Starting Saturday, Graham Pilsworth will be the eyes, and more importantly, ears, at this year’s Atlantic Jazz Festival. Catch all his reports right here at thecoast.ca.
Cultural Festivals
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Envelope, please
So I could have gone to the MuchMusic Video Awards and afterparty tonight, but I can’t move. So I’ll watch everyone get poured on and hit by lightning from the comfort of our tiny room. Just heard that Wintersleep won best indie video award for “Weighty Ghost.” That’s swell. Also this week, the Polaris Music […]
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Old schoolin’
Woke up early (lord knows how) to go to a talk by Karen Kain and a bunch of other dance types at the new Four Seasons Performing Arts Centre. I left midway because I was too hung and I was having an out-of-body experience. If this was an art blog, I’d tell you about a […]
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Hey ladies
Went down to the Distilllery district (an old whiskey factory turned into an awesome live/work/art/resto area, and things have changed quite a bit. Not a lot of interesting art–I don’t think any of the original artists can afford to have studios there anymore, no doubt a product of its own success–but the old brick buildings […]
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Funny stuff
This is great: I saw this in the movie last night and had to look it up. Death Panda, something like 50 Japanese teenage girls singing metal, backed by Megadeath guitarist, Marty Friedman, who lives there now. Almost as funny as my media pass. Apparently Halifax is now officially been taken over by Alberta, and […]
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Day 1: Metal and majorettes
Checked into the Holiday on King (easily spotted–saw disinterested boys with eyeliner and the dreadlocked dude from the Doughboys; he’s apparently NXNE’s LA-based programmer) and got in line to register. There was a separate counter for “Trouble” and a long line for media and industry types. Bumped into my beautiful friend WJ who works at […]
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Hide the hipster…
and other fun games at the airport. Spot the music journalist is a good one too (they’re rumpled up). I’ve never seen so many skinny-jeaned, angled-hair hipsteramas in the airport before. Some were flying, some were just there for the NXNE free shows at the airport. Awesome idea. We just missed Ted Leo & the […]
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NXNE-stylin’
I’m an experienced traveller but I always have a mild clothing panic attack before I leave for anywhere (Iceland this summer should be fun). I know it’s going to be bloody heinous hot (having lived in Toronto for 12 years and attended many steamy festivals, I know I’ll leave there crusty and cranky), but really, […]
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Day Three: Halifax the Music Week menace
“A menacing snowstorm” (TM Weather Network) kicked the shit out of Toronto yesterday, reminding me again why I don’t like to travel to central Canada in winter (or summer, now that I think of it). As I trudged up to the Rivoli, tripping over streetcar tracks and climbing tiny curbside mountains, I thought about all […]
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Day Two: It’s like rain on Alanis Day
Friday’s day schedule was cleared for any and all Alanis-related activities, though I would get shut out of all but one. I didn’t get to see the show – fine in the end considering it was a half-hour set at a win-to-get-in fan event – and didn’t bother trying to get into the interview since […]
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Day One: Of sinkoles and idols
Because it’s Halifax and because half of the city is headed there, Sean MacGillivray and Glen Nicholson, two of Jenn Grant’s band The Night Painters, are on my flight. Left to Right: Glen and Sean. Sean has brought two bass guitars with him, except one is an electric upright without a proper flying case, and […]