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printed by Canadians in Canada often with indecipherable lyrics ble-checked to make sure it was­ this man before, you need to go One, called "1," has an attrac­ n't a cover, and I rewound the buy his CD Mark is the sad­ tively wobbly (and catchy) vocal tape and listened to it again. His dest songwriter in the city, and I Vancouver line, the last, called "Can't Stand voice sounds quite different on managed to get my arms You," features a lengthy talking separate songs. Sometimes it's wrapped around his latest demo bit near the end that puts a post- low and drawn out, other times tape Somehow I managed to Special /Bikini it's scratchy and strained. erase the first song on the tape Kill type twist on the traditions Believe it or not, he actually had Idiot. If I were this talented, I of the first girl group days, but the guts to cover a Fugazi wouldn't be that sod. Another did make me (sentimental song He slowed down "Bed For complexity of the singer/song­ excuse to keep their kids away reviewers are being lazy by fooM) long for a bit more in the Scraping" and played a writer is that you have to be local CDs! from this dangerous-sounding comparing them to other female the way of backing vocals blues strum while he crooned (2- careful not to make them happy REMOVAL stuff You will hear somelhing musicians, so I'll start out by say­ ( 3318 Main St., Vancouver, BC, or else they might lose all their Hello, my name is irrelevant menacing in these songs (or ing that Siobhan seems to have ) Cover songs on a demo tape are Vancouver, BC, V6A 1V8) My feature CD of the month, mostly wordless, of course, and Fingers, Clash, and usually not a good idea unbss you This is a guy that you know. because a) they're having iheir identified only by number), as Buzzcocks school of songwrit­ change the song drastically or your He's David Lester of Mecca record release party on well as almost unspeakably ing and playing Now that's a local demos! voice or skills on an instrument are a Normal. He has put out a solo September 1 Oth at the Brickyard heavy Somehow the absence of very good school, but I have to lot better than the original. Clive tape called The light changed (and you should go) and b) they a singer lets you really feel the add that this CD also owes a lot Oh, the angst, pain, and preten­ Goodinson does a few tooman y before I could blink. Beautiful, really rock Removal must songs, and remember that the to the Shangri-Las, Elastica, sion of the singer/songwriter covers on his demo His originals endless guitar work. I saw him at have commercial radio station best part of Led Zeppelin was and Blondie traditions, ond How can you help but the love aren't bad, but he does sing very Yoyo A Gogo, and he's got the music directors scratching their the drums, and the best part of these are all good things too. the contradiction. Singer/song­ loud I think I'm just not too excited moves down. Helicopter strums, heads (or maybe banging them Black Sabbath was the power Unlike many of her peers, Duvall writers are hurt, depressed and because he tries to sound like knee action, and facial expres­ against a wall). It's a metal band chords Removal is pretty far, er, sings, writes songs, and plays a unloved, but somehow they hove Ron Sexsmith () 1320 Salsbury Dr., Vancouver, smarts and wherewithal to dinosaurs of rock, however tle three-piece, also unlike many about themselves, and they want Now, if you haven't heard B.C., V5L4B3) • produce their own records and Imagine a runaway train of post- of her peers, she seems shame­ everyone to hear them. For s tour successfully across Canada Metallica metal without the lessly willing to trade on the way , I r ,ved n > thar H a p I»lnen * v M i v o without an outside manager embarrassing lyrics and with she looks in a flashy cutaway enough self-involved demo tapes They pack the clubs even though some sampling thrown in and dress Well, why the hell not? this month. The summer tends to they don't get any press or radio you're a lot closer. And, as I She's a one-time member of the be a downer for the unhappy. Meeting l>eop(e is like standing on a door Wat. play, and, what is perhaps even said, you should go see them. Bombshells, a band widely Chicken scratch also seems more surprising, Removal hos no (2612 Eton St., Vancouver, BC, remembered (for better to be characteristic of the Welcome You stan4t letting your feet drown and vocalist. Of course this means V5K 1K1) *e) r r their tude singer/songwriter. I'm not sure if that there will be no embarrass­ and look than for their musical this guy's name is Robert Ian wafce foo *t>rin*s. But for you, it's nof like ression . You are r(ow(y sinking Iower , frot n» one Osbourne like posturing and Siobhan Duvall are appealing Duvall sings 4 Maybe it's neither Nonetheless, preening, and that parents will (Independent) petulant, hard, fast, aggressive I was actually taken aback by notice*. This is Depression* have to find a non-lyrics-related A lot of female musicians think and girlish songs on this EP, the first song on his tape. I dou­

why. Where they come from is a also pretty weak, a big-beat She rules. Big time. The Aside, mystery, but they've turned up on electro-nightmare with weird hip- "Randy Costanza", has an a new single on the Brentwood hoppy vocal samplings and amazingly cool guitar loop, and Estates label out of Rhode Island. Manda Rin singing some impor­ the feel of a '60s soundtrack There seem to be some shared tant social message or other. The playing out-of-doors with birds 7inc h members and ideas between the record player was kinda wash­ singing and dancing right along. two bands, and so the music ing out the lyrics, so all I could high, silly vocals, BY JULIE COLERO flows quite nicely. Both bands but once again, I sound very, um, pretty. The don't know exact­ Iditarod offers up two slow, sad ly what Solex is his monlh I spent all my to get it on with him. He can tell. The WONTONS is a saucy songs full of slightly dissonant singing about. cash money on comic He's all about the rock, and he Texas band spawned from such strings and other clever instru­ The two b-side books instead of vinyl. knows when the girls want to garage rock enthusiasts as the mentation. The second song is tunes are also T an Eno cover, "The Fat Lady of Thank goodness people send me grab his bits. Vomit? Vomit I l-4-5s and Junior Varsity quite excellent. free stuff. I'd rather be outside in also cannot tolerate incorrect The a n this Limbourg," which sounds really "And On" has got the sunshine, but I guess that star­ spellings of simple words, so a top-notch, with the whole thing good with an accordian and a piano and flutes ing at a computer screen is the title like "Your So Lewd" doesn't done up like a Chinese take-out strong female voice. The added to the next best thing. I hope all of you Eyesores offer up a mammoth of happy beats, and who spent your summer working a song, something mixed up "Call Me Mista" hard are taking the time to do between country and waltz, is all about being promising but for the repetition. fun stuff, too. Co play some soc­ r^> which is general­ silly, with Stick to the Iditarod side. These cer! And remember, all of you ly a-okay by me. squawky horns bands are both doing their best about to go back to school — THE WOMTCtfS I don't love this to sound like bands like Ida, student loans are best spent on record, but it'll Beekeeper, and the Rachels brand new records! do. It's got it all can do no wrong, — they haven't quite got it down figure on this one was something in my books. I look forward to yet (Brentwood Estates, PO Box I hate the REATARDS This 7" is love song, a dis- about "hey, I'm just another girl." the full-length album, probably 2062, Providence, Rl, 02905) shit. This is a horrible, horrible song, and the all- Well, their packaging is getting coming very soon. Check it. The song "Detour" by BIS is piece of nastiness. If you're into essential novelty very ultra-styley, and they're still (Matador, PO Box 20125 not so hot. Why they chose it as crass young punks making bad "do our dance- very cute, so I guess I don't hate , W10 5WA UK) a single for the new album is a garage rock, you will probably song. Right. them for this ... I'll still be front Oh, and for all of you who mystery to me ... It may have love this record. The vocals are "Please excuse row center stage when they turn can't be bothered with picking something to do with the fact that painfully hoarse and gravelly, my brains... up here this month. (Wiiija, 17- up singles, be decent enough to it is a collaboration with super and the lyrics are suggestive •^ifti *EXTSASPI<:V? AAAHHH!" 19 Alma Road, London SW18 get the new HEAOCOATEES indie woman Lois. She helped enough to make you a wee bit (Peek-A-Boo 1AAUK) album, Sisters Of Suave, which to write the song, and sings squeamish I am not down with do much to help the cause. Don't Indus PO Box 49542, The best offering this month, has all their hot stuff from the past some of the soulful, crooning this so-called prodigy of "hate- do this Don't waste your time on Austin, TX 78765) by far, is the new SOLEX single. few years which was only avail­ bits. This is a weird piece of r&b fuelled rock" (thank you, mister this kid. Just don't. (Empty, PO The EYESORES and the I love this lady. Liesbeth Esselink, able on 7-inchers and the like. type tuneage, and I just don't get press release) singing about a Box 12034, Seattle, WA IDITAROD are two bands that straight outta Amsterdam, is all They do crass like crass should it. The b-side on this release is young girl who obviously wants 98012) I've heard of, but couldn't say hot on the upbeat electro scene. be done. Is good, I like. '

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Who are you? What did you do wifh fhe $4 million? Sunday Shopping Obviously, we've spent it all on recording costs! That and we Guitar, whining, 5'8" set up a charily house for runaway mink because the perfume with a wheezing disposition industry keeps ripping their glands out. Save the mink! Use and a little fuzz on my breast. Sunday's sputum instead I Okay, really, we needed that Godwin Peak: Rumbling and money because every time we play the Starfish Room, the rambling, too tall for love, baby, bartenders steal all of our money, I swear it was af least and a comfortable mat to run your $15,000 the last time alone. fingers through. Are you part of fhe bridge and tunnel crowd? Free Willie: Just the right size, drums, No. We have moved beyond cars, on to rocketry. We are and hairier than a Greek. planning to set up a launch pad in order to send fungus Does Sex in Sweden hold fhe record back into space, back where it came from in the first place. for the most gigs wifh Facepuller? Hopefully, we will be able to colonize magic mushrooms on I thought we had the record number of shows Mars. Rockets full of mushrooms crashing on Mars, a giant with Motorama! Honestly, it's because they're very red psychedelic planet of war. We are also sending these mellow guys, and the best damned band on the missiles to every country in the world, spawning flipped-out planet. In their honour, we have put in our 1999 rock bands everywhere: Frisky in Finland, Naughty in mission statement to crush one of their songs into a , Dirty in Denmark, Fresh in France, Swinging in Sex in Sweden flavour. Switzerland, Porno in Poland, Horny in Holland, Lust in How much of Sex in Sweden is 'empty'? Luxembourg, Lascivious in Libya, Jiggy in Jamaica, 3 Jerks Sweden is 3/4 empty. It is mostly ice and elk and Like You ... mountains, much like Canada. Sex in Sweden is mostly an Do you practice with broken strings in empty, vain experience because the women are all gold anticipation of your shows? And, speaking of diggers, much like [those in] Canada. A Swedish guy ccme things that break, what happened when Sex in to our show at the Astoria and told us that. He said, 'Oh, Sweden 'bought' drinks at the Cobalt? sex in Sweden is nice, but just for a week, and then after We break strings all the time; you get used to it. As for the that, the women just want more from you. You give them Cobalt, the Cobalt sucked. The goddamn waiter, this was for something and they say, "Why didn't you do this last week?" Facefest, so we finished playing, and Mr. Plow is on, and It really is horrible. Really.' But I don't believe it. I think sex in the goddamn waiter was keeping all the change for the Sweden is beautiful and free and everybody should try it at beer, so we bought our drinks from the bar, no big deal least once in their lives, much like [in] Canada. right? But the goddamn waiter has a problem with this, In the song 'You Wanna Know which is shit, and then they get all testosterone on us, the Why/ you say the line 'Go the fuck away!' Does bouncer's 'You wanna go?' right, and Sunday ends up in a everyone leave fhe bar when you sing this song? choke hold. Have you ever really puked while singing this song? How do we know if the drummer that played on Everyone should leave the bar if they hear someone yelling Live From Thunderbird Radio Hell is really your the line 'go the fuck away.' Sensible advice? You bet. We drummer? He usually plays 'masked,' but we no longer play that song due to the fact that it provokes saw him unmaskedl Huh? unheralded quantities of bilious bilge to issue forth, and Well, really, they're not the same person. For some reason this bilge is quite something. [It's] somewhat like we can't seem to keep a drummer for any length of time. ambergris, actually, only instead of coming from sperm Death, insanity due to syphilis, penury, actually Phil just had whales, it comes from me. And, being a valuable a sex change and joined an all-girl band. It's Phyllis now. commodity in constant demand, we have secured We've had several people sit in with us on our recordings worldwide rights in perpetuity concerning this song, and luckily, that masked villain, 'the phantom,' has made it and anyone caught performing or in any way to most of our live shows. It's a pain in the ass really, we're trying to profit from this song is subject to a constantly putting want ads in the music sections of all the massive bombing campaign. Sadly, some ignore local papers. Maybe we should have advertised in the Pride this warning, and many have died horribly. directory. But now we have Willie. He's solid, he's versatile, The last time that I personally vomited while he's gonna be our drummer forever. performing this song resulted in the Contact: expectoration] of 21 grams of the Sex In Sweden material, the value of which was Box 2621 appraised by a commercial Vancouver, BC commodities broker in the V6B 3W8 neighbourhood of $4 million Phone: 708-0278 [Godwin] US. Imagine having to insure Discography: your own puke. Puke is Smorgasbord (EP) July '99 gold to me, man, but LWeAction\ Nov. '98 the taxes are Punks Look Like Jerks From Outer Space (EPj Jury '98 killing me. took for Drugs in Nov. '99

