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I doubt it, althought we did "Streets of Fire" a couple times. Why is or isn't Capozzi Park as relevant today as the Trooper compilation? Who? Trooper what? To whom? Give us all a writing lesson by re-writing a verse from the Capozzi Park song "Now!" with a more modern theme. [The song is about stopping the Vietnam war—now!] Now? Nah. Why was it a good idea to put the band Bacon with the New Pornographers and Clover Honey? Because they are heavy like Iron Maiden. Describe a live performance that was truly fun. For tlie Good Jacket series of shows, we were playing with "local legends" July 4th Toilet, who were doing a fashion show, and not performing. We decided to do a tribute to them, The Obergammau passion plays, Trooper, and others. Gradually through our set, each member of the band became Rob Dayton, in cos tume and nose. I wore a see-through cowboy outfit, Scott got the penis-pants, and Jody from their band shot us all at the end, and sang a song I'd written for him to sing. Talk lovingly about former members of Capozzi Park. We all had crushes on Marcy. Steve had crushes on us. Robin liked it when you scratched his head. "Freebird." Ever heard the song? Is it important for an artist to endure rejection? Rejection is nature's way of letting you know if you're not dabbling.* So what were Amy's Rocks thinking when they invited you to play with them at Ms. T's? D Who knows. We certainly didn't fit the bill. I guess they saw us at Facefest and liked us. How much did the Brickyard charge you to play there? We played with Pet Fairies and Red Siren and they wanted to charge, I think, like 50 bucks to be split between the bands. How's recording coming along? Good. Real good. We'll have something out real soon. Are you planning any shows in Victoria? Who would you like to play with there? Yeah Victoria, probably Darth Brooks. They're awfully good. Are there any vegetarians in the band? I eat meat sometimes, Toby's vegetarian, Sean's vegan presently. Have you ever fried bacon on stage? We'll serve bacon sandwiches at our next show. Agree politely with something you absolutely abhor. Public castration's a good idea. Who's in this band anyway, and who else have you played with? Complai: about the band that gets I much priority. Marcus: Motorama, Veronica. Sean: None. Toby: Some. They have no names. Brag about the best gear you own like a metalhead in kindergarten. Got a '66 Gibson Melody Maker, Fostex D2424. Five year old metalheads ( pie.- kill your boyfriend IJ.LIUJMI.mi MINIMUM WAGE The main characters change Bob Fingerman time; hair gets longer, people get (Fantagraphic Books) older. Fingerman's style reminds fter yet another failed me a little of Dave Cooper's relationship, I spent the work, but only because both are Arequisite time trying to very expressive artists. figure out what I did wrong. Oh, In a couple of issues he had and I kind of buried myself in my guest artists. Once it was Dean comics. It was at this point that I Haspiel who was good. The other discovered Minimum Wage and it time it was Pat McEown and I made everything alright. was utterly blown Minimum Wage originally an autobiographical piece all was a graphic novel that went on about girls entitled "Hormones." to a 10 issue series. It's written He had a strange cartoony/ and drawn by Bob Fingerman, wispy style that and this is his first foray into and cute, and he was really hon autobiographical comics. Much est too. Issue #9 was a stellar like the comic's main character Rob, Bob toiled away in The bad thing, 'cause like porn/Cracked comic obscurity. every relationship there is always The first graphic novel intro a bad thing, is issue #10. It leaves duces you to Rob, his girlfriend tionships the way they really are. you hanging and Fingerr Silvia, his roommate Jack, their The characters jump to conclu n't put out anoth< friends, co-workers, and of sions because of their jealousy. He's done other more ambiti course, the other citizens of New Rob's friends remind me of mine. comics, but no peep aboul York. The focus is primarily on Even his thoughts are familiar. Minimum Wage. This Rob and his relationship with Far from two dimensional, just a chronicle of his first mar Silvia. At this point, they're con the story con riage; I guess he moved on. It's e templating moving in together. Rob and Silvi shame because besides Skinheadi Now you could say there is not a together, his friends help him in Love, I still think Mi hell of a lot going on, but you'd move, there's a pregnancy scare Wage is the best he' be wrong. Fingerman imbues the and a comic convention. They But what do I know. I'm biased cliaracters with gallons of life. It's argue, they look at Edward it made everything alright. • an adventure accompanying Rob Hopper, they attend two very dif to work, or to one of Silvia's par ferent funerals, and they get Send comics for review to Kill Your ties. Even going to the bathroom engaged. It's life, folks. It made Bofriend, c/o DiSCORDER leads to interesting observations me realize that I was human, and Magazine. The address, in case you as he encounters Jack after a bout it was comforting. Now it's just wanna know, is #233-6138 SUB of sex. These people are quite funny. I can look back and laugh. Boulevard, Vancouver, BC V6T 121, real. The storytelling is honest. Who knew comics could be so Canada. Comix Initially it was the cats flying interactive? around the room while Rob and Artistically, I love this comic. Silvia were having sex that sold Fingerman's style is bombastic me on the comic. But even after and squishy. Great in-your-face reading it tlie fourth time, it still design. Things almost literally fly cracks me up. off the page. Cartoony and Minimum Wage portrays rela grotesque, but incredibly fitting. RADIO BERLf [THE EPIDEMIC •I AM COMPLTLEY OPRATIOCOMINN LG" CAUGUSO (ACHT E13TH 005) 1 • • Hour Best DUBSS J^CHE ?4CHE| SE^gSaHSB "courage." The formal device of process, but it also galvanizes cutting it into labeled sections some interesting talent. though, kept its sad, pitiful air from landing in my stomach THE PLUG HOLE where it belonged. I liked On the evening of Friday, Middleton and Taylor's On The September 7, 15 artist-run gal Romance Tip—a blurred cruise leries and independent through discos and neon-lit spaces—including The Crying streets to a growled down Room, Dynamo, Gallery ABJECT CINEMA sed the abject as I began Michael Jackson tune. Nice and Gachet, and Video-In—will be Thursday, July 19 ?rstand it—as a kind of looked. But the manky little tro holding simultaneous openings The Blinding Light!! nic debasement. The defin- phy goes to Emily Vey Duke ingly visible of exhibitions and performance ver the nurturing s given to the image-makers and Cooper Battersby's Totally Meesoo Lee intercut black and art during the second annual the Blinding Light's . "the transgressive, thedis- Abject 11. A woman on a bed jug white clips of Connie Frances Swarm. All the events are free McKenzie gave 12 I ing or the horrifying" and gled her breasts while tuneless with found footage of unbeliev of charge and most begin some E where between 7 and 8pm. One iugh there was plenty of ly singing an oh-baby type song able American commercials for teed screening, a deadline, going on, it seldom felt as into a hand-mic, which she then cosmetic enhancements in his that looks unmissable is Laura LO dollars each, then sent t vas coming from a place of held to her male companion's Babak and Irene Loughlin's off to "make a movie w tion. As a last resort I con- naked butt. This was not porn. With a title like Lesbian Take A Pill at Gachet. It's an exhibition exploring "constructs somehow addresses the abji d the dictionary: degraded, It was not titillating. It was Robot 2ombie At The Door, Kiley ME/!NS!ALU!I0N BY IRENE 10UGHUN Six months later, the tiny In ng in self-respect, wretched, hilariously abject. The atrocious Fithen will never need to give a of female hysteria through the was bulging with a suppoi rable, base. And, I would sound quality and the mono plot synopsis. She obviously AS PART OF THE TAKE A PILL EXHIBITION examination of sedation, panic and control" and will include but discerning audience, t devoid of ironv—which is chrome dimness didn't hurt had fun making this one, splay AT GALLERY GACHET. to see the results. it can be so devastatingly either. It could have been an ing giddily over the schlock, performance, installations and horror and comedy genres to a sidewinders, it almost outdid video. There will even be a lec soundtrack of oompah accor- him—if that's not too hard to ture by Dr. Marie Loughlin on / liked Middleton and Taylor's On The Romance Tip—a blurred cruise dian and cheesy organ. Wild believe. It featured a vulgar, "Hysteria Through The Ages" through discos and neon-lit streets to a growled down Michael Jackson tune. costumes and prosthetic geni tarty mother (in the Divine at 6pm. When Irene told me tals abounded. mold, of course) and her about this, it was evident she'd All shot on vi And now we come to the Michelin-baby daughter, as well been mining the humour as irks ranged fron full nine yards section. The as a portrait of Nancy Reagan well as the horror. Maybe guys rest of the films took a longest film was Betaville, an with arms that reached outside could go dressed as Lydia ambitious, futuristic noir piece of the frame and a herd of Pinkham. Anyway, lock into a but who's kvetching? about selling out to creeping insane party guests. The best complete list of the participat the shorter pieces tend- totalitarianism. Carefully script thing was that due to a comput ing venues and start mapping ->e the most abstract. ed, well acted, and stylishly er crash the previous afternoon, r Frise's Abject Bliss shot, it tasted a bit like that Brit Lockhart was still editing this The Tiger Lillies are coming Mthel like an impressionistic television series, Ultraviolet. monster while the other screen back. Wednesday, September 5, •ally 1 essay about death and The most lavishly outra ings were already underway. 8pm at the Culch. Please, just irts of it looked hand- geous and entertaining offering She got it to the cinema just in go. This might be an easier ning t Jane Lee's Feeling Sentimental, a was Amy Lockhart's Miss time to seamlessly close the pro place to live if more people are Others had girl held what looked like a pile u>st inaudible but it still Edmonton Teen Burger 1983. To gramme. infected with what they've got. • every penny o n bare of small, beautifully coloured e blissful than abject. In say that John Waters was leer I hope the Blinding Light like videotape. stones—'til she begins to eat ing over the proceedings is an does this sort of thing again. It's The interesting thing for i them. They surrendered to her understatement, but in terms of not only a nice little parody of was how few of the films act teeth like rich chocolates 'til I sheer audacity and surreal the official film funding from the UK, and even though special case. In case there's a breaks in chances are they don't it's the same record, the covers fire. I don't keep them in alpha have the time or the strength to fucking are different. Or maybe I have betical order. I'm not insane. 1 take the records. (If you try and the record but not the cassette group them according to how I catch you, I'll cut my records bullshit or the CD. I have to have every good they are. The thing with into throwing stars and aim for format. Or maybe I have the records is they stay where you your throat.) record, but I'll get another copy put them. They're not going to by christa m. So I don't even know if it's and not open it. I'll just keep it leave you. Bob Dylan isn't the records. It's just that the sealed. In case it goes out of going to start fucking Patty records, they're mine. And I print and I ruin the first copy, Waters when you're not look care about them. 'Cause I guess ecords are my crack. I and a couple illegible letters on have the bad one. I'll never lis crease the corner or something. ing. They're nice that way. And you have to care about some- fucking buy too many it, unless it's a double LP (the ten to it, but I have to have it. I keep the good records in a they're heavy. So if somebody Rrecords. I don't even like spine's twice as thick, see) and Without it, it'd be like having a music. Even the records I have, that might look nice from a dis dictionary where some jerk 85% of them are garbage. Okay, tance. Anyway, if the record ripped out the whole F section. I okay, within the room where sucks, I'm sure as hell not going could look up erection and grasp they sit they're shitty. Relative to pull it out, let alone take out but not fuck. That's just wrong. to the outside, they're alright. the actual record to see the mar It gets out of hand trying to But still I don't listen to most of bled vinyl, as pretty as it may complete the collection. The them. First, I have to feel like be. Well, sometimes I do that. I ing my listening to one. The chances think, What the fuck am I doing r. I vt s feel- that I'm going to feel like listen- with litis record? And 1 pull it out I this o to buck it out the window but obviously something better to guy took my money then then remember it's beauty. listen to, are pretty fucking low. turned his computer off. Now Fucking stupid. I'm back to searching through 1 might remember what it Still, I keep crappy sound crates of crap. It takes a long sounds like in my head. I might ing ugly records too, either time. If I go to a different city, I remember it sounding good. 1 because they're part of a set or spend most of the time staring have a bad fucking memory. because they're old and hard to at the phone book trying to find So I have a lot of records find. Usually, if I like the way the record stores. Then I hover that I don't like. The problem is one record sounds I have to get over record bins, flipping until that I won't get rid of them. The every other record associated I get a callus. Then my neck number one reason that t won't with the one I like. There's starts to hurt. It's not fun. I for trash a record is because it looks always a stupid album in there. get to look at the trees and I nice. Maybe I like the cover, or Maybe two. Sometimes I can never find what I'm looking for. maybe the wax is white. Both of make a cutoff point like I won't Sometimes I find things I these excuses are ridiculous get any of the records they already have and buy them because there's not enough made after '81. But say they anyway. You never know what room to put the records on dis made a good record in '78 and might happen to the first copy. Or maybe the first one's the US play. Ail I can see is the spine, in '80 and the one they made in release and the second one's '79 is the worst. I still have to 6 September 2001 day. I let it in and we sat around has brought editor Robert talking about romantic ideal- Helms some attention from sev , the i r of a eral media sources since GPZ's woman's visit to the crotch doc inception. This is the eighth tor and hand-drawn film mak i. Do n ;stlm ing. It then ate all my Lucky geeks. He's asking $6 US bucks Charms and drank milk right from us Canadians for one issue out of the bottle. Needless to which is pretty well worth it, I say, I was kinda pissed, but I think. Write to GP2, PO Box couldn't hold a grudge for long 42531, Philadelphia, PA 19101. s SLUG AND on't you hate the way because for all its sloppiness Andrea Gin of TURF LETTUCE, which I'm happy to ad agencies co-opt again, Notebook Comix carries itself informs me of her scheduled report, still exists after 68 issues! Dideas from cool sources namely A READER'S GUIDE with such naive charm, what Turf zine fifth birthday party. S&L is not for the visually to manipulate their target con TO UNDERGROUND PRESS can you do? I was handed a Sounds like fun to me. She sa) S impaired by any means, the sumer? Hell, I do, and so does (formerly 2inc World, a name small roll of black film with a there's three bands (Ewoks, type looks to be about 5 point. PUBLIC WORKS, a monkey- changed by the co-opting of the short bio of film experimenter Birthday Machine, and The This makes the print run (20 wrencher zine for the free-radi word "zine" by way too estab Len Lye. I just stood there shak Battles) playing on October 6 at pages, 11x15, newsprint) cost