February 2004
WAVELENGTH 200
JIM GUTHRIE
LES MOUCHES
GLISSANDRO 70
BUILDING CASTLES OUT OF MATCHSTICKS
FEMBOTS
THE BAR MITZVAH BROTHERS
I CAN PUT MY ARM BACK ON YOU CAN'T
ULTRA MAGNUS
CONTROLLER.CONTROLLER
THE BARCELONA PAVILION
LENIN I SHUMOV
AIDS WOLF
SEA SNAKES
LES ANGLES MORTS
NINJA HIGH SCHOOL
TV MIKE & THE ALL-CANADIA ALL-STARS
WAVELENGTH MUSIC SERIES
ALL I SEE IS RED
HOLZKOPF
KIDS ON TV
THE DESERT FATHERS
WICHES
THE PATIENTS
WINTARY
Jim Guthrie
The Bar Mitzvah Brothers
Building Castles Out of Matchsticks
I Can Put My Arm Back On But You Can't
Ultra Magnus
Controller.Controller
Lenin I Shumov
The Barcelona Pavilion
Aids Wolf
Ninja High School
Les
Angles Morts
TV Mike and the All-Canadia All-Stars
JIM GUTHRIE
Thursday Feb. 12, 11:15pm @ The Music Gallery.
First played: WL 94, last played: WL 153
www.threegutrecords.com
Everyone loves Jim! The Guelph-bred, T.O.-based singer-songwriter has just unleashed a five-stars-all-around disc entitled Now, More Than Ever. He did not respond to our goddamn questionnaire though.
LES MOUCHES
Thursday Feb. 12, 10:30pm @ The Music Gallery.
Last played: WL 174. www.lesmouches.cjb.net,
www.blocksblocksblocks.com
The uniquely wonderful "panic folk" trio of Owen Pallett, Matt Smith and Rob Gordon mash up free improv and acoustic pop with often unexpectedly hilarious results! Check out the new Blood Orgy!!! CD EP on Blocks Recording Club.
What are the top four things that have happened to you since you last played Wavelength?
1. We all gots laid
2. We all gots slayed
3. We all bought Slayer
4. The Sneaky Dee's glory hole
GLISSANDRO 70
Thursday Feb. 12, 9:45pm @ The Music Gallery.
Polmo Polpo first played WL 61, last played WL 192
Guitarkestra first played WL 99, last played WL 157
http://tenseforms.com/tones/v2/oct03/
Sandro Perri a.k.a. Polmo Polpo and Craig Fraid Dunsmuir a.k.a. Guitarkestra undertake a thrilling collaboration! Let's hope for entrancing melodious guitarchitecture as heard on Tense Forms' Muted Tones online music series.
What are the top four things that have inspired you the most in the past 12 months?
Craig Fraid: Good sex bands:
1. Chomp Chomp It Off,
2. Monster Monster,
3. Please Don't Grow,
4. Kanada's Who Who
Good death bands:
1. Children,
2. Bloodcurdling Entropy,
3. The Novels Of R.L. Stine (R.I.P.)
4. Eat Me Eat Me Eat Me Cookie Mon & The Ra-a-a-areCount
Good life bands:
1. Analogue Shantytown,
2. No Digital,
3. End West,
4. Glissandro 70
Sandro Perri:
1. The incredible voice of Jill Kroesen
2. Jorge Ben (and the healthy aggression)
3. The first Torontopia "In C" show... and the melting of my face
4. The telepathillogicality of DDU's upcoming long-player
BUILDING CASTLES OUT OF MATCHSTICKS
Thursday Feb. 12, 9pm @ The Music Gallery.
Last played: WL 153
www.worthyrecords.com, www.pieheadrecords.com.
Hamilton's Anne Sulikowski rules electronic music in the Golden Horseshoe, through her mega-profilic Worthy label, radio shows and musical endeavours such as this glitch-pop project. Piehead Records has just released BCOOM's new CD, Window Pain.
