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Review Thursday: P.O.S., M.I.A. and the Bitter End!
P.O.S.
Never Better
Rhymesayers
It takes an outsider looking in to notice the problems and rectify the issue. Minnesota’s P.O.S. is the outsider and Never Better is the answer. P.O.S. (alias Pissed Off Stef, a name he received while playing in a high school punk band) grew up with a dire opposition towards hip-hop. Eventually he embraced it as an artistic outlet, one that can be done alone. His punk background is pummelled throughout the album with raw drum beats that smash through the album like an AK-47 in a freight train. The absolute hostility of P.O.S. is undeniable, but the direction he sends it is not the common course for Hip-Hop. P.O.S. sends his anger towards multinational companies like Wal-Mart and the capitalist ideologies of other hip-hop acts. This album is new, in every sense of the word. A progress of sound for a new time, we just need to keep up with him.
Bitter End
Guilty as Charged
Deathwish Inc.
Years ago someone asked me when I chose to be punk rather than metal. I was absolutely insulted, as if there was a point in my life I wondered if I wanted to follow Sex Pistols or Guns n Roses. Later when I got to thinking about the question I realized that many of the bands I listened to crossed those boundaries. The skate punk of the 80’s was definitely metal tinged, bands like D.R.I., Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity (who are now pure metal) were all bands that I listened to on a regular basis, but I was just under the impression that they were punk. Bitter End’s newest album is not from the '80s and does not make me want to put on spandex pants. What is does do is evoke the killer riffs of those great thrash metal/punk bands that I used to ride my Powell Peralta to. This is no frills rock “n” roll done right.
M.I.A.
/\/\ /\ Y /\
Interscope
Maya Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A., released her highly-anticipated album, Maya (phonetically spelled out /\/\ /\ Y /\) on July 13th. After much controversy surrounding her "Born Free" music video, with it being dubbed too violent and graphic for YouTube and MTV, many were excited to see what other provocative tales of governmnent corruption she would push through her songs on the upcoming album. M.I.A. has always been known for making political statements, and pushing boundaries. And did not fail to deliver this time around, as she came through with songs like "the message", that sheds light on the links between the Internet and government control. And "XXXO", where she makes clear that she refuses to be anyone she's not. Her songs are hardly musical and far from pleasant to the ears; Some call it "experimental dance music", as she blends hip hop, punk, pop, some type of pitched mumble, and video game effects, to come up with her own signature "sound", which plays into the internet-computer theme of the album, including the title /\/\ /\ Y /\. With release of this album, the 32 year-old rapper/singer doesn't fail to keep her reputation as the "most innovative and dynamic pop star of her generation". Sending strong and evocative messages through her music, M.I.A. targets her mass audience and utilizes her outlet constructively, once again.
Hindi Zahra w/ Sokoun @ Le National
Setting: Super hot night outside, mega ice-box, jet cooled inside. What were they thinking? A nice fog formed at the entrance though...
Anyways, shaking from the air conditioning, the ‘opening show’ of the Nuits d’Afrique festival (though there were two preceding nights of shows) started with (as usual) a lot of blabitty blah by the bigwigs. Fast-forward to the blissed out, trance/trad sounds of Tunisian/Lebanese/Quebecois Sokoun. Despite looking like stiff deer in the headlights, the three instrumentalists (violin, oud and percussion) were mesmerizing. Their all-original set of North African music was outstanding, particularly the work of the percussionist. The one inevitable slow jam was an (expected) bummer, as were the aggravating attempts at an applaud-along by the audience (why ya gotta clap your hands, huh?) but generally I was trippin’ balls on their arabesques.
Then came headliner Hindi Zahra. Her band came out first in true soul-diva fashion, but wait! This is Nuits d’Afrique, right? What’s with the plaid wearing Broken Social Scene bro-down? No matter. Hindi started to croon off-stage and then shit went off. Clad in a bright green and black parrot and weed-(?) patterned dress and enough bangles to strangle even the Bangles, she instantly captured the audience. The music is surprisingly ‘non-African’ (whatever that means), sticking largely to a neo-soul, rock/pop format. At times the band shone, especially when they moved to more Afro-tinged material (a couple of Tinariwen-esque Saharan guitar rock numbers and a West African inspired new dance band track a la Amadou and Mariam were definite highlights) though they too often brought out the blues hammer and obscenely blew their axe-load all over the stage. It was all good though because Ms. Zahra was the main event (CJLO reference!) Singing mostly in English with a few Arabic tunes, she had the audience eating out of her hand. Sing-alongs, hand waves, hand claps (they finally got their turn), jokes and sways, she had everyone under her thumb. With a voice along the lines of Amy Winehouse – the power, the slight whine, but minus the crack-headness- and moves along the lines of an epileptic orgasming, but it all worked like gangbusters. Mid-set acoustic pop ballad, Bob Marley sing-along, psych-trip North African jam, blues rock soul diva showcase, even hair metal bash outro, she could do no wrong, even while she was doing wrong by my usual standards, see above list. She rocked it! Heavy cheese, but she spread that shit like butter. Very nice and good.