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y first experience with times, this lack of continuity can concerns a different bunch of t sounds like a cliche, but I've Even the structure of the culture itself for five years in court, they have Graham Chaffee was be a bit confusing, but dialogue people, the plot lines still man­ heard il said many times that hip­ is anathema lo the concept of cor­ finally ditched Def Jam (owned by when a friend of mine comes in at the right places age to intertwine and end in a hop has come full circle It seems porate ownership (i.e. graffiti as one of the Big Five) and returned M I was showing me the extent to (only to disappear with the next completely different way and to me that this has finally been public art, and the idea of con­ to their indie roots. The entire which comic artists are influ­ person examined). Ending with place than one would expect. proven true A couple of months structing a song by taking pieces album was made available for pur­ enced by art. The book was The a Gershwin classic and images The characters sway as the ago I discussed the way in which and samples of other people's chase through Atomic Pop, an Big Wheels, the first of two reminiscent of Metropolis, this poem choreographs them to an tfie corporate lackeys of the White music without paying the compa­ independent internet distributor, as Fantagraphics books drawn by story leaves you with poetry. unheard tempo. It ends with a Supremacist - Capitalist Patriarchy nies royalties) My point is this: an MP3 two months before the Graham Chaffee, a comic artist The simplicity and sparse dia- meeting of three animals dis- (thank you, bell hooks) have used despite the overwhelming market­ US streel date (so far there is no who is greatly influenced by popular culture, and hiphop in par­ ing power of the corporate music Canadian release dale), with a sin­ the work of Edward Hopper. important thing" is to ticular, as a means of both profit- industry, there has always been a gle ("Swindler's Lust") download­ Of the two, The Big Wheels humans. It's a hopeful and mongering and social control small core of die-hard indie hip- able for free You can now order is my favourite. There's such intelligent ending which While I maintain this to be true, I've hoppers who kept the original spir­ the album in several downloadable a strange quality about it, always felt that the real strength of it of hip-hop alive. Despite the formats as well as standard CD. almost the same quality usual, the art is beautiful, hip-hop lies in its grassroots basis wave of minor label purchases by They retain full control of content found in Batman - The although not as smooth and Part of whal has historically made the Big Five, new indie hip-hop and responsibility for marketing Animated Series. The mix of refined as in Chaffee's first hip-hop so compelling to so many labels keep popping up, and a few and distribution and the financial '40s style and sophistication book. The images, however, people is the DIY attitude ond anti- artists still go their own way Many benefits are seen directly by the with the personality and are dead on. In one story corporate sentiments inherent in the people in tfie game talk about resis­ artists rather than tfie measly 10% technology of the '90s is so the continuity is unbroken culture Just like the Black railroad tance, few actually live it. From one might be lucky to squeeze out familiar, yet so novel. It's a but the chaos of war is employees of the early decades of their beginning about 14 years of a major label (after costs, of large book, allowing the made shockingly apparent. this century who bootlegged blues ago, Public Enemy have always course). By once again giving a reader to see the eloquence The art lends itself to the records for brothers and sisters been hip4iop's most articulate and big "Fuck You" to the corporate of Chaffee's brush strokes — story in a way unique to the without any other access to them, revolutionary voices. With their lat­ capitalist machine PE and a select which aren't as dense as comic form; Chaffee is rap has always had the bootleg est release, There's a Poison Going few other artists have brought hip­ those of other comic artists almost a master at this. and the home studio mix tape at its On, they have once more proven hop back to its roots and its true who use thick brushes. These These two gorgeous cenlre. This is how it went from a that their pro-black, pro-indie, strength. From bootleg cassette to \\m^t\~rVr* brush strokes provide the books are easily lost in shelves local phenomenon to an nation­ power-to-the-people message is MP3: self reliance and artistic free­ logue leave you with the same impression that everything is and shelves of comics, much al/international force before the more than just talk. After arguing dom could well be on their way feelings of expectancy, change, curving and flowing seamlessly. like the author himself. They industry got its head around it over artistic and financial control back- and sadness that are always The story, which is actually apparent in Edward Hopper's were published in 1993 and many stories, tells of the people art. 1995, respectively, and I've not surrounding your or anyone The other book, The Most seen anything from Chaffee else's day. Chaffee's tale first fol­ Important Thing & Other Stories, since. This bothers me. I wish I lows a bum getting a coffee, revolves around a poem about knew more about him because Palinkas and then quickly leaves him to the masses by Lenore Henry. focus on the waiter who serves Each group of stanzas is accom­ artist/wi ;r who could convince him. From there, Chaffee pur­ panied by a short story illustrat­ the ma- s that c sues the waiter on his trip home Eats ing Chaffee's take on the poem. legitimate art form, capable of from work, the sister he wakes It takes place during the same being just as literate as the latest up, the courier who passes her retro/modern period as The Big bestseller, I think Chaffee would on the street, and so on. At Wheels. Even though each story be that person. • UNFORGETTABLE PIZZA focus is on quality. Each pizza enteen and slices for about 450 West 8th Ave. is a lovingly hand crafted mas­ two Admittedly not the cheap­ I don't know if anyone remem­ terpiece. You can stop in for est in town, but do you really bers, but the last time I wrote slices, which are actually hot want to eat cheap, crappy this column I bemoaned the and spiced to taste, or you can pizza all the time? closing of Unforgettable Pizza. get delivery. The problem with I still remember the first Well, it looks like I should get delivery is that you have to live time I went to Unforgettable, an intern or an assistant to fairly close, and sometimes the about six years ago This was check the facts for me because jk/deliverer is out shortly after it first opened on it turns out that the pizzeria is 1 the > you Burrard. A friend and I were still open. Completely by leave a message and wait for picking up another friend after DISCORDER IS HE chance, I was at Cambie and him to get back to you. A small work, and we had some time 8th and stumbled upon inconvenience, really. If you to kill, so we wandered in. Unforgettable's new location are ordering a whole pizza, Two slices and a Brio later, we CHECK OUT BACK ISSUES For my error I apologize, and the two I recommend are were in love. Every visit since, am making Unforgettable the Unforgettable's Vegetarian we have been greeted with subject of review this month and the Gulf. The Vegetarian smiles and friendly conversa­ SEND US SOME MAIL Unforgettable Pizza is now hos roasted garlic, eggplant, tion. There is nothing finer located at 450 West 8th, in green onions, artichokes, feta, than getting good food, and the bottom of one of those and sun-dried tomatoes. The having the owner and his wife annoying condo/loft build­ Gulf has smoked salmon, remember you, even if you ings. But don't let the location capers, green onions, and dill haven't been in for a while. wig you out. You may have to Damn, those sound good For this — and the good food brave all the outdoor store There is a wide selection to — I will always return to shoppers and SUVs in the chose from, and the vegetari­ Unforgettable. area, but it is definitely worth an is provided for as exten­ Inside Unforgettable's it While there seems to be glut sively as the carnivore. As far menu it reads "Truly a unique on the market of crappy pizza as cost goes, a ten incher goes and memorable culinary expe­ www.ams.ubc.ca/media/citr/discorcl/discorcl.htm joints providing nothing but for around twelve bucks, a rience". Truer words have cheap eats, Unforgettable's fourteen incher for about sev­ never been spoken. •

8 September 1999 DOWN NE LOVELY SUMMER EVENING, Benny and Greg came to me last year I thought HANCUNT MET WITH MISS wow, great, this is what I want to do, I don't want to do as much electronic studio stuff. BENNY FROM VANCOUVER BAND o Benny: Producers like Greg are into doing the COOLDOWN. THEY WERE HAVING A writing and everything but they have busy lives LOVELY TIME, UNTIL ROBERT SHEA and they don't want to make all the sacrifices that FROM MAP MUSIC CAME ALONG ... are involved with touring and live shows. I mean DiSCORDER: Is Cooldown moving from a Greg is totally into doing the writing and all that duo to more of a collective, with stuff to a certain degree, but he thinks it's OK to additional members? have one rehearsal for a show. Whereas I come Benny: Yeah, it's moving that way, just because from five nights a week rehearsing, and you have we want more outside influences; I want to head to be really tight to do a show because people away from a smooth, mellow sound — I like that, can see right through you. So we're still going to I still want to keep that sound and Greg and I are collaborate with him and others, and also solidify still going to work on that stuff — but we're going the band. We're still looking for a drummer, a to collaborate with more people. multi-instrumentalist and a back-up vocalist. How did Cooldown form? How do you feel about performing live? I was in an another band before this for not very Benny: I like it, the interaction with people, it long, a Goth band. That's not what I was into but gets a different effect, a different vibe and they promised that we could write in a different feeling. I like using different stage personas, I can direction. I did those shows and I started writing dress myself according to how I feel, whether I some music [which was more] like what I'm am feeling sweet and lovely or totally vile. doing now, and Greg was really into it but the Because of all the production that goes along other members didn't wanna. with the EP Ether, I'm sure people will be quite So it was natural. surprised by the different format live; it becomes altered right away just because it's live. Yeah. Greg would give me a loop, and I'd take it Your debut EP, Ether, was heavily home and do stuff with it and then give it back to reviewed. What were the best and worst him, and it's a good writing process. I like doing things that people said about it that way. Cooldown? How did you hook up with Robert Shea, Map Music slave? Benny: This one woman said it was all very Greg lived in this building, he went on a tour good and then she [added], 'Miss Benny's vocals with Numb, he played drums with Numb and are as pleasurable as they are painful.' they did this tour through the States. Robert went People say that about P.J. Harvey too. with them, and Greg started telling Robert about Benny: The next album is going to be more this project that he was doing, and Robert was upbeat and more edgy, still keeping the really interested, and that's it. It's funny, because attachment to the EP, that feel, so I think we're I was trying to send my stuff out, and I read an going to have a couple of remixes of songs from article in the Georgia Straight about this local Ether on the new album. And I'm writing songs electronica label, Map Music, and thought, 'I on my little QW70 machine. I took it to Europe wonder if I should send it to him ...' and then it with me and I learned a lot. Now I've got some ended up that Greg knew him. groovy stuff happening. I'm going to dump it on You're an accomplished piano player. Phil's computer, hopefully, and he can play with Are you going to add your own it. We're working on a video for one of the keyboards to the new album? songs, one that I wrote about myself at home. Yeah. I might, because I've written most of the When's your first full-length coming out? keyboard lines myself. It's like chewing gum and Then walking, right? It can be done. So you're still recording. [Benny and I talk about cheesy We're still writing. There are a few songs that are manufactured pop stars.] Have you ever done, and a few songs that I'm writing with other had offers like that? Yeah. That is yet another advantage of being Oh please, tell us about that! You know what cracks me up about Robert: Yeah, it was kinda goofy though. I like on a small label; things get done faster. Well, I got an offer to be a Japanimation type Britney Spears? She looks exactly like it better when he covers other people's songs. Yeah. Then we have Robert with the whip; he's singer. Debbie Gibson. I'm like, 'Britney, you're Like 'Taco ... Grande ...' cracking the whip, getting all these people No way. Like total Sailor Moon? And so dumb. Don't you see what's Benny: That was an old one, though. involved. He does it all. Promotions, sing what, with who? happening? Don't you know you're [Hancunt is still bustin' out...] I want management, all that shit, he does it all. Besides Sing by myself, Sailor Moon type songs. Really going to be 23, doing B & E's to support some chimmichangas and some being a complete pain in the ass sometimes, he's your coke problem?' Do people just see enchiladas ... Hey, since there's three of OK. He really looks out for our best interests, for Did you consider it? you and go, 'Oh, you're so marketable us, why don't you ask Robert one my best interests, he's trying to make it as good Well, it was presented to me in a different because you're pretty and you're young question? I'm all about threeways these as it can be. Because, in a way, a small label's fashion, and then after a few meetings and stuff and you're blond and female'? days. best interest is the same as yours. it [became] clear to me what the project was Yeah, and I get in really bad moods about it Benny: OK. Robert, what's the most exciting You've been showing off your new really about. sometimes, when things aren't going well. Fuck, thing you've done lately? video on Much. How much does the Tell me more, that's so funny! Did they there's people making a million dollars with zero Robert: The most exciting thing that I've done video have to do with the song? get somebody else? Is that product out talent. I have so many friends that are so fucking lately was completing the video for 'True Form'. It's just a view that Jason France had; he was now? That bar code that could have talented and record labels wouldn't look twice at Because we didn't know if it was going to get listening to the CD and he had a distant vision of been you? them because they're not physically marketable. completed. a video, and so there it was. I was away and I Yes, it's not exactly the project that was presented It makes me sick. So what does the future hold? had a bunch of messages on my machine when I to me, but it's very similar. A lot of people were Benny: Cooldown is gonna go more my way. came back saying, 'Hey, your video's getting saying, 'That was a bad career move, you could [We are joined by Robert Shea of Map Music...] As opposed to ... played!' have gotten known for that!' and it's like, yeah, Benny: As opposed to anyone else's way. No, So is it exciting, do you feel like a celeb? known for how long and for what? Zero We're off topic. We were talking about we're just going to increase the numbers and turn It's exciting; I don't feel like a celeb yet. I need the new Weird Al Yankovic and how he MORE! Like Debbie Gibson. She had some looks like Alanis in all the photos on the Robert: Our idea the whole time was to create a You spend most of the video in a funky integrity though, because she wrote her sleeve of his new CD. band with them involved in the writing, recording car — I love it that you are actually own songs and played the piano. Benny: Remember the video we saw him in the and playing live. Not just have it a studio project. driving it. She did, she had talent. other night? I've wanted to get out of that forever. When BRING THe NOISE Article by Brady Cranfield, photo by Evan Lee he members of Hospital are such nice young men, so The sound and style of Hospital is very specific happy, friendly, and polite. However, put them on and intentional. What is your agenda? Do you T stage with their instruments and they'll produce the think of Hospital as an opportunity to get out­ 0 most enormous, high-volume noise they can manage. But side of traditional ideas and practices of music, this noise is music to their ears, and I would agree with or do you see Hospital as a negatively critical them. Composed of Kelly Churko on guitar, theremin, evaluation within such ideas and practices? vocals and electronics, Ben Wilson on drum machines, Masayoshi I guess what we go for in Hospital is elec­ vocals and electronics, and Masayoshi John Anzai on sax­ tronically altered extreme frequency manipulations ophone, vocals and electronics, Vancouver artists Hospital Kelly: Our music, in general, has become more and more are inspired by the harsh sound creations of such extreme since we've met. Every group we've played in Japanese noise-mongers as Merzbow Yet despite its high­ has been more and more extreme. The three of us used to ly abstract character, the members of Hospital approach play in a band called Cesspool — which had visuals as their work with the same offhanded enthusiasm that any well — that was kind of like John Zorn's Painkiller, and group of musicians might have. Noise is, for them, only Hospital is just the next step. We're not trying tc one mode of musical expression among many. But the •othoi i of c what choice of noise is not accidental. In this sense Hospital's > into. We're not trying to make a statement or trying music can also be read as a broader comment about the ss people off, it's just the direction we've gone in. conditions of its place and time of creation. Their work Nor are we trying to make a statement about the T H e can be seen to reflect a modern sensibility derived in part c today. I think I'm pretty happy about what's from the mixing of socalled high culture with the codes, going on in musimusicc , and I imagine these guys are too. products, and processes common to contemporary popu­ Masayoshi It's ust something else. It's also something lar culture. The outcome here is a form of popular appre­ that doesn't get dc ne too often, at this time and in this city. ciation that we often take for granted as part of everyday Kelly: It's a relati*. ely new thing, this pure, harsh noise. It's $ P T A L Western life: a kind of laissez-faire deconstruc- tion. Hospital thus becomes evidence of a self- reflective way of making and living through culture that is both very flexible and abstract but also very particular and simple. At a time when capitalist relations are becoming further integrat­ ed and all-embracing through advances in high and biological technologies, and solace and free­ dom are more often sought within specific cultures than attempted through one grand culture, Hospital's choice of expression makes perfect sense. Noise, indeed. In other words, Hospital's noise music might be the most appropriate sound­ track for the uncertain coming of our next histori­ cal era This is not to just represent a pessimistic view, because also within Hospital's clouds of sound are an urge and an imperative to tran­ scend difference through difference. Here's what Hospital has to say:

