Name: Raphael Geronimo

Birthplace: Manila, Philippines

Currently residing: Richmond, B.C.

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence: My father was musician and loved Latin music, so as a kid, I grew up listening to: Tito Puente, Fania All Stars, Eddie Palmieri, Batacumbelle and Poncho Sanchez. – And I really hated it! I liked Rock music: Rush, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Rolling Stones and the Who. So, as a teen my father introduced me to Santana and I was able to see the relation between Latin and Rock music. So I started to slowly appreciate Latin music. Within a few years, I fell in love with Latin music and now playing latin jazz and afro cuban music in my band Rumba Calzada is what I do for a living. So, my early years of having to listen to Latin music has proven to be the best education a father could give a son.

Website: rumbacalzada.com

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

My favorite bands and musicians include:  Tito Puente, Batacumbelle, Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz, Fania All Stars and Poncho Sanchez. Although, I am a fan of Mozart and Beethoven and I do enjoy Rock, Jazz, and Bluegrass music.

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

Mi bajo con tumbao rico y sabrociao.

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

A sunny day….. light breeze…..running…… playing music ………. going for swim……..eating ……… having a beer………..There are too many perfect days to describe!

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

Being lucky that I get to play music for a living.

 5.  What is your most valued material possession?

A wrench

 6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

An extraterrestrial

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

In my bed…….. sleeping well.

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

See places in the world that I would like to see, like Paris, France and the pyramids in Egypt.

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

Still playing music, running, travelling, eating well, spending time with family, friends and the people I want to be around.

Name:

Birthplace: Winnipeg

Currently residing:  Torontopeg

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence: born playing piano still doing that but along the way learned to use a dehydrator too so there are now fruit leathers in my piano playing life,

Website: bobwiseman.com

1. Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

freddie rzewski

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

the hungarian rhapsody #6 by liszt, i want you (she’s so heavy) beatles, the music in the fellini film 8 & ½ when the young boys pay the older woman to dance for them by the beach

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

opening the morning paper reading headline “stephen harper jailed with no parole for crimes against canadians”

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

i remember their names

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

my pagani zonda clinique roadster

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

nervous to meet very evil people.

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

1979

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

learn french

9.  Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

je pence quebec

Name: Winston Hauschild

Birthplace: The Okanagan

Currently residing: Bowen Island

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

My first birthday cake was a giant guitar and my parents were both singers so I knew for sure that was a profession I was going to avoid at all costs and then when I became a teenager and got my hands on an electric guitar that all changed so here I am following diligently in my parents’ footsteps.

Website:

winstonhauschild.com

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

Old: John, Paul, George and Ringo.

New: Tweedy.

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

The guitar solo in Achilles Last Stand.

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

Working in the garden with my family.

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

Hopefully my sense of humour.

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

My Gibson J45

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

Mr. McCartney

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

Right where I am.

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

Cooking and gardening.

9.  Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

Alive and well.

Name: Calvin Reynold (yes, that’s my middle name) Koat

Birthplace: Vernon, British Columbia

Currently residing: Vancouver

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

I always loved bass guitar, ever since I saw Paul’s Hofner, and again, when I saw the Rickenbacker headstock on the sleeve of Deep Purple’s Machine Head, which is when I discovered that I really liked the sound of a Ricky bass as well (coincidentally, Paul started playing a Ricky when they made him a left-hander but I digress), and I always wanted to play one, but never got around to it until I graduated from BCIT Radio Production Technology in 1980 and went to Chilliwack to work all-nights at CHWK, where there is little to do but maybe, let’s see … take up the bass, which I rented and learned to play, which came in handy when I started my first band called Custer’s Last Bandstand, who came around at just the right point in history when another radio station, Coast Radio was giving tons of airplay to independent bands, which we were in spades and consequentially, because I started working as a second in a basement studio and recorded our first cassette called Pull For Boost, got us tons of airplay for a stupid song I wrote called The Final Frontier that we don’t play any more but we’re still together, and I’m playing with another cover combo called Duck and Cover and, I have a Chris Squire signature edition Rickenbacker bass, which I love dearly.

Website: worldbeatcanada.com

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present

I read an interesting article recently which stated that the sounds you’re exposed to when you’re fourteen stick with you for life. So, here is a chronological list of the artists that have shaped my musical present, in order from fourteen onward: The Beatles, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Genesis, 10cc, REM, Husker Du, The Church, Bob Mould, The Smithereens, Afro Celt Sound System.