What are the top four things that have happened to you since you last played Wavelength?
1. I helped get CFBU FM 103.7 FM in St. Catharines back on the air.
2. Piehead Records put out a full length of mine.
3. The Shadow Merchant. (ask Anne for the full story! — ed.)
4. Got this old Casio toy keyboard for my birthday. It was the most wonderful gift. I use it all the time now, writing and singing these off-kilter crazy pop songs about heartache, forgotten birthdays and people who piss me off.
FEMBOTS
Friday Feb. 13, 12:15am @ Dovercourt House.
First played: WL 14, last played: WL 160
www.fembots.net, www.paperbagrecords.com.
The Fembots were a duo when they first played Wavey back in May '00, and have recently expanded to a full band line-up, but still retain their twangy junkshop charm, as heard on 2003's Small Town Murder Scene (Paper Bag Records).
What are the top four things that have inspired you the most in the past 12 months?
1. Seeing the year-end Top Ten lists full of Canadian bands.
2. The Hillside Festival.
3. James Anderson playing sheet metal with a bow.
4. Watching a woman in a wheelchair dance backstage at a Weakerthans show in Calgary.
THE BAR MITZVAH BROTHERS
Friday Feb. 13, 11:30pm @ Dovercourt House.
Last played: WL 154
www.barmitzvahbrothers.cjb.net, www.weewerk.com.
Guelph, Ontario's most talented teenagers have captured many a heart
with their joyfully deadpan, stripped-down pop. Their second CD, Mr. Bones'
Walk-In Closet, is out now!
What are the top four things that have inspired you the most in the past
12 months?
1. Playing music with orchestras
2. Saturday night dancing at the Albion in Guelph
3. Unbelievably wonderful hospitality
4. Steven Kado
I CAN PUT MY ARM BACK ON YOU CAN'T
Friday Feb. 13, 10:45pm @ Dovercourt House.
Last played: WL 179 www.listofcontents.ca
This aggressively anonymous linear art-punk four-piece have just released
an s/t CD to complement their teeth-grittingly intense live show, which
complements their fine design work as The Complaint Department.
What are your four basic food groups?
A.
1. Half-forgotten leftovers
2. Sandwich perfection
3. White fricassee of kidskin gloves
B.
1. Cream
2. Vanilla Fudge
3. The California Raisins
ULTRA MAGNUS
Friday Feb. 13, 10pm @ Dovercourt House.
Last played: WL 170 afrosteady@hotmail.com
Yes, they're an Afro-beat orchestra that consists of a bunch of white
guys and the bandleader looks like he should be in Skynyrd, but goddammit,
their grooves are Fela-tastic.
What are the top four things that have inspired you the most in the past
12 months?
1. Mayor Mel leaving Toronto
2. Hanging out with Antibalas
3. Masia One
4. Toronto and its local yokels
CONTROLLER.CONTROLLER
Saturday Feb. 14, 12:15am @ Rockit.
Last played: WL 166 www.controllercontroller.com, www.paperbagrecords.com.
Relentless basslines, spiky guitar interplay and Nirmala Basnayake's disaffected
vocals have made c.c. the talk of the town since their sudden emergence
last spring. Their debut, History, is out on Paper Bag on Feb. 24.
What are your four basic food groups?
1. "Don't Make Me Mad [groan]!"
2. "First Name Mister, Middle Name Period, Last Name T!"
3. "Shut Up, Fool!"
4. "Quit Your Jibba Jabba!"
THE BARCELONA PAVILION
Saturday Feb. 14, 11:30pm @ Rockit.
First played: WL 144 Last played: WL 194 www.barcelonapavilion.cjb.net,
www.blocksblocksblocks.com.
The recent departure of vocalist Maggie MacDonald will do nothing to dampen
the determination of Toronto's most unique band, a consistently challening
art project concerned with architecture, tidying up and the meaning of
fun. Renowned for recording a BBC John Peel Session last summer.
What are your four basic food groups?
