Sorry, I have been very sick the past couple of days (so has Coral, and her Mom and her friend Alix… and pretty much everyone we know).
Capital Rock City is going to have to be pushed back to Thursday and sadly, the Marianna’s Trench interview was missed, BUT I did get a contact for another interview for a local record producer.
That’s all I got for now, I have to play catch up (so much work waiting for me) and get ready for a live broadcast. Capital Rock City will be ready for your podcasting pleasure tomorrow.
Capital Rock City #48 goes back in time to 2005/2006 to play some of my old faves from the first season of Capital Rock City. Have a listen: Capital Rock City 48
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DJ Notes
01) Black Tie Social – “Silver Screens”
02) Jets Overhead – “Addiction”
03) Maurice – “Hold On”
04) Heart Carried Heavy – “Courage”
05) Leeroy Stagger – “Just in Case”
06) Open Parachute – “Art and Credit Cards”
Just feeling nostalgic for some of the old tunes from the first run of CRC back in the winter of 2005 and spring/summer of 2006. It was very hard to cut this show down to just six tracks. I hope there is something there in that set that you’ll love.
Next week will be #49 and it’ll be new music once again. I have a great song from Adam at Sonic 102.9 in the chute and I think Lindsey in Winnipeg is toying with the idea of sending a dispatch from the Fly Ridden City.
For episode #50 I am not sure what to do to celebrate? Maybe a best of ’09 (so far) or listener picks? I don’t know if I have enough listeners for a listeners pick, but maybe I’ll try that and if I don’t get enough requests, I’ll flesh it out.
Then #51 will be a project as I attempt to uncover some old audio from the original “Morning After Show.” I *had* some old cassettes floating around from sporadic shows. I didn’t do a very good job of archiving anything back then because honestly, I didn’t think I’d be on the radio for 10 years… but it is the 10 year anniversary of my first radio show, and I want to find some old clips to share and maybe play some of the old indie rock from the time (Dead Model Shoot anyone?). I do know that one of my original mini-discs of “imaging” went missing pretty soon after I moved to Victoria and the other one I think has also wandered by now. That is kinda sad.
Whatever, I’d use what I got and see if any of it is still funny and make it a special CRC #51.
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Had a lot of fun crafting this weeks local rocker show for TheZone dot F-M. I had to wheel out the record player and even used the old Denon CD cart machine. My mic sounds off, I think someone came into the studio the other day and fiddled with the EQ. BWOAR Stupid gremlins! I didn’t catch it till after we were done, and this is the one take special, so it had to fly.
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Let the name dropping begin!
DJ Notes:
01) The Laundronauts – “Hard water”
02) The Laundronauts – “That Kind of Laundry”
03) The Laundronauts – “Outta My Head”
04) The Racoons – “Tangiers”
05) The Racoons – “Secret Song”
06) Saul – “Open Your Eyes“
The Laundronauts are my new fave band strictly because they released their single on white vinyl. How hipster. I had so much fun cracking out the record player and listening to the music.
Matt from the Racoons was back in town visiting his Mom and sister Jane. Jane (and Alix) came over on the weekend and helped Corj and I sort out the bedroom and closet for some spring cleaning. She had in her hot little hand the new racoons EP. I had to have one. So I asked Matt on his way to the 3PM ferry to hop into the Capital Rock City studio.
We talk about nerdy music stuff, The national and how great they are AND it is committed to tape, Matt said he’d perform at Coral and my wedding.
oh, and it turns out I was sharing emails with Dave from Saul. Dave from the band emailed me needing some radio jibber jabber for a song on their upcoming album. Fun. So you’ll hear a wee taste of the Zone Afternoon Show on the new Saul when it comes out.
That’s a podcast. I hope you like it. I want to drag JP Maurice into the studio sometime and I got a Facebook message from Katie Sly the other day. She has a new band and I’d love to invite her down when they have a demo to share. Word on the street is that Jets Overhead have a new record out in the Spring too!
Still hammering By A Thread for an interview and my lead on Chixdiggit ran cold.. sadness. What else? Maybe some more music from Edmonton? Adam Thompson might make a future appearanc on the show with a group called The Faunts and I have been talking to Lindsay in Winnipeg about a contribution from her, so we’ll see.
Right near the end of my time broadcasting The Morning After Show at CiTR, I fell into it with a band called All State Champion. I had the chance to see them live a few times and even played a song of theirs on The Zone late at night when no one was listening.
ASC would go their separate ways, but leader Daniel Sioui would continue with a new project called Carpenter. I might like Carpenter even more. Coral likes to tell the story of the time I ignored her at a show at Logans! (duh, boys ignore girls that they like, that is biology!)
Today on Capital Rock City I talk to Daniel and play the music of both All State Champion and Carpenter. You can see Carpenter live in Victoria on Friday when they open for Gob at Lucky Bar.
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01) No-Fi Soul Rebellion – “Lets Pretend” originally from Alaska, now calling one of my fave towns home, Bellingham USA! Thank you Brandon for sharing this band with me!
02) Justin Hewitt – “Close Your Eyes”
Couple things went down for this weeks Capital Rock City. Tuesday, The Clubhouse booked a big party of convention people. Great for business, but I couldn’t record my first live-to-tape Capital Rock City with Acres of Lions.
