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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 />

FREE<br />

Keeping it ‘Hot Blooded’ on<br />

‘Cold As Ice’ Canadian Nights<br />

MORGAN JAMES | PAUL BRANDT | THE TREWS<br />

DJ REV | JAMES GIBB | ED THE SOCK<br />

Guys and Dolls | No Exit | CKSS’ Newsies | Windsor Express


JAMES GIBB 6<br />

Issue 8<br />

<strong>February</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

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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

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