Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Rockanagan Featured band of the day – T Riley (Vancouver – rock)
Saturday night @ The Grateful Fed

About T Riley

Let’s see, what can I say that will make you like my music more? I was born a poor orphan in Mississippi. Some nice gypsy from Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump found me selling matches on the side of the road and took me to Canada, where…..blah, blah, blah. Bios….sheesh. Nutshell for real, after wandering for awhile, I have decided to make Vancouver home base. I have left my job as an airline pilot to do music full time (that part is true). My band is…well…a little No Doubty with dashes of PJ Harvey, a little Sheryl Crow, with dashes of Tool….Blondie…we’re basically schizophrenic in the genre department. You’ll have to judge for yourself. I moved to Vancouver in 2003 after 2 years of grinding it out in the Toronto “rock scene”. Nicely jaded, I needed something more, so I enrolled in the Jazz music program at VCC which was just what I needed. My ears opened up and I met amazing new people and was exposed to amazing new music. I met Ryan Guldemond who started as my guitar teacher, then I quickly recruited him into my band after losing my socks from seeing him perform. Ryan since, however, has gone on to world domination with Mother Mother, so I have recruited Sir Rick Rodney to fill his shoes. The Universe brought me Ali Siadat and his funky beats through mutual friends. Neil Cruikshank, the man of many talents, has joined us to play bass. Crystal Balint, a talented singer-actor-songwriter has recently stepped aboard the project to add her sweet BGs to the mix. Climb aboard, ladies and gentlemen, and enjoy the ride. WE HAVE FINISHED THE T RILEY OPUS, complete with 13 songs to amuse, beguile, and toy with your emotions. Howard Reddekop contributed his fabulous production skills for us. I like it. I think you will too if you give it an honest listen. It is available at our shows, off t-riley.com and various independant record stores, HMV’s accross the country, and Virgin Megastore in Vancouver BONUS…I happen to know an anonymous globe trotter that was lucky enough to be in London when David Bowie joined David Gilmoer at Royal Albert hall for a rendition of comfortably numb. You can check out some of that on video on my video pages. Enjoy! Thanks for checking it out. T-Riley.com

Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Rockanagan Featured band of the day – Faking David (Penticton – funk)
Saturday night @ The Grateful Fed

Faking David – for people who like music. Groove-Soul-Folk-Funk From Western Canada; Faking David is: Dorian Goodwin – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars. MishA Dakini – vocals, hand drums, drum kit. Robbin Lacey – bass, vocals. Damn Yeah!

Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Featured band of the day – Zen Media (funk, world)
Saturday night @ The Grateful Fed

Zen Media is a fusion band hailing from Kelowna, B.C. Canada. This 6 piece experimental groove band hits pockets in as many dance mediums as it can get its hands on. Injecting raw hip twisting vibrations into everything from fat funk and disco grooves to deep dub and high energy hip hop. Extended jam sections are interwoven into tight compositions allowing for long periods of “stretching out” on what may be a 3 minute studio song. This combination of spontanaeity and composition allows Zen shows to flow and change transforming its music from static songs to musical vessels. Always looking for that next plateau Zen Media aspires to keep raising its audiences vibrations and its shows with fans that are environmentally and spiritually concious people doing there own part of “the great work”. So belly up to the bar and have a taste of some universal love, baby because raw and real is how this band likes to serve it.

Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Featured band of the day – Leanne Baily (rock)
Saturday night @ Sturgeon Hall

from GarageBand.com:
Leanne Baillie has released her new CD entitled, “Here I Am” which features a live concert performance from the Performance Center on June 20th, 2003. The Debut CD captures her unique, exciting, powerful stage show and natural raw talent as she is a rising star to watch for. At the June 20th event, Leanne’s concert was recorded live and filmed for a concert video to be streamed as a bonus feature on her new enhanced Format CD. Leanne has also recently opened for International recording artist Bif Naked on her latest Spring 2003 national tour. As well, she opened for Wide Mouth Mason and The Tragically Hip at the Heartland Music Festival on August 1 & 2, 2003. The video of her performance at the Heartland Festival will be available soon.

