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canceling the city's contract with the
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WRONG ARM AT THE LAW
© l 998 Telegraph Publishing Company Limited
Police in Tampa, Fla., said that
when they ticketed a black BMW
parked at an expired meter a block
from police headquarters, they failed
to notice there was a dead man inside. Victim Robert Enlow, 69, was
bound and gagged and had been
shot several times in the head. A second parking meter officer noticed
the body in the back seat hours after the first ticket was written.
■ Washington, D.C., police who
stopped Jeannie Whitt for a seat-belt
infraction impounded the blue-gray
Chrysler Lebaron after Whitt
couldn't produce her vehicle registration. Two days later, Whitt called
the impoundment lot to try to get
the car back but was told her car had
never been there. The Washington
Post reported that Lt. Beverly
Medlock told Whitt one of the officers who stopped her took the car
to the impoundment lot, but it was
closed. They drove it back to where
they had stopped Whitt and parked
it. Whitt said that the officer also left
the keys in the car, which was stolen.
■ When police in Bergen County,
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the men were captured, officers discovered they were scientists from the
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OVERDOING IT
Hundreds of Greek Cypriots who
broke a 50-day fast with a traditional
Orthodox Easter feast had to be
treated at hospitals for overeating.
Dr. Costas Antoniades said that of
about l ,000 patients treated at emergency rooms on the island over the
Easter weekend, more than 200 were
suffering from colic or gastric symptoms associated with eating too
much.
■ An Easter egg hunt at the World
Harvest Church in Daytona Beach,
Fla. attracted some 5,000 people but
turned.into a free-for-all when parents trampled children in a determined effort to beat the youngsters
to a pile of thousands of artificial eggs
containing Bible verses and candy.
Some children complained that
grown-ups confiscated eggs from
their baskets. "This isn't an Easter
egg hunt," said onlooker Joe Vetter.
"It's an Easter egg massacre." Even
so, church spokesperson Ryan
J ulison called the event a success,
adding that next year the church will
make sure everyone understands it is
for children, not adults.
February, but when he found out the
man was driving on a suspended license, he called for a tow truck. During a subsequent search of the car,
Cronin found a note in the glove compartment: "This is a robbery. Give me
stacks of 50s and 100s." The note
matched one used in a bank robbery
last October.
TURNABOUT ISN'T FAIR PLAY
The Boston Globe newspaper objected
when city police attacked its bid for a
Pulitzer Prize for a series about police corruption by citing information
in the paper's confidential application.
When police said they obtained the
application from "an anonymous
source," Globe editors accused them
of abusing their power by snooping
into the paper's private correspondence.
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would have liked. Yum-}'}lmthought I nothing
wrong with a bit of public mornmg tellatio in
the_peace of a trickling Zen water garden.
Hmmmm, debauchery? I think so.
Our perception of the world around us and
the world within us is determined by our senses.
They will either buffer or enhance life's offerings de_pending on how connected we are to
them. The sensualist is governed entirely by
truth of his/her sensual experiences. The sensualist will endeavor to taste all of life, even the
most unsavou!Yof flavours, which offer irresistible insights. To the sensualist no scent passes
unheard through the nostrils and no kiss ever
tastes the same. The hair on a lover's body feels
different to the fingertips than it does to the
palm of the hand. And die sorrow of that hair is
encountered in all other lovers after the first
lover is gone. This _person is a person doomed
to a life of debauchery, for our senses are the
tether by which debauchery holds us.
The truly debauched individual cannot be
identified as one who exists only as a shadow of
his/herself. The old, crusty man who sits tragically alone at a bar with a string of mucous leading from his nose to the tip of his beer glass has
admittedly been "seduced from virtue." However, an alarming lack of dignity only comprises
half of the debauched condition. Clarity and
reason are imperative elements to the overall
experience. Debauchery ceases to be debauchery if licentiousness and depravity are your everyaay reality. The elation of abandonment is
heightened by the P.Ossessionof a tall moral self
from which to sena all decency plummeting to
the floor.
I am reminded of a nasty fetish. The quirk of
nature, which I am about to share with you, is
Debauchei:y, noun. I. too much indulgence in sensual pleasures; 2. A seduction from virtue
not one of my own tastes, but rather one I have
or morality. 'lhe Oxford Concise English Dictionary
experienced vicariously through others. Imagine a woman of refined tastes tinds herself in a
By ALISON DOWSETT
lesbian bar. Surveying her choices, she lingers
A while back I sat in The Cambie, off duty, with my friend Sean the curly haired boy.
over the delectables for a while before settling
on a catch. Before moving in for the kill, the
I said to him, "You know, I'd like to write a formal essay on the word' debauchery." He
refined woman unbuttons the second button on
said back to me, "You know, I wish you would, because I'd like to read it." Well, here
her Issey Miyake blouse. Then she makes her
way across the_bar to the heavy-set woman in
it is. It is a bit formal in tone, just warning you.
the black leather vest playin_gpool. I call this
Come on, could there ever be too much
the "mmmm gross" fetish. The refined woman
indulgence in sensual pleasures? Sensual
can barely live with herself in the morning, yet
pleasures are the only sure thing in our world
she lives even better. I won't name any names,
where righteousness is measured _againstmisbu_tJ
__yes,this happens.
understood biblical metaphors. Myself, I've
Whether or not we ever actualize or affirm it,
seen all sorts of examples of debauchery, all
all of us possess the same primal hideousness.
of which make me very happy,__butI've yet to
Park. For those of you who know this ma_gnifi- Public sex in parks and toilets is one demondetermine my favourite type. The above defistration of it; one-night stands with people we'd
cent green space created by the Vancouver Parks
nition describes debauchery as a loss of virnever be seen in public with are anotlier. This
Board, praise to you - for those of you who do
tue, but less clearly, it implies something
hideousness is the key to earthly bliss. That is,
not, get yourselves there, it is a treat. The park
more: that sublime gratification is available
falling through each individual sense into the
features a Zen garden with a _pond,which teeds
only by way of the sinister. The actualization
extreme moment where no lies can be told; the
a meandering stream as it tlows down a hill.
of such a gratification strikes me as being a
place where virtue and morality cease to exist
There are stepping stones over the pools and
virtue in itself. Properly executed, with equal
because constructions of thought are impossirock paths through glorious green foliage. The
amounts of skill and recklessness, an indible.
park 1sat Keefer and Abbott and is the last basvidual can attain an enviable state of bliss
Debauchery is most glamorous if only your
tion of peace before the inevitable chaos of the
conscience and a few friends are the wiser. Re1 whilst in the throes of debauchery.
Downtown Eastside. This particular morning I
My most recent observance ot unadulterally, what's the sense in debauching yourself if
encountered a couple coupling on one of the
ated debauchery occurred one Saturday
everyone comes to expect it from you? This way,
grassy plateaus. Tliere was something unique
morning as I made my way to work at the
sly allusions to the potential for sin keep the
about their positioning; they weren't Just cudCambie Hotel. I was on Foot, sinner that I
opportunities arisingwithout ruining one's repudling, if you know wnat I mean. To my 1·oyit
am for living just a stone's throw from skid
tat10n as a good and holy person.
was two men. I had to concentrate on wa kmg
row, and l had reached Andy Livingstone
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by unfazed instead of stopping to gape, as 1
MYLIBERATED
SENSES
6irlTrouble
THE
VOICE
INHIS
HEART
By DANIELLE EGAN
He accepted the promotion to assistant manager at Poster Planet only to be transferred. after two weeks from the Surrey Mall to Metrotown. The SkyTrain took awhile
to get used to. He found the constant calling out of stations accompanied by that dingdong sound to be distracting.
saw some very intimate things like families sitBut soon he grew fond of the woman's
ting down to clinner or washed in the blue light
voice. Especially on the night trains, when the
of TV. He saw all these things but he didn't feel
trains were virtually empty and it was dark
lonely when he got home to his dark, silent
outside. He'd sit down aher a long hard shift
apartment because he had her concerned voice.
at Poster Planet and let that woman's voice
One day on his lunch break, he was in the food
surround him. The tone of her voice gradufair feeling blue and desperate. He needed her
ally began to capture his imagination. One
to be there for him. He called the SkyTrain ofday he brought a tape recorder with him and
fices and asked about her. They told him to call
he taped the entire journey to Metrotown and
BC Transit because they thought she'd worked
then back out to Surrey again. That night he
for Transit not SkyTrain. He called Transit and
played the tape and it lulled him off to sleep.
they told him to call SkyTrain but he persisted
and eventually talked to someone who said she
1 He liked the sounds of the train on the track
almost as much as her sweet voice. When he
was indeed a real person and she'd quit BC Tranwas on the SkyTrain he would imagine she
sit in '89 or so but had come back especially to
was his girlfriend and they were on road trips
be the voice of the SkyTrain. Her voice was a
together. He would drive and she would navicombination of her natural voice and a compugate, holding the map in her lap and calling
terized voice, which gave him an idea. He asked
out the names of towns and sites as they
if anyone knew what had h~pened to her and
drove. He pictured this confident, capable,
ifhe could track her down. They said they didn't
dependable, loving girl sitting beside him,
know what happened to her and that she may
opening his drinks for him as he drove, rufhave moved away somewhere else. That made
flmg his hair when he said something funny, him feel more desperate. He pictured her living
lighting his cigarettes and telling him stories
in some small town far away oblivious to him
to keep him awake. Speeding through the
and he got angry. He borrowed his brother's resuburos past the homes lit up from inside he
cording equipment one weekend and began
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dubbing her voice to say things otherthan Next
Stop Edmonds. This process of dubbing began
takmg up all his SP.aretime and even on the train
he couldn't help feeling impatient to get home
and work on her. When his first dubbed tape
was complete he took it on the SkyTrain commute and listened to it on his walkman. It was a
short ta_pewhich he'd dubbed over and over
again. She said things like: how was your sleep?;
Did you have good dreams?; you nave beautiful eyes; you work so hard, baby. Things like
that. This tape didn't suit the commute home
so he made another tape that said things like:
how was your day?; I made.a casserole tor dinner; I missed you today. Things like that. Her
voice sgeaking directly to him and saying pet
names for him like honey bunch and puddmg
pie made him feel huge and important sitting
there on the SkyTrain. It also made him very
horny. Her worcls combined with the purring
of the tracks beneath him made him feel sexy
and he'd never felt sexy before. He would hide
his erections with a backpack on his lap and he
learned to wear black pants just in case it went
too far, and more and more he'd go too far. He
began dubbing new tapes with her saying things
like: fuck me harder, baby; my pussy is so hot;
faster, faster, faster. Things like that. It took him
three days to get her voice to make shrieking
sounds like she was climaxing but eventually he
got that, too. Eventually he was demoted oack
at the Surrey Mall and he made tapes·ofher saying things like: fuck off you no good bastarcl;
look at you on the fast track to nowhere you
uselesscreep; and I'm leavingyou. But you never
forget your rirst love.
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P-INKOS
SEIZE
CITY
HALL
By J. J. FREMES
Tuesday,June 16. We should be out on
the street in a couple of hours. We're sit•
ting in the holding cells down at 312 Main
Street as a result of the occupation of City
Hall's lobby and then council chambers.
We were protesting the anti-panhandling
and anti-busking by-laws. Don't want to
bore you with class analysis.The new regulations are poor-bashing. Get it?
So, what happened? Well,we started off
with some improv street theatre on the
steps of City Hall: a woman dressed as a
cop and a man in a suit "representing the
interests of global capitalism" outlined
how and why business intends to sanitize
and regulate all street activity. They pretended to shoo away the protesters:
"Shouldn't you people he working in some
sweat shop for minimum wage. Come on.
Get off the steps." Then the buskers struck
up a few tunes and, at the appropriate lull
in the action, we storm~~ the lobQY~. -·
ing music and dancing around the ception area.
Round Two: The best is yet to ~• me. A
City Hall flak-catcher arrived to pt k out
one of our leade.rlessgroup and tell •m to
tell us to leave the lobby. He declined to
do so at first, hut then bad a chang~fmind, jumping up on the reception desk
to announce: "The man says we ought to
leave the lobby." He scratched his bead,
"and I tend to agree with him!' Oh no, we
thought, don't give up for us. "Yes, I agree
with him. I think we should leave the lobby.
And go upstairs to council chambers." A
chee.rwent up and so did the crowd.
Round Three: It was 1:20. The chambers were empty. Council was due to re•
convene after lunch at 2pm. We couldn't
keep to the public seating area, though,
could we? A woman with brightraspberry
hair walked straight up to the big throne
chair, sat herself down and picked up the
ga~el. Others took stances around the
room and we began passing motions: the
return of all of Vancouver to the First Nat:ions,the appropriat:ion of condos in the
downtown eastside for social housing with
a further amendment to appropriate all
housing in Shaughnessy for the aforementioned purpose.
Acallingcard from an escort servicewas .
found stashed under the righteous Mayor's ink-blotter. More circus antics and
then the cops showed up. Twelve of the
60-or-so protesters agreed to risk arrest.
In the end, allbut four were released a&er
a tide in a cop cat. We suppose they
thought they were punishing the instiga•
tors. Anyway,it was a total,success. Great
media manipulation, Lots of photogenic
stuf£ Lots of great sound bites and plenty
of articulate spokespeople making the
links between these laws and•the whole
pile of money/power bullshit
Round Four: Before the remaining pro·
testers Je& the public viewing areas. the
mayor promised (whatever that shit is
worth) to address the issue at 2pm on
Thursday. We'll giveyou an update on that .
not week, but today's action· is gonna he
a hard act to follow.
4 June19- 25,1998Terminal City
7:30 - Fn, Sun, Wed
9:20• Sat,MonTwilight of the Ice Nymphs
From Winnipeg original Guy Maddin
(Tales from the Gim/i Hospital). Set in
mystical Mandragora. a twilit land of
endlessorange skiesand darl<ness-deprived libidos.Peter returns home after
yearsofincarcerationand.en route. falls
in love with the mysteriousJuliana.He
arrivesto find hisostrich-fannningsister
in the throes of an hallucinatoryhankering for wicked Dr. Solti; meanwhile,
Solti pursuesdiabolicaldesignson both
Julianaand Zephyr, the nymphomaniac
widow who becomes Peter's lover.
7:30. Sat.Mon
9:20 - Fri, Sun. Wed Uncut A provocative, punning, cutting-edge, culture-
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By SLISH
Sometimes musicians are like their playing styles. Peggy Lee, whose
cello playing is never excessive, chooses her words, drawing them
out quietly or letting them through in a staccato but silky rush. Dylan
van der Schyff, sends out smatterings of sentences, veering over subjects, then jumping, without a missed pace, back into the stream of
thought.
Th~ have just released their first
duo CD, These Are Our Shoes,
and the dark moments along with
bright sprightly lift-off and tmg reflects mudi that is interesting about
their playing abilities. But to truly
understand why they' re in such hot
demand, both at jazz festival time
and throughout the year, you have
to ~ear them live, any one of their
vanous permutations.
1
told she had a stiff
upper lip, so she
.
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decided
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to get it
other as inspiration and drive for
their creative energies.
Im.AM: Good musicians are like that
ever~here, they're into the music
and when it comes time for them
to plaY.a solo or a spotlight for
themselves!that's their time to play
for themse ves. I find good musicians, people that make good music, are almost alwaY.S
supportive of
other musicians when they play.
Like, th_ey'reup there, playmg for
the mus1c1ansfirst, ana then the audience, but they're there playing for
everyone else around them.
PEGGYLEEAND DYLANVAN DERSCHYFF
CHINESEFILM FESTIVAL
THURSDAY
7:00- Street Angel is about the lowest
strata of life in prewar Shanghai:the
city poor. the news vendors, fruit
hawkers, itinerant barbers, the most
despised of society.
9:00 . Blush examines the effect the
1947 Communist revolution had on
the lives of two Shanghaiprostitutes
and one of their favorite fonnner clients. Basedon the novel by Su Tong.
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dazzFest
THE
DYNAMIC
DUO
jamming comedy/essay on circumcision, censorship, copyright law and
Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Uncut is filmmaker and video artist John Greyson's
fanciful follow-up to the much-acclaimedLi/ies.which copped the 1996
Genie Award for Best Picture.
tn
II
Peggy Lee's musical voice hints at
her classical origins, offering graceful sweeps tucked inside the silent
volume that occurs in each succinct
bowed moment. It was her desire to
continue the exploration that shifted
herfrom classicalto improvisational
music.
~:
It's not that I've completely
changed, I still love playing class1cal music but I wanted to experiment with other ways, other means
of expression. I was lucky, I just
found the right group of people to
play with.
lilJRI: What is it about improvisation
that allows you this different avenue
of expression?
~:
Just being with people and
listening to what they're domg and
having them listen to what you're
doing, and anyt:hingis appropriate.
And ·1 guess also 1f you consider
that I spent yearsplayll_lgmusic that
had been played for hundreds of
years and recorded many many
times by great cello players, it's kina
•
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of a lot of baggage Y.OU
know when
you're playing to think, how does this
compare with so and so's recording
of it? When you're improvising
there's nothing to compare it to.
Dylan van der Schy// is fearless and
unhesitating, behind the arums. And
like many_of the wonderful musicians
I have· listened to, he pushes hzs
boundaries and questions his confidence, in order to further his playing
abilities and be truthful to the larger
entity known as music.
t!l'.LAM: When I'm playing I don't usually have aJroblem with it because I
just try an get into the music, I get
mto that state where.you're just with
the music. But usually when I have
too much time on my hands and I'm
milling around, I start thinkin~ about
what's going on and I just ... its good,
because it makes you question yourself... am IJ'ust pulling out shtick all
the time or o I need to work on some
more stuff you know? It's best that
you don't think about it too much,
you just go out and do it. The thing
with the improvising is that. .. i1
Y.Ou'redoing it honestly, you realize
that you don't have to have a whole
bunch .of tricks, you just have to be
calm and inside the music and that
takes care of itself.
