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GRAB YOUR UMBRELLA, IT’S SPRING This is the first of our four spring/summer issues. If you’re game to get involved, we’re game to have you - email [email protected] to pitch some ideas or get added to our story list.

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This issue crept up on us - we’ve got plenty to say about the weather, ideas on how you should/ shouldn’t behave, how you shouldn’t hashtag, how you might drink, how you could protest, how you can tell the Prime Minister what you’re thinking, how you should listen to music (outside with a hat on), and even how you can watch musicians battle filmmak- ers to the death* for charity.

*Not to the death at all.

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We (kind of) went inside the home of local cult personality Natalie Pollock. You know and probably love Natalie Pol- lock for her cable access television show with her brother, Rockin’ Ron Pollock, in the 1980s, in addition to stints on Donahue, The Joan Rivers Show and The Jenny Jones Show, fighting for the rights of big-breasted women. The Pollock And Pollock Gossip Show (which was later immortalized in Daniel Barrow’s 2009 compilation film Winnipeg   Babysitter) featured a consortium of weird- ness: giggly teen girls talking about “this and that,” a Liberace-loving cross-dresser who, Natalie says, “wasn’t actually gay,” and then there was the dancing – the elderly people, the ‘muscle dancing’ shirtless men, and Natalie’s absolutely amazing interpre- tive-style dance moves. What you may not know is that the earli- est incarnation of the show featured serious topics and interviews with cops and politi- cians, but changed formats after the station manager told Natalie that she couldn’t be serious.   “If we couldn’t be smart and intelligent, then we would overdo being silly,” she says. “It was a parody of a show like Sonny & Cher and Bob Hope – the gushy part of the entertainment business. Ronnie created these characters where we overdid everything – you know, overdoing the dancing and overdoing being ridiculous, and then I got typecast… I got stuck with that image, but that’s not me.” Indeed, it isn’t really her. In the 1960s and ‘70s, Natalie and Ronnie were more con- cerned with making rock records than being on TV. They released a number of albums during that time – one of which was put   

out on Capitol Records and produced by RON POLLOCK Dionne Warwick (yes, Whitney Houston’s 3) POLLOCK AND POLLOCK SLOGAN cousin). And although Natalie’s true passion house, because she doesn’t like strangers Winnipeg Tribune, which was the newspaper of the “I gave that to Ronnie as sort of a joke, but he liked time. The guy who worked at the vinyl record store was always to become a musician and meet knowing where she lives, but she was kind it.” Burt Bacharach (which she did, BTW), she enough to send us some photos of what’s on Osborne Street (Music Trader) gave that to us as a present. He made that into a poster.” instead found an audience on cable access. inside – with the help of Ronnie, of course. 4) WINNIPEG BABYSITTER DVD But that was 25 years ago, and Natalie “Winnipeg Babysitter wasn’t the original title. The 6) PAINTING OF NATALIE’S GREAT would rather be taken seriously for the things 1) UPRIGHT PIANO original title that Daniel Barrow was going to use was “All of our songs have been written on that piano. GRANDFATHER that she’s doing today. Since 2009, she and Garbage Hill. I don’t know why… On the side of the “He was always studying to be a rabbi, so in my Ronnie’s the piano genius. He was playing concerts her brother have been posting videos on their DVD there’s a picture of the Cosmopolitans. They had head, even though he wasn’t a rabbi, I painted him as when he was nine years. He plays by ear. I don’t know Pollock And Pollock News Channel, a YouTube a very popular show. They were a couple of ladies in though he was.” channel focusing on Manitoba politics, inter- how he does it.” a rock band playing Rolling Stones’ covers and they national human rights and LGBT issues. It’s were about 80 years old… They were two lesbian 7. TATTERED NEIL YOUNG POSTER 2) PEE-WEE HERMAN AND DEAN MARTIN also the same news channel that posted a ladies who fled some country in Europe, because they DOLLS “I can’t recall if that’s from ‘65 or ‘66. (Neil Young) video of a Manitoba Progressive Conserva- “I’ve had that Pee-wee Herman doll for so long. It was couldn’t be lesbians openly.” used to play at community club dances. He gave tive leader (*cough Brian Pallister cough*) before he got into trouble… When he had that show me that poster.” (Sidenote: Natalie was friends with 5) POSTER OF NATALIE AND RONNIE that went viral after he made a holiday greet- (Pee-wee’s Playhouse) I loved him… I got Dean Martin Neil Young when they were students at Kelvin High WITH THEIR RECORDS ing referring to “infidel atheists.” from Walmart. They’re all collectors. You can’t buy School.) “That’s about 1972 or 1971. That picture is from the Natalie wouldn’t actually let us into her them now.” THE COLUMN THE UNITER // MAY 8, 2014 05

