come close to Mossholder) with backgrounds Dom & Roland. In 1999, this shall see the destruction of the © Experimental sound and image in audio and sound engineering, renderings featuring LOSCIL and The experimental fusion of summarizing Moore's work to agent contacted our forces and mythic apparatus which drains many very special guests romantic lyrics with Indian/ date. One hears snippets of the come off like early-AM CBC demonstrated his abilities with us. DEATH TO THE DECEPTI- Middle Eastern instruments guitar work that Moore pushed radio art meets Autechre's Con- the twin releases "Can't Punish CON INSECT THAT PREYS adds flavour and peaceful har- • on Horsey, the drum work of field. Me" and "Killa Bullet," in which UPON THE LIFE OF THE PEO mony. Sounds get weirdly wired early releases such as Binshaker Leaving the beach mindset he deftly expropriated, drained, PLE. in the middle with electronic Dub, and the spaced-out echoes to review the fifth in Bip-Hop's and sabotaged mus Donovan Mtume sampling and meditative of Dub Voyage. Where Vol. 3 critically acclaimed series of "whirring." takes off in new directions, compilations was the only way Visual imagery: like hitch however, is with the startling I could properly enjoy the disc. hiking through barren land sounds of hand drums in the BHG5 is like a map of the elec scapes under a sultry sky... the mix. While this was always tro renaissance this Marseilles- write 20 the awe of scientific asteroid referring to as "Canada's Next music composed by Peter dances, a jaunty ragtime tune tainly sparked my interest to man. Big Thing." I think he was using Maxwell Davies and per could be heard. learn more about the art of Charles a.k.a. Frank Black Nickleback as a reference formed by Standing Wave, The 11th dance, "The Death movement. is a good old American work point), so I went wandering and choreographed and danced by of Christ," had Hirabayashi Vampyra Draculea horse. As he was packing up his purchased a Slurpee. Surpris Jay Hirabayashi with video by slumping down into a fetal thenar gear I asked if I could have a ingly, the door staff let me take Jamie Griffiths. The work con position and then enacting STREETS word with him, he stated he my radioactive drink inside, sisted of 14 interpretive dances death throes in a fairly literal MEMENTO MORI finery) must work and keep on work where I savoured it while based on the stations of the sense—at first he rolled from THE WORLD WE MADE fiiLocAfilOAT ing. I then watched as he car everyone else got drunk. The cross, incorporating poses from side to side, but soon he was SICARRI ried large musical black boxes crowd was divided between the medieval anatomical drawings flopping from side to side with SUNSET ON BROADWAY continually off into his space Kelowna ex-pats who worship by Vesalius. such force that we could all feel Thursday, June 6 truck like a lumberjack. Jon-Rae Fletcher and the kids I'm admittedly no expert on the impacts. The next dance Video In This is a neat comparison to who can't get enough of Opera- choreography or interpretive seemed to be telling Mary's I can do switch 360 flips, you JULY story of grief, with colder blue know. That's not even my best video footage, including com trick. I guess that's the trick that loot ments of the danger of being makes strangers yell at me from out of harmony with nature as across the street, but I'm more Hirabayashi twirled and stum into pressure flips and ollie bled. "The Entombment of impossibles. Those tricks are the Christ," the 13th dance, depict hardest. That's why no one ed the fallen angel on the does them anymore. When STREETS played, these kids 5 fVcLKer