tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216486562024-03-23T10:45:35.293-07:00stay at homean indie rock adventure in nanaimo bcErin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1138518552835477672006-01-28T20:29:00.000-08:002017-10-12T12:20:33.908-07:00it has come to my attention that nanaimo kids know how to rockmy life improved last night when I saw two awesome bands in the basement of a house on fitzwilliam street. FUCK YEAH, I say to all those in attendance, especially the kind hosts of the party and the members of <a href="http://www.geocities.com/are_you_sure_this_is_a_band/">hot loins </a>and <a href="http://www.theyshoothorses.org/">they shoot horses, don't they?</a>.<br />
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it topped off a fantastic evening of rock, which started out at the nanaimo youth centre, where I caught the end of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/123redlight">123 redlight</a>'s ecstatic insanity. they were followed by a great set by <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thecosmetics">the cosmetics</a>, and then <a href="http://www.colourbook.cjb.net/">colourbook</a>, who put on a really good show but didn't quite meet my expectations based on the cd a friend made me of some of their recorded stuff. can't wait for an album from those guys.<br />
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DOWNLOAD: colourbook - <a href="http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0V3U8G7AQ371R1XHKAFULR6C7X">never get old</a> (link will expire in 7 days or 25 downloads)<br />
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I think the band I enjoyed the most was hot loins, who sounded like a train wreck. . . . a train wreck dancing its ASS off! reminded me a bit of my favourite vancouver band, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dustinandgarret">dustin and garret (aka the uhauls) </a>with the psycho-korg-action. and it made me dance, which has never happened before. at least in the past seven years. I'm not joking.<br />
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I've just started keeping on top of local all-ages shows, after attending some recent shows and being impressed at the energetic and oft-experimental/progressive talent present and the enthusiasm of the kids that come out. it kicks ass on friday nights at the cambie.<br />
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enter the birth of this blog. sometimes we rock and roll. sometimes we stay at home. well, if you're at home, check out the sidebar for all the times and places you could be rock and rolling in fine company.<br />
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now playing: test icicles - sharksErin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-48079259483720490952008-12-31T17:31:00.000-08:002008-12-31T17:44:08.375-08:00top records of 2008<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">as I mentioned earlier, I didn't find 2008 a great year for new releases. most of these records wouldn't compete very well against <a href="http://indiecontextual.blogspot.com/">last year's list</a>. but still, some things get me a <em>little</em> worked up. in january and february I was actively pursuing new music for my radio show. I stopped hosting the show in august when I went on tour with the phrenologists, and spent the previous months booking the tour and making three records. as december arrived I made an attempt to catch up on the stuff I missed.<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff6666;">favourite record from early in the year:<br /></span>1. <a href="http://www.subpop.com/artists/wolf_parade">WOLF PARADE</a> – AT MOUNT ZOOMER. everything wolf parade does is always my favourite. this second album is denser bigger more unified. I don’t like it better than their first record, which I don’t like better than their rough and jagged first eps, but it’s a great development for them. one thing that was great when I saw this material in concert twice last year before the album came out was when dante joined dan and spencer on vocals and it’s too bad that that’s not happening on this record. hopefully he’s busy making my favourite record of 2009.<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff6666;">favourite record from recent catch-up listening:</span><br />2. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/marniestern1">MARNIE STERN </a>- THIS IS IT AND I AM IT AND YOU ARE IT AND SO IS THAT AND HE IS IT AND SHE IS IT AND IT IS IT AND THAT IS THAT. my friend paul was really into marnie stern’s last (first?) album, but I thought it was just okay. this one hit me over the head, maybe I could make music like this if I had so much energy for making it big. it is exuberant like I like it, with tones of riot grrrl and dance pop and fuckin guitar rock and hey! get up (and with yr brain too)! cheerish chanting vocals. I almost can’t believe this record. I might like it better than wolf parade. or I might get over it in another month, who knows.<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff6666;">other stuff I like:</span><br />3. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/animalcollectivetheband">ANIMAL COLLECTIVE</a> – WATER CURSES. everything I love about animal collective, this is just a little ep, but beautiful in a sharp twirly happy dizzy way that doesn’t make you sick but worked up alive beyond language, but with words too. alot of a FEELS (2005) vibe, which was what hooked me into them with a jagged tingly hook.<br /><br />4. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/timesnewviking">TIMES NEW VIKING </a>– RIP IT OFF. this record is so loud and sharp in the ears it pretty much hurts, emphasis on the pretty. I love all the static, it gets me kind of worked up. this is one show this year I’m sad I missed when they toured with deerhunter (who are good, but not the kind of thing that gets me going). it’s like great grunge pop.<br /><br />5. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Eerie">MOUNT EERIE</a> – LOST WISDOM. a friend with good taste sent me this record. I was underwhelmed at first because it’s so quiet in an underwhelming way, kind of like how I feel about julie doiron who sings on it. I got hooked by the song VOICE IN HEADPHONES, whose refrain has the beautifullest singalong of one of my favourite BJORK songs (UNDO). then the song WHAT? (rightly) ends with this line:<br /><em>newborn babies come to life on my face, they say ‘ta da!’<br /></em>I just can’t believe what’s going on there. listen to the whispers.<br /><br />6. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bornruffians">BORN RUFFIANS</a> –RED, YELLOW & BLUE. skip the pretty lame opening title track and this record is so much bouncing fun. maybe not as deep as I hoped, as I had been anticipating it since hearing the people camping next to us at sasquatch festival last year listening to it loudly while I was trying to sleep. I went and asked them to turn it down, but also who the rad band was. it’s the kind of edgy pop sound with some hopeful angst that grabs me and sings me along.<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff6666;">also interesting to me:</span><br />7. STEPHEN MALKMUS – REAL EMOTIONAL TRASH. I haven’t even listened to this whole album, but whenever I have it on and am in the other room doing something, something catches me and I come stand close to the speaker to say, hmm, yeah. he’s got it right, everyone knows it.<br /><br />8. TITUS ANDRONICUS – THE AIRING OF GRIEVANCES. another one I haven’t digested enough to say anything intelligent about, except that it sounds like conor oberst in a band that rocks damn fine and fun with just enough darkness. I like that kind of thing. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />9. TOKYO POLICE CLUB – ELEPHANT SHELL. you know this band is good. I didn’t hear anything about this record in the second half of the year, which seems a little weird, because in a year of albums with some good sound and some good songs, this fits in nicely.<br /><br />10. THE DODOS – VISITER. another good listen from early in the year, with a couple hell-yeah standout tracks.<br /><br />11. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH – SHALLOW GRAVES. this guy’s from sweden or something. the kind of voice on the kind of songs it’s hard to skip through when they come on your playlist. classic folky stuff with a sharp voice.<br /><br />12. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – DISTORTION. a fine bit of fuzz over pretty songs. I’m beginning to think I’ve underrated it.<br /><br />12. THE GRATES – TEETH LOST, HEARTS WON. this is a band from australia whose sound I go crazy for. this record is not as solid as their first, but has plenty of the same get up and dance with a friendly smile on your face feeling that wins my heart.<br /><br />13. THE DECEMBERISTS – ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID. the decemberists put out this little ep, full of decemberists songs. those are good things. this band has grown on me more this year. on a long list of finest bands ever, the decemberists have a solid spot.<br /><br />14. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/downwitheverythingforeveryone">EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE</a>. I just got this cd at fascinating rhythm last week and you probably should too. I haven’t spent much time with it yet, but it might be FRVDTY records’ finest yet.</span>Erin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-27930128298816531222008-12-31T15:45:00.000-08:002008-12-31T16:37:30.057-08:00enthusiasm spoken for<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I wasn’t very impressed by music I listened to in 2008, which is a strange experience for me. I think it’s mainly because I focused my energy on my own projects, which were numerous and pretty big, so my enthusiasm was all spoken for.<br />I passed up shows by sunset rubdown and wolf parade. (what?!)<br />I left nanaimo for ONE show all year (and not far, went to duncan), which was </span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/rockplazacentral"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ROCK PLAZA CENTRAL</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. so one of my favourite records this year was their first album (quantum butterass), from 1997.<br />probably the record I was most into all year was one from 2007, which I just got in january: </span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/barrbarr"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">BARR</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">’s second album, SUMMARY.