Konono No. 1 @ Le National
Sasparilla and Sassafrass (The Pan-African Hour)
Sasparilla: What a dope show!
Sassafrass: Yes it was dope (monotone).
Sasparilla: Konono No. 1 have a very distinctive sound. By amplifying thumb harps (known in Africa as mbiras) they can distort the timbre of the instruments, creating a hazy, piercing sound, totally unlike anything else I have heard from Africa.
Sassafrass: That shit's crazy man! It's too bad their stage show didn't match the craziness of their sound. Especially that one guy on the left who was just staring at us like he wanted to eat us. He was the most skilled mbira soloist though.
Sasparilla: He definitely looked homicidal.
Sassafrass: The cowboy hats were good though.
Sasparilla: I wonder if cowboy hats are popular in the Democratic Republic of Congo (AKA: the DRC).
Sassafrass: For sure man! Cowboy hats are big everywhere, they've been cool since the '50s, just like smoking. Back to the show, they did seem to warm up during their second set. The freaky guy was smiling.
Sasparilla: Yeah, there was more enthusiasm from both the band and the audience. I was surprised by how few people attended the show, considering that Konono No. 1 is such a hugely successful band. But people really started dancing a lot. The overall vibe of the show was pretty bumping.
Sassafrass: Word! I found it upbeat and bumping and dancy, but I also found it super mesmerizing. Their 10 minute mbira jams were very hypnotic, repetitive; entrancing the audience.
Sasparilla: For sure, I found myself not so much drawn to dance as to commune with the gods in an altered state of hallucinatory exuberance.
Sassafrass: Word man, I was tripping balls myself.
Sasparilla: Word.
Sassafrass: So... The band consisted of a drummer who just worked the snare and two cymbals, and just played very repetitive rhthyms, mostly on the snare, a hand drummer, playing bongos...
Sasparilla: ...I think they were congos...
Sassafrass: ...(thanks) and a whistle (which was awesome), and then there were three mbira players and a woman who played four cowbells.
Sasparilla: Plus two of the mbira players and the cowbell woman did some sweet chanting and harmonies.
Sassafrass: Now this is true. The mbira that struck me the most was the bass mbira. It was kind of surprising how you could get such a deep, resonant bass tone from an mbira.
Sasparilla: Yeah it pretty much sounded like an electric bass.
Sassafrass: That guy was the most energetic performer too. He seemed to be having a really good time.
Sasparilla: Yeah, which was nice in comparison to the guy who looked like he was gonna murder the whole audience. Maybe he was just on some drugs or something. Oh, looks like we passed the 400-word count that is necessary for this review. Till next time!
Sassafrass: Yes very nice and good!
Sasparilla: Very good and nice!
Wednesday War News - New Media and Politics
This is a sad place to start: Another Canadian soldier has given his life for the mission in Afghanistan. Sapper Brian Collier, was killed by a bomb in Afghanistan Tuesday He was killed while on a foot patrol in the village of Nakhonay, in the eastern part of Panjwaii District by an improvised explosive device (IED). Collier who was just 24, was born in Toronto and raised in Bradford, Ont. He was a member of the 1 Combat Engineer Regiment based at CFB Edmonton and was serving in Afghanistan with the 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment.
Of the soldiers service Harper said "The bravery and remarkable commitment of Canadians like Sapper Collier are bringing safety and stability to the people of Afghanistan." There's neither safety nor stability in Afghanistan but what else can Harper say?
The international conference that was held Tuesday in Afghanistan with Western leaders, quietly decided 2014 as the war’s unofficial end date. In the Globe and Mail this was reported as, a move that could now mark Canada’s intended 2011 withdrawal as premature. Maybe they like war - someone sure does.