Finally we were shown the started messing around with final dance—"The Resurrec fingerflips and coffin rides. I tion"—with its plot twist; the could've thrown down some H A/A/ uc^e Antichrist who rises, dancing sick shit, but I didn't want to exuberantly to raucous music as show off. J felly C^urko 5 the projections showed a wide It's a good thing I'm not a variety of modern currency on pedophile because most the backdrop along with hellish STREETS fans are fresh, young fire images. I think they were boys. I felt a little uncomfort trying to show money as the able because the boys got really root of evil when they showed excited and started mounting US greenbacks with the circular each other! Bareback! Just kid a\\ e\ v$ roTtfrrfev: , yiyj treasury seal replaced by a five ding. They kept their shirts on. VAfctf*j 4e- •> V-t^t-y Si*?' pointed star, but there was one Anyway, STREETS were good. overlooked glitch—what they I like them. actually showed was not a Memento Mori were a Satanic pentagram (three points bunch of hardcore hippies from THE WHITE STRIPES AT THE COMMODORE down, two points up), it was Ohio. They sounded like Rush actually a Wiccan pentacle (two and Bedhead and Shotmaker. PHOTO BY THE DORETTA LAU points down, three points up). I You know, indie rock. They had found this rather amusing, but some neato guitar parts. \\ Ncnke lujiko I'm probably the only one who The World We Made, his musical performance. He tion Makeout or Duotang. dance, so I tried to just absorb got the punch line to this unin Sicarri, and Sunset On Broad drove through the songs with Jon-Rae now has a band: the overall effect of three ele tended joke. way were just super. Okay, pride and strength, not stop The River. I'd missed their first ments of the piece. I had The second performance okay, so one of those bands had ping to talk to the audience and two shows, but I'd had several planned on commenting more was Alia by local composer to cancel and didn't play, but I'd \"h 6d.4vn WdiUtfY, tV'a sometimes even to tune his gui accounts of "Jon-Rae and the on the musical aspects of the Giorgio Magnanensi, danced by bet they're just as good as the tar. He sung and strummed like River rule!" And they did. I did pieces, but I found myself los Barbara Bourget. This piece was other two bands I didn't see. a man sawing through a log n't know that JR could rock that ing this focus as I got drawn about outer silence and inner Christa Min W/Mciau! HciVuvU. with a rusty saw. Charles once hard. The River are tight. Every into the performance as a music, starting out with elec said that songwriting is "not thing I heard was true. whole, and I guess this seamless tronic noise and very slow con TRANS AM cerebral—it's like trying to get Operation Makeout played blending into the whole is a trolled movements as Bourget your homework in on time." a set that consisted of songs mark of just how good Standing and the members of Standing Saturday, June 8 n His band was good, relaxed from their upcoming CD, plus Wave entered the performance Richard's on Richards ^" %^ and cool. The lead guitarist was one song from their (first base) Each dance began with the space. The lighting was very It was sunny and too hot on the so Mr. Lead Guitarist Man (cig EP. I nodded my head. I tapped ringing of bells or chimes and stark, alternating with dimness street outside Richard's. Every l£ A/V Ld ENKMira ENTIBTWNMfNT UND CFUV 101.9 fM PKSEHTS THE THIRD MfflUAl THE P1ETRSTERS JULY 27TH BT THE MEDITERRANEAN H0MEC00KIN'* DRINKS • LIVE MUSIC PRESSURE COOKER Thursday, July 4 Jon Wuud / Steve Wright VICTORIA CURLING CLUB Friday, July 5 Audio-lava / Liquorice Sea EASY