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that rolled up to the ankles magazine from eitr 101.9 fm may2000 firee the moves bowery electric flaming lips south by southwest andmore.. Z. SYIAA* ZDOO Fancy THE MOVES (MR. LADY'S LATEST UP-AND-COMERS) 10 BOWERY ELECTRIC (FORMER KRANKY STARS MAKE IT BIG[GER]) FLAMING LlPS (LUKE MEAT VS. 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Choose 4 other Vancouver view and you ain't new at this music thing. bands that you would pick to share the Please tell our readers from where you stage with you at the show and what kind have come... former/other projects, for of props (if any) you would use for your example. performance. Amy: My name is Amy, I come from the banks of The Dream Gig: Amy's Rocks, Young and Sexy, DiSCORDER Who are you and where are the salt marsh in West Chezzetcook, NS. Projects Unitard, Fond of Tigers. Props might include the audi you from? Why do you choose include the Marsh Girls (with my two sisters), Drop ence, a few ball gowns, and a hat. I'm Shecky Green's niece and I've just come from to play Karaoke-style Pop Girl and Clover Honey. Anything else to add? a grueling 7-hour hypnotherapy session where they over forming a Mark: My name is Mark, I come from Calgary. Keep an eye out for Amy's Rocket, a zine. tried unsuccessfully to convince me that I'm Roddy band? Projects include Thee Crusaders, Infernal Devices, Ask yourselves two questions and answer Fraser, part of the one-man act called Nude, Thrift, although I am look Good Horsey, Mark and Capozzi Park. them. Drunken Scotsman Descending a Hairpiece, which ing to hook up with a bass player | Scott: My name is Scott, I come from Fredericton, Anything else to watch for from Amy's Rocks? specializes in songs about suicide, despair, disillu What is the future of Karaoke? NB. Projects include Scream Theatre/Three Ring Yes, we will have a CD available in June 2000. sionment, tuberculosis and agony, all with a good I've a feeling it's going to be really big in Japan. Surgery, Autoerotic, See Bob Run (a play), 25<t Peep Why did the chicken cross the road? disco backbeat. Or I might change the name to What is your favourite part of the record Show, Rabo, Wholenewbrain, Insomniacs, Unco, We don't know. • Fergie Featuring Roddy Fraser. ing process? Blue Nose Fly and Assertion. Here's your chance to speak your piece in Economizing. I'm actually working right now on Brian: My name is Brian, I come from Vancouver, Selected Discography a public forum. A) What was it like to be being able to record without the use of any record BC. Projects include Vancouver Philharmonic Clover Honey, Go Horse Co, Lancerock Records, kicked off stage at a gig that you put on? ing equipment, words, music, sound or concept. Orchestra. 2000, Mark, Chocolate Covered Bad Things, Catsup B) How do you deal with your feelings What is your favourite local music venue You've incorporated some interesting instru Plate Recordings, 1999; Good Horsey, Kazue, when you know you will be seeing those in Vancouver? ments into your lineup, namely the cello and Trackshun Industries, 1994; Assertion, A Great people at future shows? C) Did it make BC Place for the spacious washrooms and Ms. T's the Bo Diddley guitar. Please! Tell us about Refusal, Rented Crutch, 1998; Blue Nose Fly, Double you want to quit music? D) Are there any Cabaret at 339 W. Pender which hosts on the first these and how they came to become a part Penetration, Piebald Productions, 1998 reasons that make you feel that maybe Saturday of every month the Procrastifarian of your unit. you deserved to be kicked off? Records showcase featuring acts too talented, Amy's Rocks: Cosmic forces beyond our control led Contact A) Well, it helped me realize that my feelings of deranged or inaudible for other venues. Contact us to this pass. It has been more the drunken party Amy Brannen persecution and paranoia were right all along, but me if you want to play. n than Venus rising in Leo which has unit 179W. 18th Avenue I also think it showed the impeccable taste and Ask yourself a question that would piss ed us. Venus rising in Amy, mostly. The ir Vancouver, BC V5Y 2A6 judgement of the audience. B) If I see them again you off normally and answer it like a arrived by less random routes, they were 604.873.9601 I'll give them such a look. C) Yes, along with hav politician. were carrying when we walked in. ing no fame or money. D) No Apart from being a Why is your penis so small? There's a bit of a jazzy feel to . few octaves off key, I feel my performance was Owing to the factors of a global economy endeav your set. Have any of you ouring in a non-exclusive fashion coupled with the dipped your toes into tho< What's the story behind Procrastifarian hard work and diligence of ordinary working peo waters or do you all just bring I Records? Is anything to be released soon ple would fully sum up my response to that allega out the jazziness in each | or will you procrastinate forever? tion in a nutshell. other? There's a compilation that's going to be released Anything else to add? "Jazzy: vivid, unrestrained" [Oxford j soon. We're still looking for a couple more weird Yes. • Dictionary of Current English). I >r Hi acts to stick on it If you feel your music could pose we all bring out the jazzine induce vomiting in the normal listening public, Contact each other in the sense that v please contact address below. 604.688.4872 we're playing it's unrestrained. We | What do you think of Bobby Joe Ebola <[email protected]> are all united by the music that has and the Children Macnuggits from shaped and formed us, moulded by Berkeley, CA? immortal beings from Planet | Sexually: magnificent.