It will still happen, but the first one will have to be with a different band? Anyone want to volunteer?
Tyson said they’d be down to record one for me in April.
The other plan was to have Miranda and Ryan of the Paper Cranes on the show. But on Monday (when I record the show) I ended up at the Victoria Film Festival. Miranda and Ryan will be next week for CRC 42.
The film festival was very fun. I saw 14 short films! It is too bad that there is no place on this planet for easier consumption of this great art. My favourite films I couldn’t even find websites for, let alone streamed on Youtube. Hey film makers… if you make a film and want people to actually watch it, you have to distribute it. (shakes head).
There used to be a TV show on the CBC called Zed. Do you remember that show? It must have been on TV around 2000? I was living with Paul in Burncouver (or was it Vanaby?) and we smoked a lot of pot. The show was basically a film fest every night. Then it stopped. WTF CBC… Stoners are Canadian tax payers too you know. I like Strombo… but I’d have a nighty time explosion in my pants if my evening went Strombo at 11P then Zed at midnight… or who knows, maybe Zed is still on? I can’t find it and have never seen an ad for it. Anyways… the show was basically a collection of short films, animations, and avant-garde music videos presented for an hour or two every night from mostly Canadian but also world film makers.
The only issue I had with the film fest is a personal one… I was tired and it was along night. I went from The Zone directly to the film fest and sat on a hard chair for 4 hours. Great films… but long night. Like longer than Titanic!
During intermission I was hungry as shit. So I left to find some food, but in the end all I wanted was a coffee.
I wander back into the film fest and the lady taking tickets turns to me and says, “do you know where to get any food around here? I am starving! I had to rush from work to the film fest and I ate no dinner.”
“Me too!” I reply, “I just found this coffee.”
“Did you know coffee is an appetite suppressant?”
“No I did not.” Then I related the story to her about the time time I ate an apple.
“one time when I was doing my show I said on the air that was very hungry and during the commercials I was going to eat an apple because I love apples.
“this lady phones my show and says to me, ‘Jeremy did you know that apples are appetite suppressants?’ and I said really? when I am hungry and I eat some food my appetite is suppressed? who’d have thought of that?”
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All the Racoons songs that you heard on the podcast you can download for free if you click the Racoons name at the top.
Vince is working on a new record and he was kind enough to share a demo from the recording sessions with me.
Check out this crazy email from Lazy of The Matinee:
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—–Original Message—– From: matt@thematineemusic.com [mailto:matt@thematineemusic.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:25 AM To: Jeremy@thezone.fm Subject: a song for you
Hey Jeremy…. here ya go! Bit of a busy weekend, I celebrated both mine and my girlfriends’ birthdays… so yeah….. still hurting a bit. In other news, did you know that Bob’s place in North Van burned to the ground last week ? He lost everything. And the bastard just rolls with it with a shrug. What a guy!
This tune is called San Diego, and it is about an unpaid speeding ticket I got once on a road trip to California. True story. I still haven’t paid it, so now there is a bench warrant for my arrest in Weed County. The fine is up to $1200 and the collections calls me twice a week. I never answer. And never will! Just can’t drive down there anymore.. or I am going to the slammer!
Cheers bud, new tunes to be recorded next month that I will send your way too.
Lazy.
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Bob’s place burned down? SWA? I need to call that cat pronto.
The final band is a Vancouver group that sounds mighty CFOXish called Jet Black Stare. Before Lazy was rocking the Matinee, he was in a group called Ten Ways From Sunday and even before that… The Salad Kings (who I used to play on the Morning After Show on CiTR! so that is some time ago). Lazy played with his friend Jeff. Jeff left Ten Ways to go solo… and his musical journey has taken him into band production and recording. So if you’re in a band and thinking that you liked the style of Jet Black Stare, fire Jeff an email: bwe@telus.blackberry.com
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That’s all I got.
Next week I am working on the first live to tape Capital Rock City.
Capital Rock City #43 :: Live from The Clubhouse
featuring a special live acoustic performance form Acres of Lions
the week after that I hope to have a chance to talk to the Paper Cranes and maybe some music from South Africa. neat.
OH! and you can now subscribe to Capital Rock City on iTunes. Search Capital Rock City in the iTunes store and subscribe please.
and if you subscribe to Capital Rock City ala iTunes or RSS feed, then you might see this little record cover shoot up. This one is from Webmeister Bud.
This is an update on the original CRC logo from back in 2005/2006 or “season 1” of Capital Rock City. I love the colours and radio-esque imagery of the sound meters.
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Super Bowl? What are you doing to watch the big game? maybe?
Happy Friday! All 90s weekend on the Zone. Go with yourself.
I like the graphics Two used on this logo, they remind me of Vancouver Island and then boom, the record right in the middle. The lettering could be snazzier maybe, but overall… wing-dingish and I like.
And Tim Ell takes another stab at the logo and to be honest, this to me is the winner. The one question to you might be, is there better “wording” that could be used? It is a little hard to see and I have already asked Tim to isolate the middle sticker thing, all the “record” is not necessary for most practical purposes. BUT if say… I were to make a Capital Rock City vinyl collector record, this is sorta what i had in mind (except on red vinyl).
The Morning After 