We are ssssslowly easing back into the business of blog following the lovely quiet of the holidays over here at Indyish network headquarters. Don’t know about you but we’ve been storing up on inspiration and insulation (in the form of brownies and nog, Christmas specials and Project Runway episodes) so we’re feeling good but moving [...]
Whew! Over the next 3 weeks Indyish is involved in some great events and I’ve been busy like the proverbial freaking beaver putting them together! We are working with McGill University to put on their 3 days of Frosh events on the lower field next week, and with Concordia University Television to throw a three [...]
We Is Blunderstruck! begins in a refreshingly low-tech manner with a technician pressing play on a cassette-tape player with a mic pointed at the speaker. Blunderstruck is a band of three hard-rocking clowns whose shy uncertainty and DIY attitude make them incredibly endearing. Comparisons with the Fringe’s other clown-rock band, Die Roten Punkte, are inevitable, [...]
I was introduced to Steel Pulse via Elran when we met 7 years ago, so it’s exciting that we’ll be able to go review their show in the Montreal International Reggae Festival together this weekend. Here’s a video of the legendary polical beautiful reggae band doing their famous title track from their first album Handsworth [...]
Really, this isn’t a review. I thought I’d write one about this book I got at Expozine but then I went to the Doris page on the Microcosm website and was heaped with passionate thoughts and words from dozens of other reviewers and now I sort of feel speechless. But actually, that’s what I was [...]
We did our first Monthly mess at the Katacombes. Janick, the owner/manager of the space, was our primary contact. She’s a bilingual passionate punk lady with dreads and smiles and stories from a history of Montreal venue management. When we went down to talk with her and to book the show, we had to fill [...]
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that there are surveillance cameras pointed at you everywhere you go. Some people probably wouldn’t notice if they had one attached to their chest.
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Susie Bright is passing on a hollar for help from a friend who’s in San Francisco doing an oral history project on the origins and dirty secrets of Punk. He finds himself in serious need of a swifty sympathetic volunteer typist, so now you can be one of the first people to hear these recordings, [...]