This bitch goes out to that extremely annoying woman who does the Thursday “whats happening in Halifax” on Information Morning on CBC AND who also does art reports in the Coast. Anyone else find her annoying and conceded?
Every week she talks about the same bands, Windersleep, Joel Plasket, Jill Barber…. FUCKING YAWN!!!!!
YES we know that you like those bands, YES we know that you are on the board of AFCOOP, YES we know that you are zainy and want everyone to think you are edgy, and contemporary.
No need to flog a dead horse.
But what pisses me off more than her smarmy voice, her desperation to be a scenester (I bet you she lives in the North End and tells everyone she does) and her painfully aweful radio banter is the fact that she plugs the same SHIT every week. She always makes it obvious that she doesn’t like “commercial’ music, yet plugging Joel Plasket and Jill Barber every fucking week is no different than what c100 does with Britney Spears and all that garbage. What I would like to tell her, more like yell in her fucking face, is that there exists more music in Halifax AND in the world than folk-rock. Sure, she will talk about and play some obscure ‘campy’ band that she thinks is a novelty, but when she plays this ‘novelty’ music she rarely knows anything about it other than its not commercial and its zainy.
Seriously, The Coast and CBC, get someone who knows about music and Art who will represent you, not some fucking obnoxious scenester who knows ten “bands.”
There is more to musical life than a singer/songwriter who can strum three chords.
This article appears in Jul 17-23, 2008.
Anyone else pissed that Wintersleep won like half of the Coasts Best of Music awards? Just because they’re popular, and are known in places other than Halifax, doesn’t make them the best. That stupid ghost song is the worst song they’ve done! I just want to punch someone when I hear it! And what’s with the “clever” plan of using la la la, or something stupid when you don’t have anything to write, but feel the need to keep singing? It’s just a ploy to help out the drunken masses who come to your shows so they can sing a long even after their IQ’s have dropped 50%.
Information Boring always made my ears bleed. I’d rather listen to my dogs eat.
I totally agree, just look at The Coast’s best of Music pole, everything is Wintersleep, Jill Barber, Jenn Grant and other stupidly named “bands.” ooh, and don’t forget the token hip hop section… Maybe if The Coast (and now CBC one) weren’t monopolized by such norrow-minded indie posers, Halifax would have an amazing Reggae, Soul (and I am not talking about the garbage that the Melowtones pass off as Soul), electronic, experimental, JAZZ, Latin, etc etc. music community.Until the Indie quaifs release their stronghold on The Coast and CBC one, we are going to be left with a music scene that is as interesting and as diverse as C100.
Amen to this post! I am not familiar with this particular radio personality but what I am familiar with is the music industry in this city’s fascination with a select few acts. I think we should include Matt Mayes in that list too. The music scene in Halifax is in dire straits but it’s not for a lack of acts or talent. It’s because the industry in this city like all over the world is pushing “marketable” music whether it’s good or not. And don’t give me that crap about “to each his own”, maybe to a certain degree, but there is something to be said about “good” music which can encompass all genres (i.e. there is such a thing as “good” country music or “good” opera). Just because something’s popular doesn’t make it good, and most of the local stuff that gets attention is NOT good. I wish it was 1992 again…
Do you mind if I through the ECMA’s on with the same heap of crap… I swear if that Joe Plastic guy wins one more award with his corny fucking lyrics like “Switch him, do the Switcheroo”, there’s going to be an Emergency alright… I am going to scream out loud… Who honestly thinks this shit can pass for good music… Talk about a bandwagon… They get a couple guys clapping, get some insiders on the radio plugging it, and next thing you know… Hitsville… Shitsville… Give me a fucking break…
Eat shit floyd. Joel PASKETT is the best band that EVER EVER EVER played in Halifax. I should know. I have been getting into bars for almost 4 years.Arsehole.
4 whole years?!?!?!?!?!?! Somebody get this guy his own column!
Joel Plaskett had 1 good song that turned into a Zellers commercial. I can think of several world class bands that played in Halifax – Foo Fighters for example, would kick the shit out of Plaskett in a Rock-off.
C’mon, we all know that Scenesters keep it going. Anyway, now that I’ve got your attention: how the fuck does this Giome Gomeshie guy rate his own fucking show, Q? Queue? Cue? Fuck. It was bad enough when they paired him up with a female co-host and they took turns at witty banter. It makes CBC sound like C100 without the commercials to save you. Pabst Blue Ribbon, and all that.
CBC Information morning is about as relevant to the music scene as that fuckwit toad Don Connolly is relevant to anything he has ever said.
And what about George Snuffalufagus? I hate that over-inflated bag of douche.
I went to the Oakley Reunion last weekend at Montes. Now there is a local band (from days gone by) that paid their dues and knew how to rock like nobody’s business. They still do when we are lucky enough for a reunion. In their day, they got fuck-all for radio support and about as much from the print media. With only word of mouth, and night after night after night of good hard playing, they built a cult following that is still loyal to this day. True rock heros if there ever was.Too bad they weren’t more “fashionable”… Like Joel…
George Snuffalufagus ??? Wasn’t he the drummer for the Banana Splits? (before joining the CBC)
Fucking Oakley rocked way back and still rock. Richie pretty much came back from the dead and lived to tell the tale. Joel Plunkit and his band would need a double-dose of Viagra to sound like Oakley.
The Banana Splits? Too fucking funny, floyd – weren’t they a couple of dogs and an elephant who had a show back in the early 70s? With these really stoned out backgrounds while they played? There were so Hanna-Barbaraish. I liked H.R. Puffinstuff better.
Snuffalufagus… Elephant… same thing…I didnt get it until eons later that HR was actually puffin stuff… I bet that show would be a lot funnier now…
Hey Jason, we’re real sorry to have said bad things about your “fave” band. I mean 4 whole years in the bar scene definently qualifies you as a savvy veteran. Have you even heard Joel’s first band Thrush Hermit? They somewhat rocked and still sucked. Anyway enough with the Plaskett bashing..it’s not his fault that he’s getting the push he is. My bitch was (and is) the nature of the local music scene that would promote a no-talent like good ol Joel. But seriously Jason, don’t try and defend your boy by saying your an expert on the local scene at the ripe ol age of (what?…23?). You come across like a 13 year old girl defending Hedley.
Thrush Hermit, great, thanks for the memories. Next thing Tara Thorne will be pushing for a Plumtree renunion, just to prove she was young and hip ‘back in the day’. Pabst Blue Ribbon.Or Grace Babies.
I must agree with the writer and some of the posts on this thread.First of all, if it wasn’t for indie music, your favorite top-40 music would get old in about two seconds and then… you’d have nothing but the same old tired tunes 100% of the time. So, support the indie bands!Like many of you, I’ve been duped by The Coast into thinking they provide quality reviews of local acts but, I too, see the same shit week after week and then I discovered why.Did you know, when you come to Nova Scotia to write music about Nova Scotia for Nova Scotians, make the time and financial investments to see the recording and mixing done and tell The Coast about a new release… they’re simply not interested.If your ears are bleeding and you keep nodding off lstenting to the same ol’ same ol’, break out of the box and strap this on:www.peterxanthony.caAnd then tell The Coast the musical injection everyone is looking for has been right under their noses!
So we can’t mention names of companies in posts, unless they’re radio stations?