<br />also worth a mention from 2007 is the </span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/frvdtyrcrds"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">second FRVDTY split</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, featuring LIGHTS OF HARMAC and DOWN WITH EVERYTHING, which came out late last year and I got pretty into this year. a highlight in local releases.<br /><br /><br />before I get to my top records of 2008 list, here’s a rundown of the endeavours that took priority over buying and downloading and being thrilled by other people’s music: I was making my own! here are five </span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/shackrecords"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">shack records</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> releases and one tour that made this a big year for me.<br /><br />my true favourite record this year is:<br /></span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/weareoldphoebe"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">OLD PHOEBE</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> – I’LL TAKE YOU WHERE I GO. jamie and I spent hot july upstairs at the & loan gallery working on this record until we were happy happy. it’s mostly songs we’ve been playing for a long time, and feels full of our whole nanaimo experience to me. listening to it fills me full of satisfaction with all the work I’ve done with jamie and everyone else I’ve worked with here.<br /><br />secondly satisfying is:<br /></span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/phrenologists"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">THE PHRENOLOGISTS</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> – ALCHEMY. playing in this band was fun. recording this cd, two days in june also upstairs at the & loan, was also fun. listening to the record is fun. going on tour across canada with this band in august was super fun and definitely one of the best things I’ve ever done. sure, do that and then tell me how excited you are even by a new record from your favourite band. it pales a little.<br /><br />I also made this:<br /></span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/killbuddha"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">KILL THE BUDDHA</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> – FIRST KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DEALING WITH. while I’m very satisfied with having made this record in a week in february, there’s so much I would change about it now. some songs really could’ve used a few more takes. and the songs sound so much the same, maybe because my guitar playing sucks so much. still, it was meant to be a raw, bare, honest laying down of songs, and it is. some people really like it. actually <a href="http://http//blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=143153846&blogID=458025209">david morrison</a> put it on his favourite records of the year list.<br /><br />and I am extremely pleased with the debut of my good friend:<br /></span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/elginskye"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ELGIN-SKYE</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. it’s so pretty in every way.<br /><br />also significant for me this year was:<br /><span style="color:#66cccc;">AH, VENICE</span> – YELLOW HOUSE. I think I have always been one of the biggest fans of chris thompson’s songwriting and singing and arranging. let me just stand behind that and leave all emotions out of it.</span>Erin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-71686887762235281522008-12-31T15:35:00.000-08:002008-12-31T15:39:01.894-08:00it's 2008!it’s kind of fucked to revive a blog called stay at home after two years (of being too busy living to talk about it) when I’m about to leave town indefinitely. or is it.<br />sometimes we rock and roll.<br />and what is home?<br />I’d like to reminisce a little before I go. and then check out some other places than nanaimo to rock and roll (what?!).<br />like montreal. or toronto. I’ll let you know what I see when I get there.Erin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1165195564372762192006-12-03T16:42:00.000-08:002006-12-04T23:16:20.093-08:00introducing ganeshan willcome to cyber city saturday december 9th to see <a href="http://www.myspace.com/hellogreenline">the green line</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/weareoldphoebe">old phoebe</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thebikesmine">the tycoons</a>, ganeshan will, and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thepaperboxes">the paper boxes</a>. five local bands for five little dollars! who are all these bands you ask? surely you are already good friends with the green line and old phoebe, and if not, just scroll down this page. and naturally you are familiar with the famed tycoons, nanaimo's own surf-rock band, featuring nate and tanner, formerly of the bike's mine and 123 red light, chris, formerly of the bike's mine, and brent, formerly of the cum-alongs. perhaps you have also heard word of the paper boxes, featuring marcus hastings, formerly of the cum-alongs, who I hear were pretty damn good. they sound a little black keysish, a little white stripesish, certainly a nice mess. and maybe you haven't got a clue who ganeshan will is, because they have never ever played a show before, this will be their very first one, so lucky I am here to tell you about them because I am very excited about it. here are a few somewhat related facts:<br /><br />my four favourite guitar players:<br />1. jack white (the white stripes)<br />2. tanner matt (the tycoons)<br />3. todd o'brien (ganeshan will)<br />4. carey mercer (frog eyes/swan lake)<br /><br />my two favourite keyboard players:<br />1. spencer krug (wolf parade/sunset rubdown/swan lake/frog eyes)<br />2. adam gold (ganeshan will)<br /><br />ok? get it?<br />also, todd is my little brother, and just like me in all the right ways, and just unlike me in all the right ways. we used to play in a little band in our garage that we sometimes called white magnetic world-bridger. it consisted of me, todd, ryan hollett (also in ganeshan will), nathan hollett, and bryan hamre (also in ganeshan will). we never played any shows, except a few times at the cambie jam night. fraser johnson said we were good. nobody else said anything.<br /><br />BAND PROFILE: <span style="color:#33ccff;">GANESHAN WILL</span><br /><strong>together since:</strong> Shiva cut off our head. Mother got upset. Father found us an elephant head.<br /><strong>members:</strong> todd, ryan, jada, adam, bryan<br /><strong>bands they've played shows with:</strong> a picture of the beatles<br /><strong>bands they've been compared to:</strong> pixies playing glam-folk with an accordian, whatever band was playing in beethoven's garage, the velvet underground & nico, white magnetic world-bridger, a bunch of running scared buddhist monks, guru nanak's followers, pavement, the muppet babies, neutral milk hotel, a gabriel cover-band, portishead, sonic death monkey, and the beatles (all by todd)Erin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1165048963286970372006-12-01T23:25:00.000-08:002006-12-02T01:06:05.386-08:00meet the bash brothersthe bash brothers played a rad show tonight at fascinating rhythm with nardwuar and the evaporators, and head tomorrow to vic to play with david p. smith. here's a little bit about those crazy girls.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/201/1608/1600/470451/July%201%20-%20Cambie%20034.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/201/1608/200/501231/July%201%20-%20Cambie%20034.jpg" border="0" /></a>BAND PROFILE: <span style="color:#33ccff;">THE BASH BROTHERS</span><br /><strong>myspace:</strong> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bashbashbash">www.myspace.com/bashbashbash</a><br /><strong>together since:</strong> 2002 or 2003<br /><strong>members:</strong> Kristjanne Vosper & Lindsay Coulton<br /><strong>cd:</strong> in the works<br /><strong>bands they've played shows with:</strong> David P. Smith, The Tycoons, Old Pheobe, Brat Attack, New World on Fire, Alpha Baby, Hot Birds & Bees<br /><strong>bands they've been compared to:</strong> Kaaarrraaaaazzzzzyyyyy<br /><br />MEET <span style="color:#ff0000;">LINDSAY COULTON</span> <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/201/1608/1600/54302/erin"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/201/1608/200/983067/erin%27s%20birthday%20040.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>band/role in scene:</strong> 50% Of Bash, Newest member of the Tycoons, Member of Burlaimo, Party Thrower Extrodinaire, Hater of all Pay Parking<br /><strong>instruments:</strong> Keys, Bass, Guitar, Accordion, Drums, Sawblade, Axe.<br /><strong>previous bands:</strong> Comrade Kelly and The Superstar Jamborie, The Blues Factor<br /><strong>day job:</strong> Server, Art student<br /><strong>aspirations:</strong> stir the pot.<br /><strong>most recent cd/musical instrument purchase:</strong> DevotchKa - Curse my little heart, I bought a new amp instead of having a phone for a couple of months<br /><strong>favourite bands:</strong> DevotchKa, Sleater Kinney, James Brown, The Black Keys, Edith Piaf<br /><strong>favourite writers:</strong> Jeanette Winterson, Dickens<br /><strong>years in nanaimo:</strong> 4<br /><strong>first rad person met in nanaimo:</strong> So many rad people in nanaimo<br /><strong>local heroes:</strong> Bob & Rose<br /><strong>aesthetic values:</strong> North America is a shit box full of corrupt, money grubbing, heartless, evil doers. We're all grubbing around in it and we all smell pretty bad so it's easy to ignore. We can scratch shitty old sand over new shit and pretend like it doesn't exist or we can point it out. Pointing it out or digging it up is what art is. I try and do my digging with a sense of humour, it makes it a little easier to stomach.<br /><br />MEET <span style="color:#ff0000;">KRISTJANNE VOSPER</span> <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/201/1608/1600/562303/55090024.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/201/1608/200/105499/55090024.