cal, b.s. detecting activist right lished magazines and websites). ing my head and said, Ms. T's, and while I'm probably Probably the best thing about effective and the amount of sub here in our own yard. So stop "Notebook Comix, you're a weird ing to? Hail jumping the gun on announc ARGTUP is the news and letters stance is enormously compre that self-loathing and loath kid, but I like ya." bizarre niche racket. ing it I'll take the chance of those who market happiness sections that keep readers and hensive. Zinesters and bands Russ Forster's illustriously Now, if you haven't run embarrassing myself and others while funding the politics of the publishers up to date on free may like to know that S&L's eccentric 8-TRACK MIND was across a GUINEA PIG ZERO if any changes occur. dead. Public Works makes me speech and civil liberties issues, focus is firmly set in the punki- mailed all the way from 23145 yet, you're really missing true By the time you read this, feel good about what people are and there are plenty of authori ty punk punk realm so you may Melrose, East Detroit, MI 48021. greatness in independent peri the Comix and Stories event learning and what they're tarian censorship stories; there want to just hang on to your The weird thing though, is that odicals. GPZ's focus is all about will have taken place at the doing (peacefully) to thwart always will be. The reviews are sensitive poetry, kitties, and it appears to be a couple years people used as scientific experi- Heritage Hall. I'd like to know this menace. This is matter-of- always painfully honest. One ponies zine, right? Slug, and old now. I suspect that Russ opm fact information with a great item making the news this time Lettuce just requires 75 cents of heard something about this zine these •xperii layout and just the right is the long overdue return of US postage to be delivered to review column and thought we amount of humour and street- Factsheet 5. Some sucker forked your abode, a good deal, con might be interested in the inter incurred. Although completely like these. Did you feel it was level directivity. The most over the exorbitant amount of sidering the crap that you find view with Vancouver's own 8- clinical and therefore disturb worth it? What did you like or important local zine in a long, cash! Whatever. Here are 92 on magazine shelves for $6. Track tape manufacturer Scott ing, the articles keep the reader not like? I had no involvement long time. Get more info at pub- pages of phenomenal reading. Contact PO Box 26632, Livingston (Tosk Recordings), in it, so feel free to just be hon [email protected] and find $5 US for Canadians. Send to Richmond, VA 23261-6632. who appears to live in my est, I'd like to know. Send com- one around the independent PMB 2368, 537 Jones St., San Kyla Sweet's NOTEBOOK 'hood, yo. Russ, the 8-Track's keep eyes glued to the page (not shops and keep it out of the Francisco, CA 94102. COMIX ($2, PO Box 19146, most flamboyant apostle, been tried, yet). The voyeuristic speckfanzine@yaho< boss's reach, okay? Another publication that Vancouver, BC V6J 4R6) came apparently threw in the zine nature of the articles and stu amazing amount of knocking at my door the other Speaking of the boss (not towel at issue 100. What's the diously acquired knowledge when we unblinking types at room is up a ladder) and general CiTR received this pamphlet for shitty attitude from the city, the "ODE," a website that in its province and the Feds to do any design and rhetoric resembled thing brilliant that might actual Ikea, we just wrote it off as ly blow Vancouver up out of its panarticon some confused dotbomb. When capitalist-drugged slumber. the invitation came in to see the With that in mind, think art and "Showroom" at the TAG experimental electronic music at Gallery, boy were we feeling Refrains, a conference and per- silly. ODE, conceived by artist "Weapons Hint combine good design, is in: glasses, buttons, dorky Sarah Beck, is all about making good function and good quality with and dumpy yet sexy from Janet freedom through weapons— prices so low tiiat as many people as pos Glover contrasted the skirts such as the "Rooikat" tank- sible will be able to afford than. "—ODE over pants and hooked available to everyone, with little sweaters from Heather Young. assembly required (just an ART IS POLITICS Sarah Edmonds accessorized Allen key). You can still catch it n 1974 Mr. Peanut ran for her models with intricate and all online at www.shopode.com. Mayor in Vancouver, com delicate paper pirate ship and Iplete with costume, porno crow hats. Urban conscious, BLACK DEATH graphic press photos, tap retro-bohemian Left Bank sub . 7EfFkSAU®ai< o 0 S 7'c» listen to Disintegration if I owned it on vinyl, C2 CE but the record store never seems to have it in." Subcultures are often brief resting Stops on the way to adulthood. Who out there doesn't know someone—or 50 someones—who passed through punk while heading toivards a dif ferent bland equilibrium? Though my own involvement in Vancouver's cloudy and divided punk scene has ranged along a continuum span ning "marginal" to "imaginary," it still boggles me how many faces have remained familiar over so many years. Andy Dixon got thrown into Vancouver punk at the age of 12; he's been there ever since. As a founding member of the recently deceased d.b.s. and the currently active Red Light Sting, Andy has, at the age of 21, accumulated more experience as a live musician than most peo ple his age. Saying that he feels "like a jaded old man already," Andy just released a full-length CD, titled I Am Compltley Oprationl, of his solo studio ivork as The Epidemic. I talked to Andy in a Kitsilano park on a sunny August afternoon after a long day of work. 3 02 8 September 2001 DiSCORDER: Tell me how you became The Epidemic. Could you tell me about your record label? New York or something. They had just put out their first Andy Dixon: I was in the Red Light Sting, and I wanted to It's called Ache Records. The first release was the Hot Hot record, and they blew my mind—I'd never heard anything do something with a little more melody. My brother got me a Heat 7" and it came out in the spring of 2000. It's pretty new. like that. And that was five, six years ago. Most of the stuff I couple of music programs—I guess it was an early Christmas It started with that, and then we did the split LP with Hot Hot was listening to five years ago I hate now! present—and I just started experimenting with them. Heat and the Red Light Sting. Then we did the last d.b.s. EP, What else were you listening to five years ago? And that was this year? and then technically the Radio Berlin LP and The Epidemic Ugh, a lot of metal-hardcore. That was in the wake of the Yes, the fall of 2000. CD, but my CD wound up coming out first because of prob "emo explosion." The Promise Ring, Jawbreaker, both of Which programs do you use? I know a lot of your work is lems with the Radio Berlin LP. Them's the breaks, I guess. whom I still like. In hindsight, there were a lot of really bad sampled guitars, etc... You also run the button company, If I Only Had A Heart... "emo" bands that came out around that time whose names I Yeah, a lot of samples. There's a program called Fruity Loops, Yeah, the little badges. We were up all night working on that. can't really remember. I'm sure I liked them all at the time. a sequencing program, and then Cakewalk and Cubase, It's really busy right now, I think because it's the summer and And you did the graphic design [with Jack Duckworth] for which are actual recording programs. And then one called bands are on tour. the / Am Compltley Oprationl CD. Is that something you're Cool Edit Pro which I just use to touch things up with. I don't know how big a button press is, but 1 assume it just trained in, or did you pick it up along the way? Is the Epidemic exclusively a recording project for you? fits on a desktop. No, I didn't go to school for it or anything. I took a couple of I'm trying to figure out how to do it live, but I don't really Exactly. It's pretty small. I can't really remember what moti classes at Cap College, but that wasn't design at all. Just get know how I can do it yet. vated us to buy it. I think we'd stayed at a guy's house in Photoshop and just go nuts. It would be heavy; you'd have to carry a lot of stuff around. New York, our friends from I-Farm had one. We played with I thought the cover was very cool looking. It makes me I don't really know if it's possible, but I'd really like to. So it and thought it was really cool. Then about a year later we think of the surfacy, glossy side of Vancouver—anonymous maybe I could either make it more electronic live so I can just decided to invest in one. When I got a high-paying job all looking corporate buildings and banks. use samplers and stuff, or find more people to play the these ideas started coming [laughs]. Yes, that's totally what I was going for. Anonymous architec instruments. I'm not sure how it's going to work. Is the button business paying off? ture. My friend Nicola had pictures of exactly what I was Your other bands are/were definitely more "live"-oriented. Yes. It's the only thing that's paid off. We do 300 buttons a looking for, she had them lying around, so I asked if I could Yeah, and it's fun because whenever I've been in bands where night in order to get enough money to put out the next use them. we were recording, it's always been like, "Well, we'd like to record. The buttons feed the record label. It's almost at the point where the photos break this archi do this, but we could never do that live so we shouldn't do Interesting that it's the only thing that pays off. It just shows tecture so far down to surfaces that it doesn't even look like it." It's fun to have the other end and say, "I'm not doing this how unbalanced things are between music and merchandise. a building anymore. live, so I can do whatever I want." I know, it's so ridiculous. That's sort of her gig these days. I thought it went with the Besides that, are there any differences between working in I remember reading an article about heavy metal in the music as well: a cut-up look at things. A deconstructionalist "live"-oriented bands like d.b.s. or the Red Light Sting and 1980s that featured some statistic that said certain metal look at things. doing a studio project? Or is it just the way it makes you bands sold many times more t-shirts than records. So maybe Well, the way a sampler works is by grabbing a little piece think about songwriting... you're continuing that tradition. of something bigger and then exploding it... Exactly. If I'm writing a song then I don't have to have it all I don't even know why that is. I think it's because it takes Yeah, making something unidentifiable and then doing what- together and bring it to some other people. It's a much short longer to get money back from a record. You have to go r VOl nth it er process. I can just say, "Oh, I like that one riff," and record through a distributor, who has to go through local stores. The What's your favourite song on J Am Compltley Oprationl? it now, and then I can go and do other things. It's more cut- local stores sell it, pay the distributing company, and then Which one are you the most proud of? and-paste. You can't really do that when you're negotiating they pay us, and then we pay the band. With a button you Probably the last two because they're the newest. They were with other people. It gives you the freedom to do whatever pay it all at once. The parts aren't that expensive, and you get tacked on just as I was finishing mastering. I don't know you want, but there's also no one else to tell you when some the money right away. Someone says, "I need 300 buttons and what it is about them. I'm proud of the drum programming thing sucks. here's the money," and then... you know what I mean? It's a on the second-to-last song. On the subject of freedom: you've obviously been active in way quicker transaction. I liked "Robert Smith Vs. Crosstown Music" because I have the Vancouver punk scene for a long time, and I'd like to Zoe Verkuylen [from the Red Light Sting] works with you a weird, ambivalent connection to that place. I only go there know whether you think that people are more open to on that and on the label as well? maybe once or twice a year now. Also, I was thinking about experimental stuff than they used to be. Do you think it's We do them both together. the contrast between the very surfacy, glossy side of easier to do things that aren't necessarily "punk rock" in the What kind of music have you been listening to lately? Vancouver portrayed in your cover art, and then also the strictest sense of the word? A lot of electronic stuff; that Mouse on Mars album, Idiology, other side, which is the side I'm more familiar with and [Dubious] I don't know. Back then, when I was 14 or whatev is really good. I just got an Electric Company CD, it's really comfortable with. I can't really relate to the bank facades er, I wouldn't have thought about it. I don't think it's really good. Joan of Arc is one band I can't stop listening to. and the anonymous buildings, but I can relate to the idea changed that much. A lot of "scenes" these days are meshing When I was listening to your CD, I kept thinking about of Crosstown Music. more... maybe since Refused did The Shave of Punk to Come Joan of Arc—not because it sounds like Joan of Arc but I wanted to name some of the specifics of the city so that peo with electronic elements. A lot of people are blurring the lines because I've only heard little bits of that band—because it ple could be like, "Hey, I know that place! All right!" But seri more and maybe it's easier to get away with stuff like that. made me think of the term "pro-tools pop." I've heard some ously, I've been going into that store once a week for almost a It also might have to do with the fact that the technology is people describe Joan of Arc in those terms as well. year to see if they have Disintegration by the Cure on vinyl, a little more easily available than it was then. Seriously, I would say that if I had to pick my favorite band of and they never do. My friend Matt Smith actually bought me Yeah, and it's cheaper and more people know about it than all time, it might be them, d.b.s. actually played with them. a copy somewhere on Davie Street, but it doesn't play very in, say, the mid or early '90s. The first time I heard them was when we played with them in well. It's really scratched. So I'm going to keep looking.* 9S{£gIM^Effi culture shock anthony monday; hen I woke up this my "Gays Against Gays" col COAL LX is saying about them. (She's The bands, ranging from morning, I felt a little umn. This month's column is Beautiful Afterburn ripping into them, I suspect. country-inflected (Neko Case & fuzzy. Not fuzzy in all about the ass, if you had not (Coal Music) She's an uncompromising girl.) Her Boyfriends, Carolyn Mark W & Her Roommates, recent the hangover sense. Not fuzzy already figured it out. Coal is Vancouver's sexiest- Listen to the CD and you'll be And at "Pride" there was sounding band. If you're some impressed by the sincere hard- signees Tennesse Twin), to sub Ass. Hard-bodied military men one who swoons over Chris edgedness. Better yet, go see frat/garage rock (The rubbed their crotches with fake Isaak, then you can think of them play live and get the visu- Evaporators, Thee Goblins, guns. Underwear-clad ravers Coal as a girl-fronted, smokier, The Smugglers), and a wide danced atop trucks, the rain www.victorianpork.com range of post-punk, pop/rock soaking them and their skimpy London, you can think of Coal (The New Pornographers, as a kind of post-punk, post- STAR COLLECTOR Duotang, Operation Makeout, dergarr country, post-surf, post-grrl- Black-Eyed Soul New Town Animals), as well as core take on her style. In other those Albertan surf meisters words, Coal's songs will make Huevos Rancheros and deadly- ' that crazy, stupid cool electronicats I Am alio Spoonbender, all manage to e thm what to expect, but the mere sound happy to be on the Mint sight of it put the Monkees lilac •Eyed ating their 10th the Mint boys can v r street, where the wicket tions you had back when you clain Vj marched, it was a hideou: different—I ended up with were dropping acid. (Not that I "Motorcycle," from that first npus radio, and have would know about that.) Maybe CD, stuck in my brain. (Ah, the recently made splashes in both you've settled down and put Beatlesy guitar intro, the weird the big American magazines these things behind vou, but lyrics....) Perhaps I had too and the big Canadian music Nicole and her gang'of crack many expectations, or maybe awards. (Of course no one who musicians will bring it all back, Star Collector is suffering some knew founders Bill Baker and asses that rose and sunk in the on this CD better than ever. And kind of sophomore jinx, but Randy Iwata back in their CiTR you will like it. www.geoci- sadly I must say that nothing on days is surprised by this.) But of I turned away, and caught ties.com/coalmusic Black-Eyed Soul grabbed me in course there's a lot more to Mint my reflection in a shop win quite the same way. than Neko Case and The New dow. Is this how it feels when VICTORIAN PORK Pornographers. With 13 bands It's not a bad CD. There are the doves cry? I asked myself. Victorian Pork spread across 23 tracks, this saying that 1 crap my pants plenty of good things here, like Later, in the clubs—because (Porcine Music) compilation is a sampler in the without knowing or have mem the band's continuously good that is what Pride weekend is Since I didn't have much luck best possible sense, offering ory lapses, or any other signs of musicianship and the writers' all about, isn't it?