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

An English hymn done a capella by Oysterband, called Bright Morning Star. I want it played at my funeral.

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

Making love, a great breakfast, a long walk, a steak with onion rings, a martini, a movie and a soundtrack to it all.

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

I hope they say my loyalty. I’ve always had a division between friends and family. Friends win out in my books.

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

I have two: my cherry ’71 Pontiac Firebird and my Chris Squire signature edition Rickenbacker bass (oh, did I mention that earlier?). Sufficient to say, I’m woefully attached to my material possessions.

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

Peter Gabriel, but I will interview him one of these days. He’s the guru of everything I believe to be true about contemporary global music.

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

Tahiti, Hawaii, Rio … some place warm and exotic with women the colour of caramel.

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

Make money.

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

I really enjoy what I’m doing now and I hope I have the opportunity to keep doing it for ten, twenty, thirty years. But, the work I do in contemporary global music, commercial production and voice-overs has to start showing more tangible results. I don’t mean to sound materialistic. I’ve always given freely of my talents, but I would like to start being better compensated for my efforts.

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Name: Sarah Wheeler

Birthplace: Vancouver B.C.

Currently residing: Vancouver B.C.

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

Grew up in a musical family, Mum sang, grandfather played piano with Nat King Cole and Sammy Davis Jr. so I grew up singing and started to play guitar and write songs, was a total Beatles freak, took a few guitar lessons when I was really young from a guitar player who my grandmother had nursed back to health after a motorcycle accident that mangled his arm forcing him to relearn guitar left-handed, learned one main thing from him… never stop.

Website: sarahwheeler.com

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

Beatles, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Emmy Lou Harris, Jayhawks, Alice Coletrane, the Rachels, Debussy, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Fleetwood Mac, Chrissie Hynde, Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Bon Iver, Ray Lamontagne, Lucinda Williams

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

Anything from the AC/DC oeuvre.  The word oeuvre makes me feel funny…

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

Starting with two oeuvres sunny side up….

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

My ability to sleep in.

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

Having grown up on the west coast as a third generation Vancouverite, which is pretty much unheard of, Vancouver is a very transient city, I have inherited quite an amazingly impressive collection of healing crystals that I like to dangle over my grocery store purchases before I decide which items to buy, regardless of how many people may be waiting behind me in line.

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

Seal.  I’m not joking, he’s very tall.

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be? 

Hogwarts.

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

Eat.

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

I hope it doesn’t take that long.

Name: Reid Jamieson

Birthplace: North York, ON

Currently residing: Vancouver BC – west end

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

Dad sang me to sleep, mom died young and so became obsessed with guitar and old tunes, spent teens early 20s hidden in bedroom recording hundreds of songs nobody would ever hear, started rock band Alvy and made a move to the big city from the burbs, realized band was probably not best outlet for creativity and released first solo album Cowlick Bravado, met CVM who became lover, co-writer and manager, released Unavoidable Truth with Josh Finlayson, Sarah Harmer and other musical heroes, got ‘discovered by Stuart Mclean and the fine folks at CBCs Vinyl Cafe and enjoyed much quality airplay and only real touring, moved to BC to blow fresh air into songs, accidentally released 50s era tribute to Elvis, finally released original album Staring Contest, married muse, bought wee home studio and started writing for film and tv in hopes of being heard all over the world one fine day.

Website:  reidjamieson.com

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

Neil Finn, Willie Nelson, Wilco, Sarah Harmer, Laura Veirs, The Kinks, Nick Lowe, Neil Young, Mia Sheard, The Beatles (and most associated solo projects),  Elvis, Patsy Cline, Two Minute Miracles, Iron and Wine, Sloan, Susie Arioli and many more.

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

VINCENT “And when no hope was left in sight…on that starry starry night…you took your life as lovers often do…”*sniff*

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3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

Waking up with my love, cuppas by the sea, writing songs in bed, bike ride in the woods, late afternoon glass of wine that turns into a tasty homemade dinner with friends, watching Star Trek with the wife, going to bed early with a clear conscience.

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

My cooking? General gentleness?