James Dobbins, the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan during the Bush administration and one of the diplomats responsible for installing Mr. Karzai as President after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 said, “They’ve rather subtly shifted the goal posts from 2011 to 2014. I think you’ll see a steady downplaying of 2011 on all fronts as it doesn’t turn out to be the turning point many people thought.”
The Guardian reports, General David Petraeus, the new US commander in the country, is less committed to a speedy transfer of power and a Nato official said the change reflected Petraeus's wish to slow the pace of the transfer of power.
Looks like kicking the can down the road on the path to endless war to me.
News July 21st 2010
Read and produced by Nicholas Fiscina.
Stories written by Jonathan Moore and Nicholas Fiscina.
News July 19th 2010
Read and produced by Lachlan Fletcher.
Stories written by Chris Hanna, Emily Brass and Jose Espinoza.
Harper Still A Wanker! - New Media and Politics
Sorry to abandon my post for the weekend but it had to be done. My sanity and well-being were at stake. I've done my best to recruit a writer or two but to no avail. It's hard to blame anyone either - "Would you like to chronicle bad new for very little money and hardly any recognition?"
That might change in the not so distant future but for now that is an apt description of the gig. Mostly I do this in tandem with my radio show. The links here today are to the Canadian stories I talked about this morning. Isn't it endearing when I share loads of personal information?
Okay, so the JFL Comedy festival just ended this past weekend in Montreal and it seem our PM has angered Cheech and Chong. Here's what Tommy had to say about our PM the ideologue: “I would tell Stephen Harper to let go of George Bush’s butt. Your head’s too far up there. Get your head out of his butt. He’s gone. George is gone. He’s history, Stephen.” Cheech and Chong are mad at our PM - it doesn't get worse than that!
While we're on the subject off just how big a wanker Stephen Harper is, let's look at the census flap. apparently right-wingers go crazy when there's accurate information to base your political decisions on - just like south of the border reality is not their purview. So Harper panders - shocking! Of course by shocking I mean just more of the same from our PM.
Canadians aren't all that keen on how he wants to spend more of our money either - but then when you got into the PM's office with less than 30% of the national vote how hard do you have to work at pleasing voters? He certainly feels free enough to ignore the court's rulings on Omar Khadr. The linked article concludes and I agree, The vindictiveness and mean-spiritedness of the Harper government is a real threat to the supremacy of the rule of law and the inherent goodness of the Canadian people.
The Globe reporter John Ibbitson is not sure what the Liberals and Iggy hope to accomplish with the bus tour dubbed the Liberal Express, but it seems pretty strait forward to me: they're trying to remake him into a politician. By getting him out on the hustings so he can hear what people have to say and so he'll learn what he can say to move people. According to the latest Environics poll, there's only three points separating Iggy and Harper and if Canadians get fed up enough with the Harper right wing agenda being shoved down their throats at every turn Iggy may soon start to look pretty good as an alternative. There's also the prospect of an economic slowdown on the horizon and that would effectively end every last argument Harper could make for the Conservatives.
In good environmental news from British Columbia, a team of loggers and biologists works to undo the damage of decades of industrial-scale logging on Clayoquot Sound. In troubling news from Manitoba, provincial officials are on high alert for zebra mussels, one of the many nuisance species that invaded the Great Lakes and have recently found a home in the Red River in North Dakota. Their arrival spells big trouble for the natural ecosystem, not to mention the havoc they can cause to water pipes, hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure.
The Criminals at British Petroleum - New Media and Politics
It has been hard to not get overly emotional about what British Petroleum has done to the Gulf of Mexico and the marine life and animals that make up those fragile eco-systems. Something that I expected to be mitigated by an outcry for sanity and clean energy policies, and stricter observance to the regulations that already exist. My hopes have sadly gone unanswered.
Instead the right has shamelessly ramped up calls for more drilling, more tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuel companies and less regulation. This, even even though they are the most profitable corporations in the history of modern capitalism. Some have even wanted to shield BP from paying the full costs of the clean-up.
The extent of BP's criminality is not yet known but, near as I can tell, by direct comparison they make the Mafia look like pikers. They cut corners on safety and design, and their negligence seems to have been the cause of the catastrophe in the first place. Now they're trying to buy up scientists and by extension their silence on Gulf coast studies - The Press-Register obtained a copy of a contract offered to scientists by BP. It prohibits the scientists from publishing their research, sharing it with other scientists or speaking about the data that they collect for at least the next three years.
