Re: grace babies
grace babies are an awful band, featured on mucheast a few too many times. for inexplicable reasons, they have a debut full-length out on no records. It's really awful. umm.. lemme see.. they're very pop-rotten (or is that rawtten?), lots of crappy little ditties, and the songs make me puke :) kool-aid is every bit as detestable as the beverage from which it takes its name (mainly because of the lyrics...oh and the music :) ) lots of guitars is not an indication of good music, but sometimes they have that whiny guitar sound which I associate with shit.. oops, i'm out of time. gotta go slag something else now. umm.. i hope this helps! ...sizzle jerk grace babies are an awesome band, featured on mucheast a few times. they have a debut full-length out on no records entitled _lure_. it's really awesome. umm.. lemme see.. i wish i had a copy of my zine here so i could just write out my review... ummm.. ok, they're very pop-rawky, lots of catchy little ditties, and the songs are kinda cute :) kool-aid is one of the best in the bunch (mainly for its lyrics.. mmm... candy :) ) lots of guitars, uptempo (most of the time), but sometimes they have that wailing guitar sound which i associate with treble charger.. oops, i'm out of time. gotta go write a final now. umm.. i hope this helps! ...sizzled :P sizzle teen -- e-mail SUCKS.
Re: halifax poster problem
Well, honestly, i've found that postering is pretty much a huge waste of time anyway. Unless a band has a really large solid following, posters really aren't going to do very much.. like how often do you see a poster for a band that you've never heard of before and think hey i think i'll go to that tonight! ... really.. i think you're more likely to go if somebody comes up to you and says hey do you have anything to do tonight? if you're intersted there's this cool band playing.. blah blah blah That may be true unless you're someone like me that has no friends. i've found out about a lot of gigs by reading posters. Just because you know and like a band doesn't mean that you happen to know that they're playing a gig, and posters are a good way for a band to let their fans know about their shows. roderick -- e-mail SUCKS.
Rita MacNeil's new album
I'm surprised nobody's talked about Rita's new release here yet. It's called Porch Songs, and is a tribute to the Halifax band Coyote. This is probably MacNeil's most intense effort to date, and she really brings new life to these songs. some of the tracks really shine. Her rendition of Never Let Your Friends Find You Dead is truly haunting, and on God Damn Good she screams like she's never screamed before. On the title track (the Porch Song), when she sings the line Fuck 'em, it don't mean nothin' she says it with even more conviction than Chris Logan himself. And with I Remember Drinking Rita MacNeil rocks out like only Rita MacNeil can. when she's bad...she's Fabulous. the album does have its weak points however. Wander is far too long and self indulgent, and the fiddle solo in The Lynching Bee is annoying to say the least. However, despite these flaws, this album is totally worth getting, possibly one of the best of 1995. roderick -- e-mail SUCKS.
Re: Plum Tree
When I interviewed them (mostly Amanda), I was told that their influences were Pop music. K-records kind of stuff.whatever that is...actually who knows, it could be Kay-records for all I yeah, K records, from Olympia Washington. started by one of the best no talent bands ever, Beat Happening. but I'm sure you all knew that already. They have a tape out: I think it's called Flutter Boy. Flutterboard actually. flutter boy sounds better though. They should have put more thought into naming their tape. A new 7: ?? don't know much about it. It's called water had leaked into my suit or some such stupidness they do a great surf version of steppenwolf's Born to be wild, and call it Sodium Chloride Amanda told me that they were going to record this past summer for a C.D. but I don't know what the current info is on that. Yeah, they recorded it in Ottawa with Paul gluetones Hogan. good choice of producer in my opinion. he should be able to do a good job of capturing their sound. roderick, who knows too much about bands he doesn't even like. -- e-mail SUCKS.
Fire Engine Red in Windsor tonight
hey, like the subject says, the band Fire Engine Red are playing in Windsor tonight, and that's all I know about the gig. Make it a game: see if you can find out where when and how much it is, and then GO. If you haven't already heard, FER are a band from Calgary, and sound like Buffalo Tom mainly. Really happy poppy guitar type stuff. Tara Lee will be there too. So bring some sandwiches or something for her. Also, Fire engine red will be playing in Hamilton at the X club on sunday, with Punchbuggy and Chixdiggit. I think it's all ages. roderick -- e-mail SUCKS.
superfriendz and jale on brave gnu waves
I didn't see any mention of this in my 321 messages waiting for me so I assume everyone secretly knew about it, or nobody knew about it. Anyway, the interview was last Tuesday night I think. If anyone's interested I'll try to transcribe it. It was Matt from superfriendz, Mike and Eve from Jale. I think they said something interesting but I'm not sure. It was 1:00 after all. bulgy, roderick -- e-mail SUCKS.
kiebur billding show
hey, since nobody's mentioned it (to my knowledge) I'll assume either nobody knows or you've been trying to keep me from knowing. But here's the thing. Tonight at the khyber there's a show of jale Super friendz Tim Robbinz Experience Preppy Relatives it sounds promising, doesn't it? it's supposed to start around 9 (as if). with any luck it will be over before Rebecca West plays at birdland. bye roderick -- blah. my teddy bear is gloating. he's happier.
Re: ripoffs?
Hey, any Haligonians know any of the other ECB who appeared on that Maximum Louie Louie programme??? Yeah, there were a whole lot in on it, but I can't remember most of them (I missed it when they played it on la radio. damn). I know for sure that PlumTree and Horn of Plenti appeared. I have this funny feeling that one of the local rap-type-guys did a version too, like stinkin rich or someone, but hell i may have been dreaming. I know I was dreaming when I saw some guy with one hell of goatee up on stage with Coyote a few weeks ago. My exams suck much worse than your guys'. Fermions are nicer than bosons. I don't think Penpals and Underarmed sound all that alike. Okay mabye I know you'll find this letter strange I know it's not cause I looked it up yeah I can see it. When I write songs I find out that I accidentally rip off really cheesy bands like the time I unintentionally rewrote Hotel California. It's embarrassing. Non-sequiturly yours, roderick aFFleck -- It gets all crappy from here on.
