I will be posting a new song to the website soon (mid-month). I’m also playing with a good friend (also a guitarist on my album) named Kimbal Siebert at CBC Saskatchewan in Regina tonight. It’s being recorded for national radio broadcast on the CBC program Gallery tonight at the CBC...
The relationship betwixt creative fulfillment and the need to make money is a complex one that creates the haggard look in the eyes of every artist you’ll meet. It’s either that or the 41 hour work days. In general, artistically talented people are famously bad at sticking up for their...
My perception of the music buisness is changing rapidly these days. It’s become an empty lot of ideas. Before explaining that I need to establish some background. It used to be that the radio DJ was the gatekeeper of quality, playing what they felt was quality, stylish, cool. As profits...
I’m a big fan of rail transportation, whether that be subway, light-rapid-transit, passenger train or a rail gun into outer space. It’s too bad that many of these possibilities are declining in my part of the world. Everything happens slowly on a train. It’s more than just novelly cool to...
Something has gotten under my skin as of late. It seems that the media distribution establishment (RIAA and MPAA…possibly a few other AAs) have put their collective wills together and decided to protect the poor artists who depend on their shield of love and goodwill to survive. They have determined...
In keeping with the cold weather theme, here’s a video of a guy at our very own University of Saskatchewan throwing a pot of boiling water into the air at -40 degrees C with spectacular results and much debate ensuing. Read the comments posted after.
James Frye of Oprah fame had it a little bit right by putting the importance of a compelling story over personal integrity. Perhaps literature (and art in general) of this kind will be more acurately appreciated when the person who made it is no longer availible for talk-show whippings. Now...
In the interests of bolstering that elusive yet all-important on-line presence I recently signed myself up as an artist on MySpace. It amazes me what a simple inde band based website can become. It’s more complicated (and I mean ‘after much serious thought’ complicated) to even figure out how to...
Having to write an album/artist bio (biographical information intended to sell said album/artist) is much like composing a heavily padded resume. The idea is that I’m developing my brand story or the thing that will make a potential fan remember me as opposed to say, uhm, Cher. In other words...