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YOUR LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE<br />
<strong>519</strong><br />
Celebrating Music, Theatre, Fashion, Arts and Events<br />
Issue 8 - Feb. <strong>2019</strong><br />
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MORGAN JAMES | PAUL BRANDT | THE TREWS<br />
DJ REV | JAMES GIBB | ED THE SOCK<br />
Guys and Dolls | No Exit | CKSS’ Newsies | Windsor Express
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Morgan James Gives The Beatles White Album a Female Touch<br />
By Dan and April Savoie<br />
Morgan James has one of those<br />
voices that you fall in love with right<br />
from the moment you hear it. It’s<br />
almost as if there’s something in her<br />
voice for everyone.<br />
Whether she’s belting out fusions of<br />
pop, funk or R&B or just diving head<br />
first into her heart with a touching<br />
classic, it’s pretty evident why she’s<br />
accumulated more than 75 million<br />
online views.<br />
She hits the <strong>519</strong> this month for<br />
shows in London and Sarnia and she<br />
sat down with us ahead of her winter<br />
tour to chat about music.<br />
You put your own touch on your<br />
cover songs. Is reworking a cover<br />
harder to do than working on<br />
original songs?<br />
I’m not really one of these people<br />
that likes to reinvent a song. If a<br />
song is great and I choose to cover<br />
it, it’s because it’s a great song. So I<br />
definitely don’t want to reinvent the<br />
wheel. I want to pay homage. And<br />
that’s really my first goal - to not try<br />
to say look what I can do better, but<br />
rather say look how great this song is.<br />
I think that writing music is<br />
definitely harder than covering music<br />
and I find that writing music is a great<br />
challenge and I really love the art of<br />
it.<br />
I want to talk a little bit about<br />
The Beatles. Your White Album just<br />
came out in the fall. When did you<br />
know that the Beatles was going to<br />
be your next subject for your next<br />
cover album?<br />
I’ve done four other full album<br />
covers and so it’s become a little bit of<br />
a trademark for me to do. I did Black<br />
Messiah by D’Angelo, Joni Mitchell’s<br />
Blue, Continuum by John Mayer and<br />
Grace by Jeff Buckley. All of them<br />
were made for a specific or special<br />
anniversary. We’re still in the midst of<br />
writing my next album, so it’s not quite<br />
ready to record yet. I thought a cover<br />
of the entire White Album would be<br />
challenging, creative and fun and we<br />
immediately stumbled upon the 50th<br />
anniversary, so we thought we should<br />
do this for that occasion. I know it’s<br />
really, really ambitious. It’s gigantic<br />
and its 30 songs. It was a tremendous<br />
challenge.<br />
The Beatles affect us in so many<br />
different ways. What are the<br />
Beatles to you and how does the<br />
music affect you?<br />
I grew up on my parents music<br />
collection and recommendations and<br />
I am such a devotee of music from<br />
the 50s, 60s and 70s and some of the<br />
first albums I ever got on my own<br />
were Beatles albums. I think John<br />
and Paul’s pursuit for the perfect two<br />
minute pop song is such a study. And<br />
who couldn’t love their incredible<br />
melodies. I love so much of what they<br />
did as solo artists as well. Ironically<br />
the White Album wasn’t my favorite<br />
Beatles album before, but that’s<br />
the beauty of really getting inside<br />
something - you fall in love with it<br />
and you find things about it you didn’t<br />
even know you loved.<br />
I wanted to ask about Call My<br />
Name from your Hunter album.<br />
Did you ever hear from Prince<br />
about your take on his song?<br />
Prince approving that song is the<br />
only reason it got released. I had to<br />
get Prince’s personal approval, which<br />
I did. L.A. Reid sent it to him. It took<br />
many, many years for anybody to<br />
even get it in front of Prince.<br />
That’s the first thing I ever arranged<br />
in my career and I sang it at every<br />
single show. And when it did finally<br />
get in front of Prince, he loved it. He<br />
sent a couple of cryptic messages with<br />
it and ultimately when we got the<br />
approval, we went into overdrive to<br />
release it because it was a favorite of<br />
the staff at Epic and of my fans.<br />
I would say this is a great gift that<br />
I received because knowing that an<br />
artist likes what you’ve done with<br />
their music, I mean there can be no<br />
bigger honor than that.<br />
I heard that you were rejected<br />
by Juilliard, but you never gave up.<br />
You kept going.<br />
I was waitlisted at Juilliard so I<br />
got a taste of both the rejection and<br />
the acceptance and ultimately did go<br />
there. I’m very, very stubborn and<br />
I’m very tenacious and I would have<br />
to be. Everybody has to be in this<br />
business because there’s definitely<br />
more rejection than there is success.<br />
Definitely.<br />
And I tell that to kids all the time<br />
whether they want to pursue theatre<br />
or music. Often people will talk about<br />
that Juilliard experience for me and<br />
how hard that must have been to taste<br />
that.<br />
I’ve tasted so much rejection. It<br />
took me 10 years to get on Broadway.<br />
I can recall it at any moment and it<br />
keeps me very very humble, but it<br />
also drives me. It makes the fortitude<br />
of what I want much stronger and I’m<br />
very driven by proving people wrong<br />
and rising to the next challenge and<br />
all those things.<br />
Somehow you have to get used to<br />
the rejection and the pitfalls of the<br />
business, and if you still love it after<br />
all that, then you know you’re in the<br />
right place.<br />
And I have to say you’re a great<br />
role model for young girls today.<br />
Thanks for saying that. I try. You<br />
know a lot of times it’s hard to see<br />
when you’re inside of it. I feel I still<br />
get very discouraged and I still get<br />
very sad, but sometimes you have to<br />
step back and say: “Look at where<br />
you’ve come from, look at when<br />
you didn’t give up and look at how<br />
strong you can be. That is something<br />
that I hope for all the young women<br />
wanting to be in the business.<br />
Morgan James performs at the<br />
Imperial Theatre in Sarnia on Friday,<br />
Feb. 8 and at London Music Hall on<br />
Sunday, Feb. 10.<br />
For more on Morgan or her albums,<br />
visit morganjamesonline.com.
Cast, Crew and CKSS Teachers Ready For Newsies<br />
By Travis Conant<br />
Christine Baribeau has been a<br />
teacher at Chatham Kent Secondary<br />
School (CKSS) since September 2008<br />
teaching music, instrumental band,<br />
guitar and directing the school’s theatre<br />
productions.<br />
As she gears up for Newsies, the<br />
school’s next production, she took<br />
some time to chat with <strong>519</strong> Magazine.<br />
“I’ve been directing the school<br />
musicals since 2010,” she says. “I’m<br />
also happy to say that I’m not the<br />
only music teacher here. Since joining<br />
the CKSS music program, a second<br />
qualified teacher has also been working<br />
alongside me. Veronika Refern, a horn<br />
player with the Chatham Concert Band,<br />
has been with us since 2015.”<br />
Baribeau found her passion for<br />
music when she was a student at W.D<br />
Lowe High School and honed those<br />
skills at University.<br />
For nearly 40 years CKSS has been<br />
performing musicals. They began<br />
as original productions written by<br />
teachers and meant for the students<br />
to perform in the school’s gym, but<br />
eventually the school raised the bar and<br />
switched venues.<br />
“When Bruce Nelson started<br />
directing Broadway musicals, the<br />
shows went from the gym to the<br />
Kiwanis Theatre,” she added. “Now<br />
the shows are held on the Chatham<br />
DJ Rev Opens Up Heaven’s Ultimate Dance Floor<br />
By Travis Conant<br />
There are some big ideas behind<br />
Club Eternal, Windsor’s only<br />
alternative Christian night club.<br />
Founder David Marton, who goes<br />
by the name DJ Rev, wanted to give the<br />
beat up and broken people in Windsor<br />
a place to call home - a place where<br />
they wouldn’t be judged or compared.<br />
In fact, Club Eternal was actually<br />
founded out of DJ Rev’s own<br />
frustrations from being judged by<br />
churches for not trying to fit into their<br />
molds.<br />
“Just by talking to different people<br />
at different churches I found myself<br />
being judged because they were<br />
saying things like, you shouldn’t be<br />
playing Christian music at bars, it’s<br />
not a place for Christians to be,” Rev<br />
told <strong>519</strong> magazine. “But in all reality<br />
that’s where Jesus would be today if<br />
he was here in human form. He would<br />
be chilling with everyone showing<br />
unconditional love one conversation<br />
at a time. I came across a lot of<br />
judgemental religious minds, but that<br />
made me want to go even further into<br />
the nightlife scene.”<br />
DJ Rev got his start in 1999 at a<br />
rock and bowl in Windsor where he<br />
played his first gig.<br />
Capitol Theatre stage. All of the shows<br />
are produced extracurricularly and<br />
there are many CKSS staff members,<br />
community members, community<br />
musicians and parents who work hard<br />
to help with the shows.”<br />
According to Baribeau, the school’s<br />
music department and annual musical<br />
productions make CKSS stand out in<br />
the crowd.<br />
“The students cast in the shows<br />
get to experience a show that gives<br />
them the opportunity to work with<br />
professionals,” she said. “The bar has<br />
been set high by our longstanding<br />
tradition. Each production is worked<br />
on outside of school hours and is<br />
performed for the community.”<br />
Based on the real-life Newsboy<br />
Strike of 1899, this new Disney<br />
musical tells the story of Jack Kelly,<br />
a rebellious newsboy who dreams of<br />
a life as an artist away from the big<br />
city. After publishing giant Joseph<br />
Pulitzer raises newspaper prices at<br />
the newsboys’ expense, Kelly and his<br />
fellow newsies take action. With help<br />
from the beautiful female reporter<br />
Katherine Plumber, all of New York<br />
City soon recognizes the power of the<br />
little man.<br />
Featuring the now-classic songs<br />
Carrying the Banner, Seize the Day<br />
and Santa Fe, Newsies is packed with<br />
no-stop thrills and a timeless message,<br />
perfect for the entire family.<br />
“That night we packed out the<br />
whole alley,” DJ Rev added. “We<br />
played Christian music and they shut<br />
all the lights off and had strobe lights<br />
set up,”<br />
Along with his Christian ambitions,<br />
DJ Rev is also a wedding DJ and<br />
his goal is to see mainstream music<br />
lovers and Christian music fans come<br />
together to enjoy both genres of music<br />
and without judgement.<br />
From the ashes of his churchly<br />
objections, Club Eternal was formed.<br />
It’s a Christian night club experience<br />
with Christian and mainstream bands<br />
and music, including Christian, EDM,<br />
hip hop, metal, pop, house, techno,<br />
rave and dance music.<br />
DJ Rev said he doesn’t think his<br />
style of music helps him stand out, he<br />
believes it helps him relate and be on<br />
the same level as other club DJs.<br />
“I’ve seen other mainstream DJs,<br />
and other shows, but everyone is all<br />
about competition,” he noted. “I’m<br />
more about networking with other DJs<br />
and how we can help each other, no<br />
matter what genre of music we play,”<br />
His goal is to help people who are<br />
broken and make sure they do not feel<br />
as though they are being judged when<br />
