| I remember when I got my first guitar. I used to sit in my room in my tie-dyed jogging pants, listen to Led Zeppelin and dream about playing corporate functions all over the world.
Oh hey, speaking of which, The Dino Martinis are going to Japan this month to play the annual Maple Leaf Ball, celebrating the Chamber of Commerce of Canada being in Japan for 30 years. This will be the Dino Martinis’ first time in Tokyo and, whoa baby, what an audience! Princess Takamado will be f*#kin’ rockin’ it, along with Hiroyuki Toshino (president and CEO of Honda Motor Company). According to the press release, it will be the first show for the Dinos’ new singer Sue Scott. This ought to be a nice and easy little warm up for her. When I first heard about this, for some reason I thought about a wedding reception that I played at a rugby club awhile ago. Halfway through the first set a huge drunk gorilla took my set list away, crossed out every song and wrote "USHERINDACLUB" in sloppy, drunk, rugby writing along the bottom of the page. Hey Dino Martinis, keep an eye on those Japanese businessmen – feed them enough sake and they’ll stick their foot up the chamber of your Canadian gin-loving commerce! Welcome to the biz Sue….
On the topic of pointlessly fabricating a negative slant on an exciting show, The Mocking Shadows plan to vomit all over The Liberty Lounge audience February 25 at their CD release party. Besides being the only band that I know of in Calgary who have a DVD, they are also the only band around to have a truly "rad" horn section, as they say. Recent polls conducted by Fast Forward among today’s youth (ages 18 to 35) show that 86 per cent of kids find the horns in The Mocking Shadows to be in fact, "very, very rad." Ten per cent said that The Mocking Shadows horns are "somewhat rad," while the remaining four per cent are afraid The Mocking Shadows horn section will puke on them.
Hey, do you think that you have written the "best song" or the "best song by a newcomer" or maybe even the "best song in all of Alberta"? Well, then make sure that you enter the second annual songwriting contest hosted by The Ship & Anchor and The Calgary Folk Music Festival. And do it by March 4, or forget about it. Now, what is a folk song? Well, according to this contest it’s less to do with "pop-style love songs" (a tired cliché), and more to do with being a dirty-hippy pants. Apparently members of the music community and members of the media will judge the songs. So basically, people who are me. And if I have my way, marks will only go to those who mention the word "unicorn" in their lyrics. That’s a promise. All those who mention unicorns stand to win some of the $10,000 in cash and prizes, a chance to perform at The Calgary Folk Music Festival and a big fat bag of glory. Visit www.calgaryfolkfest.com, www.shipandanchor.com, or call the Folk Festival office at 233-0904 for more details.
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