BIG FEllA S, DOORS AT 7:00PM Saturday, July 8 Sweet Papa Lowdown DUB FREQUE VICTORIA BC Thursday, July 11 Chris Storrow m IN ADVANCE Friday, July 12 Jonny Wisdom w/guests THE ABOLITIONISTS J Saturday, July 13 Herald Nix / Boomchix TICKETS AVAILABLE BT GENERAL RUDIE ( Tuesday, July 1G (from Calgary!) Aaron Booth / Adam Fiore / Dave Gowans *.V*UIU RECORDS Thursday, July 18 TBA THE HOODWINKS N ' TEENAGE RAMPAGE Friday, July 19 Nicole Steen / Bottleneck Saturday, July 20 (from Victoria!) The Swingin' Bachelors STREET PROPHET/UNION HIGHLIFE RECORDS Sunday, July 21 (from New Brunswick!) Yodelling wonder! Petunia THE KHTIBFTERL ' I SCRTOCH RECORDS iin. IIILILII nnu|| * — — Thursday, July 25 Julie Saunders and the Manhandlers friday, July 26 El Dorado / Ana Bon Bon / Automatic Folk FREE PERFORMANCES IN MARKET SQUARE Saturday, July 27 (from Victoria!) David P. Smith w/Scott Henderson HAY 25TH & 26TH FROM 1410 - 4410 PM FOR MORE INFO CHECK OUT WWW.VICTORIASKAFEST.CA For booking info contact Amy Honey: [email protected] OR CALL 12501 721-8702 THE MAIN 4210 MAIN ST. & 26TH V5Y 2A6 604.709.8555 22 JULY 2002 hart/s what's being played at CiTR 101.9fm July Long Vinyl July Short Vinyl July Indie Home Jobs 1 DJ SHADOW Private Press MCA 1 RIFF RANDALLS How 'Bout Romance Lipstick 1 SHARP TEETH Burn Return 2 SONIC YOUTH Murray Street DGC 2 THE CLEATS Save Yourself Longshot 2 HEXTALLS I'm Sick of You 3 THE CINCH EP Stutter 3 THE ORGAN We've Got to Meet Genius 3 RED SCARE Try to Give Up 4 MIMOSA Bucolique Independent 4 STEREO/ULTIMATE Split Popkid 4 BYRONIC HEROES I'm a Drunk 5 DEADCATS Bad Pussy FlyingSaucer 5 THE SPITFIRES Juke Box High Glazed 5 BEND SINISTER Untitled 6AKUFEN My Way Force Inc. 6 THE LOLLIES Channel Heaven Evil World 6 MR. PLOW Tofu Girl 7 TIJUANA BIBLES Custom Made Tear it Up 7 THE RIFFS Such A Bore TKO 7 AMARILLO STARS You've Seen this Before 8 HERBALISER Something Wicked Ninja Tune 8 TIJUANA BIBLES Mexican Courage Trophy 8 ACCIDENT Perestroika 9 THREE INCHES OF BLOOD Battlecry Under. Rampage 9 CATO SALSA... Picture Disc Emperor Norton 9 ETHER'S VOID In Stereo 10 SPARROW S/T Independent 10 DESTROYER The Music Lovers Sub Pop 10 WINKS Aprin Fell 11 NASHVILLE PUSSY Say Something Nasty Arte 11 MEA CULPA Corporate Nation Empty 11 BILLY THE KID AND THE LOST BOYS This One's For You 12 NOFX 45 Or 46 Songs... Fat 12 SONGS:OHIA The Gray Tower SC 12 ROADBED JB Fool 13 VARIOUS ARTISTS Field and Streams K 13 MIRAH Small Sale MRRC 13 THE DEPARTMENT Be Your Friend 14 MOBY 18 14 EVAPORATORS Honk the Horn Nardwuar 14 TOO HECTIC As You Were 15 ROCKETS RED GLARE Rockets Red Glare Sickroom 15 BOTTLES & SKULLS I Am One... TKO 15 SARAH WHEELER Sweet to Me 16 SPITFIRES Three Longshot 16 MATTHEW Stars Numero 16 GROOVY GALS Trash Rap 17 TOM WAITS Blood Money Anti 17 SCAT RAG BOOSTERS Side Tracked Zaxxon Virile Action 17 SIX BLOCK RADIUS Kill To Hide 18 HARD RUBBER ORCHESTRA Rub Harder Victo 18 THE AGENDA Are You Nervous? Kindercore 18 RYAN EUGENE Instead I Sing 19 VARIOUS ARTISTS Verve Remixed Verve 19 VARIOUS ARTISTS ...Presents Modern Radio 19 WHISKEY SOUR NOTES Discomatic 20 BEACHWOOD SPARKS Make The Cowboy... Sub Pop 20 GET HUSTLE Who do You Love Gravity 20 DR. PONY Snapshot 21 WHITE STRIPES White Blood Cells V2 22 ARCHER PREWITT Three Thrill Jockey 23 URSULA 1000 Kinda Kinky ESL 24 FUCKING CHAMPS Drag City 25 EL-P Fantastic Damage Definative Jux HOW THE CHARTS WORK 26 MICE PARADE All Roads Lead... Bubblecore 27 DOVES Last Broadcast Capitol 28 DAVID GRUBBS Rickets And Scurvy Drag City The monthly charts are compiled based on the number of times a CD/LP 29 CAROLYN MARK &... Terrible Hostess Mint ("long vinyl"), 7" ("short vinyl"), or demo tape/CD ("indie home jobs") on 30 INTERPOL Interpol Matador CiTR's playlist was played by our DJs during the previous month (ie, "July" 31 GUIDED BY VOICES Universal Truths and Cycles Matador charts reflect airplay over June). Weekly charts can be received via email. 