they go to one of his shows.<br />
DJ Rev pointed to Biblical character<br />
“The story is timeless, Baribeau<br />
added. It encourages us all to stand<br />
up against injustice, even when the<br />
instigator seems to have all of the<br />
power. Newsies is a new classic in the<br />
world of musical theatre and Disney,<br />
once again, brings magic, history and<br />
an inspiring message to the stage. Our<br />
hope is to urge one and all to Seize the<br />
Day.”<br />
Baribeau quickly pointed out that<br />
the show stands out more than some of<br />
their past productions because the main<br />
choreographer for this show is a Grade<br />
Zacchaeus, the chief tax-collector of<br />
Jericho, mentioned only in the Gospel<br />
of Luke. At the time, tax collectors<br />
were despised as traitors and for being<br />
corrupt. Zacchaeus, who was short,<br />
climbed a tree to be able to see Jesus<br />
when he arrived in Jericho. Jesus<br />
pointed to Zacchaeus and asked him<br />
to come to him. He was an example<br />
of Jesus’ personal, earthly mission to<br />
bring salvation to the lost.<br />
“As a Christian, I’ve been judged by<br />
other Christians because of my tattoos<br />
and the dark places I’ll go to bring light<br />
to people in need,” DJ Re said. “No<br />
matter how broken we are, whether<br />
we’ve been judged or not, whatever<br />
our background is or whatever we’ve<br />
been through - flaws and all - Jesus<br />
loves you just the way you are without<br />
any judgement.”<br />
DJ Rev wants everyone to<br />
“Experience Heavens Ultimate Dance<br />
Floor” at Club Eternal.<br />
With the closing of the Windsor<br />
Beer Exchange, DJ Rev and Club<br />
Eternal have moved to Windsor’s<br />
Rockstar Music Hall. The next show is<br />
Feb. 24 at 8 p.m.<br />
For a closer view into who DJ Rev is<br />
and what Club Eternal is visit both of<br />
his Facebook pages: DJ Rev Christian<br />
DJ and DJ Rev WORD On The Street.<br />
12 student.<br />
“Ceiti MacDonald has brought<br />
masterful choreography to Newsies,”<br />
she explains. “The show is one that<br />
demands great dance and Ceiti has<br />
brought the best out of our cast. Along<br />
with Jocelyn Dowdall, the assistant<br />
choreographer, the two students have<br />
worked as professionals with our cast.<br />
I’m very proud to say that the dance<br />
is what makes Newsies a very special<br />
show.”<br />
Baribeau encourages parents and<br />
theatre lovers to come out and see what<br />
the young cast and crew are capable of:<br />
“These kids put on an amazing show<br />
and get rave reviews year after year<br />
and the audiences that keep coming<br />
back are a testament to how good these<br />
shows are.”<br />
Newsies runs at the Chatham<br />
Capitol Theatre from Friday, Feb, 15<br />
to Sunday, Feb. 17. Evening shows<br />
are at 7pm on Friday and Saturday<br />
and 2pm matinees are being staged on<br />
Saturday and Sunday. Tickets start at<br />
$16 for Early Bird children’s seats. For<br />
more visit chathamcapitoltheatre.com.<br />
Photo by Kirk Harris (K&M Photography)<br />
5
A Little Bit of Elvis Resides in Harrow<br />
By Dan Savoie<br />
There’s a little bit of Elvis Presley tucked away<br />
in the community of Harrow, located just outside of<br />
Windsor.<br />
Award-winning Elvis tribute artist James Gibb has<br />
been performing an early years version of The King<br />
for more than 13 years in a lively and entertaining<br />
show that has toured around North America, winning<br />
awards at Elvis festivals everywhere he goes.<br />
From the famous sneer, flashy clothes and wild<br />
dance moves, James faithfully recreates the magic of<br />
Elvis in his early years, recreating the shows as they<br />
were actually performed by Elvis himself.<br />
James joins his longtime band The Silvertones for<br />
a special Valentine’s themed version of the show at<br />
Olde Walkerville Theatre on Feb. 9.<br />
We had a chat with James about Elvis and his<br />
original tribute show.<br />
What is it about Elvis that makes you want to<br />
pay tribute to him?<br />
I really think that he was such a different kind of<br />
performer. I really enjoy showing people what he<br />
was like; showing them how different he really was<br />
- especially when he first started out. Nobody was<br />
doing the things he was doing. I don’t want people to<br />
forget how special he really was.<br />
When did you first discover Elvis? Did you ever<br />
see him in concert yourself?<br />
I was 12 years old, it was January 8. I was at home<br />
sick from school watching television and the movie<br />
“Elvis” starring Kurt Russell came on. I had never<br />
seen anybody that cool in my life. Later that evening<br />
the same station ran Elvis - Aloha From Hawaii and<br />
that did it. Elvis drew me in. From that point on, I<br />
pretty much immersed myself in anything Elvis.<br />
Is there a certain Elvis moment that sticks out<br />
for you? (For me, it’s the Comeback Special)<br />
I have to say it’s the 1956-57 television programs<br />
that he was on. He’s just so natural, untamed and<br />
rather primal. You watch that stuff now, 63 years<br />
later, and you still can’t look away from him. He has<br />
that undefinable thing - that charisma x100.<br />
I bet you remember the exact moment when<br />
you heard he passed away?<br />
I sure do. We had been staying with some friends<br />
of my parents at their cottage up north. We were<br />
driving back home and the announcement came<br />
over the radio that he had died. My parents at the<br />
time weren’t big fans of his, just casual fans and I<br />
remember them being in shock hearing the news. I<br />
was only seven at the time, but I can remember that<br />
vividly.<br />
The early years is a pretty iconic look. It must<br />
be hard to capture that vintage and classic look?<br />
Ha!...Yes. It is a very iconic look. But I love that.<br />
I’m pretty sure I was born in the wrong era. I think<br />
I would’ve fit in very well in the 1950s. I actually<br />
try to make sure my look is as authentic as possible,<br />
which is sometimes difficult just because most of<br />
the photos of him in action are in black and white,<br />
and it’s tough to see the colours. For example, in<br />
our upcoming show at the Old Walkerville Theatre<br />
on <strong>February</strong> 9. I’ll be wearing a sports coat that was<br />
made in 1955 and is exactly the same one he would<br />
wear quite often on and off stage. He wore it on his<br />
first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, and he<br />
also wore it the day he was drafted into the Army.<br />
I bet you had to study The King extensively.<br />
You probably know more about him than most<br />
fans would.<br />
Anybody who knows me Dan..knows that I don’t<br />
brag at all. I hate bragging....but I do know a lot<br />
about Elvis and I’m very proud of that.<br />
It’s always great when you play with a live<br />
band. You don’t always get to play with one, so<br />
you must enjoy the vibe and feel when you join<br />
The Silvertones for a show?<br />
Well if I had my way Dan, all the shows I do<br />
would be with The Silvertones. I think an audience<br />
gets so much more out of a live band show than a<br />
track show. It’s a whole different feeling...a great<br />
one. I was asked to participate in an Elvis Birthday<br />
show in 2006 here in Windsor and the band that was<br />
put together for that was made up of a variety of local<br />
musicians, including Joel Mayville on lead guitar. I’d<br />
like to mention them all: Joel is still on lead Gibson<br />
guitar, his brother Chris Mayville is on rhythm guitar<br />
and vocals, Ryan Fontaine is on bass, Ian Smith is on<br />
keyboard duties, Lex Lambert is my backing vocals<br />
as well as percussion and Adam Thomson drives the<br />
whole train on drums.<br />
It must be fun having a voice like Elvis. Do you<br />
ever tease or surprise people unexpectedly with<br />
it?<br />
Well, I’m not saying I have a voice like Elvis,<br />
but I sure do my best to get there. I think I’m more<br />
surprised by the power of Elvis’ voice than the<br />
audience. I normally don’t like to make people cry,<br />
but if I’m doing a ballad for instance, or a spiritual,<br />
and I look and there and a few of them are crying,<br />
I know I’m doing it right. That’s the power of the<br />
Elvis voice.<br />
Join James and The Silvertones for a Valentine’s<br />
themed version of the show called Loving You, at<br />
Olde Walkerville Theatre on Feb. 9.<br />
Guitarist and producer Robert Berry creates<br />
Swan Song for his friend Keith Emerson<br />
By April Savoie<br />
Three years ago, the world lost legendary<br />
Emerson Lake and Palmer keyboardist Keith<br />
Emerson when he took his own life admist<br />
depression and anxiety. At the time, he was<br />
working on a new album with his friend Robert<br />
Berry.<br />
The project was shelved following Emerson’s<br />
death in March 2016, but Berry would finish the<br />
project himself and release it in 2018 under the<br />
3.2 moniker as The Rules Have Changed. We<br />
spoke with Berry about creating the posthumous<br />
album he started with his close friend.<br />
It must have been hard to dive in and make<br />
the album after his death.<br />
I actually wasn’t going to do it. We had spent<br />
three months working on it and we had the plan<br />
mapped out. We had five of the eight songs<br />
written and I had some of his parts already done.<br />
I just couldn’t really figure a good reason to finish<br />
it up and it wasn’t for about six months that I<br />
sort of left him behind. Then I wondered if his<br />
son Aaron would want to do it with me. He plays<br />
keyboards. So I called Aaron and he said well sing<br />
me a song and I’ll see if I want to do it. That was<br />
my first mistake because I sent him a really hard<br />
song. That was the problem. He called me back<br />
and said “whoa whoa, that’s my dad and I don’t<br />
play like that.”<br />
What was I thinking? Nobody plays like Keith<br />
and so Aaron said no. But that got me to revisit<br />
the material and rekindle the spark of what we had<br />
already laid out. At that point I knew I must get in<br />
and finish it, so I spent another year working on it.<br />
I can’t imagine losing such a close friend<br />
like that and then going back and listening to<br />
an unfinished album. Can you talk about the<br />
emotions and the struggles that it created?<br />
The main thing when it first happened, I not<br />
only lost a good friend, but I lost my most famous<br />
friend. I lost the guy I had a Top 10 single with<br />
and a band that I toured with. These are guys that<br />
I worship when I was younger - Emerson, Lake<br />
and Palmer. I lost so much and he was just a really<br />
great and friendly guy. He was a funny guy, but so<br />
dedicated to the craft,<br />
He always knew that to come up with<br />
something really great, he was going to work on<br />
it until it was perfect. And not everybody in music<br />
does that, but Keith was such a professional.<br />
Was it hard to complete the unfinished<br />
music and trying to keep the context that you<br />
guys originally had in mind for it?<br />
You know it’s funny. I thought it was going to<br />
be very difficult, but because I had the Emerson<br />
bits on the first album we did in 1988, we had<br />
songs we brought to the band.<br />
We were a new band and Keith would arrange<br />
those songs, work on the rehearsal room and we’d<br />
make them into what we thought the band 3 was<br />
going to be. On the new album, Keith and I sort<br />
of laid out the plan of what was going to be on it<br />
and how we wanted every song to go. He fed me<br />
the musical bits and I wrote the songs and around<br />
them. It was the same process almost exactly in<br />
reverse.<br />