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>bands:</strong> bash brothers<br /><strong>instruments:</strong> drums, mandolin (brand new!), sing-song<br /><strong>previous bands:</strong> we've been had, apricot rock, + comrade kelly and the superstar jamboree<br /><strong>radio show:</strong> enthusiasm radio (thursdays 5-6pm on <a href="http://www.chly.ca">chly</a>)<br /><strong>website/blog:</strong> <a href="http://deoxy.org/ct/index.htm" target="_blank">http://deoxy.org/ct/index.htm</a> + i have a livejournal, too<br /><strong>day job:</strong> studying english, clerk, sub at a daycare<br /><strong>aspirations:</strong> i just wish i knew everything i dont already, first of all, + marlaina and i are planning a month-long visit to the louvre sometime. id like to be a deckhand on a fishboat. i want to grow up strong and get things done and always stand up for myself. i want to make things happen and really inspire people and be inspired by them. and to smash the state!<br /><strong>most recent cd/musical instrument purchase:</strong> introspection by the end + a mandolin<br /><strong>favourite bands:</strong> i really like the weakerthans + cat power + julie doiron + old phoebe<br /><strong>favourite writers:</strong> francesca lia block + lucy maude montgomery for old times sake. jack kerouac + robert jordan for new.<br /><strong>hero:</strong> alistair cook (not the guy from masterpiece theatre)<br /><strong>years in nanaimo:</strong> three<br /><strong>first rad people met in nanaimo:</strong> isaac flagg, lauren smith, + ken mcleod<br /><strong>local heroes:</strong> mike thibodeau, lindsay shemming, curtis aguirre, chelsee damen, mel mundell, becky johnson + tim lander qualify<br /><strong>aesthetic values:</strong> love train, sous les paves la plage, every effort is absolutely importantErin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1163979638461613662006-11-19T14:32:00.000-08:002006-11-23T13:18:37.226-08:00meet the scene<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/1600/photo%20credit.1.jpg"></a><br />I hope people come out to the show at cyber city on tuesday because it should be rad. I'm worried nobody knows who the bands are. I'm not really that familiar with them, but jamie plays in-flight safety on the playlist sometimes and they're good. raising the fawn has members of broken social scene, and I just read a good review of mico in exclaim! magazine. and maybe the under-agers miss old phoebe? I hope so. I miss dance dance revolution. somebody please come and challenge me to a match.<br /><br />I got an email this week from a guy who just moved to nanaimo and wants to get in on the indie scene and meet some fellow artists and musicians. know anyone to introduce him to? wait! I just thought of about twenty people! so for andrew and anyone who wants to know who exactly is who or who they might like to meet, or start a band with or start a fanclub for I'm going to do a series of profiles of local people who are doin stuff and makin stuff happen and stuff. I'll start with mini band profiles for people in bands, and start it off with myself in case you are wondering who the hell I am anyway.<br /><br />BAND PROFILE: <span style="color:#33ccff;">OLD PHOEBE <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/1600/IMG_5129.jpg"></a></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><span style="color:#cccccc;">myspace:</span></strong></span><span style="color:#000000;"> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/weareoldphoebe">www.myspace.com/weareoldphoebe</a></span><br /><strong>together since:</strong> november 2005 <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/1600/IMG_5129.1.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/200/IMG_5129.1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/1600/IMG_5129.0.jpg"></a><br /><strong>members:</strong> jamie anderson, erin o'brien, pietro (the bike)<br /><strong>cd:</strong> apartment rock (april 2006)<br /><strong>bands they've played shows with:</strong> dustin and garret, the bash brothers, the bike's mine, the sheds, colourbook, hot birds and bees, you say party! we say die!, ukulelele, the razoowah, fury and the mouse, the 97th airborne<br /><strong>bands they've been compared to:<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/1600/photo%20credit.0.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 156px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 20px" height="20" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/200/photo%20credit.0.jpg" width="156" border="0" /></a></strong> a punk rock cat power, joanna newsom, arcade fire (seriously, someone I work with said we reminded her of them), a pinch of the pixies, the shaggs<br /><strong>other info:</strong> won the cambie/got pop? battle of the bands (october 2006)<br /><br />MEET <span style="color:#ff0000;">ERIN O'BRIEN</span> (that's me)<br /><strong>band:</strong> old phoebe<br /><strong>instruments:</strong> vocals, guitar, bike, <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/1600/july%201%20015.0.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/200/july%201%20015.0.jpg" border="0" /></a>typewriter <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/1600/photo%20credit.jpg"></a><br /><strong>previous band:</strong> apricot rock<br /><strong>radio shows:</strong> the playlist (tuesdays 11pm-1am) and indiecontextual (thursdays 4-5pm) on <a href="http://www.chly.ca">chly</a><br /><strong>blogs:</strong> stay at home, <a href="http://www.indiecontextual.blogspot.com">indiecontextual/enthusiasm radio!</a><br /><strong>day job:</strong> I work in a photolab and a mall store<br /><strong>aspirations:</strong> indie rock star, improve the world<br /><strong>most recent cd purchase:</strong> scout niblett--kidnapped by neptune, and frank black and the catholics--black letter days<br /><strong>favourite bands:</strong> wolf parade, sunset rubdown, the white stripes, modest mouse, beck, nirvana<br /><strong>favourite writers:</strong> gertrude stein, william carlos williams, jacques derrida, j.d. salinger<br /><strong>years in nanaimo:</strong> 2<br /><strong>first rad person met in nanaimo:</strong> jamie anderson<br /><strong>hero:</strong> spencer krug<br /><strong>local heroes:</strong> kristjanne vosper, tanner matt<br /><strong>aesthetic values:</strong> artful incongruity, imperfectionism, raw honesty, rough enthusiasm, deceptive simplicity, intellectual exhuberance, the absurd<br /><br />MEET <span style="color:#ff0000;">JAMIE ANDERSON <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/1600/getImage.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/200/getImage.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><br /><strong>bands:</strong> old phoebe, urbane decay<br /><strong>instruments:</strong> vocals, piano, bicycle, harmonica, banjo<br /><strong>radio show:</strong> the playlist (tuesdays 11pm-1am) on <a href="http://www.chly.ca/">chly</a><br /><strong>day job:</strong> record store<br /><strong>aspirations:</strong> for old phoebe to make it to halifax on tour<br /><strong>most recent cd purchase:</strong> thanksgiving, tahiti 80<br /><strong>most recent musical instrument purchase:</strong> 5-string banjo<br /><strong>favourite band:</strong> black keys<br /><strong>years in nanaimo:</strong> several<br /><strong>first rad person met in nanaimo:</strong> christopher arruda<br /><strong>hero:</strong> wayne coyne<br /><strong>local heroes:</strong> everyone else above and below me on this page<br /><strong>aesthetic values:</strong> I just like to know everyone is having a fun time but being safe about it<br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">now playing: scout niblett--hot to death</span></p></span>Erin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1161283606750230942006-10-19T11:44:00.000-07:002006-10-19T13:59:11.053-07:00quinnterviewthis week in rock:<br />oct. 13: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/hellogreenline">the green line</a> played first show at velvet underground. rad.<br />oct. 14: battle of the bands @ the cambie: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bashbashbash">bash brothers</a> were rad. blood was shed. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thebikesmine">tycoons</a> were rad. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/wilsonpascoe">wilson pascoe</a> got more votes.<br />so, oct. 21: battle of the bands final: johnny good, unlabelled, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/weareoldphoebe">old phoebe</a> and wilson pascoe FIGHT! and sing songs. come see.<br /><br />and, it's all great to stay at home, but don't do ALONE! how about another voice? I had a nice discussion with quinn stacey about his band, the green line, and a little bit about other bands too.<br /><br /><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;"><span style="color:#ffffcc;">so, the green line had its first show on friday. how do you feel it went?</span><br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">honestly, at first, I thought that it wasn't what it could have been. but then people starting talking to me about it, and the response was relatively positive.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">that's good, I'm glad you feel good about it. first shows rarely are all they could be, but I know you put it off a little while and put a lot into making it special.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">i definitely used the best possible people around to help make the band what it was, everyone's contribution was amazing. there wasn't really any point, except for once, where i had to worry where a particular song was going.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">how long has this incarnation of the band existed? you started off your first eps just by yourself and keep adding members and changing the band's sound a little, sometimes a lot.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">this incarnation, including blake has been around for maybe four or five practices. . .</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">because you were playing at his house?</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">well, we hadn't been practicing at his place, we just recorded an album there. blake's coming into the band came directly from his playing on the Golden Wedding sessions. the green line as a Being has been around since february or so.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">so the Golden Wedding is the album you've completed but not released yet--how is it different from the other full length, You May Run So Far From Home?