Dylan and Peggy are integral members of a collective group of musician 1
who persevere am[ excel at their craJ!
and who almost always credit each
THEY
OUGHTA
KNOW
Compiled by Josephine Ochej
We could blither on and on about our picks for this year's du Maurier International jazz Festival Vancouver, and I don't know about you, but I think some insight from the musicians who
make the music year 'round in this town is a good idea to help sort through the tantalizingly
huge smorgasbord of jazz delicacies available from June 19-28. Pick up a festival guide and
get to it. Natch, don't forget to check out some stuff in your own backyard while you're at it,
hey, like, maybe these guys ... Oh, and look for Musicians' Picks Part II in next week's TC.
..
JAZZ
AND
SAXOPHONIST COAT COOKE
@ Studio 16 in ESQ ($12); with Tony Wilson's
Eugene Chadbourne
The thing about him is his performances
are usually ecstatic, full of joy, just great fun.
Sun Jun 21, 1pm. GASTOWN. FREE.
Mon Jun 22, 9pm. $12. STUDIO 16 (1545W.
Tribute to Jim Pepper Sun lun 21, 1:30pm in
Gastown (eREE); with Kate Aammett-Vaughan
O'Doul's Thu jun 25; with Kerilie McDowa/1
uintP,t@ O'Doul's Sat jun 20, 8pm; with Mark
odwell, Mon Jun 22, 12pm @ Granville Island
(FREE); with r<arin Plato Quartet, Fri jun 26,
7pm @ Monk McQueens.
?th).
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TueJun 231 ,s:Jopm. $12. WESTERN FRONT
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Besides that there's so much to see. So
much circled in Gastown and Roundhouse.
Hard to pick.
Coat Cooke pla1s in the NOW Orchestra w/
Butch Moms <eiWestern Front Fri Jun 19,
5:30pm ($12); ,n Flowers for Albert itribute
toAlbertAyler) Frijun 19, 11pm @1067; with
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@ Western Front ($10 aav/$12 @ door); in
/Iugs Inside Fri lun 26, 11pm @ 1067; with
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gpm @ Western Front.
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Gerry Hemingway Quartet
He's a great arummer and percussionist/,
composer,
who combines
a lot of
modenrism and freedom with a good background in swing. Always has great players
with him.
Sat Jun 20, 8pm. $28. Vancouver East Culturai Centre.
KennyWheeler&the Upper AustriaOrchestra
Because I'm a trumpet player and he's one
of the later innovators on the instrument
and he's a Canadian and he's not that well
known considering some of the things he's
done on that instrument, and also his writ•
ing and style of playing.
Tue Jun 23, 8pm. $30. ·vancouver East Cultura1 Centre.
Kevin Elaschuk plays Sun jun 21, 12 midnight
~
I VOCALIST KATE HAMMETT-VAUGHAN
P~Y. Lee and pylan van der
SchY. plan Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden
Fri un 26, 8pm, plus numerous
other shows with numerous other
players -just check yer program and
cross-reference,they're everywhere'
FriJun 19, 5:30pm. $12. Western Front
VANCOUVERMUSICIANSPICKTHE BESTOF THE FEST
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And when I lament the lack of
audiences at some of their performances; metaphysical yet cfeeply
grounded moments that will never
be recreated, they both reassure me
that the music is not stopping
anytime soon.
lr(!..AM: I think there's enough musicians here that are dedicated to
playing, and ~!sot~a~have the at~itude ot, not Just s1ttmg and waiting for the phone to ring or someone else to do it. People are doing
stuff themselves. Like putting out
their own CDs and hust1ingup gigs
for themselves and it's great, you
know. And if people do that then
people will have ... the scene will
have more respect for those peoplefrbecause they've done all this
stun, they've made it happen for
themselves. The old days of having lots of places to _playand the
P.lioneringing off the fiook for gigs,
those days are over.
Peggy: As long as the music
keeps moving along I mean if we
just shut down ... aidn't bother,
that would be terrible. But all the
people we're playing with are still
working on projects and you know,
moving ahead.
I
NOW Orchestra w/ Butch Morris
.
The work with Butch is really
fantastic he's at the fen,.
front of the idea of conducting improv music. He's been
involved in this process for
13 years, and we are Conduction Number 102, his final
conduction in this series and
then he'll move on to another idea. It's fascinating,
really challenging and he 1s
getting sounds and ideas out
of the tNOW] orchestra that
I have never heard before.
It's really exciting for us.
Frijun 19, 5:30pm. $12. Western Front
Shirley Eikhard
I heard Shirley Eikhard sing
20 years ago when she wrote
a tune thal became a hit for
Anne Murray. She was a folk
songwriter, I think she entered a songwriting contest with It Takes Time
to Move a Mountain; nice tune, it was a big
hit. I heard her sing on TV• she had this ricli
alto voice. She's a good songwriter and understands values that make a good song. She
wrote Something to Talk About, Bonnie Raitt's
hit, and she has good natural understanding
of what it takes to write a good tune. The fad
that she's taken her natural ability of what
makes a good tune and entered into jazz
standards - 9 out of 10 times I'd say, 'Bad idea'.
The world is full of people who think all they
have to do is put on black dress, put a gardenia in their hair and they're Billie Holidar, but
have a gut feeling it'll sound beautifu and
she'll have real integrity.
Sat Jun 20, 8pm. $2/s.Vogue Theatre on bill with
Tools Thielemans II( Kenny Werner
Kate Hammett-Vaughan sings in the NOW Or·
chestra Fri Jun 19, _5:3opm @ Western Front
($12); Garbo's Hat Sat jun 20, 53opm@ We~tern Front ($12); in her KH-V c.duartet (doing
standards w/ Kevin EJaschuk-trumpet, Bil{Coonguitar, Simon Fisk-bass) Thu jun 25, 8pm @
D'Doul's; in the Gilbert/Hammett-Vaughan
Quintet Sat Jun 27 5pm@ Roundhouse (FREE);
,n duo with Chris Gestrin pianist Satjun 27, 8pm
@ the Whip Gallery; in lier KH-V Quartet (Ron
5amworth, Andrew Lachance, Tom Foster) Sun
jun 28, nopm @ Roundhouse (FREE).
GUITARIST RON SAMWORTH
NOW Or.chestra w/ Butch Morris
It's a great pick because Butch Morris is an
innovator in conducting improvised music.
Through this method he elevates structured
improvisation to a level with other notated
Western music forms. This will be a hot performance because this is conduction workshop number 102, the final workshop of this
series of working in this way, and is ttie culmination of 13years of work.
Willem Breuker Kollektief/Dave Douglas'
Tiny Bell Trio
Breuker and his band of crazy Dutch guys;
he's a mainstay of the Dutch scene, he
brings this great dadaist sensibility to
whafhe does. The Tiny Bell Trio is three
young cutting ed_gemusicians who are
expanding the definition of playing within
forms and without forms. Ana Brad
Shepik is one of my favourite guitar play-
ers.
Sun Jun 21,,. m. $25 @ 872-5200, Black
Swan, H,gnl, e, TM.
VANCOUV R EAST CULTURAL CENTRE
Ron Samworth plays in the NOW Orchestra Fri jun 19, 5:30pm @ Western Front
($_12);in Swing Theory dance/music improv
/'n jun 19-WeiJ 24 @ Rounahouse ($20),
7pm; with EDAM improv dance Frijun 19Sat 20 II( Fri Jul 3 8pm @ Western Front
10 adv/$12 @ aoor); ,n Mark Nodwe/1
uintet at Granville Island Mon jun 22
~ REE); in Talking Pictures Thu jun 25 @
ancouver East Cultural Centre on bill w/
Frith/Ochs/Masaoka
($23); in the Hara
Rub6er Orchestra Sat Jun 27 @ Perform·
ance Works (FREE); in the Kate Hammett•
Vaughan Quartet Sun jun 28, 7:30pm @
Roundhouse (FREE);
GUITARIST TONY WILSON
Mark
Helias'
Open
Loose/Gerry
Hemingway Quartet/Fran~ois 8oule's
ohn Carter Project
.
•
n those three 6ands you've got'some of
the best contemporary improvisers and
composers around.
Satjun 20, 8pm. $28@ 872-5200,TM. Vancouver East Cultural Centre
l
Fred Firth/Larry Ochs/Miya Masaoka
I like Fred Fritn. And ialliing Pictures is
the back up band, they're probably the
best band in town, an added bonus.
Thujun 25, 8pm. $23@ 872-5200, TM. Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Tony Wilson plays in Flowersfor Albert (a tribute to Albert Ayler) Fri Jun 19 @ 1067; in
Swing Theory Fri Jun 19-Wed 24 ~ Roundhou.se ($20), 7pm; in Tony Wilson s Tribute
to Jim Pepper Sun Jun 21, 1:30pm @ Gastown
(PREE); with CeTtic Worh Wed Jun 24 @
1067; ,n the Tony Wilson Sextet Thu jun 25
@ 1067; with Saul Berson Thu Jun 25, 12pm
@ Granville Island (FREE); in Irugs Inside Fri
Jun 26 @ 1067; with Celt,c Works Sat Jun 27,
9pm @ Roundhouse (FREE) with 1<okoro
Dance/Music improv Sat Jun 27 @ 1067.
Tix for 1067 @ door. Tix for Jazz Fest events
@ 872-5200, TM. Tixfor Jazz Festclub events.
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Josephine
Ochej
Sorry,Matt...
First off, I must aJ)ologize to Matt Caruso of
Thermos ror calling him a name not his own.
Blame Phil Oats. "He told me his name was
Cameron. In fact!-that name apP.arently belongs
to the drummer rrom Soundgarden.And, in further fact, that makes me all the more sorry, for
I've always hated Soundgarden. Thank god they
broke UJ).And thank god Thermos formea. Previous week I saw what Gilles Zolty's UP.to and now
one of his other ex-bandmates Annie Wilkinson
has provided a hint of what's comin_gwith her new
group, Thermos last Saturday at Cafedeux Soleils.
Quite understated, I thouglit at first, and then I
became aware of this low, insistent, steady tension thing with Wilkinson's vocals. Nice to hear
her out on top, on her own from the surface-seemingly-happy /off-kilter-twisted harmony vocals of
her previous Knock-Down-Ginger.
The second-last
song had awesome guitar work from Caruso (I
detect a Neil Young inrluence here) and Wilkinson
doing this slide up and down repetition thing that
got your attention. Like to hear that again. Pretty
gooc for just a few rehearsals, but loolcit the musicians: Annie, Matt, holf shit drummer Barry
Mirochnick,and melodic ( could actually hear the
bass, unusual in a 'plugged' unit that's not, say,
jazz) bassist Joellefrom Bonafly.Not too shabby.
This would also be an understatement when
SP.ea
king about the musical magician that is Veda
Hille. I love her crazy, lilting voice that jumps and
falls over words that seem normal when someone speaks them but never when she's singing
them. Every syllable has meaning in her voice. l
think my favourite Veda is the one who takes that
same open-heart apJ)roach of her singing to her
unexpected piano playing. This niglit, she did
mucli work on the guitar, and I'd like to hear some
more of this, perliaps without the band around
her, to get a fuller grasp on where this is going.
Not that I want that band to go anywhere - no-on.
Same drummer from Thermos• and, y'know, holy
shit doesn't quite cut it. A quick query of Zolty/
Wilkinson other ex-bandmate WayneAdams gave
knowledge of drum type (smaller) and tuning
(higher pitched • tighter?) as what provides that
tignt, fast, stand-at-attention tone. Never seen
anything like the bow-on-saw (yes, large, serated
handsaw like the one you migfit use if you didn't
have a chainsaw) in harmony, and pretty close to
perfectly so, with Hille's vocals. 1/·ust love surP.rises
like that. Pretty goddamned ki ler band, aading
different dimensions and dynamics to Hille's
music. A couela audience restless lulls here and
there, but big finish with a some rockin' numbers,
then encore with a mellow one then a bring-downthe-house cover of The JacksonFive's I Want You
Back. I say Veda has perfect pitch for that song
she says guitarist FordPierdoes. Together: a total
blast. Wahoo.
Here comes Jazzy...
You know it had to happen: the fest does start
this Friday. Or rather, Thursday yesterdax for me
with the wheee opening party which I am
sososososososo happy to be going to, for then I
will have not just one, but two opP.ortunities to
see the total hugeness made up of the very talented four parts of the BradTurnerquartet. Second chance: Friday, lune 19 at Studio 16 - midnight show. Heaven, here I come. Those midnight
shows are the best! You see a lot of the same diehard faces night after night after night, the ones
willing to sacrifice a few nours of precious sleep
for the more valuable commodity of the greatest
offering the world has: music. And, yes, we have
to get up and work in the morning, we just have
our priorities in order. So, my cats won't recognize me for not seein_gme for 10 days. Cats live 1n
the moment, they'll forget they didn't know me a
day after the fest's over and I'm in bed hiding
unaer the covers with no good reason to be anywhere else. But we won't go there just yet. Lets
go instead to ...
Jazzy'sTips for the Ultimate JazzFest Experience
1. Read tlie official du Maurier InternationalJazz
FestivalVancouverprogram guide. Yes, they spell
jaz with one z in tlie groovy cover art. It doesn't
mean they don't have the scoop on what's going
down.
2. Circle all the things you simply must see/hear
first. Mark things you'c like to see surrounding
those circled events with an X.
3. Re-read the guide - each listing beginning to
end, no cheating - to cross-reference where and
in what groups your currerit and new favourite
players will be appearing next. It's about collaboration with each other, people, understand this and
you will have a happy life.
4. Beg borrow or steal a car. No, it's not environmentally correct, but it's going to help Y.OU
fly from
venue to venue as you try to catch all the great
music going on witliout spending valuable listening time sittin_g on the bus. A 1:i1keis almost as
good, except it you're wearing long skirts as I usually do. But then there's nowhere to put your Slish
that way, either.
5.Carry a bottle of water, at least one bagel and an
apple at all times. No time for trivial things like
s1tt1ngdown to eat.
6. Asl< musicians whose music you've just heard
and liked what stuff the{re going to see. Too shx?
Follow them around. Its not stalking if you only
want their expertise.
7. Get a good four hours sleep every night.
8. Re-reaathe guide again. Further cross-reference
to be sure you "haven't missed anything you'll kick
yourself for a whole year over.
9. There's so much variety in this fest (including
tons of free shows) that I declare it an absolute
truth that there is indeed something for everyone,
so therefore I insist everyone shoufd go see/hear
at least one thing.
10. For god's sake, DON'T CLAP AFTER EVERY
NOTE. ft's so goddamned annoying to everyone
around except the most headcase of musicians
who don't think genuinely appreciative applause
politely at the ena of a song is enough and don't
mind having their _playing crowned out by audience noise. Like, for 1nsfance, now woula be a
good time to clap.
--Phil
Oats
tions (especially that cocky asshole John Pifer from
AM 1040: "How many millions it cost?" he asked,
silence of smiles, then he asked after silence, "Why
is everybody smiling?" ParmeshBhatt, the producer
of the event who had a lot riding on it replied, "Money
makes everybody smile and it makes me cry maybe."
Pushing further, Pifer asked,. "What's the bottom
line?" Answer: "Minimum $5 million Canadian").
The two Hawaiian
sumos
Akebono and
Mushashimaru with their grasp of English had the
advantage. Akebono was asked by VTVhow much
money sumo wrestlers made. Someone replied to the
reporter that the info was in the press guide. "It's for
television," VTV replied cuz if it ain't said on TV it
don't exist. Akebono answered, "More than television
cameramen." Musashimaru chose to say nothing,
he's a man mountain, he sat there eyes closed, head
to one side, picking his fingern"ails.
Another reason I'd take sumo over hockey any day is
C:
their smooth and bare masses offlesh. And the fight"'
'§
ing. That's all there is. Object: push the other guy out
......,
of the ring. That's it! Some matches quite brief. Pushing and bucking, and one sumo's technique was to
slap like a schoolgirl. No schoolgirls allowed to touch
the ring, tho. Purely male due to ritual. Everything
here comes down to ritual. The way the salt is thrown
This week I thinks I'll recap the Sumo CanadaBasho
can be a defiant gesture. The stares, the glares. Eveof June 6-7 at Pacific Coliseum, altho I not a man
rything symbolic which adds to the drama.
norminal for sporting events. Example: late last year
Corporations even get integrated into ritual: before
I attended a VancouverCanucksgame and the only
the finals began, men with banners walked around
exciting thingee was the between-period entertainthe ring. On the banners were corporate sponsors
ment that included a remote controlled inflatable killer
Konamiand CanadianAirlines.
whale dropping 'dinner-for-two' tickets into the crowd;
The Finals: Akebono vs. Takanohanawith jelly jiggling
The Sport Chek dancers (hot!) ;and a kids' league
on Akebomo until he's pushed out.
hockey game that prompted me to yell out, "That's
Awards Ceremony: Takanohana got lotsa stuff like a
my boy!" The fella beside me asked, "Which one's
year of free salmon.
your boy?" I pointed randomly. "Which one?" "Uh.