So I had that great Emerson stuff, I just had<br />
to glue it all together. I thought it was going to<br />
be difficult, but it actually turned out to be, not<br />
easy, but doable because I had him to launch from<br />
and I knew so much about the way he played.<br />
Sometimes I’m a keyboard player also and I did<br />
play keyboards with him back on tour in 88 at<br />
times.<br />
I knew what I thought he would do and how he<br />
would do it. I have these conversations basically<br />
with myself, but as if Keith was there. I would<br />
work it and work it until I thought he would be<br />
cool with his part of it and then I’d be cool with<br />
my part. It all blended together and it’s hard to<br />
explain how the process really ended the way it<br />
did, but it seemed like the continuity for the whole<br />
album came out much better than the first album.<br />
Progressive rock really is your thing isn’t it?<br />
There are classical influences, rock influences,<br />
some jazz and there’s everything but the kitchen<br />
sink going in progressive rock. The key is to<br />
blend it into something musical that is memorable<br />
and that’s what a lot of progressive rock today<br />
isn’t. Not everybody’s a Yes or a Genesis - you<br />
know the grand-daddies of the progressive rock<br />
stuff - or even ELP and I just think that it’s so<br />
musical and challenging. In a lot of ways, it’s kind<br />
of special.<br />
That’s why I started my first band Hush. It was<br />
a progressive rock cover band doing Yes, Genesis<br />
and ELP covers. Then my career brought me to<br />
places where I was working with people like<br />
Steve Allen of GTR and Keith and Carl from ELP,<br />
and even bands like Ambrosia. It just became part<br />
of my path.
Country Superstar Paul Brandt Looks Back on His Journey with New EPs and Tour<br />
By Dan and April Savoie<br />
Canadian country music superstar,<br />
humanitarian and Canadian Country<br />
Music Hall of Fame inductee Paul<br />
Brandt is on the road with a special tour<br />
to support his dual-EP collection called<br />
The Journey. The first one, YYC: Vol.<br />
1, is a collection of songs about his time<br />
in Calgary and the second, BNA: Vol. 2,<br />
tells of his years in Nashville.<br />
Brandt assumes location identifiers<br />
to ponder over his travels from his<br />
hometown of Calgary to Nashville,<br />
the capital of country music, on “YYC<br />
BNA.” It cleverly uses the airport codes<br />
of those cities (YYC-Calgary, BNA-<br />
Nashville) to tell the stories.<br />
Brandt took some time on the day<br />
before his tour kicked off to give us the<br />
lowdown on where he’s been and what’s<br />
new in his world.<br />
You’ve been all about the journey<br />
lately. Where did the idea of a dual EP<br />
and the concept come from?<br />
I always had this feeling that my<br />
career had sort of two different eras to it<br />
to this point, and I think that spending a<br />
decade in Nashville and then deciding to<br />
make the move back to Alberta is sort of<br />
part A and Part B.<br />
I was taking a road trip with some<br />
friends and we were in some pretty<br />
inspirational settings driving up the<br />
Pacific Coast Highway and just really<br />
enjoying that and I was thinking about<br />
what I was going to write next and I<br />
thought about Alberta Bound and how<br />
so many people have come to know my<br />
artistry through that song. Then I started<br />
thinking more, what if I wrote that song<br />
in reverse, what would happen?<br />
I’ve spent a lot of time going from<br />
Calgary to Nashville. I still have a lot of<br />
friends down there and there’ve been a<br />
lot of great things that have happened<br />
because of my connection to Nashville.<br />
And so that’s sorta the idea for YYC<br />
and BNA was born. I thought it would<br />
be cool if I could put that out in two<br />
different ways to sort of tell the story<br />
about the first era and the second era.<br />
That’s basically where it all came from,<br />
and you know, I don’t think YYC/BNA<br />
will ever necessarily be a single on the<br />
radio, but when we play it live, we get<br />
the same reaction as when I play Albert<br />
Bound. It’s been really cool to see people<br />
make that connection with it.<br />
After 20 years of traveling back and<br />
forth between Calgary and Nashville,<br />
you must have earned a lot of Air<br />
Miles.<br />
Yeah I got a few. We’ve taken some<br />
trips and spent some of those, probably<br />
more in the early days before kids. A lot<br />
of times when I’m touring now we’re<br />
usually traveling by bus. When we were<br />
starting in the early days, Liz was on the<br />
road with me and she was singing in the<br />
band as well. She’s sung on every project<br />
that I’ve done and we were doing 180<br />
shows a year for a good three years or<br />
so. I think I was probably a platinum or<br />
diamond on about three or four different<br />
airlines at that time. We really enjoyed<br />
taking trips to the Caribbean when we<br />
lived in Nashville - that was one of our<br />
favorite things to do. I imagine some of<br />
those Air Miles got spent that way.<br />
How did your family deal with<br />
all that traveling with you at the<br />
beginning?<br />
Yeah, I think this is sort of the grand<br />
experiment phase for us. This and the<br />
previous tour, two and a half years ago<br />
when I was out with Dean Brody, are<br />
really the first tours that I’ve taken where<br />
the family is not with me. It was pretty<br />
tough, but technology makes it a lot<br />
easier than it could be. It’s always tough<br />
for me if I’m playing a song like Rich<br />
Man and someone from the crew holds<br />
up a FaceTime Ipad on the side stage<br />
and I see my two little kids watching me<br />
sing. Here I am singing a song about the<br />
most important things in life and how I<br />
want to be around my family, and they’re<br />
not there - that that can be emotional you<br />
know.<br />
We just try and find time during the<br />
day to keep caught up with each other. If<br />
the tour does swing through the Calgary<br />
area, we always make sure that we spend<br />
that time together if we happen to have<br />
an off-day or if the kids come to the show<br />
with Liz.<br />
One of the funniest things happened<br />
the last time was on the road. We were<br />
about to break into Convoy and we<br />
had this giant 15 foot inflatable rubber<br />
duck that hovers out over the audience.<br />
At that point I’ve got this bright shinny<br />
chrome CB mic and I break into the<br />
song: “breaker one nine this is the rubber<br />
duck” and I look over to the side of the<br />
stage and think my kids are going to<br />
think I am so cool - this is so awesome.<br />
And they’re both on their devices playing<br />
video games like they couldn’t care less.<br />
It was like, really nice Dad, you’re such<br />
a rock star - we’re getting back to our<br />
games now.<br />
One of more special moments, at<br />
least for me, was when I first heard<br />
Small Towns and Big Dreams when I<br />
was living in Weyburn, Saskatchewan.<br />
No one has ever had a song or sung<br />
about Weyburn and I just want to say<br />
thank you.<br />
You know it was so wonderful. When<br />
I think back to that time, I’d left the<br />
record company and for about a year, Liz<br />
and I lived in a rental in Nashville. I had<br />
a back bedroom that sort of served as my<br />
little studio and office and I spent a lot of<br />
time thinking about how I used to have<br />
a record deal and now I didn’t. Does<br />
that mean I’m still an artist? What’s my<br />
identity? Now I’m just this guy sitting<br />
around in Nashville writing songs.<br />
What if I never make another penny<br />
from doing this? What if I had to pay to<br />
do this?<br />
I was asking myself if I would still<br />
do it or not, and the answer was always<br />
yes. I feel so driven to make a connection<br />
through music that I literally would<br />
pay to do this. I love it and I love the<br />
connection that I can make with people.<br />
I remember calling my agent and<br />
saying “look I’ve written this album I’m<br />
gonna do a live acoustic record” and<br />
she’s rolling her eyes at me because radio<br />
never plays live acoustic music.<br />
I also told her I wanted to play small<br />
towns. I want to go places nobody goes -<br />
only 900 seats or less - and we’re gonna<br />
record this project and see what happens.<br />
I was coming off of selling a million<br />
records at that time on my first project<br />
and we went out and did the small<br />
towns tour and we hit Morden, Yorkton,<br />
Weyburn and all these different places.<br />
I pre-sold the albums too. I said they<br />
can pre-purchase it, I’ll sign it and we’ll<br />
send it to you when it’s done. I was<br />
coming up with a million seller and I<br />
only sold a thousand copies on that tour<br />
and thought to myself, I’m dead, like this<br />
is it, this is my worst nightmare.<br />
Then a bunch of stuff that shouldn’t<br />
have happened, started to happen.<br />
A radio station played it. They never<br />
do that. I got asked to host the Canadian<br />
Country Music Awards that year as an<br />
unsigned artist and that never happens<br />
It was aired in Australia, the United<br />
States and Canada that year. That never<br />
happens. And then as an unsigned artist,<br />
they called my name for Album of the<br />
year at the end of that show and Small<br />
Towns and Big Dreams went on to sell<br />
thousands of copies after that and do<br />
really really well.<br />
The thing that is the most moving for<br />
me is it was the people in those small<br />
towns who packed out those places right<br />
to the rafters and because they knew<br />
what I was risking for it. They knew if<br />
it didn’t work, I was done... and they<br />
showed up.<br />
I get emotional thinking about it. I will<br />
never be able to thank those people for<br />
the support that they’ve given me, and<br />
Weyburn was one of those special places<br />
for me.<br />
Your philanthropy is in full swing.<br />
Tell me a bit about the black hat<br />
campaign. I have to get myself a black<br />
hat on this tour.<br />
I think it might have been my son Joe<br />
who pointed out that I wear a black hat<br />
and it’s always the bad guy who wears<br />
the black hat. So I sat there and said “oh<br />
man, I gotta figure this out.”<br />
We did a partnership with Smithbilt<br />
Hats. For over 100 years they have built<br />
hats. In Calgary they are known as the<br />
official stampede white hat. You know<br />
when people come to Calgary you get<br />
white hated. Those are the people that<br />
wanted to work with me on an official<br />
Paul Brandt signature hat.<br />
We did a straw hat and a black hat and<br />
we called the project the black hat that<br />
does good things. So every year we pick<br />
a different charity to raise awareness for.<br />
The inside of the hats have a liner or a<br />
stamp on the inside of them. Every year<br />
we change that out or give people the<br />
opportunity to choose which cause they<br />
want to support through “The Black<br />
Hat that does good things” and this year<br />
we’re supporting MusiCounts for music<br />
and schools. The year before it was for<br />
concussion awareness and rodeo. We just<br />
identified different causes that we want<br />
to use the black hat to support and it’s<br />
been well received. It’s just a cool thing.<br />
Brandt fans will be able to catch<br />
the country star during his only stop in<br />
Southwestern Ontario when he hits the<br />
Start.ca Performance Stage at Budweiser<br />
Gardens on Feb. 23.<br />
He’ll be joined by multi-CCMA Group<br />
or Duo of the Year winners High Valley<br />
and special guest Jess Moskaluke and<br />
Hunter Brothers.