Featured band of the day – Break the pattern (rock)
Friday night @ O’ Flanigans

The band (Break The Pattern) is still in it’s infancy. It has been a slow and rocky start for us but things are really starting to come together. Nick Salisbury has recently joined up as ‘king of the kit’ along with Jason Morris on Bass.

We have all been influenced by different bands and artists and that is coming through in Break The Pattern. From Jazz, classical, metal, thrash, punk, techno, to rock and hip-hop, the band’s musical tastes are quite diverse.

Kelowna live music blog presents…. Countdown to the Rockanagan Music Festival (September 28^th and 29^th). Get your tickets now at the five participating venues.

Featured band of the day – Third gear (rock)
Saturday night @ Doc Willoughby’s

Gear rose from the ashes of Deadly, with guitarist Dale Birnie and drummer Chad MacDonald reuniting with Russ Wilson, a former bandmate and lifelong friend who had been busy honing his bass style in Alberta for several years. Once they started jamming together again, the groove came rushing back, and all three knew that this was meant to be! As a power trio, 3rd Gear write and perform innovative, interesting rock songs built to bring the world to it’s knees! With politically charged lyrics, thick muscular grooves, and a tight unmistakable sound, 3rd Gear have set out to change the rock world as we know it!

Performances by; Stabilo, Cold Driven, Roger Gabriel, Kinship, Jane Eamon, Raquel Warchol, Helcion, Olga Osipova, and A Day Late And A Dollar Short.

Teena Clipston from Scorpion Entertainment and Brad Krauza from Okanagan Concerts Ltd. are pleased to announce Tree Brewing as the presenting sponsor for the 2007 Okanagan Music Awards!

Kelowna, BC, The 5th Annual Okanagan Music Awards and Musicians Bash, presented by Tree Brewing, will be held this year at the Kelowna Community Theatre on October 10, 2007.

Fair Shake Productions ― Kelowna’s premier production and Promotion Company, is focused on booking intimate and interactive music venues in downtown Kelowna.

The Next big one is: Grady

Featuring Gordie Johnson from Big Sugar

CATCH THEM LIVE AT DOC WILLOUGHBYS DOWNTOWN PUB THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20th TICKETS $15 ADV and $18 at the door
►Additional shows and/or events are updated on the following websites:
http://www.docspub.ca & www.myspace.com/docwilloughbys

GRADY: This trio of tall Texans will captivate you with a sound somewhere between early ZZ Top and an alien abduction. Equal parts Southern Gospel and Satanic Ritual, Gordie “Grady” Johnson on lead vocals and guitar, Big Ben on bass, and Billy “Thunderball” Maddox beating the drums loud and proud, kneel at the altar of the onechord stomp and make every show a unique and thunderous offering.

Yes folks, GRADY’s second cd “A Cup Of Cold Poison” is done, and will be released in Canada in the middle of June on Fontana North/Maple Music.

“A Cup Of Cold Poison” was recorded at Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Studio, and features guest appearances by Willie Nelson, Alejandro Escovedo and Ron Hynes. What do Celtic, Gospel and Heavy Metal have in common? Listen to GRADY’s “A Cup Of Cold Poison” to find out.

In other news, GRADY’s first CD “Y.U. So Shady” was released Jan 15th in Scandinavia on world renowned Voices of Wonder Records, the label that brought you Norwegian Black Metal Band, Mayhem amongst others. GRADY spent a week in Norway to promote the release, doing eight shows in seven days to a heavy music audience who were blown away by GRADY’s relentless sonic assault.

“Y.U. So Shady” will also be released to the rest of Europe in

►Media inquires for passes, interviews or promo materials should be directed to Jason George – Fair Shake Productions via email jason@jasongeorge.ca

Fair Shake Productions ― Kelowna’s premier production and Promotion Company, is focused on booking intimate and interactive music venues in downtown Kelowna.