heat and clingy humidity. This means we see a lot more of each other’s bodies and might reveal someone’s winter weight THE loss or weight gain. This may trick you into thinking you get to comment on it. You would be wrong. Whether you think INTERSECTION someone’s too fat for that dress/swimsuit/ tuxedo/whatever or whether you feel the WITH JODIE LAYNE @JODIELAYNE need to let them know that you envy their slimness or jokingly spill you ‘hate them HOW TO BE A DECENT for being such a skinny bitch’, the answer HUMAN BEING NOW THAT is no. Weight gain and loss and people’s IT’S WARM(ER) body sizes are the result of a whole host of factors, none of which are immediately As almost any good Winnipegger knows, visible to the eye. It’s hard enough being we live for the tiny window of months in fat, skinny, curvy, slim, potbellied, flat, the year that we can leave the house with- hippy, busty, or ANY body in this culture NJ out a jacket or wear a dress without tights without friends and strangers bringing it underneath. For the less daring of us, it’s One thing people like to claim as an sense of style or a simple and generic ‘You to our attention. Trust us, we are already also time to pull our bikes out of the base- excuse is that they ‘didn’t know better’. look nice today!’ keeps the creepiness on hyperaware. ment and roll around town on our own Well, I’m going to give you some handy the sidelines. Remember that just because Being in the sun brings out all kinds of two wheels. tips on how to interact with other human people move about in a public space, it reactions in our melanin. Some people get It’s, unfortunately, also a time where people, so now you know better. For those doesn’t mean that THEY are a public space darker, some people get freckles, and we all body-shaming and talk of ‘bathing suit of you who feel like it’s ‘not your prob- - no matter how much clothing they are know that person who refuses to learn and season’ are at an all-time high. Put more lem’ because you don’t participate in that or aren’t wearing, what time of day it is, or gets a ‘base burn’ and goes right to bright folks on the streets more often and you get behaviour - stop right there before you give how much you feel like you want to com- red. Regardless of this, DO NOT - under much more street harassment. It’s almost yourself a ‘good person’ badge. If you’re pliment their butt. Keep it to yourself. any circumstances - ask or tease Indigenous summertime and people have bodies. not actively challenging these behaviours, This goes for people whose gender pre- people or people of colour about their skin. These two things seem to have a really hard you’re part of the problem. Silence is com- sentation might not be what you’re used If you want to know if black people can get time coexisting. plicity. to seeing. You’re an adult, you can handle sunburns, ask the Internet. Seriously, Goo- I don’t want to have to write this arti- First, it’s not okay to make comments it. Calling someone a ‘tranny’, ‘thing’, ‘he/ gle that shit instead of putting someone on cle, really I don’t. However, the behaviour about or touch someone’s body - even if she’, ‘it’ or asking people if they’re a boy or the spot about their skin color. I experience and hear about every summer it’s what you construe as a positive way. a girl is straight-up wrong. If you’re refer- With these simple tips and a little mind- shows me that I have to. YOU HAVE We’re all different bags of skin walking ring to someone or engaged in a conver- fulness, you’re all set to exist in public as FORCED MY HAND, CITIZENS. The around with all of our different life expe- sation with someone whose presentation a human being this summer! Now, can I number of times I have had to remind peo- riences and values systems. What might be is ambiguous to you, ask which pronouns give you a compliment? You look really ple that it’s not okay to call women ‘baby’ complimentary or affirming to you might they would like used. Gender is compli- great today. or had to call the cops with a license plate be someone else’s triggering or offensive. cated and no one owes you an explanation. number after a driver felt it was okay to If you feel like you MUST comment on Next - never comment on someone else’s Jodie Layne is a feminist activist, community whistle at me out the window is almost as someone else’s visible self, make sure it’s weight ever. EVER. Okay? The clothes we development worker and freelance writer obscene as some of the things that are said something specific that they have control tend to wear in our warmest season are based in Winnipeg. to me and countless others regularly. over like a book they’re reading or their usually minimal in order to deal with the ARTS MR. HARPER, ARE YOU LISTENING? Dust Adam Dust has a message for you

DEBORAH REMUS @DEBORAHREMUS SUPPLIED ARTS REPORTER idea for this video message project, we fig- does have a bad track record for being open like that.” ured it was one of the best ways to have to the media and the public, something we A new mix of that song is also supposed people freely express their ideas and direct want to change,” Anna says. to appear on the band’s second full-length Winnipeg art-pop band Dust Adam Dust it to the top,” her husband Jay, 37, adds. Despite spearheading this project, Anna record, which is slated for release this fall. is hoping to capture Ottawa’s attention Dust Adam Dust will launch Dear insists her band isn’t necessarily looking to “We’ve had all the songs for awhile, with Dear Harper, a video message project Harper at the Windsor on May 15 and be labelled as “political”. we’re just cutting it down right now and which welcomes people to tell the Prime the band wants attendees to record their “We’re just creative people, we write labouring over it,” Jay says. “Maybe its Minister how they really feel. thoughts for the PM in a video booth set music which is what we like doing,” she release will be the capper of the project in The group – comprised of guitarist/ up at the show. says. “We just write about how we’re feel- September, but we don’t know for sure.” vocalist Jay Hovland, bassist/vocalist Scott There will also be a greeting card to sign, ing and this is how we’re feeling right Ellenberger, drummer Steve Pennicook and if you can’t make it, the band is still now.” and keyboardist/vocalist Anna Hovland welcoming anyone to submit video mes- Dust Adam Dust has also released a – formed in 2007 and has one self-titled sages to them online. song titled “Harper Narcisse”, which crit- record of fuzzy Velvet Underground meets The group plans on running the proj- icizes the Prime Minister for ignoring the the Sundays pop. ect until at least September and then the environment and focusing on the econ- Dust Adam Dust will play the Windsor on May 15. “I was at home listening to a pro- greeting card will be mailed to Ottawa as omy, among other things. gram called The 180 on CBC and they an invitation for the PM to check the vid- “That song expresses some of the frus- Doors are at 8 p.m. were interviewing [Conservative MP for eos out. trations we feel for sure, however with Naysa and Twin will also perform. Nunavut and Minister of Health] Leona In the end the band is targeting Harper this project we don’t really want to colour Cover is $7. Aglukkaq. In response to concerns about mostly because he just happens to be the people’s perceptions with our own per- Head to www.dearharperproject.com not having enough public discourse, she Prime Minister right now. ceptions,” Jay says. “We hope other peo- for more info or to submit your own said that Canadians should practice free “I think leaders of other political par- ple will express issues that are important video message. speech,” Anna, 29, says. ties might venture to do the same thing, to them, all takes on it are welcome, we “That’s partly how we came up with the but unfortunately this current government just ask that there’s no threats or anything