DiSCORDER: How did Hospital begin, what is your history? Kelly: We all met at Vancouver Community College music school, essentially. Ben: We've been in lots of bands together

Masayoshi I guess o n for Hospital comes from the noise s i, the Japane

Ben: Which Kelly got us into. Masayoshi: Because Kelly went to Japan. Kelly: I started getting into Merzbow and stuff like that. I moved to Japan, I lived there for a year. After interesting to do it, for us. the first year I came back to Canada for a summer and we Masayoshi: And it's really fun. recorded the CD. We released the CD and then I took it Ben: We're learning. back to Japan for another six months and distributed it to Kelly: It's liberating. stores and various people around Tokyo. Then I came Masayoshi: It's cleansing for the soul, in a way [laugh­ back, again, and I've been here for four months. ter]. Ben: So in September of last year ... Do you feel that the degree of formal technical Kelly: September '98, Hospital began. and theoretical musical training that you have Ben: After talking about it for a few months. in any way informs and enables your excur­ Tell me about the label Noisebludgeon and sions into noise-based music, or do you think more about how your recording came together. that anyone and everyone can validly make Ben: Well, when Kelly was on his first trip to Japan, he such music? wrote us and we talked and he said that when he comes Masayoshi: I think that anyone can make music [laugh­ back he wants to do a CD and some performances, and ter]. basically form a band, a noise band. We thought, 'Since Kelly: Or 'such' music, but you definitely have to have a we're going to do it independently let's just start a label sensibility ... anyway, and we'll see how it goes' — a small, no risk sit­ Ben: ... of musicality. uation. Masayoshi: Everyone has their own different sensibili­ Kelly: We recorded on a assette four-track. We put ties. onto CD at SFU and ther rve sent it to my brother i Kelly: We come from a very educated background. Regina to master it. He se t it back, but by that Masayoshi: Sometimes it pops in, in structural ideas or was back in Japan again, > these guys took care •f the description of ideas or something, but it's not very techni- production. cal, really.

10 September 1999 Ben: I'd say that experience with free improvisa­ Masayoshi: Magnify and amplify [laughter]. tion would apply to this music more than any tech­ Does Hospital self-identify with a tradition nical thing that we've learned in school. of artists that use noise in their work? Masayoshi: You're essentially just going with the Certainly Merzbow comes to mind, but is moment. there anyone else that you may also take Ben: We certainly learned nothing about free inspiration from? improvisation at school [laughter]. Kelly: We take inspiration from everything. Of So are there any direct compositional con­ course we all love John Zorn a lot. For me, he was cerns for Hospital or is your music more the guy that got me into all the Japanese stuff in the based on improvisation? Do you even first place. I would have never known about bother to qualify and differentiate these [Japanese noise] if it wasn't for his Japanese label notions when making your music? Avant. From there on it just fans out like a big tree Masayoshi: We all have experience playing in — from Zorn you can go in any direction. other projects and with other people. Essentially, Ben: If your interest is strong you'll search it out, in any combination of people, music is basically a sense of communication, how everyone gets on Kelly: Definitely also Japanese bands like the the same wavelength, or whatever, in trying to Ruins, the Boredoms and Otomo Yoshihide. produce something together. For me, with these Ben: Maybe going in another direction, as well, guys, we just happen to have a similar vision, an stuff like Yannis Xenakis, more 'academic' electro­ overall idea of what we're trying to do, whereas if acoustic stuff from years ago, decades ago. I was trying to do the same kind of thing with dif­ Masayoshi: Late period Coltrane. ferent people, it would probably come out differ- Kelly: Anything, we love pop music too. ently. Aside from Hospital, you are all individu­ Kelly: Getting back to the composition aspect, a ally very involved with the local under­ lot of times we talk about form before we do a ground jazz scene. Tell me about some of piece, and sometimes we have mini scores or direc­ your many other groups and associations. tions talking about timbre, frequency range, dura­ Ben: Masayoshi and I are in a band called tion, combinations of players, and sometimes it is Meathook Ensemble with people that we went to completely free. Sometimes we have a plan and school with. That [band] is lead by a bassist named sometimes we don't; we like to mix it up a little bit. Travis Baker, who writes pretty much all the materi­ Ben: It's definitely free improv based, but with al. It's highly composed jazz/classical and free improv stuff. Masayoshi: I lead my own group, Amour Fou, then I play bass in a band called Reflector, which is a more groovy, funky kind of thing with electronic spaces, and then there's Ujaku, the Naked City cover band, which we're all in. Ben: I also play in a band called Broken Record Chamber, which is a free improv electronic thing, more ambient. We have a CD coming out on Spool records, a Vancouver label. Kelly: We are in many bands with a lot of the play- tpla) vith, : in Vancouver [laughter]. Ben: But I want to put a stop to that, I want to meet

Kelly: We all want to open it up, to have all the scenes get together. Ben: This city could be so strong. Masayoshi: We're all conscious of that, but for think smiley, think small. me, how much can you do in a week? I do want to play with all my good friends, but I also want to play with all these other people that I don't even know. For me, to meet Robert Dyke was a great new album. ALKALINE', available now. thing and really opened me up to some of the older guys. On tour across North America, with GOOD RIDDANCE, beginning in October. Kelly: It takes time, but we are definitely open to

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Josh: Emptiness, despair? that for travelling band; Josh: 'Warren — sex, sex, sex, sexy!' The pedals and the rhythms that you use Do you think that in order to play all-ages Jack: My hair looks more like I'm from the movie are obviously characteristic of early eighties shows the band has to already be well The Warriors. I don't know if that works. music like the Cure. I don't think that sound known? Josh: I like the drawn-in-purple faces. ever died, but hardly anyone nowadays Jack: No, a lot of people go out just because it is an Warren: Who drew it? reproduces it. Why do you choose to? all-ages show, and people know, like, what to expect. It's a secret. Sorry. Jack: I don't know, we kind of like those kind of Chris: A lot of people who are able to drink in bars Warren: They're dead! bands, like Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen. and stuff [prefer] the atmosphere of all-ages shows Chris: No, it's very flattering. Chris: We've all been in predominantly hardcore because, maybe, they don't want to drink or smoke Anything else you'd like to say? bands for a long time and we've been, uh, cigarettes. That's usually more of what an all-ages Josh: We have a couple records coming out. suppressing our yearnings to be in really sensitive, show has to offer. Who's putting them out? emotional bands [laughter]. Josh: It's really hard to say, though, because people Josh: There's a 7" coming out very soon. I know Jack was in Slough of Despond just don't show up. For no reason. I mean, that's fine. Jack: On Reassemblage. They used to be called which is totally different from what you It's not like you can go to people's houses and force Fragil, but they changed the people that are running it. play now. them with a gun to go to a show, but sometimes it just Jack: It's based in Olympia, Washington. It's Jack: I was only in that band for a little while. I was seems like it doesn't necessarily matter if the band is distributed by Bottlenekk and . just kind of filling in, I guess. well known or not well known, or local or not local. Are you getting a lot of good response in Josh: Warren is formerly of (We Be) Birthin' Cows, It just depends how the general mood is that evening the States? of Coquitlam fame. in all of Vancouver. There are lots of 'I just wanna Jack: Yeah, I think so. We get asked to play there What did they sound like? stay home and read' moods. quite a bit. The guys from Bottlenekk in California But don't you think that bands who Josh: They were just ... all I can say: awesome. are going to help us with some shows on the tour. demand only to play all-ages shows have it Jack: Pretty much. 'Awesome' sums up (We Be) The Audience, from Sub Pop, are helping us do stuff kind of hard? Bands like Fugazi can do that Birthin' Cows. when we go on tour in the fall. pretty easily, but when you're just starting Do you. Josh, feel suppressed because you What else do you have coming out? out and you don't play bar shows, always have to play your toms in Radio Jack: An LP on Reassemblage as well. especially in Vancouver, it's pretty hard to Berlin? Is Jerk With a Bomb your outlet to Chris: And also the CD version of the LP and the get a gig. get to hit the snare? 7" is going to released [by] LoveundRomance ... Josh: [Laughter] No, no, actually they're not forcing Jack: We're trying to start something, kind of like a Jack: ... which is Julie and Shahera from Zulu. me to play the toms. Yeah, it's really my own choice. standard. 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For those not in the I know, what other I bands have you, and I the other members of I Radiogram, been in? I 'e been in the Emptys \ id Sourpuss, a punk rc band. I was a punk rc inger. Randy was in the I Emptys with me. Steve was | Red Sugar, as wa: Randy. John, our lap-stee player, plays in Jonathan :. and Swank O'Hara. Mike, and [from] that, I'll get thi r keyboard player, also plays [Ken gestures], probably : four lines that I really like. I lo. Jack is in Jonathan Inc., he's i from those old '70s story really overly political, [except for busy guy. Where does that songs, some of it from country stuff the politics of love. Subject matter, ive us? With Ida, who plays in I've been listening to in the last I don't know ... I had a rough year ! Beans as well. four or five years. I don't know if a couple of years ago which > whose main focus is the songs gel together, me pretty disillusioned. I was a Radiogram? songs are more country, to work that out through mu: I the ! are pop songs. that's for brought everyone together. Over the years, I've been a big Do you have country Emptys never officially broke up, Neil Young fan. I'm a fan of the you? but what happened was that I had Red House Painters, Rex, Mercury Yeah, I'm from Winnipeg, ar batch of songs that I Rev. didn't want to do in the 'rock Is this music that you're band format. I wanted to use taking bits and pieces from? life. Never Garth Brooks, popular- different instrumentation. I Not consciously, that's for sure. The type country. That's like saying wanted some violin, some way I've been writing songs, I just that if you like pop music, you like rordion and trumpet. I wanted walk around and lyrics and the Whitney Houston, : tew feel, a chance to play with melody just come to me. I walk listening to Neil Young, I liked the ferent people. Radiogram around with an orchestra playing country stuff that Elvis Costello did. — SEW/IMP SEVEta started out as a solo project. I in my head. I've got my notebook Everyone's had their forays in THE CAMBIE recorded stuff with Steve, the with me, and I'll write the lyrics country. drummer, and then Randy joined. AWEEK down. Once I've got the lyrics What's the feedback been ^ QPKIALS We played as a three-piece down, the song sticks with me. I like from your participation j© h through the winter at the Sugar haven't even physically sat down in the Dominic Radio Q/l/fowJag "efinery. Gradually, over the with a guitar yet to figure out the compilation? /inter, [everyone else] joined. All chords or the key [for some songs], People like the song, and think thi I a sudden, at the end of the which is strange. I'm not a very packaging is amazing. /inter, we were a six-piece band. good guitar player at all. I play And finally, what's it like It's quite a full sound on okay rhythm guitar, but when I being a dad? your recordings. was singing with bands, It's great. I'm definitely a dad, a full- ' stuff still missing, I would write lyrics. At some point, time dad. I look after the kids, work \ NI'11 "H'y'""•""' M " *="ies&Coleslaw^ J 5 the II there I picked up the acoustic guitar. I evenings, and do [Radiogram]. That's We had Jesse Zubot t started to want to write my own what's made recording this record play some violin, and that worked songs because I was writing all the hard. It takes a while, especially really well. We had some stopd- lyrics. I'm trying to surround myself when there's so many people up bass. Shelly Campbell, who with people who can play really involved. The hardest thing is just * So Good we're doing it twice! >* _____ Fried or Grilled plays in a band called Auburn, well. I know that I've got these trying to maintain a balance a terrific singer, she's coming nuggets of songs, melodies and between being a father and doing sing some back-ups. There's lyrics to build on. my music, which is really going to be about 20 people important to me. If I didn't have playing on this album. I wanted that outlet for my music, I don't M $ something a little more lush. think I'd be as good a father. It's a » •*• FRENCH TOAST | The Radiogram sound — part of who I am. My kids are I served w. Hashbrowns who are you borrowing great, yeah. • 99 from or working with? BENEDICT'{ii 3lgGOMi^}4 # ft fe JSJUSSSiP^ Where did the new direction I ASK ABOUT OUR STUDENT LODGING PACKAGES!.' I e from? m 1ST SEPT 30TH i I^A /OCT 1ST -APR30TH i 4*%/\ A . /0CT1ST-MR3QT\I