With over 50 million albums sold,<br />
Stone Temple Pilots roared on to<br />
the scene in 1992 with their raucous<br />
debut, Core. A breakout success, the<br />
album peaked #3 on the Billboard<br />
200 chart, and dominated radio<br />
waves with hits like “Sex Type Thing,”<br />
“Wicked Garden,” and the Grammy-<br />
Award winning, “Plush.”<br />
STP founding members Dean DeLeo,<br />
Robert DeLeo, Eric Kretz, along with<br />
new lead vocalist, Detroit singer Jeff<br />
Gutt, released their seventh studio<br />
Keeping it ‘Hot Blooded’ on<br />
‘Cold As Ice’ Canadian Nights<br />
album, Stone Temple Pilots this year. Detroit in Windsor and around the<br />
Story by Dan area. and April Savoie<br />
After about a year of silence, He loves his hometown and is a big<br />
Jeff officially joined the band in fan of the Detroit Tigers.<br />
November 2017 and played his The band is currently on the road<br />
first concert with the band at the<br />
infamous Troudabour in Los Angeles.<br />
During the year prior to his debut, Jeff<br />
was spending time getting to know<br />
his new role in the band and to write<br />
and record songs for the new album.<br />
Jeff is no stranger to the <strong>519</strong>, having<br />
spent some time on the other side of<br />
across Canada with Seether and<br />
Default and will make an appearance<br />
twice in the <strong>519</strong> - Nov. 7 at Budweiser<br />
gardens in London and Nov. 10 in<br />
Kitchener at Centre in the Square.<br />
We spent a little time with Jeff<br />
to chat about his new gig and the<br />
mighty D.<br />
Photo byJohn Liviero<br />
88
Foreigner, the band behind “I Want<br />
To Know What Love Is,” “Cold As<br />
Ice,” “Juke Box Hero,” and so many<br />
others of rock’s most enduring anthems,<br />
are out on the road across Canada this<br />
month with a trip they’re calling the<br />
Winter <strong>2019</strong> Cold As Ice tour.<br />
The legendary rock band will heat up<br />
the cold Canadian nights with a series of<br />
“hot blooded” tour dates, riding high on<br />
the heels of the Toronto world-premiere<br />
of the new musical, “Juke Box Hero” at<br />
the iconic Ed Mirvish Theatre.<br />
The band is also readying for the<br />
DVD and Blu-ray release of the concert<br />
film, Foreigner Live At The Rainbow<br />
‘78, which comes out March 15 on<br />
Eagle Vision.<br />
Forty years after this definitive<br />
performance by the original band, fans<br />
can watch iconic performances as the<br />
band toured on the success of their<br />
debut album.<br />
The band hits its only <strong>519</strong> date of the<br />
tour at Caesars Windsor on March 10.<br />
Bassist Jeff Pilson called the <strong>519</strong><br />
Magazine office ahead of the tour to<br />
chat about the band, his instruments<br />
and some of his favourite records.<br />
Did you think this Foreigner gig<br />
would last all these years?<br />
Absolutely not. Not in the least. In<br />
fact, when I first joined, the plan was<br />
just to do mostly Weekend Warrior<br />
work because I was still doing a lot of<br />
production work with other bands - that<br />
was back when record labels were still<br />
signing bands – although, as well all<br />
know, that was about to end quickly.<br />
But I really didn’t think about it.<br />
I knew Foreigner was great. I knew<br />
Foreigner had a great legacy with great<br />
songs, so I guess in the back of my<br />
mind you always have to entertain the<br />
possibility of something when it’s that<br />
level of quality. But I did not see 15<br />
years later being on the road like this<br />
with these guys.<br />
Around the time you joined,<br />
Kelly Hansen (vocals) also came on<br />
board. You guys must be pretty good<br />
friends?<br />
Well sure. We’re an important part<br />
of the reformation of a Foreigner. Mick<br />
was really the tie in with the past and<br />
we’ve certainly bonded well with each<br />
other – all of us. I think there was a<br />
bond between Mick and Kelly and Tom<br />
Gimbel and I absolutely felt it right<br />
away when I was there. That bond is<br />
still there today<br />
That’s a bit of the nucleus I guess<br />
you could say. I mean everybody’s<br />
really valuable in this band, but that<br />
bond that we formed at the beginning<br />
helped a lot.<br />
We actually struggled together when<br />
we first joined Foreigner. We had to<br />
build it back up and there’s something<br />
that happens to a band when they<br />
experience that together. There’s no<br />
question the first couple of years we<br />
struggled, but it was a struggle with<br />
a lot of enthusiasm behind it and we<br />
were highly motivated and we believed<br />
in it. Very quickly it became apparent<br />
we were a great band when we played<br />
together and so I think that spirit is<br />
really what initially has propelled us to<br />
still be here today. Other than of course<br />
the greatness of the music, which<br />
doesn’t hurt.<br />
How did you originally hook up<br />
with them?<br />
In 2001 I did a movie called Rockstar,<br />
which had Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer<br />
Aniston in it. But from a musical<br />
perspective Jason Bonham was there<br />
and that was a cool thing. Jason and I<br />
played the bass player and drummer of<br />
the fictional band Steel Dragon, so in<br />
the shooting of that movie we actually<br />
recorded the soundtrack together. We<br />
worked musically and we became<br />
friends during that movie and recording<br />
process. So, when Jason started<br />
working with Mick Jones in 2004, they<br />
called me up to see if I wanted to be<br />
involved. They weren’t exactly sure it<br />
was even going to be Foreigner right<br />
away, but we wanted to see if it clicked.<br />
When I went down to play with them<br />
the chemistry was there immediately<br />
and I’ve been there ever since.<br />
When was the first time you saw<br />
Foreigner live?<br />
It was in August of 1978. I saw<br />
them at Memorial Stadium in Seattle<br />
and it’s a funny story because there’s<br />
a device called a Mellotron which<br />
was the electronic keyboard before<br />
synthesizers. It was a device that played<br />
back tapes and it would play tapes of<br />
orchestras or choirs or whatever, and<br />
there’d be a tape for each note so you’d<br />
play the keyboard. When you hit the<br />
keys, the notes you were playing on<br />
the keyboard would simultaneously<br />
play the tapes as you were playing. It<br />
was very primitive, but was a very cool<br />
instrument that became a huge part of<br />
progressive rock – The Beatles, Moody<br />
Blues and the Yes all used it.<br />
Foreigner used them as well back<br />
then. Actually, they used something<br />
else, but when they when they got to<br />
Seattle, I got a call. I just bought one of<br />
these Mellotrons and at the time I was<br />
20 years old, so it was a big deal for<br />
me to buy one. I was making payments<br />
on it and it was still at a music store in<br />
Seattle, but the music store called me<br />
and they said ‘hey that Mellotron that<br />
you have that you’re making payments<br />
on, Foreigner just got into town and<br />
their Mellotron broke so they need one.<br />
You want to rent it to them?’ I said, well<br />
of course I will.<br />
So, they rented my Mellotron that<br />
night and as I’m walking into Memorial<br />
Stadium in Seattle, Cold As Ice is<br />
playing with the Mellotron part going<br />
on in the middle. So here I am I walking<br />
into the stadium hearing my Mellotron.<br />
I still have that very Mellotron to this<br />
day and it’s in my studio.<br />
Mick Jones loves that story. That<br />
was the first time I saw Foreigner.<br />
You’re a multi-instrumentalist, so<br />
is your home filled with instruments?<br />
