Its Tuesday, so that means time for another poignant episode of Capital Rock City from me and your friends at The Zone @ 91-3.
Come Get Some: Capital Rock City #62
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DJ Notes
01) Franco – “Date With Destiny”
02) Oh Snap – “Involuntary”
03) Blue Violets – “You Said”
04) Jets Overhead – “Heading For Nowhere”
I didn’t get too much new music this week, so instead of scraping something together I decided to reflect on some of the ZBOTM’s from 2009 (so far).
I started with February’s band, Franco. Cruising their MySpace page, I saw they played a CD release show last week in Vancouver… in support? The band Missing Starla! SWA?
Now I hope I don’t tell this story wrong, Irene or Derrick or Paul or whoever knows it can correct it but the gist is this:
Many moons ago, my Buddhist friend Irene had a cat named Starla. She (or the cat at least) lived in the West End of Vancouver. Somehow Starla JUMPED off the balcony as cats are wont to do and went missing.
Irene was sad. She had a graphic designer friend make up some visually stunning “Missing Starla” posters and Irene went to work covering the city in missing cat posters. By all accounts, the posters were very eye catching and you could not live in the West End at the time and miss them.
Weeks later, a sickly but living Starla was found and nursed back to health.
Time marches on, and Irene sees posters up around the West End advertising an upcoming indie rocker show featuring, “Missing Starla!”
That is where the Vancouver band Missing Starla got their name.
And part of me thinks Irene named the cat Starla after a Smashing Pumpkins song? hmmm
Go with yourself.