15 E^g£5®3j_ In the hands of a novice, a device remains a device; in the hands of a master it becomes the McBeal's nod to Barry White? It's a safe bet [that] stocks in Bill Withers just soared. heal point of a new Style. In the music of Bossanova We See this principle at Work. All the The Isaac Hayes revival is predicated upon a parody of his '70s d r ... i , . .1 i . . r ,i / _ /•_ l L _L 'make-out king'persona, so I don't hold a very high opinion of it. Hot evtces of pop composition prevalent m the late part of the century — polytonaltty, polyrhythm, Buffered So/is^ne of my _-, time favorite rec^rds „ has a very dissonance — are what might be considered to be the tools of music in the popular Style's sincere, emotional quality to it. His seduction numbers from that era are gentle and sweet, not predatory. I suppose later albums like Juicy trade. But it takes the daring verve of the likes of Bossanova to fuse these non-formal elements Fruit are more open to that interpretation, since by that point he had i II .r. j I . j . __.__, _L !•__ • • r more or less become a parody of himself. I just wish people would y into a coherent, organically unified style, a style in which the listener ts never conscious of any pay ^ aftentJon (o J| |jke „Hung Up Qn' My Baby„ from Jough Strained Synthesis. Here, pop mUSIC reveals its true charms, the Cardinal virtues of in-depth Guys, one of my favorite instrumentals of all time. But if Isaac is okay with it, then I don't see why I should care. At least now he can pay listening and its effervescent lure to sonically enhance our experiences. With economic use of off his debts. ij. J r -. // / J J n IL KI Briefly explain your roots back to Boston. What are the P r quad-dimensional arrangements of guitar/bass/organ and drums, Bossanova (trans.: New noticeab|e differ ences between there and here in terms Beat) are what we need to catch on to, because their music, like life, is hard to describe and of how they perceive local music. Do you ever feel Vancouver's local music scene has a multiple personality personal to a high degree — and most importantly, full of meaning. complex? From the fall of 1994 to the 1996 I went to school in Boston, and worked for a brief time at Sub Pop while there. Differences in by Nic Bragg DiSCORDER: Could you please outline Bossanova's perceptions of the local music scenes are fairly pronounced. I have current personnel configuration? found Vancouver musicians to be cynical and arrogant in comparison Mike Boegh; bass to those in Boston, where people are very supportive of each other Heather Campbell; organ, Arp and the scene. I didn't experience the cliquishness and animosity that Tony Koelwyn; drums I do here. Experimentation was accepted and encouraged. But for all Greg McDonald; keys, guitar (he's the new kid) the enthusiasm, there wasn't a lot that excited me at the local level. Chris Storrow; vocals, guitar, keys Most of the bigger groups had left town. With less than a year left in the decade, modern music One thing that I missed about Vancouver was the diversity, so I seems to be fizzling out. It seems pop 'songs' are would consider Vancouver's multiple personality complex to be one of becoming more and more crammed with 'sounds.' its stronger attributes. Digital samples. Soundbites to soundbytes. I think you As a Teenbeat artist, you've taken your music outside of guys are just hitting your stride, you had an early pop the city for recognition. How did your relationship with conception and went with it. Do you concur?

Mark Robinson come about, and how important is it for Chris: Il appears as though the studio is taking o the principal local band's to look beyond our skyline? instrument in a lot of the music. It's more about so id dynamics I met Mark when I was working at Sub Pop, and asked him if he than harmonic progression and melody. It would be willing to design the artwork for a CD that I was planning 'Jabberwocky' — all the cadence and pattern of reguli to make. He agreed, and liked what he heard of the finished but filled with empty signifiers. But this is no slight, it's just ar product, so he asked us to record some stuff for the label. We gave observation. We're definitely more traditional in our approach, a him one song for the Teenbeat Sampler CD, and he's still waiting for blood and guts ensemble who tries to write a song before we get more (I think). It's taken me quite some time to record something I'm caught up in the production aspect. We've tried to bring together happy with. It's still a learning process for me. certain elements that we hadn't heard in combination before, and it's taken a while to turn it into something cohesive. I don't know how important it is for others, but it was important Are you analog? for me to look beyond the city because: a) I didn't get the sense that there was a lot of interest in the kind of music we're making, and I suppose we are, but not out of principle. We have yet to wrap our that there were any labels in town that would deal with us. b) I'm heads around digital technology and make it work for us. We fear more interested in recording than playing live, and I wanted to change. disseminate our music as far and wide as I could. I get more I know when you think 'groove,' you think Isaac satisfaction from knowing that someone on the other side of the Hayes/Barry White groove. Is soul still present in country enjoys what we're doing than I would as a member of Bossanova? Vancouver's 'best live band.' It feels more objective if the appreciation I would like it to be more prominent. There's a little bit of soul, in the comes from outside the scene. I like the idea of it appealing to other vein of Archie Bell and the Drells, but we don't have that sensual , bedroom music listeners like myself. 'thumping of a heartbeat' groove. We're either too white or not trying hard enough. Some of the chord progressions have their roots What do you make of the Easy-Tempo revival? I know in the music of Isaac Hayes or Curtis Mayfield, but we don't sound you really get into the organs and keyboards of the anymore like them than the Velvet Underground sounds like Motown. Italian composers. How do you feel about Isaac Hayes' revival, or Ally I think it's great, I love the sound of the organs, the strings, all that

16 September 1999 great funk/jazz stuff is a breath of fresh air. The production value I've read Tom Jones will drink a dose of peach schnapps are amazing, really warm and lush, much better than what wa; before each set, just to get things smoothed out. Do you? happening in North America and Enlgand in the '60s and '70s. No, I can't drink because it dehydrates me. I try to sing a few bars of What sort of keyboards have you added to your sound a Brook Benton song to get things flowing. over the years? Your live sets featured a lot of covers from quite a diverse There hasn't been much change, we've pretty much stuck to combo pool — all the way from Scott Walker to The Magnetic organs. For recordings we've borrowed stuff like Arp and Juno Fields. Are you a fan of Stephen Merrit? He's managed to models. A recent addition has been a huge Hammond home organ create quite a stir releasing records that are consistently with lots of colourful burtons, which we hope to use to great effect. recorded from his home. Do you think this aesthetic of A lot of reviewers state that you capture the 'sexy sound of bedroom recordings is still viable, or has the market pristine bouncy pop.' Your sound makes me think of wood- place become swamped with lo-finess? grained dashboards, stylish motorcars, leather seats in a Although I only own two of his records I really enjoy them. As a board room office, late-deco glassware and the person who has a horrible time with lyrics, I can appreciate his skill. architecture seen in Fellini films. Are these touchstones The production of his records is perfect for the material. As long as right? the medium complements the work I think it will transcend any market Since I don't have a very visual imagination, I'll have to take youi saturation that may occur. Lo-fi is uninteresting and contrived when word for it. I gladly accept any association with Fellini. I'd love to artists release half-baked ideas and then hide behind its flag, making capture the exuberance of a Fellini movie in the music. claims about how 'pure' the music is, as if the means of recording What do you make of pop music in Britain? Music there offered a veritable window to their soul. It's an easy way to deflect seems far more ambitious than in North America. British criticism. I have a much bigger problem with stuff that has boring pop is grandiose and swank, while American pop has songs or arrangements than with the fidelity issue. that Fastball-like bubblegumminess. You've made past allegiances with other local bands I suppose I do like British stuff better than what's happening or has such as The Electrosonics. Are they still recording, here happened over here for the last few decades. They're not as post­ or in London? modern or reductionist as the American acts, who seem to like to They're back in town and have just mastered a new EP that should be work with narrower parameters and mine some very specific element coming out sometime soon on Drive-In records. from the musical canon, pop or otherwise. The seminal artists in the Is there other bands you're aligned with? British scene, VU, Byrds, Bowie, Bacharach, Scott Walker, etc. are Our sister bands are Disco Tex and his Sex-O-Lettes as well as Space more in line with my tastes. Here, the lineage seems to stem back to Humpin' $19.99 (our Italian soft porn soundtrack cover band). hard rock and heavy blues, which I find less interesting. I love a You just arranged a show for Australia's Cannanes at the good chord progression and melody and that whole sense of Purple Onion. How did this come about? What do you grandeur that North American bands tend to shy away from. Perhaps make of the local promoting biz, and local venues?

it's perceived more as a folk art form here, rather than a living, For the past year I have been corresponding with a guy named Adam breathing one that has room for innovation and artifice. from S.F. who plays in a band called Timonium. He was on tour British pop bands such as Stereolab and The High Uamas •vith the Cannanes and asked me if I would set up a show for them, have recently both detoured into Brazilian woodwind had never heard a Cannanes song in my life, but was very happy sounding beats. Beck also sights the Brazilian sounds as to meet them. Really swell people. an inspiration on his Mutations LP. Are you a fan of this I think the lounge at the Purple Onion is my favorite place to play sound? Sergio Mendes? right now. It's one of the only places that has any atmosphere. The I am definitely a fan, but I am far from possessing a comprehensive Waldorf and DV8 are my other favorites. Most of the venues in town knowledge of it. The Gilbertos are great, they have some of the feel like beer halls or sports bars to me. The Sugar Refinery looks greatest percussion tracks I have ever heard. Right now I am listening like fun, but I've never played there. to Emuir Deodato, who plays this Curtis Mayfield/jazz-fusion music How did your recent Showcase trip to Toronto come alongside more traditional latin rhythms. about? What was it like and do you think music/media Your voice while singing is really quite deep. Early events like North By Northeast or Music West aid young reviews pitched the Ian Curtis and Jacques Brel names bands? around, but now there seems to be a greater range than We applied to the festival and were accepted at the last minute. We just the tenor. Is the quality of the voice important to got stuck playing in a club a million miles away from Queen St. and your pop compositions? all of the other venues. But it was fun, we looked upon it as a holiday. I think it's important to have a good range, because it can be pretty Those festivals are pretty ridiculous, they always accept the worst monotonous to hear somebody croon his or her way through a set of bands, and treat everyone like crap, but they're better than nothing. music. Now I can sound like Bernard Sumner as well as Ian Curtisl The part I really despise is that everyone expects them to be an A&R For some songs the quality of the voice is important, because it has feeding frenzy, that it's their big break, which is a complete joke. to compensate for a weak melody. The stronger the melody, the less The festivals encourage this kind of delusion. The aspect I enjoy is stylized the vocal has to be. I actually prefer to listen to our songs as having the opportunity to play to people who you wouldn't see you instrumentals. otherwise. I think that is the only benefit you can derive from it.« 17 smgsmsz The door leading up to Jen and Andy's house has a big sticker on it which reads, "Beware: Vicious Beasts." Andy, Submission Hold's bass player, met me there, accompanied by Bill and Suzy (the two vicious beasts I had been preparing myself for). Bill and Suzy are two very energetic, grown-up puppies who promptly barked and licked and did all kinds of puppy things to let me know that the sticker on the door was there to scare away creepy people (cops, for instance). As I was ushered into Jen and Andy's home, / was instantly welcomed with an offer of dinner. I'm not one to turn down free vitties, and the scalloped potatoes, quiche, and blueberry dessert helped replenish the energy I'd lost on the bike ride over. After dinner, I found a comfortable chair and sat down wilh Andy, Jen (Submission Hold's lead singer; a woman whose vocal range could give Ronnie James Dio a run for'his money), and Steve (the guitar player, a man who likes to dress in zebra-print and impersonate Rudy Sarzo). No, Submission Hold is not a metal band, but they rock ten times harder than your average one-man sequencing rock band. Moreover, they're good cooks and very nice people. Their new album /Waiting For Another Monkey to Throw the First Brick, out now on Ebullition Records) can be purchased at any one of their shows. Our chat was accompanied by a pleasant cacophony of barking dogs and trumpets, which proved thai their house is alive with the sound of music (sorry) even when there is no show going on.