—I saw the with the band's website, I'm smatterings from all across the the decay of the body. I am just sense of hooks. More specifical same men dance. I saw their going to rely on my own knowl label's output of the past five suggesting the possibilty that, ly, there are details, like the essential asses shaking, I saw edge of Victorian Pork. So years. It's not entirely even- • at 26, I have fallen beyond the groovy bass riff that forms the their quintessential Ass. And I here's my own totally unautho handed—for instance there are desirable youthful body. Hair backbone of "Talisman," that was 26, single, with a little more rized list of band facts, based on three tracks each for Duotang sprouts in places it wasn't tell you the band knows what hair on my stomach, and the 20- seeing them play a couple of and The Smugglers, but only before and disappears from it's doing. But there was a cer times in the past year or so, and one each for a couple of my where it was. The fact remains: year-old boys in the bodies of tain freshness and lightness that vague memories of other peo- favourites, Operation Makeout I do not look like a Ken-doll about the ass than any other men writhed together, they made the first CD such a find, pie's stories: and Huevos Rancheros. (Then anymore, and when I shake my month of the year, and so it danced on, danced the light and those qualities just aren't to 1. Victorian Pork, in its original again, this just might inspire me would be unfair of me to judge fantastic—strobe lights and be found in Black-Eyed Soul. Is it to buy a couple more CDs, By this admission, I am not my essential ass-ability against disco balls. They seemed to be the dirtier guitars, or the nastier right?) The point is to give lis suggesting that I have totally the other asses of this month, mocking me and my less-than- Vancouver's very first punk (but more forced-sounding) teners a chance to hear things lost my ass-shakeability. I know pert buttocks. It seemed like lyrics? Are they just too slick? they might not otherwise, so if 2. In the current incarnation, the I'm not sure, but I'm just not bassist is a former member of you already love Neko, you'll (most famously) The Pointed discover the reverb-embracing Sorry, Star Collector. Maybe Bif this admission, I am not suggesting that I have totally lost my Sticks, and the drummer used Corn Sisters, which will lead to be in The Enigmas, Big you to one of the cleverest song ass-shakeability.I know I still maintain a certain shaking-ass-ness, aGuns , and others. www.starcollector.ca writers and best live performers 3. The singer/guitarist, LX, is anywhere, Carolyn Mark. modicum of sex in my pants. V/A still in her teens. If you've been missing cub, Team Mint Volume 2! 4. LX's dad is the bass player. Operation Makeout may be just (Mint Records) (Could this be the world's only the ticket. If you yearn for there the skimpy bathing suits their behinds joined together, Even though I know better, father-daughter punk band?) happy/loud mile-a-minute boy and tight shorts to reveal grew and melded until it was I harbour a romantic image of 5. LX has only been playing gui rock, perhaps it's time you tried "Ass"—as an entity within only me, thumping music and a life over at Mint Records. I like tar for a year or so, but now she the New Town Animals. And if itself—but also there was a giant perky bum, laughing and to imagine the bands all is »the* band guitarist; this you're wondering why no one more insidious, more viscous mocking. I left, quickly, still sin squeezed into the label's tiny are younger, firmer asses out includes solos. has ever arranged for a musical gle, still 26, sagging. Running office space, drinking, laughing, there now. Asses which shake a 6. She also writes most of the collision of Bacharach, Pizzicato sharing delicious gossip as they little faster, a little better, a little all feel insecure about our just as fast as I could. Holding songs, with lyrics as snotty as 5, and The Sonics, then obvious stuff envelopes, listening to rounder. They've got the right behinds. Yes, 1 am talking about on to my own hand. Trying to her singing style. ly you haven't heard "The Rise Nuggets compilations, Hank stuff, baby. Vancouver's "Pride" parade. get away into the night, and In some ways, the list says and Fall of the GQBC." by Williams, and maybe Cheap Although, perhaps I should Now, why "They" would then I put my arm around me it all. VP has unbeatable punk Duotang. name such a parade "Pride" is and I tumbled to the ground Trick and some 1950s stereo not use this past month as a cred, combining first generation The verdict? This is both a beyond my capabilities. and then I said, "I think I'm sound effects records. This little gauge of my quintessence of punk and real-life teen mem compilation everyone should Pride is, apparently, based alone now. There doesn't seem fantasy of mine isn't based in assness. It was summer, and bers. Their songs are short, fast, have and a document of one of on how great it is to be gay to be anyone around. I think and loud. The band is tight and the reality of this admirable therefore, all about the ass. Canada's most important indie because look-at-the-great- I'm alone now, the beating of competent but keeps things label, of course—it comes Anyone would have ass com record labels. Congratulations und erwea r- we-ha ve-a nd -look- my heart is the only sound." simple, and the CD (thank god) instead from listening to their petition during summer to everyone at Mint, and happy is not overproduced. There's releases. Whether it's Tankhog months, would they not? And how-na ked-we-can-get-in-a-pu Send me back to Kuwait. At birthday! • even a song about The or cub, from way back in the old in August too: the prime ass blic-space. But that is a topic of least there I am wanted for my Buzzcocks—my only regret is days, or any of the songs on month. August is always more another column dear readers: whiteness, not my ass. • that I can't quite make out what Volume 21, there's a certain joyous Mintness that comes through. 10 September 2001 CiTR 0 J PROFILE! CiTR OJ PROFILE! Maren Hancunt Spike Stand And Be Cunted The Northern Wish Mondays, 3:00 to 4:00pm Wednesdays, 10:00 to 12:00pm Record played most often on your show: A tie between Plumtree's Plumtree Predicts the Future, Starling's Sustainer and The Be Good Tanyas' Blue Horse. Record you would save in a fire: My original vinyl pressing of Rheostatics >rd you would save in a fire: Greatest Hits. If I could get away with two, then I'd also grab my Infamous :er Du, New Day Rising. Scientists Trouble 12". .rd that should burn in hell: Record that should burn in hell: Anything by pre-fabbed boy and girl bands, because I really hate that shit, and almost all gangsta rap, except for NWA. Worst band that you like: It's a dead heat between Nelly Furtado and Matthew raphed by Lydia Lunch and Ani Good Band. Last record you bought: It was actually two—that Gorillaz self-titled debut and Sigur Ros' Agaetis Byrjun. First record you bought: Get this: Boney M's Nightflight to Venus'. I thought it was t Record you bought: cool that the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica were "singing" on the title track! Musician you'd like to marry: Lynette Gillis from Plumtree. But if she thinks I'm rd you bought: gross, then maybe either Kathleen Hann.i, Neko Case, or Alicia Keys. You can rnw/ the Poets of Rh\ see I've thought about this a LOT... maybe too much. 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CA 94119 www.fatwreckc 1lE[£g£5£3£ TUB at Charle Bukowski. In another, through me. I am drawn to reread she deals with a physiotherapist and delve into the taste of knowl visit am bad underwear. The edgeable, political prose on reli "SI I' t everyday mundane is extraordi- gion and land, murder and law, over my shoulder nary here and the everyday prob- through the eyes of a Native; the lem has apocalvptic overtones. dissection of "Oh, Canada;" isn4 words on Lowry, Hopkins and These Po ems are good,' and there Punty. He thinks straight through, as evident in the tricky art of liter ^^^^^^ 1 wandering cloud in sight. ary criticism, which refrains from GEORGE BOWERING opacity to give it straight up, enthusiastic and jubilant, hungry addressing er sub]. A Magpie Life: Growing A Writer T^,:::!.::::;::.ir;e; 3ifl for the words and their charades, 1 Series of Unfortunate Events. (the polities . I'licDt I(Ke y Porter Books) and yet not afraid to casually ns with facts about lower income brackets. On a fur- Okanagan-born Bowering has F We are still lioping to inter Is Open beg '11 ! mention the junctures of deeper kmada and is com- ther tangent, I have to say that always juggled the two disparate view the man behind the poverty in reflection: Charles Olson on one ologue, an epilogue, there's something fucked up with 1 fictio misery, Mr. Daniel Handler. We've posed of a p genre side, with Ezra Pound as his ters interspersed by a society that cares more for the -garde language poetry. In tried email, fax, post, carrier and 10 cha IMItN 1 ghost; Jacques Derrida on the excerpts taken from welfare of dogs and cats than it Magpie, the terrain between the pigeon, earner crow. His people well-selecte other, with Heidegger's spectre. Campbell's diary, does for its impoverislied and dis- two becomes the "biotext," an writer Bar Unlike most memoirs, there is lit icles his three-and-a- enfranchised. sitting without headache or hate. extension of the writer composed "flev'hav^HrkHlliappedtv tle glory gloating of the past nor More importantly, there's some of an "Alphabiography," reminis Snicket's villain, Count Olaf. half vt ar stint as a volunt I could go on, but in order to prosaic prophecies on the future. thing good and dirty about cent ramblings, essays, and gos Due to mv addiction to the drop-i i centre, The Door Is Ope, void descending into a long rant, Caught up in the life of a magpie, Livingston's writing, which cen sip. Writing in a cyclic fashion, misfortunes of Snicket's three ell covers everytlun m going to end here and say that there simply becomes the dance of Campt ters on the relationship of the self Bowering often repeats himself, Baudelaire orphans, 1 have beei rice w ne and heroin, to lis is one of the best books I've the flight itself, and the n to loved and unloved ones. Her but the simple language betrays a lazy on the adult book front. 1 dk and w irking girls, to crim i>ad all year. verse is city-wise. It's the chick at complex structure of thought, of the a and v manage to finish two books just ii gentri ication. He explores the back of the church hinting at forgetting and remembering. With time to dash off this column. Las facet o f poverty and Vanco BILLIE LIVINGSTON sex and only half-heartedly tales of hedonism and rebellion, The sort of world Bowering month, 1 promised small presse downt >wn eastside with a The Chick at the Back of the repenting for it. from writing the Grandfather grew up in becomes sadly evident and poetry and I'm sticking to mv est ten ch. If this was a film I hate the terms "gritty" and poem to the Ubyssey, he illumi through its loss, as he laments the word. In honour of DiSCORDER' menta y there would be a 1 (Nightwood Editions) Billie Livingston, a member of the "urban" (you may as well write nates life in an intimate way that destruction of Okanagan peach that something is "shitty" and tricks me into believing his precise trees, and the culture and world I.link idol like "urbane"), but if you want some self-questioning. At the height of that loved them. A tracing is made generic terms to get your footing this belief, I am faced with here, a loss that extends to an ear because you don't really have an Shelley's choice: how did I come lier destaiction of this land and its interest in poetry, I'm throwing to believe, now that Bowering Native peoples through western them at you now. I hate the term turns around and questions him colonization. And all of this—a "vintage" even more, but there's self? A disquieting slippage, one commentary on time, on life, on nothing about The Chick at the Back that attempts to speak to an in- living itself—is the domain of an of the Church that could be the-know audience as well as an artist and a poet and a critic, who BART CAMPBELL described in such a way because academic culture he frequently has gone to the ends of honesty The Door Is Open: Memoir of a The Chick at the Back of the it's modern in its subject matter despises. and sincerity and language to Soup Kitchen Volunteer lurch is Livingston's first collec- of people and things. • (Anvil Press) in ol poetry, ami has been in the nd I feel that after 200 pages 1 know little about Bowering, The best memoirs seem to be talk .irks since 1992. 