<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">well, they both have the same spirit in that they are completely improvised with only brief instructions to the musicians beforehand. lyrics and melodies are completely improvised on both albums. but the golden wedding took place in a very, very drunk 4 hour middle-of-the-night session that i recorded and then culled down.<br />You May Run.... uses 10 out of 11 recorded songs with only one outtake. the "genre", stupid word, is perhaps different on the two albums but the spirit is the same. one is just drunker than the other. You May Run... also has the band's first use of jazz session players and the first use of female voices.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">I like the joyful sound of what I've heard so far.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">yeah, that album is really optimistic, we were all in very high spirits. the people that helped us out: Alyson, Natalie and Erin hadn't ever recorded with me; maybe hadn't recorded ever, so they were really excited by the whole thing. they are probably going to join us onstage for our next show.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">is changing lineups and sounds to be an integral part of the band's identity and/or do you have an overall manifesto or vision of what you want the band to sound like that you're working towards pinning down?</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">i guess the manifesto is just to make music that I would listen to for fun, like for my own enjoyment. i listen to our music all the time, because I enjoy the songs. there is so much great music out there, you only have so many waking hours to listen. and I try to make music that cracks my own listening lineup. that is how it passes the test. and i go to any means to create that music, using other musicians or whatever.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">yeah, people seem to think listening to your own music is egotistical or something, but you should be stimulated yourself by what you do right? if not why waste everyone else's time.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">yes, i just try to make music that i like, that's the whole thing</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">I want to bring up something you said at the party after the show that I have been thinking a little about.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">uh oh. hopefully it was intelligent.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">you differentiated the green line from bands like the bash brothers and old phoebe saying that we are personality based bands. don't worry, I'm not taking offense, it is an interesting point.<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">this is what people have told me about you guys, is what i based that on.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">oh, what do you mean? I thought it was a personal observation.<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">david told me when he first saw you something like "i don't know if i like the music first or i like the people." it is a personal observation.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">you said that enjoyment of our music is more based on knowing us, which I disagree with--if you like me from listening to my music or seeing me play you are responding to the music and/or performance.<br />and I think personality is a very important aspect of art. I have begun to think of artists and works of art on similar terms that I think of friends--there's so many different levels of connection and chemistry and appreciation, it's never just how GOOD or skilled or nice somebody or something is. and bands like us, two-pieces that are more instrumentally bare, and less skill-based (speaking for myself there, not calling anyone else unskilled) rely more heavily on personality (which for me is very important and the reason I use the kinds of arrangements I do), but back to you. . . . do you think you are NOT personality based? in what ways does a band like the green line differ on that level?</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">well, our music touches on so much. live, like the other night, i would say less so personality - it's more like a collective, and people connect to the greatest degree with vocals, which were (that show at least) pretty low. some EP's i've done are very much personality-based. songs where it's my voice and not much else.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">yeah, some of those are my favourites, like Why Not Congratulate Yourself Sometimes.<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">yeah. the best music ever has some of the best people behind and getting some kind of relationship with these people is what connects music to people. i'm sort of working on another full-length that is going to have a lot of my singing on it.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">great!</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">but i find it really difficult to sing, i don't really enjoy it.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">as I thought about what you had said I realized that I do really connect with the songs that you sing, and I mentioned I was disappointed that you didn't do any singing on friday.<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">it's less difficult for sean to bring himself to sing.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">it's not that I don't like sean and dave's vocals--I especially love when dave goes ah ha ha ha in This Is A Story About Diamonds--but maybe the personality of the songs comes out in a purer form when you sing. or maybe my ex-boyfriend is right and I just like music best when the singer can't sing.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">thanks. i definitely have one of those voices. like Daniel Johnston or Wayne Coyne or Lou Reed. not to compare myself to them. maybe more like Danny. the other two are pretty natural singers. plus i've only been singing for maybe just under a year. although I did sing in my first ever band, The Carters.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">I'm just kidding, I could go on for days explaining why bob dylan and neil young and jack white and conor oberst and kurt cobain are way better singers than, say, oh I don't even want to name somebody lame that has a "good voice."</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">Paul McCartney?</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">yes, good example.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">there's a reason people connected with Lennon moreso.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">fuck yeah.<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">I went to the Lennon memorial in New York and people were crying.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">Plastic Ono Band is one of my favourite albums.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">Mother DESTROYS me.<br />but Lennon is a fabulous singer, he's got like a 3 octave range</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">yeah, he is good. nobody says he can't sing, do they?<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">no, but he's a little more to the left than Paul.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">yes, and people don't get what he saw in yoko ono and everybody hates <em>her</em> singing, but that's a whole different thing to talk about.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">he probably shouldn't have been even brought up in this context.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">ha ha<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">but yeah. "Mother" is better than anything he did with the Beatles. is that blasphemy? that's just the kind of music I go for.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">I'm not going to disagree, but it is bolder than I would go. but, like I said, I like that album better than any of the beatles albums.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">I can't say that. I like George's All Things Must Pass better than any beatles album, but maybe that is in part because of the Phil Spector factor. who is one of my Production-heros.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">it's kind of in the indie rock genre before that existed as a genre (Plastic Ono Band).</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">yes, those two albums. kind of get near that area.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">I'll check that one out then.<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">You've never heard it?<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">no.<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">My Lord.<br />Be Right Back, I'm going to put it on. . . . i took out one of my cd's from the player. if that lends any cred to what i was saying.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">lots of cred. I am listening to The Green Lion ep.<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">ha. it's silly. i wanted to be Spacemen 3 at that time. as shown by the Stooges cover.<br />i kind of wanted to get onstage and sing for the tycoons last night.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">you did! me too! were you writing lyrics in your head?</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">yes. Lou Reed-esque.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">me too, I wrote one down afterwards.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">Jamie doesn't like Lou Reed, did you know that?</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">well, I'll have a discussion with her. she didn't used to like bob DYLan.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">Berlin. have you heard Berlin? by Reed?</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">I think I have, but I'm not familiar with it.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">he wanted to kill himself, and made an album about it. and it IS. that and the production is amazing.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">I get sick of him sometimes, my ex-boyfriend neill burned me a whole bunch of lou reed albums at one time, too much at once I think.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">forget his solo albums. all of them. except Berlin. he needed the Velvets to keep him from becoming a total moron.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">ok, yeah, I have a pretty good selection of velvet underground and he is clearly magical.