www.themusicalrevolution.com (tempsite)
themusicalrevolution@yahoo.ca
Jun./2004.
Edition (i).
PROMO:
Jon Coe on CHRW: every Friday morning at 11:am - www.chrwradio.com or 94.9FM if you live in the London, ON area. JC's show features house, electro, tekhouse, nu-jazz and miscellaneous. Czech it!
ELEPHANT BAND shows:
NXNE showcase - Thursday, June 10th at 10:00pm at the TRANZAC club, Toronto.
Opening slot w/ KIM MITCHELL - Saturday, August 7th at the JUS JORDAN arena, Iroquois Falls.
If house music is your flava then here are a few sites you NEED to check out:
MUTEK festival - www.mutek.ca
John Acquaviva - www.jacq.com
Richie Hawtin - www.plastikman.com
Big ups to my boy JC for passing these along.
IN THIS ISSUE:
I've spent the entire month wading through search engines and phone lists to find bars/pubs that feature live acoustic music from Toronto to Vancouver. If you dig live music in pub surroundings then check the sites IN THIS ISSUE.
L)
only a tear
and nothing more
for death is only knocking once
M)
our factories are built
with manpower songs
steam- stacked and abrasive
Copyright: Zoë Zagg, 2004.
EDITORIAL:
All I can say is that this has been one hell of a month for myself and the revolution. Actually, that isn't all I can say. If it was then I wouldn't be the ramble-on-blow-hard that you've all come to know and love/despise :) All self-effacing aside, this month has plain kicked my ass. Every project and experiment that I've been working on for the last two years has come to a head.
themusicalrevolution.com - honestly folks, it's on the virtual drawing board as we speak. I just handed it over to my boy Scotty a couple of months ago knowing that he was already up to his neck in musical projects (see thefairmonts.com), a full time job and last but not least his own web related solo projectS (check ineedmorecowbell.com). All this and we won't even mention his debilitating medical condition that occasionally finds him drinking copious amounts of alcohol and calling his old buddies at 4:00 AM to yell, "yOoohlhhhh FfuuLKerrrrrsssss" at their answering machines. LOL!!! I think his condition is closely related to Tourettes... All joking aside, this site is very close to my heart and I intend it to be my life's work, continually evolving, documenting my own failures and successes as well as (and most importantly) helping others discover and promote music that they truly believe in. Since Scotty knows me better than most, he really is the best/only man for the job.
Corporate Cash Cow... - Those in the know, know that this is what I call myself when I've been a "naughty boy" *jokes*. Actually, this is myself playing cover tunes on acoustic guitar/singing solo. Locally, it's been a BITCH!! Booking in TO is difficult to say the least. The competition is stiff, everybody has a demo and their own P.A. system. That being said, I'm a resilient bastard and where there's a will*...
Provincially has been better. This "Canadian Idol" promo thing going on in area bars has been a little bit annoying but, whatever. Brian with the G.S.T., now Ben... Fuck 'em! Those Mulroneys.
Nationally. Yeah fellow babies - I'm takin the Cow national! I've begun canvassing bars/pubs in Western Canada and hope to play my way to Van City (drink up wi my girl Pauls and my boy Hud) and back. Late July and most of Aug. Check the INSPIRATIONS section of this newsletter for some Canadian pubs worth visiting, online at the very least.
*will - in this context means stubborn, ugly, annoying, slightly greying but refusing to believe that I'm still not 21...LOL! Mark my words though, once I'm in, I'm yanking everyone else I can along with me!
Busking for Cash Cow... - Yeah, I got my Toronto busking liscence. I went down to 112 Elizabeth St. (Bay and Dundas, Toronto, ON), paid my $31.71 (total) and now I can play anywhere in Toronto until March/05. Broke it in the other day at the beaches. Sun, bathing suits, me, my guitar, 45 songs, s'all good... and I got dinner to boot! Why? The reason is threefold. One - to hone the songs for the road. Two - dinner. And three - to build up confidence in myself that I can singlehandedly entertain anyone, anytime. This is by far the most challenging.
