I started to climb the stairs up to Ginger’s–believe it or not, this was my first time to the venue ever. I got up to the third stair and the guy at the door yelled “WE’RE FULL!!” over the sounds of someone tuning a guitar and what sounded like 600 people talking at the same […]
Music Festivals
K’Naan: Thank you for coming to my town
This is the one entry I’ve been afraid of writing. I don’t feel capable of expressing how moved I felt on Saturday night/early Sunday morning watching this incredible man perform. His musicians were deadly tight, the music ranged from gentle to fierce to playful to heartbreaking within the space of a song, the lyrics were […]
Halifax Pop Explosion Blog
I don’t know how I did it, but I did it. I found my last reserve of energy and walked down to Ginger’s to see if I could find Christopher, then back up to The Attic to catch Chixdiggit. I have seen Chixdiggit about a billion times, back when I lived out west. That first […]
In the immortal words of Ferris Bueller: “You’re still here? It’s over. Go home.”
That’s it. That was the Halifax Pop Explosion 2005, the Tara Lee Wittchen edition. I’m exhausted (still…on Monday night), I’m hungry (who has time to buy groceries when there is rockin’ to do?), and I’m behind on my work (again), but man, I’d do it all again in a second. Welllll…(remembers how sore feet are)…maybe […]