SUMMER LOVIN’ The inaugural Real Love Summer Fest kicks off in June

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Being able to see music live in a bar is one thing, but to be able to experience local music outside in an energetic, dazed frenzy is an entirely different animal, and the local music collective behind the Beach Station Blues compilation series, Real Love Winnipeg, aims to do just that. In the vein of Rainbow Trout and your grandparents’ Folk Fest, the three day Real Love Summer Fest goes live from June 6-8 in Matlock, featuring local bands from the Winnipeg underground and presenting them in an above ground campground setting for all ADAM SOLOWAY, JOSH WINESTOCK AND GIL CARROLL OF REAL LOVE WINNIPEG - UNITER FILES/DANIEL CRUMP to see. an amazing show with as many people as will even include Ukrainian dance and a Check out reallovewpg.com or like them “Putting on a festival is something I have we can.” slew of unique local vendors. on Facebook for more information about wanted to do since I was in junior high,” For a mere $20, you can camp for the “We are pleased that Golden Boy Hot Real Love Summer Fest and the Beach Sta- says Gilad Carroll, one of the co-founders entire three days, and absolutely everyone Sandwiches, which is a new food truck in tion Blues compilations. of Real Love. “Real Love Fest came about is more than welcome. the city will be at the festival all weekend,” when our good friend (musician) Micah “We are hoping that we will not only Carroll says. “They even named a sandwich Erenberg offered to host the fest at The get campers from Winnipeg coming out for us called the ‘Beef Station Blues’. You Flying Bison Ranch in June in Matlock. but also families and everyone who lives will also be able to enjoy fresh lemonade, We had a lot of interest for Beach Station around the Interlake area,” he says. “We homemade baking, and tons of cool local Blues III album from bands so the festival are promoting the festival in Winnipeg art, crafts, and charm makers. We have our Real Love Summer Fest takes place became the natural and most fun way to Beach and Gimli as well, so we are hoping creative team currently working on some June 6-8 in Matlock, Manitoba. showcase as many of our favourite musical we will get some locals to come and enjoy special surprises for the campsite as well. Weekend passes are $20. acts as possible. the music.” “We hope that people will have found Visit reallovewpg.com for more “The aim of Real Love is to grow our Featuring such diverse acts as accordi- their new favourite band, met some new info. favourite Winnipeg bands,” he continues. onist Ingrid Gatin, indie-troubadour Slow friends, seen some wonderful art and got a “We want to be able to share the music Leaves, angry young men Animal Teeth sweet tan. We want people to be counting that we like and the experience of being at and mood-mopers Bear Clones, the fest down the days until next year’s fest.” ARTS THE UNITER // MAY 8, 2014 07 GOLD SOUNDS

It doesn’t have an immediately hooky opener (there’s no “Willow Tree” or “Clinically Dead”) but the warbly meander of “Cut Off My Hands” is warm and welcoming just the same. Equal parts trance-like and endearing, the fifth proper solo disc from Calgary’s Chad VanGaalen finds the musician/producer/animator in fine form, with most songs sitting in the vein ofDiaper Island’s “Sara” in intimacy and delivery. The second half of the record is a little more accessible to the uninitiated, hosting the delightful “Weird Love”, the delicate “Cosmic Destroyer” and the chant-in- ducing “Monster”, making it a lovely little singer/songwriter disc from Canada’s most important lo-fi export since Eric’s Trip. Look for it on every top-ten list this December. -Nicholas Friesen

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These guys just creep up on you, like Nick Cave’s little brothers (kinda moody, but quite harmless). Opening with “Beat the Drum Slowly”, a methodical dirge that surges and cuts, the listener is treated to nine other tracks of similar depth and attitude. Steering slightly into Burning Hell-itory (“Hot Dreams”), mood music for a ‘50s vampire soap opera remade by David Lynch (“This Low Commotion”) and even a few hopeful moments (“Run From Me”, “Curtains!?”) that are more fun than fearful, it’s a lot more diverse than previous offerings. Still, there’s that Canadian film noir with a wink feeling to it all, as if Count Floyd might pop out and howl at any moment, showing that the band doesn’t take itself all that seriously, just seriously enough. -Nicholas Friesen

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creative.” According to Thomas, the inspiration IN THIS is there. “When I first listened to a cou- ple of his tracks, I thought, ‘Okay, he’s CORNER a pretty classic western artist’. But as I delved into his whole body of work, I saw Bands vs Filmmakers IV that he actually dabbles a lot into hip hop, which ended up being a lot of the songs delivers the goods we chose.” “It’ll be like an urban western,” Bent THOMAS PASHKO @THOMASPASHKO adds. “My first record was very urban, and we’ve chosen a song from that first record VOLUNTEER STAFF specifically so we can juxtapose the western with the urban.” With such fertile creative ground in this As an annual fundraiser for Winnipeg’s one partnership alone, Bands vs Filmmak- Cinematheque theatre, Bands vs Film- ers is proving to be a vital ingredient in makers is quickly becoming an important Winnipeg’s artistic community. And with tradition in our city’s arts scene. Now in its four other acts on the bill, including heavy fourth year, Bands vs Filmmakers is about hitters Les Jupes and Mise en Scene, it more than raising money or putting on promises to be an exciting evening. a show. It’s about fostering creativity and establishing relationships between artists in different mediums who may not otherwise have the opportunity to work together. On May 23, the event will be taking SUPPLIED place at the West End Cultural Centre. The Bands vs Filmmakers IV takes premise is simple: local bands are partnered “It’s a great way to stretch your imagina- natural companion to Ridley’s experimen- place May 23 at the West End with local filmmakers. The teams agree tion as a filmmaker,” says Thomas, whose tal country sound, but they find common Cultural Centre. on a 20-minute set of original songs, and work prior to Bands vs Filmmakers con- ground on storytelling, and it’s clear their Featuring films by Damien Fer- the filmmakers produce original films to sists largely of dialogue-driven, post-apoca- partnership makes a lot of sense. land, Tyler Funk, Kayla Jeanson, be projected alongside a live performance lyptic dramas. “It’s actually been a very nice “The thing about my music that goes Matheu Plouffe and Madison from the bands. I sat down with local writ- challenge, to step back and be like, ‘How well with film is that I’m very literal in Thomas, with performances by er-director Madison Thomas, whose first do I tell a story without dialogue?’ And, my lyrics,” Bent says. “I tell stories, and Ridley Bent, Hana Lu Lu, Les Jupes, Mise en Scene, and Birda- feature This is Why We Fight won an award really, you have to get back to the basics.” they’re obvious. It’s not like they’re poetic pres & Grey Jay. of excellence at the Los Angeles Indie Fest, An experiment like Bands vs Filmmak- or anything. If it’s a story about a gunfight, and singer-songwriter Ridley Bent, whose ers isn’t something one might think would then that’s what it is. It’s a story about a Tickets available at the WECC, Ticketmaster, Music Trader, Winni- new album Wildcard was just released in facilitate narrative films, but Thomas and gunfight. I’m not hoping for a literal film peg Film Group and the Winnipeg April, to get some insight into the creative Bent are both storytellers. At first, the translation of the stuff, but I’m interested Folk Fest Music Store for $20, $25 partnerships that Bands vs Filmmakers imagery of Thomas’s post-apocalyptic to see what the lyrics of the song would at the door. helps form. visions of urban decay may not seem like a do to inspire a filmmaker to do something