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This was the vision of the organizers, volunteers, read his book yet. All I knew watch repeatedly? Haruki Murakami. friends, performers, and (hopefully) audience members who par about the Columbia MFA gradu I've seen Francois Truffaut's What is it about Murakami ticipated in the first annual New Forms Festival. No, Roni Size was not ate zuas that he'd seen the film Shoot the Piano Player a few that makes him the rock star in effect, despite the festival s name: this was primarily a showcase of local Rushmore eight times, and that times and Kryzstof writer that he is? caught my interest because two of Kieslowski's White quite a lot. He makes the common place talent. The good people at Capital Media www.capitalmag.com organized my friends are obsessed with that And Superman III, whenever fantastic and the surreal com an ambitious three days of talent that featured DJs, dancers, MCs, Graffiti artists, video film. A few days later, I read that it's on TV—the most underrat mon place. Unlike people he's engineers, vocalists, and even a fashion show. The social pig that I am, someone who feels a he refused to make the protagonist ed installment of the compared to, like Delillo or general lack of community when it comes to these scenes. I volunteered for the weekend. of his first novel, Baroque-a- Superman tetralogy. Though Pynchon (at least, early Nova (a found title from a song this doesn't really compare to a Pynchon), he has a tender, on the jukebox at Helen's Grill), friend's wife who, as a child, romantic streak. He loves IIEUI FORmS FESGIVHL Chinese because he didn't want watched Grease II every day women; he loves women's the cover to have bamboo on it. after school for an entire year. ears! He loves pasta and the The next day I bought his book Do you have books that you Beatles! All this—such person and finished it in two sittings. I reread over and over? al, idiosyncratic stuff—and still discovered that Baroque-a-Nova I'm more the type of reader his books contend with meta is, among other things, a clever who finishes a book and physics and epistemology, as take on the modern preoccupation decides to read everything else well as the effect of history and with pop culture. The book has it by that author, but I've re-read totalitarianism on the present, all: a book banning, a series of Paul Auster's Moon Palace sev and the influence of technolo protests, a suburban kid with eral times, as well as Donald gy and mass-media. He's fear famous folk singer parents, and a Barthelme's Paradise. And I less and brilliant. And hard to German hip hop outfit named think I'll have to re-read Moby put down. Urethra Franklin. The following is Dick again—there was a quite What word in the English lan excerpted from several email a lot I missed. guage could you not do with exchanges. The title of your novel is out? taken from a jukebox song. DiSCORDER: How many What songs does a jukebox Why? times have you seen Wes have to have in order to be I like its abbreviated form, as Anderson's Bottle Rocket and great? opposed to "pervert." There's Rushmore'! Helen's Grill has a great juke some innocence in the word by Robert Robot Kevin Chong: The first time 1 box with many old Sinatra "perv" or "pervy." And there's uiltiple venues on Main Street. Poetry, live jazz and DJing at Lugz, the Public saw Rushmore was at the New tunes, as well as Procol Harum something naturally hyperbol Lounge, and Monsoon. I missed all that in order to help out with the main venue of the night and week York Film Festival. After the from the '60s and Kim Carries ic about it; there's a hangdog- end, Video-In Studios. Perhaps the most disjointed of the three evenings, the night began with a fashion screening, I approached Wes from the '80s. But as far as the comic ring to the word. sliow put on by a group of designers and a body painter. They created a high energy spectacle of play Anderson and told him I'd great NYC jukeboxes, like a What's in your CD player at fulness, with some very hip clothes, and models' scantily clad painted bodies. Unfortunately, tlie vibe cre seen Bottle Rocket 13 times, at couple of my favourites in the the moment? ated was oddly sucked out of tlie room wlien NoMigVideo artists (a la Cold Cut) took over the room. which point he thanked me—I East Village and in Brooklyn, In my car, a lot of stuff by Although their video art had merit, their low-key ambient aesthetic would have been better placed at the think, with pity. Now, I've seen there has to be a combination Grandaddy, a Modesto, CA beginning of the night, rather tlian quelling the vibe that the fashion show created. DJs Downlow and oth Bottle Rocket maybe 17 times of songs everyone knows and band. At home I've been listen ers provided ample sound backdrops between and after performances. (twice in the theatre) and loves (eg. The Rolling Stones' ing to a lot of XTC, NRBQ, The Saturday, August 4th Rushmore maybe 9 times (7 "Hot Rocks" or Marvin Gaye), New Year (made up of ex- Considered THE night of the festival, Saturday night showcased Vancouver's burgeoning liip hop scene. times in the theatre). some more obscure tunes Bedhead members) Ron Video-In is transformed into hip hop central with graffiti artists throwing up pieces in the back alley, and Why have you seen them so (Mona's on Avenue B has "The Sexsmith, and Loudon breakers sliowing off practiced moves before the talent hit tlie stage. Tlie stage was filled with perform many times? Only Ones" "Another Girl, Wainwright III. ers non-stop until 3am. Tliere were too many crews and MCs to mention, but tliere were a few notable I probably wouldn't watch Another Planet" and If someone were to pick up highlights. Mcenro, started off the evening. Luke Meat's doppelganger, Mcenro's opening comment, them as many times now, but Modern Lovers; Max Fish has the film rights to Baroque-a- "Just another white guy rapping to a CDR" is telling of tlie local scene and the evolution of the art form. at one point Bottle Rocket was Marquee Moon), and things you nova, who would you want to Fried chicken and multinational conglomerates are the monkeys on Mcenro's back. The Jah-blessed soul very much cherished by me wouldn't normally listen to at direct the film? ful flows of Ndidi Cascade and Denna countered the predominately male roster. The engaging words of head-shaved MC Kyprios provided the most insightful moments of the night. His poem entitled, "Hate" and a couple of friends for its home, but enjoy at a bar (Steve Richard Lester. He directed offered some well-received commentaries on racism. It's always nice to hear some political engagement. very idiosyncratic humour, a Miller). Superman II, Superman III, and Tlie DJ for the "Def Poets" was a sick scratcher. Wonderkut's' beatboxing and tight MCing was equally as wonderful Rolling Stones song When you first started writ A Hard Day's Night. Oh, and impressive. The energy of the night kept building and culminated with a free extended jam, comprising on its soundtrack, some very ing, was there an author that maybe Wong Kar-Wai. a number of tlie evening's MCs, DJs, as well as the three piece band Obese Beats. I've never seen a better memorable outfits, and its sen you were trying to emulate? George Harrison: hot or not? showcase of local hip hop and was quite impressed. sibility—it was knowing, but There's a whole genre of guys In A Hard Day's Night, he Sunday, August 5th not cynical. Rushmore was fair who thinks they're Leonard strikes me as a creepy uncle ly well-received—deservedly type. Billed as a"Kinetic evening of visual art, dance, and decadent deep house," Sunday night was a low-key version of the previous nights that went down at the Naked Lounge. Loren Knowles showed off lier exot so—but Bottle Rocket was large When I was 19 I wanted to Not at all! Definitely hot. ic dancing style accompanied by grooves. Local vocalists Mikela J Mikeal's exquisite voice and trip hop ly ignored when we saw it. write like Milan Kundera—ha! Anyone who can play guitar backbeat are set for stardom as far as I'm concerned. Troy Jaxon's strong vocal range was a nice segue into When I was younger, it used to The next year, I wanted to like that must have a soft tlie night's big act and only non-Vancouver performer, house DJ, Mauiricio (Naked Music) from San bother me that too many peo write like Paul Auster. The touch. ple liked my favourite band or year after that, Donald Who would play you in the Many months of planning and numerous snafus being avoided (tlie main venue, Video-In Studios almost my favourite movie; I don't Barthelme. And sometime after Kevin Chong movie of the being shut down days before the festival, being one), the NFF went off. Because each day focused on dif feel this way anymore. that, I realized I couldn't be ferent art forms, one had to attend at least two of the three days to get a true feeling for the festival. The Anyway, Bottle Rocket was a any of these writers—however George Harrison.* weekend was not designed to be a money maker, and the Capital organizers promise a bigger and better movie that felt like your own wonderful they were, however show next year. This city has too fucking few summer festivals—and festivals help to drive our strug property, which brought about much influence they had on gling scenes. 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Conscious, political and not without style, members and all over. There's going to be a Fresh Coast compilation of all of change for themselves. of Red Hip Hop and Tribal Wizdom speak on the Native hip hop this stuff, to be released on Fresh Coast Records. Would you call what Tribal Wizdom does "conscious hip hop?" movement that's hooking its claws into the Vancouver scene right I don't wanna say it's a political thing, but it is political. I guess some SHAWN OF TRIBAL WIZDOM people actually say that just being Native nowadays is a political thing. The three main ingredients of Tribal Wizdom are empower "In the darkest sections of most societies lies the truth. The truth is easy to DiSCORDER: So perhaps you can give us some background on ment, sovereignty, and resistance. Empowerment for the youth to face for those strong enough hut most humans are guilt-ridden, causing Tribal Wizdom. express themselves in positive ways. Sovereignty means actually fear when honesty is apparent. We live amongst capitalistic scavengers and Shawn: It started way back when the Native Youth Movement used doing things on our own without help from government agencies or neo-colonial [sell-out] leaders stripping the Earth of skin and blood. to have dances, like, five or six years ago at the Native Friendship outside people trying to control things; it's up to LIS to take it upon Anarchists and strippers gallivant the streets in fantasies of freedom. Center. We used to gather young people together so we could talk ourselves to be able to help ourselves. Finally, resistance is the state Scholars lie to students about the creation of western society while getting about the different issues that affect Native people and Native youth that we're in, to resist government and corporations. Tribal Wizdom paid money to oppress. Inside the atmosphere of poison oxygen you will in particular. So at these dances, the music of choice was hip hop. I travels and delivers workshops on colonization. We have an upcom find a formulation of matter that goes by the name of MANIK." found this was a really good tool to get young people together to ing show at the Native Friendship Center on September 4th. Also talk about the issues. We kept having the dances, and then I met up we have an upcoming benefit for human rights observers to be sent —redhiphop.com with Bonafide and Calvin, who were involved in the Vancouver hip down to Chiapas. hop scene, and I told them we should get these kids together and What are the links between the Native Youth Movement and MANIK OF RED HIP HOP talk about the things that are screwed up, like Ihe way the govern Tribal Wizdom? ment treats people, especially people of colour all over the world. So We need to make partnerships and help each other because we have DiSCORDER: So gimme the goods on what Red Hip Hop is all they were like, "Yeah man, let's do it!" So we set up these shows to. So we fully support each other and the work each of us does. • about, how long it's been going and who's involved. called Soul Survivor, and we had different speakers from the Native Manik: Redhiphop.com is a web site started up last summer, a Youth Movement and the West Coast Warrior Society and stuff like resource for people interested in Native hip hop. It's a mechanism that, to make people aware. After that was over I started Tribal for people to get a hold of artists and book them for shows and stuff. Wizdom to focus on the empowerment of our youth and self-expres Why hip hop? sion through hip hop, spoken word, and traditional music, to help KIM CASCONE Hip hop is the most popular music listened to by young people of people express themselves in positive ways. Coast to coast, I think every race. A lot of young Native people go for hip hop. like, 60% of our people are under 25, most of the population is What are your influences? young people and most of those people listen to hip hop. So if we JETONE/TIMHECKER Public Enemy was some of the first stuff I got into. can get some good rappers out there and send out a good message Did you identify with the conscious element of Public Enemy? for our young people, then we can maybe start building an army. Being young and Native, you know harsh life. It was uplifting to We can take back what's ours. listen to other people experiencing struggles. So who are some of the performers with Tribal Wizdom? What are some of your future plans? Manik and Chile and Os 12 are really focused on hip hop and so Well... to update the website and record a solo album, hopefully out they choose to take the route that is straight hip hop. Also my broth by Halloween. Redhiphop.com is in the process of organizing a er Horse performs. Indian Agent, Li'l Dave, Skeena Reece, Bird and Leonard Pelletier benefit album and a Native Youth Movement ben Rain, Mr. Phixx, Hip Hop Ikwe and a lot of other rappers from the efit CD. Basically, our plans are to do as many shows in as many underground Vancouver. places as possible. Regarding Native hip hop, I want to do stuff for What's your job with Tribal Wizdom? everyone. I do stuff for my people always, but I want everybody My job is to line up the venues and make sure the [show's] mes else to hear it too. I don't want it to be just Native hip hop. sages are good. I make sure they have a message first of all. I don't What else are you involved in? want any rapper coming up there and talking about gangsters and I've been rapping for nine years... but I'm also a part of the Youth pimping and hos and stuff. We can do without it, if they want that ONE DAY OF PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION ON THE JUNCTURES OF MUSIC AND CULTURE / ONE EVENING OF PERFORMANCES : ALL FREE "I don't want any rapper coming up there and talking about •erforman S by gangsters and pimping and hos and stuff. We can do without it, if . RETT (PENN STATE) STEVEN SHAVIRO (UW). STEVE they want that stuff they can check out Too $hort or whatever. I book DIPASQUALE (UBC). BRADY shows with conscious artists and get them exposed, empower them to CRANFIELD (SFU). CHRIS NCE AND PERFORMANCE '• LEE (BROWN). HENRY WAR create change for themselves." WICK. CHARLES HUDEDE REFRAINS [THE STRANGERJ'UORE MUSIC POLITICS AESTHETICS www.shrumtribe.com/refrains 15 E^gi^JL^-iES DiSCORDER: Do you guys mind going over one more time how band. I thought it was such a great match, what we're both trying to you all met and everything? I read on the website that two of you do musically. met at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. I wouldn't want to denigrate them or insult them at all, but do you Eileen: Yeah, Leslie and I used to play in Katari Taiko and Sawagi remember the drum solo in one of their songs, played on a con Taiko and we were—for the greater part of the '90s—invited to go ventional rock drum kit? After you, it just seemed like it couldn't play, so we were there as a group and Elaine... Elaine: Right, I was there playing with another group, so I'd seen Leslie: [with faux machismo] Well, they've got smaller sticks [laughs]. Eileen and Leslie over tlie years playing with taiko groups, but that Do you have any more plans for recording in the next little bit? was the first time I had actually met Eileen. I'm not sure if 1 had met Eileen: No. Well, we were commissioned to write a piece for a part [Leslie] at Michigan. So tliat's sort of where we met. of this project called The Reena Project based in Richmond. It's a And could you explain what exactly the Michigan festival group that is working with youth in the Richmond area and doing is all about? live performance, theatrical performance in several different loca Elaine: It's a big festival in the countryside in Michigan that tions in Richmond in September, and all based on the issues of celebrates women's music, women performers and artisans, and bullying and violence between girls... [to band] and what else? basically women's culture—it's a women only event. It's the biggest Elaine: It's family issues, issues of abuse, not having anything to do. women's music festival in the world. I think it draws around 10,000 So, the first performance, though I'm not positive, is September 13th people, maybe even more now. and the audience will just go out there and they get taken from site And has Loud played there as well? to site. The kids have written the different segments of the perfor Elaine: No. We might be a little weird for them. mance and our piece that we've recorded is in one segment. Really? Eileen: There's a link from our website to their site, so if you look on Eileen: We've applied, but tliey keep rejecting us [laughs]. "Upcoming," there are all the details about what days it's on and What kinds of musicians do get accepted? stuff like that. Elaine: They get some pretty edgy stuff now. I think it's just the How did your first CD come about? Where did you record and are same with any festival. There are thousands oi musicians who want you pleased with the results of it? Loud is mass to play and they can only hire so many. I d< think it's personal or Eileen: Yes. Yes. anything. Leslie: Why we did it was—well, we wanted to do it—and also a lot You said at the end of your show here