Demo - I've set up a tempsite at www.themusicalrevolution.com
The site is in no way representative of the revolution other than I'm its proprietor. I set it up so that I can book shows out west without wasting precious resources. Check it out if you want to. There are a few amateur covers/demos on there - nothing too spectacular. Because of this I am working on a full scale acoustic demo. This one will be ALOT better. I've only just begun this project so there isn't much to tell but I will keep you posted and all songs will be represented on the revolution website as finished.
Blah blah blah, ME blah Me blah... I know. The main reason that this is all so important is that if any of it works out, maybe some of the steps that I took will help others succeed in their like ventures. Mainly I share because I haven't had time for much else this month :P Most importantly, I promise to document it all once the site hits and hopefully my failures and successes will both prompt and warn. If I can find a way to tour across Canada on a song, create a webspace where one musical person can meet another and they can share ideas about our musical future, book an actual paying gig in Toronto or just help eveyone to hate Ben Mulroney just a little more then, "it's aaaaalllll good!"
INSPIRATIONS:
This is very much a work in progress and some of these pubs/sites may have burned down in "accidental" insurance fires since I acquired the addys but give 'em a hit, especially if you're likely to be in the area. Generally, these places put a lot more stock in who they feature than the traditional concert bars and tend to have actual patrons who regularly visit and expect to hear decent talent.
North Bay: www.100georges.com
Sudbury: www.100georges.com
Sault Ste Marie: www.loplops.com
Thunder Bay: www.roxys.ca
Winnipeg: www.wiseguys.mb.ca
Brandon: www.royaloakinn.com
Regina: www.thepumproadhouse.com
Saskatoon: NA
Medicine Hat: NA
Lethbridge: NA
Calgary: www.ceilis.com - www.joyceon4th.com
Edmonton: www.ceilis.com - www.obyrnes.com -
Banff: NA
Kelowna: www.bluegator.net - www.rosespub.com
Kamloops: NA
Vancouver: www.purpleonion.com - www.fairviewpub.ca - www.bar-none.ca
Victoria: www.cambiehostels.com - www.swanshotel.com
Whistler: www.whistlercrabshack.com
Discover and Promote. It's good for the soul.
Big Love,
i220
www.themusicalrevolution.com (tempsite)
themusicalrevolution@yahoo.ca
Man am I glad the Metal Wacation is over! The Gee's are back in Canuckistan and my bank card is still smoking from the big Dee's! I can finally get some zee'z and take a pee!
IT WAS A BLAST GEE'S!
\m/
Posted by: Killer on June 28, 2004 08:23 AMFinny,
CRAZINESS! I'm sure you are having a most spactacular time in bootypest! How's the cheap Stella?
Not much going on here. Working and missing out on the awesome weather. I was fortunate enough to end up having Saturday off. I went to the beach with my roommates. SWEET!
Send me an e-mail and tell me abou the crazy adventures of Finny and Metal C in bootypest!
Posted by: Paula on June 21, 2004 02:02 AMword to da finger and y'all from bootypest. here with rich at the moment in my old flat. gonna hit the baths today, see some sights and watch the england game lata on. driving that train, high on cocaine! cheers.
scotty
Posted by: scotty on June 17, 2004 04:46 AMWell,
This last weekend I was in London to see the boyz off on another wild European tour.
Metal and Finny - best of luck and a safe return.
We'll see you back in the C in a coupla weeks.
Big thanx to everybody in the LO for putting up with me this past weekend. It was a beautiful thing to see and partake wit yas all.
Big Love,
Matty
Cowbell Rumor Pit:
The Tea Sachels are going into the studios while the exodus drummer returns to Budapest!
\m/
P.S. Don't you be forgetting that Velvet Revolver CD!
Yo!
Big ups to everybody for sending in your show dates!!