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David Dobbs says as he walks into The Uniter office. He’s Lasha Mowchun and drummer Taylor Burgess (though that my band?” Dobbs says. “There was lots of integrity behind it wearing a hospital bracelet. Seems legit. band ended last year, Dobbs notes there is an unreleased and I’ve always been more into the music than the produc- Singer/guitarist Dobbs, along with drummer Matthew record ready to go). This takes us to November 2012, when tion value so it hit a really good chord, whoever this is doesn’t Powers, make up Winnipeg noise rock duo Vampires. While Vampires released its self-titled debut proper. care as much they just wanna put it out.” mixing the band’s forthcoming four-song cassette, tentatively A day after the album release show, Butcher moved to It turns out that Matthew Powers (SitDownTracy, HCE) called the Every Kind of Light EP, Dobbs thinks he had a Argentina to live with a woman he met there. was looking for a drummer for the live incarnation for what panic attack. His lips went numb, as did his arms and hands. “How are you gonna stop your best friend from falling in is basically his solo home-recording project. He went to the hospital. They sent him home. Understand- love with someone?” Dobbs asks. “I have no idea who this “At the time I was really skirting Vampires,” Dobbs notes. ably, he’s still a little freaked out. Argentinian woman is, so I just have to trust him and he just “No one’s capable or willing in that way, and I need to make In this manic spirit, the band’s yet to be released new EP leaves. So that’s where Vampires ended and started, all in one myself happy so I’m gonna join his band. Turns out, not only (which it cranked out over two days in mid-April at 101.5 week. We dropped our first album and its core members.” is he the guitarist in this band that I’m drumming in, but UMFM’s studio without an outside engineer or producer) he’s a really good drummer. He puts the idea in my head of is proving to be a more difficult animal in the mixing stages. drumming in Vamps and I’m like ‘no fucking way’ because “I treated this recording like a four track,” Dobbs says. CHARTING AND REBUILDING if it capsizes or fails or if we don’t like each other after six “When I mixed all the drums, I bounced them down. Then months … I was conscious of the idea of all eggs in one bas- I mixed all the guitars and I bounced them down. Then I A lot of bands break up without even putting out a record, ket. So I was really aware, even though I knew he was a top mixed all the vocals and I bounced them down, and then I but just as many play the “album release show/final show pick.” have them all together. I’m treating it like a Beatles album or ever” game. Vampires seemed destined for this, except some- Dobbs auditioned numerous drummers, including Pow- a Nirvana album. In the studio you call that ‘commit record- thing happened - the disc got radio play, and not just locally. ers. ing.’ The mixing has been a daunting experience and I’ve “We had top albums,” Dobbs says. “We were charting in “I even came out and jammed with you once and you just been kicked in the teeth repeatedly. That’s why I think I had Quebec and Ontario. Manitoba for sure. We’re on top ten never called me back about it,” Powers relays to Dobbs. “You a panic attack last night.” UNDER PRESSURE “

