So what did everyone think? Who were your favorite artists? Did you check out all the venues?
Terza Rima at the Fintry Queen Friday Night
The Haut Chauchis on the Fintry Queen Friday Night
Helcion at Doc Willoughby’s on Friday
Crystal Leigh at Stugeon Hall on Friday Night
Friday – Sept. 28th
Fintry Queen
8pm: Terza rima (indie)
9:30pm: Jury (wild west saloon, rock)
11pm: Haut chachis (surf)
DJ Toddy Rockwell in between bands
The Grateful Fed
8pm: Phoera (hard rock)
9:30pm: The Rights (Vancouver – rock)
11pm: Lefty (hard rock)
Sturgeon Hall
8:30pm: Kim McMechan (folk)
9:45pm: Closing iris (rock)
11pm: Crystal Leigh (singer-songwriter)
Doc Willoughby’s
8pm: Numina (rock)
9:30pm:Gorgeous Priceless (rock)
11pm:Helcion (Summerland – metal)
O’ Flanigan’s
8pm: Half Way There (Rock)
9:30pm: Inkblot (rock)
11pm: Break the pattern (rock)
Saturday – Sept. 29th
Fintry Queen
8pm: Grooveyard (grateful dead cover band)
9:30pm: Sazacha Red Sky (Vernon – electric pop and blues)
11pm: Haymaker (rockabilly)
The Grateful Fed
8pm T Riley (Vancouver – rock)
9:30pm: Faking David (Penticton – funk)
11pm: Zen Media (funk, world)
Sturgeon Hall
8:30pm: Jesse Revist (Calgary – folk)
9:45pm: Leanne Baily (rock)
11pm Devon and Kevin (rock)
Doc Willoughby’s
8pm Alpha baby (alternative)
9:30pm: The Mess (Rock)
11pm: Joey Only Outlaw Band (Vancouver – punk country)
O’ Flanigan’s
8:30pm: Hub (Vernon – hard rock)
9:30pm: Sausage Party (Punk Rock)
11pm: Lipstick Bulletkiss (Glam Rock)
Wintersleep Come Up With A Title For New Album
Tuesday September 25, 2007 @ 05:30 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
On Oct. 2, Wintersleep will finally release an album that actually has a title. Welcome To The Night Sky stands as a testimony to how far they’ve come since their 2003 self-titled debut. Drummer Loel Campbell recently spoke with ChartAttack about who he’d like to tour with, making his parents happy and just why it is that they’ve never titled an album before now.
“We just didn’t feel the need to,” says Campbell of that last subject. “I see them everywhere being referred to as ‘the self titled’ and ‘the untitled’… it kind of just happened so quickly, we just didn’t have any good titles. That’s the only reason.
“We’ve had that title for this record and this body of songs for about a year-and-a-half. It’s pretty relevant to us and our band. Lots of different things have been happening. We’re really quite happy playing together in the band and we’re trying to do everything we can to ensure that we’re still making records.”
Though present on the new album, founding member and bassist Jud Haynes recently left the band, making room for former Holy Fuck bassist (and, oddly, former Wintersleep keyboardist) Mike Bigelow to return.
“There’s not really a cause,” says Campbell of Haynes’ departure. “We’ve been doing this for a while now.
“I think he just came to some realizations about the future and what needs to happen. It’s just life decisions and it just so happened that he’s going in a different direction. The record was really awesome to work on. It’s fine.”
Both Campbell and Bigelow are sometime members of the spontaneous synthesizer assault known as Holy Fuck, and though Wintersleep are also known for their live jams, Campbell assures that they’re kept in check.
“There’s only a couple songs we do that with. You don’t want to watch a band wanking. Recording the songs, obviously, you’re putting the songs under the microscope. Creating the songs, it’s not like that at all. It’s a very free feeling and then the live thing is kind of in between.”
Playing live has given the east coasters the chance to share the stage with some major headlining acts, including recent tourmates The Tragically Hip.
“We did two nights with them at the House Of Blues in Chicago and my folks came down for it, and the Hip’s crew were just so, so sweet to them,” says Campbell. “They hooked them up with an opera box seat right above the stage. You can’t really get a better feeling than making your parents excited or happy.”
For a band who’s also played with Sonic Youth, Pearl Jam and The Flaming Lips, Campbell is still quick to name one more he’d like to add to the list.
“Obviously Radiohead comes to mind. Everyone says that, though. It doesn’t matter what kind of band you’re in.”
Wintersleep and Wooden Stars will play these shows:
* Oct. 16 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern w/A Northern Chorus
* Oct. 19 Hamilton, ON @ Casbah
* Oct. 20 Ottawa, ON @ Barrymore’s
* Oct. 24 Winnipeg, MB @ Pyramid
* Oct. 25 Regina, SK @ Distrikt
* Oct. 28 Edmonton, AB @ Starlite
* Oct. 30 Kelowna, BC @ The Blue Gator
* Nov. 2 Vancouver, BC @ Richard’s On Richards
* Nov. 3 Victoria, BC @ Sugar
* Nov. 6 Calgary, AB @ The Warehouse
* Nov. 7 Saskatoon, SK @ Amigos
* Nov. 12 Barrie, ON @ Foundation
* Nov. 13 Guelph, ON @ Vinyl
* Nov. 14 Waterloo, ON @ The Starlight
* Nov. 16 Toronto, ON @ Mod Club
* Nov. 17 Montreal, QC @ Club Lambi
Tuesday, Oct. 30th at the Blue Gator
A must see show.
http://www.wintersleep.com/ws3/falltour.htm
New album out Oct. 2nd
Click here for Poster of October 6th event
10-06-07-ArabicDance.pdf
So I’ve been featuring a different band on my blog each day for the past month. I hope that has given you plenty of time to read up on all the great bands that are playing the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28th and 29th). Don’t forget to get your tickets now at the five participating venues. Come out and support all these great local bands, and a few out-of-town bands. Thanks to the 5 venues that are taking part, and especially Ryan at the Grateful Fed that is organizing this whole thing. See you Friday night!