Listen to Rachel's report on how they're trying to accomplish this:
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
The really sad thing about this post is that it comes at a time when there should be a bit of relief that they got that damned well capped! They found a way to close the lid on that oil gushing volcano and they're close (by the only accounts available to one and all) to having those relief wells dug. We don't know if it'll hold as there are concerns about the wellbore's integrity and besides, this would just mark the end of the first part of the disaster anyhow.
The millions of gallons of oil and dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico waters, the toll they take on the Gulf region, and the length of time it takes for the region to recover is what follows and will take far more than three months to wrap up. The stories to keep your eye on are the ones about BP's continuing cover-up of the truth. Their continuous maneuvering to try and lessen the financial costs of their criminality and the politicians who are in their thrall and will work on their behalf and not for their constituents.
With Gay Abandon Interviews... Les Beyond!
Photo by Sam Kaplan
Montreal's Les Beyond has been described by audiences as the “musical equivalent of a food coma.” That description might throw you off and make you think “is that a good thing?” And the answer is “YES!”
Using an array of pedals and a guitar, Les Beyond adds layers of soft guitar murmurs, creating a drone soundscape so captivating that it transfixes you, and before you know it, her set is over, people around you begin to stir, and then you realize – the musical equivalent of a food coma has just enveloped you like a tryptophan-laced aural wave of hypnosis.
After relocating from Vancouver, and leaving her main band of the last six years, Shearing Pinx, Erin Ward focused her musical attentions on her solo project, Les Beyond. She has been busy since arriving in Montreal, playing events like Nuit Blanche, Halifax's Obey Convention, and touring with ambient haze-babe Grouper. She has also had a string of new releases, including a freewave release through Halifax's Divorce Records, which can be downloaded http://divorcerecords.ca/mainpages/freewave.html " target="_self">here.
Les Beyond is not only a clever name for this solo project of this queer drone artist, but it can also be seen as a reclamation of a lesbian identity beyond the typical “singer/songwriter” assumption. In her words, it's beyond the lez. Her music definitely goes beyond, much further, and breaks any stereotypes of not only what kind of music queer women are making, but makes you wonder why people aren't making music that sounds as riveting as Les Beyond.
Keep your eyes peeled for Distroboto machines, as Les Beyond has a super-fun, super-limited three-inch CD single available now! She is also playing live at Cagibi on Thursday July 15th 2010. Look for more information and show dates on her myspace.
I had the opportunity to have her live in-studio, read the interview here!
With Gay Abandon: And we are here with Les Beyond.
Les Beyond: Hi.
WGA: That's Erin from Les Beyond. Erin, I hear you're originally from New Zealand.
LB: It's true, I left New Zealand in 2001, and then I was in Melbourne for a couple years, picking up a weirdo Australian tinge to my New Zealand accent, and then I moved to Vancouver.
WGA: And did you leave your New Zealand slash Australian-tinged accent in Australia?
LB: Well I was actually just getting to that 'cause in Vancouver, what I think I was doing there was further corrupting my accent into something that is completely unidentifiable and a constant source of amusement to the rest of my family. Uh yeah, so that's the evolution of the accent.
WGA: Will you speak a little "Newzy" for us?
LB: ...Maybe.
[both laugh]
WGA: Maybe? Tell us like a good, there must be one phrase that everyone is like "oh that's so New Zealand-ish".
LB: Well, I moved house recently, and I realisze just by saying "moved house" that that's something that is strange to Canadians. But in New Zealand it's called "shifting house", "shifting" and in Australia I guess it must be called "moving house" there, and I guess you just call it "moving" in Canada. But moving, you know, has a broader definition to me, there you go, it came out "broada", a "broada definishin" to me, so for me personally I feel like I should say "moving house".
WGA: Yeah, that sounds good. So, you moved from Vancouver..
LB: Mmhmm.
WGA: ...to Montreal...
LB: Mmhmm, it's true.
WGA: ...how is that going for you musically?
LB: Ah, well I moved here in late August, which is I guess the classic time to move to Montreal, late August/early September, and then I hibernated. "Hibinated", there you go, there's another Newzyism. I hibernated for the winter, which was apparently not a bad winter by Montreal standards but for me that was probably the worst winter I've ever had. But that being said, it was relatively decent and kind for a winter. And so I took the winter off and I really hibernated, I only really sort-of played one show per month, which was actually really nice for me because in Vancouver, I got to the point where I was playing with various projects, sort-of four to eight shows per month. Which is, if you think about it, ridiculous.