The story of Vampires is known to those in Winnipeg’s BEING POPULAR BECAUSE YOUR MUSIC IN YOUR incestuous underground music circle, and it’s a tricky one. Dobbs formed the duo in 2009 with drummer/guitarist HOMETOWN IS, IT FEELS REALLY NICE. AFTER A Josh Butcher and the pair began gigging shortly thereafter. A slew of shows followed, and according to Dobbs, “every- one seemed to want a piece,” noting that Royal Canoe’s Matt WHILE, I DON’T WANNA SAY IT BORED ME, BUT Peters and Jicah’s Jeff Bruce offered to work with the band. In early 2010 they entered engineer Jeff Patteson’s (Eagle Lake Owls, Mitten Claps) Home Street Recording Company. THAT SORT OF SENTIMENTALITY DID. With a record in the can, they began mixing and doing press. - DAVID DOBBS, VAMPIRES They played more shows. Mixing continued. And continued. Dobbs keeps insisting that they “weren’t able to make those decisions,” though. When pressed, he doesn’t quite clarify lists alongside KEN mode and Boats and Yo La Tengo and it were like ‘meh.’” what “decisions” he’s referring to, but he elaborates on the doesn’t make any sense, because we didn’t play one show in After solidifying a new Vampires line-up with longtime process. 2013, from January to December. Not one.” friend Arthur Anthony (The Girth) Dobbs started booking “It wasn’t sounding like the sounds in my head, and the While all this was happening, Dobbs’ friends were encour- shows. process was hard on both of us in the sense that we had two aging him to get out and play. His guard was up, though. “I contacted (local music festival) Big Fun on the last day very opposing ideas of what a studio meant,” he says. “I think “I am a particular study in the sense that I do have the of their submissions and said ‘I got the band back together, a studio is where you add a little more magic in the bag and sound in my head, the vision quest, so to speak,” he offers. let’s do this!’ And they were like ‘If you have a band, we have shake it up, and Josh was under the impression that it was a “It takes a while for people to come into my inner circles. a show for you.’” temple and everything is sacred. I have many outers, but my defence mechanisms are to be (When we relay to Dobbs that not everybody gets such “It was hard on us to come to a congruent understanding extroverted and aloof, whereas really I’m focused and shy on special treatment, that Big Fun is a festival that artists apply of what this was supposed to be. In hindsight, making an the inside. So no one came along that I felt nice about or to and isn’t curated, he offers that “maybe it wasn’t like that, album is never supposed to be anything, it is what it is.” confident about. I just know from Winnipeg experience that but it felt like that.”) Fast forward to late 2010 when Dobbs got involved with it’s not what I’m looking for. So time passes.” But just as quickly as Anthony joined Vampires, he quit. UMFM (he currently hosts Hllll!Yh!Wpg!, Tuesdays from One day, while searching for new music on Bandcamp. This forced Dobbs to revisit the possibility of being in two 8-9pm) where he learned the art of audio recording. Vam- com, he came across a group called Midnight Review Pres- bands with the same guy. pires went in with the intention of recording a pair of songs ents: an aggressive, DIY project that spoke to him. After “When (Matthew and I) talk about music, we’re walkin’ for a single, but came out with a nine-track LP. exchanging messages with the band, a mutual admiration on the same street, just on different sides,” he says. Then another year went by. More mixing. While Butcher was discovered. took a trip to Argentina, Dobbs formed Softcore with singer “I was kinda floored, who the hell is this band that knows SEAN PERKINS a square, and notes it could also be used as a poster. “The BUILDING ON THE BUZZ format of a square is the best, but printing vinyl and a CD doesn’t make sense to me right now.” Every band in 2014 has at least a Facebook page, if not a Funk states that the piece is darker than what she’d nor- Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr or out of date MySpace they can’t mally produce. login to anymore. Vampires are working on it. “When I heard Vampires’ music for the first time I was on “I shot myself in the foot not having those set up,” Dobbs an extremely crowded bus going to work on a wintery day,” says. “In the five years I’ve had this going I could’ve had at she says. “The music transported me to a place not unlike least 600 likes and that would’ve gotten us shows booked in the crowded bus, except much better - a local venue, in the New York or whatever. So my plan to combat that is to per- dark, with a beer in my hand, surrounded by friends. Their sonally contact every single person that showed interest in sound is familiar and fiery and it immediately inspired me to the past.” start on a piece of work that I have been wanting to do for It’s that type of DIY mentality (which includes handmade almost a year.” CD-Rs handed out at shows) that has kept the band’s charm The cassette features the tentatively-titled tunes “Winni- going strong for so long. But the “industry ideas” (manage- peg Song”, “There Is No Kissing Anymore”, “Waiting” and ment, contacts) tend to creep in at this point. “Riff Rise”. The set also has a tentative title, the Every Kind “The idea of having a manager or a PR campaign, it’s bor- of Light EP. ing,” Dobbs says.”Vampires has been purely grassroutes up “I don’t know how I came up with it, but it seems so until now. We’ve done really well spending no money for inclusive and metaphorical and really big,” Dobbs says. “So people to make us do well. I typed it into the Internet and it’s a goddamn Trews album. “There’s no reason for that. It’s working fine. My goals On this particular Trews album, there’s a song called ‘I Know have been succeeded.” You’re Right.’ When you bought a computer that has Win- We point out that the band recently purchased a member- dows Vista or 7, they give you this sample pack, with Beetho- ship to Manitoba Music, the province’s not-for-profit music ven, Joan Jett, The Trews and a Flo Rida song.” industry association. (Dobbs later relays via Facebook, “It was the Posies, not “The opportunity of riding on the album, being in a new the Trews”.) position, it makes sense to plant more seeds,” Dobbs says. Clearly embedded in his consciousness, Dobbs is, at press After bringing up such local success stories as Royal Canoe time, still conflicted with the title. “I really like memes and and KEN mode, neither of which have compromised their I like the idea of viral attitudes implanted in your brain,” he sounds or images to succeed, Dobbs and Powers relate. says. “The idea that there are literally millions of people that “I think that’s their work ethic being put into the indus- bought Windows Vista and they have, in one shape or way, try,” Dobbs says. “They could put that work ethic into any- read the sentence ‘every kind of light’ and they had Windows thing else and I think it would pay off. They’re able to do it Media Player and deleted or played that Trews song... in a way because they want that. I think everyone wants that “I used to do graffiti. I would spray paint a square with the level of success. To be continually touring, to be able to play idea that people would walk by, and whether they recognize shows.” it or not, their whole life has changed. That’s where this motif comes from. Whether they acknowledge it or not, they’ve SEAN PERKINS already seen this, and that’s a staying power you can’t buy. mentality did. THE PRODUCT But you can buy Windows Vista.” “Over the weekend my ego was huge,” the songwriter con- Whether the title works out or not, Dobbs is feeling the tinues. “I went to a loft party and Jesse Warkentin (Mahogany “I got, I dunno, sent to a Rip/Torn (literary jour- pressure of following up his band’s debut. Frog) is like, building me up in front of this (Perfect 10 type) nal) launch,” Dobbs says. “It’s an intense magazine. (R/T “When you have another album coming out you can’t go model woman, saying ‘Dave plays so good,’ and I’m sitting co-founder) Gabrielle Funk’s there and she has her artwork down,” he says. “You have to go lateral or up so I’m really there going ‘I wouldn’t be in this if it wasn’t for you. There’s there. I was really into her brushstrokes. There’s a certain nervous.” no way you’re allowed to say these things when I’m around. kinetic pallet to it. I was really impressed, like if Van Gogh “Quality is quality, though,” Powers says. “I think quality Say them when I’m not around because I don’t believe you.’ opened up his pallet and did real life fiction.” song-wise is all that really matters.” “So with people like Matt it’s easier to put that shit aside “When David asked me to design the album cover, he “It feels like with Matt there’s an opportunity to go back and share this music with way more than just your friends. stressed that he wanted the experience to be a collabora- to basics in that mature way the original band couldn’t do But once this material drops, everyone in Winnipeg is gonna tion that was mutually beneficial as opposed to something and didn’t understand what that was,” Dobbs says. One is know exactly what I’m thinking and they’re gonna leverage more one-sided,” Funk says. “The band gave me freedom to beginning to get the feeling that he wouldn’t feel the pressure that in some way the next time we hang out.” develop a piece for them that was inspired by their music and if the community wasn’t building him up. our personal interactions. It has been a totally ideal job for “We had boyish dreams of being great and everyone said Catch the Vampires EP release show with The Party Dress and me because I have had a chance to get to know some inspir- ‘you’re doing great.’ Okay, I’ve met my dream. Do I get to The Zags at the Handsome Daughter (formerly the Rose n Bee) ing local people who are pursuing their musical goals and be a rockstar and just ride the coattails? Or do I use this as on Saturday, May 31. create a piece of artwork that is developing very organically, a vessel to experience life somehow? Being popular because and therefore is more meaningful to me as an artist.” your music in your hometown is, it feels really nice. After a Dobbs says that the cassette insert will fold out, forming while, I don’t wanna say it bored me, but that sort of senti- Working for Students