DiSCORDER: Introduce yourself and name people looking for low rent and a kind of hipg; Cops, politicians, or bosses: who's the your favourite vegetable. Andy: Were we? : place, and we were at odds with them. You know:?| slimiest? Andy: My name is Andy. Potato. Jen: When is Canada Day? H'What the fuck do you think you're doing coming Andy: If you're referring fo bosses as heads of 'itto work with. The first of July. here and wrecking our neighbourhood?' And then I corporations or multinationals, I'd say they are . Hi. My favourite Andy: I don't know what the heft we were. the yuppies came and the Starbud^s and ... the worst. TPRPflW's Wand Jen: We live for the moment. Steve: Once the artists and musicians are there, Jen: They call the shots for the politicians and ink of all the wonderful ways Steve: That question is so, like, two months ago. ihen it's hip and bohemian. the caps. you can prepare a potato. Today we had Jen. We burned a flag this morning. We don't Well, my roommate and i noticed how Steve: When you're in that kind of a position scalloped potatoes and we also had a tofu quiche know what we did two months ago. Web played the dykes are vanishing and places like you know what's going on, and you're sort ot thing with a potato crust. at la Quena doing an anti-Canada Day thing. Bukowski's are popping up. manipulating it. You've made a conscious effort to Jen: Very nice. I'm Jen and I love alt vegetables I was out last night with my roommate Andy: I always wanted to go into Bukowski's be there. 1 look at politicians as being employees except for eggplant ami rod and he was remarking how much more and act like Charles Bukowski, you know? Just of the multinationals. All of the prime ministers, Steve My nam© is Stove and. since potatoes are commercial Commercial Drive is getting. piss on tables and get into fights and barf all over except for a couple, have been corporate taken, I'll be sophisticated and go with asparagus. Is gentrification alive and well in East Van the place. When I moved here back in the day, lawyers. They know who pays their bills. Ail: Oooohhhhhh or are the bricks that occasionally rain you'd see posters that said 'Yuppies, fuck off. Go Andy: Not to say that cops aren't that far off. First question: boxers or briefs ... no, jusf through the window at Starbucks a sign back to the West End' and stuff like that. At the Look at this [Andy displays a bruise on his arm]. kidding. Okay, you guys have a song that the monkeys still have control? time, they were just moving in. Then, last year, i got pinched by a police officer at the anti- called 'Flag+Flame=Fun.' How did y'all Jen: That segue was a nice little introduction to the same pasters came up. We've been Aerospace demo last week. He pinched my ear, celebrate Canada Day? Kerosene and a our new record which is on ... [everyone laughs] threatening these yuppies for ten years and too. % match? Andy: When I moved here, it was, like, families nothing seems to have happened. Steve: They've got their badge numbers on and punks. The punks moved to a place because Jen: I think a lot of those people come down to velcro. What the hell is that? it was cheap. The punks and other sorts of youth this area, now, because it's safe for them. It's Andy: They should have badge numbers for who have disenfranchised themselves needed a been sanitised enough. But what's really funny is cops like football players have on the backs of cheap place to live. this vicious circle aspect of it all. It appeals to the their jerseys. Big, with names. Steve: I think there's a pattern where this happens. yuppies because it's bursting with life and energy I read a quote a while back that stated: .^Very often, it's inhabited by some sort of ethnic and creativity thanks to the punks and the families 'You know the state of hardcore is sad

v group, or families and whatnot. ond the ethnic diversity and the lesbian when Atom and His Package is popular.' 'X Jen: Well, they used to call this area Little community So they come here and immediately Do you think Atom is bringing on the ' ighf? want to shut it all down. They just want to take ruin of hardcore or are you guys down av: So when the punks moved in, we control of it and st«$j»ftt and rip down the with the Package? e at odds with the people who lived bushes in Gtrandvtew Park and get rid of the Andy: Atom is a sweet n* e before, and then the next bunch of vendors, the buskers, the panhandlers. They just the success in the world! it, the artists and get rid of all the life. They kill it Jen: I think it's funny that some people say punk -—r

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1999 Local Music Directory 6124 USA CFRC 101.9 FM 206.324 6650 (Crazy Queen's University Pinoy/Lost+Found) Carruthers Hall, Queen's 206.860.4052 (fax) University, Kingston, ON, [email protected] K7L 3N6 www.crazypinoy.com/ 613.545.2121 (phone) 613.545.6049 (fax) Seven Segment [email protected] We book all-ages shows I www.queensu.ca/cfrc local and touring bands: post-punk, new wave, har CFRO 102.7 FM ', goth, electro Co.op Radio .82 Fra s St., Vai 337 Carrall St., Vance BC, V5L 1Z4 BC, V6B 2J4 604.255.0550 (Jack 604.684.8494 (phone Duckworth) 604.681.5310 (fax) 604.709.0033 (Denise [email protected] Duckworth) seven segment@hotm ail. con* www.vcn.bc.ca/cfro/ www3.bc.sympatico.ca/se' ensegment/7SG CFRT 107.3 FM ^UXrux^rS CP. 692, Iqaluit, NT, XOA The Organization Man OHO CFAI 101.1 FM SK, S7K 4L4 An ongoing ever-evolving 819.979.4606 (phone) 2938 Fraser St., Vancouver, 165 Boulevard Hebert, 306.664.6678 (phone performance/audio visual 819.979.0800 (fax) BC, V5T 3W2 Gene Dexter Edmundston, NB, E3V 2S8 306.933.0028 (fax) enterprise, more fun than tl 604.685.1229 (Leah Sharp) Co-partner @ Crazy Pinoy 506.737.5060 (phone) [email protected] 20th century. 604.739.9818 Promotions Vice president @ 506.737.5084 (fax) www.lights.com/cfcr/ [email protected] CFRU 93.3 FM (evenings/wkds| Lost-hFound Recordings, Int'l. [email protected] 604.685.0244 (fax) 213 Martin Luther King Jr. University of Guelph www.franco.ca/radio_com- CFFF 96.3 FM Ishar oil.c Way, Seattle, WA, 98122- U.C. Level 2, U. of Guelph, munautaire/cfai t Univ rtlty Guelph, Ontario, NIG Trent Uni\ 2W1 CFAK 88.5 FM Peterborough, ON, K9J 519.824.4120 x6919 fancy plans, and pants Local El.4 (exterieur), 7B8 (phone) 2500 boulevard de 705.748.1777 (phone) 519.763.9603 (fax) 604.977.3340 (Tristan) I'Universite, Sherbrooke, 705.748.1795 (fax) [email protected] [email protected] PQ, J1K 2R1 [email protected] www.uoguelph.ca/~cfru.fm 819.812.8000 x2693 www.trentu.ca/trentradio/ Keen Cartoons (phone) / Boundless 819.821.7976 (fax) CFJU 90.5 FM CFSM 550 AM [email protected] CP 969, St. Mary's University callisto.si.usherb.ca:8080/ Restigouche.Ouest, NB, 5th Floor Student Union cfak/ EOK 1 JO Building, Halifax, NS, B3H All your combine 506.284.3041 (phone) needs. 3C3 CFBU 103.7 FM 506.284.3292 (fax) 1630 E. Georgia St., 902.423.1739 (phone) 500 Glenridge Avenue, Si [email protected] Vancouver, BC, V5L 902.425.4636 (fax) Catherines, ON, L2S 3A1 2B2 905.641.5550 x4537 604.254. 1716 (ph« (Richard) 905.641.7581 (fax) 604.258.3251 (pager)