that you might not be play of people were asking. I think after our second gig, somebody ing in Vancouver for a little while after this. Is that be< wanted to buy a CD and we had, like, two songs. touring or are you just going to stop things for a bit? Elaine: We'd been playing together for, like, twr Eileen: We're going to be in San Francisco in September working Leslie: We played what, three songs probably? But the magnitude of their music—c with this dance company called Purple Moon Dance Project, and Elaine: Two or three songs. shifting blend of taiko and conventioi after that, we're going to take a bit of a break from doing live gigs. Leslie: Yeah, i immedia as definitely something v\ We'll still get together to jam and practice and all that stuff. wanted to do. inevitable result of the size of their chare I remember reading in the DiSCORDER interview from '98 that Eileen: We had to fundraise, si that took awhile, and plus, we want- performance wasn't the main focus of the band at all and that it's ed to write new work so that v e could have a substantial length CD. ability to reconcile normally disparate ai really what happens in the rehearsals that you're most concerned Elaine: What was the studio? about anyway. Is that true? Eileen and Leslie: Yaletown, in Vancouver. sentation: taiko and electricity; wic Elaine: For me, the rehearsals and the writing is the best part. Elaine: We worked with Greg Reely as an engineer and co-producer Recording is really fun, just working out the parts and all of that, who is a fantastic engineer and has great ears and made the drums entertainment and radicalism... they col it's great. And it's also performing and getting reactions from sound probably better than quite often. people. And we've done a lot of really good shows so it's not like, Eileen: It's really hard to record drums. They sounded awesome. humility, and chi you know, some bands who maybe people don't like as much. You How about the drums themselves? Do you make them or do you know, sometimes some things are a lot more fun to play than they buy them? are to listen to, but people seem to respond well to what we do, Eileen: Tlie little ones, the high-pitched little ones, we bought from which is really good and really kind of reassuring because it's not an Japan, but the bigger ones, I made them. When we joined the taiko ordinary sound—it's not something people would normally expect group, one of the things we had to do was drum-making workshops so we all made drums with the groups. And then when I kind of By Steve DiPasc Yeah, I first saw you play with Uz Jsme Doma and I had heard went off on my own, left some particular group, and was left with you were a taiko band, but I didn't know what to expect and it no drums, I wanted to make a bunch of drums so I could keep was fantastic. I have a lot of respect for that band and you seemed going, and since I knew how to do that, I just did that. to dwarf them considerably when you played. There was a Do women traditionally play taiko music in Japan? I read on your residual power left over from when you played, and that band website that Sawagi Taiko was the first all-women taiko group in seemed to me so huge. You just brought so much intensity. North America when they started in 1990. 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We played in a. club in Seattle, an Eileen: Although I think it sounds like more girls are getting all-ages club in Seattle. interested in playing in recent years. Leslie: We played at the prison. Eileen: Traditionally, taiko is played by the men, and so because Is it quite rare that you will do a bar show? Like the show with Uz there was a tradition, it took a while for women to feel accepted or Jsme Doma, was that quite an anomaly? that it was acceptable for them to play. Leslie: It seems to go in phases. That one year we did a bunch of Leslie: Kotoh is really male dominated. They're this really bar shows. establisJied group that's been around, they've toured the world... Elaine: We did a couple shows at the Brickyard. That's a nice place Eileen: They're really good. to play, they have a good PA and it's a nice room. Leslie: But you know, they're very male dominated and their style is Eileen: We did the Starfish Room and the Railway Club. very... it requires a lot of upper body strength. You can play So what's the ideal peformance situation for you both in terms of different styles that require you to u e of your body and who attends and the kind of venue? What makes it great when it's I think that's better for women. great? Eileen: Although they're changing to ; they've had Eileen: Well, depending on the festival, some festivals have great different styles in a recent concert that saw last year. sound. Some festivals liave great sound and great technical support. Elaine: Yeah, there were women drum: ing the last time they were Leslie: I actually love playing at the prison. The first year we played here. The first time I heard them ten fifteen years ago, there at the prison was amazing. So to me, it's not, like, a club, it's were women dancing with them, but this time there were three or just, like, wliatever you come upon. The people... if the people are four women drumming. really into hearing you. Leslie: Can I just clear [sometliing]? We aren'tn't ,actuall y a taiko band. Elaine: We play for lots of different mixes of audiences—from We're a band and we play taiko and electric guitars. different types of more formal, concert-type things to a bunch of Well, I wanted to ask where your other listening interests lie, and punks and stuff. I think it's kind of the vibe. It doesn't seem to be a what other influences you may have. particular group [of people] that makes it. It's just when you're at a Elaine: I feel mostly influenced with this group, within tlie group. gig and people are really into it, it doesn't matter who it is who's Tliat's where I sort of feel the influences are. We all compose, we all there. You're creating this vibe all together. God, "vibe!" play very musically, and just sort of generate the songs from I think that's an acceptable way of talking about it. I mean, what g reverb guitar grounded by a listening to each other and by somebody Iiaving an idea, and that other terms can you put it in? lal drums—is really only the idea kind of growing. And every now and then we'll just throw in Elaine: That prison gig was really cool 'cause it was this big horrible another instrument that one of us plays—'cause we all play more room—it's like the worst kind of room to do a show in—but the cter. Their true scope lies in the than one instrument—just to see if it works. sound of the music bouncing off the walls was like the end of the Leslie: It's funny, 'cause people are always trying to say, "Okay, world. It was so great. Some of the women were running up to their >proaches to music and its pre- what are we, post-rock? What are we, tribal beat new-age jazz?" cells to see if they could hear it from the otlier end of the prison— Whatever. All this stuff. And we don't go in with this. Like, "Today and they could—and then they would run back down. e appeal and innovation; we're gonna be post-rock." It's like, "Wow, tliat's a cool riff." And Is there anything else you wanted to talk about before we wrap up? then we take off on a cool riff. Leslie: Well, the group has no leader. We just have to clarify that. itain it all with enviable ease, Elaine: Just do us a favour and don't call us "taiko grunge." Why do people assume otherwise and get that wrong? Somebody called us that and it stuck for a long time. Eileen: Well, for any given gig we usually have one contact person irisma. Leslie: But it is sort of interesting that we get called all this stuff and 'cause it's easier, and whoever ends up being the contact person I think that's really good because [listeners] can't quite get it... and often gets mistaken for the leader of tlie group. that's why I think the music's really cool. Elaine: It could be that people are looking for a hierarchy or What kind of touring and performance circuit are you involved something. A lot of bands do that, but we've never been in any bands that operate that way, I don't think. It's always been a collec Eileen: None! [Band laughs.] tive process with taiko and all the bands that I've been in. I mean, uale Leslie: We go to Oppenheimer park, and r you ignore somebody else's creativity and input at your peril. It just WISE Hall. doesn't make sense not to allow for everybody's creativity. • Elaine: We go to San Francisco, we were ju n San Francisco and we were in Germany in March for a few days. 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Monday to Saturday m IB. /VKAHLOOPS,B.C. leoin@telus. n < I 8 1 I ^ w w w . v i d e o I 3 www.leena9era111page.5Oii1ess.com DJORH Vespertine ves»per«tine adj]: of, relating to, or occurring in the evening. 2 : opening or blooming in the evening. Includes the cinematic drama of "Hidden Place," the percolating "It's Not Up to You," the mysterious, atmospheric "Cocoon" and the uuarm watercolour of "Unison." l3"ClT CANADA'S LARGEST AND BEST KNOWN RECORD STORK 568 SEYMOUR STREET, VANCOUVER 18 September 2001 Local Knobs Part 2: One Year Later Since last year's heads-up on Vancouver's electronic music scene, several of the talented artists covered riglit here in DiSCORDER have gone on to produce a volume of well received records on respected labels, and started up their own vinyl (and CD) pressing projects. The city is bursting at the seams with producers, which probably explains why the live scene is still quite small—everyone's at home kicking on gear and smoking blunts instead of kicking on the dance floor and smoking blunts. In tliis respect, we are a strange city, often pretending to be bigger than we really are. Of course, ultra-conservative liquor, dance, and entertainment laws from the Puritans in Power certainly don't help. Good thing they can't crack down on music distribution, for several techno and house labels have launched in the past year which look very promising: Boomtown Records's Kris Palesch has started up Active Pass, Nancy Kyd began Twisted Roots, Jay Tripwire has launched Northern Lights and Vernon Douglas has already put out the first 12" on Deepen. In the club world, these producers and DJs can be seen rotating Vernon's and Tyler Stadius's underground techno and house night "Deepen" at the Lotus on Saturdays. In tlie "Where Have They Gone Since Last Year?" column, of special note is minimal house pro ducer Ben Nevile (www.saoul.com). who at this time last year had a single release on Nordic Trax and was preparing to send out his album demo. Well, the response was enthusiastic as labels clamored for Ben's tracks. He now has music coming out on Context, Mosaic, Telegraph, and some compilation-, alongside geniuses like South American minimal house producer Ricardo Villalobos. Out with a new album is Bad Feng Shui of Mediacore, whose third full length Friendship Adventure features IDM, hip hop, hardcore, and dark ambience. Kevin Bolster and Jay Gevoga, who played as Open at last year's Open Circuits festival at the Sugar Refinery (put on by Industry & Agriculture), released a project called And Still on the jects on the go, Object and 3EPKA_0, with an album and EP in the works. Just on the periphery of Vancouver proper, Victoria has seen many of its producers record on DJ Spencer's itiswhatitis label, including Cobblestone Jazz's Matt Johnson, whose moody, minimal techno EP that inaugurated the label turned many ears. Steb Sly, who recently boot ed off to Calgary from Vancity and makes electro, has an EP coming out on the same label, as well as the Mind Dreams EP (with Conrad Black of Vancouver on the flip side) on Swayzak's 240 Volts, the Journey EP on Dan Curtin's Metamorphic Recordings, and "Taste of the n Nettwerk's Critical Bandwidth CD. Holding Down The Fort: Nordic Trax keeps the pa ce with a new mix CD by Luke McKeehan called "Lazy Transmissions," and Vancouver's <.iee p house guru who took off to Boston, Gavin Froome (Hi Gavin, I own your old efx prooessor) , has a real deep, loungey release slat- ed for September called Post & Beam. Sinusoidal 'hich has been around for many years through the works of haitchc, Scott of the G42 Players and Jeremy of Morning Gold Fix, has solidified a very talented lineup including Rainjacket and Caffeine Charlie's Wakeup Service, with a compilation CD this Fall. Sinusoidal focuses on the experimental side of elec tro, IDM, ambient and cut-and-paste experimental CiTR-weirdness, with amazing results (many members of the various groups were involved in the original Limp Sink show on CiTR years back, and haitchc hosts Plutonian Nights, Thursdays on CiTR). The Sinusoidal camp is busy, with Krisco working with Daniel Gardner of Medik Records on a new LP, haitchc is final ly releasing his "AnythingLike remix" 12", and some tracks are coming from CCWS side project 31337 with a minimal electro-pop flavour. Check www.sinusoidal.com. In the underground: NeutrixX, who has MC'd quite a few parties and moved into the dub soundsystem style, has some material coming out on the Pound label, which from all accounts also maintains a steady crowd at their Palladium night, covering everything from house to breaks and techno. A new local CD just came into DiSCORDER that is impressing everyone: DJ Nightmare is the creator, and it is a very cloudy, moody and experimental take on hip-hop. Hopefully more will trickle in from this producer who is not afraid to get dusky and dirty. Loscil, who performed last year at the Video-In show with Kim Cascone, sending all off into deep minimal dub land, has two records coming out, Triple Point on Kranky and a 12" on Involve. Loscil is also a part of the Multiplex group who do audio-visuals down at everyone's favourite local cinema, The Blinding Light. Speaking of which, the Eye of Newt Collective continues its explorations into sound and video, with a free Silent Film Festival at Grandview Park from September 1st to 2nd. On the TBA tip, John Tennant—along with a whole crew of techno-trance heads including Dr. Phreak, who have been keeping the acidic underground alive—has a new label that should be together by Christmas, but he can't tell me the name yet. Experimenting on the fringe, industrial jazz artist din has his second album coming out called Alissa's Wish on Akxl, and rumours are that several band-oriented projects are also in the works. Communication has been a big key with getting many projects started, and part of tliis has been through two Vancouver-producer-oriented email lists. Microvan, an offshoot of the internation al microsound list, focuses on local experimental music (hosted by vcy. .uml and the Black Hole Club (www.blackholeciub.com) meets regularly, organizing events for its members, and is a great place to meet, greet and learn if you're an electronic-oriented producer, band, or group. A loose affiliation of like-minded producers and DJs continues to grow, technowest.org, administered out of Vancouver with members up and down the coast, creating connections between previously disparate musical communities. CBC Radio 3 has become a part of the general milieu with many artists registering their music on newmusic- canada.com. and recordings of shows beginning to show up on justconcerts.com. Experimental audio-visual projects are also showing up on 120seconds.com. such as Merlyn's visual projects with various Vancouver pro ducers, and an upcoming track from Nettwerk-signed The Pariah Project. On the experimental side, Coingutter has a new CD out called Truth Lifting Its Head Above Scandals that covers "trial and error electro sound," and new music composer Phil Thompson continues to stun with his microsound work on tiln.org. Cid + Eric of ambient and experimental downtempo fame have a track coming out on Orac records, and will be performing at Refrains: Music Politics Aesthetics, which takes place Sept. 29th. Free for everyone, Refrains is an evening of performance at Video-In and a day of conference discussions at UBC, focusing on electronic music and its political and historical junctures. Refrains caps this year's experimental electronic music Open Circuits festival, to be held at Video-In from Sept. 27th-28th, and hosted by Brady Cranfield of Industry & Agriculture. It's our little west-coast