WGA: That's crazy.
LB: Ridiculous. So now I'm coming out of the hibernation. "Hibinashin".
WGA: "Hibinashin".
LB: "Hibinashin". And I'm starting to actually play places, like for example I played on Friday, was it Friday or Saturday? Saturday. I played on Saturday at The Silver Door, here in town, and today I'm doing this thing on the CJLO, and then this next weekend coming up, I'm actually going to Halifax to play a music festival there.
WGA: Oh cool! Can you tell us a bit about that?
LB: Halifax? I'm going out there for Obey Convention, which is I think in its fourth year this year? And it's pretty exciting..
WGA: It's Divorce Records, right?
LB: Divorce Records, yeah. The guy that runs Divorce Records is pretty amazing actually. He is responsible for making Halifax more awesome. I've always enjoyed going out to Halifax, I've been out there a few times with my old band, and it just seems like kids are really interesting there. And you know they say, you know normally when you go to a show it'll say "show at ten" but the show doesn't start 'til 11:30? In Halifax, it's "show at ten", show is at ten. So this a really kind of interesting thing to me because I've never actually been to a town where the show is actually when it's scheduled to be.
WGA: That sounds like my kinda city!
LB: Yeah people are punctual there.
WGA: I like punctuality.
LB: I like punctuality too. I appreciate it. Anyway yeah, I was actually talking about how awesome the festival was. Divorce Records is doing amazing things for music in Canada. And then they're putting on this really awesome festival, [the] Obey Convention, and there's lots of awesome bands coming up from all parts of North America to play in Halifax. And I'm playing with a band called Chanteuse.
WGA: Have you played with them before?
LB: I've never even heard their music, I'm sad to say.
WGA: [laughs]
LB: They could be really amazing, but I don't know.
WGA: So you have a very interesting band name. It's Les Beyond. [both laugh] Can you tell us a little bit about that, especially what it has been like for you to move to Montreal with a name like Les Beyond?
LB: Lots of people call it "lay beyon". "Lay beyon".
WGA: "lay beyon"
LB: "lay beyon" which kinda sounds a little dirty.
WGA: It sounds a little bit like...
LB: ...Like a body part.
WGA: Like real technical terms of lady parts.
LB: Lady parts, "lay beyon".
[both laugh]
LB: Anyways, so I prefer it to be called "lez beyond" cos it sounds more like "lesbian", but it's like beyond the lez.
WGA: Mmhmm.
LB: 'cause really the sort of music I play isn't really typically lesbian, nor is it typically played by lesbians. So it's yeah, that's a little bit about Les Beyond.
WGA: Do you get that often when people find out that you play music, and that you're a lesbian, do they ask you "oh is it like singer-songwriter style"?
LB: Absolutely.
WGA: Like Women In Song.
LB: "Women In Song Festival."
[both laugh]
WGA: "Oh are you playing a Women In Song festival in Halifax?" [laughs]
LB: Yeah it's funny to me cause I don't actually even own an acoustic guitar, although it would be nice, I don't own an acoustic guitar, so I feel like I'm sort of letting down the lesbian side a little bit by that.
[both laugh]
LB: And I don't do singer-songwriter, and I don't own an acoustic guitar. Nor an electro-acoustic guitar.
WGA: What kind of new stuff do you have, do you have any new releases? Or something along those lines?
LB: Yeah, yeah I do actually. There's a few things coming out. I've got a Distroboto release coming out, which you'll be able to buy in the Distrobotos around town. It was supposed to be out early May, but it's still not out, so your guess is as good as mine as to when that's gonna happen. Um... and then there's, I'm doing an online only release for Divorce Records though their Freewave releases, and that'll hopefully be available soon, it was once again supposed to be available in early May but we're still waiting. I guess they're really busy with the festival, so sometime there... You should check out DivorceRecords.ca frequently, I think it's slash freewave, but I'm not sure. There's a link on their site. So that's an online only, free download. If you want to donate money, of course please, thanks. And then on Saturday, the show I just played at Silver Door, was to release a tape I did, a split on a Montreal label with a Montreal band called Silver Dapple, which are also recent relocates to Montreal. They came from Calgary. And Lethbridge.