Closing Ceremony: Everyone (wrestlers, judges) enNumber 18." "That's your boy?!?" "Uh. He's just a
ters. Japanese kids scream for autographs. Uniform
neighbourhood kid I know." Shortly then after, the
lines formed. Akebono gives a thank-you speech. Then
fella and his pal switched places prob'ly thinking that
they all turned and waved goodbye. The crowed waved
I was dangerous, yeah, dangerous. I left before the
back. Very misty and personable. Come back sumos,
end of the game.
we love you!
•
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Is it just the foreignness of it all or does sumo wresAnd the crowd: some Japanese, more white. Young,
tling have it over hockey in oh so many ways? The
casually yet nicely dressed. I would love to go into
hockey players' personalities seem fairly blase even
more detail but can't due to: a) lack of space and; b)
when they is eating potato chips in TV commercials. c: like most Western press who were full of inaccuraThe sumo wrestlers are treated like rock stars in )acies I have a lack of knowledge.
pan and, yes, they do have more glamour. Flashy
robes, little rituals, facial expressions. They do lotsa t: Festivald'ete...
,
promo and charity work outside of sumo. Their char- J5 was the Francophone fest that happened June 12-17.
acters are easier to know plus in the ring their indi- ~ They brought French Canadian pop star JeanLeloup
vidual tactics are more fully highlighted. And they are
to play outside on June 13. I ate a lot - too much like rock stars! At the press conference two days bepoutine. Huge crowd there. What an entertainer! Horn
fore they just roamed around freely. As they did
player, back up singers, and a smoke machine. He'd
around the city. Well, they would be mobbed in )adance and play guitar and he was sexy with his '64pan! I was at the hotel and they walked by me. Giera Stones haircut and curled smile. Am I developing
ants? The earth did not shake. They didn't seem that
a crush? One of only good acts to come out of Quebig until I saw one in street clothes. Plaid dress shirt
bee. So much ofit is dreadfully bad fashion (scarves
tucked into khakis makes one look bigger than when
as belts, jeans tucked into boots) but he's not. A bit
clad in the standard-issue robe. I noticed that less of
funky. But not too much to be bad funkstench. Catchy
'em could squeeze into an elevator than reg'lar folk. I
as hell pop. French lyrics. Wry-sounding vocals. A 20am a toothpick. They are between 300 and 600
minute dub reggae sprawl that led into the hit. He
pounds.
played for three hours! He sometimes plays for five!
At the press conference we got clumsy white touristy
A showman! Place was packed at 15-20 bux a head!
shit speeches. Do the wrestlers ever get tired of such
He showed up at a party I was at later. Alotta people
officious rigamarole? They looked bored. I wanted
there didn't know who he was. He shouldJ>e huge all
these goliath dignitaries to tip tables over. No dice.
over the world instead of Quebec! I hope that one
They're used to such long-windedness and they're
day pop music will exact its revenge on the English
very laid back. Question time from the press came
language. just wait.
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So look who's back, the guy with the puppydog
eyes, a beer in one hand his heart in the other. It's
here, the summer of'98. lfthat doesn't have a ring
to it, what does? A rare moment of forethou~h"t
got crosswise in my mind and ' figured that 98
will be one that in 10 or 20 years we11look back at.
What will we see?Well, time to make that up. Summer '98. I find myself as pictured above, same expression, same items handy. Mind the plague and
warn the Duke! Did I ever mention I was a Leo?
Last Wednesday of course started with dinner
with the folks at The Royal Thai on Bute corner
Robson, a restaurant with as much atmosphere as
the inside of an empty kleenex box. Food alright,
Kirin Beer very_good. For afters it was the Starfish
for WheatChiefswith new drummer and new songs
and once again a tight yet loose group that sings
and plays from the gut and heart with gan'g vocals
almost as good as Moby Grape. Go see them on
Wednesday. 3.60 openec and thex have a bit of
something I aunno what yet. Overheard their CD
in a coffeeoar and actually asked what it was. What
was heard from the back room at times had us
goofv dancing there. Picture three of the four Wheat
Chiefs doing the pre-gig shimmy, all four dressed
in white short sleeve cotton dress shirts (by accident). So, 360 is okay. On Thursday dinner was at
Stepho'son Davie wnere nothing is over 10 dollars
so why bother critiguing except to say that the
Saganaki,one of my faves, was actually mozzarella!
A wee bit bogus, tliat. And Retsinawine is Retsina
winehman. The P.erfectappetizer for some FordPier
on T e Drive at Cafedeux Soleilswhere along wi!b
McNaulty and Rose on drums and bass resP,ectively he sang his little head off and played SJ)tµ1ked
guitar, at one point coaxing feedback like Hendrix
could. Not enough guitar players know how to play
feedback. That's when you steal bits of music that's
escaped from Heaven, because that's what feedback is. Most J)eople get scared by it when they
hear it cuz they're not ready. People like Fprd welcome it and like cosmic thieves take a little extra
and make it sing,_for like moments on end. On FridaY,we dined afThe KettleOffish where I ran into
Vicki,a waitress, who was doin' same while I tended
bar in VictoriaDining RoomofChateau LakeLouise
12 years ago. Flashback. Clam Chowder was real
good and Swordfish,which when it's good is unreal, this being alright. ChocolateBoml>ewith fine
Port fer afters. Mmmmmm. I stayed home this
night. Saturday took my parents to see "Ra~ime".
Wow. Now that's entertainment. 1laughed,l cried.
But mostly I cried. I didn't realize it was such a
good story; it covered a lot of ground. Three families get tangled, a well-to-do white family, a black
famiTy,and an immigrant family. Incredible sets and
set changes and the singing was stirring. Then it
was dining at Umberto's,a v.eryshee place. Twenty
clams for crab and lobster Agnalotti.Enh. Chamira
the cat was stuck in her high rise pad this night
fighting a cold the best way, curled up and sleeping. Me I saw Calexicoat tlie Starfishand they got
better with each tune so that they didn't want to
stop playing. A,:,d so they didn't._ Yay! Stret~hing
out and _getftng1ns1desongs and Jams and pieces
and all kinds of colours from just guitar and drums.
Howe Gelb's Giant Sand buddies and man thex've
picked UP.some wonder from Howe. Highlights
included joey's Lost In Space from Giant Sand's
collaboration with LisaGermanocalled OPS,which
on this occasion reiterated it's place as one of the
best songs of '97. And their barroom version of
Minutemen's Jesus And Tequila. Best two-piece I
seen. During Dirty Three I remembered how I wandered around last time I saw them and realized
how, yes, their music can be the soundtrack to just
about anything and so it was as I wandered al:iout
the room, people drinking, smoking, couples fighting, kissing, people laug~,ng, crying, whatev_er.Perfect. Better than ever fh1s 6and 1snarness1ng the
beast and making some great music. As usual up
front there were too many P.eople standing not
dancing arms folded uptignt. Warren Ellis,the violin player made everybody sit down then get on
stage and let loose fearing he might be playing in
the storage room of a wax museum. Musfve
seemed lil<e it. Anyway, loey Burns told me Giant
Sand should be comingnere in July. Fuckin' Ya_y!
Monday was P.ressdaY.at Playlandwhere an is
free and I scarfea down three hot dogs and liberally half-ate candyflossand popcornhgoin'on rides
with the folks. No one cares about t e ferris wheel
anymore. Tuesday night was dinner at The Hermitage, expensive place on Robson. French cuisine.
Sinned with the rack of lamb and lemon ta rte.
That bringsus to this week...
FridaY,night you've no doubt.seen the -groovy
i:,osters for Shitkickerat The Columbiawhere John
Fordhaplessly endeavours to kick the shit rignt off
their shoes and give the boot to swaggery clung.
Also Mac Pontiacwill no doubt exert sna~ demon
exorcizing. If he's got pedal steel again I II be sitting next1o it. Ricli Hope is the great white Hope
inspired on this night fer sure to put the wellingtons
to liis pop laments. PalaceFlophouse you may be
able to imagine what this may sound like. DJ is Dub
Cowboywlio should be me. 4 bands 4 bucks. No
minors, lots of everything else. At The Cobalt you
can see that band Breeal wrote about last week
along with the frightening industrialized crank that
is Bin's PsychoticMother and Deviantz. Wondering about FryerTuck?They got the Starfishthis night
wilh Ottoban. New music for now people.
On Saturday RaY.
Condo&.His Ricochetsare back
at the Blue LizardCabaretwhere I haven't been in
eons. On a good night the Blue Lizard is trippy,
perfect for 'shroom1n. Kooky rooms, dim lights,
blue luminescent martinis and people dressea up.
Lots of other attractions and acts and perversity
and Rax Condo will shake the vibrations.
Sunoay at Cafedeux Soleilsis Matt&. Eric'sJam
Night wl-iere you are invited to come down early
ana sign up to try whatever. No poetry, though. Storytelling oka_y under four minutes says Matt.
Couldn't think of a better bunch or a better place.
lncidently Matt and Eric are veterans of many bands
about town including Pukeand The Dukes, Misbegotten Woe, Dynamo Ho, BlackShit Puppy Farm,
AmplifiedOhm, Indian Head Band,TrumanCoyote
ancfThe SoulVendors,The RemainingFew, ana of
course Womb Service.
This Wednesday see the aforementioned Wheat
Chiefsat The Brickyardto see one of the best bands
in town. Removalis a dir:ty three of pounding P.arts.
They open. Starting Wednesdays at the Starfishbig
black rocking nignts in the tradition of the no
bullshit variety with BlackMarket Bab}'_
DJs Roband
Rich and fitting live band. This weekThe·Spitfires.
And don't forget about Eugene Ripper and his
punkin'/folk relurn at Sugar~efinery,Wednesday.
Parents gone now, always sad to say goodbye. Feel
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KENALDCROFT
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Man. there's so much FREESTUFFat the festival that it's just criminal to not go check some
of it out. This young guitar/trombone/drums
combo entertained at a pre-fest luncheon in
late April where they were. ironically. largely
ignored by the crowd of mostly media types
who'd just heard a speech about how music
was the whole reason we were all there.
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BRAD
TURNER
QUARTET
Split these up - cause that's what rube doing.
Tony Wilson's tribute to Albert Ayler is a loud
and squawking rollicking affair. With two
drums and two basses. things get pretty intense rhythmically and it's our very own finest playing this night. so head off the jazz fest
track for this one before zooming over to catch
the last set of Brad Turner Quartet. spit factory and young trumpet player extraordinaire.
who has before sent me into la la land with
smoothe and sultry sounds.
BTQ, 12 midnight. $12 @ 872-5200. Black
Swan. High/ife. TM. door.
PACIFIC
CENTRE
PLAZA
(Georgia
@ Granville)
JAZZFEST:
MARK
HELIAS'
OPEN
LOOSE,
GERRY
HEMINGWAY
QUARTET,
FRANCOIS
HOULE'S
JOHN
CARTER
PROJECT
UNSANE/THE
KITTENS
Josephine Ochej
Unsane is a band that I've heard of mentioned
in the same breath as Helmet and other NYC
noise rock bands but never heard. On listening to their newest CD I can indeed testify/hat
Unsane rocks and rolls with the emphasis on
the roll. The first song sounds mor'e like
NoMeansNo crossed with Helmet. With rolling drums. screamed vocals and H!!avy guitars Unsane falls in that nether-region between heavy metal. hardcore and free-style
jazz. Should be heavy in the bestest sense.
10pm. 9pm doors. $9 @ Highli~. Noize.
Scratch. Zulu.
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This gig promises to bring together contemporary creative music in one fast. intense
night. I don't know nothing 'bout Helias and
Hemingway except what the program tells me.
What I do know is Fran~cois Houle and he is
another of our very own treasures. Local players. van -der Schyff on drums. Lee on cello.
Dresser bass and visiting New Yorker Dave
Douglas on trumpet put this firmly at the top
of the evening's picks.
8pm. $28 @ 872-5200. Black Swan, Highlife.
TM.
VANCOUVER EASTCULTURALCENTRE
Slish
STUDIO
16{1545W.7th)
FFA IOE_m.Tix@ door.
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12pm. FREE.
SATURDAY,JUNE20
Slish
JAZZFEST:
BRUNO
HUBERT
TRIO
Having seen Hubert dancing in his seat at the
piano a couple of times has led me to wonder
if he was a hyperactive child. He exhibits a
wonderfully childlike exuberance in his playing that in some. might be distracting, but in
him only elevates the pleasure and excitement
for the listener to see a musician so unabashedly and thoroughly enjoying himself. Damned
good player. too. With also damned good
player Andre Lachance on bass and not-yetseen Bill Campbell on drums. Go see.
Sal Jun 20. 8pm. Tix @ door.
BLUE
NOTE
JAZZBISTRO
12340W.4th).
FriJun 19. 12pm & 1pm FREE. With Fran,ois
JAZZFEST:
FRAN~OIS
HOULE/TAKEO Houle. Andre Lachance.
CBC
JAZZCAFE
(700Hamilton)
YAMASHIRO
Picture this, In the perfect zen of ancient Chinese garden. flute and shakuhachi. Now I don't
know what a shakuhachi is but I believe it don't
_matter because this sound!' like the perfect
idea for music as powerful as IO billion but\erlly sneezes. A jointly composed work re1\ectinggolden auras glowing around you and
the omnipresent love which surrounds you.
8pm. $12 @ 872-5200. Slack Swan. Highlife.
TM.
DR.SUNYAT-SEN
ClASSICAl
CHINESE
GARDEN
(578Carroll)
Phil Oats
LEGENDS
ALIVE!
People who became pseudo-celebrities by
doing impersonations of actual celebrities. but
that I'd like to see just the same. See the
"Blues Brothers·. "Neil Diamond" (my personal lave). "Mick Jagger·. "Elton John". "Tom
Jones·. "Roy Orbison·. "The Righteous Brothers·. "Rod Stewart·. "Mick Jagger· and even
some Can-Con with "Shania Twain". Wouldn't
be surprised if Dan Aykroyd and John
Goodman showed up to do their impersonation of the' real Blues Brothers just like they
did in there big movie last year.
7,30pm. lnfoltix 681-5779.
PNEAGRIDOME
Fri Jun 26. 8pm. Tix @ door.
O'DOUlS
{1300Robson).
Sun Jun 28. 3pm. FREE.
PERFORMANCE
WORKS
(Granville
Isle)
Josephine Ochej
THEINBREDS
From the beautiful single Any Sense of Time
from 1994's Kombinator The Inbreds have
been one of my bands to watch. My experience has been limited mostly to their inventive and crazy videos for their inevitably catchy
songs (my favourite being the recent multiple
Inbred cloning machine video). Some say that
the Canadian bass-drums duo play Brand X
indie-rock. I say you couldn't be more wrong.
More Rheostatics than Treble Charger. The
Inbreds will be around for a long time. Sloan's
Chris Murphy named The Inbreds' Mike O'Neill
one of his favourite singers and how cool is
that?
$10@ Black Swan. Highlife. Scratch. Zulu. TM.
STARFISH
ROOM
Duncan Williams
BLUE
LIZARD
COCKTAIL
CLUB
3RD
ANNIVERSARY
3 SWING
CIRCUS
Has it been three years? How have I managed
STARFISH
ROOM
Duncan Williams
WEDNESDAY,JUNE24
EUGENE
RIPPER
TOOTSTHIELEMANS
SatJun20. V agueTheatr e. WithKennyW er ner&guestShirley
Eikhard.$28 @ 872-5200, BlackSwan,Hi hlife, TM.
SUNDAY,JUNE21
JAZZFEST:
WILLEM
BREUKER
KOLLEKTIEF
/DAVEDOUGLAS'
TINY
BELL
TRIO
JAZZFEST:
DIANA
KRALL
TRIO,GEOFF
KEEZER
TRIO
She may be poo-poohed for being the golden
girl of mainstream jazz. but there's nothing
middle-of-the-road about the way Diana Krall
expertly guides emotion out of the listener as
Hard to take a miss on Diana Krall but I'm
well
as herself and into the room. She's more
going to have to go with the edge-of-your-seat
girl-next-door playful and charming than the
players, as usual. The Kollektief hails from
husky. overtly sexual great dames of jazz eras
Dutchland and any and all musicians I have
past. but still possesses the potential to be one
heard in recent years from Amsterdam have
of the great broads of her own generation.
kept me wired and inspired. Have heard the
She's got you crying about lost love one
Tiny Bell Trio a few years running and each
minute. and the next. you're swinging in your
time fall deep into the klezmer snap zing of
seat. having forgotten that you had ever fallen
their sound. Douglas always sounds comfortout of love. Sparkling-piano talent. captivating
able at the edge of the abyss where he and
emotive vocal range. charming 'I can't believe
his music generally live.
the spotlight is on me' personality. glamorous
8pm. $25 @ 872-5200. Black Swan. Highlife.
good looks- she's got the whole package. And
TM.
while her sets may be fairly predictable, with
VANCOUVER
EAST
CULTURAL
CENTRE
crowd favourites Peel Me A Grape and Frim
Slish
Fram Sauce inevitably thrown in. you always
know you're going to get a smashing. memoJAZZFEST:
EUGENE
CHADBOURNE/PAT
rable show.
• •
•
THOMAS/ALEX
WARD
8pm. SOLD OUT
Chadbourne's done some neat shit over the
years by playing LSDC+W and his Electric
Rake and Beatles medley with lotsa free
fucked improv guitar skewer. He can also let
his sense of humour get too much in the way
and be gratingly annoying. Hopefully the two
also seasoned Brits (on synth and clarinet)
he's playin9 with will not let that happen and
still make 11possibly be the most fun gig of
this Fest.