version of Mutek. www.shrumtribe.com/refrajns There's more to be said and there's more out there, but this should give you a taste of what's up in the city. So stick around for a bit longer, put those plans to move to Montreal on hold and see what Vancouver will become—after all, history dictates that the best music is made under some of the most oppressive conditions... • tobias v Wm^zfrrl^ />U- c/Ct/frd'^a' TTV^rh /ly/bO^OS- /><>&& •£-& ^^[^/ dewed Colin Stewart in the early morning at The Hiv the be thing I do, even if I doi ch, I like recording studio. His hair was still wet, and his left eye was all It's all digital. So explain your shirt [it says "Long Li ing with people. red. He said il wtis from getting shampoo in his eye. I thought Analogue"]. I'm wondering how hard it is for you. It's not easy for a somebody gave him a right hook. But then 1 thought about it. Colin' I lik e to wear it at work and torment my colleagues. band to record, and I'd guess that every band that you've Stewart is a gentleman. His voice is much too calm to make anyoneYour colleagues aren't into the analogue scene anymo: recorded, someone started crying during the recording. Is punch him in the head. His voice makes it east/ to listen to him Notalk, i all. this true? about him.elf. It's my fault he had lo talk about himself. I askedEve n when you play them records that you've recorded on No, not at all. I think I've been lucky there. Have you heard analogue equipment? other stories? It's usually not my fault that the people start Well, they don't like the music I record. crying. DiSCORDER: Are you in a band? Like we were saying earlier, can't they just appreciate the Do people yell at you? Colin Stewart: No. way it's recorded? I've had people from Team Dresch yell at me. Why not? Well, sometimes, but they don't really like the way it's record Why's that? Because I can't play music very well. ed either. Oh, because they were just really cranky. I didn't like them at But you like music? Let's talk about Trebas because I know you went there. all. Except for Donna Dresch. She was cool. Oh yeah. Oh God. Let's talk about your recording style. Is there anything that Is that why you got into recording? This is what I picture when I think of Trebas. I picture a lot sets you apart? Why, for instance, do your colleagues at Yeah. It's my way of being creative. of bad equipment with people in a room with some guy that work not like the way your recordings sound? Have you tried playing music? has no hair and a ponytail who tells you how to do things Because they're not heavily processed. I try to make it sound Yeah. 1 can play guitar. I've been playing guitar for about 14 badly. And you pay a lot of money to learn how to do things like it does. I try to make a band sound like a band and not badly. like Britney Spears. Well then why aren't you in a band? Yes, that's about right. My instructor didn't know how to Compression. Using a compressor is not how a band Because I suck. sounds. You must record a lot of bands that aren't good. But you finished at Trebas. Tell me about it. Sometimes you want an effect on one instrument, but not on Not anymore. Most of the bands I record now are good. I've I got the highest grade in the class. all the instruments. I find that I only use a compressor if the recorded a lot of bad bands, though. I've had my fair share. What did they teach you there? Did they teach you how to sound sounds bad otherwise. How long have you been doing it? record so it sounds like The Beatles? Do you feel that's like lying? About six years. They really didn't teach me anything, to be honest. They No, not nearly as much as say, auto-tuning a vocal or some Do you ever listen to recordings just because you like the show you how to plug stuff in. It's just a way to meet people thing like that. I think using compressors is okay. There are way it sounds? more than anything. If you don't know anyone in the music certain limits. There are some engineers that I know who I can listen to something bad and go, "Yes, that's well record scene, it's actually not a bad idea to take a course because you compress the crap out of everything, and you can hear it. In a ed," but it doesn't mean that I like it. It usually means that I meet other people who like what you like. way, I guess it sounds good, but I don't like to do it myself. I don't. If the song is bad then I don't like it. It all comes down How did you get to be involved at The Hive? like heavily processed recordings, I like computer recordings, to songs. Through Trebas, actually. One of my instructors was record but I don't like to do them myself. You record mostly local stuff? ing Terry Miles from Ashley Park and Saturnhead, and I met Most of the stuff you've done has been with bands with Entirely local stuff. Except for Fugazi. him, and through him I met a couple of my studio partners. instruments—guitars, drums. Would you feel comfortable Can we talk about that Fugazi thing? How did you get to do We got together, and we all liked Pavement, so... recording something purely electronic? that? What's your role at The Hive? Do you just use the equip Maybe an electroacoustic band. I think the closest I got to My friend Terry put on the show, and I wanted to record it, so ment when you need to, or are you actually a part owner? doing an electronic band was with Circlesquare. That was we called them up and said we wanted to record it, and they Yeah, I'm a third owner of everything here. There's three of fun. Actually, I find that most electronic acts have no need for said, "Okay." And then they came by [to the Hive Studio] and us. There's me, and Travis, and Rob, and although I'm the one an external studio because they'll spend days just moving saw all our stuff, and they freaked out and they thought we who uses the studio the most it's probably not their choice. things around on the computer screen, and you can't really were going to broadcast it on the internet. Ian MacKaye was If they could, they would. I've been lucky enough to record be involved with something like that. like, "If you ever do anything with this, it's a small world, some bands that manage to get a little bit of attention. Other What techniques do you have that are specific to you? What and I will find you." bands usually call me. But Rob and Travis are very good at about the hall mic? I've heard a lot about the hall mic. So why did they let you record it if they don't want you to what they do as well. I like to use ambient microphones, stick mics down halls do anything with it? What have you been doing lately? because I don't like using reverb. I like real reverb, real I guess they trusted Terry more than anything. They said [to I just recorded The Secret Three, just finished the P:ano acoustics because the brain can hear the difference. her], "You're personally responsible for this." So we have to album. I'm supposed to do Citroen next month as well as the What's your favourite recording? send it to them. We're sending it to them next week. new A Luna Red, the new Jerk With a Bomb. I did the Beans' My favourite album of all time is Smog, Red Apple Falls. For And you've mixed it? 48 hour show. me that is the pinnacle of recording. It was done by Jim Yes. It sounds very good. Did you do that on the Radar 24? O'Rourke. He's awesome. I mean, I like Steve Albini a lot, of What did you use to record it? Yes I did. All 48 hours. course, but sometimes I find his stuff to be a little bit harsh. I used a digital hard disk multi-track. How does it sound? Harsh? The Radar 24? Can you tell us about that? It's pretty new, It sounds pretty good. But the thing is that it's going to take It's very mid-rangey. He likes to make things very thin. But isn't it? a year to go through that stuff because they're so slow at what not always, like Labradford. He's done lots of great record It's a third generation—you can't ask me about this machine they do. Crane Wars was recorded three years ago. We record ings that sound really warm. because I work at the company that makes it, so this is my ed the next album last fall; that's still not done. Say that you really wanted to make me go poo. What would daily rant. This is work. What would you do with 48 hours of tape? you make me listen to? I heard that The Hive is now officially Radar 24 Central, The idea is to take the best three minutes or so, well that was Twelve Hz. Very loud. that people call you and ask about it. the original idea, of each hour, and then cross-fade them all, Is this true? Basically. We did the Secret Three [recording] at the Sugar blend them all, and make a double CD out of it. I think it Yes, it's true. You would lose all control over your bowels. Refinery, so we're totally mobile now. We can go anywhere would be amazing if we managed to do that. You would need a speaker about six feet wide to be able to we want. And The Cinch did some recording at Mushroom, Were you actually there for all 48 hours? reproduce that sort of frequency. And if you played seven Hz so we're going to take the Radar there and dump stuff off the I was there for about 20 something. then you would die. two inch machine on it, so we can mix it here. That's not even half, Colin. I would die? Can you just tell us a little bit about the machine? But I can listen to it any time I want. I've heard all 48. Yes. Well, it's a 24-track 24-bit hard disk recorder that goes up to What's your favourite stuff that you've done in the past six Would everyone die? 192 kHz. It's used by Daniel Lanois [laughs]. U2 recorded years that you really are proud of? Yes because it would rupture your organs. That's the oscillat their last album on it. George Harrison just bought one. That would be The Beans. Jerk With a Bomb The Old Noise. ing frequency of the planet earth. So we're fully tuned in to And it's Canadian made? The new P:ano album is probably going to be very good. that frequency. Yeah. It's made in Vancouver. It's the most professional of all There's a whole bunch of stuff. There's lots of bands I love those hard disk recorders. There's a whole bunch of them. working with. I love working with Radio Berlin. ' like every See what Colin has d I'.hivestudios., 20 September 2001 ; in the The New CPU Experience. But someone sound Spanish on one world of digital production and enough about the innards: what song, Canadian on another, and laptop beats, cEvin moves in is great is the stringing of the Neutral Milk Hotel-like on the different directions than other entrails, as one house track next? This is the work of a man artists working with the same moves through the next in a from a town with a peculiar equipment. Unlike the current very precise manner, blood and name. This album, accompanied recorded media crop of laptop warriors and guts, drum machines, synths by the requisite pictures and their techno predecessors or the and all, showcasing not only the avant-garde of microsound, talents of a proficient DJ but also STEFFEN BASHO-JUNGHANS marching rhythms that invokes Joel Plaskett looking in a mirror, cEvin comes from an industrial the roster of a well-respected — a call, a head turning in a crowd. music background that approached and deserving of every inch— (Strange Attractors/ Audio And then, the choppers over overtook me. It bitch-slapped technology in more daring and Vancouver record label. SOMETHING ABOUT REP House) head... the screams as teargas is me, this Curiosity. It said, TILES In the tradition of solo acoustic lobbed, and the heavy breathing "Listen you shit, buy the album, strict rules of the dance floor for From Instanbul to OrangeVille guitar experimentalists such as ning... excel- and get the hell home." I was (Independent) John Fahey, Loren Mazzacane lent piece. You can hear it on never fortunate enough to see through destruction, and exper Gypsy music is synonymous Connors, Steve Tibbetts, and www.kunstradio.at; just search Thrush Hermit perform live, imentation that challenges not (K) with passion, no? Of course. Robbie Robinson, comes this but always admired their affini the limits of the sound experi Under the influence of sugges Local five piece gypsy fusionists new recording from German ty for making ass-shaking rock ence itself but rather the limits tion, it would be easy to make Something About Reptiles will guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans. records. This album is a hard of your mental and emotional up a good story to explain how sweep you away with diasporic Unlike Fahey and Connors, HOT WATER MUSIC night of mixing drinks, heading response. That said, Christa a small coastal town in melodies that are plenty pas Basho-Junghans eschews any A Flight And A Crash for a moment of clarity so serene thinks it's cheesy, but I think it Washington State managed to sionate without going over the blues references in favour of a (Epitaph) it screams. A Rock and end up with a name like top. From sardonic sarcasm to more Asian flavour. This comes From now on, I'm going to pick Canadiana world of lover's Anacortes. Those who have sensual coaxing, vocalist and largely as result of using a series up an Epitaph CD every time lanes, sock hops, and babies never visited might look at the clothing magnate Burcu of "hammer on/off" techniques I'm at DiSCORDER and review with three eyes. Because of this I MAYOR McCA map and notice the nearby Ozdemir proves herself to be an and repeating motifs that sug it in penitence for the years I got homesick and fell in love Me Is He Straight of Juan de Fuca (or Juan original and elegant vocalist, gests unusual-sounding har- gave to the label. I gave Epitaph with the city again. The speak (Sonic Unyon) the Fucker) and suspect some even when drawling "I don't the best years of my life and ers flirted with my sense of So, did you ever run for Mayor sort of Spanish influence left give a fuck" over and over. The The effect is a hypnotic, raga- how do they repay me? With a place and time, and it felt nice to in Hamilton, Ontario? Did you over from the days of explo like feel which is all the more Pennywise song on the radio slip away. The title track, lose because no one appreciated ration and be able to reason that trabass, accordion, clarinet, and impressive when you consider called "Fuck Authority," that's "Down At The Khyber," begins your: if hum some navigator or settler, per various guitars ensconsed in a that the pieces contained within how. Didn't they used to be with the line "I've been away, ml? Rest ; haps even a governor could warm analogue vibe and is are all done without overdubs more clever than that? Even a and I've been travelling" and you n e. Kudos to the have christened the pla rhythmically powerful enough and can last anywhere from five little bit? If they weren't, at least right away you can tell this good folks at Sonic Unyon for !. This Mild 11 e the that I didn't mourn the absence to twenty minutes. To Basho- they seemed so when I was 15. music lends itself to moving on. steering this wonderful freak of drums. What I'm assuming to Junghans's credit, he carries this I'm going to say right off the bat It's not really transient but more into musical light. And kudos at the end of a geo be the band's debut disc was off without ever losing the focus that the new Hot Water Music like in a form of transition. I for the all the gutsy folks who graphical linguist's long list ot "recorded live off the floor in 11 of the various pieces presented reminds me so much of Face to think Joel has found something voted for Mayor McCA in the grievous misappropriations. hours" at Studiojellyfish on Face that I caught myself down very unique in this country, and last mayoral elections in However, if you ask any local— Gabriola Island last October, Introspective in nature, this loading "Disconnected" just to he wants to take you along. Buy Hamilton. He lost, of course, but say, a fifth-grade student at Mt. and the songs have the deep recording is for those who like get it out of my head. the ticket and take the ride, the result was this release. Erie Elementary School—the warmth and familiarity that their trance music experiences Apparently, this band is sup folks. Grab the rail and shake Where to begin? The guy "raps, truth about the town's origins accompanies much "folk" un-plugged. posed to be known for their your ass, 'cause The Joel slaps, claps, and taps" all while