(See also: “Nine Days Of Judgement“. Oh, and “Evil Christmas Carols“, which isn’t all Cthulhu, but just familiar tunes moved into a minor key–it really makes them sound like something from a silent film score during the Snidely Whiplash bit.) Read more →
Category: Music
She’s a crooked sheriff in a real straight town
The early part of this week was kind of like the death of a thousand cuts. Lots and lots of minor annoyances, that threatened to pile up and overwhelm me. Well, actually, as soon as I started to feel sorry for myself, and make a list of all the things that were going wrong, it occurred to me that I… Read more →
I am so sick of hearing about the Rolling Stones.
Yes. It’s true, that the Stones, and Alice Cooper, and Sloan, and Kanye West, are playing a big show in Halifax tomorrow. Yes, it sometimes seems like this has been the only thing people have been talking about for weeks. Christ. Nothing says “small town” quite as loudly as getting just a little too excited that you’re a “just like… Read more →
Awwwwww yeah!
Bring on the brand new renaissance ’cause I think I’m ready I’ve been shaking all night long But my hands are steady. Read more →
Danny Michel On CBC
Thanks to a timely pointer from George Jones, I managed to catch Danny‘s appearance on the national radio program Sounds Like Canada this morning. This is same Danny oft-mentioned here before, and with whom I had my recent short bit of “life on tour”, which I still haven’t written up. And, since I am still too busy to generate real… Read more →
This is the Age of Reason, these are the Rights of Man
For some reason I can’t get Dick Gaughan out of my head today. More specifically, I can’t get Gaughan’s version of the Graham Moore song “Tom Paine’s Bones” out my head. Gaughan’s version is so much more passionate, or maybe angry, than Moore’s, that it sticks in my head as the definitive one–of course, it might just be that Gaughan… Read more →
I, Roadie
I have survived my little temporary excursion into the rock-and-roll world, and I really enjoyed myself. Stories later, once I’ve cleared up the work that piled up while I was off playing roadie. The really short version is that I had tremendous fun, but I suspect that a significant part of the reason I could enjoy myself was because I… Read more →
What I’m doing this weekend: On Tour
I’m taking Thursday and Friday off work this week, so that I can spend three days following consummate musician Danny Michel on his mini-tour of the Maritimes. Read more →
“And he sang only one song”
UPDATE: MP3 links no longer valid. To celebrate how much Danny’s new CD is just what I needed, I wanted to post some MP3s. However, instead of posting some tunes off of Danny’s new album, which you should just go buy for yourselves, I shall instead post a few of the tunes that Danny used to cover during his live… Read more →
“It’s not the end of the world, just yet”
You know what the exact cure for what was ailing me earlier today is? The new Danny Michel CD. I wasn’t expecting to have it today–today is the official release date, but I didn’t expect that to matter for getting it in Halifax (I know Danny is signed with some part of the Universal music empire now, but… ), and… Read more →
Tweaking up the blog
The keen-eyed among you (who aren’t reading this in RSS) may have noticed a few tweaks in the blog presentation. I’ve added numbering to the comments, and I’ve written a tiny plugin and made some changes to support distinguishing my comments from the ones the rest of you make. (With the amount of comments I get here this is completely… Read more →
New Danny CD in two weeks!
Hear a sampler here. Sounds like the level of pure goodness I expect from my favourite live performer. It’s things like this that make me wish I still lived in Ontario. You Waterloo, and Toronto, peeps better get out and see this show! June 15 Peterborough, ON June 16 Toronto, ON tickets June 17 Waterloo, ON tickets June 21 Surprise… Read more →
The 80s: Age 7 through 17
Wow. If you’re my age you’re going to totally suffer some productivity loss playing with this MASSIVE list of links to 80s music videos on YouTube. (Yes, the page is in Spanish. No, it won’t be a problem for you.) Also, you will probably want me to remind you about the site that makes it easy to download these videos…… Read more →
Up late with Lenny
So, while I was out buying a new office chairTrish has reclaimed her office chair for her new PhD workstation, so I needed a replacement for my book-wrapping table. Don’t ask. today I happened to hear Shelagh interviewing Leonard Cohen, mostly about his new book. (You can actually hear the interview if you can deal with Real streams. It’s worth… Read more →
The Junos exposed
Last weekend Halifax was overrun with the entertainment industry, in a build-up to the Juno Awards. (If you aren’t familiar with the awards, or this year’s specifics, there is lots more information available.) For me, this mostly meant that downtown was worth avoiding on Saturday because between Juno tourists and closed off streets for the red carpet shenanigans it wouldn’t… Read more →