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

My Canadian made La Patrie nylon string guitar bought from Rufus Stewart has been good to me, but trumped by my wedding ring.

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

Was: Neil Finn. Would be: Paul McCartney

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be? 

Kauai, HI. the pine forest on the southern tip.

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

Extended camping trips.

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

Making music full-time for a decent living, healthy and in love. Hope that’s not too much to ask.

Name: Brian Hogan

Birthplace: Limerick, Ireland

Currently residing: Dublin city Ireland

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

He has been playing in bands since the age of ten. In the early nineties he co-founded bands: Wild Cherry Tonic, Illywhacker, The Galloping Hogans and seminal Dublin band PAMF. 
With the group Illywhacker he toured europe on and off for two years. He also played bass with firework and theatre company “Theatre of Fire” (with whom he was chief designer and artist).

In 1996 he returned to Dublin and joined contemporary Irish group KíLA (kila.ie), with whom he co-composes and travels the world. With KíLA he has won a Meteor award, earned a platinum, several gold discs and achieved a number-one-hit alongside U2, The Dubliners and the Band of Bowsies with the single The Ballad Of Ronnie Drew.

Since 2004 he has played bass for theatre show Mama Cass produced by Bill Hughes and for Irish reality TV show” You’re A Star” (2005-2007). He continues to play as a session bass player, freelance (Paul Brady, Túcan, The Jades, Catherine Lynch Show) and for Audio Networks band Jungle Boogie. He has enjoyed playing with George Hamilton IV, Bono, U2, Sinéad O Connor, The Dubliners, Paul Brady, Donal Lunny, Liam O Maonlaoí, Glenn Hansard, George Hook, The Cheeky Girls and John Aldridge (We kid you not). He now has his own band Preachers son which is very rock and roll and is touring the world and elsewhere “knocking them dead”!

Website: preachersson.com

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, The Doors, John Martyn, ABBA, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Police, The Bothy Band, Motorhead, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zep………………….

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

Albinoni, Adagio in G min, kills me every time!

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

Up at the crack of 11ish, brekkie-bonk, nice Coffee, Toast, straight to recording a song that’s really buzzing me, back home, pizza, beer (polish), my girls, my sofa, the cat (also a girl) and a good movie.

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

I make them laugh.

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

A 1947 0017 Martin guitar.

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

Nick Cave (he was a gent but I didn’t know what to say to him, so I made a joke)

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

On a beach in Curacao (Caribbean), sipping a beer.

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

I would like to and will make more albums and tour the world again.

 9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

Alive, happy and working!

Name: Keith Rose

Birthplace: St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada

Currently residing: Barlassina, Monza Brianza, Italia

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

Anything anyone would let me be involved in starting on trumpet at age 8, baritone euphonium age 10, electric bass age 11 until present with guitar, upright bass and ukulele thrown in there… I played with some cool folks too.

Website or online network: 

Showbusinessgiants

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

Jazz- Mingus (freakin genius bassist and composer, no doubt about it… could also be in the classical composer category)

Folk- Martin Carthy (just pure class and talent… and he remembered my name three years after we met and I kissed his daughter.)

Rock- ACDC (doesn’t get more straight up than that…  it’s rock!)

Punk- Ramones (if I had to pick one… I realize I don’t but I get bored if I don’t give myself boundaries… again totally straight and pop)

Pop- Lily Allen (makes me laugh every time)

Punk/Alternative- Alice Donut (anything from that era Alternative Tentacles is kickin… could mention NoMeansNo… but the Donut makes me feel dirty and glad to be, all at once)

Something Else Soundtrack? Nele  Karajli_ć (rent and watch Black Cat White Cat and listen….that’s enough)

Ethnic- Daniele Sepe (italian genius my favourite album is Anime Candide… check it out)

Musicians/Bands- Mike Watt, Ford Pier, Paul Rigby, Barry Mirochnyk, Iggy Pop, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gilespie, Calexico, Neko Case, Cracker, Daniel Johnston, Devo, Shane MacGowan, Louis Armstrong, Ennio Morricone, Gene Vincent, Girl Talk, Glenn Gould, Harry Nilson, Ivo Papasov, Johnny Cash, Kinks, The lounge Lizards, Lucinda Williams, The Meters, Beatnigs, Spearhead, Micheal Franti, Ministry, Minutemen, Modernettes, NoMeansNo, Randy Newman, Squeeze, Steve Earl, Monk, Carolyn Mark, Toy Dolls, and Townes Van Zandt…. there are others but it’s getting late.