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">they are my favourite band.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">I could hear it even before I heard the velvet underground covers.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">maybe if i sing more it'll be more obvious even.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">oh, I was going to say, tanner said maybe the tycoons should have different people come up and sing or recite poetry with them.<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">yeah.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">and I was just thinking about the web of interactions between bands in our little growing scene.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">i thought about that last night too. green line, bash bros, old, tycoons all have a direct connection to Pheasant Alley. this year coming up is going to be really something for me, recording-wise. I'm getting a real place and real pro gear.</span><br />stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">I like how you started out recording, and handing out cds to people and progressed into a full performing band.<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">i have very set goals. it all progresses.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">a lot of people were and are really excited about your band, partly of course because your music is rad and interesting, but also I think because that build up is exciting.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">yeah, it was all thought out by me beforehand. because I live to "create" (music, writing whatever) and I kind of saw how a band comes to be in this town. it kind of lined up well in terms of the band that i was getting to be friends with the sort of other music people at the same time I was starting a band.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">yes, I think it's rather serendipitous.<br /></span>quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">i didn't have any friends for two years. i didn't hang out with sean for two years.<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">most of my best friends now say similar things, and it was the same for me, not that I didn't have ANY friends, but that we didn't have many close connections and didn't feel like we had much of a place here, and then things have just gradually come together that now we have such a big group of amazing people doing cool things and getting excited about what each other are doing and building on all that collective enthusiasm.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">yeah<br /></span>stay at home says:<br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">it’s kind of opening up the playing field to a whole lot of new types of opportunities.</span><br />quinn says:<br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">exactly.</span>Erin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1160792956020790092006-10-13T17:40:00.000-07:002006-10-13T19:29:16.070-07:00when you can rock and roll AND stay at home. . .WAKE UP!<br />WAKE UP LITTLE BLOG!<br /><br />O.K.<br /><br />so, summer in nanaimo passed pleasantly, full of parties and shows and midnight bike rides. fall is well underway, students are already getting extensions on all their assignments and you are planning your halloween costume. ok, well, I am reviving my blog, fittingly with the decision to stay at home this weekend instead of going to vancouver like I planned. here's the story.<br />I was going to go to vancouver today and tomorrow. today is my good friend shalon's birthday and she is having a sushi celebration with her closest friends. toMORRow <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dustinandgarret">DUSTIN AND GARRET</a> are reuniting to play one more show, and I know, you're thinking this event must be happening just for me! right, and how could I miss it? I know, AND <a href="http://www.asthmatickitty.com">sufjan stevens</a> is playing in vancouver also, and my beautiful friend aleks actually offered me her ticket. sufjan stevens is on my list of artists I most need to see (list also includes: joanna newsom, regina spektor, the shins and hawksley workman, and I know I just missed hawksley workman agAIN fuck me).<br />BUT then there is the battle of the band at the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/cambienanaimo">cambie</a>. which has been a pretty good time so far. old phoebe tied to advance the first round ANd the second round, so we will be in the final on october 21st with unlabeled and johnny good and WHOever wins tomorrrrrow night, which brings me to tomorrrrrow night at the cambie: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bashbashbash">the BASh brothers </a>(I LOVE those girls), <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thebikesmine">the tycOONs </a>(I LOVE those guys, I REALLY do), and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/wilsonpascoe">wilson PAScoe </a>(who also scores particularly high in the ratings of fanTAStic members of the universe).<br />and then there is TONIGHT. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/hellogreenline">the greEN line </a>are playing their FIRST show. at the velvet underground at 9:00. I've been playing the green line's eps on the <a href="http://www.chly.ca">radio</a> for quite a few months and tonight finally get to see them play. actually I also saw them play on tuesday night in the studio when they came on <a href="http://www.chly.ca/the_playlist.php">the playlist</a>, which was rad. and tonight they will also be releasing TWO full-length cds. score three points for nanaimo.<br />the decision was actually finally made by some employment related complications which made it sensible for me to take out some resumes today and not spend vancouver amounts of money lest diminishing working hours leave me too hungry to rock. but that is just part of the real issue, that this is my home, these are my people, this is my life and I LOve it. HOW can you go away when your home is so rad?<br /><br />by the way though, <a href="http://www.dragcity.com/bands/newsom.html">joanna newsom </a>is coming to vancouver december 5th, so don't think any of you are going to plan a rad enough show to make me miss it.<br /><br />in other news, I just heard the new <a href="http://www.myspace.com/swanlaketheband">swan lake </a>album yesterday and it is more awesome than I expected and I expected it to be TOtally awesome. watch out top five albums of the year list. spencer krug + spencer krug = how can the universe be so sweet?! it comes out november 21st. I am actually going to pay money for it so I can cradle it in my arms.<br /><br />now playing: of montreal - you'll never have meErin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1153087691265860572006-07-16T12:40:00.000-07:002006-07-16T15:18:47.080-07:00Oh yoU aRe. . . Oh OKwatching <a href="http://www.colourbook.cjb.net">colourbook</a> last night I got a little wolf parade feeling in my belly. like, actually this is huge, really this is so good, does anyone REALIZE how good this is? why is not everyone just exploding from how good this is. perhaps it is the fact that colourbook is often pretty loose and laid back and joking around in their performances that pulls wool over ears and makes people not completely notice just how incredible every song is and keeps everyone from just fainting from awesome.<br />last night at the old chemainus firehall (remind me to tell you how utopian this venue is. . . free food!) colourbook's drummer couldn't make it and brock, everyone's favourite ukuleleleleleleist, filled in for a whimsical and magical show.<br />the evening started off with <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thebikesmine">the bike's mine</a>, who played a bike's mine set, yes, the mics are working, we just don't really sing into them.<br />then <a href="http://www.myspace.com/weareoldphoebe">old phoebe</a> played, for which most people sat on the floor and looked pretty comfy. it was like playing to a school gym of attentive children as we banged on the bike and jamie let loose on a radiator and the walls. she's getting wild, that girl. my parents also came to see us play for the first time, because they live in chemainus. they said we were unique.<br />ghosts couldn't make the show, but one of their members performed his side-project mousetrap instead, singing along to recorded beats and stuff. it would have been great with the addition of maybe adam gold on mini-korg or something.<br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/furyandthemouse">fury and the mouse</a> are old phoebe's new friends. fury and the mouse! they fucking rocked. I kind of regret that I was eating chili and salad in the band lounge (band lounge!) for the first part of their set. it was delicious though. because I really got into them and rocked out just a little bit when I did go stand in front of them and got hit in the face with it. I told tanner that the guy on the korg is a really great guy, based on the way he moved about as he played, and then found it to be quite true when I talked to him after the show. soon or eventually we will go to victoria to play with them again.<br />the old firehall in chemainus is a community centre and a very nice place to play a show. they cook food for the bands. there is a band lounge and a room downstairs with computers and pool tables and things. and everyone gets paid! and they were so nice! they apologized so much to us for the low turnout and low pay because usually there is a very good turnout and bands get paid much more. we don't even get paid for half the shows we play, so it was nice to have gas and slurpee costs covered.<br />we also had a very nice time stopping for slurpees with colourbook on the way home. and jordan assured me that their recording is going well (recorded in their house, the way indie rock should be!) and we should see a colourbook album pretty soon. good news for rock and roll!<br /><br />the bike's mine is playing in port mcneil today. I almost went with them, but you can't do everything. sometimes I try. rock and roll is alot of work and you just have to take care of yourself sometimes. you can't let your roommate do ALL the dishes ALL the time.