Sun Jun 21, 1pm. FREE. GASTOWN.
Mon Jun 22, 9pm. $12 @ 872-5200. Black
Swan. Highlife. TM. STUDIO 16 (1545 W. 7th).
Tue Jun 23. 5,30pm. $12@ 872-5200. Black
Swan. Highlife. TM.
WESTERN
FRONT
(303E.8th).
ORPHEUM
Josephine Ochej
JAZZFEST:
TONY
WILSON'S
TRIBUTE
TOJIMPEPPER
Six of my laves, led by composer. leader and
player Wilson who pulls out some of the best
musical moments from his musicians. This six
has an almost magical communication with
each other and almost every time they get together it is some kind of event to be heard.
Blaney bass. Elaschuk trumpet. Lee cello. Say
sax, van der Schyff drums and Wilson geetar.
See you at the front of the stage. music lovers.
1,30pm. FREE.
GASTOWN
Josephine Ochej
Slish
JtZZFEST:
LINCOLN
CENTER
JAZZ
OKCHESTRA
WITHWYNTON
MARSALIS
MONDAY, JUNE22
SUGAR
REFINERY
Phil Oats
EVERCLEAR/MARCY
PLAYGROUND/
FASTBALL
Call him a flash in the pan or a shameless
opportunist. Everclear·s Art Alexaxis is one
songwriter to be reckoned with. Even if he
works within the finely delineated lines of
post-grunge Alternative Rock. Sharing the bill
at this outdoor event are two other fast-to-rise
but easy-to-fall hoi pop bands, Marcy Playground (Sex and CandY) and Fastball ( The
WaY).Kind of reminds me of th~.early sixties
when there was a new pop band with one hit
single every week. But then I love disposable
pop.
Tix@TM
PWA OFNATIONS
Duncan Williams
SUMMER
NIGHTS
ATTHEPIER:
PATTI
LABELLE
This mixed-bag something-for-everyone annual summer-long happening on Seattle's
waterfront has some big names past and
present. and even some worth taking a trip.
Not that going to Seattle is any great hardship
or anything ...
7pm. $36 @ website, summernights.org. 206/
628-0888. US TM.
SEATTlE
PIER
62/63
TIMEOFHERLIFE
JAZZFEST:
CHADBOURNE/THOMASSeries of events on the fourth Wednesday of
every month with partial proceeds going to
WARD
West End charities. This month has a mid-
Not likely to hear the Lincoln Center orchestra anytime soon so this makes a good start
to the fest. and the ego that is Wynton Marsalis
i~ not to be missed. Last time he was in town,
he strutted on to Miles Davis' stage and tried
to overthrow the master. Ha! But he's maybe
THE world class player and the band will be
doing some swinging and bopping in big band
style.
8pm. SOLD OUT.
The write-up in the program touches on
psychedelia and avant-garde music. Uhh
yeah! Chadbourne wacked-out guitar playing.
Clarinetist Ward and Thomas keyboards both
have rock and pop playing under their belts.
so seems that thismight
leap out of any
boundaries enforced upon it. Drummer Dylan
v d Schyff said he was interested in going. so
I'm going to follow his lead and check it out.
Mon Jun 22. 9pm. $12@ 872-5200. Black
Swan. Highlife. TM.
'
ORPHEUM
Slish
14THANNUAL
JAZZFEST
STUDIO
16(1545W.7th).
More than the echo of the International Jazz
Festival Vancouver will be heard across the
sea in Victoria. with many of the artists appearing here hopping a ferry. chopper or
floatplane for the gorgeous tour to play our
capitol city. Taking in both tests will be Jack
DeJohnette's Oneness. Terence Blanchard
Group, Andy Summers. the Diana Krall Trio.
Toots Thielemans & Kenny Werner with
Shirley Eikhard, the Philosopher Kings.
Jeremy Davenport Quartet. Decidedly Jazz
Danceworks and more. With over 250 artists
performing at the Victoria fest. and more than
1400 in Vancouver during exactly the same
time period. you get an idea of the scope. And
while Victoria is boasting a good dose of the
big names. the Vancouver fest gets bonus
points for displaying a pretty healthy appreciation for Vancouver-based musicians and
experimentaUimprov.
FriJun 19-Sun 28. Tix@250/386-6121.
to never attend one of these things? Everyone
used to say they had such fun at these events.
mo~tly d~e to the sheer variety of stuff going
on in various rooms at the not understated
Waldorf Hotel. Maybe that's why these events
are still happening while most of the 'lounge
scene' has evolved into the ·swing scene·.
they've never relied on merely spinning old
records. With Ray Condo & His Ricochets (one
of the best names in music). New York Jimmy
& the Jive 5, who I believe to be of the swing
persuasion. Vic Storm & the Cabaret Girls, with
the usual suspects DJs Laslo Kovacs and Todd
Tomorrow. Justin the Professional Sneaky Guy
and Cass King.
$10 adv@ Sharp & Friends. Waldorf/$15@
door. Info 685-1133.
VARIOUS
VENUES
• VICTORIA
THEWALDORF
Josephine Ochej
•
Celebrating the release of his second fulllength album Faster Than You Think. original
punker. talker, punk/folker and anti-folker.
rocker Ripper continues his march outside of
what he deems the mainstream conventions
of the music biz. The song/stories found on
this album. such as the easily identifiable
modern folk ballads Sometimes Feels ... or
Drinking My Way Back Home are the type of
songs best left in the hands of those who can
spin such a yarn without making one cringe.
This is no easy task but Ripper knows his way
around and through a song. Having honed his
baby teeth during punk rock's salad days the
grit comes through on acoustic. See why at
this special engagement.
Tue Jun 23. 5,30pm. $12 @ 872-5200. Black
Swan. Highlife. TM.
•
'
WESTERN
FRONT
(303E.8th).
Josephine Ochej
summer's hoe-down with Daisy Duke (harmony~base d country-folk
group with
accord1an).Nadine Davenport (guitar-playing
solo singer-songwriter) and the Lavender
Martinis (lounge/torch trio). Cover is only $5.
and for another five bucks, all-you-can-eat
bbq!
8pm. Door@6pm. 602-9610.
JUPITER
CAFE
& IILllARDS
(1216Bvte)
Jen Cressey
THURSDAY,JUNE25
JAZZFEST:
GREAZY
MEAL,
JUKEJOlttT
Jukejoint is the only band playing this year's
fest to bother sending a CD! And a bio. And a
photo. Goodon ·em. that alone earned 'em this
Slish
space. See what having material can getcha?
The
music's pretty funky. acid jazzy stuff that'd
JAZZFEST:
ANDY
SUMMERS,
STRANGE
be good to slip into when you're up for some
WEATHER
of that head-numbed spaced-out stuff that's
Every fan of Summers· best-known work as
not really too adventurous or challenging.
guitarist with The Police has gotta be curious
Leave some of the annoying. repetitive vocals
as to what he's up to. I think it will be the ones
off and it'd be better still. Greazy Meal? I know
who appreciated the genre-blending of that
what you know - if you've read the info in the
band's attitude-riddled reggae-pop for its
guide. Prob'ly more of the above.
ahead-of-its-time unusualness. who will be
9pm. $18 @ 872-5200. Black Swan. Highlife.
open to the further explorations into mixing
TM.
to see what matches amongst the wide-openRICHARD'S
ONRICHARDS
ness of jazz. classical and world music where
Josephine Ochej
he's at now.
9pm. $28 @ 872-5200. Black Swan. Highlife.
JAZZFEST:
FRED
FRITH,
LARRY
OCHS
TM.
Wed Jun 24. 2pm workshop. FREE.
Wed Jun 24. 2pm workshop FREE.
TOMlH MUSIC
HAll(929Granville)•
TOMlH MUSIC
HAll(929Granville).
Robert Dayton
JAZZFEST:
ESQ
Have heard Kevin Elaschuk and co in various
forms and mutations in the past monthes.
They just get better and better. Fast-paced
zoom and swing with some bop and ting.
Kevin's compositions lean to the sultry and
smooth and. once again. our very own lads
playing. The CD, Breakfast in Kamloops
ranges from smoky to silky. and live. they add
a little extra bite.
12am. $12@ 872-5200. Black Swan. High/ife.
TM. door.
STUDIO
16(1545W.7th)
Slish
ANDMIYAMASAOKA
RICHARD'S
ONRICHARDS
Josephine Ochej
His music is as neato as his name. Frith! Fred
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grooves
Music
Mon Jul 6. $25 @ TM.
PNEFORUM
SUMMER
NIGHTS
ATTHEPIER
Frith! He's a doynga doyng sproing guitar
bends around. He's played with Eno.The Residents. many others. Does ii all. And now he
collaborates with sax player Ochs and 21string kolo player Masaoka.
With Talking Pictures.
8pm. $23 @ 872-5200, Black Swan, Highlife.
TM
VANCOUVER
EAST
CULTURAL
CENTRE
Robert Dayton
SWERVEDRIVER/BARDO
POND/
TRANSISTER
SOUND
& LIGHTING
CO.
Last time through mine ears took a beating
as these guys had ii turned up so loud that
the best sound was found in the bathroom.
They're back and I'll be prepared for more
over-the-top cranked flanged swirled phased
melodies where even the quieter songs joyfully bleed ears. Also on bill extendo art
noisers Bardo Pond and buzzing and tweeked
Transistor Sound & Lighting Co.
Tix@TM
STARFISH
ROOM
Phil Oats
THIS
JUST
IN
This mixed-bag something-for-everyone annual summer happening on Seattle's waterfront has some big names past and present.
and even some worth laking a trip. Nol that
going lo Seattle is any great hardship or anything ... Chris Isaak Fri Jun 26, Everclear w/
Marcy Playground. Fastball Sal Jun 27, Red.
White & Blues Sal Jut 4, Ani DiFranco Thu Jul
9-Fri 10; Robert Cray Band. John Lee Hooker
Sat Jut 11, Los Lobos. Robben Ford & the Blue
Line Thu Jut 16, Judy Collins. Janis Ian &
Roger McGuinn Fri Jut 17, Ziggy Marley & the
Melody Makers Tue Jut 21, Pat Metheny Group
Sat Jut 25, Jimmie Vaughan & Junior Brown
Thu Jut 30, Leftover Salmon, String Cheese
Incident & Moe Fri Aug 14, David Grisman
Quintet & DocWalson Sat Aug 15.Brian Setzer
Orchestra (great new album!) Wed Aug 19,
Nina Simone Art Ensemble of Chicago Fri Aug
21: The Manhattan Transfer Sat Aug 22, Buddy
Guy. Jonny Lang. Big Head Todd & the Monsters Tue Aug 24-Wed 26.
6pm. 7pm. 8pm start times variable per show.
$15-$38
price
range
@
website,
summernights.org, 206/628-0888, US TM.
Act of God with Dee-Lite's DJ
Dmitryand On·E, CY Funk3, and
Brownieout of LA amongst other
Josephine Ochej
GROOVE98
West Coast DJ Expo & Music Festival w/ DJs.
Skate Jam. Swamp Meet. etc.
DESTROYER,
GAZE,
JESSIE
CLEARWATER
Fri Jun 26-Sun Jut 5. Info 682-1524.
& THE
JETS
Local homocore K Records act Gazeopens up.
Destroyer headlines with release of their new
LP City of Daughters - fo those not in the know
it ain't a KISS tribute band but unconventional
swaggered folk rock with British madrigal
vocals. The must-see act is Jessie Clearwater
and the Jets which. for some funny reason
ain't their real name - it's the Laura Jane
Culhane Trio! And Laura Jane entertains so
much that she might not leave the stage! She'll
sing about being a -nighlowl" ("hoot hoot") and
dance and make faces! Must see!
Fri Jun 26.
VANCOUVER
PRESS
CLUB
(2215Granville)
Robert Dayton
VARIOUS
VENUES
DUOTANG/THE
WEAKERTHANS/
PLUMTREE
Now here's three bands who I've seen and
enjoyed (lo varying degrees) and I can feel
good about recommending.
How nice.
Duotang is a Jam-influenced mod duo of bass
and drums that thrilled and entertained me al
what is now called the Victory Cafe. The
Weakerthans have al least one really great.
sweeping song in the Dinosaur Jr. genre. And
Plumtree is an entertaining. if somewhat typical indie rock. female quartet from Halifax.
Sat Jun 27. 10pm. 9pm doors. $9@ Zulu. TM
STARFISH
ROOM
Duncan Williams
CONDO
ROTCITY:
DESTROYER,
WANDERING
LUCY,
THEALL-STAR
CURVE/DANDY
WARHOLS/DJ?
ACUCRACK
SCHNAUZER
BAND,
THEPEPPER
SANDS Curve was one of the late, great "shoe gazer"
When "handpicked quality used clothing· shop
The Good Jacket puts on a show every few
months it's cause to be an event. Goddammit!
A hoot! The must-see act of this show is the
legendary All-Siar Schnauzer Band. They
hardly ever play and their shows are much
talked about. Actually. they've never played.
but that's a moot point.
Sat Jut 11. 5 bux@ door, 3 bux adv@ Good
Jacket. Lucky's Scratch. Zulu.
GOOD
JACKET
(225E.Broadway)
Robert Dayton
CLUTCH,
PHUNK
JUNKEEZ
Sat Jut 18. 10pm. Doors 9pm. $15.50@ Zulu.
TM.
STARFISH
ROOM
bands from the early '90s. Along with such
notables as Swervdriver, Ride. Lush and My
Bloody Valentine they put the guitars (and lots
of them!) back in British guitar rock. Curve's
distinction was their use of electronic drums.
synths and samples along with the coolest.
gothest vocalist since Siouxsie. Toni Halliday.
Expect a lot of dry ice and battering drumbeatsa la Garbage and Ministry. The Dandy
Warhols are my favourite kind of band, a
poppy. one-hii wonder (Heroin is So Passe)
with the potential for more.
Sun Jun 28. $17.50@Zutu, TM.
THE PALLADIUM
Duncan Williams
VANS
WARPED
TOUR
'98
Solsticethe longest day of the year,
the shortest night of the yeor, the
closest the sun will get to our faces.
Lovely as the sun is do not stare at
it - the UV will sear your huxley
corneas. A healthy alternative to
sun-staring is cutting up the rug all
manner of styles. Toni_ghtFriday
June 19 Tagged,a graffiti art show
420 W. Pender ( 1 0 bux at
Pharsyde& futurustic
flavour.Top
it off with Cherry Bombs,Sonar's
downtempo breaks 'n' funk for
Fridays with DJsCzech, Spun·K.
Saturday 20 June Reavtive8and
Tribal Matrix present Solstice-An
SEATTLE
PIER62/63
ooh-oohs info 891-0500/2900168. DJ Lewis,Alex Patterson's
best man from the Orb is also rumoured to be somewhere in the
mix. Feel like crossing the waters?
Also on June 20 "Creator"brings
you Andrew Rawnsley of SF's
xlr8r in a luscious pacific northwest locale l?h 250/995-1998 for
info. End of the month - Groove
98, a two week DJ fest with DJ
Heather and DJ J Dub from Chicago, ThePharcydeand the DMC
DJ Competition - Vancouver
elimations. How to be down?
Phone 684-9686.
anitagoodlove@mailcity.com
crack hard-core rock unit harking from New
York that kicks serious ass. Should be a
burner. Bring your earplugs and stomping
boots.
Mon Jun 29. 10,30pm. With Firewater. Tix@
Black Swan. Big Daddy, High/ife. Scratch. Zulu.
JESUS
LIZARD
The Jesus Lizard is best renowned for
frontman
David Yow·s arrest on the
Lollapalooza ·95 tour. They·re also a reputedly
STARFISH
ROOM
Duncan Williams
ALL/HAGFISH/ZEKE
Now that the Descendants reunion is over (for
now at least?). All. The Descendants minus
Milo. return to conquer what's left of the punk
rock world. And for those who know not what
of I speak, pick up some early Descendants
or All records for some down home hard-core
cooking. Or better yet. just go to the show.
