032215 Gilbert Gottfried, Ottawa, ON
I’m surprised I don’t go to Yuk-Yuk’s more often…
Author: Todd Snelgrove
I've been having a lot of fun these past fifty-odd years. I've busked and bicycled through more places I can count, taught music and caught dengue fever, managed a band that toured all over North America and worked with Canada's National Orchestra for two decades. I've traveled countless miles to see a thousand concerts, played hundreds of gigs, won in Vegas and lost in Estonia, worked as a concert promoter, university instructor, janitor, and entertainment writer, seen the Grateful Dead and hiked the Dogon Valley, ran the stairs of the CN Tower and pedalled across Scandinavia once and Newfoundland twice. I've visited the graves of Alexander the Great and the great Robert Johnson, drunk excessively with some of the best and worst people you can imagine, and I've slept in some very, very weird places. Several years ago I started writing some of it down, and much of it is collected here for your perusal.
032112 Van Halen/Kool & the Gang, Ottawa, ON
On March 21st, 2012 I drove thirty kilometres or so to my local arena to see Van Halen. I had seen the band in Montreal about five years previous and had a great time at the show so I was anxious for another chance to see Van Halen (almost) as they were intended to be seen…
032016 The Passion, New Orleans, LA
In the Spring of 2016 I spent three weeks in New Orleans, where I just happened upon a televised version of The Passion of The Christ adapted by Tyler Perry being acted out in real time throughout the French Quarter…
031814 Senators vs Rangers, Ottawa, ON
On March 18th, 2014 I was happy to attend yet another Ottawa Senators game…
031712 Senators vs Maple Leafs, Ottawa, ON
On March 17th, 2012 I went to see the Ottawa Senators take on the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Palladium, though you would never know it…
031607 Ron Mueck exhibit, Ottawa, ON
Ron Mueck is a really big visual artist…
031597 Big Sugar/Weeping Tile, Ottawa, ON
Big Sugar mounted the temporary stage and turned the boring, accordion-walled conference hall into a barrelhouse barroom with a guitar-driven blues-tinged slab of sound that was a mile thick…
031408 67’s vs Petes, Ottawa, ON
When you get down to it the 67’s franchise tries much harder than the Senators do to make the whole game experience a big pile of fun…
031314 Rolling Stone Magazine office tour, New York, NY
On March 13th, 2014 I had the rare pleasure of visiting the offices of Rolling Stone Magazine in NYC…
031214 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, New York, NY
One great way to kill about three pricey NYC hours for zero dollars is to attend a television show taping, and that’s exactly what I did on March 12th, 2014…