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and getting the Ralph Connor House was huge because that really is the ideal venue THANK YOU for this play.” Aside from taking place in a heritage house, as opposed to a traditional theatre, FOR BEING the play also varies from others because the audience spends part of it moving around A FRIEND in smaller groups. “The audience gets to sit together as a Sarasvàti Productions large group and they also get split up into smaller groups, which is literally like going deliver a classic behind-the-scenes in the lives of the dif- ferent women,” McIntyre says. “That way feminist play every audience member sort of leaves with a different experience.” DEBORAH REMUS @DEBORAHREMUS Sarasvàti Productions’ mandate is using theatre for social change and the main ARTS REPORTER theme this particular play touches on is SUPPLIED feminism. Sarasvàti Productions will take over the “Some feminists have criticized this play McLean, Tracey Nepinak, Tracy Penner ing your creativity and the need to find Ralph Connor House when it puts on Fefu because they feel that women should only and Kelci Stephenson as the title charac- out and be more than you are. That’s what and Her Friends, a feminist play which was be shown in a positive light, while [Fornés’] ter’s friends. drew me to the role in the first place.” written by Cuban-American playwright response was that we needed to show what “Fefu is mischievous, she’s playful, she’s María Irene Fornés in 1977. was really happening and what the reality verbally provocative, she likes to poke peo- The actual story is set in a New England of women’s lives are really like if we really ple and I think that’s going to be fun to country house during the spring of 1935, want to understand,” McIntyre says. play,” McArton says. taking the audience through a day in the “It combines both realism and expres- “She was also the character that made life of the Fefu, which climaxes with a sionistic aspects, which is what really draws the most psychological sense for me. The Fefu and Her Friends runs May murder. me to the play. There’s also so much hap- play is very dense, it’s got a lot of questions 22-24 and 27-31 at 8pm and May 25, 28 & June 1 at 2pm at the Ralph “For me it’s been a play I’ve known pening under the surface, it’s not just what and a lot of different issues, though they’re Connor House about and loved since I did my under- it appears to be and as an artist that really mostly feminist issues. These are issues I grad 20 years ago so I’ve always wanted to excites me.” think I went through at one time in my Tickets are $17.12 for students/ seniors and $22.34 for adults direct it,” director Hope McIntyre says. “I The play itself features an all-female life, I don’t think I’m there now, but they was just waiting for the right time and this cast, including local actress Megan McAr- were issues for me during the ‘70s which Head to www.sarasvati.ca for more was a good year because we knew we had ton playing the role of Fefu, with Elena was when the play was written. Issues on info and to purchase tickets the talent we needed here in Winnipeg, Anciro, Julia Arkos, Nan Fewchuk, Brenda identity, sexuality, powerlessness, express- THE UNITER // MAY 8, 2014 15