Tue Jun 30. $15@ Zulu. TM
STARFISH
ROOM
Duncan Williams
H
ARTSCLUB BACKSTAGE
Stingrays
BLAKE'SON CARRALL
Shane Harvey
BLUE NOTE JAZZ BISTRO
Eve Smith
THE BRICKYARD Forget Your
Face, Uncle Dad, Helen's Motor
CAFE DEUX SOLEILS Lion of
Juddah
THE CELLAR JAZZ CAFE
Bob Mahaney Quartet
CHAMELEON Mo' Funk
Collective
COBALT Bill's Psychotic Mother,
Deviantz, Breed
COLUMBIA Helms Deep, Shaft
COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL
OF VANCOUVER Typical Frenzy/
Frenesia Ti pica: live music, tape
music, dance, video, composition, improvisation
THE GATE Rocky Craig & His
Rockabilly Kings, The Deadcats,
The Spectres, DJ Antonia
MARINE CLUB Nancy Weisler
Band
MYLES OF BEANSLes Finnigan
CD Release Party
THE NAAM Owen & Charles Duo
O'DOUL'S Double Threat Quartet
ORPHEUM Lincoln Center Jazz
Orchestra w/ Wynton Marsalis
THE PIC The Furios, The Sky
Fisherman
PURPLEONION LOUNGE
Shazzam
RAILWAYCLUB Bughouse Five
RICHARD'SON RICHARDS
Philosopher Kings, The
MIiiennium Project
ROBSON SQUARE
CONFERENCECENTRE Fara,
Clyde Roulette Band, Sandy
Scofield
SEVEN SEASPORTSIDEROOM
Clanger
SOUTH HILL CANDY SHOP
The Westerlies
STARFISHROOM Ottobon,
FryerTuck, DJs Remedy, Otaku
VANCOUVERPRESSCLUB
Leslie Alexander, Katie McColl
WESTEJ!NFRONT NOW
Orchestra w/ Butch Morris
ARTS CLUB BACKSTAGE
Stingrays
BLAKE'S ON CARRALL Sibel Thrasher
BLUE NOTE JAZZ BISTRO
Bruno Hubert Trio
THE BRICKYARDDuke of Medula,
Diesel Candy, The Elastic Livestock
CAFE DEUX SOLEILS Chasin' Jones
CAFE VIEUX MONTREAL The Jones
Evil Circus CD Release Party
THE CELLAR JAZZ CAFE Eric Vaughn
Trio
CHAMELEON Mo' Funk Collective CD
Release Party
COBALT Vegetable Kingdom, Sir
Hedgehog, 60 Cycle Buzz
COLUMBIA bvids, Caught in the Akt,
Smoked Oyster's
COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF
VANCOUVER Typical Frenzy/Frenesia
Ti pica: live music, tape music, dance,
video, composition, improvisation
THE GATE Monty Banks & His High
Rollers
HMV ROBSON Toots Thielemans &
Kenny Wheeler
THE LOTUS Stonewall Leather Ball Ill
MARINE CLUB Veal
MYLES OF BEANS Desi Kay, Delaney
Rose & the Excess
THE NAAM Browning
O'DOUL'S Kerilie McDowaH Quartet
THE PIC Bughouse 5
PURPLE ONION LOUNGE
Shazzam
RAILWAYCLUB Linda McRae & the 5
, Cents a Dance Band
ARTSCLUB BACKSTAGE
Alcala
Scotch & Cigar w/ Diane Lines
BLUE NOTE JAZZ BISTRO Patty
Jackson
CELLAR JAZZ CAFE Jay Phelps junior
jazz Ensemble
CHAMELEON Rumba Calzada
COBALT Leonie/punk nite
MYLES OF BEANS Jam Night
THE NAAM Becca Jane
O'DOUL'S Leora Cashe Trio
THE PIC Slim's 315Club Swing/
Rockabilly Revue
PURPLE ONION LOUNGE Lee Aaron
RAILWAYCLUB Frank Frink Five
RICHARD'S ON RICHARDS Andy
Summers w/ Strange Weather
WESTERN FRONT G. Coleman/
Moser/Stangl/Dafeldecker s:3opm
THE YALE Coco Montoya
BLAKE'SON CARRALLRolf Kempf &
Budge Schaktie
THE BRICKYARDLoonie Day
CAFEDEUX SOLEILSjam Night w/
Matt Caruso, Eric Napier
THE CELLARJAZZCAFE Karen Graves
Trio
HMV ROBSON Jeremy Davenport 2-
3pm FREE
MYLESOF BEANSCandace Canie &
Ann.Marie Meyer
THE NAAM )amie Clark
O'DOUL'S Alan Matheson Trio
ORPHEUM Diana Krall Trio, Geoff
Keezer Trio
OUISI BISTRO Sweet Papa Lowdown
PURPLE ONION LOUNGE liBEATos
RICHARD'SON RICHARDS
Roomful of Blues
SEVEN SEASPORTSIDE ROOM
Superchauch
WESTERNFRONT Polwechsel 5=3opm
THE WHIP Sahara Nights
WISE HALL Weekly jam w/ The
Preservatives, The Groove Diggers
FREE
THE YALE Tony Robertson's f:i11P."t~r
Blues Jam
When punk went pop! The annual Skate-punk
fest returns again with its usual batch of
rockin' punk bands amidst amazing feats of
fool-hardy skate boarding and BMX Bike bravery. Hard-core survivors Bad Religion headline over Rancid by virtue of their pedigree, I
guess. although I'd bet that the reggae-tinged
punk of Rancid will rate higher with the ki~s.
The Specials British ska-punk will likely be
fun even though they contain neither main
vocalist Terry Hall nor musical mastermind
Jerry Dammers. Expect the Reverend Horton
Heat to serve up his usual mind blowing rocka-billy. As for the rest (NOFX.MXPX.SXXWXXX
etc.. etc.). expect punk rock somewhere be·
tween the Specials ska and Bad Religion's
hard-core.
.
Wed Jut 8. Tix @ TM.
PNE EXHIBITION BOWL
Duncan Williams
ANIDIFRANCO
Used to annoy me to all hell when my cafe
workmate would put this on. Something about
her all-over-the-place breathless voice. She
always sounded like she was running up that
hill. fast. I'm learning to love her, though. She's
funny as fuck in her interviews and her newest. Little Plastic Castles has much to love on
it. both lyrically and musically. Supposed to
be hot live, too.
Sat Jut 11. 8pm. $33@ TM
PLAZA
OFNATIONS
Duncan Williams
Linda Kidder
SOUTH Hill CANDY SHOP
Allison Russell & Tim Readman, Don
Humphries
STARFISHROOM The Inbreds, The
New Pornographers, Bossanova
WALDORF HOTEL 3 Swing Circus: Ray
Condo & His Ricochets, New York
Jimmy & the Jive 5, Vic Storm & the
Cabaret Girls, DJs Laslo Kovaks, Todd
Tomorrow, Justin Professional Sneaky
Guy, Cass King MC
WESTERNFRONT Lonesome
Monsters, Garbo's Hat 5:30pm
THE WHIPliBEATos
THE YALE Isaac Scott
Bellingham
THE WHIP The Beauticians
THE YALE Lee Oskar
THE DOUBLEWIDE
Clumsy Lovers
ARTS
CLUB
THEATRE
I1585Johnston,
Granville
Island)
Duncan William~
JOHN
LEE
HOOKER
& THECOAST
TO
COAST
BLUES
BAND
Mon Jut 13. 8pm. 7pm doors. $35@ TM.
THERAGE
VONDA
SHEPARD
I got no problem with musicians using TV anc
film as a vehicle to further their career. Hell
Diana Krall was on "Melrose Place·. Big Bae
VoodooDaddy.too. and lots of pop bands havE
appeared to record-sale boosting effect or
"Bev Hills 90210".Get it where you can. I say.
still have enough faith in the music industri
that the crap will be weeded out eventually anc
forgotten, though perhaps not soon enough ir
this "Ally McBeal" resident musician's case
She looks like a nice person. but her boring
white soul is a big yawn • she's the femalE
Michael Bolton. for chrissakes! Why anyon1
would pay to see it live when you can see i·
every week on TV is beyond me.
Mon Jut 13. $22.50@ TM.
VOGUE
THEATRE
Josephine Och~
BADAR
ALIKHAN
Fri Jut 17. 8pm. 7pm doors. $24.50@ Golder
Star Video. Kamat Video Palace, Mann Videc
Shop. The Video Shop. Zulu. TM.
MASSEY
THEATRE
(NewWest)
YES
EDGEFEST
98
Wot a horrible lot. Wot an unruly bunch of corporate ass kissing bands. Why the hell is Sloan
on the bill? Have they lost all manner of taste?
Are they going corpasskiss. too? Say in aiQ't
so. Sloan. Foo Fighters cranks out unimaginative poop rock. Green Day is still recycling
the same vocal and guitar riffs. Tea Party could
do well to listen to less Zep and more Screaming Trees: Eco Crush may be the most horrible band I've ever seen. Matthew Good Band?
Pass the butter. this toast is pretty dry ...
Killjoys, Creed?No idea. Lemme guess... hard
rockin' tattooed white boys. Watchmen?
They'd sell their souls for a tenth of Our Lady
Peace's success. There you have it. a guaranteed sell ,out.
Sat Jut 11. 12pm. $42@ TM.
THUNDERBIRD
STADIUM
Phi/Oats
VANHALEN
Sat Jut 11. 8pm. $49.30/$38.55@ TM.
THE GORGE(George. WA)
Prog snorers drag poncy vegan rock into '90!
showing heaps less good taste than when thei
had sense to cover Byrds and Buffalc
Springfield tunes 30 years ago. Alas. tho. as,
born and bred Montrealer I can't shake my sol
spot for these tolls and they have resurrectec
their rendition of Simon & Garfunkel'!
America. When I last saw them in '80 or sc
they had a revolving in-the-round stage wilt
poop deck hatch doors w)lere tbev could dis·
appear during extended solos (and there wen
lots) and grab quick carrot juice/alga1
smoothies (no understage blow jobs for thes1
cats). Apparently this show will be in Surrounc
Sound with laser/light extravaganza. FormeI
non-vegan boozehound Rick Wakeman wa!
always at odds with the rest and is no1,1
christian and is outta the project for the ump·
teenth time (lo be confirmed). Opener Alar
Parsons Live Project likely FM hit balladri
psych for caesar salad set.
Fri Jut 17. Tix @ TM.
GMPLACE
PEARL
JAM
HAYDEN
Canada'sfavourite lo-fi basement singer premieres his new full band at the suitably offbeat venue of the Granville Arts Theatre. One
of the few Canadian artists to make any kind
of splash in the States. Haydenis being touted
as this generation's Neil Young or Leonard
Cohen. Whal he really is. though. is a truly
gifted songwriter who can make a great song
out of a trip to the barber or seeing a cute girl
in line at a hotel. In short. the kind of tiny little
moments that we all experience. Don't expect
However you may feel about EddieVedder anc
the most overplayed band of the nineties, it'!
still been a looong time since they last rod
and rolled in Vancouver. The last of the hie
three (Nirvana and Soundgarden both havin~
packed it in) grunge bands, PearlJam has always been a great live act. My first show ir
Vancouver after moving here was the Nei
Young/Pearl Jam one at GM Place and thei1
lastest album has some good rockers on it
What can I say, I'm a nostalgia freak.
TUESDAY
MUSIC CONTINUES ON PAGE 11
THURSDA
BLAKE'SON CARRALLLee Aaron
BLUE NOTE JAZZBISTRO Lee Aaron
CELLARJAZZ CAFERuben Landers
THE BRICKYARDNew Music Tuesday
CHAMELEON Q
COBALTNew Band Night FREE
HMV ROBSON Gebhard Ullman 4pm
FREE
MYLES OF BEANSTwo for the Show
ARTSCLUB BACKSTAGELee Aaron
BLUENOTE JAZZ BISTROThe 3 Divas
THE BRICKYARD$1.49 Day: Wheat
ARTSCLUB BACKSTAGE
Chiefs, Removal
THE NAAM Bruce Jefferson
O'DOUL'S jay Thomas Trio
OUISI BISTRO Larry Volen Trio
THE PIC Johnny Watkins Blues Jam
Session
PURPLE ONION LOUNGE Brick
House
RAILWAY CLUB Ronny Scott's Grand
Band Slam
SEVEN SEAS PORTSIDE ROOM Girls
Rock the Boat w/ Suzzanne Wilson
SOUTH Hill CANDY SHOP
-Gordon Grdina Trio
STARFISHROOM Unsane, Kittens,
Closed Caption Radio
Authority, Aging Youth Gang
HMV ROBSON Metalwood 4pm, FREE
JUPITER CAFE Daisy Duke, Sandy
Scofield, Lavendar Martinis
THE NAAM Larry Volen Duo
O'DOUL'S Mother of Pearl
THE PIC Shanghai Room $2.75 beer w/
Mach Ills
PURPLE ONION LOUNGE Stampers
RAILWAYCLUB Wayne Newton
Wednesdays: Reverie, Pan, Raft of
Medusa
The Moving Company
THE BRICKYARDStrong Like
Tractor, JP5, Mi Novi a
CAFEDEUX SOLEILSSoft
CELLARJAZZCAFESibel Thrasher
Trio
CHAMELEON Soulstream
COBALT Trailer Park, Gradiant
Profile
COLUMBIA Sixty Cycle Buzz,
Hirrou, Sir Hedgehog
HMV ROBSON jukejoint 2-3pm,
SEVENSEASPORTSIDEROOM
PURPLEONION LOUNGE
VANCOUVERPRESSCLUB
Open Stage Musician Drop•ln w/ host
Derek Nyberg
SOUTH HILL CANDY SHOP
Steve Mitchell
·STARFISHROOM Garage Rock Nite:
The Spitfires, Young Loud & Snotty DJs
Rob & Rich (of Black Market Babies)
SUGARREFINERY Eugene Ripper
VANCOUVERPRESSCLUBThe Living
Room Comedy Night
WESTERNFRONT Vinnie Golia/
Smith{Turetzky j:JOpm
THE YALE Fat James Band
The Workshop
Open Jam w/ Bob &"Chick Machine
WESTERNFRONT Chadbourne/
Thomas/Ward s:3opm ,
THF VAi F P~11IbmP<.
CELLARJAZZCAFEArtie Devlin
Quartet
CHAMELEON Velvet
COBALTHurt, Cephla Tripe, Scourge
COLUMBIA Hump Day: Flor, Bored of
RICHARD'SON RICHARDS
Rumba Calzada, Los Pleneros de la 21
SEVEN SEASPORTSIDE ROOM
5=3opm
Bellingham
THE DOUBLEWIDE
Burn Version
BLUE NOTE JAZZ BISTRO Flamenco
long-winded platitudes on the meanings of the
songs as Hayden feels. ·1 really love to hea1
what people think the songs are about.· Don·1
deny yourself the pleasure of this show.
Sun Jut 12. Tix @ TM. All Ages.
'N SYNC
liBEATo Lounge
BLUENOTE JAZZ BISTRO
FREE
MYLES OF BEANS Adrienne
Pierce
THE NAAM Jim Black
O'DOUL'S Kate HammettVaughan Quartet
PURPLEONION CLUB
Michael Bu bit! & the Bubble [ets
RAILWAYCLUB The Emptys, The
Beans
RICHARD'SON RICHARDS
Greazy Meal, jukejoint
SEVEN SEASPORTSIDEROOM
J. Hatcher, Wendy Bird ..
SOUTH Hill .CANDYSHOP •
Happy Enchiladas
STARFISHROOM
Sweivedriver
WESTERNFRONT Steve
Beresford/john Butcher 5:30pm
THE YALE Christine Duncan
Seattle
PIER62/63Patti LaBelle
10 June19- 25,1998TerminalCity
COMINGSOON...
Heather (26), Johhny Fiasco (27),
DMC's lju/y I}, I YearAniversary lju/y 4)
1Vliclge and
Samsarasevin
du Maurier
FRIDAY JUNE 19
Club Series
Ottobon
FRYER
1\JCI(
The Coolest
Clubs with the
Hottest Music
Performance Works
on Granville Island
A World of Music to
Discover Under the Bridge
withDJ's
Remedy andOtaku
SATURDAY JUNE 20
ir.~i
lnBiED
1111
G~le
Island
I AZ Z
withguests
1218 CARTWRIGHT ST.
TheNewPornographe
9PMNIGHTLY
Studio 16
andBossanova
Great National and
International Jazz Performers
Definitely the last and most exciting
stop before calling it a night
TUESDAY JUNE 23
Unsane
.Kittens
withguests
1545 WEST 7TH AVE.
2 SHOWS NIGHTLY 9PM AND MIDNIGHT
Arts Club Theatre Backstage Lounge
Blue Note Jazz Bistro
Capone's
Cellar Jazz Cafe
Chameleon Urban Lounge
Club Millennium
Cotton Club
Georgia St. Bar & Grill
Monk McQueens
O'Douls
Purple Onion
Rossini's
Tickets and Information
Sprinklers
~5TEL Jazz Hotline 872-5200
Whip Gallery
Ticketmaster 280-4444
Yale
www.jazzfest.bc.sympatico.ca
Program guides at all Starbucks,
HMV stores & ticket outlets
rockabilly/ swing
) revue
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315 Club
andClosed
Caption Radio
dance
lessons
·',·. 9:30pm
WEDNESDAY JUNE 24
Young,Loud
& Snotty
withDJsRich& Rob
andThe$pitfireJ
THURSDAY JUNE 25
presents
The
Bughouse
5
*great
tattoo
SWERVED
Bardo
Pond
withguests
transistor
sound
&lighting
co.
and
FRIDAY JUNE 26
Jungle
bionic
THEVANCOUVER
SUN
csc fr radiQ)NE
COMING SOON:
I.he :Accadtf./4620 Wes/ :Pender
JESUSLIZARD,
ALL,
SKAFEST,
PURE,
GANDHARVAS,
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TerminalCity June19- 25,199811
Mu~ic
Sun Jul 19. 7,30pm. $35 @ TM.
PACIFIC
COLISEUM
Duncan Williams
VANCOUVER
FOLK
MUSIC
FESTIVAL
Much of the charm of festivals (espe_ciallyones
that have a few days to do it) is their ability to
expose audiences to some lesser-known artists by using the big names to draw people in.
And while last year·s fest was a little heavier
on the big names (seemingly to draw in a
younger crowd with the likes of Ani DiFranco.
Dan Bern. Bob Snider and Bob Wiseman). this
year"s Folk Fest seems to be reaching back to
its roots with a re-focus on the folk and rootsmusic from as many countries around the
world as possible. As unfamiliar as the names
and sounds are to me. half the fun is discovering some unheard of gem like last year·s
b~unce ignitors from Scotland. Shooglenifty.
Don"t miss San Franciscan Carmaig de Forest"s unique poetic charms that will undoubtedly provide a thought-provoking contrast to
a beautiful sunny day at the water.