Yes, (laughter) absolutely filled<br />
with instruments. I love music. I<br />
have a great studio and most of my<br />
instruments stand there. I have a<br />
delightful 1908 Steinway grand piano<br />
in the living room and most of my<br />
guitars and basses, mandolin, a sitar,<br />
my old Mellotron and keyboards all<br />
hang out in or near my studio.<br />
Is it hard to be creative with an<br />
instrument like the bass that’s so<br />
essential providing the backbone of<br />
the music?<br />
Well that’s an interesting question<br />
because part of the challenge of bass is<br />
that you don’t want to be creative at the<br />
expense of the groove. It has to flow in<br />
order to work. My view of the bass is<br />
that its fundamental purpose is to move<br />
and propel the song with the groove to<br />
enhance the overall song.<br />
I think there’s places for creativity<br />
and I do I love it when you hear<br />
somebody do something really<br />
interesting, but for me it’s really about<br />
the groove more than anything else. I<br />
believe that’s the everyday challenge a<br />
bass player faces. And it’s one I really<br />
enjoy.<br />
How is the Foreigner experience<br />
different from say Dokken or Dio?<br />
Well, less than you might think. A lot<br />
of people assume that it’s like apples<br />
and oranges. It’s really not. A band<br />
like Dokken looked up to bands like<br />
Foreigner when we started because,<br />
as you know, the early Foreigner was<br />
hard rock with great melody and big<br />
choruses. That sound was something<br />
we aspired to in Dokken’s formative<br />
years. Songs like Feel Like The First<br />
Time were seminal.<br />
When I play with Foreigner, I’m<br />
kind of approaching it like I always<br />
did as a fan, which is a little bit heavier<br />
than the original version. As a live<br />
band we’re kind of heavier anyways.<br />
Even Mick Jones can let loose. I<br />
always laugh because Mick is a closet<br />
rocker. He really is. When he plays<br />
guitar, he rocks. He does more than<br />
people realize. So yeah, I guess I just<br />
don’t find it all that different.<br />
You had a good run with Dokken<br />
and you reunited with them for a<br />
short tour in 2016. What was it like<br />
getting back into that situation after<br />
all those years?<br />
It was actually very pleasant. We<br />
got along better than expected, which<br />
was nice. Most of the tour was in Japan<br />
where we have a delightful fan base<br />
that was really wonderful. The music<br />
was very comfortable because we all<br />
know each other and all those songs<br />
are a humongous part of our past. What<br />
I was really surprised at was how well<br />
we actually got along and that was a<br />
real positive for me.<br />
There’s a new Dokken CD that’s<br />
out of the shows from that tour.<br />
I believe at this point it’s the latest<br />
recording of Dokken. There was one<br />
new song, It’s Just Another Day, that<br />
we managed to do which was really<br />
a shock and really fun because it’s<br />
probably the most painless recording<br />
Dokken has ever made. And the<br />
reaction to it was so incredibly positive.<br />
Dokken records used to be really<br />
difficult to make. There was a lot of<br />
back and forth and it was a difficult<br />
process when we made all those<br />
albums. This one just flowed. It was<br />
easy and we collaborated nicely<br />
together. It was encouraging.<br />
It’s a live album, but we also have<br />
brand new material on it, which helps<br />
us by keeping it vital and feeling<br />
relevant. Just knowing that a whole<br />
new record just isn’t a practical thing at<br />
this point in time, it was a great release<br />
that captured a fun time for the band.<br />
There’s something else that you<br />
guys are doing that not many bands<br />
can actually say is that you have a<br />
musical.<br />
(Laughter) That’s right, us and<br />
Queen. (Laughter)<br />
Can you tell me about that<br />
Jukebox Hero musical?<br />
I’m actually the music supervisor<br />
on it, so I know a lot about it. It’s just<br />
this wonderful play written by two<br />
very well-known writers Dick and<br />
Ian. That’s all I know them as. They’re<br />
friends of Mick’s and they’ve written a<br />
lot of big stuff and it’s basically about<br />
how rock can save a small town from<br />
the problems that a lot of small towns<br />
are facing today - automation and<br />
employment going out the window<br />
and all this stuff. It’s the classic music<br />
saves the day kind of thing, but it’s<br />
done in a really nice way. There are 23<br />
Foreigner songs in the show and it’s<br />
only Foreigner music in the show. It<br />
opened to amazing reviews in Canada.<br />
It’s just in Canada for the time being.<br />
I know that the plan is to take it<br />
elsewhere perhaps on the road in the<br />
future. We’ll see, but I know that there’s<br />
another opening in Canada coming<br />
very soon. The Canadian promoter is<br />
a guy by the name of Jeff Perry who’s<br />
a big Canadian promoter of music<br />
as well. Jeff has just been absolutely<br />
wonderful in this whole endeavor. He’s<br />
really supportive. He wanted to have<br />
this musical have more integrity than<br />
most musical productions out there.<br />
We wanted the music to be spoton<br />
and the idea was to really make it<br />
as close to the original. You have to<br />
do certain things different when you<br />
have a script and when you have actors<br />
doing the lines in context of a story, but<br />
for the most part the kids are doing an<br />
amazing job.<br />
It’s just been exciting and I know<br />
for Mick Jones, it’s been a real turning<br />
point in his life. What a fabulous thing<br />
for a writer like him to have - a musical<br />
based around his music.<br />
Other than the big three:<br />
Foreigner, Dokken and Dio, is there<br />
an album out there of all the ones<br />
that you’ve recorded that’s your<br />
favorite and why?<br />
I’ve got this record coming out in<br />
March called The End Machine that<br />
I just did recently with George Lynch<br />
and Mick Brown from Dokken and a<br />
singer by the name of Robert Mason<br />
who’s from Warrant. We just put a<br />
video out for Alive Today a few weeks<br />
ago and got a tremendous reception<br />
to it. I’m really proud of that record.<br />
That record is just phenomenal and I’m<br />
very excited about it. You know you’re<br />
always kind of excited about the things<br />
you did, so maybe that’s part of it but it<br />
is I’m really proud of the effort that we<br />
put it on that record and it just really<br />
came out amazing.<br />
I was very proud of the new Dokken<br />
song we came up with It’s Just Another<br />
Day. I was really excited about some of<br />
the stuff that we did on the Foreigner<br />
40 record. We did a version of The<br />
Flame Still Burns, which was a song<br />
that Mick originally wrote for a movie<br />
called Still Crazy, but we revamped<br />
it completely. He changed a lot of the<br />
lyrics, made them better and then we<br />
did a version with this band where we<br />
start off acoustic and then we end up<br />
full on blasting out electric.<br />
I thought the Can’t Slow Down<br />
album we did 10 years ago was a great<br />
record and I wish we could do more for<br />
records, but I understand why we can’t<br />
– it’s just not the same environment<br />
anymore.<br />
You’re bringing the tour Cold As<br />
Ice to Canada in <strong>February</strong> & March.<br />
I have to say it’s a perfect name for<br />
a tour at the coldest time of the year.<br />
(Laughter) Yeah well if the shoe fits.<br />
Tickets for the Caesars Windsor<br />
show are on sale now starting at $36.