<br /><br />which reminds me, I guess I have been too busy crying all week to mention the breakup of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dustinandgarret">dustin and garret</a>. garret seems to be finding the expenses and time demands of being in the band conflicting with survival. it's not easy, even when you're AWESOME. they played their final show in vancouver last night, which I almost canceled on our show to attend, but I decided instead to be even more determined to make my band my highest priority and not let ANYTHING get in the way of it. I hope they had a great rocking party of a sendoff.<br /><br />I was also sorry to miss <a href="http://www.myspace.com/harryandthepotters">harry and the potters</a> yesterday in vancouver, but wore my brand new voldemort can't stop the rock! t-shirt, which l'ren wisely and lovingly picked out for me when she saw them in new york last week. if you haven't heard harry and the potters, I like to describe them as if harry potter were conor oberst, however, they're actually alot more posi-core than that.<br /><br />so the lineup on july 28th at the artspace has shrunk to just old phoebe and the bike's mine with d&g never to return, but don't worry, we have some special guests up our sleeves and will be adding to that lineup so please join us!<br /><br />also next saturday (july 22nd) head down the china steps for the <a href="http://www.chly.ca">CHLY</a> street party happening outside the station all day long with 1, 2, 3, 4. . . 10, 11, 12. . . . lots of bands.<br /><br />now playing: colourbook - theme songErin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1151044548592402342006-06-22T22:51:00.000-07:002006-06-22T23:35:58.853-07:00rock and roll is hard workso. scenesters. what is up.<br />this stuff has been so rocking I'm still tired from the last month.<br />been some shows.<br />I caught a couple in vic, bright eyes, makes me want to write and write and write, wintersleep, so full of love, colourbook, I could listen to them every DAY, and maybe soon I can, they are working on recording an album. I joined the bike's mine at that show. tom bit me. fuck.<br />also working on a full length record, the SHEDs, who I witnessed at the cambie on the tenth, at possibly their best, along with the feminists, a damn damn good time.<br />I missed the bash brothers a couple times. I'm not proud of that record, stop crying about it they've got plenty more shows coming along, and an ep soon soon soon. I did get a private showing captured on my four-track, check out biere forte rubato on their <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bashbashbash">myspace</a>. hot and fresh.<br />lots more things exist, have and continue, I noticed recently that you can arrive, and then you are there and you keep on getting there to keep being there, there is no arrival and stop, you know?<br /><br />so, where does one go to catch a show this little summer, it IS summer, in little nanaimo. the second floor announces its presence, above lucid records on commercial street. all ages dudes. the sheds, the bash brothers and old phoebe will finally all get together there on june 30th, along with hot fuck and I think, another band. someone mentioned another band. tell me if it is true.<br /><br />more more more news to come. discuss amongst yourselves.<br /><br />now playing: the shins - fighting in a sackErin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1147665337121636762006-05-14T20:25:00.000-07:002006-05-14T21:25:39.113-07:00waste your lifeI just got around to really looking into all the bands playing at this <a href="http://http://musicwaste.ca/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=5">music waste</a> thing I keep hearing about. apparently it's a little indie music festival/concert crawl happening in vancouver from june 1st to 4th. with 64 bands from vancouver and its neighbours, among them my sweet darlings <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dustinandgarret">dustin and garret</a>, who keep getting thwarted in their attempts to return to nanaimo to play us a hot show, AND blue grey dots, casey and brian, fury and the mouse, revolution dance hits, colourbook, they shoot horses don't they? the doers, love and mathematics, pink noise, treacherous machete, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/collapsingopposites">collapsing opposites</a>, raised by wolves, hot loins, the winks, fake shark real zombie and shapes and sizes. and so many more that I don't know anything about but look pretty damn awesome billed next to all the above bands. fuck.<br />if I figure out how to sufficiently manipulate time and space I will see ALL of them and tell you all about it, actually, I won't have to bother because you will be there too. however, commitments like <a href="http://www.indiecontextual.blogspot.com">radio</a> shows and employment and obeying laws of physics might thwart that plan. click <a href="http://http://musicwaste.ca/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=5">here</a> for the schedule/venue map. and a pass for the whole goddamn thing is fifteen bucks at scratch, zulu and redcat records.Erin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1147468268602813192006-05-12T11:33:00.000-07:002006-05-12T14:34:27.546-07:00stories of boys who stomp their feettop albums of 2006 so far:<br />#1- sunset rubdown: shut up I am dreaming<br />#2- islands: return to the sea<br />#3- they shoot horses, don't they?: boo hoo hoo boo<br />probably also, final fantasy: he poos clouds, from what I've heard it sounds pretty awesome<br />and, highly anticipated, arcade fire, frog eyes, the shins, regina spektor, swan lake<br />and surely some things I have not heard of yet.<br />ok. that's where we're at. it is may.<br /><br />I have never seen a sun that did not bury his head in the side of the world when the day is done.<br /><br />last weekend I saw <a href="http://www.globalsymphonic.com">sunset rubdown</a> and frog eyes play at logan's pub in victoria. spencer krug is huge. I mean, not physically, he's kind of small actually. so is his mustache, which I do not understand at all. but this sound. thin and huge and small and huge and quiet and huge and everything loud and inside and gentle and smish smash beautiful and huge and dark chime clang bright deep sun setting humbly majestic rubbing down huge.<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/1600/sunset%20rubdown%20003.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/320/sunset%20rubdown%20003.jpg" border="0" /></a>sunset rubdown played almost almost only songs from the new album, which came out last tuesday. the lyrics on shut up I'm dreaming are less obscure and more cohesive than on previous releases and wolf parade songs, maybe that is not true, maybe I am just getting very familiar with spencer's style. but the lyrics make so much sense, such a sense of a world of a life, of mutterings of a lover who speaks in tongues. this album is full and whole and perfect as life, with all its snakes and kings and honesty.<br />and its performance was as full and moving with spencer's voice and hands the gods that make the rest of the world crash and celebrate.<br /><br />DOWNLOAD: sunset rubdown - <a href="http://download.yousendit.com/5505C47E4E0A8713">shut up I am dreaming of a place where lovers have wings</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.absolutelykosher.com/frogeyes.htm">frog eyes</a> proceeded to catch me up in everything, with a band sound in which less consciousness, more enthusiastic ease of noise. I <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/1600/sunset%20rubdown%20004.1.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/320/sunset%20rubdown%20004.1.jpg" border="0" /></a>almost want to use the same words to describe frog eyes and carey mercer's power as that of sunset rubdown and spencer, and, there are similar things, when I listened to the new sunset rubdown jamie came in and said is this new frog eyes? but it is different, in feeling, in depth, in sound, in theme, though which is more what does not explain. it is possible that sunset rubdown is more like feeling deep darkly enchanting emotions through your brain while frog eyes is like being pulled along a darkly enchanted path by your hair in the most urgent but loving manner. more and not at all.<br /><br />oh, here is a sense of what it is. spencer krug and carey mercer are both geniuses. ok.<br /><br />frog eyes played a mix of old and new stuff, it has been a year and a half this band has been nudging its way closer to the center of my heart, so moving from the inside, and one new song stuck out at me of which I can only remember a different feeling, different kind of structure a bit, makes me look forward to their new album, due out soon I think.<br /><br />it was awesome.<br /><br />not so awesome,<br />I ventured to vancouver on tuesday with some excited friends to visit islands at mesa luna and witness their magic, but alas, mesa luna decided to cease to exist the day before and we were humans being useless in vancouver. missed them again.<br /><br />DOWNLOAD: islands - <a href="http://download.yousendit.com/1A6208805D68F84C">rough gem </a><br /><br />now playing: daddy's hands - don't goErin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1146463196332736962006-04-30T21:36:00.000-07:002006-05-03T01:54:25.560-07:00YOU make me want to rock outthis weekend rocked as every ought. friiiiiiiiday the youth centre hosted an intimate acoustic show I felt honoured to be a part of. half of hot fuck opened up with an acoustic guitaring duo. pretty solid stuff, I can't wait to see their whole band again. then <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ukelelelele">ukelelele</a> and nathan from <a href="http://www.myspace.com/razoowah">the razoowah</a> alternated solo performances of utter brilliance. I had a really good time being awed by both their songwritings and voices. then <a href="http://www.myspace.com/weareoldphoebe">old phoebe</a>, jamie and me did our thing with the bike and stuff. then we all made our way up the street to a place called pheasant alley to see the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bashbashbash">bash brothers</a>, who rocked the basement really hard, and then <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thebikesmine">the bike's mine</a> let loose the chaos.<br /><br />um, jamie is watching the coachella dvd right now. <a href="http://www.arcadefire.com">arcade fire</a> is on. they make me die. have you seen them? see them. have you seen them yet? see them. they're working on a new album right now. I think I can hear it from here. my life changed when I saw them. then I saw them again a year later, you know, they were still on tour, and my life changed afuckinggain. nobody has ever put on a better show.