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

Anything James Jamerson played on bass.

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

Being with my family without any time constraints.

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

You would have to ask them.

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

My brain.

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

I was nervous when I met Mike Watt…. no reason to be… hell of a nice guy.

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

I’m there, right here with my family.

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

Play music!

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

Playing music with a bunch of friends. Having a good time and not thinking of how stupid I look…. hasn’t stopped me so far!

Name: Jani Vilis Bers

Birthplace: Ennistymon, Republic of Ireland

Currently residing: Spokane, Washington

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

Beginning by driving my parents nuts with a toy “Ringo Drum” they regret having bought me as a kid, to creating awful noises on violin in my school orchestra (still driving my parents nuts!), to playing bass in teen garage bands (see above!), to buying my first synthesizer and 4 track portastudio to record songs & jingles, to music production for the BBC in England and then doing the same in America, to attending countless astonishing live concerts locally, nationally and worldwide.

Website or online network: facebook

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

The Beatles (naturally!), John Barry, Stephen Hackett, Roy Rogers & Norton Buffalo, Francis Dunnery, Rick Wakeman, Dixie Dregs, Fairport Convention, David Gilmore, Mark King, Pat Coast, Pat Barclay, Neil Peart.

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

Matt Monro – “Walk Away”.

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

A full English breakfast with HP sauce (mandatory!) to start the day followed by a long motorcycle ride under warm sunshine to a far away lake for a dip before champagne at sunset and making love to my sweetheart.

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

Generosity & well intended mischievous humor whilst encouraging social gluttony!

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

A beautiful framed portrait of my late father – also named Jani.

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

Her Majesty The Queen Of England (still waiting for my knighthood invitation!).

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

The beautiful and historic City of York, Yorkshire, England.

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

I’ve always been excessive, but then I’m always up for a bit more fun, games, wine, women & song!

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

Alive & in good health would be a good start, in any part of the world that isn’t being bombed, nor hated, is reasonably stable and has zero tectonic plate movement! But I can still dream can’t I?

Name: Devin Rice

Birthplace: Vancouver, BC

Currently residing: Port Moody, BC

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

Drumming hundreds of gigs with many talented musicians and songwriters.

Website or Social Network: facebook

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

I think it all begins and ends with The Beatles for me.  I’m a huge classic rock fan and am a sucker for just about any well-written pop song.

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

“Dear Prudence”

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

Anything that involves the beautiful summer sun.

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

Affability?

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

Maybe my car right now because I’d be hooped without it!

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

Ronald McDonald when I was about 5.

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

Galiano Island in the summertime.

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future? 

Songwriting and just getting better as a musician.

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

Continuing to play music that moves me and, hopefully, creating some myself!

Name: Rachael Chatoor and sometimes I’m known as Rachael Pachel, though I am contemplating going back to using my first and second name, Rachael Anne.

Birthplace: Richmond BC

Currently residing: Richmond BC, which does make it appear as if I have been here all my life but…..I’ve lived in Vernon,  Los Angeles, Whistler, downtown Van, Kits (with old roomie Trevor Rogers when he played in the Road!), White Rock, Vancouver, Abu Dhabi, London, Nigeria, Houston, Richmond again, and soon I will be moving to South Delta.

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

I took up music in my 20′s and found myself singing and performing in bands and duos all over BC, eventually travelling overseas with a band where I met my now-ex husband and took a hiatus for about 10 years to travel and have kids which rocked until my situation changed and I found myself  back in Canada and looking for work again which eventually led to my current gig performing solo or in corporate bands and quite frankly my life rocks again especially now that I have a bit of growth behind me which helps with the songwriting I do, so I  do that and I record and perform the material and all the while I use hobbies like videography, blogging and social networking to gain work in the industry and connect with fans around the world who appreciate my original music.  Phew.

Website or online network: rachaelpachel.com

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

Impossible question to answer……….in no particular order and really just scratching the surface………..Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Marvin Gaye, Eric Clapton, Guess Who, The Who, Pink Floyd, Anne Murray, Dawn Langstroth, Heart, Tal Bachman, Jann Arden, Melissa Etheridge, Phil Collins, Queen, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Led Zeppelin, CSNY, Police, Beatles, Elvis, Lenny Kravitz, Billy Joel, Blondie, Steely Dan, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce…….more of the same….