The Trews Ready to Take New Music on the Road<br />
By Dan and April Savoie<br />
The Trews released their sixth full-length<br />
studio album Civilianaires in the fall and the<br />
band is currently on the road bringing these<br />
brand new songs out for a test drive. The tour<br />
will take them across the country, with stops<br />
in the <strong>519</strong> in Waterloo and London later this<br />
month.<br />
Civilianaires is the band’s most fearless<br />
record yet with personal and political lyrics<br />
driven by a refreshing new sound. The Trews<br />
approached Civilianaires the way a contractor<br />
tackles a kitchen reno: tearing things down to<br />
the studs, then building it back up piece by<br />
piece.<br />
We had a chat with guitarist/songwriter<br />
John-Angus MacDonald about the tour, the<br />
new album and the change in sound.<br />
You’re playing out in this area in<br />
Waterloo and London. Do you have<br />
any fond memories of the Southwestern<br />
Ontario area?<br />
We’ve been playing that sort of region like<br />
Kitchener, Cambridge, Waterloo, London<br />
and Windsor. I mean Windsor’s a little far,<br />
but yeah we’ve been playing all over Ontario<br />
for 15, 16 years now. We’ve played what<br />
feels like every nook and cranny<br />
- you know, from the biggest<br />
festivals and arenas down to the<br />
smallest little dive bars - over<br />
the course of our career. So yeah<br />
there’s plenty of fond memories.<br />
I met my wife in Cambridge, that<br />
certainly means something, but<br />
we’ve had lots of good times over<br />
the years, played lots of great shows and<br />
met lots of good people.<br />
Civilianaires is your new album and sixth<br />
overall. It took a little longer than your<br />
average Trews album. What happened?<br />
Part of it was for the reasons I just stated.<br />
We had a lot of shakeups in the ranks,<br />
between Shawn the drummer leaving and we<br />
also parted with the management who we’d<br />
been with for 15 years. We changed the labels<br />
and then we had to hire new management.<br />
And then I had two kids as well, so there<br />
was just a lot of life happening and a lot of<br />
shakeups and a lot of change. So it just took<br />
us a minute. We wrote a lot of songs in that<br />
gap between 2014 and 2018. We probably<br />
have enough songs to do another record<br />
tomorrow. We didn’t find the right team, like<br />
the whole team wasn’t quite right between<br />
management and label. We also had Chris on<br />
drums so we had to make some adjustments<br />
before we were ready to push the button on<br />
the next album.<br />
You merged into a new sound on the<br />
album. Were you a little nervous with the<br />
change?<br />
No, we never really considered it all that<br />
crazy until we started playing it for people.<br />
We were just very excited because we got<br />
with this young producer named Derek<br />
Hoffmann and we went to his home studio<br />
and started churning out these songs and<br />
sounds that we were just really excited by. So<br />
for us as long as the music is happening we’re<br />
in great spirits. His new songs are coming<br />
and it feels effortless and inspired and we’re<br />
The Trews<br />
Waterloo - Feb. 15<br />
London - Feb. 22<br />
just gung ho and when we started playing it<br />
for our label and trusted friends and family,<br />
it’s something that people were like “oh this<br />
is a really different sound for you guys”, and<br />
I guess it is. I would mostly attribute that to<br />
the influence of Derek the producer. He did<br />
two interesting things - like all the guitars,<br />
there’s no guitar amplifiers on the record that<br />
everything is being played through studio<br />
EQ’s that have been blown out. On a lot of<br />
songs, we programmed the drums first and<br />
then went back and we recorded actual drums<br />
over top of them so we took a pretty radical<br />
shift in approach to how we make records.<br />
Normally we would just rehearse and then<br />
go in and play them in the studio and I think<br />
having made five or six albums that way, we<br />
were ready to try something different.<br />
Serena Ryder is on the new album.<br />
Well she’s my brother’s fiancée. You know<br />
Colin the singer of the band. They’ve been<br />
together for about three years. So she’s kind<br />
of part of the family and she’s been out on the<br />
road with us. She’s been in the writing room<br />
with us and she’s been in the studio with us.<br />
So, those kind of collaborations were just<br />
really effortless. I guess the first example was<br />
in the morning on our last album where<br />
she sang the verse and the chorus with<br />
Colin. Then after that I think Colin<br />
and Serena started seeing each<br />
other shortly after that and we’ve<br />
been really tight ever since.<br />
So on Civilianaires the song,<br />
we once again had a song that<br />
started out as something small and<br />
grew into something much larger. On<br />
one writing session it was Colin, Serena<br />
and I working on that tune, and it grew into<br />
something that we were really excited about.<br />
So it ended up on the record and she ends up<br />
as a co-writer on it.<br />
I find that there’s a little bit more politics<br />
kind of creeping into the album than usual.<br />
What politically moves you?<br />
I think we just respond to issues that speak<br />
to us. I mean I’ve never shied away from it.<br />
Our third record which came out 2008 we<br />
had a song called Gun Control which we<br />
took heaps of blowback for. But it was just<br />
in response to the Virginia Tech shooting at<br />
the time.<br />
I mean it’s been you know hundreds since<br />
then. Like literally. So it could be about<br />
any of these insane mass shootings. And so<br />
that’s an issue that got our blood boiling and<br />
we react to it on the new album. That was a<br />
direct blowback to the Trump insanity which<br />
we’re all subjected to 24/7, which is literally<br />
rammed down our throats for the sake of<br />
selling advertising, which is the cynical part<br />
about it. That was a response to that mania<br />
and insanity, and that’s where that came from.<br />
So that’s like any issue that gets under our<br />
skin that we feel we want to say something<br />
about.<br />
You’ve been in Hamilton for quite a<br />
while now. Is there still any of that Nova<br />
Scotia boy still kicking around?<br />
Yeah you know I think it’s in there<br />
somewhere. I’m always excited to get back<br />
out. I haven’t lived in Nova Scotia since<br />
2001. That was the last time I actually lived<br />
there. But my mom, sister and dad is back out<br />
East. So there’s a million reasons to go back<br />
and I do a couple of times a year at least. And<br />
so yeah I miss it, but you know we’re both<br />
firmly rooted where we’re at in Hamilton<br />
and happy with things there too, so it’s one<br />
of those places I hope to have a cottage out<br />
East at some point and then kind of split my<br />
time up between Southern Ontario and Nova<br />
Scotia.<br />
Catch The Trews on tour in Southwestern<br />
Ontario at Maxwell’s Concert & Events in<br />
Waterloo on Feb. 15 and London Music Hall<br />
on Feb. 22.
You Can’t Escape Yourself – Or Your Roommates – in No Exit<br />
By Michael K Potter<br />
Imagine you enter a tiny room only<br />
to discover it will be your new home<br />
– forever. There are no windows.<br />
The door is locked. There’s a bell<br />
you can ring for help, but it doesn’t<br />
work. The lights are always on.<br />
And you have roommates.<br />
They’ve been chosen specifically for<br />
you by the folks in charge, who have<br />
examined your preferences, your<br />
personality, your hopes and fears,<br />
your irritations and everything about<br />
you to make the best choice about<br />
who you’ll live with for eternity.<br />
And what makes them the best<br />
roommates for you is the fact that<br />
they’re your ideal torturers because<br />
you’re in Hell.<br />
That’s the premise of Jean-Paul<br />
Sartre’s No Exit, a simple Odd<br />
Couple premise that wouldn’t be out<br />
of place in a TV sitcom. But this<br />
is Sartre we’re dealing with – the<br />
philosopher, playwright, and novelist<br />
who famously refused to accept the<br />
Nobel Prize for Literature as a matter<br />
of principle. He’s telling a story<br />
that addresses some of our deepest<br />
insecurities, using characters more<br />
monstrous – surely! – than ourselves,<br />
yet perhaps more like us than we care<br />
to admit.<br />
When Cradeau, a journalist, arrives<br />
in the room, one of the first things<br />
he notices is the lack of a mirror.<br />
Another resident, wealthy socialite<br />
Estelle, is practically obsessed with<br />
mirrors – back home she’s set up her<br />
bedroom so she can always see herself<br />
in a mirror, whichever direction<br />
she faces. Only the secretary, Inez,<br />
seems unconcerned about the lack of<br />
a mirror in the room.<br />
Why? The answer has<br />
something to do with how<br />
honest we are with<br />
ourselves, how reliant<br />
we are on the opinions<br />
of others, and whether<br />
we’re secure enough<br />
not to require the<br />
reassurance of our own<br />
gazes looking at our own<br />
faces.<br />
In the age of social media, our egos<br />
have become especially dependent<br />
on the opinions of others – how<br />
they see us, what they say about us,<br />
how vast the gulf is between their<br />
perception of us and our perception<br />
of ourselves. Can you maintain your<br />
own individuality, your own selfimage,<br />
without checking it against<br />
the opinions of others?<br />
What are we willing to do to<br />
convince others to see us the way we<br />
No Exit<br />
Shadowbox Theatre<br />
Windsor<br />
Feb. 1 - 16<br />
Guys and Dolls Bringing<br />
New York City to Kingsville<br />
Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, Guys and Dolls ran for<br />
1,200 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1950 and became a popular<br />
movie in 1955 with Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian<br />
Blaine. Now, the show of shows is making its way to Kingsville’s Migration Hall<br />
for a short run from <strong>February</strong> 22 to March 3.<br />
Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball<br />
romantic comedy. Gambler, Nathan Detroit,<br />
tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps<br />
game in town while the authorities breathe<br />
down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and<br />
nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that<br />
they’ve been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan<br />
turns to fellow gambler, Sky Masterson,<br />
for the dough, and Sky ends up chasing the<br />
straight-laced missionary, Sarah Brown, as a<br />
result. Guys and Dolls takes us from the heart<br />
of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba,<br />
and even into the sewers of New York City,<br />
but eventually everyone ends up right where<br />
they belong.<br />
“The show has been on the Migration Hall<br />
wish list several times,” says Migration Hall’s Stephanie Allen Santos. “It’s that<br />
Golden Age of Broadway with memorable tunes written by Frank Loesser, funny<br />
storylines with an underlying reality to it all, a large adult cast and a score fit for<br />
a live orchestra. The show selection committee felt it was a good time to offer a<br />
more adult production and with our demographic in Kingsville, ‘Guys and Dolls’<br />
seemed to be the perfect fit.”<br />
Tickets are $25 each, with tables of eight available for $160. For more visit<br />
migrationhall.com.<br />
want to be seen – because we know<br />
the way we want to be seen ... is a lie?<br />
Think of it this way: what makes<br />
someone beautiful? Maybe it’s<br />
something inside us – or maybe it’s<br />
just that other people consider us<br />
beautiful. What makes someone<br />
courageous? Is it based on how you<br />
feel and behave – or is it just that<br />
some people say you’re courageous?<br />
Maybe you just look like the<br />
stereotype of a courageous person.<br />
And if you’re a monster, is<br />
it because other people say<br />
you’re a monster – or do<br />
you know this fact about<br />
yourself so intimately<br />
that the opinions of<br />
others don’t matter at<br />
all?<br />
Maybe the best among<br />
us are the monsters who see<br />
themselves as they truly are.<br />
Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit,<br />
produced by Post Productions, runs<br />
Feb 1, 2, 1, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16 at The<br />
Shadowbox Theatre (103b – 1501<br />
Howard Ave, the corner of Howard<br />
and Shepherd). Doors open at 7:30<br />
and the show begins at 8:00. Tickets<br />
are $20 at postproductionswindsor.<br />
ca – or by cash at the door if seats<br />
remain.
