Archive for March, 2010:
Musick Waaaaste
Music Waste, Vancouver’s grass roots independent music, art and comedy festival is fast approaching. Excited? we are. Let’s keep Vancouver awesome and make this years something worth of rioting over. Locals and out of towners, this is the shizz, apply. come and party with us.
Here’s a message from our Music Waste friendz!
Hi Friends,
Send your musical submissions to the aptly named email address: submissions@musicwaste.ca
Music Waste will run June 2nd – 5th, 2010.
Just send a link to your Myspace page and a few pleasantries. Maybe a contact name and phone number.
We don’t need to see any press photos or stupid EPKs. Seriously, we don’t give a shit what you look like standing in an alley against a brick wall or how your band met. It was probably at the mall in line buying jeans at Randy River, wasn’t it? Just be honest.
If you’re not in a band, tell your friends. If you don’t have friends, start a band and take a press photo in an alley. People love people who take photos against brick walls. Take our word for it.
Love you,
MW Team
DOITDOITDOITDOIT
Eva
I have been reading a friends blog for the past few weeks and have been wanting to write about it. I got to know Eva in the last year and have been quite astonished by her. She has cystic fibrosis and while on the wait list for a lung transplant she was told that she has two years to live.
Two of her friends and UBC film grads began documenting her wait and the resulting film, “65 Red Roses” played at the Hot Docs Festival, took the best Canadian film award in the Vancouver Film Festival and went on to air on CBC.
In the film, she does receive the Lung Transplant in time and made a recovery. She even made it out to our first No More Strangers night last year.
But since then, her condition has deteriorated as her body rejects the donor lungs.
She is again on the donor list but extremely ill and hospitalized.
An avid blogger and part of the online CF community, she has attracted a world wide audience who tunes into her site. On February 11th she posted a goodbye video with her family in her hospital bed explaining that she only has a few days left to live.
She has managed to fight on.
Her site is one of the most inspiring, humbling and heartfelt things I have ever witnessed and if your up for balling your eyes out, do check it out, it’s worth it.
There have been many positives that she has managed to make out of such a negative thing. One of the most important is donor awareness, as I have learned BC has one of the lowest donor rates in the country and you can sign up easily to be a donor online.
NEways, Eva, thank you for all the inspiration.
Craziness Over
Photo by illurama
Well, that was bananas.
The Olympics are done and it’s time to bid farewell.
So long world! Thanks for visiting Vancouver. Come again.
The Postmarks – Goodbye (James Iha Remix)
the interview show: goodbye Olympics!
If you are living in Vancouver right now, you know how the world’s most famous sporting event can hijack a city. Citizens tend to fall into two camps–grumblers counting down until the party is gone and those with facepaint and a beer by 10am.
Zip lines. Road closures. Line ups everywhere. Increased security. Parties in the streets on a rainy Tuesday afternoon. Why not make this all work for you?
This week, I talk to two acts who have both used the Olympics to their advantage.
Goodbye Olympics! on the interview show
Bohdi Jones “Hey El Nino” Bohdi Jones is a Vancouver-based busker who claims to have written the unoffical theme song to the 2010 Olympics. Have a listen.
Team Canada DJs Grandtheft remix Drake’s “Best I Ever Had” The Team Canada DJs (Grandtheft and Dr One) have turned a one shot gig at the Games into much more.
www.radiocfxu.ca (Campus Community Radio, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Fridays @11pm-12am)
www.cfru.ca (University of Guelph Radio, Tuesdays @3pm)
www.umfm.com (Winnipeg’s Hit Free Radio, Tuesdays @8am)
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Four Tet @ the Biltmore
Four Tet @ the Biltmore. The ambient-house-groove-beats methodically performed by Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) kept gaining momentum as the night went on until it reached a tipping point when a full blown dance exhibition surrounded Four Tet for the last 30-40 minutes of his almost 2 hour set. Definitely worth seeing him live whether you’re going to dance it up or chillax and groove anywhere in the venue.