F,riJul 17-Sun 19.$79 weekend pass early bird
tix Iii Jun 27. $95 after Jun 20 adult adv week- •
end. $30 eves-$45 per day Sat-Sun adv tix @
gate. $55 weekend. $20 Fri night/$22 for SatSun days youth 13-18yrs. FREE Fri night wl
adult. $10 weekend. $6 day Sat/Sun Little
Folks 3-12yrs. FREE under 3/seniors 65+.
Tix thru Vancouver Folk Music Festival w/ no
service charge. 100-207 W. Hastings in Vancouver/602-9798. fax to 602-9790 or e-mail to
tix@thefestival.bc.ca. Tix also@ TM.
JERICHO
BEACH
PARK
Josephine Ochej
JANET
JACKSON
She makes good dance music. I like it when
she wears the militaristic outfit. I don't like this
new sexpot image. She doesn't need to pop
her tits out like that cheap sis of hers. Latoya.
c·mon. Janet, stop it! Yer the classiestJackson
(moreso than Jermaine). You don't need to
show yer new tattoo. either. So. you gotta tattoo! So what? I don't wanna see it. Put it away!
Janet. you can sing. you can dance. yer talented. Just be yourself. That"s all I ask. Sorry.
but l"m a sucker for that whole "girl next door·
image even if it's from something as farfetched
as a Jackson! Depression tip, Janet believes
that your sad cells can be removed through
coffee enemas.
Sat Aug 8. $79.50/$59.50/$44.50@ TM.
GMPLACE
Robert Dayton
SPICE
GIRLS
Do you think that just cuz Ginger Spice left the
group that it makes me not want to see them
now? Wrongo! They are still a quartet! That"s
fpur Spices! Four great entertainers that know
how to put on a show! Yes. I will miss Ginger.
She's my third favourite Spice. 1will follow her
solo career. I still gotta go and see the Spice
Girls! I'm a big fan! They make me so happy!
l"ve seen "Spice World" twice and ifs even
better the second time! Baby Spice is my favourite! I would love to meet the Spice Girls.
Please! Can somebody out there get me backstage! Please! Please! I'll be on good behaviour! I love the Spice Girls a lot! Me and my
friend Greg (he couldn't get tickets cuz it sold
out too quick and he wants to go real bad he's seen "Spice World" three times!) talk
about them all the time! He's still gonna buy
"Spice World"' on video. he's sad about Ginger
but is interested in what the Spice Girls will
produce as a four piece. We love them and we
wanna see them and we wanna meet them!
Somebody help us! It's our dream!
Tue Aug 11. 7,30pm. SOLD OUT.
GMPLACE
Robert Dayton
THEBS2S,
THEPRETENDERS
The trancendent pop harmonies of B52s are
back on the road. Cosmic Thing was one of
the best pure pop records of the last decade.
Joining up with Chrissie Hynde. whose spinetingling vibrato has always given me shivers
since hearing the first Pretenders album on
acid. It's been too long since she's been
around. too. No word at this moment on just
who the hell is in these bands these days.
Fri Aug 14. 8pm. Tix@ TM.
THEGORGE
(George,
WA)
Phil Oats
BACKSTREET
BOYS
We are living in one weird world when a watered-down (?) New Kids On the Block combo
can sell out GM Place. There'll be dancing and
singing and screaming and that's just the mid·
dle-aged men in the audience. Yes girl. you
know it's true, the men don't know but the little girls understand. Alright. alright! Enough
of that! There's always got to be something like
this for the kids and it might as well be these
twits.
Sat Aug 15. 7,30pm. SOLD OUT.
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Take Grandview Park on a busy summer day
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making me actually want to go this year. for
once. But l"m waiting to see what they've got
for Bumbershoot in Seattle same weekend.
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REVISITED
IDERA presents two short films in their ongoing series, "No Frames. No Boundaries· and
"A~ar Without Winners."
Sun Jun 21. 7pm. $3@ door.
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HAV'PLENTY
Edited by MARTHA GALL
This film has everything going for ita small
budget, virgin cast. a first-lime writer/director/read aclor/edilor (!!!) and it's a romantic
comedy. Add the line ·1 borrowed $4.000 from
my foll<s" and well. we are explosive. Givens,
awkward scene transitions. some uncomfortably scripted dialogue. NIGHTMAREof a leading gal... but a gooil film anywat FunnJ-noth[P~e
~and it still !lets all ot an metaWritten and directed by Christopher Scott
Cherot. Starring Christopher Scott Cherot.
Chenoa Maxwell. Tamm, Katherine Jones.
Rating unavailable.
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GRANVILLE
7
Ananda Pellerin
THEOPPOSITE
Of SEX
"The Addams Family" ·s Wednesday grows up
in this often funny. just- as-often tedious comedy about teen troublemaker with a seemingly
endless satchel of venom. After DeDee
(Christina Ricci) seduces. becomes pregnant
by, and skips town with her gay half-brother's
lover Matt. various and sundry wacky friends
and family chase after them to California.
Among the supporting cast. Johnny Galecki
(Davidlrom "Roseanne') stands out as a poutv
young gay man who is determined to be with
Mall.
Written/directed
by Don Roos. Starring
Christina Ricci. Martin Donavan. Lisa Kudrow.
Lyle Lovett. Johnny_Galecki. Rated R.
FIFTH
AVENUE
CINEMAS,
GRANVILLE
7, PARK&
TILFORD
Martha Gall
MULAN
Disney animated feature about a plucky young
Chinese girl who. desperate lo save ller father. dons a boyish disguise and becomes a
valiant knight.
DEEP
IMPACT
The scale of Deep Impact is calibrated by the
emotional response, not the size of the disaster itself. As the US President (Morgan Freeman) reveals that an asteroid as big as Mount
Everest is hurtling towards Eartll and the
planet has one year to live. a woman (Tea
Leoni) seeks a reunion with her parents. two
young lovers make promises. and others
mourn the loss of their future. Yes. there are
special effects. but they mainly serve as relief
from the emotional intensity of the people
dealing with impending extinction on a personal level. The impact will wipe you out.
Directed by Mimi Leder. Starrif'lg Tea Leoni.
Morgan Freeman. Elijah Wood.Robert Duvall.
Ron Eldard. Laura Innes. Rated PG.
CAPRICE,
CAPRICE
PARK
ROYAL,
SILVER
CITY
Clare Hodge
THEDEVIL'S
ADVOCATE
A brash and naive young lawyer from smalltown Florida is enficed lo New York lo work
for a really big firm that offers he and his wife
big money and a fabulous apartment in exchange for ... their very souls. Sounds promising, but wasn't this done a few years ago in
a firm called "The Firm?" Keanu is. well.
Keanu. Al Pacino is obviously having a good
time as the ultimate bad guy. Silly but fun.
Directed by Taylor HackforiJ. Starring_Keanu
Reeves. At Pacino. Charlize Theron. Sun Jun
21.
RAILWAY
CLUB
Martha Gall
DIRTY
WORK
A comedy about a thirtysomelhing loser who
realizes that the few skills he posseses are
ideal for exacting revenge for profit. Starring
"Saturday Night [ive" ·s Weekend Update guy.
Norm Macdonald.
Written by Norm Macdonald. Directed by (g_ulp)
Bob Sag_et.Starring Norm Macdonalif. J!.rtie
Lange. Don Rickles. Chevy Chase. Rated PG13.
CAPITOL
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CENTRE
6,
SILVER
CITY,
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7
FEAR
ANDLOATHING
IN LASVEGAS
Around 11\ecorner from the Granville 7 you can
probably buy a hit of bad blotter acid which is
probably less like a genuine acid trip. Bui as
a remarkably faithful adaptation of Ille book.
the film as well suffers from tacked-on psychCAPITOL
6, CAPRICE
3 NEWTON,
CAPRICE
4
WHITE
ROCK,
ESPLANADE
6, RICHMOND
CENTRE, edelic pseudo-observations of the state of
America. There was some timely Timothy
SILVER
CITY,
STATION
SQUARE
7, VARSITY
Leary bashing though, and wasn't Johnny
THEATRE
Depp supposed to be in this movie somewhere? See it now before it becomes a (hack
TWILIGHT
Of THEICENYMPHS
hack) ·cull classic'.
Orange skies, ostrich-farmers. one-legged
Directed by Terry Gilliam.Starring Johnny
mesmerisls.
numphomaniac widows ...
Depp. Benecio Del Toro. Rated 14A.
sounds like my last birthday party!
GRANVILLE
7, CAPRICE
PARK
ROYAL,
VANEAST
Winnipegger Guy Maddin made this thorCINEMA
oughly unusual fairytale in a warehouse with
Blaine Thurier
a measly 1.5 million bucks. I'm thinking that
we should see this one. Double bill witli "UnGODZILLA
cut·. Directed by Guy Maddin. Starring Shelley
Al over two hours. this first big-screen treatDuvall. Pascale Bussieres. Frank Gorshin.
ment in decades about the big lizard is too long
PACIFIC
CINEMATHEQUE
and too goofy. Matthew Broaerick and Maria
Martha Gall
Pitillo don't exactly ignite the screen on fire
when they look al one another, something the
UNCUT
filmmakers must have sensed because 11\ese
A wildly entertaining film that dares to explore
two have nary a scene together. As for the
copyright law. circumcision. and Canadianicon
monster on tlie loose in New York, this guy
Pierre'Trudeau simultaneously. As three gay
tends to run and hide (praying for a call from
men named Peter try. in 1979Ottawa. to conhis agent?) instead of tearing people limb from
front these seemingry disparate issues. interlimb. Anti-boredom tip: close your eyes. lisviews with actual Canadian artists show how
ten lo Azaria and Shearer. and imagine it's
their work has been affected by copyright.
y_ourfavourite "Simpsons· episode.
Political. original. and often very funny, this is
Directed by Roland Emmerich. Starring Matthe latest by Ontario director John Greyson
thew Broderick. Maria Pitillo. Hank Azaria.
("Lilies·. ·zero Patience").
Harry Shearer. Rated 14A.•
• •
A Vancouver premiere. double bill with "TwiCAPRICE
3 NEWTON,
PARK
& TILFORD,
RIALTO
light of the Ice Nymphs". Directed by John
WHITE
ROCK,
RICHMOND
CENTRE,
SILVER
CITY,
urey_son.Starring Matthew Ferguson. Michael
STATION
SQUARE
5
Achtman. Damon D'Oliviera.
Martha
Gall
PACIFICCINEMATHEQUE
Martha Gall
CIRCUMCISING
TRUDEAU
DIRECTOR
JOHN GREYSON
TALKSABOUT"UNCUT"
By MARTHA GALL
John Greyson is looking forward to the day he can show his most favourite of his films, "Making of Monsters", which he made before "Zero Patience" (a musical about ACT-UP and Patient Zero, the name given to the
legendary French-Canadian £light attendant blamed for bringing the AIDS
virus to North America) and last year's Genie-award winning "Lilies".
"Monsters" used music from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's "Three Penny
Opera." Before this play's most familiar song became some of the most recognized music of this century, it was featured in 18th century playwright
John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Gay had taken a popular melody of his
day and added his own lyrics to the tune, to draw in his audience. The crowd
loved this device, as did, two centuries later, Brecht and Weill's patrons.
For his 1991 film, John Greyson inserted his own lyrics and Mack the
Knife became I Hate Straights. Sounds simple, right? Take something familiar and popular, and put your own twist on it. Funny, that's not how things
turned out. After reading a New York Times review of "Making of Monsters", the Weill estate refused to release the rights to any of the songs in
"Three Penny Opera" to Greyson. He couldn't release his film, and, adding
insult to injury, it was during that very same year that a certain fast food
chain ran a series of ads urging us to "Make it Mac Tonight", sung to the
tune of. .. well, you guessed it. Greyson says: "The irony of that timing was
• not lost on anyone."
.
John Greyson and I chat about many things, including his previous work
and musicals, but the conversation always returns to The Issue: Copyright.
It's the main theme of his new film, "Uncut", which opens June 19 at Pacific
Cinematheque. The film concerns three gay men named Peter who live in
1979 Ottawa. Peter Koosens (Michael Achtman) is a typist who harbours an
obsession for then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Peter Cort (Matthew
Ferguson) is a student who brings his treasured thesis on circumcision to
Peter K to type. Peter Denham (Damon D'Oliveira) is a pioneering video
artist who ends up using both Peters, as well as other "borrowed" material,
in his work. This appropriation lands all three of them in jail.
But "Uncut" isn't simply fiction; thrust into the saga of the three Peters
are interviews with actual artists such as General Idea's A. A. Bronson and
playwright/performer Linda Griffiths, who have been affected by the dreaded
C-word. Greyson sums it ·up: "Part of the job of being an artist is being
familiar with what's gone on before and referencing it. .. we all steal from
each other, as Linda says. To be an artist is to steal. But then copyright law
turns around and says, 'No, you're not allowed to do that.' Crazy!"
"Uncut" 's clever title refers not only to copyright and its tendency to
become a kind of censorship, but to the opposite of circumcision, young
Peter Cort's obsession. While these topics and Pierre Trudeau might seem to
belong to three different films, Greyson has used personal experience to
combine them into a single, engrossing film. "In 1990 I was going to the
iCanadian Film Centre, and I wrote this script about Trudeau and circumcision. I thought it was really fun and it was at a time when outing debates
were really big, and this whole debate about 'Do you out public figures?'
and the ethics of that really interested me. I wanted to write a film about it. It
• didn't fly at the Film Centre. They-didn't like that script. So I ended up
doing the other film, "Making of Monsters", ran into all the trouble with the
Kurt Weill estate ... And so for that reason, they became a bit locked in my
mind, memories of Trudeau and circumcision became all wrapped up with
this copyright crisis I had ... It grew out of very real experiences I was having
and I think a big part of "Uncut" was the pleasure of weaving these seemingly completely unconected things into a sort of whimsical fable."
As with his other films, Greyson has found a fresh way to tell a story.
Despite his confessions about appropriating, "Uncut" is thoroughly original. But will we ever see "Making of Monsters"? Greyson smiles. "Kurt Weill's
music becomes public domain in the year 2001. So, for the Weill estate, the
clock is ticking. I'm going to have a big party in the year 2001 and everyone
is invited."
1
HOPE
FLOATS
THEX·FILES:THE
MOVIE
Al last. the big screen adventure that Mulder
and Scully. to say nothing of Duchovny and
Anderson. have been waifing_for.
CAPRICE WHITE ROCK, uRANVILLE 7,
OAKRIDGE. PARK & TILFORD, RICHPORT.
SCOTT72. SILVERCITY,STATIONSQUARE5
Martha Gall
CURRENTLY
PLAYING
AFTERGLOW
Four characters do a frazzled dance around
one another. seeking comfort and struggling
with love. in what amounts lo far more Dian a
simple farce ... Julie Christie and Nick Nolte
are middle-aged and shattered. missing both
their runaway daughter and the passion that
used to rule their !fays and nights. They intersect with two egually bruised young marrieds.
Director Alan Rudolph triumphs with a story
that keeps unfolding in your head for days.
Written/directed by Alan Rudole_h.Starring
Julie Christie. Nick Nolte, Lara Flynn Boyle,
Jonny Lee Miller. Rated PG
RIDGE
Martha Gall
ARTEMISIA
As the title character in this true story about a
young 17th century female painter. Valentina
CervI pouts like a model-turned-actress instead of delivering a strong performance
about a talented woman liVillJI al a time when
such a thing is unheard of. Film wastes time
on a lacklustre romance (joining the trendy
full-frontal-male-nudity club in fhe process)
between the ripe Artemisia and her middleaged painter-teacher. Lots of sex, not nearly
enough art.
Direc1ed by Agnes Mer/et. Starring Valentina
Cervi. Michel Serrault. Rated IBA
FIFTH
AVENUE
CINEMAS
Martha Gall
BLACK
DOG
Patrick Swayze re-makes the last half of his
late-·aos movie. "Point Break" playing a goodhearted ex-con forced to deliver guns after his
family is held hostage by the meanest men in
the world. Country singer Randy Travis costars and if that doesnl give you some idea
about this movies dramalic limitations. then
nothing will.
Starring Patrick Swayze. Randy Travis. Rated
PG.
PARADISE
Lori Schneider
CAN'T
HARDLY
WAIT
They're all here, the class beauty queen. the
profagonisl who is also a budding writer. the
ock. lhe shy girl. the geek. It's graduation
ime. 1998. Party!
Written and directed by Harry £/font and
Deborah Kaplan. Starring Ethan Embry.
Charlie Korsmo. Seth Green. Jennifer Love
Hewitt. Rated PG/3.
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GRANVILLE
7, OAKRIDGE,
PARK
& TILFORD,
SCOTT
72,SILVER
CITY,
STATION
SQUARE
5
CITYOFANGELS
Unsightly angel Nie Cage poP.sinto the life of
unlil<ely neurosurgeon Meg Ryan. The movies so feelgood ii fries lo give you a vigorous
massage liut slowly. surely, the marl<eting
aspect creeps in. Cageand Rvan aren't exactly
made for each other, kind of like they both haij
co-star approval and ran out of choices close
lo shooting time (hence the dramatics-drowning soundtrack). Oh yeah. chipper Meg also
weeps tears so perfectly formed they put The
Heart of the Ocean lo sliame.
Starring Nicolas Cage. Meg Ryan. Dennis
Franz. Ra/edit.A.
