Live Music Is A Once In A Lifetime Experience
As a writer, it should be no surprise that I’m focused on words and their significance. So when a band that is emphatically instrumental pops up we’re interested in how they decide on the naming of works, when there’s no obvious lyric plot to introduce or summarize.
Ferdy Belland, bassist for the adept and powerful prog-metal band
“Well, I don’t actually play any instruments!” Jimmy Peggie tells us.
A strange admission from someone to be telling a MUSICAlive! interviewer, but we are NOT surprised. When wandering through the farther edges of the things we listen to for pleasure/entertainment/empowerment/enlightenment, sometimes it’s no longer a 3 minute lyric about “girl meetsboy/loses boy/finds boy …
Élisabeth Pion is from Canada, but you’d never know it if you glanced through her resume: training in Italy AND the UK AND Montreal, and with a British phone prefix when we finally connect. MUSICAlive!, with an international subject matter that keeps us guessing what accent we will hear next, left it up to discovery: which is that this charming jewel is Quebecois …
When discussing the upcoming concert by DOA in Calgary with another musically engaged colleague, the fact of a band named “DO” still existing 47 years after their “Arrival” shows clearly that the name is appropriately ironic!
Joe Shithead, DOA founder, songwriter, guitarist and vocalist: “The cover album by all my punk …
Fruteland Jackson is practically unstoppable, and that’s a good thing. Because not only is he a font of wisdom regarding the depth and history of the American Blues, he also writes and plays a pretty good ragtime riff, too. …
Johnathon May brings me my Cafe Mocha and raisin bran muffin while I set up the recording device for our interview in the National Music Centre coffeeshop. Not only does it seem like an appropriate place for such interviews (having been used to talk to Rielle most recently, amongst others …
After being thoroughly delighted/blown away by BB Bomb at this year’s Sled Island closing pig roast, MUSICAlive! contacted the band from Taiwan to arrange an interview. As that country is 14 hours ahead of Calgary, and as the lead Singer/songwriter/guitarist felt more comfortable with her written English …
After Rose and MUSICAlive! get through the naming of guitars and cats and other home furnishings (Shakespearean & Marvel Universe, to be exact), we finally settle down to actually talking about MUSIC (sometimes our conversations have to be reined in like a running mare who’s escaped from the pen). The good news is, to maintain the metaphor, this isn’t the songwriter’s first rodeo! …