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

Lindsay Buckingham singing and playing Big Love solo on acoustic guitar is something I could watch time and time again.

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

Well it’s not a realistic day but it would be a dream day…….my children make me breakfast and clean up all the dishes, then we would ride horses up a mountain and river raft back down it,  nap, eat, then play music either around a campfire or in a concert, it doesn’t matter which, so long as there is music.

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

Easy to get along with I suppose, oh, and I don’t drool or spit when I talk.

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

The guitar I bought with the money gift received after my Dad passed away.

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

Oh gosh lots of people, plenty of people all the time make me nervous. For whatever reason I am and always have been especially shy around people whose talents and abilities I value and greatly admire.  I’m sure the most twisted up, nervous I ever got when meeting someone like that was Tal Bachman (huge talent to admire plus, he’s gorgeous, I was a mindless mess).

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

I can’t even imagine what is my favorite place right now, maybe I’m still looking for it.

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

Yeah, I enjoy singing demo’s or putting down vocal tracks for others so would love to get more studio gigs.  Write for children, or put together music productions for schools, seems a good creative outlet to me. More horseback riding would be great too.

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

Just healthy and happy, with healthy, happy children, and maybe even in love.

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Name: Zoe Nicole Guigueno

Birthplace: Vancouver, BC

Currently residing: Toronto or in the Fish & Bird van

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

Mayne Island, penny whistle red&green Brachiosaurus, Pete Seeger, recorder consort, piano lessons theory lessons practising drawing treble clefs, identifying the sound of an upright bass for the first time in the cob-recording studio where Roaring Jelly was making plaid pants and learning to juggle rocks and then to blushing hard playing clarinet in grade 8 and losing my vest, the taste of bamboo, an electric bass in the back of the toyota tercel after a day of work at a bakery, wrapping up the day olds, bmmsking with shelder wearing deflated soccer balls on our heads and playing saxophone and piano duets from beginner duet books, singing playing with Marley and Adam, Bell Jar, tape recorder, highschool choir, late slips, Howard Shore malfunction concert band performance and off to Toronto with advice and two pairs of shoes, beginning to write songs and go to shows and discover Jeff Buckley and Brad Mehldau and access to falafels and 24 hr stores, the first callous on my thumb from playing in regions of the bass i never braved, the dingy practise rooms at humber the light fading on dirty carpets the crappy caf food the influential performance in the student lounge where the fourth year kids were improvising based on flash cards and reading out loud from far-out books and the girl with the silver saxophone and black mark on her eyeball, now currently playing with Fish & Bird and touring canada while my lover Words Around the Waist is in toronto and i still haven’t passed my road test.

Website or online network:

fishandbird.ca

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1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

joni mitchell, carla bley, wayne shorter, elvis costello, robert starer, the beatles, nina simone, of montreal, mary margaret o’hara, maurice ravel, nick teehan, beck, neil young, james jamerson, neil swainson, oscar peterson, the bad plus, john coltrane, chet baker, buena vista social club, billie holiday, burt bacharach, the o darling, gary wilson, lauryn hill.

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

Dvjorak’s Humoresque

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

Walking in the pounding rain on Mayne Island with my dog Mooky smelling the dirt and cedar trees and ocean upturning rocks on the beach and watching crabs scuttle away.

 4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

Christian appreciates my strong hugs.

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

My address book and my copy of Alden Nowlan Selected Poems.

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

I was always nervous to meet the neighbours whose orchard we used to raid on Mayne and whose locked barn we’d sneak into.  We never did.

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

With my dad driving around the Ring of Kerry.

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

I’d like to have a garden one day and can stuff for the winter. I’d like to be better at sewing and learn to make clothes.

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

Singing to my sleeping child.