reveals itself: it was christened music, yet the Reptiles retain an Paul Clarke trade-off vocals, but all of the Plaskett Emergency have playing the guitar, harmonica, Anacortes in 1877 by a pioneer experimental feel by including singing sounds the same to me. turned the siren and flashing and piano (with his toes, appar ing postal worker named Amos giddy outtakes, maniacal moan red lights on, and it's definitely ANNA FRIZ AND RICHARD Imagine someone singing lines ently). Not to mention the lyrics: V,o\ who 1 ing, and the like. Don't miss the gonna take you somewhere. WILLIAMS : after vife, Annie Reptiles live Sept. 8 at Cafe Sterling Riots There's A Risk Of Arrest If You lash out/because 1 don't see when wintertime goes and all Deux Soleil. Turn Right much reason now;" that's what the girls start taking off their Apparently, Bowman was Hancunt (Kuntsradio) this album sounds like. Of CEVIN KEY clothes/Now why would I an amateur speculator who got Anna Friz, former Program course, being one step closer to The Ghost of Each Room wanna get into a fight, when I the growing town all hopped- ZEN GUERILLA Coordinator at CiTR and audio the edge and subsequently (Metropolis) can have some sugar by the end up over the prospect of becom Shadozvs On Tlie Sun artist, teams up with Richard breaking don't a Hot Water Industrial music is checked at of the night?" Priceless. It's too ing the western terminus for the (Sub Pop) Williams in an emotional and Music make; they also growl the door and subjected to a cav bad he lost, really. We definitely railroad. It never happened. "I thought I heard the people startling piece recorded live in pressing rhetorical questions ity search in this haunting need funnier politicians in this Anacortes sunk into a depres shouting/I thought I heard the Quebec City during the FTAA like "Do you know what you're album that traverses styles and country. Oh well, we still have sion in the 1890s, reemerging people scream..." wails Marcus summit. As the piece's introduc fighting for?" and "Have you genres like a cop fucking a Stockwell Day. later as a fishing port and log Durant, the lungs behind tion states, many rhythmic tex found what you're looking for?" corpse. Moving from beat-ori ging hub. Call it an industrial "Inferno" on this San Francisco tures are discovered among the I'm not so sure that these lines ented and driving to abstract tragedy, but it never grew into a group's latest testimonial. protesters, from the peaceful are particularly central to the IDM and more traditional LUKE MCKEEHAN Seattle. Instead, it grew into a Treating us to a less-effects laid "carnivalesque" gatherings to album, but the band felt it nec industrial scapes, cEvin opens Lazy Transmissions ferry dock flanked by geophysi version of rockin' gospel than the militant and heated con essary to print them on the the crypts of his Vancouver past, (Nordic Trax) cal conditions that Anacortite Trance States In Tongues, frontations with the tear-gas inside of the CD tray, so I fig with Ogre of Skinny Puppy Vancouver's premier house Phil Evrum seems to go on Durant's voice still pierces the lobbing and often violent police. ured I'd include them in the fame dropping lungs on label returns with a discerning about on The Glow, PL 2. The smoky air left by the sizzling As an exploration of sound and review. To be honest, when I "Frozen Sky," Phil Western mix to compliment DJ Tyler Microphones have released five guitar work of Rich Millman recording, it brings you directly picked up this CD, I was expect doing synth work on "Sklang" Stadius's incredible under albums in the last two years. like needles piercing a junkie's to a world of languages—slo ing an emo cry-fest and I quite (also of SP), and Ryan Moore ground mix of house and tech This one has 20 songs. While veins. The rush is fast and furi gans shouted in French, prefer this gnashed-teeth, pick- plucking jazz bass on "Certain no, Necessary Pieces 2. Whereas they have all been subjected to ous over the first six songs, then Spanish, and English predomi scraping flood of power chords Stuuckey." You never know Tyler is a long and smooth extremely crass and crafty pro spirals down into "Subway nate—and noises, or what is and tattoos. The only thing is what to expect when you are mixer, moving through mini duction, these numbers remain Transmission," a song that usually construed as nonsense. that, behind the standard digging in a graveyard, and malist-influenced house and unpasteurized, replete with reflects on the feeling von get But the nonsense takes on new Epitaph production, all of the such is the case with this album, techno from funky to hard (yet moldy bits of HUGE percussion, when you watch the cars of a forms that create meanings wlrich, anger and full-scale political produced everywhere from never dissonant), Luke surges of aging analog key although I cannot place them change that the singer(s) bark(s) Hollywood to the Netherlands McKeehan drops tracks in a far boards and bacterial cultures of everything begins to blur before directly in a meaningful context, about sound like nothing more and Jamaica. Unlike Phil more disco fashion, focusing on icky es that your eyes^ Then you're quickly take on an atmosphere that pro than, well, pick scrapes and tat Western or Download, cEvin the complex rhythms of fully hint toos. Not something many of us vokes a bodily reaction—my maintains that psychotic edge, developed house, and timing "Dirtv Mile" kicks in, hands in head tingles as 1 hear French need too much more of. the paranoia in the closet that the drop of the next track with yelled over screaming protest godfrey j. Leung, esq. defines industrial music. What utmost precision. Vancouver's ers, and I imagine May '68... I has changed is the response to Gavin Froome makes two Anacortes History Museui around the corner. By album's hear kazoos, and I feel a silly fear: no longer does industrial THE JOEL PLASKETT EMER appearances with tracks from that it might educate peopl eon end, a hair-raising-on-the-back- hope, hope in the face of violent claw back with bloodlusting GENCY his Skunks EP, alongside how perverting that town r nist of-vour-neck tribute to Marvin State repression... when I look screams and purifying fire, Down At The Khyber Calgary's Jon Delerious, and be. How else could some one Gave's "Fingers," your sms back at pictures of old choosing, willingly or not, to (Brobdingnagian Records) Vancouver up-and-comer record such obscure and int protests—APEC 1997, for exam give itself to the dark under So I walk into the record store, Shawn Ward, who works with contemporary folk songs v\ ith- now know you've been touched ple, and May '68, I see what can world, engaging in a little necro aimlessly wandering. Head Peter Hecher on a track called out hesitation? How else c >uld by Zen Guerrilla. Amen. only be understood through mancy with the cavernous edge cocked to the side looking for "Daydreaming." Not to mention lyrics be so strewn with s ind Bryce Dunn sound. There is something of the void that usually only anything of interest that day. I Joshua Michael's remix of Luke about a drummer beating out Lustmord approaches. Embracing saw the cover of an album, with McKeehan's "Take Control" as electric heaters? How else a 2^^&summ i the floor have been performing for twenty- two hours straight. The gui tarist is so decimated by stress that he has gone home sick. The bass player is asleep on a mat tress behind the stage. The pianist/accordionist has a wild, panicked look on her face; her MUDHONEY Granville Island watering hole But he always landed in time to braids have erupted into frizzy THE EVAPORATORS close second. More Emily hit one of his rainbow Boss ped flowers. The music is still hold Saturday, July 28 Carr loodler als. He kind of did headstands. ing together, following deep Starfish Room wannabes in the Arts Club He kicked over his speaker at curves that the casual listener To paraphrase a line from The crowd, but BK succeeded, as the end. Clap clap clap. can only glimpse out of the cor Barracudas: "I wish it could be usual, in getting a hot sweaty After the show, we stood ner of one temporal eye. 1991 again!" This sentiment was ball-o'-dancers to pack the outside because my friend The woman in the bar shared by the near sold-out dance floor. wanted to talk to Buddy. I don't keeps thinking about how crowd on hand to witness the Just back from successful know his real name, but he does funny it is that she chose this only band to survive the gigs at folk fests in Winnipeg that Fred Durst obsessed emo n't tell whether they event of sublime suffering as "Selling Of Seattle" back in the and Calgary, the band was website, buddyhead.com, scripted problems with their were soiling themselves to see the background to "a couple of year previously mentioned, and lookin' feisty, no doubt aided by where he writes mean record minidisc or just crappy wiring. Squareguy drop. Word from beers," some petty conversa they've weathered that storm the delayed start due to a late- reviews. The Icarus Line's from When I cheered for them, I Down Under (Australia) was tion, an opportunity to show off quite nicely, thank you. running play next door. Lead LA. Buddy started telling us that he had stunned audiences her new shoes. When she listens Although the flannel was only guitarist and band cornerstone about how these kids from LA Next was Taylor Savvy. I'd by playing sets of noise, ambi to the band, it's with her eyes. flying half-mast, the sight of so Paul "check out my whammy were in Vancouver on vacation never heard his music before ent and breakcore—much to the She imagines that they look like many varieties of Mudhoney bar" Rigby was in particularly with their parents, and how and someone said he sounded barstars' confused and addled saints about to fall apart on the garb was cool to see. Musically, fine form, throwing tasty rawk- they really wanted to see the like a male Peaches. Alas, this brains, but supra good for the wheel. Their intimacy and dis we were treated to some of the star licks into the BK roots- show, but they were only 14 was not to be. Though Savvy discerning heads who lost their comfort barely make a dent in best tunes the band had to offer, blm ul Mr. and they wouldn't be allowed had his moments, he failed to shit screaming into the bass- the bar's otherwise bustling even if the show got off to a Bocephus King was also in high in the bar. I saw them. I remem hold my interest. His shtick Plaid, however, made up patronage; it feels like she's shaky start, it fuelled the crowd spirits and threw his lanky ber those kids. I saw them in wasn't hot and though it want for the loss with an incredible watching them from across a even more for what was to be frame around to tried-and-true LA, front row and centre at The ed to be, it wasn't sexy either. set, but not before Myra Calix market square. People drink, an evening full of superfuzz faves like "Think About You" Knitting Factory, white Ink and His repetitive lyrics weren't spun some Warp-ed vinyl and talk, money changes hands. If guitar, bigmuff bass and and "Mess of Love." He test- Dagger T-shirts, freshly cut particularly inventive or funny. tracks from her new album. But people are listening, it's hard to skintight drumming. Thev drove some great new material bowls, waiting for Shellac. I didn't want him to go on the crowd was there for the two tell. A few faces wear the same pulled out all the stops, hitting as well...something about Buddy said he felt bad, he about ladies lovely ladies any lovable and rhythmic Scots who look of exhausted care as the us early with "In and Out Of rebels? This was around the wished they could've seen the more. I wanted Peaches to preceded to drop track after musicians—they've probably Grace," "Touch Me I'm Sick," time my companion delivered show. Buddy wasn't crazy like swing things over for the girls, track of grooving space funk. been there since the beginning "If I Think," then later, the silent Jack shots to the dance floor, he was on stage. He was really to chant repeatedly "Only dou For what else can it be called? .r close t. The re obe but deadly "When Tomorrow which may explain my memo nice. I stood a few feet away ble A, thinking triple X" and Playing from two laptops, a tourists, passing interested but Hits," "Who You Drivin' ry lapse. Also noteworthy was a from him and his fans because I sing dirty songs about boys. I rack of effects processors and objective glimpses over the Now?" (the only song they did stunning extended-play mix of didn't want to have to say any clapped politely at the end of samplers, Plaid recreated many from Every Good Boy Deserves "Papa Was A Rolling Stone." thing to him, to this nice, little Taylor Savvy's set. of the smash tracks from Double A woman watches for two Fudge), "Suck You Dry," and the BK's band line-up has man. I didn't want to have to lie Peaches. Ah Peaches. Hot. Figure, their latest album that hours, gets bored, and goes hits kept a-comin' with the undergone big changes lately and say that I liked his band Sexy. Oh yeah. More than one goes out of its way to reinject home. A few weeks later she 's band showing no signs of stop- and now includes members and that they were really good person said, "Oh, I thought the funk—via basslines and trying to finish making a maga pin'. (Although they came dan from Bughouse Five and Veda because lying is bad. So I stood she'd be hot, but she's not." harmonies—back into complex zine in the middle of the night gerously close when singer/ Hille's Skilled and Devoted far away and looked at my Fuck that. She had a for real and broken electro beats. But and thinks about the pure, Iggy's younger twin Mark Arm Band. They've gelled well as a shoes, pretending that I could curly mullet, aviator sunglasses, unlike a funky house or even Christian love that has inspired got a mouthful of microphone unit, but my sole beef is that n't speak English. I just didn't unshaved armpits and pubic techno that takes its cues from so many self-inflicted injuries, not once, but twice due to Barry Mirochnik, fine rock say anything at all. But I wrote hair (since I'm short, I didn't see disco, Plaid jump from where so many trials of endurance. overzealous moshing in the drummer that he is, still hasn't this. Still, it's a lot less mean this, but taller members of the Sun Ra and George Clinton left She wonders if she's giving The front row). However, the finale got the light snare touch need than the record reviews that crowd pointed this out post- off—into the universe of funk, Beans too much credit. that had the entire room shout ed for the New Orleans- Buddy writes. show) coming out of her little funk as more than a bassline but Helene Apropos ing along was their encore of flavoured material. Christa Min red hot pants. At one point, she an entire feeling that overtakes The Dicks classic "Hate The BK proved once again that even put a little porn star mous the music note by note in a THE STROKES Police"(and had they coupled he and his band have the power PEACHES tache over her lip. She was the sweaty groove. Everyone was Sunday, August 12 that with their version of The to strip cool reserved Lotus-lan TAYLOR SAVVY embodiment of all that's sub getting down, and for the first Starfish Room Angry Samoans "You Stupid ders down to our liquor-guz- CANNED HAMM lime: repulsive and attractive at time in a long time Sonar So this is the band that every Asshole" I think the kids would zlin', freaky-dancin' basics. Monday, August 6 the same time. So glorious that sounded good, with the one's (okay, maybe just the have went berserk), which left And, as we witnessed, he can The Starfish Room it hurt. I had a girl next to me Turbosound speakers in the NME and teenage girls) drool us all hot and bothered, but even make the wheelchair- As Canned Hamm started their shout "Peaches! Peaches!" over long-throw position, making for ing over right now. Well, I glad we witnessed true Seattle bound rise up and walk. set, I was standing on the stairs, and over, like she was in pain. a pleasant, loud, yet not ear- found myself bopping my head legends. If you haven't yet caught waiting to be let in. Two guys Peachesmania anyone? splitting or headache-inducing and tapping my feet like the The Evaporators were the up with this band, whose buzz who looked like they would