PARADISE
Lori Schneider
NOWPLAYING
A gently funny Sandra Bullock vehicle that
answers the question, Whatever happened to
the P.rom_gueenafter graduation? According
to "Flope'Aoats·. she married. moved to the
big city with and was dumped (on a national
daytime talk show. no less) 10 years later by
her high school sweetheart who eventually
grew tired of his sweet and unchallenging trophy wife. So. it's back home lo Texasfor Birdee
anil her daughter. where Birdee·s eccentric
mother (Rowrands) attempts to pound a longabsent sense of self back into her humiliated
daughter. The film manages to stay sweet
without being sticky, still. Deller bring your
handkerchief.
Directed by Forest Whitaker. Starring Sandra
Bullock. Harry Connick Jr. Rated Pu.
CAPRICE
TSAWWASSEN,
GRANVILLE
7, PARK
&
TILFORD,
RIALTO
WHITE
ROCK,
SCOTT
72,
STATION
SQUARE
5
Martha Gall
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mation of Ludovic - who wants to be a girl.
but isn't - from ·carefree child gender-bender·
to sad kid whose cross-dressing sto~s making his parents giggle. Thatthe idenli clause
ofl.udovic's betiav1ouris keynote. an not iust
the sexual bold print. makes this film original. Further Reading, Gender Shock. How
pretty boys and aggressive girls are treated
on this continent. Sick stuff. Relevant film.
Starring Georges du Fresne. Jean-Philipe
Ecoffey. Michefe Laroque and Helene Vincent.
Written by Chris vander Stappen. Alain Berliner. Rated PG
FIFTH
AVENUE
CINEMAS
Ananda Pellerin
A PERFECT
MURDER
Oh no! There's blood all over the Prada boots!
Gwyneth "I've always had a boyfriend" Paltrow
is the suspecting wife in this latest Michael
Douglas 'let's-kilr-the-women-we-fuck' -gambol. At 2 1/2 hours. I wondered who was hired
to edit ,he Bodyfcuard". At one-fi'.!Y; "A Per-
~'lii1i·
f~;I cl1r~~~:sf~~I ~rg~~::e~
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in\·ection of valium directly into my temple. like
al of enlroxy wrapped into a little celluloid
~~\~e~f all ays to've left my drool cup at the
Directed ~ Andrew Davis. Starring Michael
~~rlltt;wyneth Paltrow
CAPITOL
6, ESPLANADE
6, RICHMOND
CENTRE,
SILVER
CITY,
STATION
SQUARE
Ananda Pellerin
6 DAYS,
7 NIGHTS
.
Anne Heche and l:!arrison Ford,sta'r as a pair
of opposites attracting while fighting to survive when their plane goes down on a desert
island. A comedy.
Starring Harrison Ford, Anne Heche.
CAPITO[
6, CAPRICE
4 WHITE
ROCK,
CAPRICE
3
NEWTON,
ESPLANADE
6, RICHMOND
CENTRE,
SILVER
CITY,
STATION
SQUARE
7
SLIDING
DOORS
This pleasantly annoying "alternative realities·
romantic comedy again poses the question,
can Gwyneth Paltrow act? Just kidding. It
poses no such question al all. A more pertinent question might be, how many more of
these insipid ·veli1cles· can Ms. Paltrow get
away with before the end of the millennium?
Belli male leads are by degrees funny and
charming CFour Weddings and a Funeral"
veteran John Hannah wins by the virtue of his
dense Scottish accent) and Jeanne Tripplehorn
makes a decent Kirstie Alley. Jr. as fhe other
woman.
Directed
Peter Howitt. Starring Gwynneth
Paltrow. ohn Hannah. John Lynch. Jeanne
Tripp_lehorn.Rated PG.
3/o
VANEAST
CINEMA
Duncan Williams
Leathery Robert Redford is quite the contrast
TITANIC
skinned Kristen Scofl Thomas in this "Bridges
of Madison County"-style adaptation of the BIG
bestseller about a guy who talks to the horses
and sleeps with the oabes who are turned on
b_yit.
Starrif'lg Robert Redford. Kristen Scott-Thomas. Rated PG.
Hasn't everyone on lheJ,lanel seen ii yet?
Directed (as if you di n 't know) by James
Cameron. Starring Leonardo Di Caprio. Kate
Wins/et. Billy Zane. Rated 14A.
opposite the lovely, the talented. tautly-
RICHMOND
CENTRE
THETRUMAN
SHOW
ESPLANADE
6, RIALTO
WHITE
ROCK,
RICHMOND, Australian Weir rescues a fairly good movie
CENTRE,
VANCOUVER
CENTRE
from mere blockbuster status mostly by renLori Schneider
KISS
ORKILL
"Kiss Or Kill". a fast-paced tale of love on the
run. distrust. guns. and knives. drags the tired
genre of film noir out of the darkness and
losses it out onto the Australian outback.
where ii slithers moodily under a blistering
sun. Great noir. great fun.
Directed by Bill Bennet. Starring Frances
O'Connor. Matt Day. Rated 18.Sun Jun 21.
RAILWAY
~LUB
Martha Gall
THELAST
DAYS
OFDISCO
Phlegmatic rules the day and pedestrian lords
overlhe nightclub sequences of this 'bridge
into a new era· flick. Its the beginning of 11\e
·sos and the kids lust want to keep dancing
like ii was still the 70s. A rolling synchronicitv
of lacklustre plot and SP.am-coloured tighl
shots of boring people ilisjecting, verbally.
socially and chemically. If you're really jonesin'
for the '80s. Matthew 'Broderick is now sucking in a film nearby. Better yet. hold out for
the hellscapade that will be the press surrounding "American Psycho".
Directeil by Whit Stillman. Starrif'19 Chloe
Sevigny, Kate Beckinsdale. Chris Eigeman.
Matt Keeslar.Rated PG
FIFTH
AVENUE
CINEMAS
Ananada Pellerin
LOVE
ANDDEATH
ONLONG
ISLAND
John Hurt stars as reclusive and pathetically
behind-the-times British author Jiles De-Ath.
who quite unexpectedly develops a crush on
Hollywood actor Ronnie Bostock (Jason
Priestly). It's a stalker movie. but ii is more
interested in character than in action. which
means that it is refreshingly free of the violence that usually accompanies films of this
~fae;ring John Hurt. Jason Priestly. Fiona
Loewslc1.Rated PG
• .
.
RIDGE
•
'
Martha Gall
MAVIEENROSE
(MYLIFE
IN PINK)
A film about that not-quite-old-maxim , it's
less acceptable to be a little 'girl boy· than a
tomboy - even if the Belgian suburbs are a
wonderland of neighbourllood lawn parties.
Spot-on cinematic lricks show the transfer-
dering his rubber-limbed star's legs and arms
unflailable. Carrey plays ii straiglil as an average guy whose entire life has been broadcas! to the world without his knowledge, the
filmmaker neglects to fill these:viewers' with
a sense of guilt or responisbility in these billions of voyeurs. Ed Karris is brilliant as the
"show's· creepy artiste/mastermind Christoff.
Directed bf. Peter Weir. StarrinK Jim Carrey.
JJn ey. Noah Emmerlic • Ed Hams.
~:r;:
CAPITOL
6, CAPRICE
3 NEWTON,
ESPLANADE
6,
PARK,
RIALTO
WHITE
ROCK,
RICHMOND
CENTRE
6, SILVER
CITY,
STATION
SQUARE
7, VANCOUVER
CENTRE
Martha Gall
WILDE
Stephen Fry is an excellent Oscar Wilde in this
fine film which follows the famous dandy as
he leaves behind his young family in favour of
the limelight and the l\omosexuarlifestyle that
calls out lo him. Wilde takes great pains lo
show that with this 19th-century celebrity's
increasing success came more and more frequent absences that hurt his wife and young
sons. Filled in the glorious burgundy anil gold
hues of the late Viclorian era. the camera positively shudders when ii alights on the startlingly handsome Law. who plays the spoiled
young Lord Alfred Douglas. the love of Wilde's
life.
Directed br Brian Gilbert. Starring Stephen
~~/~:red
Vanessa Redgrave. Jennifer
11A
FIFTH
AVENUE
CINEMAS
Martha Gall
THEWINTER
GUEST
For those interested primarily in performance.
,he Winier Guest: about tlie coldest day on
record in a sleepy Scottish fishing village, is
heavenly. II is a JOYto watch a wonderful cast
that includes Emma Thompson and her reallife mum Phyllida Law. but with so little actually occurring to propel the film. "The Winter
Guest· slows to a standstill. leaving you hopIng that something. anything wilt actually hap11en.
Directed by Alan Rickman. Starrin~ Emma
k~f::/'/8.n, Phyllida Law. Gary Ho lywood.
RIDGE
Martha Gall
Perform
a
nceJEN
TerminalCity June19- 25,199813
GrinningDragonTheatre.8pm. TueJun 16-Sun21.
$1_5/$12.73_0-1648.
FIREHALL
ARTS
CENTRE
(303E.Cordova)
Alan Hindle
CRESSY SCIPIONE
·early feminism. Re-discover the origin of the
phrase "Electra Complex" with this heady incest/
revenge tale.
Theatre
THISJUST
IN
8pm. ToSunjun 28~Thu-Sun.$10/$8@ 224-8007.
JERICO
ARTS
CENTRt
(1675Discovery)
Jen Cressey
JUST
A MOMENT
Scipione was likely exciting when originally
staged in 1730, particularly due to_castrat1being
feafured in the two male romantic leads. W1tfi
this modern Rroduction, I don't know whether
to blame Handel or director Kate Hutchinson for
the imP,lausible, insensitive relations that
soundea so beautiful but looked so cold, stiff
and empty. Surely Hutchison could have carved
out bolder spaces for her.cast, allowing them to
move dissappear, anything besides sland and
wait for their turn to sing. On the other hand,
this is a Handel rush-joli, tossed toEether in a
mere three weeks. Musicallybit is fuff of texture
and magic, yet the plot is all ut absent. To their
credit, "Moaern _Baroque Opera has acco_m_plished the daunting task of translating the ong1nal libretto into English with varying aegrees of
success: some of fhe passages are purest poetry culling tears, and some are cheesier than a
Swiss kitdien. Final analysis: Scipione is a sumptuous museum-piece for opera-liuffs and Handel
afficianados. But I'd watcn it again for the exquisite performance of Phoebe MacRae as the
smouldering-but-faithful
Berenice. Whiny
castrati, be damned! Bring on the babes.
8pm. To Fri Jun 19 (odd-numbered nights only).
!'20/$18. 251-ui!J-
You know that head in the mirror thing where
you see yourself reflected a million times into
infinity? Well "lust a Moment", the latest proAMBUSHED
duction from Word of Mouth Theatre Co., 1s
Having survived The Treatment for drug ad- something like this. It ends where it begins, and
diction, Bobbi must now prove herselffo an leaves you pondering both Mephistoplieles and
unhelpful Social Services to win her kids Carl Sagan. Haunted _bytheir. pasts and a sinisback. Ex-boyfriend's doing badly, sporting a ter mime, two despa1r1ngdrinkers discuss the
gun· his stoic sister's cracking; their sociaTiy- nature of reality amidst occasional disco sounds
conscious brother has a couple beers, every- drifting in from Havana. Definitely worth checkone is disaP,pointed. Topics include: Sex/ ing out.
child/drug/alcohol/physical abuse, male vio- 8:30 pm. To Sat Jun 20, Thu 25-Sat 27. $10/$8.
VANCOUVER
EAST
CULTURAL
CENTRE
(1896
lence, social welfare and bureaucracy,home- 7_28-9005.
lessness, refugees, suicide, fatal diseases, HAVANA
Venables)
(1212Commercial)
nervous brealiaowns and in.sanity, denial,
Jen Cressey
RobinJacob
guilt and death. "Ambushed' needs a s1destory. It becomes a barrage of audition-workSPINCYCLE
THEWORD
shop vignettes of the I Am An Actor Acting MOM'S
Actors cold-reading local scriptwriters' works-invariety with a bit of prop-holding for gooa "Who's going to watch the baby?"
progress. Essentially a literary chorus-line. The
"I'll
take
lier
with
me.
She'll
be
fine,
the
play
goes
measure. Its relentlessness gives 1tnowllere
M.C. announces the next piece, the audience
to go. Perhaps dysfunction is better pre- on at 8, she'll sleep through it just like she did
diffuses and seemingly hal stream on stage to
with
"Titanic'!"
sented with occasional subtlety and less
take
part. The director mumbles a few expTanastomeing about shouting out lists of char- An hour later, I am standing in the black alcove tions to comP.licate thing_sand ... there_they go!
acter flaws, sob stories and ABC psychology. between the entrance and the theatre peering
The
scripts,
theatre andTilm, are d1vv1edup al8pm. To Sat Jun 27. $15/13. 2pm Sat Jun 20 al. through the crack of the doors, jiggling baby on most aroitrarily
shortly beforehand so the actors
hip, puke running down my snoufder, simultaSat Jun 27;41'm Sun Jun 21. J29·1JZ0,
really
are
discovering
their words as they go. With
neously breastfeeaing and taking down notes.
GASTOWN
GLOBE
THEATRE
(36Powell)
luck, a good scri11t and a good cast come to"Wait,'
you
think,
"wflat
the
hell
does
this
have
Alan Hindle to do with anxthin_g?"Well, if you aren't intergether
and
a
terrific
time
is had by all. Another
I
combination may P,roduce a chain of nervous
ested in m_ytale of"woe, this is not the play for
TINSEL
& CREAM
2
ducks
reading
bits
of
paper.
You pays your money
you. But if it strikes a chord, then go see the
The first "Tinsel & Cream" was replete with
P,lay.It's well worth it. (you might want to leave you takes your chances, but the fare is by donation.
amazing atmosphere, fanciful refreshments, the kiddies with Gram ...)
8p_m.Thursday_,,all summer. By donation.
cool tunes (a little bird told me that nostal- 8pm. To Sat Jun 27. Tue-Sat . Res 687-16H, TM.
gia for the likes of Devo is not only healthy, ARTS
ANZACLUB
(3 W.8th)
CLUB
TIIEATRE
(1585Johnston,
Granville
6ut postmodern!) and glimpses of artful per- • Island)
Alan Hindle
formance. There were parts of the show that
Tea
Parrish
(al.
baby
Margot)
were bona fide experiences, and others that
ULTIMATE
THEATRESPORTS
were stupifvingly aull. Judging by the line-up
oin Vancouver's award winning Theatresports
ITAGAIN
SAM
(Christine lay,or, Suzanne·ward, Jean-Pierre PLAY
eague as two teams battle it out for points
Brown, Marlene Madison Plimley, Joelle A popular Woody Allen comedy about how diffiawarded
by the judges (audience memoers) •
Ciona, Mernie Lee Plisted and more), organ- cult ,t is to succeed as a homely person, even
complete with overnead commentators and on
izer/video artist Shawn Chapelle is making with HumP.hrey Bogart's sage advice! WARNthe
ice
referees,
okay so it's not really ice. Both
sure that this one is going to be rock-solicf, ING: Allen's fantasy world will live on, barely teams rely on suggestions from the audience to
mind-blowing Artainment. Get there on time,
mutatin~.
come
up
with
scenes,
so bring your thinking caP,s
'cause Videoln is a little room with big word- ?p_m.To une 2J. Wed-Sat. 266-7191.
and your anecdotes about your weird Uncle
T EATRE
(370SWMarine)
of-mouth and it's sure to be packecf full of METRO
Lestor, and sit back, get ready to laugh and let
the city's funkiest monkeys.
Jen Cressey them apply their sponfaneous wit in head to head
8:J(?Rm.FriJun 19. $5. 872-8337.
competition. Every show is a whole new ball
VWEO
IN (1965Main)
RAGTIME
game!
Jen Cressey The production opens with a smashing ensem- 8:15pm Thurs; 8:15pm 10:15pmFri/Sat; "Scared
ble number of the title song that blows you back
Scr!2t/ess"8:15pmWed; "The Late Sliow" midnight
in your seat with its sheer energy and then keeps
Fri;:,at;Ongoing.Info:738-7013. Catcha showfrpm
your attention focused on the story (with few Jun 24-27and you could w,n one of 12 Hyak "River
lulls) pretty much 'til the end three hours later. Ra~ing trip_s.
As a story, "Ragtime" has everything an epic
ARTS
CLUB
REVUE
THEATRE
(Granville
Island)
needs: passionate love and hatred, death big JJFly/otter
BARD
ONTHEBEACH
dreams, fallen heroes, etc., so it would be hara
BOTB is one of those jejune inspirations
to screw up, and the huge cast delivers it all with
which has succeeded briniantly; Shakespeare slightly varying degrees of enthusiasm (exuberin a seasidetent where fresh breezescan waft ant to wildly exuberant). Definitely theatre for
awaycondenscension and pedantry. It works! the 'gos what with the whole thing pumped
8pm. To Sat Sep 26. $12-$22@ 739-0559.
through a sound system and tho~e h1gli faluti_n'
VANIER
PARK
prices, but that's not to say 1t s bad. Easily
Rick Keating Livent's best production here yet.
Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow.Directedby
FIRSTRUNCINEMA
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DIRTY WORK 12:-40,3:-40,7:30, 9:30
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NO7:IOTHU
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seats
CURATE
SHAKESPEARE
ASYOULIKE
IT
Frank Galati. Starring Kingsley Leggs, John
The audience is seating itself while the hap- Rubinstein, Donna Bunock, l.aChanze, Joseph
less cast of"Curate ShakespeareAs You Like Dellger.To Sun Au,30. 8pm Tue-Sat. 2pm Wed/
Sat-Sun. $~5-$8_9 280-2222.