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But that's ALBUMS • ZINES • RECORDED MEDIA kamikaze screams, Billy's bass place to start describing GUH, rumblings, and Toru's drums what punk rock is all about: you an eight member ensemble hail­ pounding your brain into mush. I throw your middle finger high up DEHUMANIZED Sky," and John Brill's "Dump <, tha. Tho ing from Toronto am hearing some more toned- into the air, you sing fast and Problems First the Bosses" The Internationale at fine folks at Sub City have Anyone fortunate enough to down and melodic moments in loud about fat hookers or blow (New Red Archives) the end lays on the sentiment too added their voice to the cry. have caught a slightly scaled songs like "Teenage UFO" and jobs, and 10 000 pimply-faced Wow! Real, live black people thick for my tastes, especially They've decided to send a por­ down version of the group on "Refrigerator Zero " However, Beavises run to HMV to buy your playing punk rock! 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Oh, by the way, this is is the inclusion of Bagpipes)!) in spanking new IKEA catalogue, End Job," "Joe's Sister," and punk/hardcore that preaches Lookers, but lost interest when one of the finest, fastest, bestest their line up and you just know there, on the kitchen table. I "Ain't No One Getting Laid." So almost as much as Jimmy Sarah played around with Corin punk rock albums I've heard in your senses are in for something have always suspected one of it ain't all bad. If you do like Swaggart. No macho posturing. from Sleater-Kinney in a damn long while. Both bands "funny." In fact, having fun with my roommates of being a yup­ your punk done rare, and you're No football team choruses. No Things got back on make you want to assassinate music is a large part of their spir­ pie, but this was one step too a big fan of Andrew Dice Clay, NOFX riffs No nonsense. Just track when she joined the fabu­ the prime minister Got that? it Yet at the same time this is no far. 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And there's a voice takes a bit of getting used FANTASTIC PLASTIC at The Gas Station and, despite so hard to find and cultivate into SATINA SATURNINA picture of a lynched baby (send to, but her lyrics will strike an MACHINE a dubiously recorded s the sordid wrecks they are Clitoris Goddess your death threats to a band like instant chord with most people. International Standard then off rather (Independent) , 'cause the picture She sings about the difficulties of {Luxury Re-mixes) (US) well. The compositional duties So I flip through the cata­ Satina Saturnina Come on, ain't real) So you can just stick love and life, which, I know, (Emperor Norton) are well divided among the var­ logue while my bagel toasts, say it with phonics people. Now that in your pipe and smoke it. sounds awfully run of the mill, They're Fantastic! ious members showing off the keeping an ear out for the music, that we've got that down, here gibby peach but it works. Trust me I like that They're Plastic! diverse range of influences and letting my sub-conscious do the comes the hard part: listening to she's let us all in on her secrets. And I'm going to walk down approaches. The inclusion of reviewing. And once my yummy this album in its entirety. Don't ANI DIFRANCO AND UTAH They're keepers. the aisle in a bright blue wed­ Gil-Scott Heron's "Whitey On bagel is done and the catalogue get me wrong, I dig it. I just PHILLIPS Julie Colero ding dress, dancing the two-step, The Moon" is an ironic choice is all flipped through, it hits me. imagine it would be a lot easier Fellow Workers jiving to the happy sounds of the given the recent 30th anniver­ Haujobb is just like IKEA fur­ to take if there were accompa­ (Righteous Babe) FALLING SICKNESS/DYSEN­ Fantastic Plastic Machine sary celebrations of the Apollo niture in that it is something that nying graphics. Sped up, many I used to be something of an Ani TERY Okay, maybe I won't. I don't 1 1 landing. takes social trends and uses songs, particularly those under Difranco fan. Not a rabid Falling Sickness/Dysentery look that good in blue, but any­ GUH horn player Brian them for its own evil purposes. 14 seconds, sound like killing a groupie — I don't own more (Sub City) one who wants to hear good, Cram's solo effort continues in There is no heart or feeling really bad demon in a really cool video game. thai 3 albun - but I See, there's this place called fun (that's FUN, boys and girls, much the same vein as the behind it — music for yuppies. fond of her sound, she was Chiapas. Ever heard of it? It's a FUN) music, pick up some FPM, ensemble including the spirit sug­ Perhaps I am not being I was initially drawn to the catchy, bold, young, etc. I lost province in southern Mexico gested in the album's title. It fea­ clear. I listen to the "good" tech­ album after seeing that track 8 interest in her sound a few where a whole bunch of Mayans The Fantastic people make tures more of his fine multi-brass no bands — Moby, Q-burns was called "Super Sluts." Rock releases ago. It's not that she's (those crazy people who, a some lovely musics. It's like instrumentalism but with, per­ and the Abstract Message on! Other favourites of mine sold out or whined about star­ long time ago, erected really being warped back to fhe '60s, haps, a more spartan approach — and they are like my furniture. include the title track, "Clitoris dom (although she has done her fancy cities and communicated with all the amenities of the '90s. to composition and arrange­ They have history, stories to tell; Goddess," and the anthemic share of the latter), it's just that with Martians) have, basically, No cold war, either! They sort of ment. Some of the pieces are, in they're different, they march to "Steak Barbie" (I'm allowed to she isn't saying anything new, taken it in the ear thanks to the sound like a French [interesting, fact, excerpts from various com­ their own programmed beats. call it anthemic because there is and these days I'd rather hear Canadian, American, and considering that the band's lone missions for the theatre. With They have character. Haujobb is a built-in clap track). My vibe on Mexican governments. For the member is, in fact, Japanese many of the members from GUH like IKEA furniture; it feels mass- this album is that Satina Having said all that, I did people who live there, the ability —ed] version of St. Etienne, making cameo appearances produced, there's nothing origi­ Saturnina are better seen, better perk up and pay attention to her to grow corn has meant the abil­ and I mean that in the best pos­ here, The Play Ethic makes a fine nal or groundbreaking about it, felt, than heard through head­ first collaboration with folkie and ity to eat. The North American sible way. FPM give us that con­ companion to We Are yuppies buy it thinking it's spe­ phones while riding the number long time Wobbly Utah Free Trade Agreement, a big, tinental swing of this genre of Sunburning. It might all smell a cial, and it's not. 10 Downtown. A show from Phillips This is the second bad, shitty trade deal (remember music; a little more sexy, a little bit funny, but sounds a whole lot I'm not saying there's any­ these characters would surely installment of that collaboration, Mulroney?), won't let them grow more dirty, a little more interest­ of fun. thing wrong with minimalistic and thankfully Utah remains in their corn. So, they can't eat. On ing, a little less concerned with PC electronica, hell no. But these of us to "clap hands for Barbie, the foreground while Ani focus­ the eve that NAFTA came into sound — but more ,ed guys just don't go far enough for clap hands". es on production. Utah is a force, the levee broke The peo­ with feeling, a little m dally GUITAR WOLF my tastes. Then again, I may not Erin clever old storyteller with a talent ple of Chiapas took up arms and Jet Generation quite be their target audience. for balancing hyperbole and began to fight back It's an all night go-go dance (Matador) I'm not a yuppie. THE SCI-FI WITCH DOCTOR understatement; he is also a man Unfortunately, they've met almost party, and all your friends are You'd think that after four Anthony Monday inter the Now with solid political integrity table resistance from there with the Fantastic Plastic records, these Tokyo greaseballs (Phatt Phunk) whose stories reveal a seldom- n-funded death squads Machine, they're all ready for a would've learned a thing or two NOBODYS No local electronic artist has told American labour history. and corrupt Mexican politicians. swell evening, and you'll arrive about recording techniques and generation xxx had more of an impact on the Interspersed with original stories Despite the odds, though, right on time. not made an album that sounded (Hopeless) electronic music scene than they've continued their struggle. and songs are covers of tradi­ Dress well, things are going like it was recorded at the bot­ At least Nobodys aren't fool­ Noah Pred, aka The Sci-Fi Their rallying cry of "Ya Basra" tional favourites like labour to get sexy. tom of the Grand Canyon with ing themselves — they really are Witch Doctor. It's safe to say (enough is enough) echoes loud- activist Joe Hill's "Pie in the Anthony Monday amps on eleven. But ya known nobodies. When you write lyrics he is the James Brown of

24 September 1999 electronic artists Since moving attitude. Sure, the sound is not Emperor Norton or mer music "buzz" towns of When you buy the Souls and you want to buy their to Vancouver about two years exactly what you'd expect from *********** Records mean Seattle and Halifax have not latest Limp Bizkit CD at your new CD, Hopeless Romantic ago, the Sci-Fi Witch Doctor has this band, and sure, the final out­ anything to you Though lacking been hurt by the over-marketing neighbourhood Megastore, Well, I've got news for you Jack released his own 1 2", played at put on this album may not be to the stylish savvy and cultural of their music scenes, and, in you're paying $ 1 8 for 13 songs and Jill, it's pretty awful In fact, countless clubs and raves, and many Weasel fans' liking ... but trend-spotting those labels gen­ fact, are still thriving. The inclu­ (that's $1 .38 per song) And one of the only two good songs promoted his own events and I tell ya, this album will be erally present, this is still the per­ sion of Bellingham and Moncton those songs suck. When you buy is featured on Punk-O-Rama. So music relentlessly The culmina­ looked upon in future days as a fect album for doing the dishes proves that these towns have the latest Epitaph compilation, you've just saved yourself anoth­ tion of his work is his debut CD, landmark album because of its to And, since such albums are benefited from the larger cities' you're paying $6 for 25 songs er $18. Now multiply that $18 Enter the Now, on the California- groundbreaking nature. often resumes for movie sound­ .nd ha*, (that's an amazing 24 cents per by 25 songs, and you've saved based label Phart Phunk. Enter Whereas past Screeching tracks and advertising work, you inspired to produc •althy song!) And you know what? yourself a whopping $450! And the Now is an extremely pol­ Weasel albums have been flat- can be sure that there will be a scenes of their own . This They're all pretty good. Sure, here's the bonus: each song on ished release worthy of any out hardcore or pop-punk a la bright future for Ursula 1000. potentially interesting study in some bands like Gas Huffer, this compilation sounds different major label. The album has a NOFX or any number of SoCal Quentin Wright cultural implosion and subse­ Osker and Gentleman Jack from every other song. So you definite West Coast trance feel, "punk" bands, this album takes quent rebuilding. Grisham don't rock like the oth- don't have to change the CD after ten minutes of the same yet a clear definition of styles a different approach: all twelve ANDY WHITE The album features the likes but that |USt would be unfair and undeserved songs have the somewhat raw andywhite. compilation of such established names as Refused, 59 Times the Pain repetitive drivel. You can listen of such a well constructed full- energy which comes from not a (True North/Cooking Vinyl) Elevator Through Hell (or and H20 sound even better. Of to Union 13, Zeke length release. Enter the Now lot of practice before takes, the Words that might appear in an whatever their name is this week) course, you can't go wrong with Dwarves and Agnostic contains many "ethnic" samples, soaring arrangements typical of average Andy White review: and Purple Knight, and like­ SoCal stalwarts like Front all in a row without baby­ sitting your CD player. Now, wonderfully layered percussion, emo hardcore, and a palpable troubadour, Dylan, Irish, bat­ wise features such innovative Pennywise, NOFX and Bad considering all the money I've forays into techno and break­ sense of anguish not many punk tered acoustic, Bragg, Billy, Religion And Tom Waits has just saved you, you might feel beat, and several party favorites bands can pull off with a straight political, fiercely. Get the pic­ Death Cab for Cutie and got to be the unlikeliest yet punk­ the urge to thank me. Don't men­ like the 1 2" single "Body Mind." ture? In fact, although these pro­ Halifax's North of America est punk of them all. So there's tion it kids — just call me your My personal favorite is the techn- Since doesn't vide useful pegs to hang his Most tunes hover somewhere in friendly Punk Rock Non- odelic "Strange Data." The Sci- have the range to sing the sig­ folky pop on, they barely scratch the realm of straightforward '70s- hardly earned dollar. Consumer Watch Dog. Fi Witch Doctor is clearly an nature emo vocal phrasings, he the surface of describing the style pop-rock, '80s British-influ­ Jamie Maclaren artist. One of his major goals is tries something which hasn't sounds on this excellent 15 year enced pop, or good ol' '90s-style Suppose you like the Bouncing consciousness raising through been done much in the genre retrospective collection. This shoe gazing rock. The only sig­ music. He accomplishes this before: he lets the lyrics do the Irishman made his name per­ nificant divergences come from II,. r,i -] through clever samples, the use talking. While popular emo forming ranting Bob-athons such the garage bounds of the afore­ of a hemp CD sleeve, and, of bands such as Promise Ring as the epic "Religious mentioned Purple Knight and the course, the music itself. Noah write nonsensical lyrics and let Persuasion," both looking and dreamy keyboard-based sounds Pred is certainly an artist to next monlh the feeling come through in the sounding as if somebody had of Seattle's Twin Princess watch for in the future and Enter done just that. Later songs, how­ Most songs on this album are, at the Now is wonderful for both Weasel play it pokerfaced with ever, explore more varied styles the very least, above average At listening and dancing. the Is and w and like Billy Bragg, the ones to the top of the pile are some very Thomas in DiSCORDER lyrical content as: "I can open return to are the ones that obey innovative and danceable tunes. my eyes and just be glad I'm at least a couple of gold rules of Particular standouts include SCREECHING WEASEL here/ My worries disappear/ pop. The most recent offerings Thrush Hermit's '70s-influ- OUR 200TH iSSI/E! KS-VET-I/NPLKNNED Emo And I have made choices that here, the lush "Something New" enced butt-shaker "Everybody's (Panic Button/Lookout!) come back to haunt me; they and "Whole Thing," show just Gotta Move," Moncton's the SURPRISES KWftiT! PREPARE FOR BEAl/- I Recorded in the span of nine always will/ I've seen nothing how far he has come while still Peter Parkers' equally rhyth­ days during the US East Coast's but emptiness in front of me for keeping the old passionate fires mic "A Different Kind of Stride," COUP DE RETRO NOSTKLGiR KCTiON! infamous blizzard of '99, the what seemed like years/ Just let burning. In short, this is a perfect and the not-so-dancey, but solid dozen songs that make up antidote to both the insipid MOR tune, "Apathetic Regimen" singer-songwriters of recent Screeching Weasel's eleventh Mike Chilton by Bellingham's 5 Gears in album (not including the 1997 years and the vile "Celtic" Reverse scene, either one of which I EP and the 1994 split album URSULA 1000 The fact that the profits from would be happy to see taken with Born Against) are the The Now Sound of Ursula the sales of this compilation go into the back alley and given a the Heibalisei ones which Ben Weasel says are 1000 towards The Mitchell Ross good kicking. YOG the best songs he's ever written. (18th St. Lounge Music) Children's Cancer Fund is the Ska Tie and the I'd tend to agree with him. Unafraid to be tagged with the Quentin Wright final no-brainer that you should Epitones Perhaps one of the most straight­ slightly reviled Lounge-core tag, buy this album if you are even Sway zak forward and applicable of 1999 this one man project has the VARIOUS ARTISTS the slightest bit curious about the album titles, emo is a couple of usual ultra-mod go-go girl pack­ Four Dots current state of these "hip" cities' Uaiine Research parts emo ("emotional" hard­ aging with predictably swingin' (Montesano) scenes. Guided by Voices core, of the variety of Fugazi or song titles like "Leggy" and This compilation, courtesy Mike Chilton Promise Ring/ a couple of "Mambo 1000." Still, despite Bellingham's Montesano label, parts Weasel-brand hardcore the overpowering aroma of features up-and-comers from the VARIOUS ARTISTS punk (which, in the past, has 1996, these funky pop instru­ "four dots" of Halifax, Seattle, Punk-O-Rama 4 mode up 99% of the band's out­ mental are still worth checking Moncton and Bellingham. The (Epitaph) put), and a dash of "fuck you" out if the names Easy Tune, point is to show that the two for- Okay kids, here's a lesson >p-y. Y! Si&j h&sgt us keep your purple nd yellow rajblic bikes