be Okay, yeah, the music was experience. faithful standing front and cen perfect openers for the night, is now spreading bad and more comfortable at a Blink 182 great too. I was wondering ter, but were they deserving of and who doesn't get a kick out nationwide, don't miss the next show came down the stairs what she'd sound like live, Furthering the night's trip the hype? Not exactly. Sure, of watching Nardwuar fly the chance to catch 'em live at the muttering, "Whoa, this sucks." because the songs on The was the most insane visuals, they play an infectious brand of friendly skies with keyboard in Railway on September 21. But if anyone sucked, it was Teaches of Peaches are pretty which by all accounts and rep Velvet Underground-inspired tow, making complete strangers Val Cormier them and not Canned Hamm. structured, but it went over utable sources looked to be the pop, but will I drop everything join hands and running circles Big Hamm and Little Hamm well. Taylor Savvy redeemed work of the Designer's to buy their record? Probably around each other, and other THE ICARUS LINE put on an entertaining show. himself at the end with a Republic. Not since Process's not. I find it strange that a band wise entertaining the hell out us ALL STATE CHAMPION Sporting little gold shorts, sere duet/fake blood spitting med visuals at Mutek in Montreal can have this much appeal, while sporting the best band Sunday, August 5 nading a girl from the crowd, ley with Peaches. The crowd have I seen such incredible when they have us wait 45 min Picadiily Pub wearing crazy wigs, parading was dancing like a bunch of designs and complicated move utes before they play, then give while? And for crying out loud It was like gospel emo. The around in bathrobes: they did it happy fools. It was good stuff. ments of geometry and repre- us only a half-hour set, charge people, when Nardwuar tells Icarus Line wore the same all. My friend Sarah noted that Doretta Lau 20 bucks for their t-shirts and you to crouch, just do it all thing, red ties and black. No Big Hamm looked a little like Every once in a while there look depressed and unrespon right? You face public humilia- porn star Ron Jeremy. After she (NOT) SQUAREPUSHER is a show in Vancouver that sive on stage? What seals the though. Couldn't hear the gui made this comment, Little PLAID makes it all worthwhile, with deal for me is that they're from madman dressed in a Michael tars or the bass or the drums or Hamm sat in Big Hamm's lap MYRA CALIX good music, good sound, good New York, yet have no clue Jackson vest if you don't. the vocals or the keyboards. But for a song. Images of Annabel Tuesday August 7 people and good visuals, and who The Devil Dogs are (only Bryce Dunn it was loud. Chong's gangbang, which fin this was one of them. one the best rock and roll bands If you are actually crazy, ished with Ron Jeremy as man Sonar was packed, despite the on the planet). BOCEPHUS KING you will start bleeding. You number 351, flashed through fact that either 1. Tom We'll see how people feel Friday, August 3 won't be able to play your part. my head. It was slightly Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, THE BEANS 48 HOUR about them in a year—for right Arts Club Backstage Lounge You will jump when you feel unpleasant, and slightly amus had gone insane and was won SHOW now, colour me indifferent. The best place to see Bocephus like it and wipe the blood on ing. There was nothing sexy dering around London where Friday, August 10-Sunday Bryce Dunn King live is within the the carpet as you roll around on about it though. Anyhow, no one could find him or 2. He August 12 cramped, semi-seedy confines stage. Buddy/ playing guitar on Canned Hamm had a couple of had missed his flight. Whatever Sugar Refinery the left, jumped around a lot. of the Railway Club. This technical problems, but I could the case, the man was not there, A woman walks into a bar. 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WWW.FRONT.BC.CA den@ms. t's cabaret; nav@element sound lounge; mono SAT 29 chrome, exit this side, naked for jesus@starfish room; an wake the town and tell the people: dancehall culture in Jamaica incredible s/'mu/afion@blinding light!! featuring norman stolzoff with dj soulsistah and peter wil- FRI 14 iams@cafe deux soleils; the building press, vermilion, trail vs. conquering redlion sound system@nyala; an incredible sim- russia@cobalt; film fest stuff@blinding light!! u/afion@blinding light!!; jazzmatic@sugar refinery 24 September 2001 BHifr% SEPTEMBER LINEUP !! 1 lth Three Inches of Blood Colour Thief Quonset 18th The Organ Bionic Systems Go Elemeno O Q 0. < 25th Shrimpmeat Restore verticalsmile We are still accepting demos!! SHINDIG! runs every Tuesday at the Railway Club, starting September 11th and sprinting hard to the marathon finals on December 5th. TICKETS THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! »».* chart fflcgg? 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STAND AND BE CUNTED Sept.3 The great tenor saxo WORLD HEAT 8:00-9:30AM 3:00-4:0OPM phone team of Eddie "Lockjaw" THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM DJ Hancunt wants you to put Davis and Johnny Grifin in their 9:30-11:30AM Open your your fist to the wrist—you know last get-together..."Tough Tenors ears and prepare for a shock! A Back Again." harmless note may make you a EVIL VS. GOOD 4:00-5:00PM Sept. 10: Jazz education time... fan! Hear the menacing scourge Who will triumph? Hardcore/punk back to class with Julian that is Rock and Roll! Deadlier from beyond the grave. "Cannonball" Adderley as your than the most dangerous criminal! WENER'S BARBEQUE 5:00- teacher, narrating "An <[email protected]> Introduction To Jazz." 6:00PM Join the sports dept. BLUE MONDAY alt. 11:30AM- SUNDAY 6:00-8:00PM MONDAY ' >r their coverage of the T-Birds Sept. 1 7: The education continues 1:00PM Vancouver's only lo the gay, lesbiai e other with Leonard Bernsten's "What industrial-electronic-retro-goth ARE YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC xual, a SALARIO MINIMO Is Jazz?" aways, and gab. program. Music to schtomp to, 9:00AM-12:00PM All of Vancouver and li 8:00AM Spanish re Sept.24: "Monk In Tokyo," thee LA BOMBA alt. 6:00-7:30PM hosted by Coreen.(She's back!) time is measured by its art. This tened to by everyone. Lots c techno, and alternate great pianist/composer and his (Starts Sept.24) ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES show presents the most recent porque no todo en est vida e quartet with Charlie Rouse's human interest features, back- REEL TO REEL alt. 6:00- alt. 11:30AM-1:00PM(DJ new music from around the "salsa smokin' tenor and Monk's hard great music. 6:30PM Psionic back in action!) world. Ears open. BREAKFAST WITH THE driving rhythm section of "Butch" Movie reviews and criticism. PARTICLE 1:00-2:00PM THE ROCKERS SHOW 12:00- HELLO INDIA 8:00-10:00PM BROWNS 8:00-11:00AM Warren on bass and Frankie CONTEMPORARY alt. 6:30- Incorporated into the soul are 3:00PM Reggae inna all styles Hello India features a wide Your favourite brown-sters, Dunlop on drums. 7:30PM Words and music for the remnants of digital sound. James and Peter, offer a savoury VENGEANCE IS MINE 12:00- jackasses. Unleashed, cryptic economies BLOOD ON THE SADDLE including classical music, both blend of the familiar and exotic 3:00AM Hosted by Trevor. It's WIGFLUX RADIO 7:30- accelerate the sound particles 3:00-5:00PM Realcowshit Hindustani and Carnatic, popu in a blend of aural delights! punk rock, baby! Gone from the 9:00PM through states of Becoming, caughl-in-yer-boots country. lar music from Indian movies, Tune in and enjoy each weekly charts but not from our breaking the flesh, whirling, CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING Ghazals, Bhajans, and also brown plate special. hearts—thank fucking Christ. hydra-head, rhizomatic sky. alt. 5:00-6:00PM British pop Quawwalis, etc. Instrumental, trance, lounge, and PSYCHEDELIC AIRWAVES radio. Our blurb, but our show www.shrumtribe.com music from all decades. THE SHOW 10:00PM- 3:00-6:30AM don't. Tune into Wigflux Radio CPR 2:00-3:30PM SAINT TROPEZ alt. 5:00- 1 2:00AM Strictly Hip Hop- LOUD, FAST, AND AGING with your hosts Vyb and buh bump... buh bump... this is 6:00PM International pop Strictly Underground-Strictly RAPIDLY alt. 1 1:00- Krystabelle. the sound your heart makes (Japanese, French, Swedish, Vinyl. With your hosts Mr. 1:00PM THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00PM- when you listen to science talk British, US, etc.), '60s sound Rumble, and J Swing on the 1 & 2's. GIRLFOOD alt. 11:00-l :00PM PACIFIC PICKIN' 6:30-8:00AM 12:00AM Vancouver's longest and techno... buh bump... tracks and lounge. Book your jet FILL-IN 12:00-2:00AM PARTS UNKNOWN 1:00- running prime time jazz pro THE CUTE N' CUDDLY SHOW set holiday now! FILL-IN 2:00-6:00AM 3:00PM Underground pop for SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY BBC WORLD SERVICE BBC WORLD BBC WORLD L SALARIO MINIMO PACIFIC PICKIN' BBC WORLD SER SERVICE SERVICE REGGAE LINKUP VICE SUBURBAN JUNGLE L CAUGHT IN BREAKFAST L WORLD HEAT END OF THE m WORLD NEWS THE RED WITH FOOL'S PARADISE L THE ARE YOU SATURDAY THE BROWNS THIRD TIMES SERIOUS? T£J L EDGE THE CHARM PLANET LOVETRON1 SKA-T'S MUSIC THE NORTHERN WISH SCENIC DRIVE LOUD 0 FAST, B BLUE ,-L-, ELECTRO CANADIAN \E GIRLFOOD AND AGING MAGNETC | Hh j 1 ANOIZE ___ LUNCH RAPIDLY wEJJT " PULSES THESE ARE THE SOULSISTAH RADIOL! ROCKERS BREAKS SHOW PARTS L: H -ra POWERCHORD UNKNOWN RADIO FREE PRESS [__ IRIS CPR LEO RAMIREZ SHO1 | Hh I Rts ISTAN D AND BE CUNTED(CF) BLOOD ON THE RHYMES & L MOTORDADDY- g NARDWUAR ____ CODE BLUE CUTE'ISLCUDDLY SADDLE REASONS EVIL VS. GOOD T3 PRESENTS «3L—| T NOOZE & ARTS (Tk) RACHEL'S SONGm FLEX YOUR OUT FOR KICKS L RADIO FREE QUEER FM FAREASTSIDE| HEAD AFRICAN AMERICA SOUNDS ON AIR EJ RYTHMS WIGFLUX RADIO HELLO {____ WITH GREASED HAIR SYNAPTIC SANDWICH INDIA THE LIVE FROM... '—I THUNDERBIRD HELL JAZZ SOULI— VENUS" Wo SHOW SONIC STRAIGHT OUTTA l SOUL PIPE FLYTRAP WANDERLUST JALLUNDHAR HIGHBRED VOICES TREE DREAMS BREAKING [_ WAVES IN YOUR VENGEANCE HANS KLOSS' |Hh/Dc IS MINE! MISERY HOUR HEAD AURAL EARWAX PLUTONIAN TENTACLES ~H NIGHTS FILL-IN PSYCHEDELIC FIRST FLOOR AIRWAVES SOUND SYSTEM REGGAE LINKUP Cf= conscious and funky • Ch= children's • Dc= dance/electronic • Ec= eclectic • Gi= goth/industrial • Hc= hardcore • Hh= hip hop • Hk= Hans Kloss *Ki=Kids Jz= jazz • Lm= live music • Lo= lounge • Mt= metall • No= noise • Nw= Nardwuar • PoPo== pop • Pu= punk • Re= reggae • Rr= rock • Rts= roots • Sk == skskaa »So= soul • Sp= sports • Tk= talk • Wo= world 26 September 2001 3:30-4:30PM Christina returns 9:00PM Indie, new wave, punk, and Promo mix the underground with a show for the little listeners noise, and other. hip hop, old school classics and out there-kid's songs, stories, spe FOLK OASIS 9:00- 10:30PM original breaks. Fresh tracks, cial guests and more. Roots music for folkies and non- funky beats. THE MEAT-EATING VEGAN folkies... bluegrass, singer-song- THE LEO RAMIREZ SHOW 2:00- SCfck l^^gf^ Sct\H?V.A- 4:30-5:00PM writers.worldbeat, alt. country 3:30PM SlpWrtW loo\ • 10,000 VOICES 5:00-6:00PM and more. Not a mirage! NARDWUAR THE HUMAN Poetry, spoken word, perfor 28 September 2001 ^DESCENDENTS H B0C3QD8LIVE DISC INCLUDED VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: I rCSl I VAL AIR CANADA f L\^ J ViSA SEPT 27 TO OCT 12,2001 Everybody Says I'm Fine (India, At Xen's, Bombay's chicest hair SEilon . the propriet MUSIC FILMS coiff and colour your hair. He'll dig down under your roots ai read your mind. Bollywood idol Rahul Bose's (Split Wide Open, VIFF 99) funny and sharp-edged directorial debut, which one :ritic has described as Shampoo meets Life is Beautiful, added bonus: a soundtrack by Shakti's Zakir Hussain, * J**- —- t- wi itle track by Carlos Santana. A Skin Too Few (Netherlands. Jeroen Berkvens' impressior A Huey P. Newton Story (USA, 90 min ) tiche - combining music, inte Based on his one-man stage play, Roger Guenveur Smith gives footage - captures the esser an explosive performance as the chain-smoking co-founder of Lilith on Top (Canada, too min.) the Black Panthers. From the inside of his jail cell, where Lynne Stopkewich's (Kissed, VIFF 96) d> Newton earned a Ph.D., the late radical free-associates a rapid- portrait of Sarah McLachlan's fire monologue on the struggles faced by the black community Lilith Fair tour. Featuring the creme de la creme of over the last 50 years. Directed by Spike Lee. cinematic equivalent of the concert tour it chroni- •ocative and enormously fun. He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (Australia. 102 min.) Deadpan throughout. Noah Taylor stars as a peripatetic house- hopper in Richard Lowenstein's wryly sardonic but perceptive grasp of the almost-30 Zeitgeist in three vastly different settings -Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Lowenstein captures the anarchic, reign-of-chaos comic spirit of John Birmingham's clas sic contemporary novel. The Legend of Teddy Edwards (USA, 85 m Don McGlynn's loving portrait of neglected, jazz great Teddy Edwards, the L.A. bandleader who Resin (USA. 87 min.) recorded the first tenor s;.x bebop solo, fills in Winner of the Audience Award at Chicago's edgy Underground The American Astronaut (USA, 92 , one of the most glaring gaps in Ken Burns' PBS Film Festival, Steve Sobel's riveting feature uses the principles Even though the twisted rockabilly surrealism of series dazz by giving fuller recognition to the of the Dogma 95 manifesto - natural lighting, improvised acting, Cory McAbee may elicit memories of David vibrant West Coast jazz 3 and digicam cinematography - to create a verite-style drama Lynch and John Waters, this outrageous, about a small-time marijuana dealer victimized by California's and-white space western musical comedy fact, unlike anything you' Mirror Image (Taiwan. 72 min.) A perfectly bizarre love triangle: a young man minding a pawn shop on behalf of his hospitalized father, the young woman who adores him. and the woman customer he chases to escape from his girlfriend. Hsiao Ya-Chuan's debut feature is cool, modern and very original. Dragons & Tigers Award nominee. With Lee- Sung Hee-ll's latest short Good Romance (South Korea, 28 Land of Look Behind (USA/Jamaica, 90 min.) min.). She's middle-aged and lonely. He's a high-school boy. Can One part of our 20th anniversary celebrations they get along? VIFF to ct Culturejam: Hijacking Commercial Culture (Canada. 58 min.) personal fave from our past. Jim Jarmusch has Jill Sharpe's smart, witty documentary follows the exploits of big crowd pleaser from VIFF 84. pranksters and artists who express their anti-corporate frustra ichy. wry and in-your-face tale of i to significantly add to our knowl- tion, not with the violence that has marred worldwide protests, the fast of an all-girl, four-piece the The but with a slyer and arguably more subversive approach - cul Portland band, The Paper Dolls, Harder They Come" - L.A. Times ture jamming. With a series of shorts that each jam on culture in Kinnie Starr ind features some kick-ass tunes, their own unique ways, including David Weir's If Canadian Outrageous and funny, like an underground History Was Airports (British Columbia, 3 min.), written by Douglas Coupland. [ BRAD BIRARDA| cBc*fcradi_W_: 1 1 «€?## aw* "" ".: Drivers wanted, (M) *f" '/J *" RD 041* Ball Mobility kOX TRIkkkk C8C_# Television I THE\ANCOUVERSIN IFC Fedix 3 Telefilm Canada Important Dates: Web site: www.viff.org (24 hrs./day) Sept, 6: Free 32-page C8C-TV Festival Guide available around town. Bell Sept. 8: All Box Offices open (tickets & passes). VISA sales only til Sept. 15. VISA Charge-by-Phone line: 604-685-8297 Bell Info Line opens: 604-683-FILM (3456) 9am - 9pm Rogers Video (Broadway & Arbutus) info Sept. 15: Cash sales begin. Souvenir Programs available. Box Offices (open n< n - 7pm) Pacific Centre Kiosk (Georgia & Granville) 683 FILM SAME PLANET. DIFFERENT WORLDS mzmm*mMmm Our Spectacular 2001 Fall Line Up w Come Move oil fye fctffi Sat. Sept. 1st on the Abitibi (Located @ the foot of Burrard next to Canada Place) Loads @ 6pm Departs @ 7pm A New Orleans Dance Party Sept. 2nd The Boot Pub in Whistler QOOOQBOQDQOc October 23rd The Orpheum Theatre Efe?.';:^^! 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