The Next big one is: Grady

Featuring Gordie Johnson from Big Sugar

CATCH THEM LIVE AT DOC WILLOUGHBYS DOWNTOWN PUB THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20th TICKETS $15 ADV and $18 at the door
►Additional shows and/or events are updated on the following websites:
http://www.docspub.ca & www.myspace.com/docwilloughbys

GRADY: This trio of tall Texans will captivate you with a sound somewhere between early ZZ Top and an alien abduction. Equal parts Southern Gospel and Satanic Ritual, Gordie “Grady” Johnson on lead vocals and guitar, Big Ben on bass, and Billy “Thunderball” Maddox beating the drums loud and proud, kneel at the altar of the onechord stomp and make every show a unique and thunderous offering.

Yes folks, GRADY’s second cd “A Cup Of Cold Poison” is done, and will be released in Canada in the middle of June on Fontana North/Maple Music.

“A Cup Of Cold Poison” was recorded at Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Studio, and features guest appearances by Willie Nelson, Alejandro Escovedo and Ron Hynes. What do Celtic, Gospel and Heavy Metal have in common? Listen to GRADY’s “A Cup Of Cold Poison” to find out.

In other news, GRADY’s first CD “Y.U. So Shady” was released Jan 15th in Scandinavia on world renowned Voices of Wonder Records, the label that brought you Norwegian Black Metal Band, Mayhem amongst others. GRADY spent a week in Norway to promote the release, doing eight shows in seven days to a heavy music audience who were blown away by GRADY’s relentless sonic assault.

“Y.U. So Shady” will also be released to the rest of Europe in

►Media inquires for passes, interviews or promo materials should be directed to Jason George – Fair Shake Productions via email jason@jasongeorge.ca

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Fair Shake Productions ― Kelowna’s premier production and promotion company, is focused on booking intimate and interactive music venues in downtown Kelowna.

The Next big one is:

THE NEW ODDS (Formerly Odds) – “Nothing Beautiful Lasts”. That was the title of one of “the Odds” last singles. I guess that was true for a little while. Actually…what the hell were they thinking? The critically and commercially acclaimed post punk power pop band recorded four albums from 1991 to 1996 and then walked away. They’d achieved gold and platinum success and hit the top ten several times. But they weren’t that smart. They didn’t realize that beautiful things just change and come back in new forms.

Craig Northey, Pat Steward and Doug Elliott are back without ever really going away. All they did was make a ton of music under different names and with different collaborators. It started with all of them supporting Northey on his solo album “Giddy Up”. Then they all recorded and wrote on several albums for R&B guitar hero Colin James. They recorded the “Northey Valenzuela” album with Jesse Valenzuela of the Gin Blossoms – featuring the theme from CTV’s “Corner Gas”. They recorded an album as “Strippers Union” with their pal Rob Baker from the Tragically Hip. They recorded an instrumental soul album with killer organist Simon Kendall as “Sharkskin”. Somewhere in there they scored two feature films. It’s been a busy “time off”.

Early this year they began writing songs together and doing a show or two. Their pals “Barenaked Ladies” took them out on a rock festival type cruise ship last January and they needed another guitar player to fill out what they’d written. Their friend Murray Atkinson threw his hat in the ring and it all fell together instantly. Their three year-old temporary name “the Craig Northey Power Trio” wouldn’t work anymore. They weren’t the old “Odds” because they now had a new member….they were “the New Odds”. Just as “Spinal Tap” were once “the Originals” and then “the New Originals” only a little bit different. It was a stupid name to begin with and now at least it is a different stupid name. Rock band names are stupid.
CATCH THEM LIVE AT DOC WILLOUGHBYS DOWNTOWN PUB SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 2ND TICKETS $15 ADV and $18 at the door

►Additional shows and/or events are updated on the following websites:
http://www.docspub.ca & www.myspace.com/docwilloughbys

►Media inquires for passes, interviews or promo materials should be directed to Jason George – Fair Shake Productions via email jason@jasongeorge.ca