32 YOUNG AND SEXY Stand Up For Your Mother Mint Send mail to "[email protected]" with the command: "subscribe citr- 33 SOUNDTRACK CQ Emperor Norton 34 BRATMOBILE Girls Get Busy Lookout! charts." • 35 CATO SALSA EXPERIENCE A Good Tip... Emperor Norton Hi. My name's Steve. I'm 27 years old, 5'11 1/2" with black hair and brown eyes. I enjoy listening to Led Zeppelin, Mott the Hoople, and Metallica. I love eating cured meats, espe DiSCORDER is looking for an cially the pork variety. If it sounds like you and I have something in common, call me at EDITOR. It could be YOU. 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Lougan Brothers, the Fixin's, Tolan McNeil and the Governors of MON JULY 22 Giv'Ner@Railway Club; Jon Wood, Steve Wright@The Main; The Little Wings@Sugar Refinery; Danny Howells@Sonar NASTY ON TUES JULY 23 Fantastic P/ VINCENT GALIO Recordings of Zulu's Sonic Sketchbook Music for Film CD/LP SONIC YOUTH CAROLYN MARK PIXIES he year is 1979, a boy is ban Tished from the streets of Muiray Street Terrible Hostess CD The Purple Tape CD Buffalo for the crime of not resigning, not giving in, and not 12.98 ere they are: the legendary, rarely heard (except in rever capitulating to the chorus of boredom. Hey, it wasn't CDAP ent whispers) early recordings of the band that changed he electric guitar only ictoria's queen of the H Verona, but this Romeo was star-crossed just the same, your life. Back when Black was his first name, Mrs. John got boring for people roots/country scene knocks jinxed with talent, dating the lofty concept of success. So, T V Murphy was heading straight to practice after work as a sec who were already THERE. things up a rung or two (or ten) New York took him in, let him run, and he kicked back: film retary, Santiago was re-inventing the guitar solo, and Still, no need to worry about with this, her first studio album and follow-up to the acclaimed music, visual art, acting - all the Mudd Club hustle! Now, Lovering was casting spells with a couple of sticks instead acoustic guitars, synth washes, or orchestral maneuvers Party Girl. With her real-life room-mates Tolan and Garth pro odd years later, we have the complete picture: VINCENT'S of a magic wand. Nine songs that didn't see the light of day - the Yoof are joined once again by Jim O'Rourke, who viding backup as usual, TERRIBLE HOSTESS captures Carolyn's seminal recordings. Including the John Lurie and Jean on the "Come On Pilgrim" EP finally make themselves avail infectious approach to music: part folk singer, part nightclub Michel Basquiat - Downtown '81 era - the Way It Is indie -gets recording, mixing and songwriting credits through able to you. After all, aren't the PIXIES the reason you can be comic, part storyteller. score, and of course the already classic Buffalo 66 nota out, to deliver seven brand new tracks of angular jams, proud of your record collection today? AVAILABLE JULY tions! This isn't for everyone - but what is? sound-shapes, and head washing whirlpools of noise. CD 12.98 9TH Uh-huh, the focus is back on the riff - the spun together CD 19.98 LP 19.98 sound everyone's been waiting to love again. Highlights THEWALKMEN CD 14.98 include, Thurston's return to the mic on 'The Empty NASTY ON Page' and 'Radical Adults...', as well as the epic jam, Everyone Who Sympathy For The Strawberry'! 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