<br /><br />last night I went to pleasant valley and saw <a href="http://www.myspace.com/314inthesky">pi in the sky</a> perform their debut gig. they put on a pretty tight show. I enjoyed it, but you know I don't get SO hot for guitar rock, I'm more impressed by enthusiastic incompetance and/or ear-grating, wide-eyed wonder. well. then I went to have some food at the pub so I missed some bands I assumed wouldn't be my kind of awesome, apologies to the universe if they were. and then <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thesheds">the sheds</a> played AND they had a bunch of new material ANd it was my kind of awesome. they're doing some recording for a full-length release soon, which is news that improves the world.<br /><br />my friend aleks bought me an <a href="http://www.artbrut.org.uk">art brut</a> shirt because she loves me so much and I had to miss them. it says modern art makes me want to rock out, and it's the best gift ever because it is true.<br /><br />now playing: the razoowah - boxes of sandErin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1145823188910501772006-04-23T12:55:00.000-07:002006-04-23T13:13:08.920-07:00you can't break the stringssome changes to the houseparty lineup on april 28th. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dustinandgarret">dustin and garret</a> and <a href="http://www.colourbook.cjb.net">colourbook</a> are both now unable to attend. very disappointing I know, BUT! <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thebikesmine">the bike's mine</a> will be playing, so be consoled, AND! the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bashbashbash">bash brothers</a> have jumped on the marquee.<br />if you will be attending the party, bring a mix tape or cd to throw in the mix bag, and you will get to take home a mix made by somebody else, and trust me, there are some people with really fucking awesome taste in music contributing to this joyous occasion. <br /><br />last night at the cambie <a href="http://www.smallsinsmusic.com">small sins</a> wore white, made noise and impressed me for the second time, especially with their encore ad-libbed song about nanaimo, and the little effect-keyboard bleep bwaa eeeng waa solos.<br /><br />now playing: the diableros - golden gatesErin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1145257420531604502006-04-16T23:00:00.000-07:002006-04-17T00:03:40.543-07:00nanaimo, you know I love you<a href="http://www.myspace.com/yousaypartywesaydie">you say party! we say die!</a> rocked cyber city pretty seriously on friday night. if you haven't experienced them yet, don't miss them next time they do us the favour of coming to town. I danced, not just tapped my foot, my hair got messed up, I love this band.<br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/cadeaux">cadeaux</a> made the trek from vancouver with ysp!wsd! and I sure like the sound of them, and they were totally lovely, but they haven't totally grabbed me yet. however, I have that feeling like one day I'm just going to fall totally in love with them, so I'll let you know what that feels like when it happens.<br />my band, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/weareoldphoebe">old phoebe</a>, was the second of the six bands. it was our first all-ages show and we had an awesomer than possible time. we were so honoured to open for you say party! we say die! it was also the release of our first ever album, apartment rock, which we recorded and mixed and constructed with our hands and mouths in our apartment over the last week. thanks to everyone who bought it and we hope you love it as much as we love you.<br />I must also mention how inspired I was as <a href="http://www.myspace.com/deoji">deoji</a> finished off their opening set (which warmed the place up pretty nice) and sean put his guitar face down on the ground and stepped on it, eliciting delightful noise. I might just start a new project revolving around playing an electric guitar with my feet. watch for that.<br /><br />so, next saturday at the cambie, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/smallsins">small sins</a>, who used to be called ladies and gentlemen, and local bands <a href="http://www.myspace.com/aeroplaneband">aeroplane</a> and the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thebrunswickaffair">brunswick affair</a>. I believe this is the brunswick affair's first show and I'm looking forward to checking them out. I saw small sins when they were ladies and gentlemen in vancouver and I was pretty impressed. they wear all white.<br /><br />and, little nanaimo scene, something is happening.<br />and april 28th is a day for something happening to be going on.<br />at the youth centre: elson! <a href="http://www.myspace.com/blankmusic">blank</a>! old phoebe! <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ukulelelele">ukulelele</a>! it will be cheap. and awesome.<br />and then at a house will be a party. a basement with a lineup like this: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dustinandgarret">dustin and garret</a>!!! (there is a possibility dustin and garret will not be able to make it so maybe click on their little name there and send them some myspace love so they will not be able to stay away), <a href="http://www.colourbook.cjb.net">colourbook</a>!!, and nanaimo's newborn supergroup, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thebikesmine">the bike's mine</a>!!<br />you are already there and I'm late.<br /><br />now playing: ukulelele - bermudaErin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1144489593549991532006-04-08T00:08:00.000-07:002006-04-16T22:55:03.780-07:00people talkI am a jerk. I have been enjoying so much music and not even sharing it with you, just keeping it all to myself. very sorry.<br />there are some things in the past, and some things in the future, though I might at another time try to convince you otherwise.<br />there was that show at the moose lodge, with alot of bands, alot of noise, and very few audience members sadly. yeah, yeah, this town has some serious venue issues. ah, I'll see what I can do. thoughts on that show? the the the perfect trend, while kind of adorable, have apparently never heard nirvana. it makes me want to start a hard rock band, so watch for that in the future. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bashbashbash">the bash brothers rock</a> about tiny dogs and robot dick. god. I'm glad they're on my record label. it extists, for serious, watch for it in the future, along with recordings by the bash brothers. and, the bash brothers will be playing with <a href="http://www.myspace.com/weareoldphoebe">old phoebe</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thebikesmine">the bike's mine</a> at the cambie on may 20th. <span style="color:#66cccc;">(actually, no they won't) :</span><br /><span style="color:#66cccc;"></span><br />I started out torn between seeing the grates in vancouver and metric and islands in victoria on march 29th. I decided on the latter, but it was SOLD OUT and then I ended up being pretty broke, so I had to stay at home. I heard that both were damn hot shows, but I have no hard feelings, because it turned out that <a href="http://www.wintersleep.com">wintersleep</a> played at the queens on the 29th. I'd have been pretty annoyed if those adorable boys had come to my town and I wasn't present. so, I was and a few people were actually there as well. I keep being amazed how many people have not heard of wintersleep, and jamie and I now and then ask ourselves, are we somehow mistaken in our claim that this is one of the greatest bands in canada (and there are a goddamn lot of great bands in canada, if you don't know, email me and ask for a list, or even better, listen to elgin's new radio show, canada ATTACKS, on <a href="http://www.chly.ca">chly</a> at 7-9am fridays)? but, no, we are certain there is no mistake, you just haven't noticed yet, if you haven't noticed yet, so check them out before everyone else notices first and you look like a sucker.<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/1600/wintersleep%20028.jpg"></a><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/1600/wintersleep%20029.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/320/wintersleep%20029.jpg" border="0" /></a>quite a few people in victoria know about wintersleep, and their show at logan's pub on march 30th was enthusiastically populated, and by far the best of the four times I've seen them play. at both shows they played quite a bit of new material featuring the whole band singing together, which adds a really joyful element to the dynamic emotional range of their music. here's a few pictures of wintersleep rocking their hearts out. notice the montreal canadians jersey that jamie gave to paul. :)<br /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/320/wintersleep%20048.jpg" border="0" /> <img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/201/1608/320/wintersleep%20055.jpg" border="0" /> </p><p>now playing: destroyer & frog eyes - new ways of living<br /></p><p></p><p></p>Erin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1141466984611964242006-03-04T00:37:00.000-08:002006-03-06T13:08:03.173-08:00love and spaceit's been a busy week of shows for me and I guess I'm paying by spending the weekend at home with a hilarious sore throat.<br /><br />it started last sunday with <a href="http://www.hankandlily.com">hank and lily</a> and <a href="http://www.theuncas.com">the uncas</a> at the queens. the uncas played first and last, I just caught their first set, the highlight of which for me was the two johnny cash covers they did, oh and the guy playing his guitar with a drill and a power saw, fuck I almost forgot about that, it was pretty good. then hank and lily put on their show. I was as moved as people told me I would be. I bought their cd, the road to new orleans. but, I don't enjoy the cd like the live show. I usually don't go for really theatrical style music, you know songs with fantastical stories and characters and drama, and hearing their songs recorded I find them a little silly, whereas live I'm 100% there and in it. that's just on initial listening though, so, I might yet be won over. but, see them, if you haven't. I heard they are going to be playing an all-ages show here sometime soon.<br /><br />wednesday I headed to vancouver to see <a href="http://www.barrbarr.com">BARR</a> and <a href="http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/artistinfo.php?id=53">animal collective</a> at the commodore, a thoroughly wonderful experience. BARR started the show off with a solo set of inspirational ranting, that is how I'm describing it today. I love this man.