WGA: It seems like that's the thing to do, the West comes here. There was I think that migratory pattern out west from Montreal.
LB: I think that's what birds do, isn't it?
WGA: Well, I guess it's seasonal, but most people seem to be here permanently which is amazing because that means there is even more great music here in Montreal, and I know even more great musicians who are moving from the west coast to Montreal this month. It's so exciting. I wanted to ask you a little bit about what your set up is, because I've had a lot of people ask me before, you know I've played them your music on my iPod or whatever, and they're like "oh yeah" and they're just assuming that you do it all on computer or some kind of those kinds of tracks. And I'm like "no, that's all one take", and then I start to tell them but of course I'm just like "blah blah blah", so maybe you can actually like give our listeners a little bit of a heads-up on what you're actually doing when you play live, and then we'll shortly get to that.
LB: Ah. Yeah. I don't want to destroy the magic a little bit, well too much, but I will give you a little bit of an insight. I actually, embarassingly, don't really know how to do too much on a computer, so I don't really use them at all for things other than the internet...
WGA: ...and Google...
LB: ...And Google. I record a lot of stuff to my computer, but once again it's all like single-track stuff. I refer to what I do as sort-of live composition, I don't know if really technically that's what I do but it's a lot of what I think I do. But I have a relatively simple set-up with this project. It really can just be me and a little suitcase with a mixer and a couple pedals in it, and then I can go anywhere. Anywhere.
WGA: Cool! So it's you, a guitar that's not acoustic, there's no singer-songwriter vocals. It's you, a guitar, pedals and a mixer that fit into a little tiny what could be a make-up case.
LB: Mmhmm. And then I sit on the make-up case. It adds a whole other level of functionality, which I feel like is sort of part of being a lesbian.
WGA: Yeah, and it's especially probably really good 'cause you have tools in your make-up kit, instead of make-up.
LB: Well, I know one time when I tried to fly to Vancouver [giggles] recently, I went to go and play a show in December there, and I actually had a little butter knife in my case, and I tried to take it on as carry-on, and they weren't really very happy about that. Then they also took my wire cutters off me, which I'm still quite sad about. They'd been through wars with me. But for some reason they thought I could hijack a plane with them. The butter knife I can understand because you could hurt some people.
WGA: The butter knife, that's a lethal weapon. And wire cutters, maybe there's something you could do with a butter knife
LB: I could squeeze someone's finger really hard with wire cutters.
WGA: Maybe their nose, if their nose is that particular shape...
LB: Oh yeah yeah!
WGA: Long and pointy.
LB: Yeah, okay I totally understand why they took them away then!
WGA: Yeah, I guess so! Did you have anything else that you wanted to add before we get to you...
LB: Oh yeah! I wanted to just also mention that I'm really really fortunate that I got to play a couple shows with Grouper, who's amazing, and she has been... I don't want to use the word idol, that's too strong, but I really have admired her and I loved her music, and I feel really fortunate to be able to play with her, and in different time zones.
WGA: Tell us about that.
LB: I played with her in a huge big church in Vancouver, and it really felt like the amazing amount of reverb that she does was an oppressive force from god pushing down on you. It was phenomenal. It was a religious experience in itself, and the acoustics in churches are always my favourite environments to do anything in, be it just walking loudly or what-have-you. So I played that show with her in July last year, and then I found out she was coming here, and then we got in touch and she was like "come on tour" and I was like "okay".
WGA: That's fun, where was the tour?
LB: It's just a little tour, Toronto, and then London Ontario, which I've never been to.
WGA: Sounds exciting.
LB: We played The Museum of London, which sounds very exciting in itself.
WGA: Yeah if you, like, Twitter that "I'm playing the Museum of London", people are like "oooh!"
[both laugh]
WGA: And then you write "...Ontario". In lowercase letters.
LB: Within the parentheses.
WGA: How do we get ahold of you?
LB: You get in touch with me through my myspace, which is myspace.com/lesbeyond, which is exactly what it sounds like, l-e-s-b-e-y-o-n-d. I have shows listed there too, when I am playing next..
WGA: Exciting! Thanks for talking with us! Les Beyond, right here on With Gay Abandon!
News July 16th 2010
Read by Nicholas Fiscina and produced by Drew Pascoe.
Stories written by Alina Gotcherian, Nicholas Fiscina and Jose Espinoza.
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