Tag Archive for the term: reviews

We at Indyish want to bring you reviews and highlights from Expozine 07. Unlike theatre and music reviews, ‘zines take a little time to ruminate (read: read) but we promise to blog as we consume our Expozine purchases over the next few days.

Sun sets and suddenly we’re at summer camp. The bathrooms are full of girls fixing their hair and people juggle beers as they migrate from stage to stage. I feel like exploring the woods with a flashlight, but I wonder if the trees are just a facade that ends after the requisite 5 or 6. [...]

Just saw Feist perform on the Osheaga mainstage. She’s clearly quite talented and comfortable on stage. She has a beautiful curly, reverby voice; say the word ‘hawlr’ in a baby voice while breathing in and you sort of sound like her. Her songs are essentially mom-friendly radio music, like if Stevie Nicks listened to more [...]

Patrick Watson is wonderful. His voice is well-trained and evocative and while I find his music somewhat ordinary, the addition of electronic elements and a complete sincerity in the delivery of it all turn him and his band into a really amazing musical experience. Piano helps. Talent too.
I only saw the end of his [...]

20 minutes into Reesor I wanted to stand up and yell THIS IS MY FAVORITE PLAY. heh. seriously. I loved it.
It is described thusly in promotions:
Between 1926-1945, 400 people called Reesor, Ontario home. Now, all that remains is a pile of stone. Surrounded by wilderness, alone in the bush, how do you build a home? [...]

A good one person show is easier to say then to do. You don’t get a break, the audience’s eyes are always on you and it’s up to you to create all the energy you can for them to feed off of so they can send some back to you. I think it was Ryan [...]

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Sleeping Beauty or Coma
by Charles Busch
Mainline Theatre, closes tommorrow February 17
A night of two short farces; fun, informal, and high energy-just the thing to shake the February blues. The first piece is Sleeping Beauty or Coma, the story of a fresh faced fashion agency temp who through a whole [...]

These are the bands I missed at Pop Montreal and would have loved to see (One can only run between so many venues):
Gonzales
Aide-de-Camp
I-Pod Battle
Miracle Fortress
Gold Sword
The World Provider
Lake of Stew
Telefauna
Dog Day
Spank Rock
Tokyo Police Club
Plants and Animals
Cadence Weapon/The Russian Futurists
Glass Candy/Chromatics
The Hylozoists
The Nymphets
Think About Life
Dr. Octagon
Duchess Says/Crystal Castles
SS Cardiacs
Did you catch one of these shows? Drop [...]