Music & Sports<br />
Collide in New<br />
Concert Series<br />
<strong>519</strong> Magazine and the Windsor Express basketball<br />
team are merging music and sport in a new and<br />
exciting way. Together, the two local organizations<br />
are introducing the <strong>519</strong> Premium Concert Series,<br />
featuring eight-exclusive performances held in<br />
the Crown Royal Club Lounge at Windsor’s<br />
WFCU Centre, the city’s premiere sports arena,<br />
before every Windsor Express home game starting<br />
<strong>February</strong> 6, <strong>2019</strong>. A portion of the proceeds will go<br />
to The Downtown Mission of Windsor.<br />
These exclusive ticketed events feature a stellar<br />
line-up of some of the city’s best entertainers,<br />
including pop/soul singer Crissi Cochrane, who<br />
was voted among the Top 10 Best New Artists<br />
nationwide in CBC’s 2014 Searchlight contest,<br />
local teen, Alexa Carroccia who sold out the Crown<br />
Royal Club Lounge last year on her own, the awardwinning<br />
team who perform the music on the annual<br />
Windsor Rum Runners tours and the highly skilled<br />
rap sounds of local recording artists R.Y.O.T with<br />
featured guest – local young teen, Krisalyn Bell.<br />
Unlike many of the “perform-for-free”<br />
opportunities throughout the city, the <strong>519</strong> Premium<br />
Concert Series gives the performers a chance to<br />
get paid for their performances and perform in<br />
the executive lounge of one of the city’s premium<br />
venues.<br />
“We were approached by the Windsor Express<br />
to see if there was any interest in creating an event<br />
that could benefit the team, the artists performing<br />
and make a rarely used premium room at the WFCU<br />
Centre,” says <strong>519</strong> Magazine publisher Dan Savoie.<br />
“We loved the idea and created an entire series<br />
around the concept. The <strong>519</strong> Premium Concert<br />
Series will give Windsorites a chance to catch a<br />
great local artist in a premium setting and they’ll<br />
also get to enjoy a professional basketball game<br />
right here in the city.”<br />
Tickets for all <strong>519</strong> Premium Concert Series events<br />
are $20 each and can be purchased directly from the<br />
artists themselves. Each ticket includes admission<br />
to the concert and basketball game. A portion of<br />
every ticket sold will go directly to The Downtown<br />
Mission of Windsor.<br />
Dates for the series are:<br />
Wed., Feb 6<br />
Kelcom Revolution IP Presents R.Y.O.T<br />
w/Krisalyn Bell (Hip Hop, Rap)<br />
Wed., Feb 13<br />
Tiffany Taylor, Nikki Knight<br />
& Benjamin Doncom (Pop, Rock and R&B)<br />
Wed, Feb 20<br />
Rum Runners Roaring 20s Musical Review (20s)<br />
Wed., Mar 6<br />
Kaila Delarmente (R&B, Soul and Indie)<br />
Wed., Mar 13<br />
Victoria Yorke (Christian, Gospel)<br />
Fri., Mar 22<br />
Alexa Carroccia (pop)<br />
Sun., Mar 24<br />
DTB with Flower Face (Experimental Music)<br />
Fri., Mar 29<br />
Crissi Cochrane (Pop and Soul)
Ed The Sock Touring Southwestern Ontario in the Name of Sanity<br />
By Dan and April Savoie<br />
Canada’s original mouthpiece Ed The<br />
Sock is back and he’s hitting the road to<br />
help Canada recover its lost salvation,<br />
including shows in London, Brantford,<br />
Waterloo, Windsor and Tillsonburg<br />
Along with his companion Liana,<br />
the duo are hoping to bring back a little<br />
of that old City TV and Much Music<br />
charm of Canada’s early 1990s with a<br />
new online television network called<br />
The FU Network, which has a fun<br />
lineup of classic styled bits from the<br />
glory days of Much Music. The days<br />
when the station really mattered to its<br />
viewers.<br />
We sat down with Ed and Liana for<br />
a chat about where they’ve been and<br />
where they’re going.<br />
Holy Shit Ed and Red are back<br />
and you’re calling your tour The War<br />
on Stupid. Is it really that stupid out<br />
there?<br />
ED Yes we are back because the<br />
public demand for sanity was just<br />
overwhelming. And so we heard the call<br />
of the people and we stepped forward<br />
to once again shine light on reason and<br />
intelligence using humor.<br />
Was there one thing in particular<br />
that pushed you over the edge that<br />
made you realize that Canada needs<br />
Ed and Red again?<br />
LIANA I think it was the other way<br />
around. I think Canada was the one that<br />
said it. This whole thing just kind of<br />
happened. It was sort of - all right, you<br />
want us to come. I think people want to<br />
get back to a place where conversations<br />
FEBRUARY EVENTS IN THE <strong>519</strong><br />
Brantford<br />
Feb – 08 Brantford Music Club presents Young<br />
Artists Recital, Sanderson Centre (7:30pm)<br />
Feb - 11 Karen Thornton, Sanderson Centre (8pm)<br />
Feb - 13 Rumble the Concert, Sanderson Centre<br />
(7pm)<br />
Feb – 15 <strong>2019</strong> Heritage Day Workshop, The Sanderson<br />
Centre (8:30am)<br />
Feb-16 National Ballet Theatre of Odessa: P.<br />
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Sanderson Centre (7pm)<br />
Feb – 21 Carl Dixon stories and song, Sanderson<br />
Centre (7pm)<br />
Chatham<br />
Feb – 08 The Bombsquad!, Fortresss Tavern<br />
(9:30pm)<br />
Feb – 09 Rob Kirkham and Neon Rain, Fortresss<br />
Tavern (9:30pm)<br />
Feb – 15, 16, 17 Newsies: The Musical, Chatham<br />
Capitol Theatre (7pm)<br />
Feb – 16 Continuum live, Fortresss Tavern (9:30pm)<br />
Kitchener – Waterloo<br />
Feb – 07 Artist Showcase, Maxwell’s Concerts &<br />
Events (7pm)<br />
Feb – 07 Classic Albums Live: Queen, Night at the<br />
Opera, Centre In The Square (8pm)<br />
<strong>February</strong> 07, 08, 09, 14, 15, 16 Sister Cities, Kitchener-Waterloo<br />
Little Theatre (8pm)<br />
Feb – 11 Aaron Pritchett wsg Kira Isabella, Maxwell’s<br />
Concerts & Events (7:30pm)<br />
Feb – 13 Masters Of Illusion Believe the Impossible,<br />
Centre In The Square (8pm)<br />
Feb – 14 Arkells Rally Cry Tour, The Aud (7:30pm)<br />
Feb – 15, 16 Pictures At An Exhibition, Centre In The<br />
Square (8pm)<br />
Feb – 15 The Trews, Maxwell’s Concerts & Events<br />
(7:30pm)<br />
happen - not online, because it’s very<br />
different. There’s this series of echo<br />
chambers on the Internet and then in<br />
our hyper connected world people lose<br />
sight of the fact that there are other<br />
people out there who have opinions<br />
that aren’t raving lunatics or paranoid<br />
partisans. And I think people are<br />
desperate for that sort of human contact.<br />
Along with London, you’re getting<br />
to other Communities like Bradford,<br />
Waterloo and even Tillsonburg. My<br />
God, somebody must really mean<br />
business hitting Tillsonburg.<br />
LIANA What is it about Tillsonburg<br />
that everybody goes Oh My God. Well<br />
I guess we’ll find out. I used to go to<br />
a cottage outside Tillsonburg and it<br />
wasn’t all that bad, but there must be<br />
something about it that we aren’t seeing.<br />
ED I’m getting this impression<br />
that it’s like that X-Files episode with<br />
that small community where they<br />
had Chico’s chicken where they were<br />
putting out that brand of chicken and<br />
there was a cult. And it didn’t turn out<br />
that well. I don’t want to be a spoiler<br />
to a show that’s been off the air for 20<br />
years, but it turned out they were like<br />
eating people. I’m not sure if that’s<br />
what’s happening, but that would be<br />
cool as long as we get out of town in<br />
time.<br />
It’s been years since you guys have<br />
been in the spotlight. Liana, where<br />
have you been hiding Ed?<br />
LIANA That sounds a bit like<br />
oppression. I have not been hiding him<br />
anywhere. I have not been oppressing<br />
Ed.<br />
Feb - 21, 22, 23, 24 Chelsea’s Story, The Registry<br />
Theatre (2pm, 7:30pm)<br />
Feb – 22 Monster Truck, Maxwell’s Concerts &<br />
Events (7:30pm)<br />
Monster Truck will perform at Maxwell’s Concerts<br />
and Evenets on Feb. 22.<br />
Feb – 26 D’capella, Centre In The Square (7:30pm)<br />
Feb – 27 A Bowie Celebration: The David Bowie<br />
Alumni Tour, Centre In The Square (8pm)<br />
Feb – 28 KW Comedy Festival Opening Gala feat.<br />
Shaun Majumder, Centre In The Square (8pm)<br />
London<br />
Feb - 06, 07, 08, 09, 10 the Nerd by Larry Shue,<br />
Palace Theatre (2pm, 8pm)<br />
Feb – 07, 08, 09, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 Surrender, Dorothy<br />
by Liz Best, Palace Theatre (2pm,8pm)<br />
Feb – 07 Father & Son Dueling Pianos, The Aeolian<br />
(7pm)<br />
Feb – 08 Andrea Ramolo, The Aeolian (7pm)<br />
Feb – 08 The Longest Road Show, London Music<br />
Hall (6pm)<br />
Feb – 09 Monika Wall, The Pairs and Marty Kolls,<br />
London Music Club (8:30pm)<br />
Feb – 09 The Strictly Hip, The Aeolian (7pm)<br />
Feb – 10 Incase We Crash, Corbin Giroux, Steinbecks<br />
& Molly Roach, Old East 765 (8pm)<br />
Feb – 10 Morgan James, London Music Hall<br />
(6:30pm)<br />
ED I actually went to my mansion in<br />
Anguilla and I sort of became a recluse<br />
writing my memoirs. It turned out a lot<br />
like The Shining. I just kept typing the<br />
same words over and over and realized<br />