Rockanagan Featured band of the day – The Mess (Rock)
Saturday night @ Doc Willoughby’s
We of The Mess are four musicians who have taken all of our collective and varied musical experience, and polarized it behind our unique songs and energetic stage show. It has taken us a while to hone our material but we have now begun taking our music to the stage and we are ecstatic at the positive reactions we are getting! Come out and see us and we’ll see if we can’t get one of our songs stuck in your head.
Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28th and 29th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.
Rockanagan Featured band of the day – Sausage Party (Punk Rock)
Saturday night @ O’Flanigans
Who needs Tacos at a Sausage Party. While not beer swigging or dope smoking, this instrumental band loves to play Rock N Roll. With the tight drums of Skye, the wacky bass playing of the Gwil pickle, and the heavy riffing and shredding leads of Davy this band kicks some ass.
Finally some of the great St. John’s bands are making there way across the country and playing shows in Kelowna! A great band from St. John’s, Newfoundland are coming to Kelowna. Fairshake Productions are bringing them to Doc Willoughby’s on October 19th.
Click here to check out a video of Hey Rosetta! at the 2007 EMCAs!
Video clip of Hey Rosetta! show, 07 October 2006, Junctions, St. John’s Newfoundland and at NXNE in Toronto, June 7, 2007 @Rivoli
Ah, Junctions, I spent many a night watching bands playing there back in my University days….
In the words of lead singer Tim Baker…
In early 2005, I came home from a long trip. I’d been to California and back in my father’s car and, prior to that, I’d been living as a student in Montreal. I’d been writing and writing but performing very little, so I brought home with me a briefcase full of poems and tunes and this strange, powerful need to share them. So, I banged and squawked my stuff out solo in the warm and wily barrooms of St. John’s for as long as I could. But the movement and meaning of the songs began demanding more; more power and timbre and grit and grace than I could muster alone. So a search began, and finally ended with the addition of five like-minded visionaries and with the drums, bass, cello, violin, and guitars they expertly played. Finally the songs began to grow sated and strong and right.
So, essentially Hey Rosetta! was born and grew out of songs. And this is our modus operandi still�I have a song and it moves in a particular way and it means a particular thing, and then we try to let it develop in its own direction. I guess this explains why many of our songs are distinct from one another and eclectic. They can be jarring or saccharine or danceable or solemn, all depending on what is called for. But they all seem to be lyric-driven and emotive, and none stray too far from what we consider rock n’ roll.
The songs, these days, can almost seem dwarfed by the big, rolling mass that has grown around them. While myself and Josh, Adam, Phil, Jessie and Kinley have been busy writing and recording and playing throughout Eastern and Central Canada, a large and learned family has arisen to steer us, label us, book us, advocate for us, distribute us, publicize us, and create with us. What a dream we rush around inside of.
Our first full length record, Plan Your Escape, received four Music Newfoundland and Labrador awards in 2006 (Album of the Year, Group of the Year, Pop/Rock Group of the Year, & Rising Star of the Year) as well as an East Coast Music nomination (Rock Recording of the Year). This album has since been remixed, remastered, redesigned and re-released nationwide as an EP under Sonic Records.
And we’ve been working on videos to accompany and illustrate our songs. We just finished cutting together some live footage from a concert we put off in the spring with our friends and own personal backup slew of instrumentalists, The Brightsun Orchestra, which should be available on our website shortly. And we’ve just finished self producing our first music video for the song “Yes! Yes! Yes!” with our gifted friend Jordan Canning. And we are, at this very moment, furiously working on treatments for more to come.
All in all, it’s kind of surreal I guess… tours, festivals, showcases, radio shows, satellite radio shows, mailing lists, interviews. We have videos, stickers, buttons, websites, posters, t-shirts… all this beautiful art. There’s so much stuff that has grown from an old briefcase full of crumpled, illegible sheets.
Today though, we are still huddled around scrawled and scattered pages, readying tunes for the next full length album, to be recorded this fall. And in the meantime, we tour and we share our songs with the rest of the country. We sit in the van and hum. We dream chords on motel floors. We write and play and laugh and seem to grow and grow and grow.
Thanks so much for reading this.
For all the latest developments, please come our own little place at www.heyrosetta.com
Tim Baker, Hey Rosetta!
August 2007, St. John’s, NL
Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28th and 29th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.
Rockanagan Featured band of the day – Sausage Party (Punk Rock)
Saturday night @ O’Flanigans
Who needs Tacos at a Sausage Party. While not beer swigging or dope smoking, this instrumental band loves to play Rock N Roll. With the tight drums of Skye, the wacky bass playing of the Gwil pickle, and the heavy riffing and shredding leads of Davy this band kicks some ass.
Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28th and 29th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.
Rockanagan Featured band of the day – Half Way There (Rock)
Friday night @ O’Flanigans
HALFWAY THERE BEGAN WHERE MANY OTHER THINGS ALSO BEGIN… AT A GAS STATION. FROM HUMBLE BEGININGS TO PRESENT, THEY HAVE BEEN ROCKING WITH THIER BLEND OF HARD ROCK AND SERVING IT UP ONE MOUTHFULL AT A TIME LIKE ONLY THEY CAN. THE GUYS ARE IN THE STUDIO WORKING ON THEIR FIRST FULL LENGTH ALBUM AND WILL BE RELEASED IN THE SUMMER OF 08′ FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE.
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