aims to world is understandable, but the reality spread hap- is that being positive will not change the piness and world, as the creators of Posi would like us positivity to believe. Unfortunately, what we need is SELFIE-LOVE around the anger. We should be outraged when we see world. How- someone sleeping on the street. We need to New Winnipeg app Posi’s ad ever, some stop fetishizing people’s lived experiences observers have of material poverty and instead stand with campaign is anything but reacted with frus- those who are working for social justice positive tration and disgust to by advocating for things like social hous- the video and its implied ing and living wages. The people who are JENNA DRABBLE @JENNADRABBLE message. To begin with, truly inspiring are the millions who expe- homeless people are not props. rience poverty, stigmatization and mar- VOLUNTEER They do not exist to be exploited in ginalization daily and still fight tirelessly our quest for affirmation or sense of self- to improve society for everyone -- not worth. It is clear that the homeless person for recognition or self-congratulation but The scene opens with a well-dressed man portrayed in the video is probably an actor because it is necessary. leaving his office. As he steps out onto the and not actually homeless, but the effect of The challenge of making critical obser- street, he encounters someone lying on the this portrayal needs some attention. First, vations about seemingly well-intentioned sidewalk, socked feet exposed to the winter it contributes to a widely held perception efforts is the tendency of others to accuse elements. The man pauses for a moment, of homeless people as passive recipients me of being too negative or point to other, perhaps contemplating the injustice of of charity and second, it presents indi- more terrible things happening in the homelessness in a society with more than vidual acts of charity as both an accepted world that are more deserving of atten- enough resources to care for all its citizens. and celebrated response to the experience tion. The problem with things like the Inspired to make a difference, he heads to of homelessness. The power imbalance promotional video for Posi, another rather the shoe store where he grabs a pair of Sorel between the grateful homeless and the benign-seeming social media platform, is boots and charges it to his card. He returns NJ privileged giver is evident. This representa- that it is in fact reinforcing the expectation to the homeless man, brandishing this gift tion (like many, many similar campaigns/ that social change can be brought about and instructing him to pose for a selfie, needed a safe space where users could share ads/events etc.) influences how our society through individual acts of kindness. The which is then uploaded to a social media “meaningful content” and inspire others to addresses social issues through the contin- way that this belief manifests itself in how site. We see various beautiful people con- have a more positive outlook on the world. ued dismissal of basic Human Rights and we allow our society to be structured is nected to the site picking up their phones The app does not enable comments, giving erasure of the structural and systemic roots what holds us back from finding justice. to witness this great act of generosity and users the confidence to post content with- of injustice, supporting the withdrawal of Real social change comes through struggle have their faith in humanity restored. Later out the fear of being judged or criticized responsibility on the part of our govern- and dialogue. It won’t always make us feel on, our benevolent hero goes to buy a cof- publicly by others. The more that people ment to address poverty. The fact that in warm and fuzzy or provide a nice photo fee and his money is refused by the barista, share content, the more they contribute our wealthy nation we have people sleep- op. who has just seen the post and knows that to a “positivity ring” associated with their ing on the street points to our collective This isn’t negativity; it is a demand for this man is a selfless giver who deserves avatar. The creators of Posi label the app failure as a society, a fact that can be hard us to do better. to be rewarded. Everyone feels great; end a “social movement” and invite us to join to face and may leave some feeling hope- scene. them in “changing the world”. less or at a loss about what we as individu- Jenna Drabble is a Graduate Student at the This is a promotional video for a new The video and associated app have gar- als can do to make a difference. University of Manitoba. app, Posi, created by two men in Winnipeg nered some praise from people who can’t The tendency to want to create islands who thought that the social media world see the harm in something that simply of positivity in what can seem like a bleak

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Comedians make a living making peo- that has fuelled Mark Forward’s career. a joke as his audience is. “I don’t know “I love Winnipeg, I really do,” he says. “I ple laugh, which usually means making “Every comedian’s just an extension where they came from and I don’t know love you guys during the show and after fun of people and things. There’s a sort of of themselves. So you can get away with if there are anymore coming. I’m terrified the show. You and Ottawa, after a show, hierarchy of comedy in my mind. On the the stuff you think or you thought and constantly that that’s it.” you will go home and look me up. It’s lower level, there’s making really basic and wouldn’t say normally in public. You pay Forward has been garnering interest very un-Canadian. Most Canadians will stereotypical observations about groups of to have me say the stuff you’re not allowed since he was a Phil Hartman Award final- go, ‘He’s good. He’ll be fine. What was his people or a mundane activity (see: ‘Bitches to say or don’t say or get in trouble for ist in 2000, followed by winning the Best name? Greg something?’” be crazy’ jokes, Airplane/poop jokes, and saying,” Forward says. “It’s just an over Stand-Up Newcomer in the ’05 Canadian Kevin Hart). Then there’s taking things accentuated you on stage. But in my case, Comedy Awards. 2014’s not a bad year for that happen in your life and being able nothing I say on stage is real.” Forward either - the album he released to apply a comedic lens, which is more Forward’s decision to keep his private this year, Things I Thought, has received storytelling than anything (Jerry Seinfeld, life private and rely on characters and rave reviews. He’s just wrapped up his anyone?). outrageous bits definitely is not the norm last season as the truly psychotic librarian You can catch Mark at The Park Finally, there are comedians who stretch in our culture of compulsive oversharing Mr. Leung on popular CBC comedy Mr. Theatre on May 31st with an early our brains and their own by either taking a and voyeurism. But it hasn’t hurt For- D and post-production has started on his show at 7:00 and a late show at mundane joke and using it to make com- ward’s work. “It would be a lot easier to latest film project with Community’s Alison 10:00. mentary on our societal values (see: any write jokes based on my life, so I sort of Brie, No Stranger Than Love. He’s taking Advance tickets are available at Louis C.K. joke) or making up something have to find humor out of nowhere,” he some time now to tour his standup and The Park Theatre. ridiculously absurd. This kind of comedy says. This can be tricky when looking for NOT star in commercials (he’s been in takes creativity and more than just an inspiration to strike. When asked what his 96). observational eye or a loud voice to shout process is for writing jokes, he is just as This is Forward’s second time in Winni- punchlines. This is the kind of comedy dumbfounded as to what the heck inspired peg this spring and he’s excited to return. CITY