1. Vegetables and fruits of labour.
2. Nuts and pulses of the teenage nation.
3. The milk-sweat of the righteous.
4. Any food rich in Vitamin B5, which induces the fevered dreams of positive
change and positive music.
LENIN I SHUMOV
Saturday Feb. 14, 10:45pm @ Rockit.
Last played: WL 185 www.leninishumov.hotbox.ru.
Russian emigre Eugene Slominerov leads this explosive dance-punk freakout
orchestra, whose closest reference point may be The Ex. Early shows last
summer contributed to the much-noted "oh my God the indie kids are
dancing" phenomenon.
What are the top four things that have happened to you since you last
played Wavelength?
1. London
2. Paris
3. Toronto
4. Working 9-5
AIDS WOLF
Saturday Feb. 14, 10pm @ Rockit.
First played: WL 80 (as Da Bloody Gashes), last played: WL 151 (as The
Electric End) www.seripop.com.
AIDS Wolf is Montrealers Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau's latest noise
outlet. The couple has also become known across the continent through
their poster design company Seripop.
What are the top four things that have inspired you the most in the past
12 months?
1. Assbinder
2. Staying home
3. Antarctica
4. Handjobs being the new high five
SEA SNAKES
Sunday Feb. 15, 12:15am @ Sneaky Dee's.
Last played: WL 189 www.dievenom.com.
Fronted by ex-Blake singer Jim McIntyre, Sea Snakes also contains members of I Am Robot and Proud, Rockets Red Glare and Burn Rome in a Dream. Their delicate songwriting may or may not betray their hardcore roots. Album out in '04! No answers to questionnaire though! No photo either!
LES ANGLES MORTS
Sunday Feb. 15, 11:30pm @ Sneaky Dee's.
Last played: WL 173 www.blueskiesturnblack.com.
This Montreal foursome provides propulsive yet pensive instrumental rock soundtracks to original video work, but are way more fun than that sounds. A DVD/CD will be released later this year on Blue Skies Turn Black.
What are your four basic food groups?
1. Coffee
2. Rice
3. Mushrooms
4. Eggplant
NINJA HIGH SCHOOL
Sunday Feb. 15, 10:45pm @ Sneaky Dee's.
Last played: WL 193 www.floatingthrulife.is.dreaming.org.
Matt Collins broke up his rock band Currently In These United States to do hip-hop. It turned out to be not such a bad idea. Originally just rapping to his own lo-tek beats, NHS now includes a full crew. We Win! is out on floating thru life.
What are your four basic food groups?
1. Straightedge.
2. Positive outlook.
3. Criticism involving viable solutions.
4. Radical acceptance.
What are the top four things that have happened to you since you last played Wavelength?
1. Middle-school bully labelled anti-Semite for criticizing Israel's military presence in Palestine.
2. Kneeled behind George W. Bush while Senator John McCain shoved him.
2. Formed rap group called G-Force to battle G-Unit; ended up spending most of our time fighting alien/robot threats to planet Earth.
3. Returned to Cambodia and freed my squad.
TV MIKE & THE ALL-CANADIA ALL-STARS
Sunday Feb. 15, 10pm @ Sneaky Dee's -- CANCELLED!!.
Last played: WL 75 (as The Pious Companion)
www.thepiouscompanion.com.
Wavelength's American ambassador TV Mike (based outta Bloomington, Indiana) pays a visit to share some of his Neil Young-inspired tunage, with local back-up from Jonny Dovercourt, Kim Temple and Craig Fraid.
What are the top four things that have inspired you the most in the past 12 months?
1. Make-out City
2. Ice cold
3. The East River swim team
4. Ninja vs. pirate
What are your four basic food groups?
1. 75-cent pizza
2. Pilsner
3. Bourbon
4. Tweed
What are the top four things that have happened to you since you last played Wavelength?
1. Learned to play guitar
2. Won the Make-out City Olympics
3. Mastered the nunchucks
4. Single-handedly built a time machine