Keep that Halloween feeling going with The Herbaliser’s third single from their latest album There Were Seven, “March Of The Dead Things”, featuring Halifax/Toronto duo Teenburger (Ghettosocks and Timbuktu). Directed by filmmaker Caley MacLennan and featuring a killer cast of local zombie enthusiasts pulled together “viral flash mob” style in a matter of hours, the […]
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Buck 65 talks
Buck 65’s new album 20 Odd Years comes out on February 1st and features a series of all-new songs and collaborations with Gord Downie, Jenn Grant, Nick Thorburn (of Islands and Unicorns fame) and others. (You can pre-order it here.) Buck/Rich Terfry was in town filming a video for the song “Zombie Delight” at the Bloomfield Centre and when I met with him, he was doing interviews on a makeshift newsroom set, wearing a suit and tie, the floor around him smeared with blood. So I was wondering where this song came from. Are you a fan of zombies?
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Buck 65 Needs Zombies This Sunday
this beat is sick Buck 65 is shooting a music video this weekend at the Bloomfield Centre and apparently he needs some zombie extras. The Facebook event announcing this opportunity adds the caveat that the zombies must be “innovative” as opposed to “blood and guts.” Titillating! You can learn more by checking out the Facebook link here.
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Invasion of the Living Dead
My neighbourhood has been taken over by Zombies–young adults and teens mostly. They lurch and shuffle along the streets mostly unaware of the doings of the living. Their eyes are glazed over and unfocused. When spoken to, one gets the impression that there is a great distance between where they are at and where you […]
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Video: Zombie Walk 2009
Zombies don’t do well in heat (see Goths in Hot Weather for details), but nevertheless, the undead lurched and staggered through downtown Halifax today. There must have been hundreds of them, including one guy in a jean vest who had an amazing zombie walk, tripping and falling into bushes, but then I realized he was […]
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Zombie Short Film Fest looking for your brains
Normally we don’t post calls from festivals outside of the city, but for some reason, the Toronto-based Zombie Short Film Festival seems like it should have originated in Halifax. For those of you with a brain blasting with undead film ideas (there seem to be a lot of you), the rules are straightforward: it must […]
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Hot Summer Guide: Cultural events and festivals
CATCH: The Nova Scotia Seafood Festival June 27 Get those culinary taste buds ready for a weekend of seafood: CATCH will be working overtime. The festival promises to be a weekend of tasting, learning, shopping and just generally loving all things fishy. Presented by the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, the festival’s focus is to […]