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25 E^gSffiESffi rubbing, the lecherous lyrics, the er, beginning to understand like "Hey Nonny Nonny," "pussy is good." He was revved what all the torture was for. "Country Death Song," and up enough to lead the Math comes in handy every "Blister in the Sun" in rapid suc­ Real Live Countdowns into a big loud cho­ now and then Don't believe cession. Suffice it to say, every­ rus, skinny chest sweating, ribs me? Check this out: one was either up and dancing showing through his unbuttoned Boston + punk rock = or crowding the stage. Action H.s mng i* zing, * Dropkick Murphys ripoffs Then, after a bit of a lull dur­ n old pro, but (in other words, Clash and ing which they played a couple LIVE MUSIC REVIEWS imagining ol' Andre sliding it in Damned ripoffs; not that that's of their ballads, they brought out anywhere kinda turns the stom­ really a bad thing). five extra musicians, who I admirably did their own thing — strike and kick me while I was ach Under-21 band members + believe lead singer Gord Gano Charms of the Night Sky a kind of free cabaret - but I down I kept wishing they would A short beer break, and Jon Canada = stupid, juvenile refer- dubbed the "Horns of Vancouver East Cultural found lhat they were still some­ play material from Crooked Spencer, Judah Bauer and > the rnpti* I of Distinction." They played vari­ how too weird ond silly lo be Rain, Crooked Rain or Brighten Russel Simms fire up the stage ous doctored horns and home­ Saturday July 3 easily enjoyed I am a fan of the Corners to lift the fog and No stacks of black amps — the Ducky Boys + opening made instruments There was I wasn't Ihe only one who felt "difficult" music, but Castor el wipe out the vestiges of US boys like vintage equipment, slot = mild enjoyment. even an accordion player! The that trumpeter Dave Douglas Compagnie had a particular Maple, but the old hits were few including an old Moog Next set of examples: "horn" section accompanied the was the main event of the Jazz aesthetic sensibility that was a and far between I suppose it Theremin. They churned through Bunch of boys + micro­ band on a couple of epic bluesy Festival this year. There seemed bit much If they weren't obvi­ was a good show for those who a tightly orchestrated set that felt phones = dumb sexist banter songs laced with melodic noise. to be an over capacity crowd in ously such greatrfnusicians and could stand U.S. Maple and for like an extended medley of hits (not appreciated). They worked the audience and attendance to see this popular performers, I would have found those who have heard Pavement from Acme and Now I Got Song about Starbucks + title the 'Femmes into a frenetic tizzy Vancouver favorite perform, fill­ it difficult to get into them to the play their older songs before. Worry. Unlike their studio "Coffee Sucks" = smiles all and then promptly left; they ing the aisles as well as taking extent I did at all. Believe it or For me, however, it was a night sound, JSBX are scrappy and around (appreciated). would return. up all the seats And it was not, I'm not actually trying to be I'd rather not remember totally distorted live. Jon Skavoovie's stage moves + The Femmes then turned it worth the crowd Charms of dismissive. I didn't dislike them the chocolatey baby Spencer's Elvis wobble came his relatively young age = future up another notch. All fell quiet, the Night Sky, featuring so much as I just didn't fully dig through loud and clear, but the career as Las Vegas Mel a spotlight fell on Gano, and he Douglas plus on them Okay, I'll confess: it was JON SPENCER BLUES lyri< Torme impersonator. crooned out: "Do you like violin, on accor­ the drummers' stupid hat and EXPLOSION ble. For pure rock V roll style Skavoovie and the American Mu— "... the crowd dion, and on bass, bad choice Epitones + middle slot = roared I felt both elated and a played some of the finest music I enhanced enjoyment. little sad at the same time. They have ever heard, with no exag­ And, just to make my old ripped into "American Music," geration. The overall mood of math teacher, Mr. Pott, happy, the tune which I had hoped they the performance was laid back here's some more math fun: would (as they had in the past) and good-natured. Douglas in Another bunch of boys + leave for the finale. In the back particular seemed to be in high one girl = more sexist banter of my mind, I hoped the rest of spirits, joking with the crowd with girl giggling along. the show wouldn't be anti-cli­ and the other players. There Scripted between-song chat mactic, especially since the tour also seemed to be a jocular one- + lack of song "Lot's Wife" (from was being billed the "American upmanship in place between the their new album Let's Go To Music Tour." various well-executed solos by Work) = much disappointment. A few tunes later, they the individual players. Feldman Whole lotta energy + better played their new song for the in particular really took off, dance moves than Skavoovie = South Park movie, then tore into showcasing his tremendous tal­ somewhat redeemed band. the anthemic "I Held Her in My ent without becoming excessive PAVEMENT Kingpins + the late, late Arms," followed by "Gone or overwhelming. Although U.S. MAPLE slot = tired Gibby at work the Daddy Gone" (featuring wicked Cohen, sadly, stuck mainly to his Thursday, vibes by bassist Brian Ritchie)— role as timekeeper for this drum- July 15 Math skills can be, as I think I was in heaven. The fact that merless quartet, Klucevsek and Vogue I've shown, quite valuable. On they followed that up with "Day Douglas also got the chance to The opening band, U.S. ANDRE WILLIAMS AND points the Blues Explosion wins a related note, I have it on good After Day" was the cherry on display their skills with some fine Maple, was the most annoy­ THE COUNTDOWNS hands down for the big poses, authority that the Kingpins were top. The second last song of the solo work. In fact, it was during ing, ridiculous, disgusting band Wednesday, July 21 black leatherette pants, and prancing around our beloved set reintroduced the "Horns of Douglas' solos that I appreciat­ I have ever heard. Never before Vogue especially Judah Bauer's glam CiTR the very next day, yapping Distinction" out for a noise-core ed that even great players jam, which included the playing have I been so repulsed by a A tepid crowd greeted the cowboy look. Skinny white boys on eel phones and arranging to noticeably improve. He seemed of a conch shell. band. Never before have I had Countdowns not with got the blues, doin' the roots play golf at the university golf even more inventive and varied such a lack of respect for a applause but with a hush. cock-rock thing that is so high club. For goodness' sake! than when I last saw him earlier The Femmes came out for a band. Never before have I been Unfazed, the L.A. three-piece energy we can't resist. gibby peach this year at the Starfish Room one-song finale jam, which fea­ so pissed off by a band that it plugged in and ripped into a with his more rocking jazz- The Vogue was jumpin' by tured a bugle (played by the completely ruined my night. It is short warm-up set that was part focused quartet. But the empha­ the encore, Jon wailed "Lemme VIOLENT FEMMES drummer), a didjeridoo, and a U.S. Maple's fault that I did not blues, part rockabilly, part rock sis this evening was definitely on hear you say YEAH!" And, RON COLBURNE theremin inside a cat-in-the-hat enjoy this show. 'n' roll all glued together with Douglas' role as a composer. unlike the Make-Up show at Friday, July 23 hat (both played by Ritchie). lots of distortion. With the Elvis- His particular kind of pan-genre Possibly the reason I was so the Starfish the night before, Vogue Theatre In sharp contrast to the con­ saddened by this concert is esque posturing of the lead everyone roused themselves and Long hailed as the godfathers trolled mayhem of the Femmes because I fear I will never be singer/guitarist and the mania­ yelled back. I later found out of geek rock, this Milwaukee trio was the understatedness of the between abstract work to more able to communicate to you, cal head-banging drummer, the that the band had all their has blazed so many trails it dreamy, melodic, and straight- DiSCORDER readers, how truly Countdowns jarred the crowd equipment stolen after the show would seem impossible for them Ron Colburn. It was just him ahead pieces. In general, the horrific US Maple is. I fear I out of its early evening lethargy. that night, and, between that to do anything new and still and an acoustic guitar ... pretty works played seemed strong cannot pass along the stupidity Just in time for the much- and the cavity search at the bor­ wow the audiences. So the next gutsy. He held it together and interesting with many good of this band without recom­ hyped arrival, James Brown der, my guess is we'll be driving obvious progression \ through his set of eight nonde­ ideas and were occasionally mending you listen to the band style, of Andre Williams He south to see them next time. lething Did ( ' the script songs. Eventually, the humorous and unpredictable yourself A pathetic 45 minutes started off vaguely obscene in Anna Friz audience warmed up to him in a without becoming cute. And, of uninspired, uninteresting, his suit and commodore cap, Yup, you guessed it, the fairly big way, giving him lots of although they played a good unlistenable noise-art (if you can growing progressively raunchier THE KINGPINS Femmes pulled off an cheering. Despite some chuckle- variety of songs and had a call it art). Suffice it to say that as his frequent trips backstage SKAVOOVIE AND THE EPI- UNBILLED Greatest Hits show! heads sitting on the floor in front decent length of set, as far as I US Maple was a disappointing got him drunker. It's impressive TONES No band formed in the '80s that of the first row yelling: "Oogie! was concerned they could have disgrace to everyone at the that a man his age can shake THE DUCKY BOYS is still touring seems to let the Oogie! Oogie! Oi! Oi! Oi!", played for much, much longer Vogue that night, as well as to his skinny ass that hard and pull Thursday, July 22 chance slip by to mention the Colburn was not phased one However, I cannot say the same off songs like "Pussy Stank" (an Starfish Room fact that that they will be play­ bit; he seemed too high on for the opening act Castor et Pavement live seemed to ode to unwashed genitalia with Math. I hated that fucking class. ing their hits — just look at all cloud nine to be affected. Even Compagnie. This Montreal be far noisier than on record, its plea to "give it to me raw"). All that thinking hurt my brain. the reunion shows. But the if Colburn didn't win me over Is he an old blues dude or is he based troupe, lead by Joane and more noise was simply not Daily, I'd volley questions like Femmes had the balls to come with any of his songs, he sure a pimp in disguise? We become Hetu, did have some very good what I wanted to hear after U.S. "When will I ever use this?" at out of the gates unassumingly, won my respect. less and less sure ... the crotch moments and they certainly and Maple. The noise seemed to my math teacher. I am, howev­ yet hard, by belting out classics Mike Chilton