Unfortunately, until the site is set up I can't promote on a 24/7/365 basis. Since this site is sort of enjoying a little bit of a re-surgence maybe I can promote the shows here.
Czech it Torontonian folks:
Elephant Band:
Thursday, June 10th, 2004 at 10:00pm @ the Tranzac Club in Toronto, Ontario (North by NorthEast)
Friday, June 11th, 2004 at 7:00pm @ Chapters Festival Hall (just South of Queen and John)
Saturday, June 12th, 2004 at 2:00pm @ Indigo Manulife (corner of Bay and Bloor - just West of Yonge)
The Changes: www.thechanges.ca
June 10th NXNE - The Reverb (651 Queen St West)
The Changes rock the house at 1:00 am following Kevin Hearn & Thinkbuckle (from the Barenaked Ladies)
also w/Brighton, Serena Ryder and Girl Nobody
Big Love,
i220
fuck the lightning - but ok for dave a. today is "buy rock cds for killer" day. any other suggestions??
Posted by: scotty on June 8, 2004 08:32 AMAHHHHHHHHHHHH SWEET JUSTICE! Now all you posers and band wagoners can put your heads down in shame for deserting your teams! Way to go BIG DAVE A!
LEAFS FOREVER!.....and at this rate, it could be forever!
\m/
Posted by: Killer on June 8, 2004 05:21 AMOhhhh Matty, you said the magic word...PALINKA! That was the best shots EVER!!!! Finny when you go back you'll have to grab me a bottle. I pick it up the next time I come home, or you can send it Matty when he comes across Canada. That would be soooooooooooooooo SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTT!
I LOVE PLAINKA!!!!!!!
Ohhhh Matty, you said the magic word...PALINKA! That was the best shots EVER!!!! Finny when you go back you'll have to grab me a bottle. I pick it up the next time I come home, or you can send it Matty when he comes across Canada. That would be soooooooooooooooo SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTT!
I LOVE PLAINKA!!!!!!!
Naaiiiiice.....
Rock'nRoll Manager - who woulda thunk it?
I mean besides everybody!!
Cat - congrats for finding your calling.
Can we say, "made for the job"!
Peas,
Matty
PS. I'm going to Calgary this summer to drink outta the Stanley Cup!!!
all the best to the sweet one and his new rockandroll endeavour! \m/
Posted by: scotty on June 7, 2004 08:36 AMAlright folks:
Yeas it's been a while since I stopped in at the Old Cowbell Site... How y'all been? The Sweet One (after being crushed by the man in a variety of shitty customer service jobs in corporate type environments) had gone renegade and started managing the rock full time. I shit you not, the money's not great but the smoking and drinking on the job more than make up for it... Check out our Website www.thechanges.ca. This *is* the future of rock and the Sweet One *always* delivers...
Later Cats,
Al
Posted by: Sweet Al on June 4, 2004 08:35 PMBanana Hammic...
LOL!!!
Ladies and Germs...
Killer Dave, Back for one night only!
There will be no encore :P
Cat, Wish I was adding the Republic to my tour - Damn would THAT be aight!
Peas, and drink some Palinka for me.
Mattay
Matty,
I'm not sure I'd want to see a bloke in nuttin but his trunks busking down w/pretense at da beach! But I guess it's koo only if yur not in yur banana hammic. Good job on gettin the licence....Charles Bridge needs some new tallent, so hop on da plane w/Scotty and Metal C!
Cheers. \m/
Posted by: Killer on June 3, 2004 07:55 AMMattay's comin' to Van City!! I'm very excited for you to come to my new hood and check it all out!
Finny you should come too! :)
Posted by: Pauls on June 2, 2004 05:52 PMCheers Cat!!
Peas,
Matty
PS. Looking forward to the 10th.
nice issue dude. some great info for the indie musitraveller. all the best with it!
Posted by: scotty on June 1, 2004 07:20 PM