THE SOFT PARADE Protesters discuss the pros and cons of parade by-laws

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COLIN VANDENBERG/ UNITER ARCHIVES Winnipeg’s parade by-law is being taken to task by three protesters who were arrested parades, but does take issue with the discre- any kind of visible police presence,” Cisa- permit under the bylaw, enforcement isn’t for parading without a permit in conjunc- tionary nature of issuing permits for pro- roski states. always consistent, according to Histed. tion with a demonstration held on Sept tests. “If it’s discretionary, then the police This risk has been mitigated thus Participants may have “no way of predict- 17, 2012. “Why should we need permis- can choose either to say no, if they don’t far by police response, as “our police still ing when [their] conduct would attract the sion from the Chief of Police to peacefully want that protest to happen, or they can end going to provide that assistance [of an attention of the police.” assemble? If a peaceful assembly is a fun- limit it [..] so it can’t be as visible, so those escort]” to unauthorized parades, but that In the instance of the September damental freedom in Canada, why would choice become political,” May says. these events pull police resources away from 2012 protest, “the police seemed to have you need to pay a fee for permission to do While the by-law itself requires “possibly higher priority policing duties,” suddenly come upon it and decided ‘oh, that?” asks their lawyer, Ian Histed. 48 hours notice for a permit request, a per- according to the Sergeant. you can’t do this’, but it’s not even clear that Histed plans to use challenge mit application guide posted on the City Cisaroski states that he makes they checked to see whether there was a per- by-law 1573/77 (commonly referred to as of Winnipeg website requests at least two no distinction between parades or protests mit first,” Histed states. the City of Winnipeg Traffic By-law) on weeks’ notice. while issuing permits on behalf of the Chief At the very least, May hopes that a constitutional basis. “The by-law is an Patrol Sergeant Kevin Cisaroski of Police, and doesn’t see the permit applica- through these charges, an opportunity will unreasonable restriction of the right to states that the permit system operates on tion process as a barrier to public assembly. arise to discuss these bylaws, especially in peacefully assemble” - in accordance with a first-come-first-served basis, and that “Just because there’s a process light of recent tensions between protesters section 2C of the Charter of Rights and the Winnipeg Police Service requests two involved doesn’t mean that it’s unwieldy. If and police in Montreal. “There’s no other Freedoms - asserts Histed. weeks’ notice in order to allocate police they want to conduct their protest [without forum to have that discussion”, May says. Under the current by-law, a escort resources effectively. Cisaroski a permit], they can still do it, it just means “That’s why this court challenge is import- parade is defined as a group of more than 30 believes that the permit system is a matter that they may not be able to do it by walk- ant, to redirect the energy and make sure people (or more than 10 vehicles). Protests of public safety. ing down the middle of a roadway,” he that we’re community building, including are listed as one sub-type of parades, and all “Without [a permit], the group states. with the Winnipeg Police Service [..] not parades require a permit. is putting themselves and all of their partic- While any person involved in hurting our communities. I have more hope Louise May, one of the defen- ipants in [..] great possibility of danger as a parade that hasn’t been issued a permit that what’s happening in Quebec, [I’m] dants, isn’t opposed to issuing permits for they’re walking down the roadway without could be charged with parading without a more hopeful than that.”

products customers are asking for.” GETTING The shortcomings in Manitoba’s craft beer market start cropping up when you look at what we don’t have here that CRAFTY other provinces do: brewpubs (restaurants attached to a microbrewery), privately The Craft Beer industry in owned specialty craft beer stores, and a wide selection of craft beer products available on Manitoba is playing catch-up Liquor Mart shelves. with the rest of Canada “We have an archaic system that is det- rimental to start up microbreweries,” says Rajesh Maniar, Bar Manager at Barley RAEGAN HEDLEY @RAEGJULES Brothers.” For the craft beer culture to grow in this city we need more breweries to open CITY REPORTER up, and for more breweries to open up, we need less red tape. The rules and laws At first glance, Manitoba seems to have are put in place for a reason obviously, but a pretty good foot in the craft-beer-indus- they were laid out in 1923. Even with them try-door: we have two great local brewer- re-doing the book, I don’t think we’ve taken ies, Half Pints and Fort Garry, the annual enough of a step forward.” Flatlanders beer festival is held in June, and When it comes down to it, the future of Barley Brothers, Winnipeg’s only craft beer the craft beer industry in Manitoba is dic- pub, was an instant success. The truth is, tated by the decisions made, and policies while the craft beer industry is reaching its enacted, by Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries. peak in popularity and production in other “There’s definitely a market in Manitoba provinces - most notably in British Colum- for craft beer…it’s in it’s infancy, but it’s bia, Ontario, and Québec - Manitoba’s craft growing,” Maniar says. “We couldn’t have beer industry is still struggling to establish done what we are doing with the 72 taps itself. RAEGAN HEDLEY here if there wasn’t.” Colin Enquist is the Manitoba represen- tative for the 49th Parallel Group, an agency from customers need to grow as well.” mandate,” Harrison says. “Another key fac- that markets and promotes craft beer brew- Susan Harrison is the Senior Commu- tor is repeated customer requests for specific eries in Western Canada. nications Coordinator for MBLL, and she products. We are always looking for new “Manitoba is definitely behind when it sheds some light on what it takes for a beer producers and products that are generating comes to craft beer sales,” he says. “The sup- to make it onto the Liquor Mart shelves. buzz and excitement with our customers – Send your requests to Manitoba port from Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries is “The decision on whether to list a given we are listening and taking notes!” Liquor & Lotteries very minor, and is something that needs to product is based on a number of fac- “We can offer many new products to be improved upon. I can’t speak for all prov- tors - product quality and taste, customer MBLL, but our biggest issue for getting Twitter: @Liquormarts inces, but our selection pales in comparison demand, sales statistics from other markets, new products on the shelves comes down Email: [email protected] to others…but it doesn’t come down to just shipping logistics, packaging details, and to approval from MBLL,” Enquist says. MBLL support though, market support whether it meets our social responsibility “Without their approval we can’t bring in THE UNITER // MAY 8, 2014 17

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