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aaiflMSHja v_ WORD OF MOUTH TOUR Letterman appearances and TRICKY WOO "game" works, to the terrific Thursday, July 29 cameos on The Simpsons. Why SPITFIRES avant jazz of Masada, to the" Richard's on Richards not? DATSONS extreme, postmodern cut-ups of Wanted: Hip-hop Cred. Quentin Wright Thursday, August 12 Naked City — all the while Will trade like-new indie Starfish Room staying inventive and viable, cred. JULIE DOIRON AND THE After reading Mike Usin, never derivative. As equally Anyone selling? WOODEN STARS review of this show in diverse as Zorn's many accom­ Wow People dancing, NINE MILES TO plishments, his singing along, raising the roof MORGAN — this was all new to me, but Wednesday, August 11 very welcome. I'm awfully used Railway Club to standing in the back, sort of I find it difficult to quickly bobbing my head with maybe a think of another artist who SEPTEMBER toe tapping, but I couldn't help has brilliantly stood up to the LISTINGS but get caught up in the interac­ test of time and continued to •SEPTEMBER tive experience that was the put out beautiful, thoughtful, THURSDAY. SEPT. 2 Word of Mouth Tour. MARTIN TIELLI Breakestra broke out the funk, Doiron has. Every artistic BROWNING the Beat Junkees exhibited step this woman takes COAL some mad turntable skills, Cut astounds me, and I felt so FRIDAY, SEPT. 3 Chemist did his scratching blessed by the opportunity to KELLY WILLIS thing with live musical accom­ I her I this OH SUSANNA paniment, and the Dilated Julie wowed me at her last AUBURN Peoples busted out rhymes show in May for nearly two SATURDAY, SEPT. 4 and swapped lines with local hours with her cute shyness, CIBO MATTO underground faves Swollen light acoustic sad songs, and THE RADIO Members. Then came J5 — willingness to accommodate SUNDAY, SEPT. 5 so wicked Five MCs and Cut her audience's every wish BIS Chemist on the decks, and the (including some Eric's Trip crowd was just eating it up. The songs). I remember how the BLURTONIA night ended with some posse audience held its breath to MONDAY, SEPT. 6 battles and turntable wars - hear the sweeping courage of QUEENS OF THE how much talent can you fit on her* becomes sub­ STONE AGE one stage? Tons, judging by this — so quiet you could hear ice Straight I have to agree with him merged in the hearts and minds OTHERSTARPEOPLE cubes tinkling in glasses about the reaction of the crowd of subsequent generations of WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8 Please, those in the know, Those who skipped the fire­ at the Starfish. How much music makers, towards who ALESANDRO teach us all more about the won­ works finale to show up early at blood, sweat, and tears does a knows what end. This brings us ESCOVEDO der that is the new hip-hop the Railway Club were first treat­ band like Tricky Woo have to to Ujaku's adept celebration of THE CIRCUS Quality entertainment, this. ed to a very emo performance shed for people to take notice? the music of Zorn's Naked Cily, IN FLAMES Julie Colero from the Alberta group, Nine Granted, there were those of us held in the basement theater of THURSDAY, SEPT. 9 Miles to Morgan, and then a who were electrified by their the beautiful Heritage Hall on KRISTIN HERSH ARLING & CAMERON nice chunk of music from the performance, but it still begs the Main Street. Composed of local FRIDAY, SEPT. 10 Sunday, August 8 Wooden Stars. Nine Miles question: What happened to the jazz players, including LONNIE JAMES Chameleon Lounge often delved into many other Spitfires? I've seen these trou­ Masayoshi John Anzai on saxo­ CLOVER HONEY As grand entrances go, a dead­ emo bands' sounds, but sur­ blemakers numerous times and, phone and vocals, Ben Wilson SATURDAY, SEPT. 11 pan speech on the philosophies prised me with their rare enthu­ although they kick ass 99% of on vocals, Kelly Churko on gui­ VEDA HILLE tar, Travis Baker on bass, John of ornithology followed by half siasm. The Wooden Stars' the time, this evening they were ZUBOT & DAWSON performance concentrated main­ Raham on drums, and Robert a dozen bird impressions is in the land of the one-per­ TUESDAY, SEPT. 14 ly on material from their new Dyke on keyboards, Ujaku takes probably not being considered centers. I hope that they're not VOODOO GLOW record, The Moon. I was sent the influence of Zorn to the next for the forthcoming Alice getting burnt out (they are SKULLS reeling from their perfect singing degree: total hardcore tributary Cooper tour. When immediate­ known for playing frequently on THE MALCHIKS emulation. Ujaku capably took ly followed by a stunning dis­ and impressive, talented, smart- the local scene), but, in any on their subject with obvious CROWNED KING play of classical theremin is-more musicianship, but I could case, they did pull out an old enjoyment, ripping through sev­ WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15 playing, though, the opening nof help wishing each song was chestnut — a cover of the Devil their last so I could finally hear eral dozen hard and very short MOGWAI becomes almost like an Arling Dogs' "354," which always Julie Doiron. but complicated tunes, and a GANGER & Cameron mini-manifesto. rocks the house with me. few longer, more temperate THURSDAY, SEPT. 16 Put simply, they take their She appeared alone, before The Datsons, from numbers that gave the players a kitschy surrealism VERY serious­ a very, very loud crowd and Montreal (replacing originally ly. The beauty and virtuosity of chance to stretch out and the FRENZAL RHOMB began to play. By listening scheduled openers the the theremin performance was audience some time to breathe. FLASHLIGHT closely, I was able to follow the Mooney Suzuki), cranked out so great that at first it threatened I never fully appreciated the FRIDAY, SEPT. 17 simplistic goodness unfolding some impressive mod-style rock to overshadow the remainder of humor of Naked City until this SUPERCHUNK before me, but between songs that had one guy stunned the show. However, three songs show. Churko's introduction of CLOSED CAPTION the crowd made it impossible to enough that he planted himself the often-ridiculous name of RADIO into the performance proper, hear a word Julie spoke. I even firmly in he middle of the floor. each song especially brought and the early evening Monday missed hearing her confusing SATURDAY, SEPT. 18 Every Jam-influenced power- out the intentional absurdity of night crowd was hopping request for people to "become BIF NAKED chord and high stepping the works. Ujaku is not simple around like it was 1:15am on uninhibited" and begin danc­ TUESDAY, SEPT. 21 bassline was met with apprecia­ tomfoolery, though. Much seri­ Friday. These Dutch masters of ing, a request soon fulfilled by GODSPEED YOU tive applause. ous and difficult labour must playful future-pop an about ten intoxicated view- BLACK EMPEROR Bryce Dunn have gone into the note-for-note hours worth of techno nursery obstructors. However, she and LABRADFORD rhymes around multiple musical transcriptions of Zorn by the Stars were able to produce UJAKU FRIDAY, SEPT. 24 styles, finishing the show with Churko. The audience in atten­ a blanket of calm, soothing Vancouver Little Theatre NOISE THERAPY their anthemic take on stomping dance was justifiably impressed musical understanding that Wednesday, August 18 SATURDAY, SEPT. 25 glam, "We Love to Rock." and entertained. Just one sug­ wrapped up my girlfriend and I. When enough time has past for THE SMALLS Performed entirely seriously, this gestion, though: Ujaku should They sent us to a dim, sleepy for­ us to look back with some objec­ SUNDAY, SEPT. 26 is the sort of joyfully absurd further polish their act and play est where the trees play songs tivity, I feel that John Zorn will MIKE WATT song which might give them the some of next years' skate­ for animals as the flowers and stand out as one of the most sig­ THE LIARS means to attain the sort of pop­ boarding festivals — the kids grass hum along. I closed my nificant composers of our era. I THURSDAY, SEPT. 30 ular credibility that the B-52s would eat this shit up, and eyes and would have fallen can't think of anyone else that once held, and, with a Gap ad Ujaku could make some quick SUPER FURRY asleep if it hadn't meant missing so ably takes on as many styles in the works, we may be look­ the concert. and forms as Zorn — from clas­ ing forward to a string of tfie chocolatey baby sical chamber music, to his Brady Cranfield

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THI SAT 11 CiTR PRESENTS: THE ESSENCE OF T/ME@Cafe Godspeed You Black Emperor@Starfish; Blue Ontario, RAILWAY CLUB IS HC ) CiTR's ANNUAL BATI Deux Soleils; CiTR PRESENTS: THE MAKE-OUT Suplex@Brickyard C_UB@Blinding Light WED 22 Manic Street Preachers, Remy Zero@Rage; Mo'Funk Collective@Chameleon; Gavin Froome@Sonar; The Bonaduces, Singleseven, New Hedron@Brickyard Retards Are Winning (feat. Riff-Randells, Come Ons, Canned THU 23 Exotic Erotica@Brickyard TAKE BACK THE NIGHT Ham, surprise guest)@Good Jacket; Silent Treatment, Version, FRI 24 Wyrd Sisters@VECC; Vue, Come Ons, Hot Hot Umbrellaheads@Columbia, Veda Hille, Zubot & Heat@Brickyard; Noise Therapy@Starfish )LENCE AGAINST Dawson@Starfish; Ten Days Late, Siobhan Duvall, Clover SAT 25 Dalai Lamas@Chameleon; To-Ka Project@Sonar; Honey@Pic; Alice CooperOOrpheum; Royal Grand Cesaria Evora@Vogue; Straight Faced, Thirty Foot Fall, WOMEN IS GOIN ON R 25TH AT THE Prix@Brickyard Retreads@Brickyard; Smalls@Starfish VANCOUVER ART GALLE PM. CALL 872- SUN 12 Reggae Cowboys (Coop Radio benefit!)@Richard's SUN 26 Laurel & Jan@Centennial Theatre Centre; Word on the 8212 FOR INFO. DESPITE TH MON 1 3 A-Team Upcoast Summer Tour (feat. Aceyalone, Street@Library Square/CBC Plaza; Mike Watt, Liars@Starfish Abstract Rude, Tribe Unique, DJ Drez, Phys Ed)@Sonar MON 27 Tricky, Stroke, DJ Genaside 2@Rage TUE 14 CiTR PRESENTS SHiNDiG: Naomi Sider, The TUE 28 CiTR PRESENTS: DISCO BISCUITS@Sonar; CiTR ^i'm#iii;i^iii«iw_TOFm raSR Amsterdam Cafe 302 West Cordova (Gas Town) 683 7200 Frederic Wood Theatre (UBC) 822 2678 Richard's on Richards 1036 Richards (downtown) 687 6794 Anza Club 3 W. 8th (Mount Pleasant) 876 7128 Garage Pub 2889 E. Hastings (downtown) 822 9364 Ride On 2255 West Broadway; 2-712 Robson (Upstairs) 738-7734 Arts Hotline 684 2787 The Good Jacket 225 E. Broadway (at Main) 872 5665 Ridge Cinema 3131 Arbutus (at 16th Ave.) 738 6311 Astoria Hotel 769 East Hastings 254 3636 The Grind Gallery 41 24 Main (Mt. Pleasant) 322 6057 Scrape Records 17 W. Broadway (near Main) 877 1676 Bassix 217 W. Hastings (at Cambie) 689 7734 Hollywood Theatre 3123 W. Broadway (Kitsilano) 738 3211 Scratch Records 726 Richards (downtown) 687 0499 Backstage Lounge 1585 Johnston (Granville Island) 687 1354 Hot Jazz Society 2120 Main (Mt. Pleasant) 873 4131 Seylynn Hall 605 Mountain Hwy (North Van) Black Dog Video 3451 Cambie 873 6958 Hush Records 221 Abbott Street 662 7017 Shadbolt Centre for the Arts 6450 Deer Lake Ave. (Bby) 291 6864 Black Sheep Books 2742 W. 4th (at MacDonald) 732 5087 Jericho Arts Centre 1600 Discovery (Pt. Grey) 224 8007 Singles Going Steady 3296 Main (at 17th) 876 9233 Blinding Light 36 Powell St. 878 3366 Jupiter Cafe & Billiards 1216 Bute (near Denman St) 606 6665 Sonar 66 Water (Gastown) 683 6695 Boomtown #102-1252 Burrard (at Davie) 893 8696 La Quena 1111 Commercial (the Drive) 251 6626 Starfish Room 1055 Homer (downtown) 682 4171 The Brickyard 3 15 Carrall St. 685 3978 The Lotus Club 455 Abbott (Gastown) 685 7777 Starlight Cinema 935 Denman (West End) 689 0096 Cafe Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial (the Drive) 254 1195 Luv-A-Fair 1275 Seymour (downtown) 685 3288 Station Street Arts Centre 930 Station (off Main) 688 3312 Cambie 515 Seymour 684 7757 Medialuna 1926 W. Broadway Sugar Refinery 1115 Granville (downtown) 683 2004 Caprice Theatre 965 Granville (Granville Mall) 683 6099 Minoru Pavillion 7191 Granville (Richmond) Theatre E 254 E. Hastings (Chinatown) 681 8915 Celebrities 1022 Davie (at Burrard) 689 3180 Moon Base Gallery 231 Carrall St. (Gastown) 608 0913 Thunderbird Ent. Centre 120 W. 16th St. (N. Van) 988 2473 Cellar Jazz Cafe 361 1 W. Broadway (downstairs) 738 1959 Naam Restaurant 2724 W 4th (Kitsilano) 738 7151 Tribeca 536 Seymour 688 8385 Chameleon Urban Lounge 801 W. Georgia 669 0806 Neptoon Records 5750 Fraser St. 324 1229 Tru Valu Vintage Robson (downstairs) 685 5403 Chan Centre 6265 Crescent Rd. (UBC) Orpheum Theatre Smithe & Seymour (downtown) 665 3050 Vancouver E. Cultural Centre 1895Venables (at Victoria) 254 9578 CiTR 101.9fM #233-6138 SUB Blvd (UBC) 822 3017 Pacific Cinematheque 1131 Howe (downtown) 688 3456 Vancouver Little Theatre 3102 Main (Mt. Pleasant) 876 4165 Club Vesuvius 1 1 76 Granville (downtown) 688 8701 Palladium 1250 Richards (downtown) 688 2648 Vancouver Press Club 2215 Granville (S. Granville) 738 7015 CN Imax Theatre 999 Canada Place 682 4629 Paradise 27 Church (New Westminster) 525 0371 Varsity Theatre 4375 W. 10th (Point Grey) 222 2235 Columbia Hotel 303 Columbia (at Cordova) 683 3757 Paradise Cinema 919 Granville (Granville Mall) 681 1732 Vert/Futuristic Flavours 1020 Granville (downtown) 872 2999 Commodore Lanes 838 Granville (Granville Mall) 681 1531 Park Theatre 3440 Cambie (South Vancouver) 876 2747 Video In Studios 1965 Main (Mt. Pleasant) 872 8337 CNB Skate and Snow 3712 Robson 682 5345 Piccadilly Pub 630 W. Pender (at Seymour) 682 3221 Vinyl Rekkids 76 W. Cordova (Gastown) 689 3326 Cordova Cafe 307 Cordova (Gastown) 683 5637 Pitt Gallery 317 W. Hastings (downtown) 681 6740 Vogue Theatre 918 Granville (Granville Mall) 331 7909 Croatian Cultural Centre 3250 Commercial (at 17th) 879 0154 Plaza Theatre 881 Granville (Granville Mall) 685 7050 Waterfront Theatre 1405 Anderson (Granville Is.) 685 6217 Crosstown Music 51 8 W Pender 683 8774 Puff/Beatstreet 4326 Main (at 27th Ave) 708 9804 Western Front 303 E. 8th Ave (near Main) 876 9343 Denman Place Cinema 1030 Denman (West End) 683 2201 Puff #14-712 Robson (at Granville) 684 PUFF Wert Bar 1320 Richards (downtown) 230 6278 Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden Main Hall 578 Carrall St. 662 3207 Purple Onion 15 Water St. (Gastown) 602 9442 Whip Gallery 209 E. 6th Ave (at Main) 874 4687 DV8 515 Davie (downtown) 682 4388 Queen Elizabeth Theatre Hamilton & Georgia 665 3050 W.I.S.E. Hall 1882Adanac (the Drive) 254 5858 Fifth Avenue Cinemas 21 10 Burrard (at 5th) 734 7469 Raffels Lounge 1221 Granville (downtown) 473 1593 Women In Print 3566 W. 4th (Kitsilano) 732 4128 Firehall Arts Centre 80 E. Cordova (a* Main) 689 0926 The Rage 750 Pacific Blvd. South (Plaza of Nations) 685 5585 Yale Blues Pub 1300 Granville (downtown) 6819253 F.W.U.H. Beatty 552 Beatty 687 7464 Railway Club 579 Dunsmuir (at Seymour) 681 1625 Zulu Records 1869 W. 4th (Kitsilano) 738 3232

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