Last night, my daughter and I went to see USS and Mother Mother at the Royal Theatre in Victoria.
A great night of music….USS’s set was criminally short, and they didn’t play Madelyn’s favourite song. She tends to gravitate to the weirdo album cuts, so she is a hard to please fan. I personally loved the tight, hit driven set.
We were planning on catching only a couple Mother Mother songs. It was a school night after all…but Mother Mother were so engaging that I couldn’t drag Madelyn out of there. It took a text from Mom to get us back on-track and heading to bed.
Mother Mother started the show with this dark, moody, synth driven song, “Have It Out.”
And for those keeping score…Madelyn’s favourite USS song.
What is up with Australian bands from Brisbane naming their projects after Canadian towns? First there’s Vancouver Sleep Clinic and now we have Banff. Banff is the brand of BrisVegas musician Benjamin Forbes. IndieShuffle says he sounds like Beruit, Midlake, or #1 Dads.
The music chill. Pretty. Kinda like Banff, Alberta.
When Joel Almand is not shovelling snow in Buffalo…the Upstate New York producer is turning up the thump on Verite’s “Weekend.”
I played “Weekend” last Thursday at my bi-weekly Clubhouse night and a couple college kids came up to me to say, “Verite? Nice, I love her.” And I love you groovy college kid.
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia’s Mo Kenney made the trip to Vancouver Island for a show with Kim Churchill. She stopped by The Zone after getting off the ferry to play a song for us. Check out “I Faked It” from her record In My Dreams.
Back to the blogging grind after letting the MAS blog fall fallow for a bit. Right now I want to share a few songs from my radio show (and I might have some more for you tomorrow from Tokyo Police Club and Said The Whale).
Cool. I really enjoyed that “Shapeshifters” cut. Track one from his 2014 album, Lo-Fantasy.
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Today I was fortunate to have Vancouver’s Head of the Herd on the show. They performed their single “We Could Get Together.”
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Wow. I am about one week and one day from my first ever boxing match! The Fight 4 The Cause Charity Boxing Classic is happening on Saturday, November 22nd at The Empress. I’ve been training every morning at 6AM for 7 weeks…one more week of boxing bootcamp and then its game time. To get this party started… Team Zone joined me to create a video that will play before my fight.
Dylan and Jason hopped into the Zone studio with Sheldon to record a cover of DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is Win.” Then we all went down to the VIC 42 studio with Webmeister Bud to film a “corporate” video. Here we go.
And no one has asked me…but you know…just in case…our cover song is a free download.
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And lastly… a short clip from my radio show today. Talking about the Rosetta Spacecraft, the comet landing and the eerie sound the lander recorded.
I need to choose my entrance song for Fight 4 The Cause. On November 22nd (BUY tickets today!), I will be fighting in my first ever boxing match. All the fighters need a jam and here is what I’m thinking. I’ll go with whatever song gets the most votes as I love them all. I believe I get one minute or one minute 30 of the song.
Number 1. Run The Jewels – “Blockbuster Night Part 1” (hit go right off the hop)
Number 2. Explosions in the Sky – “Your Hand in Mine” (not sure where I’ll pick it up)
Number 3. Cursive – “Staying Alive” (probably pick it up at 1:40)
Please help me pick a song in the comment section. Thank you for taking the time and having a part in the journey!
Today I want to share an old adventure I had with my daughter Madelyn.
It’s Halloween, no better time to go for a ghost hunt in Victoria. Using my two-year-old daughter as bait… we first headed to Lime Bay in Esquimalt and searched around Spinniker’s Pub. Seeing no definite evidence of the super-natural, we were off to the basement of the Rialto Hotel. Again, we were having no luck until suddenly….
The Morning After 