It" are still faffing about warming up_,finding props and other cast members; getting
FORD
CENTRE
FORT EPERFORMING
ARTS
info character'. Since they already are charJosephine Ochej
~cters they're actually putting on the role of
~ctors within this play-within-a-play. Acting SALMAN
RUSHDIE
ANDME
like you're acting must be_one of the hardesl She wants him because he's the most unavailthings to do. With few hitches the Looking able man on Earth.
Glass company does it brilliantly. They're Weaving hilarious and increasingly tenuous ties
rock-solid persona-wise. They also have a (presenled in slides) between tfie trivilaities of
good grasp of Shakespeare• which doesn't
Fierlife Islamic terrorism, and Salman Rushdie's
'fiurt. tllough the depth is necessarilythinned • flight into exile from the Fatwah imposed after
to make room for tlie other stuff. Best when ·TlieSatanic Verses,Linda Quibell's oosessivness
acknowledging the audience, they need only has a wacky, endearing charm and the audience
smile charmingly to raise gales of laughter. is total/)" drawn into lier story. You believe beThere is nothing more endearing than a pack cause
its fun to believe.Then ~er madness takes
of confident idiots.
much darker turn, and still believing, you fol8pm. To Sat Jun 20, Tue-Sat. $20/$15 conces- alow
her
in.
.
.
S/ons@ 609-014_6.
A love affair with reading, the sexiness of ideas,
LOOKING
GLASS
THEATRE
(722Richards)
and the betrayal by one's nero. This is a polishea
Alan Hindle show (making tlie recurring_ stumblings over
words odd/ 1 pflysically grafcelul, sensuar, funny.
ELECTRA
A romp wi n Rushdie in a gravitx-defying bed. I
got to me one of those! ...The beiJ. Not Rushdie.
As one of "civilized" history's first •~peals
to the fairer sex, this mythology qualities as Now, where's that catalogue ...
HABITAT
ENCORE
Once a year, a handful of dance and music improvisation's national heroes get together for
some very serious jamming. and it's live. The
audience enters. cliats, _getscomfortable. The
house goes to black. Performers enter. NO ONE
KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT. No one
knows what will transpire, and no one, not ev~n
the ligj'lting designer. knows how the show W\ll
end. encore" is completely improvised by this
ensemble of consumate professionals who have
been developing a tremendous amount of mutual respect and trust over the past five years. A
must-see for anyone interested in the e!)ormous
contributions some Canadians are making to the
world of art.
Peter Bingham, Ron Samworth, Coat Cooke,
Andrew Harwood, Marc Boivin. Robert Meister.
Fri•Jun 19-Sat 20, FriJul 3. 8,30pm. $121$/0adv
@872-6266.
926-6699 • I 090 PARK ROYAL
(RP)
PP$8.50 adults,RP$5 adults/$6.50students/$4kids,
seniors/$5tue all seats (PPPn,miereprices)(RPRegular
prices)
572-9449 • 7125-138 ST.
seats
Fresh from the Canada Dance Festival in Ottawa
comes choreographer Joe Laughlin's latest. Un·
der the company moniker 'Joe rnk', Laughlin and
dancers Sandra Botnen. Alison Hiscott. Lyn
Sheppard and Tonja L,iving~ton join co111p~ser
John Korsrud with Jazz 1mprov mus1c1ans
Adrienne Park. David Carlisle. Ron Samworth
and Tony Wilson in -swing Theory-. Although the
Vancouver performances are P.art of the du
Maurier International Jazz Festival. you can leave
the zoot suit at home this time out because the
swinging going on here is of a more primally
gymnastic kind. The dancers inhabit a monster
o a set - a 37-foot length of steel and glass scaf•
folding rising 30 feet in the air like some surreal
advenlure playground. Laughlin describes the set
as ·habitar - an environment to which the performers adapt themselves in order to realize its
potential. Risk will be rampant. the endurance
pummelling and the choreographic invention
quite gorgeous. I'm hoping for one of those wondrous occasions when, as a spectator you leave
feeling knackered. scoured out and euphoric. The
odds rook good on this one.
'IJ!m. Fri Jun 19•Wed 24. $23.251$21.25@ 8725200, TM.
Hunky, swea!Y guys with thj_ghsof steel and all I
can think is, narder! Faster! With
90intermissionless-minutes of tap dancing in cut•
offs and tight shirts. these fantastic 21st centu_ry
gigolos are part AC/DC machoglam and P.artVilrage People ~~ss. It's enough to.m~ke a girl wish
there were virile young men swinging from every
scaffold in town!
Tue Jun 23-Sun 28. 8p_m.but Sat Jun 27 @ 5pm
& 9pm, Sun, Jun 28 @ 3pm & 7pm. $541$23 @
TM.
QUEEN
ELIZABETH
THEATRE
"TailLightsFade"
Thereis a bab.r,
dollon the ceilin§;
That's the Little Black Baby
from "Highway of Heartache." My
bedroom curtains come from there,
ExposedBrick,floorto cellinghook• as well.
case,bedroomoverlooksdowntown How aboutthetin toyson theside
street and manualfreightelevator. table?
How did thishappen?
They were purchased new from the
/}.friend moved out and passed it KCTS 9 store in Seattle.
on to me. Ori~y
it was a ware• Chair? Ex-girlfriend from film
hc;mse,now it s an artist live/work school.PosterofJohnColtrane?
A
friend. Theyboth work in filmnow,
you'describe the decor? so it'a,only one degree of separation;
Cinedectk. farerything has some
A!~~ould
TSAWASSEN
943-3838 • 1259 - 56 ST.
HOPE FLOATS 7:00
A PERFECT MURDER9:00
PAULIE SAT-SUN2:00
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seats
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CAPRICE
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A PERFECT MURDER 7:25, 9:-40
QUEST FOR CAMELOT SAT-SUN2:00. 3:45
$8 adultS/$6.50students/$◄ kids,seniors/$5tue all
seats
CNIMAX
682-4629 • 4629 CANADA
Pl.
AFRICA'S ELEPHANT KINGDOM 12:00,
2:00, 7:00
THRILL RIDE: THE SCIENCE OF FUN I :00,
◄:00
ALASKA: SPIRIT OF THE WILD 3:00, 6:00,
8:00
INTO THE DEEP 5:00
DOUBLE FEAT: THRILL RIDE/ELEPHANT
KINGDOM 9:00
$8 adult/$7 seniors/$63-12 YRS/$I2adult dbl bill/$/I
I seniors/$IO 3-12 yrs
DUNBAR
Jen Cressey
VANCOUVER
FLAMENCO
FESTIVAL
Ever admire someone who can throw a tantrum
with such oblivious confidence and burning s!Yle
that everybody in the room wonders how tliey
could have thought it uncool to feel. let alone display such temper? In some ways. flamenco is that
very phenom set to dance. Not that it's all tantrum and taunting, mind. But when Rosario Ancer
and company hitlhe stage for the dance component of tlie 9th Annual Flamenco Festival. there's
sure to be volumes of passion and panache.
The fest also features guest dancers and cantors in a program which includes.a Spanish cla~sical baUetset to Manuel de Falla s El Amor Bru10
(Love. the Magician). a Flame!ICOwedding an_da
showcase for the guest artists. The evening
peaks out with the wnole company bumin_gdown
the house in an improvisational session. Sounds
delish.
.
Flamenco Rosario presentation. 8pm. Fri Jun 19Sat 20. Tix @ TM.
VANCOUVER
PLAYHOUSE
THEATRE
222-2991 • 4555 DUNBAR
ST.
6 DAYS, 7 NIGHTS 7:00, 9:15 SAT-SUN 1:00,
3:30
$81$4.50CHILDREN/$4.50
TUE
983-2762 • ESPLANADE,
N. VAN
MU LAN 12:00,2: 15, ◄:30, 7:00, 9:00 NO 12:00,
2:15, -4:30MON/WED-THU
THE HORSE WHISPERER 8:◄S
DIRTY WORK I:00, 3: I5, 6:◄S NO I:00, 3: I5
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MON/WED-THU
6 DAYS, 7 NIGHTS 12:30,3:30, 7:25, 9:55 NO
12:30,3:30 MON/WED-THU
$8.75 adult eve/$6.50sat-sun/ho/
mat/$5.25 13 &
under,senioreve, sat-sun,hol/$5 tue all seats
STH
AVENUE
CINEMAS
734-7469 • 2110 BURRARD ST.
THE OPPOSITE OF SEX 7: I0, 9:35 SAT-SUN
1:55,◄ :10 TUE ◄:10
THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO 7:00, 9:35 SATSUN I:50, ◄ :20 TUE ◄:20
WILDE 7:05. 9:30 SAT-SUN l:◄ S, ◄ :IS TUE 4:15
MA VIE EN ROSE 7:20, 9;20 SAT-SUN2:00, ◄ :00•
TUE ◄:00
ARTEMISIA 7: IS, 9:25 SAT-SUN2:05, ◄:OS TUE
◄:OS NO SHOWS 7: I 5 MON/THU
$91$6.50mbrs/$5 tue/$I2 annualmbrshp
I
OMNIMAX
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Wayde Compton, Kendra Fanconi and John
Pass read for the launch of Prism's lates issue at ...
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FRIDAY,JUNE 19
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Readings from their respective works.
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Okay.The Internet makes me think of a vast
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THURSDAY,JUNE 25
POETRY
ATTHEOTC
Poems, people, performance ... some of Vancouver's best spoken word every Thursday
night and open mic.
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Readings from Schertzer's Cipher & Poverty.
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of One and Seng's A Dance of Moths.
8pm. Fri Jun 26. FREE. Info 732-5087.
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GALLERY
GACHET
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If you are a closet poet looking for a supportive environment to make your debut,
Gallery Gachet's monthly poetry night is the
place for you (hey. that rhymed). As an extension of the gallery's membership mandate, Gachetinsists on non-judgement. noncensorship and respect for each poet as well
as for the audience. Whether a big turn out
or painfully thin, my experiences have
proved to be evenings of warm intimacy and
a true sense of sharing. The hosts deserve
a lot of credit for the atmosphere. With
that in mind, one cannot expect to find a solid
line-up of stellar poetry but once in a while,
a diamond will show itself and shine.
8-10,30pm. Fri Jun 26 (Last Friday of each
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Author of Other Women and Frl!Sli Girls and
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writer Nancy Lee. First Nations poet Mahara
Allbrett and An After Hours Cabaret with
actors Rock Dobran. Kevin Kerr and others.
7,30pm. SatJun 27. $15@ 872-2792 incl desserts, coffee, door prizes. cash bar.
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PETRA
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Performance poet with singer/songwriter
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healing and transformation. Open mic follows. Hosted by Irene Loughlin.
8,30pm. Sat Jun 27. Info 681-5229.
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BANQUET
Saskatchewan poet John Livingstone Clarke
tops the Fool's Banquet bill along with Veney,
Hugh McMillan and Lisa Walker ... poems
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9pm. Mon Jun 29 .
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LIBRA(September
23 - October22)
ByANNA MUDILOS
alityPickof theWeek:Donkeys wearing straw hats. Hee Haw!
5 (March21 - April 19)
uck. The Hermit, The Fool and The
. All I can say is "Attention world!
K!"
!US(April20 - Mav 20)
empty buckets left to catch any spillover
slop. Have courage, keep hoping. I'm
sure someone will 6e by s~or!fy to r,lieve
you of your waste products. Don't target
to share the good stuff, 'cause even a
bucket full of strawberries can get pretty
ugly in a few d9rs.
ot to get into a fig'ht. So,there's a
:iii of tension for a big problem. Just
Y,Ourselfand avoid direct contact.
LEO(July23 - August22)
1 things cool down, you'll feel more
A play in ORpositesstarts r.our week. Got
iced and ready to start fresh. Start- • any SP.<Jre
c~ange? You might have to go
·esh means some compassion. Love • on a job interview or something. Con·
eighbour • pray for your enemies.
front your oppositions. So maybe it's not
INJ(Max21 - June20)
in your nature to P.Ushand shove, but who
the week of selfishly. What's Y,Ours likes being left at the bus stop when you've
,rs. Buy more stuff, make someP,lans. waited tfie longest for it 19_
get there. Lis!ek's end you'll be ready to collaboten to your heart. Get ott a few blocks
,n a new project, but only if you're
early
and
have
something
on what role you want to play.
scrumpdeleeicious.Someone in your famCERUune21 - July22)
•
ily about to have a baby?
! orders community service. You've
VIRGO(August23 - September
22)
all, the good and the bod. No more
Well, you've got a ton ol creative paten·
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tial. You've a natural ability to be enterprising and you know you've got the
power. Might mean a switcheroo, though.
You've got to keep moving, money won't
be an obstacle. You've got lo get away
for a few to confront what's going on.
eople who spout Rlatitudes have attitudes that allow no latitude. That was in th~
me cookie I got after winning a game of Shanghai II. Don't have a clue what 11
ins. Completely over mx heac:f.I've been immersing myself in retail therapy. l_have
e new dresses. Still no boyfriend. I think I may have scared off the older Virgo I
some ideas about. Okay, so it's a little twisted, but I figured: When in my lifetime
I going to have a chance to do the nasty with the fattier of someone I've had the
sure or? Too bad I was tired 'twas a good tit day though. The other day I decided
ad enough of the high road and tool<a Ayin9.leaf>to ihe lower one. I was absoy disgushn.9and ugly and stinky and messy,·tuck it was beautiful - turn around,
y now andJthen I fall ae.9rt. Thank you again Lo, Jo, Matt, Phil, Paul & ML. Big fat
k you to Steve I met at Club 212 (sorry about the laughter the next a.m.) and lo J.
n Knibbs and friends, 'specially the single one. Hope you enjoyed the complimi:nentertainment - turn around, every now and then I lall apart. Real Mackenz1es
the Downtown Eastside how's that tor the backdrop of a scene? Double dog dare
all to wallow in self pity for one night.
,er have someone vomit on your snatch while they ate you out. A new game
d Hurl in the Hole. So much fun you'll be picking out the l:iits from your pubes for
; after. Bevery careful the hurler hadn't had anr, daifY prior to the cottage cheese
1dy provided. The crack may end up getting fused shut forcing the rental of a
h lo pull the tampon out. When in doubt Lustsay Hurl in the Hc>!e-Speaking_of
,et sexy, Brig_adade Vaqueros! SHIT KICKER,sponsored by the Friends We Drink
1 at the ANZA Club on the 19th. John Ford with three other bands - 4 bucks.
neless plug guess I'm not off the low roadJet. Anyway, Jen just suggested I put
! gauze on ~y burn to keep from chaffing. Did someone really puke on my pussy?
ti ao you thinlc?
kar,f so it isn't August yet, but here's a post-birthday ditty for RKS - sung to the
of otally T oad:
When it's last call, that's when I fall, you say to drink up to be kind.
're sexy and smart, you've a piece of my heart - I'm sure that your Anne won't
mind.
You're a _greatguy, with lovely ~rax eyes, 'cept when a pretty blue.
Such lovely triends, they' re chums till the end, I guess it's because of you.
Damn glad you were born Mr. Sutherland.
TRANSGENDERED
Victim of tale. My ass. You're being too
passive. Okay, so I double dog cfared
everyone to wallow in self pity for a n_ight,
but a ni,ghtis only twelve hours long. Your
true selt; balanced yet free, will shine. You
can conquer }!OUrtears by rationalizing
them away. Atter you get your objectivity
back, be P,roud.Go impulsive by weeks
end. Mind that action without reAection
can get you going.
SCORPIO
(October23 • November21)
Death, Two of Disks and Four of Swords.
Got to love that Death card. Radical
change, coupled with the Two of Disks big hme change. Gonna kill sonie bad
habits, gonna let the past die. Gotta go
and malce some money, but be kind to
the guy with the glass eye. Member you
were the one who poked it out in the lirst
[)lace.
SAGITTARIUS
(November22 • Decem·
ber 21I
Oh, a little of the desolate split mind, eh?
You're at the lowest point. Ain't no where
to go but UJ?..
Wipe your tears. Have a
looksee at all the hubbub that's been go·
ing on while you've been locked up in
the darkness. Getting_some new ideas
yet? Stickto the ideas.even though they' re
great, you'll only have some small successes. You've still got a bit of the bod
luck up y_oursleevesI'm afraid.
CAPRICORN
(Dec22 - Jan 19)
Welcome back. Glad to see your a bit
more vital this week. Didn't mean for the
crap you got last. Did you have a cream·
ing catharsis? Ho~ you did. Time for
some pure intent and some work ahead.
A Cc;mcerfigures prominen~y for you this
week. Try a little humility with resP.ect,
avoid proud and vain pst>ple. Okay,
guess ,t's your turn to stay away from
liome this week.
AQUARIUS
panuary20 - February18)
Un8Xf)8Ctedinffuence. Unpredic;tabfelike
the wind. Hc;izard. Oh, good granny,
better try to keep your pants on. Looks
like we're a bit fertile this week. Whoops,
there g~s another human • ugh. OkCJY.,
so even it you do gel knocked UP,doesn't
mean y9u gotta lcnock yourse(f down.
S!Qefeeling guilty. Felt g~
didn't it?
PISCES
(February19 • March20)
Guess who's gonna be establishing a se·
cure mundane life? Looks good on you.
You need to exercise some guile the week
ahead. No direct confrontations, Y,OU
!'light !lnd up compror:nising.some of that
mtegnty you got going. Um, wi:11, by
week's end your gonna be wanhl!Q to
break free from the mundane l~el. G"ulp.
Make sureyou' re exercising sate sex.That
is unlessyou want a babY,.'Cause you' re
spermie~ are strong ana the eggs they
are ready.
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