<br />then first nation, a trio of girls with harmonizing oohs and ahhs and guitars going pling pling pling in soft clash fashion and some other sounds too played, and the girl that drummed had really great hair. it was just kind of long and messy with a big clump of bangs in her face. is that insulting, to spend as much time talking about the band's hair as their music? I just thought, if I get tired of my hair again, like I did recently, I might try and go for that look. sometimes a haircut makes a big impression on a person. they were nice, I will try to seek out their music in future days.<br />animal collective makes me freak out. that is the most accurate thing I can say about them. I get this physical response where I sort of tense up and twitch ecstatically, bite my lip and clench my fingers and tilt my head. I can name some other bands to which I've had a somewhat similar response: <a href="http://subpop.com/scripts/main/bands_page.php?id=438">wolf parade</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dustinandgarret">dustin and garret</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/sunestrubdown">sunset rubdown</a> and <a href="http://www.geocities.com/are_you_sure_this_is_a_band">hot loins</a>. I guess it's something about electronic frequencies clashing with voices and noises and I don't know, evoking a level of life that I am not everyday living on. but these other bands don't do it so <em>physically</em> to the extent that animal collective does. I sometimes think that their noising about, at the times when they stray from laughing hooks and pop harmonies, should bore me as it does in alot of music when they jam about and explore sound at great length--I start to relegate it to nice background music--but with animal collective it's like foreplay so slowly building intensity and anticipation to ecstatic bursts of yelling catchiness. this is one of those shows I will remember. freaking out blissfully in the front row as they freaked out with so much noise, so much in front of me. I bought their double cd <em>spirit they're gone, spirit they've vanished</em> after the show because I decided I could not live without having everything they've ever done.<br /><br />DOWNLOAD: animal collective: <a href="http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2DNTY7GI27XP911Q6T02QYD2R2">the purple bottle </a><br /><br />then on thursday nanaimo was blessed with the presence of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/akak">akron/family</a>. I'd spread alot of high praise and was pleased to find that everybody's expectations were surpassed except my own, because I expected them to be that moving and amazing (I know how moved my brother was by seeing radiohead live, and he said akron/family was <em>better</em>). I love how they range from folk band to. . . what do you call that when people make NOISE like that? I'm not great with labels. but, it's ecstatic, spiritual in something like a punk rock way. I use the term punk rock very liberally. and then there was the chant/sing-along circle with all of us up at the front who were paying attention. it's funny, I heard that they sold out lucky bar in victoria, and you know every person in that packed place was into it and they'd be surrounded by a big (ok, not that big) crowd when they walked out into the audience. but people must figure that anybody playing at the cambie can't be that special, because the back of the bar was full of people who paid cover and weren't even aware of what they were missing. but that just made it more intimate and special for those of us who shared it.<br /><br />all that and I didn't even go out this weekend. I did irresponsibly skip out on both the controller.controller shows today. I heard it was a pretty good time. I was sorry to miss <a href="http://shzine.com/yousaypartywesaydie">you say party! we say die!</a>. they're so fun.<br /><br />I also bought three cd's this week, which I will need hard later this month when I run out of money and food and learn to live on rock and roll alone.<br /><br />now playing: <a href="http://www.newmusiccanada.com/genres/artist.cfm?band_id=7476">collapsing opposites - try</a>Erin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1140692392902389342006-02-23T00:46:00.000-08:002006-02-23T13:08:46.336-08:00clouds of sounds on nan-townso, I've been told that <a href="http://hankandlily.com/main.php">hank pine and lily fawn</a> will be opening for <a href="http://www.myspace.com/theuncas">the uncas</a>, an alt-country band from alberta, at the queens this sunday. I will finally be able to witness the spectacle of lily, dressed as a fawn, doing her dance as she drums and playing the saw? and hank, who wears a mask, and presumably performs unprecedented feats of showmanship? I don't know, I've heard such rumours.<br /><br />DOWNLOAD: hank and lily - <a href="http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2W2H8LHF7A85G24FS8G1UPOD5T">the junkie shuffle</a><br /><br />the scout hut proved an adorable little rock and roll venue last weekend. I wasn't as blown away by <a href="http://www.bend-sinister.com">bend sinister</a> as I'd expected based on the song I couldn't stop listening to last week, but maybe it was just that I was really tired. they were heavier than I expected, but still pretty catchy. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thedirtonkills">the dirt on</a> rocked pretty hard, though it annoyed me when they got screamy. I kept wishing they would be more like <a href="http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/bands_page.php?id=438">wolf parade</a>, because it seemed like they could be if they tried, but clearly that's not what they're going for. I personally like more vocally driven music and less jamming around. <a href="http://www.thepapercranes.com">the paper cranes</a> were enjoyable as always, though maybe not as good as the last time I saw them. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thecorawounded">the cora wounded</a> did their share of jamming about and screaming, which of course is not really my thing. I found the opening band, hot fuck, particularly charming, and look forward to seeing more of them.<br /><br />I also just found out that <a href="http://www.thegrates.com">the grates</a>, an australian band I just fell in love with, are playing in vancouver with <a href="http://www.wearescientists.com">we are scientists</a> on march 29th, the same day I was planning to see <a href="http://www.ilovemetric.com">metric</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/returntothesea">islands</a> (featuring former members of the unicorns) in victoria. dilemma.<br />to hear these bands, tune in to <a href="http://www.indiecontextual.blogspot.com">indiecontextual</a> thursday (tomorrow/today) at 4pm (101.7 fm in nanaimo, or <a href="http://www.chly.ca">www.chly.ca</a>). what should I do?<br /><br />now playing: the magnetic fields - born on a trainErin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21648656.post-1139221609117320982006-02-05T23:57:00.000-08:002006-02-06T02:26:49.130-08:00have you been punched in the gut by jesus lately?exciting news this week. wintersleep and akron/family will both be visiting our fine town in march.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wintersleep.com">wintersleep</a> is one of my favourite bands. I saw them twice last year, once in victoria with my roommate/partner in rock, jamie, and once in vancouver. we talked to the guys in the band in victoria, and they were about the nicest guys in the universe. jamie couldn't make the vancouver show so she made some cookies for me to take to the band instead. take note, bands like cookies. they pulled out a vinyl copy of their latest album and all wrote thank yous to jamie on it. and now once again they are leaving halifax to visit us on this side, and this time coming right to nanaimo (maybe because of the cookies). the venue has yet to be announced but they will be in town on <strong>march 30th</strong> with the contrived and jill barber.<br /><br />DOWNLOAD: wintersleep - <a href="http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3B9LD1TRMSAL22IU9CFPCFU0ZW">danse macabre</a><br /><br /><a href="http://myspace.com/akak">akron/family</a> is a foursome based in new york. they have their own religion. it's called ak. my brother called me a couple weeks ago from montreal and told me about an incredibly moving show that he recently attended and told me that I must witness it for myself if at all possible. I checked out their music and it reminded me a lot of the most serene republic, a bit of animal collective, and at times of hawksley workman, wintersleep and iron and wine. it's pretty much everything I love. <a href="http://rockpaperpixels.com">a blog I was reading today </a>said seeing akron/family was like a punch in the gut from jesus. and lucky me, and lucky you, akron/family will be bringing the ak to the cambie on <strong>march 2nd</strong>. don't miss it!<br /><br />DOWNLOAD: akron/family - <a href="http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1PD7XT7VBELE01YCCO3LVFRY1A">running, returning</a><br /><br />but before all that happens, the show I'm looking forward to this month (besides my band, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/weareoldphoebe">old phoebe</a>'s second show at the cambie <strong>feb 17th</strong>) is the all ages show<strong> february 18th</strong> at the scout hut. looks like a great lineup of five bands from van/vic/nan including victoria's <a href="http://www.thepapercranes.com">paper cranes</a>, who I first saw opening for <a href="http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/bands_page.php?id=438">wolf parade</a>, the greatest band in the universe, and who totally rock, and vancouver's <a href="http://www.bend-sinister.com">bend sinister</a>, who I don't know anything about except that the songs on <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bendsinistervancouver">their myspace </a>sound pretty damn good. there is also a band called hot fuck (aka we're action aka grrr....badger).<br /><br />DOWNLOAD: bend sinister - <a href="http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05LO1YAABQ7LW1EY70XLUZST5Q">fool to love</a><br /><br />now playing: akron/family - shoesErin OKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00136435853173515115noreply@blogger.com0