Name: Tim Readman [pronounced Redman  ]

Birthplace: Seaham, County Durham, England

Currently residing: Vancouver BC (East Side)

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

First paid gig at 15 years old in the brutal working men’s club circuit back home, then on the North-Eastern English folk club scene, then Hawkwind-style space rock then prog-folk and on to new-wave then up to Newcastle upon Tyne for northern soul/ska and political world pop and a quick burst with 80’s hitmakers The Kane Gang…to Vancouver BC all sorts of music including funk and dance leading me back to folk roots and Celtic/folk …Got Fear of Drinking twice in my beloved East Side haunts on Main Street…played with The Arrogant Worms…did some producing…released 2 CDs of songs about Newcastle United Football Club …Artistic Director at Vancouver CelticFest…writer for Penguin Eggs…recorded a few Beatles tribute songs and now on to 2 theme songs for Geordie charity runner Mark Allison’s historic sponsored run which will take him across the whole of the USA in 2011…with a bit of other random shit in between for good measure.

Website: timreadman.com

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

The Beatles, Steely Dan, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Iris Dement, Bjork, Bob Fox, Jez Lowe, Vin Garbutt, Chick Corea and Return to Forever , Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chumbawamba (Acoustic), Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Elvis Costello, Free, Frank Zappa, Lunasa, Gentle Giant, Gil Scott Heron, Lindisfarne, Liz Carroll and John Doyle, Los Lobos, Massive Attack, Madonna, Was Not Was, The Streets, The Unthanks, Led Zeppelin, Sandy Denny, Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick, Wishbone Ash, Hatfield and the North…it goes on forever!

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

The Blaydon Races – by Geordie Ridley – The National Anthem of the Geordie Nation

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

Newcastle United 5 Sunderland 0

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

Not drinking them under the table and then keeping them up all night anymore

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

My Larivée acoustic guitar

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

The devil at the crossroads

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

St. James Park, Newcastle upon Tyne (when we are 5-0 up against Sunderland)

8. Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

Co-write songs with rich and famous pop stars

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

In my own private box with my rich and famous pop star friends at St. James Park, Newcastle upon Tyne (when we are 5-0 up against Sunderland)

Name: Vince Herman

Currently residing: nederland colorado

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

i learned to play in a church, now i play in bars, i write a couple songs, i drive around in cars, i’m gonna buy a farm and learn to stay at home, throw a couple festivals some day when I’m grown.

Website:

greatamericantaxi.com

leftoversalmon.com

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands  from the past and present?

john hartford was the best writer of the 20th century in my mind. deeply rooted, he took traditional forms to new levels with his writing, perfectly bridging past and present. new grass revival, hot rize and david bromberg are huge in my pantheon of musical super heroes.

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

jackson brown  the pretender the whole damn album never fails.

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

waking up at home on a fine summer day, picking tunes before breakfast with my kids out on the porch,  a hike, some fishing, cooking a big meal for friends and family, picking more tunes until falling over, and then getting a late night booty call from….

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

probably the food!

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

my toothbrush

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

richard nixons ghost

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right  now, where would that place be?

crows nest, gold hill colorado

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

more time in living near water would be nice. i’ve been in the mountains a long time. i’d also like to do more political activities.

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

on my festival ground waiting for the saturday midnite show to start.

photo: iztok vidmar

Name: Paul McKenzie

Currently residing: Germany

Musical past and present in one rambling run-on sentence:

The boneapparts, Tartan Haggis, The enigmas, The Guttersnipes, Grimm Bros.Blues Inc., T.T.Racer, Sparky Magnito, The Real McKenzies. These are a few of the bands I have made over the years, I also like most types of music and listen often.

Website: RealMcKenzies.com

1.  Who are some of your favourite composers, musicians and bands from the past and present?

This is a trick question, isn’t it? If I were to name ALL the music I like and why, I would have to write a book. As stated in the previous answer to question number one, I enjoy most music past and present.

2.  Is there a particular song or musical passage that never fails to move you emotionally?

All songs by Turbo Negro.

3.  How would you describe your perfect day?

Sitting at home with a good book, with a pot of tea and a cat.

4.  What would your friends say they appreciate the most about you?

Nothing at all…I have no friends.

5.  What is your most valued material possession?

I live out of a suitcase, so I suppose it would have to be that, my suitcase.

6.  Who were you, or would you be nervous to meet?

God or Satan

7.  If you could blink your eyes and be in a favourite place right now, where would that place be?

On stage with the band.

8.  Is there something you would like to do more of in the future?

Yes, mix more martinis.

9. Where would you like to find yourself in ten years?

On a sailboat somewhere.