it was time to come back. I was doing<br />
stuff online for an American service<br />
because in Canada I was told by one<br />
network that my brand was too strong.<br />
It’s like television is supposed to be<br />
some kind of small myopic group.<br />
Television is a popularity contest. How<br />
can you be too popular and too strong<br />
for a popularity contest doesn’t make<br />
sense?<br />
Liana, you’re big into video games<br />
you’ve mentioned a couple of times.<br />
cosplay and just being sexy. How<br />
does that all fit into the touring show<br />
and the new network.<br />
LIANA It’s really a catch 22<br />
because my attitude is when you’re<br />
an entertainer you use every tool you<br />
have. I don’t think it’s fair that men<br />
are allowed to be as sexy as they want<br />
and their intelligence isn’t necessarily<br />
questioned. Nobody assumes George<br />
Clooney is a dummy just because he<br />
has a lot of charisma and sex appeal.<br />
I think one of the things I am really<br />
trying to change the paradigm with is<br />
how restricted women are regarding<br />
entertainment. How you know a woman<br />
who isn’t afraid to use those tools is<br />
either dismissed with words like sluts<br />
and a whore or we’re just written off as<br />
dumb.<br />
One thing I do know is that I need<br />
to wear pants of some kind - or at least<br />
a skirt. I know that I need to cover my<br />
Feb - 13 Aaron Pritchett w/ Kira Isabella and David<br />
James, London Music Hall (7pm)<br />
Feb – 14 Little Big Town w/ Midland and Ashley<br />
McBryde, Budweiser Gardens (7:30pm)<br />
Feb – 14 The Breakers Tour: Canada, Budweiser<br />
Gardens (7pm)<br />
Feb – 14 Valentine’s Day with Terry Barber, The<br />
Aeolian (7pm)<br />
Feb – 15 Luv, London Music Hall (9pm)<br />
Feb – 15 Rising Phoenix 2, Old East 765 (7pm)<br />
Feb – 15 Uptown Affair, The Aeolian (7pm)<br />
Feb – 16 Emm Gryner , London Music Club<br />
(6:30pm)<br />
Feb – 16 Ed the Sock, London Music Hall (7pm)<br />
Feb – 16 Magoffins Epic Metal Bday Bash, Old East<br />
765 (7pm)<br />
Feb – 16 My Funny Valentine, The Aeolian (7pm)<br />
Feb – 17 Lord Huron, London Music Hall (7pm)<br />
Feb – 20 Don Ross: Louder Than Usual wsg Pipo<br />
Romero , The Aeolian (7pm)<br />
Feb – 21 August Burns Red, London Music Hall<br />
(6:30pm)<br />
Feb – 22 Prime Time Big Band, The Aeolian (8pm)<br />
Feb – 22 The Trews, London Music Hall (7pm)<br />
Feb – 23 A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac and Stevie<br />
Nicks, London Music Club (7:30pm)<br />
Feb – 23 Mother Mother , London Music Hall (7pm)<br />
Feb – 23 Paul Brandt and High Valley, Budweiser<br />
Gardens (7pm)<br />
Feb – 23 The Memphis Jam, The Aeolian (7:30pm)<br />
Feb – 24 Buddy Holly’s Rockin & Dance Party, The<br />
Aeolian (2pm)<br />
Feb – 24 Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y :2009 Tour,<br />
London Music Hall(8pm)<br />
Feb – 28 Donovan Woods and the Opposition,<br />
London Music Hall (7pm)<br />
Feb - 28, March - 01, 02, 03 Disney On Ice 100<br />
Years of Magic, Budweiser Gardens (10:30am, 11am,<br />
1pm, 3pm, 5pm, 7pm)<br />
nether regions. That’s for sure.<br />
ED Why? There’s no law against you<br />
having that uncovered.<br />
LIANA You can go topless, you<br />
can go Mickey Mouse, but not Donald<br />
Duck in the province of Ontario.<br />
ED You can wear underwear - you<br />
don’t have to be fully clothed.<br />
LIANA It’s <strong>February</strong> Ed, it’s cold.<br />
ED We’re going to places that are<br />
Sarnia<br />
Feb – 08 Morgan James, Imperial Theatre (8pm)<br />
Feb – 09 Holy Cole, Imperial Theatre (8pm)<br />
Feb – 23 International Symphony Orchestra: Night<br />
Dreams and Dances, Imperial Theatre (7:30pm)<br />
Feb – 23 Name that Tune 2.0, Bottoms Up Bar &<br />
Grill (7pm)<br />
Feb – 23 Night Dreams and Dances, Imperial Theatre<br />
(7:30pm)<br />
Feb – 27 Matthew Good, Imperial Theatre (7pm)<br />
Feb – 27 Shoplifters, Imperial Theatre (7:30pm)<br />
Windsor - Essex<br />
Feb – 06 <strong>519</strong> Premium Concert Series With RYOT<br />
featuring Krisalyn Bell, WFCU Centre (6pm)<br />
Feb – 06, 13, 20 & 27 Retro Ladies Dance Party<br />
with DJ Josh Powers, The Thirsty Butler (8pm)<br />
Feb – 06, 07, 08, 09, 10 The Penelopiad, University<br />
Players (2pm, 8pm)<br />
Feb – 07 Ian Smith, The Thirsty Butler (7:30pm)<br />
Feb – 08 Bloody Valentine, Rockstar Music Hall<br />
(8pm)<br />
Feb – 08 Jody Rafoul, The Thirsty Butler (8pm)<br />
Feb – 08 Keith Ruff, Haddon’s Comedy Club (9pm)<br />
Feb – 09 British Beat 66, The Thirsty Butler (9pm)<br />
Feb – 09 Stranger Daze, Fire, ABTF, RYOT, Rockstar<br />
Music Hall (8pm)<br />
Feb – 10 Cognitive-Monotheist-The Machinist-Devilz<br />
By Definition, The Back Stage(7pm)<br />
Feb – 10 WSO/SoCA Concert featuring Alumni<br />
Choir, Capitol Theatre Windsor (2:30pm)<br />
Feb – 13 <strong>519</strong> Premium Concert Series w/ T Taylor,<br />
N Knight & B Doncom, WFCU Centre (6pm)<br />
Feb – 14 Old Dominion, Caesars Windsor (8pm)<br />
Feb – 14 Tom Hogarth - Kelly Hoppe- Chris Borshuk,<br />
The Thirsty Butler (7:30pm)<br />
Feb -14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 28, March - 01, 02<br />
Cabaret , Kordazone Theatre (2pm, 6pm, 8pm)<br />
Feb -15, 16 The Price Is Right: Live On Stage,<br />
heated. We’re not doing it in an igloo.<br />
LIANA It’s fricken freezing in those<br />
clubs. One person opens the door and<br />
everybody has to zip their coats. No,<br />
I’m wearing pants!<br />
Ed and Liana perform in London on<br />
Feb. 16, Brantford on March8, Waterloo<br />
on March 9, Windsor on March 15 and<br />
Tillsonburg on March 16. For more<br />
visit edthesock.com or funetwork.tv.<br />
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Caesars Windsor (8pm)<br />
Feb – 15 Dusty D’Annunzio, The Thirsty Butler<br />
(8pm)<br />
Feb – 15 SPICE Queens: Windsor, Rockstar Music<br />
Hall (8pm)<br />
Feb – 16 Jody Raffoul Band, Rockstar Music Hall<br />
(8pm)<br />
Feb – 16 Ryan Yoker Duo, The Thirsty Butler (8pm)<br />
Feb – 20 <strong>519</strong> Premium Concert Series with The<br />
Rum Runners 20s Review, WFCU Centre (6pm)<br />
Feb – 21 Dean Haddad Trio, The Thirsty Butler<br />
(7:30pm)<br />
Feb – 21 Khari Wendell McCelland, Phog Lounge<br />
(8pm)<br />
Feb – 22 Bowie & Prince, The Chrysler Theatre<br />
(8pm)<br />
Feb – 22 Chris D’Elia: Follow The Leader, Caesars<br />
Windsor (9pm)<br />
Feb – 22 Guitar Army, The Thirsty Butler<br />
(8pm)<br />
Feb – 22 Symphony 121: Bowie & Prince, Phog<br />
Lounge (6:30pm)<br />
Feb – 22, 23, 24 Where There’s a Will, Olde Walkerville<br />
Theatre(2pm, 7pm)<br />
Feb – 22, 23, 24, March - 01, 02, 03 Guys and<br />
Dolls, Migration Hall (2pm, 8pm)<br />
Feb – 23 80s GONE WILD, Rockstar Music Hall<br />
(9pm)<br />
Feb – 23 DESTROYER Canada/KISS Tribute, The<br />
Back Stage (10pm)<br />
Feb – 23 Music in the Dark, Capitol Theatre<br />
Windsor(7pm)<br />
Feb – 23 The <strong>519</strong> Band, The Thirsty Butler (8pm)<br />
Feb – 24 Celebrating Black Composers, Capitol<br />
Theatre Windsor (4pm)<br />
Feb – 24 Pete the Cat, The Chrysler Theatre (2pm)<br />
Feb – 28 Jimmy’s Comedy Nights, Jimmy G’s Bar<br />
and Grill (9pm)<br />
Feb – 28 Madeline Doornaert, The Thirsty Butler<br />
(8pm)
10 FUN QUESTIONs with dartis willis sr. from<br />
the windsor express...<br />
Without using the word fun, what’s<br />
your definition of fun?<br />
Having a great time.<br />
What’s the most fun you’ve had in the<br />
last 24 hours?<br />
Working on some exciting projects for<br />
the Express<br />
What is more fun chocolate or<br />
whipped cream?<br />
Whipped cream on chocolate<br />
What was the most fun you’ve ever<br />
had watching a movie?<br />
Watching a movie at the drive-in movie<br />
theatre with my family<br />
When was the last time you were made<br />
Fun of?<br />
All of time. Especially about my height<br />
Have you ever had Fun in church?<br />
Of course! Singing and dancing.<br />
What is more fun a mother in law or<br />
going to the dentist?<br />
Going to the dentist because they make<br />
me smile all day.<br />
What is the most fun you’ve ever had<br />
with your clothes on?<br />
Playing basketball with the students at<br />
the school visits.<br />
In a fun way, what is the most fun<br />
you’ve ever had with your clothes off?<br />
Swimming in the ocean in Florida<br />
Has working with the Windsor<br />
Express made you a more fun person?<br />
I have been having a great time with<br />
the team so far and looking forward to<br />
making more memories with the fans and<br />
the community.<br />
Dartis Willis Sr. is the<br />
President and CEO of the<br />
Windsor Express<br />
professional basketball team.<br />
RESTAURANTS OF THE <strong>519</strong><br />
Nola’s<br />
Vito’s Pizzeria<br />
Motor Burger<br />
Mamo Burger Bar<br />
Spago<br />
The Goat<br />
LA Town Grill<br />
Riccardo’s<br />
Crave Family Grill<br />
Speck’s<br />
Gilligan’s<br />
Bud’s Diner<br />
On The Docks<br />
Drifter’s Inn<br />
Chuckwagon<br />
Vernon’s<br />
Ian’s Wrap Shack<br />
Grove Brew House<br />
Eat What’s Good<br />
Chilled Cork<br />
Hungry Man<br />
Five Guys<br />
Stubby Goat<br />
Bad Dog<br />
Crossroads<br />
Village Teapot<br />
Barracuda<br />
Johnny’s<br />
Bella Jacks